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Super Mario Bros. 2, which started out as Doki Doki Panic, received a much-needed update in Super Mario All-Stars.

The All-Star treatment

The solid-color backgrounds of Super Mario Bros. 2 were filled in with detailed background designs.

Easily seen in the screenshot above, the dark red hexagons making up the energy meter were changed to hearts outlined in white.

In light areas, all holes in the walls were replaced with doors. However, the dark areas on the other side still have holes with light shining in.

The boss rooms were brightened up with red, green, and blue blocks.

Mushroom Blocks can no longer sit on light beams. Enemies can now pass through the light as well, so be careful!

Enemy updates

When Albatoss is hit, his upside-down sprite that falls off-screen isn't animated in All-Stars.

The Birdos boldly hold their Crystal Balls while battling the Mario crew on the NES. In All-Stars, the same Birdos hide the Crystal Balls in their bellies, spitting them out when defeated. The same goes for the Birdo with a Key in World 7-2.

Sprite redesigns

Many of the character and item sprites underwent slight redesigns, and some color variations were replaced. The NES version has lighter-colored sprites for dark areas, but only Pidgit has a similar variation in All-Stars.

Items

• Bombs were changed from red to purple.
• Crystal Balls are slightly bigger in All-Stars.
• Pidgit's Magic Carpet was changed to orange with white highlights.
• Mushroom Blocks were changed from red to pink. Only found in World 5, the spotted Mushroom Blocks are plain in All-Stars.
• Since the Stopwatch's hands are asymmetrical in All-Stars, the 'time' changes depending on which way your character is facing.
• In All-Stars, vegetables have green grass, but they still don't match the red grass that you pull up to get them.
• The smallest red unripe vegetable was changed to white.
• The largest white vegetable is mostly pink in All-Stars.
• The vegetable resembling a pumpkin was changed from red to green.
• The red ripe vegetable from Wart's room was replaced with the green pumpkin.

Enemies

• Autobombs were changed from black to teal.
• Red Beezos were changed to tan.
• The gray and green Beezos were changed to red.
• Birdo wears a much bigger bow in All-Stars, but she lost her eyelashes.
• The gray Birdos were replaced with green Birdos.
• In All-Stars, Bob-ombs are gray and have decorative fuses.
• The two different Mouser designs were merged into one.
• Ninjis are purple in All-Stars.
• Ostros are pink in All-Stars.
• Pink Pansers were changed to blue.
• Gray Pansers were replaced with the green ones.
• Phanto's right side was changed from red to gold.
• All Pidgits were changed to blue. While the lighter Pidgit was originally only found in World 5-3, All-Stars has the light blue Pidgit in 3-1 and 5-3.
• Porcupos are purple in All-Stars.
• Pink Shyguys were changed to blue.
• Pink Snifits were changed to blue.
• Green Snifits were replaced with the gray ones.
• Tryclyde was changed from red to teal.
• Tweeters were changed from white to light purple.
• Wart's accessories were colored for All-Stars.

The good guys

• Luigi's overalls were changed from blue to purple.
• Luigi and Mario have white gloves in All-Stars.
• Princess was changed from a brunette to a blonde, and her freakishly long arms were shortened.
• The dots on Toad's hat were changed from blue to red.
• The Subcons have a different face design.

Like day and night

Several levels were changed from nighttime to daytime, or vice versa. No doubt the change to the first section of World 1-1 shocked many SMB2 veterans:

World 2-3:

World 5-1:

World 5-3:

World 6-3:

Key rooms

The new background for the Key rooms features a huge, metallic Phanto.

When you grab the Key inside these rooms, a humming noise accompanies the big Phanto's glowing eyes.

Saving

Like the other three games included in All-Stars, you have four save slots, where only the world is saved. For example, if you save and quit in World 6-3, you will start up again in World 6-1.

You can save at any time via the pause screen.

Title screen

The All-Stars version has an updated copyright, colorized characters, and centered frame decorations on the bottom and sides. The Shy Guy was moved to the left along with the bottom frame decoration. Even though they now have color, the grass and vegetable are colored differently from how they look in the game.

Story

On the second story screen, the word 'button' was removed.

Character select

In the All-Stars version, you start with five lives instead of three (the NES version lets you play with zero lives in reserve). Interestingly, an ellipsis now comes after the words 'Extra Life,' reminiscent of the character select screen in the SMB2 NES prototype. Whereas the NES version only lets you select a character before starting each stage, the All-Stars version takes you to back the character select screen when you lose a life.

Lives

Though you start out with more lives in All-Stars (see above), you max out at 99 lives, well short of the 255 allowed by the NES version. For extra lives over 99, the NES version replaces the tens digit with letters. For example, A0 = 100, A1 = 101, B0 = 110, and P4 = 254 extra lives.

Level intro

The level intro screens now have colorized scenes with animated grass. All of the scenes have small changes to platform size and grass placement. World 1's intro is reused for Worlds 3 and 5.

When restarting a level after losing a life, All-Stars doesn't show the lives remaining because it's shown on the character select screen, which appears before this screen.

The desert scenes of Worlds 2 and 6 have a pyramid instead of a platform.

The World 4 scene has changes similar to the World 1 scene.

World 7's scene has a much bigger platform.

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Game over

The original SMB2 shows two screens when you lose all your lives, and you are limited to two continues. The two screens were combined into one for the All-Stars version, which lets you continue (and save) as many times as you want. The newer Game Over screen reuses the title screen border design and has a picture of Birdo.

Bonus Chance

The Bonus Chance in All-Stars has larger slot machine graphics with new art. The instructions changed from 'Push (A) Button' to 'Push Button'—in the NES version, you press the A button to stop the spinning panels, but the All-Stars version lets you press either Y, X, B, or A. If you match the first two panels in All-Stars, a drumroll will play.

