Big Boo's Fortress

Big Boo's Fortress
Area type	Course
Number of stars	3
Course	Course 14
Area ID	5
First appearance	v0.2

Big Boo's Fortress is an area in B3313.

Description

Upon spawning, the player starts at the entrance of the fortress. The fortress itself is basically a maze, with most of its rooms being similar to each other, infested by Boos and Mr. I's. A so-called main room can be noted, guarded by the Mad Piano and full of bookcases. A door there leads to a library area, while a side opening contains the titular Big Boo.

Origins

The concept of the area likely comes from one of Emmy's videos (this and/or this), which was meant to be a recreation-expansion of the ghost house level seen in 1995 B-Roll footage. Textures are recreations of ones seen in the aformentioned footage, taken from the Gigaleak, or simply from the vanilla version of Big Boo's Haunt from Super Mario 64.

The music is the Underground arrangement from the Coincentration mini game in Super Mario 64 DS, also used in the aforementioned video.

Stars

This area has 3 stars in v1.0 and 1 star in v0.7.

• (Motos Factory demo, v0.9+)
  • Collect the second and third key (first key is not necessary) then head on over to the room left of the Piano Room to fight Big Boo who holds a star.
  • Upon reaching the Piano Room, collect the Vanish Cap and head over to the glass window in the Library, which holds a star behind it.
  • After collecting the first key, head left down the wood floorboard to the Mirror Room where a certain plumber and star reside beyond the mirror. Both can be accessed by entering the left door and looping around.
• (v0.7)
  • Collecting all 5 keys scattered throughout the course rewards the player with a star, which spawns near Big Boo.

Warps

Leading here

• Plexal Upstairs: On the top floor, enter the door in an opening with the number 3 on it and a hole before it, then go down the hole and enter the Boo painting.
• (Motos Factory demo) Motos Demo Castle: In the corridor, kill Big Boo and jump into the cage with 5 stars.

Leading away

• (v0.7) Big Boo's Haunted Forest: Defeat the Big Boo and enter its cage. This leads you to the small forest section.
• Forest Maze: Taking a star in this area warps the player to the hole in Plexal Upstairs leading to Forest Maze.

Gallery

v0.9/1.0

The entrance to the fortress.

One of the rooms.

One of the rooms.

One of the rooms.

Big Boo's room.

The Mirror room.

Beta Mad Piano (Gigaleak).

The library section.

One of the hallways in a corrupted state

v0.2 - v0.8

The entrance to the fortress.

One of the rooms.

One of the rooms.

One of the rooms.

One of the rooms.

One of the rooms.

Big Boo's room.

The library section.

One of the rooms.

Changelog

• v0.2
  • Added Big Boo's Fortress.

Trivia

• This area doesn't have enough coins from a 100-coin star, however, considering that Big Boo's Haunted Forest can be accessed directly from here, and is also in course 14, the coin counter doesn't change while going through the two areas. This can be exploited for an easier collection of the aforementioned 100-coin star.
• (v0.9) In the Mirror Room, on the side with the Star, there's a set of double doors with the letter "L" above, and entering the doors switches your character to the other plumber.
• Chris had planned to use the unused colored keys from Super Mario 64 for this area at some point in time.
• In the Motos Factory Demo, all 3 stars here are Red Stars

His plan.