Wario Land 3: The Master Quest (Game Boy Color) Hack

Tiger21820 5 Mar 2023 03:03

Reminder to everyone attempting to play this hack: Play the game in English! You won't win the game if you play in Japanese! It will crash upon entering The Temple after getting the final music box!

VGLongplays 7 Mar 2023 23:51

I can't believe I played Wario Land 3 for pretty much my entire life and never knew about the in-level save feature. Definitely a necessity for this hack.

Tiger21820 8 Mar 2023 20:58

All 100 treasures and 8 musical coins in all levels with 175 restarts! Now, time for some Time Trials! And boy, WHAT A TRIAL THEY WILL BE!!!!

Tiger21820 9 Mar 2023 14:41

For each Time Attack Achievement/Leaderboard, I left a comment with an estimated difficulty rating of the level! They do not rate the difficulty of getting a fast time, they rate the difficulty of getting all 4 keys and finishing the level! The hardest level is S6 Above the Clouds, and the second hardest level is E7 Forest of Fear!

VGLongplays 10 Mar 2023 23:43

Mastered!!! Man some of those time trials were NUTS!

VGLongplays 10 Mar 2023 23:46

Special thanks to the Tiger21820 for developing the hack, the OG game is probably my fav game of all time and to see a level design hack is a surreal experience. I hope you continue to experiment with this game. And of course thanks to wolfman2000 for the cheevos!

Tiger21820 11 Mar 2023 12:19

Congrats on being the first to master the set! I'll get your name in the hall of fame credits! Don't know when I'll release a new version though!

Tiger21820 11 Mar 2023 12:34

It's in! It'll be a permanent entry, so it will never be overwritten with a new Hall of Fame entry should the list fill up! You good with yellow and blue (RetroAchievements color scheme)?

VGLongplays 11 Mar 2023 17:26

Wow, thanks! It's an honour haha, yellow/blue works for me.

Tiger21820 11 Mar 2023 23:49

Great! The changes will be included in Release #015 which comes out...

...someday!

Val1407 15 Mar 2023 18:25

I will put a comment here before you do the same mistake as i did, do the music coins BEFORE you beat the final boss... once you beat it, you're stuck into time attack mode, which disables saving... i wish i would have known that, oh well...

Val1407 17 Mar 2023 11:44

Mastered! That was a wild ride... i will say, FUCK bank of the wild river time attack, that one jump near the end, is the single hardest jump in the game... thank god once you pass it, you're good to go ... also vast plain is one of the most unfair ones too, with the whole invisible section , and the sun/moon part section... i struggled wayyy more on those 2 stages than above the clouds/forest of fear (i recorded everything on my YT) ; fun hack overall, i had to replay it twice just for the music coins which was annoying... but i liked some of the things the hack did, i wish there would have been more chest and keys shuffling like sand ruin green chest, but im gonna assume theres a lot of limitations on what you can and can do to not break everything... surprised i havent encountered really any bug, except bank of the wild river green key that can disappear with too many sprites on the screen, and beneath the waves central room the rope things disappearing for the same reason ... Glad i played it though ! It sure was a wild ride...

Val1407 17 Mar 2023 11:47

Oh and i also wanted to say , the door in the air near big bridge blue chest , i have no idea how you're supposed to get there... i had to climb the ladder with the annoying enemies by manipulating their behavior so i could climb in one go, and i really didn't feel like it was the intended solution, im assuming you need to go through the door, but i havent found how...

Tiger21820 18 Mar 2023 19:21

I was planning on a challenge route for the big bridge making use of the unused level sectors that could be accessible after cleaning the water where a musical coin could be collected, and that door would have been where you came out from! It's not meant to be entered! If you did enter it, you would end up back at the title screen due to an undefined destination (which is why skull tiles send you back to the title screen: they're warp tiles (water warp tiles in most cases) that attempt to warp you to sector FF, but that's undefined, and the game just gives up and returns to the title screen, also the reason why no skull tiles appear near entrances) I've decided not to remove it in case I decide to resume the project!