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    Image of Sustenance Sustenance
    05:43 PM

    In reply to New Super Mario Bros. Wii Glitch Discovers Fountain of Coins, Youth
    Like others in this thread, I jumped on a turtle shell towards the end of a level (don't remember which - kind of cruising through the game actually) and got "unlimited" lives with the ol' turtle-jump method. By "unlimited" I of course mean 99.

    Lives are an afterthought in this game. Because you can repeat levels (and skip worlds at will), you can go back and collect as many coins as you need. It's just a matter of how long it takes - depending on which method you use.

    This one is mostly interesting because you get more than one life reserve filled simultaneously.
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    Image of Random J Random J
    03:17 PM

    In reply to New Super Mario Bros. Wii Glitch Discovers Fountain of Coins, Youth
    There's nothing about this game that REALLY makes me want it. I wasn't a huge fan of New Super Mario Bros. and this look like more of the same.

    :(

    I can see this being one of those games where I'll only pick it up when I'm feeling impulsive and like I need a new game to play.

    I've not switched on my Wii all year. I guess I should... check it still works and shit.
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    Image of dowingba dowingba
    04:39 AM

    In reply to New Super Mario Bros. Wii Glitch Discovers Fountain of Coins, Youth
    For all of you people crying about how this game isn't hard enough. You should play this instead.
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    Image of 超外人 超外人
    05:12 AM

    @dowingba: So reminds me of all those evil created levels. They are quite entertaining. The funniest ones to me are the hidden blocks at optimal jumping points.
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    Image of ninjaDance ninjaDance
    11/21/09

    In reply to Cooperative Multiplayer with the Devil You Don't Know
    I misbehave *all the time* when I know the guy and it's split screen, but only because we find it hilarious, particularly if it's imaginative. On the other hand, I'm on my best behaviour online; the same way I wouldn't call a man I just met an 'asshat' in jest, but I can with a friend (were I so inclined).

    My favourite misbehaving moment was when I was driving a Warthog in the original Halo. My partner was in the passenger seat. We were driving along a ridge of some sort. Seeing the opportunity, I floored it, then leaped out at the last second, watching as the Warthog (and my buddy) went sailing off the edge of the cliff.

    What can I say, I am an easily-amused man.
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    11/21/09

    In reply to New Super Mario Bros. Wii Glitch Discovers Fountain of Coins, Youth
    Just finished the game last night with the wife. Played the whole way through just the two of us. Sorry really proud of her because she is not a gamer and she cranked through the last fight with me. Meeting up with Bowser and finishing that level was epic.

    Sure could of used that glitch though, we never saw over 12 lives. I used 12 continues and she used 18. Ha.
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    11/21/09

    In reply to New Super Mario Bros. Wii Glitch Discovers Fountain of Coins, Youth
    This game has ridiculous number of ways to get infinite lives. And they aren't glitches (except this one).
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    11/21/09

    In reply to New Super Mario Bros. Wii Glitch Discovers Fountain of Coins, Youth
    The best part is that Nintendo will never patch it.
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    11/21/09

    @Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation: Has Nintendo ever patched a game?
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    Image of Fluke_Hawkins Fluke_Hawkins
    11/21/09

    @zdevex: CAN Nintendo patch this? Is the Wii capable of it?
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    11/21/09

    @Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation: Should Nintendo Patch this? Even if it were possible... why would they?
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    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    11/21/09

    In reply to New Super Mario Bros. Wii Glitch Discovers Fountain of Coins, Youth

    Jesus at least take better care of your videos YouTube dude (Seriously, a generic title and extension to it? Haven't seen those in a while...)

    And fucking shit man you could have told me about this sooner you bastard instead of sticking my fate in a fake grail GWAAAARGHH—

    *poof*
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    11/21/09

    @(Starman) Starman:

    You chose... Poorly.
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    Image of Raynre Raynre
    11/21/09

    @(Starman) Starman: No you fool, pick the wood one! He's a CARPENTER for His sake!
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    Image of WhiteMåge WhiteMåge
    11/21/09

    In reply to New Super Mario Bros. Wii Glitch Discovers Fountain of Coins, Youth
    If it's anything like NSMB the only time you'd need to use this is if the game glitched and took away all your lives and none of the other levels would give you lives.

