Desert Maze

Desert Maze
Area type	Course
Number of stars	2
Course	Course 8
Area ID	1
First appearance	v0.2

Desert Maze is an area in B3313.

Description

The player spawns in an area branching off into two paths. However, the left one is shortly closed off by a wall, while the right one leads to a large open area with several trees, hills, and a handful of enemies such as Koopas, Fly Guys, Pokeys, the Angry Sun, and Klepto. The smallest hill has a flagpole on top of it.

If Mario/Luigi lost his hat from exiting Jolly Roger Lagoon in v0.7, he could get it back from Klepto as long as he stayed in the area. Exiting the area would cause Mario/Luigi to lose his hat again.

Origins

The spawn area's layout is taken directly from the vanilla version of Hazy Maze Cave. The rest of the area is an original creation. The hack's creator, ChrisRLillo, later recalled an old dream of his which resembled the area. Textures are taken from both the vanilla game and the beta version. The appearance of the trees comes from unused sprites found in the vanilla game's source code.

The music playing is "Desert [Super Mario World]" from the Super Mario Maker 2 OST but with SM64 instruments. In v0.9 onward, a rendition of the Cave theme from the Peach's Castle tech demo plays instead.

Stars

This area has 2 stars to collect:

• There's a star at the top of the flagpole on the smallest hill.
• Collecting all 8 red coins rewards the player with a star.

Additionally, in v0.7 the 100 coin star for Course 8 can be collected here.

Warps

Leading here

• Plexal Basement: In the main section's front side, go through the door with the number 2 on it, up against the Lethal Lava Land painting, and then through the hole.
• (v0.2) Desert Room: Enter the painting at the opposite side of the room.

Changelog

• v0.9
  • Can no longer collect 100 coin star.
• v0.4
  • Added two stars for you to collect.
• v0.2
  • Added Desert Maze.

Gallery

v0.7

The spawn area.

The wall blocking off the left side.

The main area.

v0.4

The spawn area.

The wall blocking off the left side.

The main area.

v0.2

An assortment of random items far away from the player's reach.

A tree defying nature more than the rest of those trees.

A pipe that leads to who knows where in a faraway position.

This portion of Desert Maze seems to have been built on top of Hazy Maze Cave... And there's another pipe faraway, like a haunting Will-O'-The-Wisp.

Trivia

• In v0.2, the area's textures were significantly darker, including the skybox, and the layout was slightly different.
• (v0.9) Getting Mario's cap stolen by the Klepto in Desert Maze is one of the triggers that presses the Yellow Switch automatically. Conversely, pressing the Yellow Switch will have Klepto steal Mario's cap automatically.