Swooper

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A Swooper (sometimes called Swooper Bat) is a bat enemy from Super Mario World.

[edit] General Information

Swoopers are fat green bats with squinty eyes and bulbous red noses. They have cat-like ears, red wings, and bird-like feet with three toes. They hang upside down in caves, waiting for Mario to approach. Once he draws near, they noisily take flight, swooping down and then slowly flying forward. Some Swoopers will take flight as soon as Mario enters the screen, while others will wait for him to get nearly underneath him. It can be a bit difficult to judge Swooper's flight pattern, but they are vulnerable to all of Mario's attacks and don't post a huge threat.

There is another unused version of Swooper, the Death Swooper. These Swoopers appear at the top of the screen, hang for a moment, swoop down in a lazy arc, then fly back up and disappear. These Swoopers are completely invincible and will harm Mario if he touches them in any way.

[edit] Hacking Information

Swooper is sprite BE. Swoopers are useable with the cave sprite set. (SP3 = GFX04) By default, they use palette 0D. They will fly immediately or hang longer depending on their X position.

The Death Swoopers cannot be added to the game as individuals, but exist as generator E4. Their graphics are not coded correctly and must be fixed with a hex editor. Death Swoopers are blue instead of green.