The Purple Coin - Club Saturn Edition (2021 Update)
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By: Miles [W]
Swarmed by an evil army of Collector Bros, you must fight to survive. Possess your enemies and cause fights to earn points and buy yourself more time! Complete Challenges to unlock new stages and gameplay modifiers, and earn Awards for skilled play. You can call in help from a costumed friend lurking in the shadows, or you can play as him to beat up some Bros in style.

This game has an online high scores feature, but you can easily decline it or later turn it back off if you don't want it.

The game now has 13 stages. There are 9 Challenges to test your skills, and 10 Awards you can earn.

There's an Android version available here, with touch mode and limited support for wireless gamepads: https://www.dropbox.com/s/syb1fcoudnt08pw/The%20Purple%20Coin%20CSE%20-%20MFGG%20Rv02%20-%206-14-2022.apk?dl=1

Controls default to Z-X-C-V-Space, but they are customizable. You can use a keyboard or gamepad, and in the Android version you can move the touch buttons if you need to.

Be sure to extract the game! It will not work if you just run it straight from the ZIP.
Completion: Full Game Genre: Minigame
Franchise: Mario

Update History
07/13/22  Added an Epilepsy Safety Mode; fixed a bug where high scorers with long names didn't use the smaller font.
11/17/21  Ported to Game Maker Studio 1.4, fixed lots of bugs (including The Bug), online high scores are back, there's achievements and other small goodies, there's a tiny bit more levels and modifiers, and Batbro's game mode is no longer pointless. Al
 
[O] Created: Apr 2 2013, 9:34 AM
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[O] File Size: 27.26MB
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Reviews
Author Summary Score
Ross64 Download this game now, and you might just find your new favorite fangame! 10 / 10
Carrot_64 Everything is smooth and nothing breaks and almost everything is perfect. In other words it's a perfect game with very few issues. 9 / 10
littlelum This game is one the best that MFGG has to offer. If you haven't played it yet, download now! 10 / 10
Q-Nova This is one of the most shiniest coins out of all. It is so shiny, that you won't want to skip this game. 10 / 10
Horrible Writer From the start I knew this game would be something great and I was not disappointed. 9 / 10
Astrakitu Wait...wait..WHAT? Another great game made by Miles? I played his games before and they were great, and so as The Purple Coin. Get the game now! 10 / 10
ThePurpleIndigo This game is a must play for anyone looking for something spectacular. I would HIGHLY recommend this game for anyone. 10 / 10
DJ Coco The Purple Coin was a very good game, but it felt unfinished before. Like, there was lots of potential that was unused. Now, the final version certainly lives up to what I expected. It feels really complete now and is lots of fun to play. A very well-done fangame you need to download right now if you haven't yet. 10 / 10
SuperMario400 The game is great and I definately recommend it to anybody. My only complaint is the ZXC controls and I don't know how to use a controller in place of it. 9 / 10
Nite Shadow Miles is not one to disappoint! He made an excellent game based around one of the Mario series' common inanimate objects. To top it off, this has to be one of the best games I've seen on MFGG. 10 / 10
Fizzy The Purple Coin Batbro/Final Edition is a great fan game that won't disappoint you. Download this game now! 10 / 10
Ryan Silberman I honestly thought I've seen the best The Purple Coin could offer in its last version.

I'm very glad to be wrong.
10 / 10
Average Score 9.8 / 10


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Astrakitu
Jul 9 2015, 6:40 AM
Quote (Miles on Sep 1 2014, 8:20 AM)
Not sure what to tell you if other games work just fine. You can run it straight from the ZIP on 7 and below - you just lose save functionality when doing that. For Windows 8, you have to extract the game to a "safe" folder (such as one on your Desktop).

I recommend against playing this game on Windows 8 anyway though. There's a sound bug with Game Maker 8- games that causes them to crash when too many sounds are playing, which in this game can happen quite frequently when you have a higher score. Don't worry, you're not missing much.

My bad. I was downloading the game on Windows 8. This problem would be obviously not unfixable, it does not happen with GMStudio games like Hello's Super Mario Eclipse (I ran it on Windows 8 and it works fine)

From looking into the game's options, there is no option to disable sound. This would not be a good time for Windows 8 players.
But I think Windows 10, when it is out, can take down the problem with that one. (because it has the strengths of 7 and 8!)
 
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Miles
Jul 9 2015, 2:49 PM
Oh hey, page 2.

@Jaden1291: After previous extensive post-release playtesting, I've actually never encountered the dreaded sound bug in this game. I have, however, encountered other Game Maker 8 bugs that are not fixable and also not exclusive to any one version of Windows. So on pretty much any system this game is a bit beyond hope. Oh well.
 
