Editing Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

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|release='''Game Boy:'''<br>{{flag list|Japan|October 21, 1992<ref>{{cite|url=www.nintendo.com/jp/character/mario/en/history/land2/index.html|title=English ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'' entry on the official Mario Portal|publisher=nintendo.co.jp|language=en|accessdate=November 14, 2024|archive=archive.today/2024.05.10-004204/https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character/mario/en/history/land2/index.html}}</ref>|USA|November 1, 1992|Europe|January 28, 1993|Australia|1993<ref>https://www.nintendo.com.au/mario/see-the-timeline</ref>}} '''Virtual Console (3DS):'''<br>{{flag list|USA|September 29, 2011|Europe|September 29, 2011|Australia|September 29, 2011|Japan|October 12, 2011|South Korea|June 1, 2016}} '''Game Boy - Nintendo Switch Online:'''<br>{{flag list|USA|February 8, 2023|Japan|February 9, 2023|Europe|February 9, 2023|Australia|February 9, 2023|South Korea|February 9, 2023|HK|February 9, 2023}}

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'''''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins''''' is a [[Genre#Platform|platforming]] game for the [[Game Boy]] released in 1992 and later for the [[Nintendo 3DS]]'s [[Virtual Console#Nintendo 3DS|Virtual Console]] in 2011 and the [[Nintendo Switch]]'s [[Game Boy - Nintendo Switch Online]] service as one of its launch titles in 2023. The Virtual Console release requires 44 blocks (5.6 MB) of memory to be installed. This sequel to ''[[Super Mario Land]]'' is the seventh entry in the [[Super Mario (series)|''Super Mario'' series]]<ref name=encyclopedia>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors|title=『[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック]]』|language=ja|location=Tokyo|publisher=Shogakukan|date=2015|page=11–13|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo Co., Ltd]]|title=HISTORY → Series → ''Super Mario''|url=www.nintendo.com/jp/character/mario/en/history/index.html|publisher=Mario Portal|accessdate=6 Nov. 2024|archive=web.archive.org/web/20241003115239/https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character/mario/en/history/index.html}}</ref> and also marks the debut of Mario's self-proclaimed arch rival [[Wario]], who would later become a recurring character in the ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' franchise as well as a protagonist in his [[Wario (franchise)|own series]]. Like its predecessor, it received a [[Player's Choice]] and was produced by the late [[Gunpei Yokoi]] rather than the ''Super Mario'' franchise creator [[Shigeru Miyamoto]], who was not involved in the development of this game. It is notable for having been the last original side-scrolling ''Super Mario'' game until 2006's ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'', 13½ years later (not counting [[reissue]]s). Like ''Super Mario Land'', this game was initially excluded from the main ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' series by [[Nintendo]],<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Nintendo Power]]'' volume 92|page=7|language=en-us|publisher=Nintendo of America|date=January 1997|quote=Oh yeah, Princess Daisy from the Game Boy "Land" series is another princess altogether.}}</ref> but went on to be included alongside the more traditional games for the 30th anniversary of ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''<ref>{{file link|Super Mario Bros 30th Anniversary - JP Artwork.jpg|Official Japanese artwork for the 30th Anniversary of ''Super Mario Bros.'' illustrating the games part of the ''Super Mario'' series}}</ref> and the history pages from the Mario Portal and "The official home for Mario" websites.<ref>{{cite|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives|title=ヒストリー {{!}} マリオポータル {{!}} Nintendo|publisher=Nintendo|language=ja|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite|url=mario.nintendo.com/history|title=The official home of Super Mario™ – History|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>

'''Story from the instruction booklet'''<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'' instruction booklet|page=3-4|date=1992|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref>

<b>DANGER! DANGER!</b><br>While I was away crusading against the mystery alien [[Tatanga]] in [[Sarasaland|Sarasa Land]], an [[Wario|evil creep]] took over [[Mario's castle|my castle]] and put the people of [[Mario Land (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins)|Mario Land]] under his control with a magic spell. The intruder goes by the name of Wario. He has been jealous of my popularity ever since we were boys, and has tried to steal my castle many times. It seems he has succeeded this time. Wario has scattered the 6 Golden Coins from my castle all over Mario Land. These Golden Coins are guarded by those under Wario's spell. Without these coins, we can't get into the castle to deal with Wario.

