Milon's Secret Castle: tips & secrets

Getting Started:
Need help getting past the first floor of the castle? Check out the Getting Started Walkthrough.

Continue:
After collecting the first crystal you can continue after you get the "game over" screen. After game play ends, hold Left and press Start at the title screen to continue from the last location played.

Hidden stuff locations:
Need help finding the life-up honeycombs and bonus-level music boxes? Click here

Filling up your life meter:
The game allows you to enter rooms as often as you like, even after you beat them. This can come in handy, especially later in the game when the rooms get harder. If you find yourself almost out of life, you might want to return to the first room and spend a few minutes killing enemies and getting hearts to replenish your life meter. This technique is similar to the Metroid method of continually blasting those flying enemies as they come out of the ground.

Run out of money?
The re-entering rooms thing can also come in handy getting money. In most rooms, once you get a "$", it will be gone for the rest of the game. But there are a couple places where it'll be available for you to get again. One is the money area in the top of the first room (see below), and the other is the "fireplace" room on the third floor of the castle.

some FAQs
Q: How do you get into that room full of money up in the upper left of the first room?
A: You can't get in there till later. On the third level of the castle, try the door at the top to the right of the left tower (it's not easy, but if you jump just right, you can get it). You can go through this room and collect the $15 three times (but you'll have to climb up the castle back to that door from the ground each time). You'll also come to a store where you can buy the hi-jump shoes ($60).

Q: At the end of the game, which is the true boss you need to kill?
A: When you damage the real boss (hit him with a bubble while his arms are out), the screen should flash. If the screen doesn't flash, he's probably a fake.

Q: Balloon?
A: When you kill an "eye octopus" ghost-thing in the well, they'll leave a balloon. If you catch it, it'll warp you out of the well. This is very hard to do unless you've already beaten the well boss (and therefore gotten a bigger, stronger bubble to shoot).

Q: What the hell are the below things?

A: I don't know.. these are graphics I found while hacking the game, but I don't know where in the gameplay they appear. If anyone can fill me in, please drop me an email. The first one seems to be a honeycomb hanging down. Not sure about the second one. And the last one might be an enemy. Note that the above colors are not the same as they appear in the game (if they do in fact appear at all).

 

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