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You need to collect a certain number of coins in certain levels to make one appear (…), but there are a couple fun things about it

  • violetraven
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    1 year ago

    Wow, I never knew. That was so fascinating. Thank you for sharing!

    • FiddlersViridian @sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Ditto! I’ve been playing with 8-bit assembly programming and it’s fascinating how this mechanic was implemented in just a couple bytes of level data.

    • fernandofig@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      I think there’s more to the coin ship, that unfortunately isn’t covered in the article. I know for a fact that the hammer bro on the World 1 map turns into a coin ship if you finish 1-1 with 55 coins AND end the level with time remaining being an odd number.