Once unlocked, glitch worlds appear as yellow ”minus levels” on the light world map of their respective chapter. There is one glitch world per chapter except Cotton Alley (fortunately), and beating each rewards an achievement with a strange name such as N#7. Jan 16, 2011 This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.
And this only scratches the surface. There must be dozens more that we've yet to find, just waiting for a compulsive player to get things exactly right and break through. It's an example of the inestimable variation of play and exploration that some accidental secrets are exposed and become part of gaming's cult canon, even when other intentional secrets lie dormant for years. Such was the case with the 'Chris Houlihan Room,' a rupee-filled cubbyhole snuck into A Link to the Past to honor a winner of a Nintendo Power contest. The room was accessible through a number of elaborate ways - run a certain distance, fall into a certain pit - but it was hidden so well that it remained a secret for years, until it was revealed more than a decade later through an extensive exploration of the game file. The message within reads 'My name is Chris Houlihan. This is my top secret room,' which sums things up more aptly than anyone could have guessed. That a hidden room could be so secret as to be completely unknown is either pretty great or pretty terrible, depending on whether you're Chris Houlihan.
Before the internet, these types of secrets were mere curiosities to be swapped among friends like urban legends. Their very difficulty and unverifiability lent minus worlds a certain cache of gamer cred. Now, with a greater ability to scour our games for anomalies and share this information online, tales of these minus worlds have become common, even ubiquitous - so much so that a new generation of games has winkingly begun to insert their own. Some are modeled after the apparent endlessness of these spaces, such as the purgatorial kingdom of 'World -1' in Super Paper Mario, where failed videogame characters ponder their Game Overs for eternity. Others revamp the idea of warping and sequence breaking, such as the 'subspace highways' of Scott Pilgrim, appearing as garbled, broken-code versions of classic games, that serve as shortcuts through the game's levels. And then there is the idea of a minus world offering new and challenging spaces to navigate, as seen in the unlockable 'negative levels' of Super Meat Boy, which are accessed when you grab onto a flashing and broken sprite of Bandage Girl - Meat Boy's own version of 'the princess.' At the same time original minus worlds are getting cleaned up and removed from watertight remakes of classic games, we've begun to emulate and pay homage to these spaces. The rough corners that simply don't fit within the game proper, that might otherwise be a part of discarded game design, are now a topic of tribute. Something about them speaks to us. So why are we so interested?
Team Meat has sent word that the Level Editor for Super Meat Boy has arrived on Steam.
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There are loads of things you can do with it, such as create anything seen in the game, minus bosses and warp zones; upload levels to Super Meat Boy World which can be played an critiqued by the community; create full chapters with custom titles and music as well as par times; choose from a cast of 20 characters whether you have already unlocked them in the game or not; and more. Chapters and levels will be hand picked by Team Meat to be featured as recommend chapters.
“We always wanted to release a basic level editor, but the idea started to balloon when we decided to buy servers and program a fully automated level portal (Super Meat World) to support these levels as a bonus chapter for the PC version,” said Team Meat’s Edmund McMillien. “We will be doing one more update to SMW next week adding a few missing features and fixing up a couple editor bugs.
“After that we will be closing the book on the PC version, porting SMB to Mac and swiftly moving on to game #2 (because we cant seem to stay happy without working on something constantly). Its been surreal everyone! thanks for all of the solid support and love, its time to hand the reigns to the SMB community and retire.
“There won’t ever be a Super Meat Boy 2.”
The Level editor can be launched on Steam by going into tools and selecting the SMB level editor which is around the 1MB mark. Super Meat World is unlocked by completing two full chapters or collecting 20 bandages in the main game and appears to the left of Ch1 on the overworld map.
The level editor is being released free as a “final gift from Team Meat to the fans,” who have supported the game and the development team.
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