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VIRTUAL BOY WARIO LAND--NINTENDO VIRTUAL BOY
Wario Land FAQ/Walkthrough by nucleargamer12: A comprehensive guide
Visit my site for more walkthroughs and guides: http://www.g-cubed.co.nr
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***0: Contents***
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0) Contents
0.1) Notes on the FAQ
1) Introduction--About Me
2) Version History
3) Legal Information
4) An Interesting Story to Tell
4.1) Before Starting the Game
4.2) Controls and Basics
5) Walkthrough
6) FAQ--Frequently Asked Questions
6.1) Tips and Tricks
7) Credits
8) End
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0.1: Notes on the FAQ
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Virtual Boy Wario Land is Copyrighted by Nintendo.
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***1: Introduction--About Me***
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This text has been written by me, nucleargamer12, to assist you in playing the
Virtual Boy title, VB Wario Land. In this guide, you will find a complete
walkthrough with all the secrets unveiled, plus tips on how to play the game
well. Because the Virtual Boy was so unsuccessful as a whole, VB Wario Land
became one of its best games.
If you want to send me comments, questions, suggestions, and complaints, please
E-mail at nucleargamer12@gmail.com. I will be happy to answer anything you may
encounter about the game or this guide.
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***2: Version History***
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V. 1.2 10/28/04 Updates: Changed Email address and added a site URL to the page
linking to my webpage.
V. 1.0 9/5/04 Initial release: Walkthrough and other parts of guide completely
finished. Thinking about adding more content.
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***3: Legal Information***
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The text you're reading is my own work. Therefore, it is copyrighted 2004-2005
by nucleargamer12. It may not be reproduced in any way without my permission.
This FAQ is designed for personal use only. However...
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Email to me regarding the use of this document. Please include the URL of your
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is given, do not make any changes to my FAQ; paste it onto your site as it is,
WITH the legal information included. Failure to use any of the above procedures
may result in legal action. If you wish to print these pages, please do so, but
only for your private enjoyment and leisure.
Please note that I should not be held responsible to any problems of your own
resulting in the reading, following, or downloading of this guide. Thank you in
advance.
Now that the Legal stuff is taken care of, it's time for the FUN!!!
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***4: An Interesting Story to Tell***
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The story of VB Wario Land, unabridged and from the manual, is below.
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I, Wario, have an interesting story to tell. One day during my vacation in the
Awazon river basin, I landed my trusty seaplane, Bulldog, and decide to relax
in the shadow of the beautiful Aldegara Waterfall. While basking in the sun, I
spied some strange creatures with masks entering the waterfall. This piqued my
interest!
I hurried over and ofllowed them into the waterfall. Behind the falls there
was a large cave, and in the back of the cave... there was a vault filled with
a glorious mountain of treasure!!
Some of the masked creatures jumped me, but I quickly overcame them. "This
treasure is all mine now!", I thought to myself and rushed in to collect the
loot. Suddenly, the floor collapsed and I fell!
I found myself deep within the Earth! I was quite angry and vowed revenge on
these creatures, "I will get their treasure!!!"
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4.1: Before Starting the Game
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When using the Virtual Boy, several adjustments must be made before starting
the game. For your health and safety, be certain to perform these adjustments
each time you play. If you wear contact lenses or glasses, be sure to wear them
while using the Virtual Boy.
Insert the Game Pak into the Virtual Boy, then turn the power switch located on
the front of the controller to the ON position. When the screen pictured to the
right appears, continue to the IPD and Focus adjustments.
Press the Start button to display the IPD and Focus adjustment screen. Both
adjustments are made using this screen.
The IPD adjustment sets Virtual Boy to the distance between your eyes. While
looking at the adjustment screen, turn the IPD dial located on top of the
Virtual Boy until you can see a mark in all four corners of the screen, as
shown on the screen to the right.
The Focus adjustment makes sure that you see the game image in the Virtual Boy
display clearly. Move the Focus slider to the Center Position as marked. For
most people, the center position should give you the clearest image. If the
image is still fuzzy, adjust the focus slider right or left until the image
is sharp and clear.