We must collect the 6 coins, attack Wario in the castle, and save everybody!<br><b><i>IT'S TIME TO SET OUT ON OUR MISSION!!</i></b><br>★The 6 Golden Coins are the coins needed to open the gate of Mario's castle.

After rescuing [[Princess Daisy]] from [[Tatanga]] in [[Sarasaland]], Mario returns to his own private island, appropriately named [[Mario Land (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins)|Mario Land]]. Upon returning, however, he finds that an old rival of his named Wario had succeeded in taking over [[Mario's castle|his castle]] and cast an evil spell to brainwash the island's inhabitants into serving him against Mario. The [[Golden Coin|6 Golden Coins]] (the keys to Mario's castle) were spread throughout the island, and Mario must retrieve these [[coin]]s so that he can confront Wario in order to reclaim his castle and restore order to Mario Land.

The game begins with a simple "tutorial" level, [[Mushroom Zone]], to help the player learn the controls of the game. This level can not be replayed. After this is completed, the player must travel through six different "zones" containing a series of levels to collect the coins:

[[File:Fire Wario.png|left|thumb|[[Mario]] fighting [[Fire Mario#Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins|Fiery Wario]].]]

*The [[Turtle Zone]]: Inside of a giant tortoise, this zone is an aquatic environment and is guarded by an [[octopus (boss)|octopus]] located inside of a [[whale]].

*The [[Macro Zone]]: A house-like zone that shrinks those who enter it, this zone is guarded by the [[sewer rat]].

*The [[Pumpkin Zone]]: Located inside a giant {{wp|jack-o'-lantern}} containing graveyards and haunted houses, this zone is guarded by the [[Witch (boss)|Witch]].

*The [[Mario Zone]]: A mechanical version of Mario, this zone is guarded by the [[Three Little Pigheads|Three Little Pigs]].

*The [[Space Zone]]: Encompassing the [[moon]] and stars, this zone is guarded by the alien Tatanga, the final boss of the original ''Super Mario Land''.

After gathering the 6 Golden Coins, Mario can venture into a dangerous, transformed version of his old castle. Upon reaching the throne room, Mario finally confronts Wario and they duke it out. Though Wario was bigger and stronger, Mario was able to best him with his wits and superior jumping skills. Wario then begins using the same powerups as Mario used during his journey, such as a [[Carrot]] to give him hovering abilities and a [[Fire Flower]] to give him the power to throw fireballs. Despite these power-ups, however, Mario was still able to defeat him in battle. As a result, Wario [[Small Wario|shrinks]] and begins crying in defeat, but then throws one of his shoes at Mario before making his escape from the castle, with Mario following suit. With Wario gone, the castle returns to normal and peace is restored to Mario Land.

[[File:Super Mario Land 2 Tutorial Level.png|thumb|Gameplay screenshot of the tutorial level.]]

Unlike the gameplay of its predecessor, ''Super Mario Land 2''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s gameplay more closely resembles that of past ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' franchise titles. Most notably, this game replaces the [[Superball Mario]] with a more traditional [[Fire Mario]] and does away with the vehicle levels of ''Super Mario Land''. The screen can now scroll to the left, allowing Mario to backtrack through levels, and character sprites have significantly increased in size, enabling more focused and fast-paced action as well as a better overall visual quality to the game. The game is one of the first ''Super Mario'' games to have two different difficulty levels: Normal and Easy mode. The level can be chosen by picking Mario's size with the {{button|gb|select}} button before picking which file to save to.

Like in ''[[Super Mario World]]'', the game's locations can be traversed via an overworld map. This gives rise to a few secrets, including "shortcuts," which allow Mario to traverse the map more quickly, and a [[casino]] where Mario can gamble his coins to earn more lives. The worlds do not have to be played linearly without requiring a hidden item or exit, although all of them have to be completed eventually. The player can return to the world map from a completed level by pressing {{button|gb|start}} to pause and then {{button|gb|select}}.

