Charon's Obol (SMM2)

Name: Charon's Obol
Code: W9D-SDV-KJF
Description: Men make counterfeit money; and money, counterfeit men.
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SMM1 Version:    • The Phantom Wigglers  

Though I have no plans to actually play SMM2, now that Nintendo has fully killed SMM1, I've decided that I'm willing to port some of my levels over to the lesser game by special request.

This is a remake of The Phantom Wigglers. Though the weird (and almost certainly unknown to Nintendo) tech of drop-bouncing an object to have it pass through things did carry over into SMM2, virtually nothing about the particular machinery I used to force the desired behaviors in the level did, to wit:

• Vine door key checks no longer work since diagonals no longer enter doors in SMM2, but they do still grab vines.
• The vine that grows through the turnblock in SMM1 simply stops growing in SMM2.

I was ultimately able to force the weird drop-bounce bypass, and to force a very late door entry, but since I had to use different elements to do so, I decided to change the name and aesthetic theme of the level.

An obol is a small Ancient Greek coin, 1/6th of a drachma, sort of equivalent to a penny today. "Charon's obol" was a coin or similar trinket left in the mouth of the dead, so that they might pay Charon's fare to cross the river Styx into the underworld.

Traditionally, only low value coins were used, perhaps anything else was seen as unnecessary or ostentatious. As such, I also added a fake alternate path through the 50 coin, which I believe is actually impossible to make work.