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Super Mario World (1990)

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I've thought of making this sprite for a while, but now I actually did. You know the Middle Ring, the sprite that serves as a checkpoint in SMW2: Yoshi's Island (sprite 04F, if you care to know)? Well, now it's in SMW as well! Basically, it's an oval ring of 14 stars, and when you touch it, your star count goes up by 10 (1 star at a time) and all sprites freeze for a bit, and then the ring expands outward and disappears, giving you a checkpoint. I tried to make the SMW incarnation as close as possible to the original; it does freeze sprites when you touch it, it expands and disappears, and it sets the midway point flag (it also has an option to set a checkpoint for the Multi-Midway patch, although I didn't how this off in the video), but it doesn't give you 10 stars because...well, obviously there are no stars in SMW. I suppose I could potentially make it give you 10 *bonus* stars or something.... The sprite-freezing code doesn't seem to work properly for every sprite, though; Chargin' Chuck, at least, sometimes freezes and sometimes doesn't, which is why I lured that second one offscreen before touching the ring.

Edit: A version of it for Romi's Sprite tool can be downloaded here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9110994/middle%20ring%20%28Romi%27s%29.zip

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