    Lives were to NSMB what Rupees were to Zelda TP.
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    Image of Bouchart Bouchart
    11/21/09

    @WhiteMåge: Or Link to the Past. Way too mant 300-rupee chests in that one.
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    Image of Atomsk88 Atomsk88
    11/21/09

    @WhiteMåge: At least it made the Magic Armor reasonable to own with the mass amounts of rupees to be found. Made the Cave of Ordeals incredibly easier since you only lost rupees (damage/time) and enemies would explode into more rupees upon their defeat.
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    Image of maverickuw maverickuw
    11/21/09

    @WhiteMåge: it's not. NSMBW is probably the toughest game in the series (especially when playing multiplayer)
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    Image of Ad-hominem Ad-hominem
    11/21/09

    @maverickuw: No, it is tough ONLY when playing Multiplayer.

    The game is rather easy and sparse, but becomes difficult to play when other people are bumping into you, and freezing the game randomly, whenever literally anything happens.
    Did they get a power up? Time to throw your jump off by pausing for a second!

    Even then, that's not as much "difficult" as "poor game design".
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    Image of dowingba dowingba
    11/21/09

    @Ad-hominem: I never had a problem with multiplayer. Maybe you just suck at video games?
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    11/21/09

    @Ad-hominem: Sorry I had to comment again. You say it's tough only when playing multiplayer? First off, I have to ask: did you play all 75 levels? Some of them are pretty killer. Particularly world 9. Particularly level 9-7.

    Secondly, I think it balances out. In single player, you're bound to die alot less; but in multiplayer, dying doesn't matter. As long as 1 player is alive, the level continues. Also, it is a hell of alot easier to get the Star Coins in multiplayer -- because you can bounce off other players to reach areas you can't in single player, and because one player can just kill themselves to get a Star Coin, and the level still continues, and the coin still counts as obtained.
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    Image of Nefaroth Nefaroth
    11/21/09

    @dowingba: Oh how I loved 9-7. And the victory of getting the third coin.

    Far as infinite lives, 8-Boat is my strongest case for easy farming.
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    11/21/09

    @Nefaroth: 7-5 has got some damn easy lives.

    #speakup
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    Image of nworobes nworobes
    01:32 AM

    @dowingba: I agree that there are pros and cons to single player and multiplayer. But I don't think it "balances out".

    In singe player, the con is that there's only you, so you can only take 0-2 hits before having to restart a level. Also, you can't bounce off of other players to get high Star Coins, or let one player jump down suicidally for a Star Coin that normally would require much greater skill/timing (incidentally, in case everyone hasn't figured this out, when you make such a suicide dive in multiplayer, you can press A to put yourself in the bubble manually, as if you'd died and respawned; you don't lose your powerup, you don't lose your life, and this can save you from all sorts of failed jumps).

    In multiplayer, the con is that PLAYING THE GAME AT ALL IS HORRIBLY DIFFICULT, BECAUSE YOUR TEAMMATES CONSTANTLY INTERRUPT YOUR ATTEMPTS TO BUILD SPEED, AND THEY CONSTANTLY BOUNCE OFF OF YOUR HEAD MIDJUMP. Plus, that split-second pause when a teammate gets an item or gets hit throws off everyone's timing, leading to more jump cockups, which screws up everyone's timing, leading to more jump cockups, which...

    I'm glad that they did something to counteract how easy the game would be with 4 people playing, leading to 4 times as many possible lives. And I do enjoy the game. But good god, when you have multiple people playing, it greatly overcompensates because I swear that nobody can hold onto lives whatsoever. I don't see how that can be avoided unless you and your 3 friends happen to have the coordination and discipline of an army platoon.

    4 players: I'm not sure any one player ever had more than 10 lives, and I believe every player had at least 1 or 2 continues used per hour. Plus, any level that has narrow platforms is hellish, because they can't fit more than 1 or 2 players, so the other players either have to wait (and possibly die), or all 4 of us scramble for the platform and we're lucky if 1 of us makes it. For example, in the fortress in World 5, there's a part where 2 spiked walls move side and to side, and you have to ascend small platforms while avoiding these spikes; this section is literally IMPOSSIBLE with 4 players, because all 4 can't be on a platform at once, and the spikes move fast enough that you don't really have time to take turns, so at best maybe 2 players can actually do the jumps, while the other 2 get left behind to get spiked (though if they're smart they will just put themselves in bubbles).

    2 players: The day after the above example, we replayed a section, looking for Star Coins. Even just reducing the players by 2 showed a dramatic improvement, as we had less "teamkills", and pretty much gained lives at nearly the same rate as singe player (we each started with 5, after 30-45 minutes we had something like 18-19 each).

