@ zap: wtf are you talking about? you do fight magikoopa in the world 8 fortress..
on the discussion of world 8-8..
the first time my friend and i got up to bowser, it was epic because after both of us being retarded and getting turning into regular mario/luigi after his first fireballs, i told him to stand a few feet away from bowser while i jump up and over him towards the left wall, wall jump, bounce off his head and RIGHT over bowser as he was getting ready to jump. I hit the switch and down they go... lol whoops!
the second part was insane because we had no idea what was going on at first and were just nervous that neithe rof us had power-ups. unfortunately after one death we had to call it quits...
the second time we attempted it, along with another friend, it was MUCH easier to get under bowser because i noticed his pattern quickly; stay close! like under his chin close and he can't hit you with fireballs. When he starts lowering his chin to the floor, thats when he's going up for the BIG jump, thats your chance! i ended up doing as a regular sized mario every time we had to go back to that part.
as for the second phase... god its hectic with multiple people. I think once i go in and do it solo on my save file, it'll be much easier. With more than one player, you have little control over where bowsers fireballs go. At one point, because both my friends were running towards the top sections for powerups, the fireballs kept going up there and breaking those walls, leaving me in the bottom waiting.. before i knew it a fireball comes my way but its too low, so it breaks the floor beneath me, leaving me with a single blox to stand on, and everything else goes up towards them as they push forward. next thing i know i'm getting swiped at by boswers claw. ****!
what was really infuriating is how close I got to beating the level on like five differnet occasions but messing up somehow, then my friend gets lucky and actualy makes it to that platform and gloats that he beat the game on his own.. meanwhile he'd never gotten as far as i did on that level.. even when he was stealing all the powerups for himself. turd.