Getting hit by an enemy or hazard while Mario is in his Small state, falling to the bottom of the screen or in lava, getting crushed behind the screen in an auto-scrolling level, or running out of time, makes Mario lose a life and get booted out of the level and back to the map. If Mario loses all of his lives, he will also lose all of the six coins he has collected and will have to fight their guardians once again, but he does not have to replay the other levels in their worlds to get there. [[Extra life|Extra lives]] are represented as [[1 UP Heart|hearts]] as opposed to [[1-Up Mushroom|green mushrooms]] in this game, due to the grayscale graphics.

Each level has a [[checkpoint]], which is a [[Bell (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins)|bell]] hanging from a block. If Mario rings the bell, he starts the level from this location should he lose a life.

The exits of regular levels are marked "GOAL" and consist of a door in the wall and a bell hanging from a post above it. If Mario enters the door, the level immediately ends, and he returns to the map and progresses to the next stage marker, but if he hits the bell first, he gets to play a bonus game which can reward him with power-ups or more lives.

Collecting 100 coins does not immediately reward Mario with an extra life like it does in other titles, but it does allow the player to enter the [[casino]] in the hill between Mario's castle and the tutorial level for a chance to earn lives. Mario can hold up to 999 coins.

There is no "score" in the traditional sense that Mario gets in this game for defeating enemies or completing the level with extra time, but he does have an enemy counter for each enemy he defeats, and defeating 100 enemies will cause a Star to fall down to Mario.

In levels, the {{button|gb|A}} allows Mario to jump, while holding the {{button|gb|B}} will make Mario run faster. Holding up on the {{button|gb|Pad}} will make Mario jump a little higher. The {{button|gb|Pad}} controls where Mario walks or runs. The player can pause in a level with the {{button|gb|start}} button. Jumping on most enemies will defeat them, as will attacking them with fireballs, a [[Super Star|Star]], or hitting them with a [[Koopa Shell]]. A Koopa Shell can be picked up by running into it while holding {{button|gb|B}} and thrown by letting go, or it can be kicked by walking into it or jumping on top of it.

''Super Mario Land 2'' continues a tradition established by past games and includes a plethora of level designs. For example, there are water levels through which Mario swims by tapping {{button|gb|A}} (Mario can also swim through sap, and movements such as walking and falling are slowed down) and space levels with altered gravity (jump height is increased, as is fall time).

Mario can use [[Warp Pipe]]s in the same manner as in other games: by holding down on the {{button|gb|Pad}} while standing on top of one, up while jumping up into one above, or left or right for pipes that are horizontal.

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|Run, throw [[fireball]] as [[Fire Mario]], pickup item

|[[Jump]], [[swim]]

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|rowspan=3 align=center style="background:#FFFFFF"|[[File:SML2 TreeZoneMap.png]]

|width=17%|[[Invincibility!]]

|width=17%|[[In the Trees]]

|[[Secret Course 1]]

|colspan=3 align=center|The courses of this zone occur in a large tree. The base of the tree is inhabited by enemies similar to woodland creatures, such as [[Spikey (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins)|Spikeys]] and [[Bopping Toady|Bopping Toadies]]. Once Mario has traversed past the tree's roots and the [[tree sap|sap]]-filled interior of its trunk, he can access one of two courses in the canopy: one in the branches, the other inside the hive of [[Beebee]]s. The boss, a large crow called the [[Big Bird]], nests at the top of the tree. The secret course is on the opposite side of the trunk and is dotted with [[Mushroom Platform]]s.

!style="background:#FFAA50"|[[Space Zone]]

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|rowspan=2 align=center style="background:#FFFFFF"|[[File:SpaceZonebeforesecret.png]]

|colspan=3 align=center|A zone amongst the stars. Courses in the Space Zone have weaker [[gravity]] than the ones on [[earth]], making [[jump]]s higher and floatier. The enemies of the Space Zone resemble space aliens, and the Golden Coin is held by the mysterious spaceman, [[Tatanga]]. Mario can only access the Space Zone through the Hippo Stage, even if he had completed all three courses and wanted to revisit them.

