I feel like a crazy person describing this, but I've been working my way through the puzzles in Boxxle for the game boy, and puzzle 06-06 is impossible. It's missing one of the boxes. There are only 24 boxes present at the start of the puzzle but 25 dots making the puzzle impossible to solve.
At first I thought I was missing something, but no, it really is impossible. I'd been playing through on a genuine cart on my Analogue Pocket. When I checked online I found basically no one talking about this, so I assumed something must be wrong on my end. I checked the game out using a rom in an emulator and viola - the missing 25th box is present when playing that way! I tried taking my original cart and testing it on other hardware including a modded GBA and a 100% original Game Boy and the box was missing on all of the consoles I tried it on. I got the cart out and cleaned it again and tried it in each of the consoles again and got the same result.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?? Fortunately I can borrow a password for the level online and keep going, but the fact that this is happening (and seemingly only to me going from the lack of discourse online) is maddening. Maybe I will try going the extra mile and dumping the rom directly off my cart and see if THAT works in an emulator next...
For what it's worth, after a ton of searching I did ultimately find this thread on a forum from over a decade ago that seemed to be a similar person going through the same strange thing as I am. The level they are talking about and even the box they are saying is missing is exactly the same as mine (center box horizontally, on the top portion of the screen, empty spaces on three sides with a wall to the north of it), so at the very least I am not alone in this. Seemed like a mystery that some game boy enthusiasts might enjoy solving, so I thought I'd post about it here.
I posted about this on the r/Gameboy subreddit as well, in case anyone there knows anything.
At first I thought I was missing something, but no, it really is impossible. I'd been playing through on a genuine cart on my Analogue Pocket. When I checked online I found basically no one talking about this, so I assumed something must be wrong on my end. I checked the game out using a rom in an emulator and viola - the missing 25th box is present when playing that way! I tried taking my original cart and testing it on other hardware including a modded GBA and a 100% original Game Boy and the box was missing on all of the consoles I tried it on. I got the cart out and cleaned it again and tried it in each of the consoles again and got the same result.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?? Fortunately I can borrow a password for the level online and keep going, but the fact that this is happening (and seemingly only to me going from the lack of discourse online) is maddening. Maybe I will try going the extra mile and dumping the rom directly off my cart and see if THAT works in an emulator next...
For what it's worth, after a ton of searching I did ultimately find this thread on a forum from over a decade ago that seemed to be a similar person going through the same strange thing as I am. The level they are talking about and even the box they are saying is missing is exactly the same as mine (center box horizontally, on the top portion of the screen, empty spaces on three sides with a wall to the north of it), so at the very least I am not alone in this. Seemed like a mystery that some game boy enthusiasts might enjoy solving, so I thought I'd post about it here.
I posted about this on the r/Gameboy subreddit as well, in case anyone there knows anything.
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