visual variety

>he doesn't know

>>12353348
Yes, I don't. Please explain.

top is a large gaping asshole

bottom is a small, virgin butthole

>>12353345
yeah this shit has been triggering my autism for decades.

>>12353345
One's a big stage, one's a little stage.

>>12353345
Youre playing an emulator and bot a real snes, you're not using the proper aspect ratio for snes and your snes(that you're not playing on) isn't rgb modded.

>>12353374

this

>>12353504

>not playing on composite

soulless

It's not level size
It's not amount of secret exits
It's not amount of coins/dragon coins
It's not amount of time limit
There doesn't seem to be a real explanation for now.

>>12353626
It's not where mario pissing took place either, so we can also rule that out.

>>12353504
>rgb modded
You didn't beat the game.

>>12353345
The bigger levels have the secret exits

>>12353831
the red levels have secret exits

>everything must be the same
calm your tits, stalin

>>12353626
>It's not level size
it absolutely is level size

There are three other big ones in the game. Vanilla Dome 1, Forest of Illusion 1, and Valley of Bowser 2.

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>>12353345
we don't talk about the holes

>>12353626
Sauce? Provide the matrix of levels and quantities of things "It's not" you used to determine this.

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>>12353358
They didn't tell you?

>>12353875
Not enough evidence

>>12353626
>>12353954

Not the original poster, but:
>level size
hard to tell, the Mario wiki only has a map for Vanilla Dome 3 and not 4
>amount of secret exits
Correct, both have 0 secret exists, and they're not red
>amount of coins/dragon coins
VD3 (bigger) does have 6 dragon coins vs VD4's 5 dragon coins, I'm not going to add up the regular coins
>time limit
VD3 does have a 400 second limit compared to VD4's 300 second limit

I can't imagine the time limit is the difference (Forrest of Illusion 1 also has a large marker, and a 300 second time limit) and VD1 with it's large marker has only 5 dragon coins.

VD3 also has a 3-Up moon but looking at other levels it doesn't seem to correlate to the map marker size.

>>12353875
Donut plains 1 is one of the biggest levels in the game and doesn't have a big dot

>>12353474
This
I think the manual tells you

>>12354048
Maybe it used to be smaller and didnt update it

>>12354056
There's a lot of bigger levels on the game that have the regular small dot.
It's not level size.

>>12353345
break open the cart and find out

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here's the level, and you can browse all the levels here: https://vgmaps.de/maps/snes/super-mario-world.php

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ai could figure it out (if its not just "because")

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Are there any other platformers that do the SMW thing with secret exits that lead to entirely alternate levels? I can't think of any, but it's a good idea for a game like that.

>>12354214
crash bandicoot 2 and 3

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I personally believe that it was just one developer messing with the level dot sizes knowing it would fuck with people until they die.

Either that or the patterns to the dot sizes are all just extreme coincidence with this single exception.

>>12354214
Tiny Toon on Sega Genesis
Goemon's Great Adventure

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>>12354214
Kid Chameleon has a ton of alternative routes, it just doesn't have an overworld.
Rolo to the Rescue, a meh platformer/puzzle game that really fits the bill, also does that.

>>12353947
delete this

>>12354207
Fuck off clanker.

The artist made two yellow circle sprites so they used them both :D

>>12354020
>hard to tell
Yes. Unless you have a table with all that information to compare for each level and analyze it and find no possible correlations it's impossible to say for certain that it isn't this, that, or the other thing. That's why all these hot takes based on little more than personal feeling are so retarded.

>>12354653
literally this
they had the graphics data why not use it to mix things up a bit, only thing that actually matters is the red ones showing multiple exits

>>12354195
>you can browse all the levels here
Thank you for that. I just had a blast both reliving my childhood while also seeing all the (surprisingly few) secrets I missed for the last hour and a half. That was great.

>>12354856
VGmaps is a treasure. There have been times I'd lose myself and lose track of time just going through a ton of games on the lists there and looking at every map.

>>12354207
>ai could invent a reason
fixd

>>12355293
>glorified chatbot could hallucinate a reason
ftfy

>>12355701
Maybe it could help you hallucinate a more constructive post than rephrasing one that already agrees with you.

The simple answer is that it originally meant something but that "something" was cut out of the final game. They left the map as-is because Japs are just like that.

>>12355737
not likely

>>12355750
This is entirely possible. Though my personal thought is that it's arbitrary based on what a dev felt the dot should be and since it doesn't have any real effect on the game itself at all they didn't have any meaningful metric for it and no one was ever like, hey why is this dot like this?

