Why are some levels bigger dots than others?

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big = long level
small = short level

>>380068238
d-damn... who.a..

>>380067785
The levels with red dots have a secret exit, it even syas in the hint boxes.

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HAMSTER ON A PIANO eating niggers on a piano!

>>380068238
Proven to not be the case, vanilla 2 is a much longer/bigger level than vanilla 3.

>>380068629
That's red/yellow dot difference, we're still unsure why some are bigger than others.

Someone should ask Miyamoto or Tezuka about it at this point, all the theories and deductions are futile.

>>380067785

I think large dots get more level time
I think red dots mean multiple exits

>>380068629
can you just fucking read?
can you just READ THE QUESTION?

>>380069294
YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW

>>380067785
only the first red/yellow of each world have a big dot

>>380067785
it probably means nothing, its just a way to have the overworld screens look neater. if the left red dot was big it would fit in that tiny space a bit awkwardly

FROM THE ICE AGE TO THE DOLE AGE
THERE IS BUT ONE CONCERN

SOME LEVELS ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS
SOME LEVELS ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS
SOME LEVELS EXITS ARE BIGGER THAN OTHER LEVELS EXITS

>>380069282
It doesn't mean more time when its a larger dot.

>>380067785
I actually think that in large dots the time limit is 400 seconds and in small dots is 300, too lazy to fire up the emulator and find out

>>380068238
thats not true. try actually playing the game

>>380070297
Don't worry, that's not it.
I've been in multiple threads where anons were discussing this and checking out the game, and no, there isn't anything that makes the levels different.
Some of them do have more time, but then so do other levels that are regular small dots.

It isn't time, and it isn't the size of the level, it's a mystery.

>>380069575
the picture literally disproves this

Why don't you guys just ask Miyamoto himself?
/vp/ always was contesting about white hair vs knit hat and they solved it once and for all once they asked Masuda on twitter.

D E E P E S T
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>>380070759
Not really, that big yellow IS the first yellow in this area

>>380070759
I think you should read that post again.

>>380069714
this. smaller dots are used in areas that cant fit the big dots

>>380067785
Maybe they don't have any meaning and are actually leftovers of earlier stages of the development. It's not really far-fetched, specially in games around that time. The only big dots are Vanilla Dome 1, Vanilla Dome 3, Forest of Illusion 1, and Valley of Bowser 2, and as far as I remember they didn't have anything different going on for them.

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>>380072027
>>380070759

Damn, I'm hearing the cave music play in my head right now.

>>380067785
Aesthetics, big dots would look ugly in some areas and small dots would look lame in others.

>>380072027
>>380069714
thats wrong. you can fit a big dot in like 60% of the small dot places. >>380072227

>>380072227
>>380072579
ok nevermind now Im just confused

>>380071163
There was no fucking contest. At any point.

It was always a hat.

>>380073051
>No contest
Don't make me laugh we had daily fucking threads on the subject for ages until some other anons and me started to suggest that Masuda was consulted to end the shitposting.

Why do some guys have bigger dicks than others?

Because World was a shitty game and 3 was better

>>380070759
>>380069575
All large red dots are the first red dot of their world, but not all first red dots are large.
There's only one large yellow dot and it's the first yellow dot of its world.

They also only appear in the subsections underground or beneath the forest tree.

>>380074020
SMW = SMB3

the big dots are for levels where your mom died in her sleep because she didn't reply to this post

Maybe it means there's sub levels in the level, like going into a pipe and warping to another area

>>380073389
You being a retard doesn't mean there was a serious doubt, ethan always used a hat, and you can clearly see that on the manual's art. Anyone who thought it was hair is an imbecile.

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>>380070759
>literally
>it's not literally

>>380074434
fug :)))

>>380072227
So what do those 4 levels have in common?

>>380069905
Kek.

>>380074738
>You being a retard
I was saying it was a hat, but nice assumptions.

>>380074434
ji

>>380074974
That you can't see them directly on the overworld map.

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>>380067785
This game has so much secrets and mystery to it. It is the Majora's Mask of the Mario series. Don't prove me wrong.

>>380072227
How the fuck do you get the level in the ghost house at the top of Donut Plains? For fucks sake I swore for literally decades that there was a secret exit for it on the save file on the second hand cartridge we got given and I never had proof. I thought it was like the Berensta/ein Bears shit

For fuck's sake. Glad I have a copy of it around still. Guess I'm dealing with this revelation tomorrow.

In your picture the smaller dots are on small spaces wheras the bigger dots have plenty of space.

You put the big dot sprite where the small one is ( on the cliff for example) and itll look funny.

>>380076071
Fly up in the first part of the ghost house.

>>380076071

Just fly.

>>380074632
Nah there's plenty that have pipes
Donut Plains 1 for example has the question box secret area and the coin/pillar/cape secret area

>>380076232
Why didn't they just make the big dots small like in the rest of the game?

>>380076071
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yDuOQvU5qc

>>380077396
Why don't they make all the dots big?
That way you get more pixels for your money.

>>380074020
reddit tier opinion

>>380078750
They should just make the game one big dot
How you gonna spend ur first billion, nintendo?

>>380074020
>3
>degenerate furry shit
>better

Sure thing.

>>380078750
Quality over quantity.

>>380072227
Maybe the larger levels are everywhere but the overworld?

>>380079957
But everyone knows that bigger dots are of better quality.

>>380077730
Fuuuuuuuck I remember exploiting that area as a kid this is mind blowing it's all real memories

And I didn't know down-Y could drop a shell as Yoshi either

As a result I also didn't know you could get Star World 5's exit with a Yoshi.

That whole video was a revelation

>>380072227
Man the world map is small, it looked bigger when I was five years old

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>>380076232
Most of the spaces that have small dots are exactly as large as the spaces that have big dots.

>>380069442
We all know you never had a boss since you just live in mom's basement

>>380080562
You could also jump on a P-block and swallow it before it disappeared allowing you to use it again.

>>380067785
Are you guys serious? Big dots are used when the level is on a road, and small dots are used elswhere (gravel, lake, etc.)

>>380082937
>I have neither played the game nor read the thread, but I think I know the answer based on this one image

>>380082937
The level after the yellow one on the pic is also on the same road but it's small.

>>380067785

I thought it was when you could go in three different directions from the dot. Thats why I always thought there was a level in those boulders above. Spent ages looking for it.

>>380080613
when you're playing the game it's way zoomed in, it looks small because you're looking at it zoomed out in that image

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Perhaps the big dots have something to do with the cape power up...
Or maybe something about yoshi...