Goal Issues

-- THE MAJOR TYPES OF GOAL GLITCHES --

If you're making an SMB2 level you may encounter a type of goal glitch where the points you get fail to match up with the score. This is a resource for advice regarding these issues and what to do to combat them.

-- NO EXTRA POINTS GLITCH --

- The Symptoms -

On Dolphin, when you break a green or red tape on a level with points glitch:
- The text remains green or red, respectively
- No extra points (ie the 10K for green and 20K for red) are granted
On Dolphin, when you break any tape in challenge mode, the game may not progress to the next stage. But this is not definite in all cases.
On console, the game will CRASH if you break ANY tape. That's bad.

- The Issue -

This is caused when the first collision header has no offset for goals.

- The Fix -

Make sure that the first collision header has an offset pointing to the start of the goal list.

-- FALSE COLOUR POINTS GLITCHES --

These occur on stages with more than one colour of goal.

- The Symptoms -

On Dolphin and probably console, when you break a goal tape, the points you receive have the wrong colour and extra points granted.

- The Issues -

This can be caused by up to two things.

- Type One -

The "flipped colours" issue.
This is caused in situations where multiple goals have different collision headers.
The cause here is that the order of collision headers' goals is not the same as the order of goals in the goal list.

- Type Two -

The "many goals" issue.
If there are more than either three or four goals (currently unknown which value is the cutoff), all the following goals will grant the same points pattern as the third or fourth goal.

- The Fixes -

- Type One -

Reorder either the goal list or the collision headers to make sure that the list of goals is the same as when they appear in the collision headers.

- Type Two -

Change the order of the goals so that the troublesome goals are before the other goals.