Super Dungeon Boy: Hats Levels N-Z and Additional Achievements

This guide is a continuation of uuuhhhh-Ghostly’s guide, which shows the locations of all hats in levels A-M.

Special thanks to tintingaroo for the comments in the other guide that provide screenshots, saving me god knows how many hours of fruitless searching.

These are some things I wish I had known before attempting to find the secrets in this game.

Almost any wall, floor, or ceiling can have a secret area behind it, meaning that in many cases, you would have to run against every wall, bonk against every ceiling, and press down against every piece of floor in a level in order to find the secret areas. The game does not do a great job of providing hints at where the secret areas are. At first I thought the random swords stuck in the ground indicated a secret was nearby, but as I played, I realized this wasn’t the case.

To make matters worse, there are blocks that crumble a few seconds after you touch them, but that do not make any noise. The dev often uses these as an additional way to hide secret areas, meaning that it is not always enough to simply walk into a wall or bonk against a ceiling – you have to ensure you wait those few seconds for the block to disappear before you are able to pass into the secret area.

Furthermore, several of these secret areas are inaccessible without using movement techniques that the game doesn’t teach you (see next section for more details).

These are movement techniques that the game doesn’t teach you, some of which are required to reach hidden areas.

Short Hop
In most platformers, jump height is controlled by how long you hold the jump button. In SDB, you will always jump the same height regardless of how long you hold the button. However, you can force a lower jump by holding the “down” button before you jump.

Long Jump
Simply done by rolling before a jump, it allows you to get much more distance. This also can allow you to reach further overhangs for wallclimbs.

Mushroom Jump
Technically not its own movement technique, but since so many of the hats require this trick, I figured I would list it. This is just a long jump done right before jumping off of a mushroom. This will give you the distance of a long jump combined with the height of the mushroom’s bounce, allowing you to reach areas that are seemingly very far out of reach.

Sloped wallclimb
Technically this is no different from a regular wallclimb, but since some hats require this and it at first does not seem possible, I want to list it here. Basically, you have to mash your jump button as quickly as possible without holding a direction. If done correctly, each jump will slide you up the slope a tiny bit, and allow you to initiate another jump.

Standing on spikes
This can be done by initiating a roll midair then landing on the spikes during the roll. If done correctly, you will end the roll and be standing in the spikes without taking damage. This has limited uses, the only one I was really able to find was using this to collect coins that fall into spikes.

Hat #1 ^^^^

Hat #2 ^^^^

Hat #3 ^^^^ From the platform with the health statue pictured above (upper-left side of the map), roll and jump left simultaneously to make it to the higher part of the wall, then walljump up to the secret area.

Hat #1^^^^ Top left side of the map, roll from the left side of the mushroom and time your jump to reach the wall.

Hat #2^^^^ Directly across from Hat #1 – roll to the right and jump across.

Hat #3^^^^

Hat #1^^^^ Right above the start, you have to mash jump against the slope to get up here.

Hat #2^^^^

Hat #3^^^^ Just before the exit.

Hat #1^^^^ At the very start, mash jump against the slope to the left.

Hat #2^^^^ Immediately below hat #1, roll from the right side of the mushroom and time your jump to make it to the wall.

Hat #3^^^^

All hats are toward the end of the level, past the exit.

Hat #1^^^^

Hat #2^^^^

Hat #3^^^^ (directly below hat #2)

Hat #1^^^^

Hat #2^^^^

Hat #3^^^^

Hat #1^^^^ Bottom left side of the map.

Hat #2^^^^ directly across from the exit.

Hat #3^^^^ Above hat #2. In order to reach this area, you need to roll left and jump from the platform I’m on in this screenshot in order to make it to the wall above.

Hat #1^^^^ Immediately to the right at the start

Hat #2^^^^

Hat #3^^^^

Hat #1^^^^ Top right of the map

Hat #2^^^^ Bottom right/bottom middle of map

Hat #3^^^^ Bottom left of the map

Hat #1^^^^

Hat #2^^^^ Below hat #1

Hat #3^^^^ Bottom left of the map

(Going counterclockwise from start)

Hat #1^^^^ Toward top left of map

Hat #2^^^^ Bottom left of map

Hat #3^^^^ Bottom middle of map

Hat #1^^^^

Hat #2^^^^

Hat #3^^^^

I got this on level P by rolling all the way to the right side of the level, then dodging and shooting the five bats that had followed me.

For some reason, I could not get this on levels A or B – not sure if I was missing a statue, or if there is a minimum number of statues required in a level for the achievement. Anyway, I got it on level C, which as three health statues. Just be sure to collect all coins/hats (hats are worth 24 coins each) and spend them before you have 99 so that you aren’t wasting any, and you should have enough.

Madoku Hirima has a guide for this, which I am linking here for completion. Easy to do on level M.

Being seen by an enemy is indicated by the exclamation marks (!!) above their head. For this achievement, you can kill enemies as long as you don’t trigger those exclamation marks. From what I can tell, in order for a ground enemy to see you, it has to be facing you within a certain distance. Bats will notice you as soon as you enter their detection radius.

If you shoot a ground enemy, it will instantly face you. This means that if you shoot an enemy and it is close enough, it will immediately notice you. Therefore, be sure to take them out from a distance.

I got this on level B (thanks to SkyStarMania for this tip).