_______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ ____________ ____ _ \____ / __ \ / __ \| | / / | | | | | | | / /| | | | | | | | / / | |__| | |__| | |____ / / \____/ \____/|______\ / ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯\ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Ninja of the Nth Dimension _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Table of Contents _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 1. - Introduction 2. - Walkthrough 3. - Bosses 4. - Legal Disclaimer _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 1. - Introduction _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Zool: Ninja of the "N'th" Dimension is a 2D platformer for the Sega Master System. The gameplay is exactly what you'd expect from a platformer from the early 90s but plays a little faster than most which could make movement and jumping rather tricky at times. The interesting thing about this game is that you have to collect 99 items in each stage to unlock a proceed coin at the end of each level to complete it. That does include zool shields or 1 ups for example, but you'll mostly just find candy or cassettes, whatever the theme item for each stage is. Make sure not to miss a single item as there's usually not much more than 99 and you will need almost every single one you can find! ___________________ Controls ___________________ * D-Pad - Move * Button 1 - Jump * Button 2 - Attack * Start - Pause ___________________ HUD ___________________ * Top Left Corner - Time Left * Top Middle - Health * Top Right Corner - Items Collected - The arrow points to the large coin when you collected 99 items in that stage * Bottom Right Corner - Extra Lives ___________________ Items ___________________ 1 UP Pretty self explanatory here. The icon just says 1 Up and it will give you an extra life. BOMB The bomb looks like what you'd expect a bomb to look like and it will kill every enemy on the screen. You can't carry it and use it whenever you'd like, it just detonates when you touch it. CANDY There are a few different models for candy in the game. These will be found in area 1. They will add greatly to your item count to complete a level. FISH Gold fish in bowls are similar to candy or fruit that you've collected oh so many times. They are the items in area 4 alongside rubber duckies. FRUIT Similar to candy, you will find these in area 3. You will need to collect mostly fruit to collect 99 items in those stages to unlock the large coin. HEART The heart is what you'd expect it to be, it gives you one extra hit point and allows you to get hit another time without dying. JUMP BOOST The jump boost resembles an up arrow. It simply allows you to jump higher than normal. LARGE COIN The large coin only appears when you collect 99 items in a stage. The arrow will stop spinning in the top right and point towards it when it reveals itself. MUSIC Music is the same as candy except they will be found in area 2. Collect 99 items in those stages to proceed. NUTS Nuts are just random items you will find through area 5. ZOOL SHIELD This looks like a shield with a Z on it, it will make you invincible for a short period of time. _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 2. - Walkthrough _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ _______________________________________ _ ____ _____ _ _ / \ | _ \| ____| / \ / | / _ \ | |_) | _| / _ \ | | / ___ \| _ <| |___ / ___ \ | | /_/ \_\_| \_\_____/_/ \_\ |_| _______________________________________ ___________________ Area 1.1 ___________________ Defy video game logic and start off by going to the left for an jump boost. Now head back to the right and slide down the slope while picking up the candy and the zool shield. Climb up the wall and jump onto the moving platform here. Jump to the stationary platform to the right. Drop down to the right and pick up all of the candy down here. Start moving to the right and jump onto the first platform you can. Kill the monster here and run around the middle for a jump pad that will boost you to the next platform above. Collect the candy up here while you jump to the next platform to the upper right. Now ride the moving platform to the left and collect the candies here. Jump to the left for a big batch of candies floating there. Head back to where you jumped onto the moving platform and now head right. Gain some speed and jump off the platform to the right, collecting some candies while you clear the spikes below. Kill the bee here and jump the gap here. Inch close to the next gap so you can see a wall crawler to avoid. As it starts to move downward, jump and grab onto the top of the wall to finish climbing to the platform above. Slide down the slope to pick up the candies. Jump onto the first platform from the right while moving to the left. There's a jump pad here but spikes right above it so you have to move to the left while using the pad. Land on the platform above and you'll land on a zool shield in the process. Jump along the platforms to the left and you will see the path split. Go to the left first and there will be a platform that collapses as you run on it with a lot of candy. Pick up all the candies and head back to where those platforms split. Now go to the right and quickly jump onto the moving platform here. Grab the candies here and jump one more platform to the right. Slide down the slope while you pick up the remaining candies in this area. These will be the final of the 99 candies you need to pick up in this level, which will reveal the large coin just ahead. Pick up the large coin to complete this level. ___________________ Area 1.2 ___________________ Slide down the slope to your right and immediately jump when you reach the bottom so you don't slide into the spikes. Climb up the wall and jump to the arrow of candy. Keep repeating this until you collect all 11 candies here. Now jump to the left and follow the floating platforms to the upper right. Pick up the zool shield to become invincible and jump into the spikes on the platform to the right. Just run along the ground, through all the spikes here, picking up the candies here. You should now have 25 total when you reach the end of this platform. Run off the platform and head left when you land for four more candies. Now continue going left and jump when you reach the wall. Keep jumping and you will reach a hidden area. Jump down to the left and kill the enemy here. Pick up the jump boost and start jumping up the left wall while trying to avoid the spikes to collect a few 1 ups. If you hit one of the spikes, just keep jumping through them through your invincibility frames. Once you collect all the one ups, jump to the platform to the upper right. Stand under the candies to hit a jump pad and boost up above to where you came from. Now drop down again to the right and head to the right. Pick up the zool