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!style="background:#FFAA50"|[[Macro Zone]]

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|rowspan=3 align=center style="background:#FFFFFF"|[[File:Macro zone.png]]

!style="background:#FFAA50"|[[Turtle Zone]]

|rowspan=2 align=center style="background:#FFFFFF"|[[File:Sml2map.png|160x144px]]

|[[Mushroom Zone]]

|[[Hippo (level)|Hippo]]

|[[Scenic Course]]

|[[Casino]]

|colspan=3 align=center|The overworld of the game. There are a number of courses in the game not accessible through any of the zones. This includes Mushroom Zone, a level that Mario must complete before gaining access to anything else; the Hippo course needed to access the Star Zone; and a casino that contains the game's slot machines. Mario can spend his [[coin]]s here to win [[List of power-ups|power-ups]] and [[extra life|extra lives]].

|style="background:white"|[[File:Super Mario Land 2 Mario.png]]

|[[Mario]]

|align=left|The game's protagonist and the only playable character. While Mario was in [[Sarasaland]], his longtime rival [[Wario]] took over [[Mario's castle|his castle]] in [[Mario Land (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins)|Mario Land]]. Unlike the game's [[Super Mario Land|predecessor]], Mario looks comparable to his appearance in ''Super Mario World'' and controls similarly. In the [[Space Zone]], he wears an astronaut suit over his overalls.

|style="background:white"|[[File:Owlie.png]]

|[[Heavy Zed]]s

|align=left|Sleepy owls. One stirs when Mario steps on its head and carries him to distant area. Heavy Zeds only occur in the [[Tree Zone]].

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2 Boo.png]]

|[[Boo|Boo Buddy]]

|align=left|Chases Mario whenever he is not facing it, but hides when he is.

|data-sort-value=41|[[Bat Course]]

|data-sort-value=44|[[Witch's Mansion Course]]

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|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2 Terekuribo.png]]

|[[Bullet Bill]]

|align=left|A bullet that is periodically fired out of [[Bill Blaster|Turtle Cannon]]s.

|data-sort-value=53|[[Beware: Jagged Spikes]]

|data-sort-value=62|[[Turtle Zone (level)|Turtle Zone]]

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|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2Satellite.png]]

|[[Satellite]]

|colspan=2 data-sort-value=54|[[Final Bosses: Three Mean Pigs!]]

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2 Sprite Lance.png]]

|[[Lance]]

|align=left|Blade obstacles that rest in one place, usually along the ceiling, thrusting up and down in a set rhythm.

|[[Turtle Zone (level)|Turtle Zone]]

|[[Whale Course]]

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2 Sprite Lava.png]]

|colspan=2|[[Whale Course]]

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2 Sprite Spike Trap.png]]

|[[Spike Trap|Spike]]

|[[Mushroom Zone]]

|[[Mario's castle|Wario Castle]]

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2 Sprite Spike Ball.png]]

|[[Spike Ball|Spiked ball]]

|colspan=2|[[Fiery Blocks]]

|[[Bill Blaster|Turtle Cannon]]

|[[Beware: Jagged Spikes]]

|[[Turtle Zone (level)|Turtle Zone]]

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2 Sprite Witch's Cauldron.png]]

|colspan=2|[[Witch's Mansion Course]]

|style="background:white"|[[File:Octopus SML2.png]]

|[[Octopus (boss)|Octopus]]

|align=left|A mother octopus in the belly of the [[whale]]. She spits out her children to attack Mario. The battle is completed only when the adult octopus is defeated, which is difficult because the entire battle occurs underwater.

|[[Whale Course]]

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML26GCWarioSprite.png]]

|[[Wario]]

|align=left|Wario is Mario's spiteful rival, who has sieged his castle while he was off in [[Sarasaland]]. There are three phases to the fight against Wario, during which he utilizes some of the same moves and [[List of power-ups|power-ups]] that Mario used during his adventure. Fully defeating Wario reduces him to a [[Tiny Wario|diminutive form]] and completes the game.

|[[Mario's castle|Wario Castle]]

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2 Sprite Golden Coin (Tree Zone).png]]

|[[Golden Coin]]s

|align=left|The six keys to Mario's castle. Wario has scattered them across [[Mario Land (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins)|Mario Land]]. Defeating a boss rewards Mario with one. Each zone has a Golden Coin of a different design.

