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Super Mario Bros. 3: White Mushroom Houses spawn explained - RGME [Not OC] (cohost.org)
submitted 11 months ago by Crul@lemm.ee to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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TL;DR:

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

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[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FiddlersViridian@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months 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.

[–] argentcorvid@midwest.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So is the mechanic for the coin ship implemented the same way?

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months 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.