* To do a IPD (Inter Pupil Distance) adjustment mid-game, press start + select.
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4.2: Controls and Basics
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Here are the controls used in VB Wario Land. You can use both directional pads
for the same function.
Control Pad------------------Moves Wario
Select Option
Start Button-----------------Confirm Option
Pause
L Button, R Button-----------Dash
A Button---------------------Confirm Option
Jump
B Button---------------------Attack
Cancel Option
***
There are treasures in levels: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13. And, every
level has a key to get to the next level.
All the levels with treasures in them also have one, two or more diamonds (1
up) in them, if you see a suspicious block, rock or piece of wall, try to blast
or bash your way through it (and beyond if needed, I personally try to destroy
everything I see or don't see) and you will probably find a hidden room with an
extra life in it, If you need extra lives, play the heart game at the end of
each level.
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***5: Walkthrough***
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Here is the walkthrough for the entire game, complete with tips, Key locations,
and other information.
***
Level 1 (grotto distress):
Tip: Do not bash the horned toad enemies to death (that will only get you
one coin), instead jump on them to stun them, then pick one up by standing
right next to it, then look for the cloud with a coin on it that floats around
the level, when you have carried your stunned enemy to the cloud, throw it in
the cloud to get a big coin worth 20 coins!
Tip 2: Always try to remain Bull Wario or higher, because regular Wario
will not be able to destroy all blocks that often lead to secret items/area's.
Treasure: Use the first Jump Board to get into the background, then bash
away the six blocks that were preventing your progress further into the
level, once gone they will reveal an entrance door, go inside to pick up your
first treasure.
Key: Use the first Jump Board to get into the background, then walk
halfway through the background to the right to find a Jump Board that will
launch you to the foreground where the key is located surrounded by lava.
***
Level 2 (guarded prison):
Tip: When Bull Wario, use his Body Slam to start an earthquake often, not
only will your enemies be stunned from a distance, you will also find many
items in the ground, in some structures as well, and hidden Jump Board(s) too.
Key: Enter the first pipe in the level, cross the two rooms inside, to
find yourself exiting the pipe in the background, pass the four blocks to see
an individual fifth block, stomp it and there is the key.
Tip 2: After grabbing the key, go back into the foreground and walk to the
right just as long untill you find a sort of stairway up towards the right, use
Bull Wario (Hint: if you are small go stand to the right of, next to the first
pipe, and jump untill you reveal the Viking helmet) to do a Body Slam on the
second stair revealing a door that leads to an extra life/diamond!
Treasure: At the end of the level, go stand to the right of the pipe and
blast away the fire-blocks using Sea Dragon Wario's fire breath, enter the
pipe, go left and watch out for enemies (the scull on the ceiling) because you
have to stay Sea Dragon Wario, then enter the next pipe up, go to the right and
blast/fire away the fire-block to reveal a door leading to the treasure.
***
Level 3 (underwater mayhem):
Tip: Sea Dragon Wario gets rid of all the enemies easily, make sure you
keep it and do not forget to use it's fire-breath on all the big stone blocks.
Key: When you are in the room, after the room with the bubble currents
that push you down, instead of entering the pipe on the top-right, destroy
the block(s) at the top-left and enter the opening. Bash the first block you
come across in the secret room and the key will appear.
Tip 2: After grabbing the key, going back through the opening and then
entering the next room through the pipe (at the top-right), you go all the way
to the right untill you see four fire-blocks, first bash the two big blocks
before it and then fire away the fire-blocks, enter the secret room through the
above pipe to find an extra life.
Treasure: At the end of the level (near the exit elevator) get hit by one
of those rotating spiky balls (so you become small Wario), then hit the
question mark block, grab the Viking helm, go back down the last ladder and do
a Body Slam on the big block under the ladder to reveal a door leading to the
treasure.
***
Level 4 (first boss):
Key: Defeat the boss to get the key (no treasure in boss levels, but you
will get many coins at the end!).
