By Alexandru Stanescu, Editor, Gaming Reviews (Consoles)
14th of February 2007, 09:51 GMT
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A free Mario game is a blessing for all the fans out there and Buziol Games manages to offer us this great classic. With all the original levels and a cool new editing tool called Mario Worker, Mario Forever proves that our favorite Italian plumber will never cease to be the most famous gaming character ever. Proceed through the worlds of this classic side-scrolling 2D title and defeat the turtles and evil plants in order to save the princess. Collect the mushrooms and become Super Mario, or the shooting Doctor Mario that can wipe out any kind of pesky critter you may encounter. There are some crazy gamers out there that can complete any level in less than one minute. I've shown you such a speed run below and you should really check out the walkthrough if you want to find all the hidden areas in Mario Forever:
Cheat mode: Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create a backup copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text editor to edit the "mafosav" file in the "buziol gamesmario forever" folder. Change the indicated set of lines in the file for the desired world you wish to play.
World 2 chlebent1=0 ata1save1=637 ata2save1=1236 ata3save1=12824 stringlev1=2
World 3 chlebent1=0 ata1save1=728 ata2save1=1301 ata3save1=14423 stringlev1=3
World 4 chlebent1=0 ata1save1=805 ata2save1=1356 ata3save1=15776 stringlev1=4
World 5 chlebent1=0 ata1save1=875 ata2save1=1406 ata3save1=17006 stringlev1=5
World 6 chlebent1=0 ata1save1=924 ata2save1=1441 ata3save1=17867 stringlev1=6
World 7 chlebent1=0 ata1save1=994 ata2save1=1491 ata3save1=19097 stringlev1=7
World 8 chlebent1=0 ata1save1=1071 ata2save1=1546 ata3save1=20450 stringlev1=8
World Walkthrough:
World 1-1: My Difficulty rating: 0.10
There are many secrets in this level, as it is the easiest!
The mushroom plague is found about 3cm to the left of Mario's starting position. Walk 3 centimeters to the left, and press down. Go a tiny bit further each time and keep pressing down until you find it. The next secret is in the second large pipe to the right. The last pipe if you like to call it that way. Duck in it and you should appear in a bonus room with coins in it! If you go further, pass over this pipe and keep going forward, you will eventually come across a few bricks, question marks and goombas. Go forward and jump onto the first row, walk to the first gap after the last brick in the top row and jump! A life should appear if done correctly. There are many turtles in this level, make sure to knock them into other enemies to gain multiple point masses, or even a life!
World 1-2: My Difficulty rating: 0.18
To enter this room, you fall out of the roof and land near an inventory made out of a few coins, bricks and a mushroom/flower and some goombas. There is sometimes a little glitch with the move patterns of these goombas. Once you collect all the essentials, you can move on to see some blue block sticks. In between the last 2 you should see a goomba guarding an obviously multiple point brick. Flush him out and grab the points. Next you should come across 2 rows of bricks. Jump onto the first row and walk to he final brick to the left. Now jump and hold left, (not too much or you will die!) and then you should burst a secret star. A simple thing to do would be to run and knock over all these enemies. However, if you are a lazy person and wish to skip world 1, 2 and 3, walk under the small blue brick gap and go close to the right edge and jump up. If you keep going and decide that you want to do the rest of the levels and beat the game properly keep going until you come across 3 piranha plant pipes. Go to the first one and hop on top of it once the plant is down. Then repeat the process like the one you did to get the other star. NOTE: You mustn't die in this level for it to be there! Keep going after you have it and you come across 2 vertical pipes. You can either do the simple way and go to the second pipe, right-side pipe and press down to access a bonus coin room. (It's not a trap as it may seem). If you keep going there is only a minor secret at the end which is made out of a few secret coin blocks, (single coins). Then you finish!
World 1-3: My Difficulty rating: 0.3
This level has one major secret world, well, 1 level in it. Go through the whole level until you reach some elevators. Make sure you leave some so you can come back to the pipe above the sky with bricks on it. Then just progress through the rest of the way until you see the finish line. Don't touch it! Instead you should see a cloud that you can touch. Go under it and jump up directly. A beetroot should appear, note you MUST be super Mario, (big) to get this. Then go back and break the bricks and access goomba Party. You mustn't die in the first 3 levels to find the beetroot there. Otherwise just go to the end of the level as there are no more major secrets.
World 1-4: My Difficulty rating: 0.28
Basically, just keep going and collecting all the stuff on the way until you see a bunch of goombas and you hit an invisible question mark in a large area. There are more above the first layer. Hit them all then go on the roof and stay up there until you reach a warp pipe to world 3! Otherwise just beat Bowser and progress to world 2 as normal. Be armed if you're a beginner when you fight Bowser.
Here's the speed run of one of Mario's levels, done by a true Mario fan:
great game not really an expert but fancied a go as i remembered it as a kid, stuck at jumping the big jump in the fire castle right after the circular blades, lol.any ideas? Live long
richard
Comment #7 by: 1MarioFanatic on 14 May 2008, 01:52 GMT
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