shield and candy. You'll have to be quick to make full use of the zool shield here. Bounce up on the jump pad and continue to the right. Jump the first spike pit and you'll start to go uphill. Quickly jump to the platform above and to the left now. Kill the enemies while you're still invincibile to make this area a little easier. Once this area is clear of enemies, climb up the platforms and collect all of the candy just sitting in one place. Now jump to the right and keep running across the collapsing blocks to collect more candy. Jump at the end and kill the turret waiting for you. Now jump down a couple of platforms to the right and you'll see some small floating blocks. These do not collapse when you stand on them. Simply jump up all of them to the top. Grab the candy and fall to the right into as many candy as you can. If you've followed this guide, you can miss most of those candies in the drop so don't feel like you have to climb back up here as the platforms can be kind of tricky to land on. Follow the platforms to the right and collect the rest of the candies you see while climbing to the upper right corner. Once you get 99 candies, jump into the coin above the moving platform to complete this level. ___________________ Area 1.3 ___________________ Start off this level by sliding down the slope to the right, collecting the candy along the way. There's an enemy waiting for you at the bottom so either crouch and quickly shoot it or jump over it and down the pit. When you go down the pit, collect the candy to the left and just run to the left. You'll find yourself fall into a hidden area. Continue to the left. Pick up the zool shield and climb the left wall. Jump and grab as many candy as you can. Continue climbing the wall and jumping until you have all of the candy here. When this room is empty, head back to the right and jump out the way you came in. Now climb the wall on the right while avoiding the little crawling monster on it. Once at the top, jump onto the moving platform and jump to the next platform to the left. Collect the candies here and keep returning until you have all the candies. At this point, you should have 33 in total. When ready, climb back to where the moving platform is and fall to the right. Slide down the slope to the right and jump over the spikes for some more candies. Now jump up these platforms to the highest point you can. You'll collect some more candies as you jump to the right. Don't jump to the platform with the little flower cannon on it, that's where the bee will also spawn. Grab the candy here and fall just along the left side of the platform you're on to fall into three more candy. Head back to the left when you're on the ground to pick up some candies that you missed and head back to the right. Jump into the candies that you see and ride up the moving platform for another set of 4 candy. At this point, you should have 61 following this guide. Drop down the pit and pick up the candies and jump boost down here. Climb back out of the pit and head to the right. Slide down the slope while crouching and shooting to kill a flower cannon. Just run into the wall to the right for a hidden area. Follow the path for a 1 up. At the end of this path, just jump a few times to jump through a hidden hole to get back to the surface. Run back to the left while jumping over spikes and collecting candies along the way. Jump along the platforms here as you circle back up and to the right. Collect the candies on the last platform that will collapse and jump to the green platform to the right. Walk behind that first gum drop and there's a jump pad just to the left of the bomb which will bring you to a lot more candy. Kill the bee here and jump off the platform to your right. Collect whatever candy you need to from here and grab the coin to complete this level. ___________________ Area 1.4 ___________________ This giant bee is the first boss you will come across in the game and has two stages to deal with. It will first start in the top right corner, dip down to the middle and float back to the upper left. If you simply start the battle by running to the bottom right corner, you'll be safe from this and its next attack where it floats back to the upper right while shooting three projectiles that bounce to the left. Once it shoots its third projectile, run back to the bottom left corner because it will come down to the bottom right. Stand in between the two pink donuts on the far left on the ground to avoid its third attack. It shoots two sets of four missiles that stay the height of the bee, travel and then drop straight down. The spot in between the two far left pink donuts will keep you safe. After it shoots those two sets of missiles, it will stop in the middle of the screen and just hover there for a few seconds, now is your chance to strike! Keep jumping over it back and forth and spin attack both of its wings until they both break. Once they're broken, it will enter its second stage of this battle. It will fly to the upper right corner and wait for a second. It will then drop straight down and quickly fly to the middle along the ground, then shoot back up into the air. After a couple seconds of floating, it will drop down again and shoot quickly to the bottom left corner. From there, it will shoot to the top right corner and just repeat this process. In this second stage, your best strategy is to just start in the bottom left corner. Get some shots in while it shoots along the ground to its middle position. Now run to the bottom right corner while it's safe. Shoot its back a little bit when it drops down to the ground and moves to the bottom left. Once it flies back to the upper right, just head back to the bottom left and repeat this process until it dies. _______________________________________ _ ____ _____ _ ____ / \ | _ \| ____| / \ |___ \ / _ \ | |_) | _| / _ \ __) | / ___ \| _ <| |___ / ___ \ / __/ /_/ \_\_| \_\_____/_/ \_\ |_____| _______________________________________ ___________________ Area 2.1 ___________________ Jump over the drum right in front of you and shoot the violin that hops into frame. Collect the cassettes here. Jump onto the next platform to the right and collect the six records here. Jump onto the speakers and use this to reach the large trombone sticking out of the ground ahead. Jump above it to ride the soundwaves up to the platform above. Kill the enemies to the left and head that way to pick up six more records. Jump up to the next platform above and continue to the right. Jump to the platform to the right for three more musical pieces, currently leaving you at 21. There will be an enemy down below, just drop off the platform on the right side to land on it. Head to the right, picking up the record on the piano, and jump to the next platform. Pick up the jump boost and all the musical pieces here. Jump to the platform to the