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- The most important item in every Mr Driller game is the oxygen tank:
These green capsules that can be found in every play mode except for the
Time Attack replenish your air meter by 20 percent points. As you lose
air automatically all the time and even fiercer when breaking an X-block
with an amount of 0% of air leading to a painful death this item can
definitely be regarded as essential. (Does not appear in Time Attack)
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- The red POW capsules only appear in Pressure Driller mode and providing
you with energy for your flamethrower which I'll cover later in this
guide (in 4.2 to be more precise).
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- Dristones are coloured gems that can only be found in Dristone Driller
which is exclusive to the Japanese and the European version of Mr.
Driller DS. I'll cover them in detail in section 4.4.2.
- Flip blocks: These yellow blocks marked with an arrow turn the screen
upside-down. (Only appears in Time Attack)
- Turn blocks: These orange blocks marked with an arrow turn the screen
90 degrees. (Only appears in Time Attack)
- Crystals: These blue blocks marked with a star turn certain metal blocks
into crystal blocks.
- Clocks come with one of six different numbers on them: 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4
or 5 which indicates how many seconds will be subtracted from the time
taken so far. These items are essential to beating any records. (Only
appears in Time Attack Driller)
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These yellow goodies resemble the boxes found in the 3D-Mario Kart-games as
they contain randomly chosen items but here you cannot choose if and where to
use them; instead they're used right when you pick them up. (Only appear in
The Moon and Outer Space in Mission Driller)
- Good effects : - Speed-Up : A white shoe on a blue background.
(according to the game) This speeds up your movement (not your
drilling) for a certain amount of time.
- Full Air : A blue air capsule and the word "full"
on a blue background.
This completely refills your air meter.
- Max Up : A blue air capsule with a small
double-sided arrow over it on a blue
background.
This adds five percentage points to
your maximum air capacity, even after
a death.
- Smart Bomb: A few black lines on blue background;
looks like when something disappears
in a comic.
Destroys all block son screen and a
little further (but leaves the items).
- Barrier : A black man covered by a white shield
on a blue background.
This temporarily gives you a shield
that protects you from a falling block.
Either disappears after a certain time
or after being hit once (or running
out of air).
- Low Gravity : A blue block with white lines over it,
indicating that it is falling, on blue
background.
For a short amount of time every block
and every item will fall down
extremely slowly.
- Negative effects : - Turn Block : A black arrow and a "90" on an orange
(according to the game) background; just the same as the
normal Turn Block.
- Half Air : A blue, half-filled air capsule and
the word "half" over it on an orange
background.
- Flip Block : A black arrow on an orange background;
just the same as the normal Flip Block
except for the background.
- X Creator : A pink cross on a red background.
This changes a lot of blocks to X-
blocks.
- W Creator : A white block on a red background.
This changes a lot of blocks to white
blocks.
- C Creator : A white star on a red background.
This changes a lot of blocks to
crystal blocks which might cause
dangerous chain-reactions over your
head but it can also assist you by
cleaning the screen a bit so in my
opinion this actually is not
necessarily a bad effect.
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