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2 Coin.png]]

|align=left|The most common collectible, coins are now used to earn extra lives and items via the [[casino]].

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2 MoneyBag.png]]

|[[Moneybag (item)|Moneybags]]

|align=left|Moneybags can be found in certain ? Blocks. Collecting one rewards Mario with fifty coins.

|style="background:white"|[[File:Heart 1up.png]]

|[[1 UP Heart|1-Up Hearts]]

|style="background:white"|[[File:Heart 3up.png]]

|[[3-Up Heart]]s

|style="background:white"|[[File:Carrot.png]]<br>[[Carrot]]

|style="background:white"|[[File:Bunny Mario SML2.png]]<br>[[Bunny Mario]]

|align=left|A new item exclusive to this game, the carrot transforms Mario into Bunny Mario. In this form, he is able to hover briefly by tapping {{button|gb|a}} while flapping his bunny ears. This allows him to stay in the air longer, helpful for crossing or maneuvering around obstacles, enemies, and other hazards with ease.

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2-SuperStar.png]]<br>[[Super Star|Star]]

|style="background:white"|[[File:SML2 Sprite Invincible Mario.gif]]<br>[[Invincible Mario]]

|align=left|Collecting a [[Super Star|Star]] turns Mario invincible for a short time, preventing him from being damaged by enemies and other hazards. Rather than moving around, in this game, the Star remains stationary when struck out of the [[? Block]] it is contained in. Notably, after five enemies are defeated while invincible, an extra life is earned, with an additional one for every enemy defeated by invincibility afterward. Defeating one hundred enemies grants another Star.

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==Staff==

{{main|List of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins staff}}

The music for this game was composed by [[Kazumi Totaka]]. If the player waits on the [[Game Over]] screen for two minutes and thirty seconds, Totaka's Song will play.

Development for ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'' began in November 1991, and took ten months to complete. In a 1992 interview, the game's director and designer [[Hiroji Kiyotake]] discussed that the team originally wanted to divert from the conventional ideas established by the past ''Super Mario'' games.<ref name="Shogakukan guide">{{cite|title=''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'' official Shogakukan game guide|page=106-111|url=shmuplations.com/supermarioland2|publisher=Shmuplations|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref> Pursuing this concept, the initial work on the game lead to the first draft being turned down, due to disagreements on whether the product properly represented Mario's character and the in-game world he is renowned for. Realizing that they were on the wrong path, the team reworked it to "something a little closer to the existing Mario world". However, the team still desired to provide Mario with a new objective, rather than fighting to rescue [[Princess Peach|the princess]] as seen in most ''Super Mario'' games leading up to that time. The game's staff wanted a "change of pace", and decided that Mario should fight to win back something that belongs to him, rather than fighting for "someone else's benefit".

[[File:SML2 Photograph - Interviewed Developers.jpg|thumb|left|Various members of [[List of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins staff|development staff]], who were a part of the interview published in the game's official Shogakukan guide. Clockwise from the top-left: [[Takahiro Harada]], [[Kazumi Totaka]], [[Takehiko Hosokawa]] and [[Hiroji Kiyotake]], with their respective ages at the time.]]

[[File:SML2 Artwork - Wario Alt 3.png|thumb|Wario, as depicted being sketched by a gloved hand. The glove shows a "K", which presumably signifies [[Hiroji Kiyotake]].]]