upper left from here and run to the far left for some more music. This should leave you at 37 musical pieces in total so far. Now continue to the right. This wire at the top will be electrified, you can see the current moving through the wire, don't touch it! You could hang on this wire and move across, just press down to drop off. Pick up the musical pieces along the way and drop down at the last platform for a big pile of records. Pick them all up and the zool shield here to leave you at 64 current items. Bounce on the drum ahead and to the platform to the right. Quickly climb up the wall to the right while you're invincible and jump to the higher platform to the left. Collect all the musical items here and you should currently have 74. Drop down and move to the right. Drop straight down again and pick up a zool token. Jump on the record player and it'll move you to the right. Jump onto the amp before you fall into the spikes! Now head all the way to the right until you drop down for the remaining music pieces in the level. Once you have 99, the arrow will straighten itself out to the upper left corner. The exit coin is actually all the way back at the beginning so start heading back! Head to the left when you have enough items, riding up the music waves on the trombone sticking out of the ground when you reach it. Climb the platforms here until you reach the electrified wire. The current doesn't travel too far so you'll be safe until the end. Drop down just before you get shocked and continue onward to the left. At the end of the piano, wait for the crawler on the left wall to be on the bottom of the screen and jump over it. Climb up the wall and head left. Drop down at the end and then head right to follow the path. Drop down again and head all the way to the left. Jump on the drum when you reach it and ride up the music waves up into the sky. The coin will be to the left when you reach the top. If you get stuck in the air above the coin, just press down and you'll fall into the coin. ___________________ Area 2.2 ___________________ Begin by collecting all 9 records at the beginning. Now head to the left and jump onto the wall over the wall crawler when it comes down to the ground. Kill the floating enemies here and jump to the next platform to the right. Drop down to collect all of the cassettes. Continue to the right and pick up some more musical items on the first two drums. This should leave you at 25 in total so far. Continue to the right and drop down when you reach the end of this path. Pick up all the items here and climb back up the wall to the left when it's safe of the crawler. Jump to the platform to the right for some more items. You should now have 50 at this point. Jump to the lower platform to the right. Grab the musical items here and continue to the right for some more. Now jump back to the last platform to the left before the tall wall. Jump up to the platform to the upper right for some more music and a jump boost. Jump onto the amps to continue to the right. Drop down onto the record player for some more music, then continue along the top of the amps. Drop down at the end of this path and collect the music to the left on the amps. Drop down when you reach the wall and continue on to the right. Collect more music along the way. Jump onto the platform above the spikes to continue to the upper right. Up here should be a big pile of cassettes, which should give you the 99 that you need. If not, don't worry, there's still plenty of music to go at this point. Jump to the right to avoid a pit of spikes and climb a few walls while avoiding crawlers while you continue to the right. Pick up the coin at the end of this path to complete this level. ___________________ Area 2.3 ___________________ There's a hidden area right above you in the start so start climbing the left wall. Watch out for the crawler on the wall and try to jump across to the other wall when you reach it, but be mindful of the crawler on that wall! There's 16 musical items up here for you to grab to get a good head start on your journey for this level. When you get all 16, drop down and go to the right. Jump onto the trombone here to float up but don't go into the opening! Just grab the cassettes and hang onto the exposed wire to the left. Move all the way to the left and drop before the current zaps you. You won't be able to grab the last record here without taking damage so just ignore it. You should now have 27 records. Just run past that trombone without jumping over it so you don't float up into the spikes. Jump as far as you can to the right to reach some stacked drums. Jump on them and continue to the right to pick up some more musical items in the bottom right corner of this area. You should now have 37 items in total. Climb the wall to the right when the crawler not a threat. Run past the amps without jumping on them first for some more records. Once the ground is clear, climb the amps and use the drum to jump to a platform to the left. Jump to the left but grab onto the wall, don't jump to the platform or you'll take damage from the spikes on the end. Jump from the top of the wall to get over the spikes and collect the records and 1 ups in this hidden area. Now jump back to the drum and climb up the wall to the right. Continue to the right while avoiding these hopping enemies. Ride the record players while avoiding the spikes and collecting more music. At the end, jump down and grab the 4 music items at the bottom, to the left of the amps. Now jump to the right, dropping straight down will have you fall into spikes. Kill the enemies here while you collect 4 more records to the left. Jump up the small platforms to the right, collecting the 5 records up here, then drop down to the piano. Pick up the items as you head to the right. Climb the wall and bounce along the drums. This should give you the final 99 items you need but if you still need more, there are plenty more to the right. Now that you have 99, the arrow will straighten out and point to the bottom left corner of the map. Head back to the left when ready, across the drums and across the piano. Make sure to avoid the spikes after the piano and the crawlers as you climb the two walls after the spikes. Jump down to the left but watch for the spikes down here. Climb the last wall while avoiding the crawler and pass the trombone. Run to the left from here to reach the coin to complete this level. ___________________ Area 2.4 ___________________ The evil guitar will be the second boss you encounter. Unlike the first, it only has one stage to it with the same pattern that reverses and then repeats until you kill it. You will see it start in the middle of the screen, high in the air. It will lower down to just above the spikes and then shoot missiles to the upper left corner, which will then drop and cover the whole left platform. It