Originally posted by SoNotNormal

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16. Layer 2 scroll, and you have to run through it before it crushes you
17. Jumping off bullet bills to climb a level + pitching chucks

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Originally posted by SoNotNormal

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39. Use auto-scroll and make layer 2 spike walls everywhere that follow you as the level moves, so you have to stay in the middle or you die.

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Originally posted by Lordlazer

I think it is better to think up the ideas on your own instead of looking at threads like this, because when you think it up yourself you feel like you accomplished something. You feel like that level is yours and not what someone gave to you so to speak.

Originally posted by Dr. Weird

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Ok, I found a glitch. In the first castle after you have to duck and jump across a lava and some spikes and go down the escalator, I fell through the floor and I'm trapped. Other than that as for now, it's a great game.

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Originally posted by The Kirby

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Excellent hack! I hardly ever find any hacks that have original levels and are possible and fun to play through.

I haven't reached all the goals yet (defeated Bowser at the front door) but here are a few design problems that I am currently thinking of.

Soda Lake: The underwater current in this level makes it feel rather slow and tedious, and it doesn't improve the difficulty of the level in a rational way. Remove the current.

Maze levels: These kinds of levels are rather frustrating to navigate through. They simply don't belong in a Mario game. I recommend lowering the difficulty of such areas so the player isn't punished so much when going through the wrong passages. I noticed this mainly in the ghost houses.

Unseen secrets: I noticed most of these in the Forest of Illusion levels where you have secret passages and such hidden below the screen or high above it in "No Vertical Scrolling" levels. I know you put some coins in the shape of a ? To help clue the player to a secret, but they're a bit too vague, especially when secrets are hidden in pits that a player would normally think to be deadly. A bit too much trial and error. Some of the secrets I wouldn't have found if it weren

Originally posted by The Kirby

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Yoshi's tongue (EX: lvl. 1FE): I noticed in some levels that you have the "castle sprite GFX header" set for some of the levels that Yoshi can access. Unfortunately, Dry Bones takes up both of the 8x8 tiles that are used for Yoshi's tongue in the castle sprite header. Thus, his tongue looks like a garbled mess. Change the sprite header for these levels, or put a "No Yoshi" sign for these levels so this won't occur.

Originally posted by The Kirby

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Donut Secret 2: I don't know if you would consider this a mess up, but I found it odd that you can't access the rest of the level without triggering the Blue Switch Palace. As you know, the route to Donut Secret 2 on the overworld map is a short-cut to Donut Plains 3. However, you can't access the Blue Switch Palace without completing Donut Plains 3 first, meaning Donut Secret 2's short-cut is useless. I suggest changing the Blue ! blocks to green instead, or move this level somewhere that isn't on the path to the Blue Switch Palace.

Originally posted by The Kirby

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Bowser's Castle: I don't know about the Front Door, but you have a Midway bar in the Back Door level. Even though the original game had this too, it's not a good thing to have. Since you'll be fighting Bowser, this level can not truly be beaten. That is, it doesn't have a valid goal. Say if I cross the Midway bar and left the level and saved my game. Every time I go to the backdoor, I'll be forced to the Midway entrance. Because Bowser's Castle doesn't have a valid goal, this Midway point cannot be cleared. Best to fix this up for the players who want to play the Back Door from the beginning.

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