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I am trying my luck once again with Super Mario Land 2 - Six Golden Coins. So far I never managed to beat it. It has savegames, and in theory plenty of opportunity to gain extra lives, but something about the slippery movement of Mario rubs me the wrong way. I like the Wario games much more. And even though I haven’t beaten Sonic on the GameGear either, I came further to the finish line.
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Mario is in a jelly level. Coins at the top.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Finally made it. All six golden coins are mine. And: I have a deja vu of the final level. Good grief this is terrible!
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The portal now has six golden coins inserted an will open up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I tried the Wario Castle a few times, but failed. I am not in the mood to practice it more. So I am now looking at some of the secret levels.
The Space Zone secret level is relatively easy to reach. But as usual you have to go through this every time you want to play it.
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The zone map changed and now the cartoon moon has a shooting star stuck in his forehead and he’s looking grumpy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

@[email protected] I think the final level may be appropriately difficult but the rest of the game before it didn't scale up to it. Because the player can start anywhere, each world seems equally difficult rather than slowly increasing. I don't know how it could have been done, but it needed some sort of scaling mechanic to ratchet up the difficulty as worlds were completed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So… easy mode it is. I do get to Wario, but haven’t beaten him yet. The lack of a checkpoint is a bit tedious, but now this all seems doable for me.
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My best run so far was 5 hits to Wario. So roughly half of what I need. If only there were a checkpoint right before Wario! It is soooo tedious to do the previous run. I shouldn’t have cheaped out on the Everdrive. I have the X5 and the X7 has savestates… we also have the original game, but that doesn’t have savestates either. :)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

And after 12 tries I managed it in easy mode. I would guess it would take me at least 30 tries on normal mode. But I think this is not worth my time. :)
This was all played on the refurbished red play it loud DMG. So real hardware, but modern screen, as the old display board was corroded away by battery leakage.
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The now bright Mario castle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

@[email protected] It's one of the titles I loved the most, if there was a counter of the hours of play would be more than 600h of play.