will then float to the right platform and then back up to the middle. From there, it will shoot four quick shots to the left that will bounce to the left. After those shots, it will make a quick movement towards the inside of the left platform before floating back to the middle. It will then repeat this whole pattern except in opposite directions (shooting to the right and flying to the left.) It will continue this pattern until you kill it. This boss actually has a very simple strategy but its hitbox can be a bit janky at times which can make it tough. The strategy is to get as many shots in as you can while standing opposite of where it shoots and jumping on its head when it floats towards your side. So the first time it drops down to shoot, quickly jump to the other side. Shoot it and jump after its shots land to bounce on its head as many times as you can. Now just stay here and keep shooting it until it drops down to the spikes again to change its shooting angle. Just keep repeating this while landing as many shots as you can. The jumps to bounce on its head are as much defensive as it is offensive which is a nice bonus and it's the easiest way to deal with it. This boss does however have a lot of health so it'll take a while to finish this boss off. _______________________________________ _ _____ / \ _ __ ___ __ _ |___ / / _ \ | '__/ _ \/ _` | |_ \ / ___ \| | | __/ (_| | ___) | /_/ \_\_| \___|\__,_| |____/ _______________________________________ ___________________ Area 3.1 ___________________ Now we'll found ourselves in a healthy world full of fruits and veggies! Start off by jumping to the platform to the left, killing the tomato there and collecting the bananas. Jump down again to the left and kill the flying enemy. Collect the items here and keep moving to the left, collecting all the items until you reach a slope. You'll see a small bush under the far right mushroom at it. That's a carrot that will pop out if you go near it and hurt you. You could walk near it and let it pop out then burrow itself into the ground. At that point, you have about a half a second to run past it without taking damage to collect all the fruit. It's plenty of time but you do have to be quick. You should now have 14 items in total so far. Head back to the right until you reach the platform you dropped down from. Watch for another carrot before you drop down and kill the banana in the pit while collecting more food. Jump out of the pit and kill the bouncing enemy before the spikes. Jump onto the can and quickly kill the flying enemy there. Continue to the right and watch for the carrot in the next set of fruit to pick up. Continue on the ground for another batch of fruit as well. Now you should have 36 fruit. Climb up the wall here and avoid the carrot at the top. Slide down the slope and kill the enemies here while collecting some more fruit. Jump onto the next wall above the spikes to collect the fruit here and jump on top of it to kill the enemy waiting for you. You should now have 44 fruit in total so far. Stand on the far right edge and wait for the floating enemy to pass by underneath you. Drop straight down along the wall when it's safe and you'll fall into a small pit that has some enemies to kill and more fruit to collect. Climb back up the wall and jump to the platform just above the pit. Kill the enemies here and pick up the jump boost to your right. Head back to the left edge of this platform now and jump up to collect some fruit high up in the air. Alternatively, you can jump off the platform to the left to collect them as well. Climb the tree branches when you reach them and collect the fruit on the higher platforms. Drop down in between the two platforms here and you'll land in a big pile of oranges to collect. Continue to the right while avoiding the spikes for the rest of the fruit for this level. Just be careful at the end with the last 7 oranges because there's a carrot hiding in the middle of them. Now that you should have 99 fruit, it's time to head to the exit coin. Start heading back to the left and jumping over the spikes in your way. Watch out for the carrot at the base of the tree you can climb. Slide down the slope ahead while avoiding another carrot at the bottom. Climb up a couple of walls and an upward slope but be careful at the top for another hidden carrot. Drop down and continue to the left for the next tree you see. Climb up the small branches for the large coin waiting at the top of the tree to complete this level. ___________________ Area 3.2 ___________________ You will start in the middle of this level but fortunately there are plenty of items all around for you to collect, making it easy to find enough items to continue. Start off by falling to the right. Kill the tomato down here and pick up the mushroom. Jump onto the box of oranges to the right, picking up the mushrooms on each side. Fall to the ground to teh right but avoid the two oranges on the left side here, there's a carrot waiting to attack. Pick up the mushrooms on the right and inch close to the carrot to bait it out. Once it burrows itself into the ground again, quickly grab the oranges. Climb up the wall to your right. Kill the tomato at the top while avoiding the floating enemy. Pick up the four fruit items here and drop into the pit to the right, try to land in the middle of it. You'll land on an enemy to kill and can pick up some more items down here. Climb out of the pit and you should have 20 items now. You should start heading to the left from here, there will be enough items that way and the large coin is in that direction. Collect the fruit under the starting platform when you reach it and drop down to the left for a couple more. Watch out for the carrot hiding in the next bush, just jump over it. Drop into this pit as well for a zool shield, jump boost, and some more fruit to collect. Climb back out of the pit and collect the fruit to the left. Don't jump down at the edge of this platform, instead climb the platforms, collecting the fruit along the way. Slide down the slope to the left when you reach the top. Just drop straight down when you reach the end of this branch and kill the enemies to the right. Pick up the oranges to the right while avoiding the carrot hiding in the middle of them. You should now be a little more than half way there with 53 total items. Run off the platform to the left and you'll fall onto another platform, don't fall all the way to the ground just yet. Kill the banana on the second platform from the ground and collect the items here. Now drop down, killing the enemies, and proceed to the left. Slide down the slope and climb the wall. There's a floating enemy that shoots and a carrot at the top. It's tough to avoid both but give it your best try. If you get hit, you get a couple seconds of invincibility frames so just hurry and collect the rest of the