Hello everyone,
it's been another 5 years.
In the meantime a lot has been improved on this, we are well into the late stage of, yes I cannot believe it either, completing this game. 5 worlds are already complete, as you might know from Demo 3, world 6 will be the last. And we are almost done, it's only one singular level to go: Bowser's Castle. (And yes The End level with credits and stuff, too.)
So I guess it's time to keep you updated on World 6:
Bowser's submap is inside a volcano and this map changes a little bit as you progress.
This is the first level, Darkness Falls, which features a silhouette level, just some demonic red eyes here and there and you can only see the background which is a little animated. This hack starts out really easy, but things do get difficult in this world.
There's also an underground section to this level featuring some custom ninjis and I made use of SMW's Disco sprite which yeah, unfortunately can cause a little sprite lagg since the SNES needs to do a rather big amount of calculation.
Moving on into the third ghost house of the game, What the fish?, we see Torpedo Teds for the first time which Mario needs to ride over lava. I made use of different speeds of Boo rings, too.
There is a layer 2 section with a Porcu Puffer and some more Ghost House enemies, which can get a little difficult as well. There are unshown parts of this level which I want to stay a secret, though.
Speaking of secrets, there is more to this world than meets the eye and the player has to go back as well, to move on with the story and the game itself. I don't want to give everything away though, but it is very special.
Inspired by my all-time favorite hack, TSRPR by FPI, this level has its own Yoshi Flight called "A Final Flight". Yes the bird (you interact the most with) is a redrawn Yoshi, is also sometimes a different sprite, lol, and you get to ride him inevtiably for the first time. Since we obtained one of the artifacts already, we can overcome the big lava sea. This is getting very difficult...
.. but we are almost there! In front of Bowser's Castle! At long last.
Feel free to watch videos
on my Youtube channel about these levels.
It's only Bowser's Castle to do now, but don't expect progress too soon. That's gonna ba a lot of work, I need to draw a huge amount of GFX to complete the story and create the boss fights themselves. But so far so good. Almost!
I play different games on Twitch, I did speedruns of Pokemon Red and Gold, Mario Party 4, but I also do SMW stuff.
I only stream to make progress on my hack currently. Check out
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Exits done: 50, Overworld: 99%
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