Tip: When the boss is in the background swinging his spiky ball at you keep
moving quickly (moving/dashing with the L or R button and of course bashing
will work fine), when the boss jumps to the foreground try hitting him on the
head right away, do this three times to win.
***
Level 5 (crowded forest):
Tip: Keep going through the left (bottom) pipes until you reach the room
after the room where you have to keep jumping into the back- and foreground,
when you have entered the room after that, go stand right above the Jump Board
(in the middle of the room), do a Body Slam to reach the Jump Board, now go
into the background, towards the right, blast away the tree with Dragon Wario's
fire breath, enter the door to the secret room. In the room blast away as many
tree pieces and fire-blocks as possible and bash yourself through to the left
until you get to the spikes on the floor, do not try and fly accross the
spikes, instead stand just before the spikes and jump up while using King
Dragon Wario's fire breath to unveil a few hidden blocks at half your jump
height. Fly onto the now unveiled blocks to find a life/diamond to the left!
Key: At the last room (where the elevator is located) go from bottom to
top and when you see the first stairs going up (at the right side of the
screen) climb it all the way up, bash the question mark-block above the
(long) stairs to reveal the key, chip away the two blocks and jump to reach
the key.
Treasure: Go stand at the bottom of the stairs you used to get to the key,
from the bottom fly all the way to the other/left side. You should now be
between two branches, let Wario face the tree-wall on the left side and destroy
that tree-wall to create an opening to go through. Fire or bash away the trees
at the left from standing atop the blocks in the secret room, then walk to the
far left side of the room, now go stand on the ground letting Wario face to the
right, now fire or bash away tree pieces until you reveal a door, go in the
door to find the treasure!
***
Level 6 (dangerous waterfalls):
Tip: When you enter the part of the level with the big waterfall, go
directly to the other side from where you are standing, meaning you should go
to the left side of where the waterfall touches the water, blast or bash away
the rock you see at the left side of Wario to make an opening, go into the
opening and go all the way to the left in the secret part of the level until
you reach a thick wall, blast or bash away that wall (on the left side of
course) to find an extra life/diamond!
Key: When you enter the part of the level with the big waterfall, swim or
jump up, but stay on the most right side of the waterfall, until you see a
closed of pipe, crawl under it to the right, chip away the cracked blocks
at the right of the pipe and enter the pipe. In the following room, go right,
down, left (watch out for the dark tortoises that throw their spiked hats at
you) and enter the next room where you must hit the second to last (looking
from right to left) question mark-block to get the key.
Treasure: When you enter the part of the level with the big waterfall,
swim or jump up, but stay on the most left side of the waterfall, until you see
a half black/half red sun switch, step on the switch, but do NOT move and wait
until all the rocks have fallen down, then use the Jump Board to leap into the
background and enter the door in the background to find the treasure.
Tip 2: After you reached the top of the big waterfall and entered the next
room with the many fast currents, don't enter the pipe at the far left right
away, instead follow the current down to the lowest part of the room and make
sure you are King Dragon Wario (the two question mark-blocks at the top of the
room contain the needed hats to become King Dragon Wario), the moment Wario
faces right at the bottom current, blast a fire-shot to the right to destroy
the two fire-blocks, then enter the opening at the bottom you just made and at
the left in the secret room you will find another extra life/diamond!
***
Level 7 (quicksand desert):
Tip: At the part of the level where the big sand thing enemy is blocking
the way, chip away the bottom block of the row of three stone-blocks right
after (left from) the last quicksand, that will make way for the black
whirlwind with eyes to reach the big sand thing enemy and destroy it for you,
revealing the door to the next room.
Tip 2: After you exit the small room where you see the first mastah
mosquito, you will enter a bigger room where the second mastah mosquito is
ready to sting you (make sure you are and stay King Dragon Wario), kill the
mosquito and jump on the single block above you, then jump on the two blocks
above that, now instead of going higher, fly all the way to the left from the
two blocks(on the right), quickly use your fire breath to destroy the four
fire-blocks on the left, now fly over to the place where you just blast away
the four fire-blocks and you will see a door, enter it to get into the secret
room, now make your way to the left using King Dragon Wario's fire and get
yourself an extra life/diamond!
