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"Mystery in Super Mario World?????"

Way back in August of 1992, at about 6pm one fine summery evening, I finally completed Super Mario World for the good old SNES. I was thrilled as I saw the story end happily, and the good old "goodbye-till-the-next-game" music played with the credits.
When I completed it, I saw the number 96 by the file that I had saved it as, and was ecstatic about completing a game with 96 levels in it, after having read so much about these 96 levels (plus sub games) over the past year or so
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Despite it ending, I still wanted to play, so I carried on, going over some levels, particularly those nasty ones in Star Road that lead to those such as Gnarly, and Tuber-something. They were some of the hardest levels I'd played in any game ever. Anyway, I plugged at them, again and again and carried on under the same saved file, till one day to my surprise I switched on my SNES for a go at Super Mario World, and found my file had renamed itself as 96*!!!

96 with a Gold Star next to it.

(My initial thought was "UG?........ Wicked!")

Other mates of mine had played SMW to death on their SNES's but none had managed to get a star by their 96. I have absolutely NO idea what I did to get that star by my filename, but it made me happy that I'd somehow apparently gone further on the game than they had. Unfortunately, I became cocky and thought I could do it all over again, and wiped the cartridge so I no longer have that file.

With the release of Mario Kart and other titles, I didn't play SMW as much anymore, and to this day, have yet to recreate that magical Star by the 96 levels in the filename as I complete it.

Has anyone else had a similar experience? Does anyone else know what the Gold Star is meant for?

Yeah, and you're a nutter :) Top in the 100 caning posters over the last month eh? Looks like I have some stuff to do to catch up..

Thanks

have you done it?

Cheers matey

Go to the 'top posters' link just above this post, on there you should find a thing saying 'are you a dedicated regular or just a newbie', follow the regular link and it should tell you summat about it.

Yeah probably. I've put it into the Nintendo forums too.

So, how long do you have to be registered/how much do you have to post before you become a regular?

I think everyone else just saw 'Mario' and thouht that it was for kids... post it in the ninty forum.

Anyone else care to have a look in here and see what they think, please?

"Never underestimate the power of a Laptop Gun my friend"

8Decides to look on Ebay instead, theres bound to be one on there*

LOL, *starts up anti stealth systems and positions rabid dogs by the doors*
*Sticks a few laptop guns up too (Perfect Dark)*

LOL, *starts up anti stealth systems and positions rabid dogs by the doors*