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Thought Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels wasn't hard enough? Just wait until you see this...
Super Mario Bros. For Lost Players is a 2021 ROM hack of Super Mario World. Falling asleep after a hard day's work, Mario finds himself in a dream with both familiar and foreign worlds merging and meshing into one another. Unable to wake up from this odd walk down memory-lane, he must continue advancing forward, wherever it may lead him.
This hack contains examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch Boss: You would expect to fight Bowser in his clown car with your plane right? Nope, Kabula from Kirby's Dream Land knocks him out.
- The Cameo:
- All of the worlds have underground bonus rooms with backgrounds in the same style as the ones from Super Mario All-Stars, except with Mario/Luigi replaced with a different character from outside the Mario universe. In order, they are Sonic, Kirby, Mega Man, a Crewmate, Crash Bandicoot, Funky Kong, Gex, and Goku.
- The Noid makes a cameo in 4-3 as a Unique Enemy.
- Final Boss: Kabula from Kirby's Dream Land (with its sprites from Kirby Super Star Ultra) knocks Bowser out of the sky and challenges you to a fight at the end of World 9-4.
- Green Hill Zone: The trope namer itself appears as the setting for World 1-1.
- Meaningless Lives: In the normal mode of this game you have infinite lives.
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Nintendo Hard: Ooh yes. - Ratchet Scrolling
- Rise to the Challenge: World 8-2 is a vertical level that forces you to navigate up a cavern that's flooding with rising lava.
- Recurring Boss: In Super Mario Bros. tradition, Bowser is the game's sole boss. Except for World 3, where it's Dry Bowser, and World 9, where Kabula pulls a Bait-and-Switch Boss on Bowser.
- Save the Princess: Though it's Princess Prin-Prin instead of Peach. Peach? She was the Bowser of the 8th world, as revealed by killing her with the fire flower.
- Spiritual Successor: To the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, known to the rest of the world as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
- The Unfought: You never fight the real Bowser at any point in the hack, as the Bowsers in the fortresses are either fakes or Dry Bowser, and then Kabula shows up to usurp the real Bowser's position as the final threat in 9-4.
- Time Stands Still: World 9-2 is a giant homage to Eversion and begins with all the enemies frozen and the music and background of the X-4 levels. Entering a (hidden) pipe partway through the level sends you back to the start but everts it to the X-2 version, unpausing all the enemies and the timer.
- Timed Mission: It's very easy to run out of time of these levels. Some bonus areas are meant to waste time.
- Unexpected Gameplay Change: Worlds 3-2 and 9-4 are shoot-em-ups. Even the Final Boss is fought in this fashion!