fruit in this area. You should now have 72 total items, head back to the right until you reach that tree with all the items on the branches that you slid down from the top. It's time to climb to the top of this tree while collecting all the fruit along the way. Once you reach the top, jump to the platform to the left. Kill the tomato and continue to the left while collecting more fruit. Slide down the slope to the left and kill another tomato at the bottom of it. Collect the rest of the fruit here to get the 99 you need to reveal the coin. Jump back up the slope you just slid down from and drop to the platform directly below this one for the large coin to complete this level. ___________________ Area 3.3 ___________________ Head to the right, picking up the fruit right in front of you. Climb the wall to the next platform above. Now climb the branches of the tree and jump to the fruit to the left at the top. Collect all of them by climbing the tree a couple of times and jumping for them. Once you have 17 fruit by clearing all the fruit to the left at the top, just head to the right while on the ground. Watch for the carrot just past the tree and slide down the slope. Collect the fruit under the slope and continue to the right. Once you collect the two mushrooms on the lowest platform with the carrot in the middle of them, jump back up the platforms to the tree with the branches in the top left. Climb to the top of this tree and slide down the branches to the right. Jump the gaps between the branches and collect all of the fruit while you slide across branches until you fall to the ground. You should now be almost half way there with 49 total items. Climb the tree to the right while collecting the fruit along the way. When you reach the top of the tree, jump to the branch to the left to collect some more fruit. Once that branch is clear, head to the right of the top of the tree for the top platform there. There will be a carrot hiding on the right side of the box of oranges here to watch out for. Fall down the platforms to the right from here while killing the enemies in your way. Collect the fruit at the bottom as you proceed to the right. Soon you will reach some cans you can jump on. Jump to the base of the next tree from here and climb the branches collecting the fruit along the way. At the top, you can jump to the left in the air for a jump boost. After you have that, slide down the branch to the right near the top of the tree. Be careful when you reach the end of the branch, a flying enemy will be waiting for you. You can jump back to avoid it for now and then jump the gap to collect som more fruit. Jump down to the base of the next tree when you reach the end of the second tree here. Climb the wall to the right and collect the orange on the right side of the platform at the top of the wall. Watch out for the carrot to the left of the next cans. Jump down to the big drop to the right and collect the rest of the fruit in the far bottom right corner. Now you should have 99 items total to unlock the large coin. Use the open can to bounce to the platform above it. From there, you can now jump to the wall to the left and climb up to the top of the platform. Continue to the left until you reach the first tree you see. Climb up the branches to the top for the large coin to be waiting for you near the top of the tree, just to the left. ___________________ Area 3.4 ___________________ This boss is relatively easy as its moves are very predictable. It will start in the upper right corner. From there, it will dive straight down and float straight up. Then it will dive slightly to the left and straight up from where it lands. It does this 4 times until it reaches the far left side. When it dives the fourth time, it will move straight back to the upper left corner. After those, it will dive straight down again and then shoot bullets out of its bottom. It then floats back up while shooting bullets and floats to the upper left corner. It will repeat this pattern until it dies. The boss can be relatively time consuming but it shouldn't be too difficult. You'll want to stand on the two stacked cans in the middle of the boss room and attack it as much as you can while it's to your right. You'll have to time a jump while it dives in its second position going into the third to get over it safely without taking damage. Just wait in the bottom right corner until it moves back to the top right. Now jump to the left and wait in between the stack of two cans and the single can, just hang on the wall to avoid its machine gun. Once it moves back to the upper right, you can jump back onto the cans in the middle and fire away to deal more damage. Repeat this strategy until it dies. _______________________________________ _ _ _ / \ _ __ ___ __ _ | || | / _ \ | '__/ _ \/ _` | | || |_ / ___ \| | | __/ (_| | |__ _| /_/ \_\_| \___|\__,_| |_| _______________________________________ ___________________ Area 4.1 ___________________ Head to the right and collect your first set of items. Kill the light bulb that will rush you. Stand on the yellow part of the red and yellow platform just ahead and wait for the mallet to come close to you. Don't worry, it won't hit you. Once it hits the red platform, it will launch the yellow platform up in the air. At the top, jump to the left quickly to grab some items. Pick up the fish in bowls to the right and climb up the wall when you land. Jump off the platform to the left to collect some more items and climb back up to here when it's clear. Continue to the right while collecting some more items on the way. Drop down when you reach the end of this platform. Bounce across the red bouncy balls to continue onward while collecting some more items. Climb the next wall when you reach it. Watch for the mallets at the top and collect all of the items on this platform. If you got all four at the top of the test your strength meter you should now have 53 items, we're halfway there. Jump to the zool shield and items to the right. Collect all the items on the ground and stand on the yellow platform for the test your strength meter. Wait for the mallet to launch you up and jump to the jump boost to the right. Once you have that, jump to the next platform to the upper right. If you didn't get the jump boost, you can't make that jump but there will still be enough items elsewhere. Collect all of the items here, including a 1 up, if you can reach it and drop down to continue when ready. Follow the path while killing the enemies in your way first. There are plenty of items here and only one way to go through a small set of platforms. When you reach a wall, grab the jump boost and jump to the higher platform to the right. Bounce across the red bouncy balls while collecting the items here and killing the mallets. Drop down on the other side and collect some more items here while killing off the