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Koopalings

Koopalings character artwork
Castle bosses · Dinosaur Land castles

The Koopalings guard the major castles on the route through Dinosaur Land. Each encounter uses an arena or behaviour pattern suited to that stage of the adventure.

  • Story: Defeating them advances the rescue and changes the world-map route. Their castles provide milestones between the more open course-exit searches.
  • In the game: Treat each arena as its own challenge. Safe positioning, hazards and vulnerability windows differ; a technique that works in one castle may be ineffective in the next.

Story spoilers.

Super Mario World · Super Nintendo · 1990 · Original SNES game and its emulated releases. Controls use SNES button labels. Super Mario Advance 2 differences are outside this guide. · Picture: Koopalings: Super Mario World original-era character artwork.

From the game

Iggy Koopa
Iggy Koopa
Morton Koopa Jr.
Morton Koopa Jr.
Lemmy Koopa
Lemmy Koopa
Ludwig von Koopa
Ludwig von Koopa
Roy Koopa
Roy Koopa
Wendy O. Koopa
Wendy O. Koopa
Larry Koopa
Larry Koopa

Pictures drawn from the Super Mario World (SNES) game data: sprites are assembled from their tiles the way the game draws them, in the palette of a level they appear in; blocks, coins and berries are built from their 16×16 level-tile definitions with the animated tiles in place; maps show the overworld’s terrain layer (the level tiles and paths on its other layer are not in the asset export). Animation timing is approximate.

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