Bowser's Checkered Madness

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Bowser's Checkered Madness
Area type	Boss
Number of stars	1
Course	Bowser Fight 2
Area ID	1
First appearance	v0.2

Bowser's Checkered Madness is an area in B3313.

Description

The area consists of two rooms. The one the player spawns in also houses Bowser and two bombs, while the other, separated by a key door, has only one bomb and a cork box.

Origins

The area's layout seems to be an original creation. The walls seemingly have recolored textures from the vanilla Super Mario 64.

The music is an original composition inspired by Ultimate Koopa from the vanilla game. In versions prior to v0.9, the music was a remix of the final boss theme from the Super Mario World OST.

Stars

This area has 2 stars to collect. However, 1 is a duplicate.

• Defeat Bowser (Duplicate of Bowser in the Dark World (Shoshinkai))
• Go into the other room and break a box.

Warps

Leading here

• Crimson Hallway: In the maze, go through the key door to the right, and then fall through the hole.

Leading away

• Peach's Secret Corridor: Collecting a star here warps you to this area.

Routes

Note that this section lists only the shortest routes to the area.

v1.0.2/UA

Through Fast Travel:
Beta Lobby C > Crimson Hallway > Bowser's Checkered Madness

Gallery

v1.0.2

Box containing red star.

Red star.

v0.6.9

The spawn room.

The other room.

v0.2

The starting area.

Luigi standing in front of Bowser and a bomb.

You can still beat Bowser and get the key, once you do, you're sent to Vanilla Upstairs.

Or you can take the alternative path.

Luigi stares towards the key.

However, this key is not exactly as it seems, it does count as a key once you collect the star however; it still sends you to Vanilla Upstairs.

(Luigi for scale.)

The platform that the key rests atop has some interesting effects, it can conceal the terrain.

Or it can shift your perspective of the game.

Changelog

• v0.2
  • Added Bowser's Checkered Madness

Trivia

• Despite the area being located in the second Bowser level, Bowser doesn't use the attacks that he gains in that fight. This is likely because they wouldn't function properly.
• Breaking the cork box open reveals an invisible, sparkling object, collecting which ejects Mario/Luigi from the level, seemingly acting as a "key". However, it is likely that the object is a retextured star, which when collected in areas with Bowser battles look like keys, but don't actually grant the player the ability to open the key doors that it would otherwise allow to. The point of this appearing in the hack is unknown.
  • The purpose of this object is revealed in v0.9, as it is this cork box that houses one of the game's many Red Stars.
• In 0.7, Collecting the Bowser 2 key presses the Yellow Switch automatically and vice versa.
• In v1.0, the red star from defeating Bowser is a duplicate of the Red Star from Bowser in the Dark World (Shoshinkai). This is a reference to how several stars shared IDs in v0.9.