Key: After you exit the room with the two mosquito's (where you also found
the door to the diamond) through the pipe, you will come to a room where
you can crawl to the left (instead of jumping up right away to unveil a hidden
block), crawl to the left, jump up and then go down into the water, then go
to the left in the water until you see the key floating on the water in a
space sealed off by two cracked blocks, chip away the blocks and get the key.
Treasure: After you exit the room with the two mosquito's (where you also
found the door to the diamond) through the pipe, you will come to a room where
you can jumping up right away (at the left side of the opening you see at the
beginning of the room) to unveil a hidden block, jump on the block you just
uncovered and then jump up onto the platform left of it, now you see a lone
block above you, jump on that block (almost entirely on the right side of the
screen), then make Wario face left (make sure you are King Dragon Wario) and
jump as high as possible and fly to the left, when you reach a wall of brick
stones on the left, quickly fire twice to make an opening in the wall, now go
back onto the lone block and fly into the room behind the opening.At the end
of the room (outer left side) use the Jump Board to jump into the background.
Move towards the top-right of the background room. You should see an opening
and a question mark block. Get into that space (make sure you are anything
above regular Wario), now go to the right (jump over the blocks that form a
kind of stairs) and blast/bash away the stone brick wall to unveil a door,
enter the door to get into another room which leads to the treasure.
***
Level 8 (second boss):
Key: Defeat the boss to get the key (no treasure in boss levels, but you
will get many coins at the end!).
Tip: When the boss is about to hit you with it's needle nose you will hear
a high sound, quickly move away from where you are standing and the boss will
miss you, now if you went to the right side wait a small moment, then jump to
the left side from where the boss just tried to hit you (and took away a block
while trying to hit you), the boss will wonder where you are for a second (see
the: ?), now you can quickly jump on his head (dodge left, go right and hit the
boss or dodge right, go left and hit the boss), do this 3 times to win.
***
Level 9 (fruit farm):
Tip: Watch carefully at what the honey-bees throw at you, it's not always
bombs, sometimes it's melons which you can pick up as well (stand directly
under the bee).
Tip 2: When you are standing on a moving/spinning machine-tire (on which the
honey-bees try to hit you with bombs) do not jump over the hole at the end of
them, instead stand put and you will get into hidden rooms.
Key: When you reach the part of the level where you see a second switch
with the "PUT ON" sign where you should drop a melon on (simply press
down when you are holding the melon next to the switch), but there is nothing
blocking your way. Do not walk past, but look at the background. You will see
you have to aim a melon onto the moving seesaw in the background to get the key
(Hint: drop the melon on the switch the moment the seesaw appears on the left).
Tip 3: After the room where you get the key, you will see a room with two
huge melons (I'm talking about fruit, mind you, sorry girls, but some guys...),
destroy the first melon to reveal a door. Enter the room behind the door, but
instead of going down the stairs, fly to the left from the top of the
stairs/room and fire away the big block to unveil an extra life/diamond!
Tip 4: When you are on the third moving/spinning machine-tire, make sure
you fall into the first of the two holes to reach a secret room, use the Jump
Board in this room to get into the background, now blast or bash away the
melons you see at the right, enter the door you have unveiled to come into a
small passageway, bash or blast away the melons at the right and there is your
extra life/diamond.
Treasure: After the third moving/spinning machine-tire, you will see
another (launch-)switch, get two melons into the two baskets in the background
to destroy the sleeping melon and unveil a door leading to the treasure!
***
Level 10 (spooky mansion):
Tip: Defeat the eerie smiley faces with their own spawn.
Tip: Following the level to the right, go the second place where you can
see Jump Boards in the background (but not in the foreground), bash the ground
in that room as long until you make a small opening in the floor, go through
the opening to land in a hidden room, walk down the with blocks formed stairs
to the left and stand on the ground facing the blocks formed stairs to the
right of you now, fire away some of the blocks to find an extra life/diamond!