>>12353345
Every Super Mario World dot is personalized.

the dots are different just to spice up the map

>>12354583
>pic
Do you start the game in a grassland and end in another grassland?

and one desert is Eqyptian themed and the other desert is American SW?

i thought that one size dot meant there were multiple exits and the other meant there was 1? is that not the case? been so long i don't remember anything except those two levels are in the cave area

>>12354214
kid chameleon comes immediately to mind
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kidchameleon/images/0/0a/Map.svg/revision/latest?cb=20260111020634

>>12355974
red means multiple exits.

>>12355861
>white people don't season their maps

It's judged by enemy population, the stages with more enemies have big dots, and the stages with less enemies have the small dots.

>>12356016
You can simply Skip to plethora in Kid Chameleon, but the fight sucks without full diamonds

>>12354073
Well it was supposed to be but someone messed up

>>12354930
But that's not VGMaps. VGMaps is located at vgmaps.com
You've been browsing a German knockoff that steals maps from VGMaps and hosts them on an entirely AI generated website.

>>12353345

Collecting 100 coins in the big levels makes your lives count go DOWN.

>>12356016
>>12356229

Yeah but that game is mid. Not a legendary game like SMW.

>>12357242
your wish is my command

>>12356061
kek

>>12355813
this
my butter bridge is signed by miyamoto

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>>12353345
>>12353358
>>12353471
>>12353626
>>12354020
>>12354324
>>12355750
>>12355794
>>12355974

From TCRF:

>The popular theory of levels that are represented as a big dot in the overworld map is that these are long levels, but some levels don't actually meet this criteria. Big red dotted levels actually seem to represent big split points, meaning they have secret exits leading to alternate routes that have fortresses which can't be reached through the main route:

>>Vanilla Dome 1 leads to the route where Vanilla Fortress is.
>>Forest of Illusion 1 leads to the route where Forest Fortress is.
>>Valley of Bowser 2 leads to the route where Valley Fortress is.

>None of this applies to the only yellow big dotted level in the game, Vanilla Dome 3, which still remains a mystery.

https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_World_(SNES)#Big_Red_Dot_Levels

BUMP!

>>12353345
Goatse is the answer

>>12356086
>It's judged by enemy population, the stages with more enemies have big dots, and the stages with less enemies have the small dots.
Any numbers to support this?

Another route was planned when the map was drawn, so they used the (at the time) correct graphic. It was later decided the level wouldn't have another exit. They forgot to update the map.

But fuck that, speculation is more fun.

>>12360334
The red (two-exit) level icons come in both large and small, so your explanation doesn't make sense.

>>12357238
>take that, nerd.

>>12360157
It came to me in a dream.

>>12353345
Level difficulty. Red on the other hand always had multiple exits

>>12361639
I like this theory

>>12362510
>barrel filtered opinion
lol

>>12353345
Ah, fellow "everything must be uniform," autist.

>>12363013
What?

>>12353345
>WHY IS IT DIFFERENT.
Why shouldn't it be?

>>12363028
lurk moar newchild

>>12353345
>Why is it different. WHY IS IT DIFFERENT.
Just to annoy you

>>12354624
>>12355293
>>12355701
People who bitch about AI are like boomers who wouldn't give up their landlines for a cellphone. Its going to be hilarious when this gen grows up on AI and throws these retarded asses in old folks homes run by AI bots lmao

>>12354583
Kid Chamelon is also a garbage shit trash excuse for a game.

>>12360379
he's saying VD3 was going to be the split point to go to Vanilla Fortress and Butter Bridge, so it was a large red dot (all large red dots lead to fortresses). then the split was moved to VD1 and VD3 was turned yellow, but they forgot to make it small.

>>12364673
>but they forgot to make it small.
But this is just a theory.... A GAAAY theory

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>>12364620
Nice fantasy, do you also want the government to assign you a male robot to have gay faggot sex with you?

>>12365193
Sure. At least it would be less gay than being afraid of the AI boogeyman lmao

>>12365321
trying to hard

>>12354017
kek

>>12353471
Wait until you find the spot in the overworld where one row of waves is going the wrong direction on the ocean.

Maybe the size was based on how fun the devs thought the levels were.

>>12365882
where is it

>>12353345
It's probably the length of each level

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The beta overworld map seemed to be making random sizes as well. May very well just be an aesthetics thing.

>>12364620
2 more weeks!

>>12353474
For you

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>>12367976
That looks to be a mockup of some sort. The actual gigaleak paths don't have any large levels at all.

>>12354048
Well you can fly all over Donut Plains 1, so it doesnt feel that big.

>>12359120
I subscribe to the theory that big red dots are forks in the road, while
>>12354776
explains the big yellow dot -- pure variety.

>>12353345
As other anons said, it was probably meant to be a secret exit level. There is a fairly conspicuous secret area in it that only leads to a 3up and a bonus game

>>12354017
>I've been treated by my dad who owns Nintendo. Just walk on.

>>12364673
>all large red dots lead to fortresses
Huh.

>>12369010
I stand corrected, this is a much better explanation than mere variety!