/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4565832
Easy game. You must be a girl.

>>4565832
Yes.

yeah I knew about it first game I ever 100%'d. I was like 9

>>4565836

The virgin SMW player VS the chad lost levels gamer

Geez man. Ur bad.

In other mindblowing news, the location of the warp whistles in world one of SMB3 are revealed in The Wizard

itsa me polio

>>4565832
If you think that shit's dope then wait until you learn about the special zone

>>4565895

t u b u l a r

>>4565895
It took me a while to discover the special zone, I always assumed completing the last level of the star road would just connect the loop, so I never bothered playing it.

>>4565910
well it does technically, only the secret exit takes you to special world

>>4565832
Yes, I knew about this in 1991, or whenever I got my SNES.

As soon as I arrived at donutland I compulsively flew everywhere.

The only level I didn't get until my second playthru was that soda lake thing, with the torpedo teds.

>>4565832
I don't believe you

>>4565832
i wish i could forget games so i could have that feeling of accomplishment again. especially with zelda. would like to play mario world romhacks but that kaizo shit seems unbearable and not fun at all.

>>4565832
wow u succ git gud fagt

>>4565878
Yo dickshit, how about you just be nice to a guy that's finding new stuff about a game he likes.

>>4565832
the thing about Top Secret Area is that it comes before a lot of players really get into the groove of exploring thoroughly, and that if you fly up anywhere but the first screen or so you just hit a ceiling with nothing but empty space above it-- which could tip you off, but not until you have other ghost houses to compare it to to find out it's not normal, and it's ordinarily the first ghost house you visit
in short, it's hidden in plain sight, and that's why it's such an OP map with a special name that a lot of people just didn't find

>>4565832
>am I the only one who didn't know about this?
Yes. Every ghost house has 2 exits. The game/manual even tells you this.

>>4566127
I love how they handled the Torpedo Ted level. By having a completely exclusive enemy in that level combined with showing an enemy cast roll at the end of the game, you are effectively teased into playing the game more even after clearing it because you're all like "Torpedo Ted? Where the hell was that enemy?"

I can't be the only one who was puzzled and intrigued by seeing Ted in the credits the first time i cleared the game.

>>4566213
There are a few SMW romhacks that are less annoying than the average Kaizo ones but I'm not sure if you're going to like the level design. Some of them like Second Reality Project and Odyssey were interesting to me but I don't think they would top the original SMW for you.

>>4565878
even 4chan knows

>>4567047
Not all. The Vanilla Dome and Chocolate Island ones only have one.

>>4565897
Bullshit level is how i call it

>>4565832
Don't be ashamed OP, it's just something where you are out of the ordinary. Most people back in the day eagerly looked through all the levels and liked flying arounda nd eventually would find this. I loved just being in the game even though I'd play through all of it and doing tricks (eg trying to get through levels without touching the ground as much as possible) and looking for spots I haven't been yet. Then somebody would visit and see the secret and it spread onwards. You rarely play this game as a kid with other kids?

FYI the other ghosthouse on that world also has secret star exit if you haven't found it.
...How many % of completion you got on this game anyway? Maybe there are a few other things you have missed.

Some things you maybe don't know:
>You can carry an item while riding yoshi if you drop the item in the right spot (good with keys)
>You can carry two items at once if you line them up in the right spot
>Throwing items and then climbing while catching let's you carry stuff upwards
>Special road is alot easier if you get the blue yoshi in the underwater world, then jump and glide with him through the level where you should use the 'P' floaty thing. At some point you can snatch a flying koopa and fly through the level.
>In the ghost ship near the end don't take the green exit ball right away, instead jump into the water and sink afap benath it, there are 1-ups that try to sudoku but you can grab'em
>You can fly infinite long if you practise
>While belly diving you can kill boos, even the green floating slimes, and more; this works with sliding down stairs as well
>If you manage to get a star in the torpedo ted level (eg action replay etc) and touch a ted then the game doesn't know what to do with the hits and gives you a bunch of 1-ups
>on top of of the mountain (your pic), the level after the pipe, grab the grey 'P' at the spikeys and run back when the turtles start. Press the buttons and collect the grey coins for massive 3-ups.

Yeah as a child I was able to deduce that since 1 level had 2 exits, which led to secrets, then most of them probably have that.

>>4567798
If only they indicated levels with 2 exits somehow...

>>4567801
to be fair, the special spots like ghost houses don't really show it. But as far as I remember each ghost house has two exits, so there's that.

Owned Kirby's Adventure as a kid, played it to 100% more than a few times, but it wasn't until about two years ago that I found out about the hidden UFO you can get on the first level. The door blends in REALLY well.

There's a cutscene in FF6 between Setzer and Cid during the WoB in Albrook. I never saw it before since you really have no reason to go back that way at that point in the game. Saw it mentioned somewhere, and checked it out. "What you want to do is head for the crashed airship after the banquet scene in Vector instead of heading for Albrook. It’s quite a hike and you only have two party members for the journey, but you’re rewarded with a brief scene where Cid is marveling at Setzer’s airship, but insists he can make it go faster if Setzer would remove the casino."

>>4567801
I legit didn't know that the color of the level on the map indicated the number exits it has until I saw a youtube video where someone mentioned it. I just never thought about it. Though I still found most exits on my own as a kid anyway.

I replayed Pokemon Blue a couple of weeks ago and I finally realized why you hometown was called Pallet Town. As a kid, it always stuck out to me as not fitting in with the naming scheme of the other towns since I though it was referring to a shipping pallet. It's supposed to refer to the color pallet, hence why all the other towns are named after colors. What a dumbass.

>>4565910
Same, I never went out of my way to find another secret exit

>>4567547
git gud

>>4569530
It's Mario fucking World, the whole game can be cheesed with a cape.