Tip 2: After that follow the rooms to the left until you reach last room,
blast/bash away all the wooden crates there to get another diamond! Go back
into the room where you found the entrance to the last two diamonds, go up the
first stairs, go left, go up the second stairs, go left into that room, then go
all the way left using King Dragon Wario, at the end fire away the stone block
and enter the door to find two more diamonds!!
Treasure: Following the level to the right, go the second place where you
can see Jump Boards in the background (but not in the foreground), go up the
first stairs there, then go to the left into the opening there (at the bottom
of the second stairs). Walk left until you see the Jump Board, go into the
background and enter the door. Go left to the next room and enter yet another
door, now you have arrived in another background room, fly to the far right
there and stay at the top of the room! Land on the lone block and let King
Dragon Wario face right and blast away the wall to unveil a door, enter the
door to get to the next room, crawl to the door at the right in that room and
enter it to get the treasure.
Key: Following the level to the right, go the second place where you
can see Jump Boards in the background (but not in the foreground), go up the
first stairs there, then go to the left into the opening there (at the bottom
of the second stairs). Walk left until you see the Jump Board, go into the
background and enter the door. Go left (well duh!) in the next room and enter
yet another door, now you have arrived in another background room (this is near
where you got the treasure), go all the way down and enter the door, from now
on you will go: right, enter the door, left, enter the door, left, enter the
door, left, enter the door. Now you will finally arrive at a room with three
clocks, notice how the middle clock is moving much faster than the other two.
Wait for the clocks to open, then kill the two enemies and get the key in
the middle.
***
Level 11 (machine madness):
Tip: Make sure you stay Dragon Wario or higher and walk the level to the
right until you see four fire-blocks, blast them away to unveil a door that
leads to two extra lives/diamonds!
Treasure: After you walk through the first part of the level and go
through the opening to reach the second part, keep a close eye on how the first
few flickering boards move, you will notice they move up instead of down, go
stand on one of them and you will be thrown into the background! But watch out
because the chemical dripping enemy machines will move with you from the
foreground to the background. Now that you are in the background walk to the
right until the third chemical dripping enemy machine comes into the background
to you, now walk right and go over the high (almost black) vertical blocks, go
stand on top of the right side of these seven rows of vertical blocks and do a
Body Slam, now go stand at the right side of the remaining five blocks and let
Wario face the blocks to bash/blast the rocks at the left of him away until you
unveil a door leading to the treasure!
Key: After you went by the first part of the level with wind-blowers and
entered the second part that has wind-blowers (you will see only one at first),
go stand on the wind-blower to take you up, when you are being taken up with
the second windblower go to the left where there are two more windblowers, let
them take you up and try to go to the left as far as possible to grab the key.
Tip 2: If you want to become King Dragon Wario but can't find the Eagle
Statue & Dragon Crystal go to the second part of the level that has
wind-blowers (you will see only one at first), make sure you are big and
bash/blast away the two blocks at the right from the first wind-blower you see
there to unveil a pipe leading to the needed power ups.
***
Level 12 (third boss):
Key: Defeat the boss to get the key (no treasure in boss levels, but you
will get many coins at the end!).
Tip: When the boss is about to hit you with bombs and lasers from the
background, use the Jump Boards to jump into the background yourself, the boss
will jump to the foreground and try to hit you with bombs and lasers again, now
you must already be standing on the Jump Boards and jump into the foreground
and hit the boss on the top, then the boss will come out of it's kettle and
you must try to jump on it's head, do this 3 times to win.
***
Level 13 (temple of doom):
Treasure: This treasure is the hardest of all to find... NOT!!! Hehehe! Prepare
to hit yourself on the head if you missed this secret. When you enter level 13,
become Bull Wario by grabbing the Garlic Bottle in the first question block
(you see it right away), turn around to the left, to the elevator you entered
the level in. Now barge away the elevator-piece on top of the normal elevator
to see a door, enter it to get the treasure.
