Super Mario World - Pipe Counter Overflow [FLASHING LIGHTS]

The code I used for infinite time, coin counter, and Yoshi in item box (use with jailbreak):
A9 FF 8D 31 0F AD 1A 14 8D BF 0D A9 C2 8D C2 0D A9 02 85 19 6B

[@natnew32]

What actually happens is that the game thinks you're entering a level from the OW when the counter overflows to 0. So it looks for which level you're entering by- get this- checking for the tile ID of a certain tile in the level. Usually this tile is air, 0x25; you're on a submap, so this corresponds to level 0x125, which is #1 Iggy's Castle. This level has a no-yoshi castle entrance so that's why the cutscene plays out, albeit it's buggy. But the castle entrance also knocks you back to your original level, which is why it restarted.

[@RavenWorks]

Oh, that makes sense, thank you!

[@OliviaWantsToBePretty]

Thank you, that explains it much better than I ever could, haha

[@TakuikaNinja]

that's pretty cursed ngl

[@RavenWorks]

What does it use the pipe counter for?

[@OliviaWantsToBePretty]

It's used to remember which level is the original, since sublevels are technically different levels. Without it, dying/winning in a sublevel would glitch the game out

[@RavenWorks]

Interesting! You'd think they could just store that once rather than keeping a stack, though.....

[@natnew32]

@@RavenWorks It's not a stack, it's a one-byte variable that starts at 0 when you enter and increases by 1 when you enter a sublevel. Why it keeps increasing past 1 is beyond me because anyone who spent any amount of time thinking knows it can overflow, but apparently it didn't.

[@NotADesk]

least patient gamer girl

[@nefariousnektarios]

#killyoshi is beyond glitches lol XD

[@nvagn]

man, didn't know Nintendo expanded hex numbers from just A-F to A-P /s

[@DRS4KAL95Colors]

lol