>>4565832
You kidding? That was always my go-to save point. Go to the bonus area, get your cape, fly up in the ghost house, boom, easiest save in the game. And when you reboot you start the game off fully buffed and with a Yoshi,

As long as we're dropping bombshells that some people may still not know about over 25 years later, go to the special zone and just idle for a couple minutes... just wait for it. Trust me.

>>4569567
dududu dudu du, uh!

>>4569567
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjfPYEqodeo

>>4569552
Good luck getting running speed in Tubular.

>>4565832
yes

>>4565832
>am I the only one who didn't know about this?

yes

>>4569567
Also, you don't even have to beat Bowser at all to get 96*. The game never saves after Bowser's castle.

>>4570056
You can still cheese with blue yoshi, I saw it in a speedrun and shit. Mario is an easy baby's game.

>>4570081
no one's forcing you to use these items

>>4565832
Congrats! I think this was in club nintendo.

>>4569587
i remember how hyped i was the first time i discovered the smb remix in this. funny how 1:57 seems like such a long time when you're 9

>>4569510
I remember waking up one day and suddenly realizing that the Indigo League was called that because it’s what red and blue make when you mix them.

>>4570190
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that was the first time we heard the Mario theme since SMB itself, right?

>>4570198
There was Japanese 2.
A spinoff game probably had it, but I can't think of one.

>>4570198
>>4570209
there are snippets of it in the sub-con sections of Mario 2 USA and the Music Box map item in Mario 3.

>>4570217
https://youtu.be/IbrTzV99WoE
https://youtu.be/cju5W3CJqgk

and the underworld run dmc mix was in the SMB2 USA prototype
https://youtu.be/lzFw2wuUehs

>>4567047
No it doesn't.

>>4570194
Mind blown

As for me. It took years before I realized the town names in Earthbound:
Onett
Twoson
Threed
Fourside

Were just counting up...

>>4570081
What does the blue yoshi do that let's you cheese it? I beat it legit with the p balloons because I'm not a fucking baby.

>>4565895
fuck tubular, that stupid level took me so many deaths before i got gud at it
>tfw got so gud, i can get all yoshi coins in that shitty tubular level

>>4565832
Yes

>>4570257
Colored yoshi get their ability with any color shell, so blue yoshi gets his wings for easy flight

>>4565832

>tfw found it by myself because i wanted to see how far i could fly with the cape before getting hit by boos

>>4565910

If i recall, you need keys in order to get to the next level, or you'll be sent back to the last level instead of going toward the next one. That's how i went for all of them, plus blue yoshi makes it a joke to get the keys

>>4570275

>He didn't do a leap of faith with blue yoshi to cheese the level

Anon please

>>4569586
>>4569587
Ignore me, I'm a fucking idiot

>>4568916
That game felt like a relatively fair way of doing secrets, versus games like Legend of Zelda where I didn't even know you could walk through some walls until I was a teen.

>>4567831
Time to stop lying. Dome and chocolate ghost houses have only one exit.

>>4565851
>lost levels

>>4565832
hey bro I've been playin super mario world since I was 2 and I found that area at 27 bro. Funny coincidence

>>4565878

Please leave this forum. You aren't helping.

>>4565832
Glad you found something new, Anon. Enjoy.

>>4571968
thanks

>>4565851
tfw you're both.

How do you guys feel that Cape Mario was almost certainty just going to be Racoon Mario but they changed it at the last minute?

>>4577895
How do you feel knowing Dinosaur Land was originally Mushroom Land?

>>4577923
Mushrooms and dinosaurs are one.
The Choir.

lmao i love all the fucking nerds in here thinking they're fucking hotshit by shitting on op for not knowing this secret in the game.

>>4577930
At least we are loved.

>>4565878
ever noticed how everyone hates your faggot ass?

>>4565895
Gnarly

Mondo

>>4565878
Level warping ruins the experience of playing video games.

>>4565895
I found the hidden Super Mario theme there by myself because I actually liked listening to the Special zone music.

>>4567552
>>You can carry an item while riding yoshi if you drop the item in the right spot (good with keys)

You can just eat the key and run into the keyhole while it is in Yoshi's mouth.

You can also spit the key out while the keyhole animation is going.

>>4570198
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but that was the first time we heard the Mario theme since SMB itself, right?

Mario All Stars had it.

>>4567552
>Most people back in the day eagerly looked through all the levels and liked flying arounda nd eventually would find this
Yeah. SMW was about exploration and finding all the exits more than anything else. Such a great game.

>>4577923
Dinosaur Land gave us the worst cartoon so im mixed

>>4583135
Same here. I actually used to chill on map screens on SMW a lot. I remember leaving vanilla dome or valley of bowser on the map screen and turning up the TV volume.

>>4565832
Don't feel bad. Half the people here who knew about this stuff knew about it from Nintendo Power, GameFAQs, or through friends.

With every unmarked secret, there is always a chance someone will miss it. You just happened to be one of them.

>>4577895
>>4577923
Hold the fucking phone, where you get that info from? SMW started its life as a Super Nintendo port of SMB3 (that was later reworked into a new game), how do we know these images aren't from that period?

>>4584027
Mario Mania, faggot.

>>4565895
Me and my dad played so long trying to find a way to that pipe and could never figure out what magic to do in that dino chocolate level

Years later I got the GBA version and unlocked it first try I think

>>4565832
the only thing I found out about this game at a later age is that red dot levels in the world map. have 2 exits. something I never paid attention.

i cant find anything about it on the internet, maybe it was the advance version? anyways i recall after beating the secret special zone all textures are replaced by a halloween texture pack

>>4565840
You dont 100% it.
You can only *96.

Why are you lying on an anonymous retro gaming blog?

>>4586872
what is 100 percent of 96