Key: Make your way to the first room with the thorn-ball enemies in them,
above the thorn-ball (the bee that shoots thorn balls to Wario) that is in the
foreground you must chip away two (invisible) blocks from the ceiling unveiling
a pipe, enter the pipe to get into a background room, walk all the way to the
right here and when you can't go any further bash or fire three times getting
rid of the blocks and unveiling a door. Again you will enter a room with
thorn-ball enemies, above the thorn-ball that is in the foreground you must
chip away two (invisible) blocks from the ceiling unveiling yet another pipe,
enter the pipe and upon exiting the pipe walk right into the next room. Be
careful and stay focused as you cross the next quiet but dangerous room and
enter the pipe at the end, in the following room filled with thorn-ball enemies
go left and enter the door, now you will have exited in a background room, walk
a little to the left (but stay on the platform) and use your head once again to
chip away some blocks, enabling you to jump on the platforms above you, follow
the platforms up until you reach the door at the right side of the top of the
room (do not go into the door at the top-left yet, because that door leads to
the end of the level), enter that door (at the top-right) to exit in a
background room, now walk right and use the Jump Board to get into the
foreground. Once there, evade the thorn ball enemies and walk to the left to go
into the pipe which will exit straight above the key, dropping you on it!
Useless tip: I spotted a diamond in this level too, but it's easy to find
just like there are a few more in most other levels, but by now you should have
20 to 40 lives, so I doubt you need any more.
***
Level 14 (final boss):
Tip: First on when the evil genie comes on screen introducing itself, only keep
pressing the A button, this will make Wario jump continuously until the
controls are actually activated and then Wario will jump into the background
right away, doing this will guarantee an instant first hit on the nose.
Tip 2: You will need to hit the endboss five times, so doing the first hit
right away will only leave you with four more hits to go. Now you must avoid a
few of the evil genie's attacks, the following attacks usually happen in the
same order and after the endboss is hit by you. The claws from above you can
avoid by keeping Wario dashing, then the claws coming at you from the side,
when the evil genie is more to the right side of the screen (looking from the
middle) you will have to go stand at the most left side of the platform and the
claws will not hit you and it works the same the other way around as well (jump
up or in the background to be sure), then the fire breath attack.
Tip 3: At this time you will have to try and stay cool, stand in the middle of
the screen to hit the quickly moving evil genie on the nose, timing is very
important here (just make sure you try and jump against it's nose before the
genie disappears). If it does not work the first few times (as in you keep
dying), continue to try and you will get the hang of it soon enough.
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***6: FAQ--Frequently Asked Questions***
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This is the section where questions, comments, or other suggestions are
discussed. More will be coming as the document is updated.
Q: What happens after you beat the game?
A. You recieve a second quest, with more enemies than the first one. That's if
you have all the treasures.
Please feel free to email me (section 1) if you have a question, and it could
be included in this section.
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6.1: Tips and Tricks
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Some tricks in this game that I've found while playing it are listed below. If
you'd like to submit one that I don't have, please contact me (section 1).
~ Special Ending: If you have all the treasures and beat the normal game
quickly, you will get a special ending (Wario flies off on his carpet as usual,
but he takes a woman with him! Unusual for Nintendo).
~ Easy Money: In level 10, there are jars that you throw and if they land
right-side up, you get money. Well, here is an easier way of getting money
from it. Grab a jar and toss it. If it doesn't land right-side up and a little
guy will pop out and bounce around the room. When he pops out, DO NOT KILL HIM!
While he is away from where he can hurt you, grab the jar and throw it again.
Then a coin will come out. Kill the little dude and repeat the process.
More to come...
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***7: Credits***
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Contributors to this FAQ will be listed here.
~ Nucleargamer12--I'm the document creator and author.
~ Gamefaqs.com--for creating a very comprehensive and informative gaming site.
~ Nintendo--for their unsuccessful (but fun) Virtual Boy and Wario Land.
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***8: End***
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Thanks for reading this document, and have a nice day.
~~nucleargamer12~~ Gaming makes the world go 'round...
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