You know, if you use Sleepy Stomp on a Dark Koopatrol when it's standing up (with Spike Shield) but fail the action command, it will knock him over but not put him to sleep. He has to be on his back to be put to sleep, it seems.

Were you wearing Item Hog going down the Pit? I'm sure it helps with badge drops. I get many more than when I never used to wear Item Hog.

Maybe I was just unlucky. I only tried a few times, but every status ailment I tried worked 100% when flipped.

That AR code to make enemies hold items did not work. However, using that address did change the item the second enemy on the field was holding. I'm currently working on the video you requested for jdaster64.

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WUPYVJgK4c

Wanna see some more Stylish Move weirdness? Here's something I found out ages ago. If you perform a Tornado Jump and do the first Stylish move, but attempt and mistime the second, Mario will do a wobble when he gets back to his starting position. At this point, you won't gain any Star Power at all. However, as soon as you do ANY action except a guard or Superguard, you will then get that Star Power! This means you can use Quick Change to switch out your partner, and suddenly your Star Power will flow in!

I also mentioned this on one of Milesluigi's videos, but I might as well post it here too. This is useless, but looks good. Use Clock Out and mash all three buttons (not all together) to fill the bar very quickly, and once it's full and the pitch isn't getting any higher, just mash the correct button. You should not do this, however, if you've got no awake audience members - if the bomb lands in the audience, there will be no-one to throw it back to the enemies, and if there are sleeping audience members, they will end up being kept asleep for longer. (The audience has no "stop" status, just sleep).

EDIT: OK, I'm going to say that this becomes much easier to do if you hold the pad with your thumbs under the right part of it. so both your hands are able to mash the three buttons.

Also, I've discovered how Poison Puffs work, and it reveals an interesting fact about Double Pain. Anyway, Poison Puffs, when charged, act as if they've got the "Counter" status, except it only applies to contact attacks. They also have a high chance of poisoning the attacker. (Counter status affects hammer attacks, but this doesn't.) Therefore, you take half the damage you inflict, rounded down (minimum 1). This is not doubled with Double Pain, and it is not modified with PDs. (However, the actual damage you do IS modified with PDs, and it is this that determines the damage you take in return.)

I tried attacking a charged Poison Puff with Mario equipped with Double Pain and P-Up D-Downs, and made him inflict 7, 10 and 12 damage. He took 3, 5 and 6 back. I did the same with my partners, and they also took half, rounded down. Since they're not equipped with Double Pain, we can safely say it doesn't activate here.

EDIT again: So this is the only time Mario can take odd amounts of damage while Double Pain is equipped, apart from with Last Stand badge(s).

Incidentally, Poison Puffs do not heal each other with their poison attack. They do 10 damage to each other, but they are immune to being poisoned.

EDIT2: About Feeling Fine and Frozen: FF prevents you from freezing yourself if you eat an Icicle Pop, Zess Frappe or Snow Bunny in battle. It does not, however, protect you from Bonetail's icy breath, Ice Puffs' icy breath or Frost Piranhas' bites. Enemies with Ice Storm have not been tested. So then, two possibilities: either there are two different types of the Frozen status, with Feeling Fine preventing one but not the other, or Feeling Fine prevents you from being frozen only when no damage is taken. I'm not sure which, but it would be fairly simple to test; I'll get some P-Downs and see what happens.

I'll address all that when I get through chapter 3.

At any rate, while poking around in the ROM data with a HEX editor, I think I've just made my work easier for finding the statuses/levels.  I found the same data for Goomba that I found in the debug viewer in the actual ROM at address 0x464FEFD4, so I imagine all the others will be stored nearby.

On another note, I searched for "00000119 00000001" (Flower Saver w/1 drop rate) and found that it IS in the ROM, uncompressed, a mere 4 MB into the file (0x0038CE00).  I'm really ticked that I didn't find it some time ago, but I'm glad I found it the way I did, else I probably couldn't have matched the data to the correct enemies, or found the statuses and such in the debug viewer.

Also, I forgot to mention this ages ago, but around 0x00304F00 in the ROM data, I found some text that's never used in the game, but that sort of summarizes various areas and/or plot points (i.e. "Goombella Joins", "Frankly's House", "A Siren Argument"...).  I may have to post the complete list someplace; nothing that shocking as far as I've seen, but still pretty cool.

EDIT: Come to think of it, the fact that this is in the actual ROM means I could release a patch that changes enemy HP, levels, weaknesses, and item drops.  Shame that ATK/DEF aren't as solidified.

...Did you mean susceptible to status ailments?

Otherwise, to add:

No inns
No heal blocks
Max of 5 items, Strange Sack is replaced with Return Postage
Slow/fast ailments are more prevalent against you, but two new badges give you semi-expensive FP moves to cast the ailments in your favor. One is gotten by using all 100 star pieces, the other for defeating Bonetail (probably fast).

OK, this is the final straw.  I'm giving up figuring out how the item drop rates/Item Hog correspond to actual drops forever.  (Maybe not, but this is inexplicable by any means.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Vos4h-rJU