enemies. There should be plenty at this point to unlock the large coin which will be on the next platform just to the right to complete this level. ___________________ Area 4.2 ___________________ Fall off the platform to the right and kill the balloon at the bottom. Pick up the fish to the right before you drop down off the end of the platform. Just continue following the path while killing enemies and collecting items along the way. When you reach the lowest platform, the path with split. Go to the left for a dead end to pick up a few more items before progressing to the right. When you reach a wall, climb up it and jump to the platform to the left. Collect the items here and go to the right at the top of the wall you just climbed up to continue. At the end of this path, jump up and go left. The path will split, take the lower path first for a few more items. Now head back to where it split and use the red bouncy ball to jump to the higher platform to the left. Collect the items up here. Use the red bouncy balls to continue up the platforms while killing all enemies and collecting items along the way. When you reach the top, the path will split. Start by going to the left and collecting some more items in this short path. When ready, head back to the split and continue to the right. Jump off the far right edge of this platform and collect the items to the right. When this area is clear, drop down to the left. Kill the mallet to the left and collect the items here. Follow this path to the right while collecting all the items in your path. When you reach the path of red bouncy balls, look at the circles on the platform below them. The third red circle from the left is a platform you can drop through. Drop down and kill the enemies here while you collect items and proceed to the right. Climb the walls and kill enemies while collecting items until you reach the wall on the far right side. Climb up the wall and jump to the platform to the left. Run off the left side to land on another platform below you can't see from this angle. Jump up the platforms while you move to the left for the large coin at the end of this path to complete this level. ___________________ Area 4.3 ___________________ Head to the right and kill the enemy right away. The path will split pretty much immediately. Jump to the higher platform and follow this path while collecting all the items. It's not very long but there's a total of 32 items in this area to set you up to a very fast start for this level. Once you have them all, head back to the beginning and fall off the platform where the path splits. Follow the path to the right while killing enemies and collecting items. At the second test your strength meter, jump onto the wall above when you come out from a small tunnel. Climb up here and collect the items in this path. Jump back down to the ground and continue to the right while collecting more items. When you reach the wall, climb up it and jump to the platform to the left. Move to the left a bit and jump up to the next platform. The rest of this basic level is really easy. Just follow the path to the right while collecting more items and killing enemies in your path until you reach the large coin that you'll unlock upon collecting 99 items. ___________________ Area 4.4 ___________________ This boss is pretty annoying to deal with. It has two types of shots it takes. One is a grapeshot that shoots forward and has a downward trajectory. The other is a boxing glove that shoots straight to the left and then goes straight back to the right when it reaches the edge of the screen to return to itself. Its movements are it will start in the top right, shoot a grapeshot and quick boxing glove. It will then slowly float down to the lower middle of the screen. After a half a second it will shoot to the upper left and then come back down to the lower right. It will fire another grapeshot before floating back to the top middle and fire a boxing glove. It will then float back to the upper right corner and repeat this pattern. The trick is to quickly jump to the upper right platform. Quickly jump on its head once it full appears and wait in the top right corner. Keep shooting left so you can hit it with shots while it's in its highest position. You want to jump on it when it shoots back to the upper right corner when it resets its pattern but be careful because hitting it twice on the head is all you can seem to do at a time. If you try to hit it three times without dropping to the ground, you'll go through the top of its head and take damage. Just keep repeating this process until it explodes to complete this boss battle. _______________________________________ _ ____ / \ _ __ ___ __ _ | ___| / _ \ | '__/ _ \/ _` | |___ \ / ___ \| | | __/ (_| | ___) | /_/ \_\_| \___|\__,_| |____/ _______________________________________ ___________________ Area 5.1 ___________________ Start off by climbing the platform to the right. Kill the enemy and it'll explode into two smaller enemies, destroy both. Collect the items here and climb the platform for the next platform. The tank up here can't be destroyed by shooting it, you have to jump on it. Destroy the tank and collect the items here. Jump to the right so you don't land in the spikes and collect the items here while killing the enemies off. Climb up the next wall with your 14 items so far. Kill the enemies here while collecting some items and slide down the slope. Go to the left when you hit the ground for a couple more items. Head to the right and climb up the walls. Kill the floating enemies first to get them out of your way and collect the items up here while you jump over the spikes to progress to the right. Drop down the first pit you see. Follow the path here and it'll split to the left. Take the upper path first and kill the enemies while you collect the items here. When this area is clear, take the lower path. Pick up the zool shield and just hurry while you collect all the items without taking damage. You hsould have 92 items when you clear this lower area. Just get out of here and head back to the top of the level when you're ready. Continue to the right while you slide down the slope. Kill an enemy at the bottom of it and climb up the next slope. Jump off the platform and deal with the enemies here. Continue to the right while avoiding the spikes and killing off the enemies in your way. The large coin will be just a little further in the upper right corner of this level. ___________________ Area 5.2 ___________________ You will start with a slope and some floating enemies in front of you. Kill the floating enemies while you jump up the slope to climb up. Slide down the next slope and fall into the pit at the bottom. Kill the enemies down here while you use the rope hanging from the ceiling to climb across the left path first to avoid the spikes and collect all the