It was Kiyotake's idea to introduce [[Wario]] as a new character, with whom he discussed it with the assistant character designer [[Takehiko Hosokawa]], before presenting the idea to the rest of the game's staff. Before Wario's actual character development, his name was the first thing that was decided on. It was derived from the Japanese word "warui", meaning "bad". The idea to have an upside-down "M" on his cap (representing a "W") received immediate, enthusiastic support by the rest of the development staff.<ref name="Shogakukan guide"/> Wario's character was based on the idea that a protagonist should have an arch-rival and nemesis. Kiyotake compared Mario and Wario to comic book characters {{wp|Popeye}} and {{wp|Bluto}}'s relationship, where Bluto is larger, stronger, and more cunning than his counterpart, and normally motivated by self-interests. After the idea of Wario was agreed on by the rest of the staff, Kiyotake discussed the details of in-game sprite animation and movement with programmer [[Takahiro Harada]]. As well as Wario, there were many other characters which was proposed by Kiyotake. Many of these were either direct rejects, or characters that did not gain approval from the wider staff team.

Kiyotake was very fond of the untouchable [[Bee Fly]] enemies used in [[Tree Zone|Tree]] and [[Macro Zone]]s, even causing him to "burst out laughing" after he first interacted with them after they were programmed. He was eager to see the Bee Fly remain in the final game, as he was amused by how it would likely annoy players. While developing the controls for the game, Harada considered that players may find it difficult to hold down two buttons on the [[Game Boy]]'s D-pad to move in a diagonal direction. This was kept in mind while programming how Mario's [[Bunny Mario|Bunny]] and [[Space Mario|Spacesuit]] performed high jumps.

[[Kazumi Totaka]], who composed the music for ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'', acknowledged that the sound effect played when transforming into [[Super Mario (form)|Super Mario]] was originally identical to the one used for ''[[Super Mario World]]'' until about midway through development.<ref name="Shogakukan guide"/> However, he was afraid that the player would be given an impression that they are playing a game that overlaps with ''Super Mario World'', and become "negatively conscious" that they were playing on a small Game Boy screen compared to the television screen used by the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]]. Therefore, Totaka chose to use many different sound effects across other past ''Super Mario'' games. Asides from composing, Totaka also had a partial role in some of the discussions between Kiyotake, Harada, and Hosokawa. Totaka was able to provide comments and feedback while proposed ideas were being evaluated. He was also able to come up with suggestions of his own, although these were mostly rejected.<ref name="Shogakukan guide"/>

 

According to Takahiro Harada, the most challenging stage of development was adjusting and fine-tuning the test version after it was presented to playtesters. As he and the team had been playing and testing the gameplay since the beginning, they initially believed that the test version was too easy. However, Harada stated that the testers generally found the game very difficult. About 2-3 months was spent on making small changes to the stages, according to the feedback which they received from the playtesters.<ref name="Shogakukan guide"/>

 

==Pre-release and unused content==

A pre-release screenshot, as well as a video, showed a different, less detailed title screen in at least one build, featuring a sign more similar to the one from ''Super Mario Land''.<ref>[http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/OtherGames/OtherGames-Z-SMALLCRAP.htm Source]</ref>{{dead link}}

 

 

 

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===Pipe entry glitch===

 

{{main|Mario Kirby Meisaku Video}}

An educational Japanese-only video, called ''[[Mario Kirby Meisaku Video]]'', was produced in 1995 based on the game. It featured a segment based off ''Super Mario Land 2'', and another one featuring [[Kirby]] and other characters from his series. The video follows an alternative version of the game's plot, where Wario steals treasures from a school, and after being informed by [[Princess Peach]], Mario embarks on a mission to defeat Wario. The intent of the videos was to teach Japanese children {{wp|kanji}}.

When playing ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'' on a [[Game Boy Color]], the game will display colors using a unique hardware-coded color palette.

 

In ''{{wp|GamePro}}''{{'}}s review of the game, they give the game's fun factor a 5.0/5.0 and praise the game's graphics and control.<ref>{{cite|date=February 1993|title=''GamePro'' issue 43|page=152-153}}</ref> The publication praises the sound to a lesser extent, giving it only a 4.0/5.0 and calls the music "cute".

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Rabbit Mario SML2.png|[[Bunny Mario]]

SML2 Artwork - Wario Alt 2.png|[[Wario]]

Kyororo.png|[[Kyororo]]

Mogyo.png|[[Moofish]]

SML2 Artwork - Mario Land Map.png|[[Mario Land (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins)|Mario Land]]

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