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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    9 days ago

    Halloween is coming soon, so I managed to beat the pumpkin zone for the third coin. The witch was a rather easy boss.
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    The pumpkin zone map shows graveyards, ghosts and coffins.

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      9 days ago

      Fourth coin is go! Managed to beat the rat boss in Macro Zone. Easiest stage so far.
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      Four coons in the portal.

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        9 days ago

        Now at the boss level in the Turtle Zone. So far the game got easier. I think it means I am getting the hang of it. Also, now I have 999 coins and can try to get the BIG prize.
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          9 days ago

          I managed to get to the secret level in Turtle Zone. I must admit it doesn’t seem that worthwhile…
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            9 days ago

            Star Zone boss is my personal nemesis. I just can’t seem to beat him. I will have to farm some lives soon…
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              8 days ago

              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!

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                8 days ago

                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.

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                  8 days 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.

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                  8 days ago

                  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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                    7 days ago

                    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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