items down here. Now climb across the rope to the right while killing enemies and collecting items. When you reach the far right wall, climb up the wall and climb the rope to the left. Follow this short path for a couple 1 ups and more items. You should have 40 items in total so far. Head back to the pit you dropped down earlier on and climb out of it. Continue to the right while collecting items and killing enemies as you see them. Climb up the wall at the end of this path. Keep an eye out for the floating enemies along the way. At the top of the wall, fall down the first pit and collect the items on the ground at the bottom. You should have 59 items in total. Climb back out of the pit the same way you came in. Fall down the next pit you see to the right and jump into the opening to the right. Start off by heading to the left first and collecting the items here. Kill the little tank when you can because you won't be able to kill it in the small tunnel to the left. Make sure to get the nuts high above the two floating enemies here. Once the left side is clear, head to the right. Follow the path while collecting all the items safely and climb out of this pit area. You should now have 90 total items. Head to the right and jump down. There are still a lot of items down here so collect as many as you need while taking care of the enemies as you need to. Once you have 99 total items, head back up the tall wall that you jumped down from. Fall down the first pit you reach and head to the far left. Climb up this column to reach the large coin to complete this level. ___________________ Area 5.3 ___________________ Climb across the rope on the ceiling while collecting the items. Kill the tank and enemy on the other end. Fall down the platform to the right and climb along the blocks while fighting off the enemies to safely collect the items. At the end of this path, climb the wall, don't leave those items on the left side while you're climbing too. You should now be a third of the way there with 32 total items so far. At the top, head to the left and follow this path for more items. You'll have 51 total by the end of it. Head back to where you were when the path split and begin heading to the right. Kill the enemies in your way and fall into the first pit you reach. Follow this path while killing off any enemies and collecting items you see. When you reach the left wall, the path will split. Start off by taking the path to the upper right for some more items. Now head back to that split and jump to the left for some more items. Head back to the right and climb out of the pit to reach the top platform in this level. Jump down to the right and collect the items as you see them. Jump onto the rope when you reach it and climb to the far right. Collect a few more items in this area. Once you get 99, go back to the rope and drop straight down. Climb the wall just to the right here and fall into the next pit for the large coin to proceed to the final boss. ___________________ Area 5.4 ___________________ This boss will have a long pattern mixed with two types of attacks. The two attacks are a fireball trio that just drop straight down and a shotgun blast that shoots either downward and to the left or downward and to the right. The blocks will protect you from the shotgun blasts but the fireball trios will always drop in between the blocks. It will also move down and crush the 
openings between the blocks too. The movement pattern it makes is a fireball 
from the upper right, float to the upper left, a shotgun blast downward and to 
the right, and then it crushes the left opening. After that set, it will drop 
fireballs down the middle opening, float to the upper right, shoot a shotgun 
blast to the lower left, and crush the right opening. It wil now drop fireballs 
down the left opening, crush the middle opening, fire a shotgun blast to the 
lower left then lower right when it floats above the middle opening and then 
repeat itself when it reaches the upper right corner.

This boss is actually pretty easy but you'll have to be good at feeling the 
movement controls without any visual cues. Jump onto the blocks and try to get 
some spin attacks into the boss while avoiding its shots. Once it tries to 
crush the left opening, jump on its head. You can keep bouncing on its head 
dealing a lot of damage. There's no limit to the top of the screen so you can 
keep dealing damage even when the boss is floating at the top. You just have to 
know how much to move to stay bouncing on the boss. You'll likely fall off but 
just jump on it next time it drops down to crush a spot. The repeated bounce 
damage can kill this boss rather quickly and then you'll complete the game!
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3. - Bosses
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                                  Bumble  Bee
                                    Area  1
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This giant bee is the first boss you will come across in the game and has two 
stages to deal with. It will first start in the top right corner, dip down to 
the middle and float back to the upper left. If you simply start the battle by 
running to the bottom right corner, you'll be safe from this and its next 
attack where it floats back to the upper right while shooting three projectiles 
that bounce to the left. Once it shoots its third projectile, run back to the 
bottom left corner because it will come down to the bottom right. Stand in 
between the two pink donuts on the far left on the ground to avoid its third 
attack. It shoots two sets of four missiles that stay the height of the bee, 
travel and then drop straight down. The spot in between the two far left pink 
donuts will keep you safe. After it shoots those two sets of missiles, it will 
stop in the middle of the screen and just hover there for a few seconds, now is 
your chance to strike! Keep jumping over it back and forth and spin attack both 
of its wings until they both break. 

Once they're broken, it will enter its second stage of this battle. It will fly 
to the upper right corner and wait for a second. It will then drop straight 
down and quickly fly to the middle along the ground, then shoot back up into 
the air. After a couple seconds of floating, it will drop down again and shoot 
quickly to the bottom left corner. From there, it will shoot to the top right 
corner and just repeat this process. In this second stage, your best strategy 
is to just start in the bottom left corner. Get some shots in while it shoots 
along the ground to its middle position. Now run to the bottom right corner 
while it's safe. Shoot its back a little bit when it drops down to the ground 
and moves to the bottom left. Once it flies back to the upper right, just head 
back to the bottom left and repeat this process until it dies.