In All-Stars, the prize for matching three non-cherries was increased from 1UP to 2UP.

Matching three cherries rewards you with 5UP in the original, but only 3UP in All-Stars.

The All-Stars version gives you a chance for 10UP with new '7' panels.

In All-Stars, the coin counter doesn't have to use letters for totals greater than nine. Also, the weird grass under Mario was fixed.

Warping

After going down a warp vase in the All-Stars version, the screen becomes distorted and new music plays as it transitions to the Warp announcement screen. Similar to the Game Over screen's new look, the title screen border design and another picture of Birdo decorate the new Warp screen.

World 5-2

In the NES version, the spike section of World 5-2 has the underground theme for its background music. In All-Stars, the overworld theme continues playing when you enter this section.

World 6-1

Platforms were added inside the sand vases in World 6-1 so that you're not trapped at the bottom if you dig up too much sand.

Inside Phanto's vase, the sand was removed behind Phanto and the Key.

World 6-2

At the end of World 6-2, the wall goes to the top of the screen in the All-Stars version.

World 6-3

In World 6-3, the cave entrance was changed from a creepy face to a metal Bob-omb door. When you stand in front of the door and press Up, it will rise and then close in front of you.

World 7-1

These four ladders in World 7-1 were extended to overlap the cloud platform, which makes it a bit easier to grab onto them. It also makes it possible to drop back down to this section if you're not careful.

Ending

With its new background that includes stained-glass windows, the room where you release the Subcons looks a lot fancier in All-Stars.

The heroes stand on a larger platform with columns that are now visible behind the Subcons, and the background has slightly smaller windows. Perhaps a bit tired from all the grass-pulling, Toad waves with only one hand in the All-Stars version. Wart's white belly and the jewel in his crown, which mysteriously were missing in this scene, were added for All-Stars.

In the All-Stars version, a colorized Mario dreams about two fewer Subcons. Although Toad was waving one hand on the previous screen, he is back to waving with both hands as he did in the NES version.

When Mario's dream (nightmare?) ends, All-Stars lets you save your game after pushing Start.

A bonus stage (also known as a bonus level or bonus round) is a special level within a video game designed to reward the player or players, and typically allows the player to collect extra points or power-ups. Bonus stage either have no enemies or hazards, or replace the normal penalties for being struck by enemies or hazards with simply being thrown out of the bonus stage. Many bonus stages need to be activated or discovered in some manner, or certain conditions must be satisfied to access them. Otherwise, they appear after the player has completed a certain number of regular stages.^[1] They are often much shorter than regular stages.

Unlike most regular stages, a bonus stage does not normally have to be completed to move on. While a regular stage must be replayed until completion, possibly using up lives or continues upon failures, when a player begins a bonus stage they have one chance at it. Some bonus stages do contain an end location or condition to reach, but regardless of whether the player succeeds or fails, game play resumes at the next regular stage after one attempt. Other bonus stages have no end to reach, the player must simply survive as long as they can before inevitably failing at some point. Some bonus stages have a short time limit, where the player must either complete the stage before the time runs out, or simply survive until the clock runs down to zero. As bonus stages are often shorter and over in one attempt, players cannot as easily practice and perfect their play through of them in the same way as regular stages that permit or demand more attempts upon failure.

In some games, bonus stages have an interface and game paradigm that is completely different and disconnected from the rest of the game, as in the slot machine bonus stage of Super Mario Brothers 2. Other bonus stages use the same gaming paradigm as the rest of the game, as in the car smashing bonus stage of Street Fighter II or the bonus stages in Super Monkey Ball where players collect bananas to earn extra points and lives.

History[edit]

Namco's Rally-X from 1980s contains a bonus round presented with the title 'CHALLENGING STAGE.' The gameplay goal is to collect all of the flags in the scrolling maze, but enemy cars don't move.^[2]Namco's Galaga from the following year, also has a 'Challenging Stage' with enemies that do not attack. The player is rewarded extra points based on how many enemies are eliminated.

Most modern bonus stages reward the player with power-ups rather than points.^{[citation needed]} Modern games have often blurred the traditional distinction between bonus stages^{[citation needed]} and ordinary levels. Most first-person shooter games allow players to enter bonus rooms within larger (non-bonus) levels to temporarily power up. Some games have optional bonus stages which must be discovered and whose completion impacts the mechanics of the rest of the game, as in the 'Star Road' levels of Super Mario World.

Comparison with secret levels[edit]

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Bonus stages are often confused with secret levels^{[by whom?]}; however, in the majority of games, they are two distinct things. The key differences are the following:

• Bonus stages are often mentioned within the manual or during in-game hints. In comparison, a secret stage is more or less hidden, and only vaguely mentioned in the manual or during gameplay (for instance, on the world map).
• Secret levels feature enemies, death-traps and various hazards, even introducing special, new hazards or enemies which are not present anywhere else inside the game. Most games have little to no resistance or hazards on bonus levels.
• Many bonus stages have a time limit. Therefore, many bonus stages doesn't have any exits either, the clock shall yank the player out of the level eventually. Most secret levels have no time limit at all and their exit must be located to progress further in the game, just like any other regular level. The Crash Bandicoot series contain various other non-linear paths in levels and even levels in their own right that, unlike bonus stages, require certain feats or collectibles to access them.

References[edit]

1. ^'The Next Generation 1996 Lexicon A to Z'. Next Generation. No. 15. Imagine Media. March 1996. p. 30. Typically, bonus levels are either hidden and require discovery or appear after a certain number of regular levels have been completed.
2. ^'Rally-X'. Arcade History.

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