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Astrakitu
Jul 11 2015, 2:31 PM
I tried that too while playing BatBro mode, and it will never crash (but all I did was to disable the sounds through the Mixer feature on the system tray!)
 
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thesuperwariomariobros.
Sep 18 2015, 7:10 PM
What paranoia clash does?
 
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LuigiMario79
Jan 2 2017, 5:17 PM
Can you give us the list of music for each stage?
 
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Miles
Jan 3 2017, 4:09 AM
Hauntable House - Sonic Rush Adventure, Haunted Ship, version by VinnyVideo *

Winter World - Contra, Stage 5, version by DJYuzoboy *

Rainbow Rage - Mario Party 2, Space Land

Classic Clash - Super Mario Bros 3, Mario Bros minigame

Rusty Ruin - Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn/PC), Rusty Ruin Act 2

Space Ship - The Lost Vikings (Genesis/Mega Drive), Star Ship

Demonic Domain - Sonic 3D Blast (Genesis/Mega Drive), Volcano Valley (Both acts as of 2021)

Radical Rave - Eric Prydz, Pjanoo


* I am not sure if these are available anywhere. The good man VinnyVideo sent the first one directly to me, and the second seems to have disappeared from existence. Was on YouTube, but I can't for the life of me find it again.
 
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LuigiMario79
Jul 4 2017, 6:45 PM
Would you mind giving us the .GMK file so we can get the music?
 
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Hedgemaster
Jul 16 2017, 9:34 PM
Can you give me the .gmk for the game? I want to make a Mario-themed beat-em-up of my own.
 
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Miles
Aug 4 2017, 9:25 PM
Just for future reference: See the post a couple of posts up for my notes about the music; GMK is never being given out for any reason, ever. (Also, the music isn't actually kept in the GMK.)
 
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Somio
Jan 28 2018, 12:38 PM
When i tried to open the zip file,it only gave me an error,Please help me I'm using windows 7
 
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Miles
Jan 30 2018, 1:55 AM
The game won't work at all unless you extract it from the ZIP this site gives you and then open it from where you extracted it to.
 
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cill satan
Jul 22 2018, 6:50 AM
this is a really good game! really fun!
 
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XLabProductions
Jun 19 2019, 4:39 AM
i would like to know where the music came from and have links to them
 
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XLabProductions
Jun 19 2019, 4:46 AM
well now i know the music but is there any way you can find the hauntable house music?
 
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Ross64
Nov 15 2020, 7:24 PM
You really should make more games, because this is a masterpiece!
 
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Ross64
Nov 15 2020, 7:30 PM
Quote (marioxx134 on Apr 16 2013, 4:45 PM)
Well another thing when the my score gets higher the bros start to come in gaint gropus and I think this actvates the modifier swarm of bros is that a glitch or did you mean to do that?

As the match progresses, more bros appear. This is supposed to happen to make the match harder as it goes on. This is not a glitch.
 
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Ross64
Nov 18 2020, 8:30 AM
Thanks mods for listening and putting this in the top 10!
 
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The Spy From Team Fortress 2
Apr 7 2022, 4:59 PM
Hi there, I'm really enjoying the game. I was randomly checking on it once again, saw an update, and so I tried it once more.

Damn, those achievements really made me invested in the game, the high score is cool stuff, too. Let's not forget that trapful map, it's hilarious! Thanks for the surprise update!

Last thing, could you post an updated music list? Thx!! :>
 
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Miles
Apr 24 2022, 1:38 PM
Quote (The Spy From Team Fortress 2 on Apr 7 2022, 12:59 PM)
Last thing, could you post an updated music list? Thx!!
So sorry for the late response!

I'll avoid spoiling the stages themselves, so I'll just list the new tracks in order (you can find them in the Music folder anyway):
Chrome Gadget Zone - Sonic 3
Egypt - The Lost Vikings (Sega Genesis version)
BGM 02 - The Adventures of Bayou Billy
 
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LionPitch8
May 21 2022, 1:40 PM
Love this game.
 
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The Spy From Team Fortress 2
Oct 18 2022, 8:43 PM
Just reached 2000!!!
https://youtu.be/WHq1N46OaZU

Thank you so much for the game again, the gameplay has still not gotten old ;D
 
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Miles
Oct 22 2022, 1:47 PM
Quote (The Spy From Team Fortress 2 on Oct 18 2022, 4:43 PM)
Just reached 2000!!!
https://youtu.be/WHq1N46OaZU

Thank you so much for the game again, the gameplay has still not gotten old ;D

I left a longer comment on your video, but I'll say some of it here too: I'm very glad my game has had lasting power for you, and thanks for recording The Run. You are better than I at my own game. I'm glad you've been having fun with it.
 
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