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                                  Evil Guitar
                                    Area  2
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The evil guitar will be the second boss you encounter. Unlike the first, it 
only has one stage to it with the same pattern that reverses and then repeats 
until you kill it. You will see it start in the middle of the screen, high in 
the air. It will lower down to just above the spikes and then shoot missiles to 
the upper left corner, which will then drop and cover the whole left platform. 
It will then float to the right platform and then back up to the middle. From 
there, it will shoot four quick shots to the left that will bounce to the left. 
After those shots, it will make a quick movement towards the inside of the left 
platform before floating back to the middle. It will then repeat this whole 
pattern except in opposite directions (shooting to the right and flying to the 
left.) It will continue this pattern until you kill it.

This boss actually has a very simple strategy but its hitbox can be a bit janky 
at times which can make it tough. The strategy is to get as many shots in as 
you can while standing opposite of where it shoots and jumping on its head when 
it floats towards your side. So the first time it drops down to shoot, quickly 
jump to the other side. Shoot it and jump after its shots land to bounce on its 
head as many times as you can. Now just stay here and keep shooting it until it 
drops down to the spikes again to change its shooting angle. Just keep 
repeating this while landing as many shots as you can. The jumps to bounce on 
its head are as much defensive as it is offensive which is a nice bonus and 
it's the easiest way to deal with it. This boss does however have a lot of 
health so it'll take a while to finish this boss off.

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                                 Metal  Banana
                                    Area  3
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This boss is relatively easy as its moves are very predictable. It will start 
in the upper right corner. From there, it will dive straight down and float 
straight up. Then it will dive slightly to the left and straight up from where 
it lands. It does this 4 times until it reaches the far left side. When it 
dives the fourth time, it will move straight back to the upper left corner. 
After those, it will dive straight down again and then shoot bullets out of its 
bottom. It then floats back up while shooting bullets and floats to the upper 
left corner. It will repeat this pattern until it dies.

The boss can be relatively time consuming but it shouldn't be too difficult. 
You'll want to stand on the two stacked cans in the middle of the boss room and 
attack it as much as you can while it's to your right. You'll have to time a 
jump while it dives in its second position going into the third to get over it 
safely without taking damage. Just wait in the bottom right corner until it 
moves back to the top right. Now jump to the left and wait in between the stack 
of two cans and the single can, just hang on the wall to avoid its machine gun. 
Once it moves back to the upper right, you can jump back onto the cans in the 
middle and fire away to deal more damage. Repeat this strategy until it dies.

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                                  Crazy Clown
                                    Area  4
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This boss is pretty annoying to deal with. It has two types of shots it takes. 
One is a grapeshot that shoots forward and has a downward trajectory. The other 
is a boxing glove that shoots straight to the left and then goes straight back 
to the right when it reaches the edge of the screen to return to itself. Its 
movements are it will start in the top right, shoot a grapeshot and quick 
boxing glove. It will then slowly float down to the lower middle of the screen. 
After a half a second it will shoot to the upper left and then come back down 
to the lower right. It will fire another grapeshot before floating back to the 
top middle and fire a boxing glove. It will then float back to the upper right 
corner and repeat this pattern.

The trick is to quickly jump to the upper right platform. Quickly jump on its 
head once it full appears and wait in the top right corner. Keep shooting left 
so you can hit it with shots while it's in its highest position. You want to 
jump on it when it shoots back to the upper right corner when it resets its 
pattern but be careful because hitting it twice on the head is all you can seem 
to do at a time. If you try to hit it three times without dropping to the 
ground, you'll go through the top of its head and take damage. Just keep 
repeating this process until it explodes to complete this boss battle.

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                                 Robot Crusher
                                    Area  5
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This boss will have a long pattern mixed with two types of attacks. The two 
attacks are a fireball trio that just drop straight down and a shotgun blast 
that shoots either downward and to the left or downward and to the right. The 
blocks will protect you from the shotgun blasts but the fireball trios will 
always drop in between the blocks. It will also move down and crush the 
openings between the blocks too. The movement pattern it makes is a fireball 
from the upper right, float to the upper left, a shotgun blast downward and to 
the right, and then it crushes the left opening. After that set, it will drop 
fireballs down the middle opening, float to the upper right, shoot a shotgun 
blast to the lower left, and crush the right opening. It wil now drop fireballs 
down the left opening, crush the middle opening, fire a shotgun blast to the 
lower left then lower right when it floats above the middle opening and then 
repeat itself when it reaches the upper right corner.

This boss is actually pretty easy but you'll have to be good at feeling the 
movement controls without any visual cues. Jump onto the blocks and try to get 
some spin attacks into the boss while avoiding its shots. Once it tries to 
crush the left opening, jump on its head. You can keep bouncing on its head 
dealing a lot of damage. There's no limit to the top of the screen so you can 
keep dealing damage even when the boss is floating at the top. You just have to 
know how much to move to stay bouncing on the boss. You'll likely fall off but 
just jump on it next time it drops down to crush a spot. The repeated bounce 
damage can kill this boss rather quickly and then you'll complete the game!
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4. - Legal Disclaimer
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