    1 player: Zero "teamkills", and it's far easier to get extra lives when using stars, or when trying to hit a lot of enemies with a shell or Yoshi fireball, instead of having teammates muck it up somehow. A couple levels are challenging and take some lives, but in a given half hour, it's pretty much guaranteed that I end up with a life surplus, and near the end of my first pass through the game, I reached 99 lives, and pretty much hovered around there until the end.

    Overall, the multiplayer aspect of the game is enjoyable, as long as you don't take the game too seriously while you're playing it, akin to a Mario Party state of mind. But if you have even one friend you're playing with who prides himself on his platformer competency, prepare for nonstop rage growls, because NSMBW's multiplayer is nearly chaos theory, given how many different ways your teammates can inadvertently throw off your precise timing or directly cause your death on a jump you could most certainly make.
    At times, it becomes almost indistinguishable from a Luck Based Mission.
    [tvtropes.org]
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    Image of dowingba dowingba
    01:49 AM

    @nworobes: I played it through 100% in 2 player mode, and didn't have any of the issues you mentioned. I can see 4 players being a clusterfuck, but 2 players seemed to be the sweet spot. Get 2 competent Mario players together and it's quite possibly the most fun I've ever had playing a game.

    #speakup
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    Image of Bouchart Bouchart
    11/21/09

    In reply to New Super Mario Bros. Wii Glitch Discovers Fountain of Coins, Youth
    I remember a glitch in Super Mario World in level 5-1 where if you had the cape you could bounce on Wigglers' heads repeatedly, and not just gain infinite lives but also points.
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    Image of Scorpi Scorpi
    11/21/09

    In reply to Cooperative Multiplayer with the Devil You Don't Know
    I noticed a typo in the article - "in a Mario's return." You should have written "in-a Mario's return..."
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    Image of BlueToast BlueToast
    11/21/09

    @Scorpi: Is this one sentence or two? Your lack of periods confuses me.
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    Image of Scorpi Scorpi
    12:03 AM

    @BlueToast: There was totally a period there - "... Mario's return." If you put a period inside quotation marks it still counts as the end of a the sentence, BUDDY. Don't'cha go all grammar Nazi on me, man!
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    Image of TRT-X TRT-X
    11/21/09

    In reply to Cooperative Multiplayer with the Devil You Don't Know
    NSMB reminds me of why I love playing with people in person....it's a LOT harder to be a douchebag when you have to look the victim in the eye.

    Say what you will about Penny Arcade, but their Greater Internet Fuckwad theory was dead on.
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    Image of Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians.
    11/21/09

    In reply to Cooperative Multiplayer with the Devil You Don't Know
    Ah, one of the few remaing joys of all being in the same room..you can punish tard behavior then and there and if your lucky, you won't have any need for that 100 pound bag of lime or that meat grinder you keep in your basement.

    ..er..nevermind?
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    Image of t4stywh34t t4stywh34t
    11/21/09

    @Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians.: Ahh, lime. Knew I was forgetting something.
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    04:31 AM

    @t4stywh34t:Lime is the best invention in the world.

    #speakup
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    Image of mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
    11/21/09

    In reply to Cooperative Multiplayer with the Devil You Don't Know
    This Photoshopped box art for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II-which includes the tagline "It's My Turn to Get the Pizza You Asshole I Need it More!"-is a perfect encapsulation of the phenomenon.

    More so than that, it's a perfect encapsulation of nearly every boy who lived in the early nineties. It is the story of us all.
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    Image of wirebrain wirebrain
    11/21/09

    In reply to Cooperative Multiplayer with the Devil You Don't Know
    When this kind of behavior is done with friends, there's a gentleman's agreement in play that anything in this nature is just harmless horseplay and anyone that goes too far gets slugged in the arm. With strangers, there's no trust in play- You don't know if they're kidding or not and just being a jerkwad.
    Online, this problem is worse since there's no "getting punched for acting out of line" option available.
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    Image of Bizzenya Bizzenya
    11/21/09

    @wirebrain: That's where project Natal comes in.
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    wirebrain promoted this comment Bizzenya was starred Bizzenya was unstarred
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    11/21/09


    @Bizzenya: I was hoping more for something like this...

    #speakup
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    11/21/09

    @wirebrain: Perhaps that why so many people crave online play for ALL their multiplayer games? The chance to act like bastards and not be penalized for it?
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    11/21/09

    @GenRedLeader: I'm willing to believe that there are people who DO think that, but I'd be more inclined to think more people just want online because they can't always get their friends together.
    It's just that the "for the lulz" folks seem to do it more as a side attraction, rather than the primary reason for their involvement.

    #speakup
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