In normal LM you can klick on any tile in the background editor and the map16 editor would switch to this page

There is a way to change which tiles the pre-set background is using to the new location of the tiles. I forget how at the moment, but you could find it in LM's help file.

The background Map16 enhancement in LM 1.7 is really neat actually - it's a shame people get so bad first impressions of it due to old stuff being a little harder to insert.

You're German, aren't you? Here's a tutorial I wrote on background inserting in LM 1.7+, in case that's what you need (couldn't quite understand what exactly you were having trouble with).

Yeah, I'll try it later. I think that's it.


SMW is by far the easiest game to hack, and there's really only few improvements left to wish for. Not to forbid you feeling this way or anything, but personally I think one should be grateful SMW hacking has been made so easy.

You're working with something that was never intended to be edited at all. If the designers and programmers that made the game had a glimpse of the future and saw what we were up to, they'd probably be utterly bemused.

If you want easy, go get Game Maker. Otherwise, learn to deal with lack of motivation; it's something that gets in the way of all creative projects, especially long and arduous ones like game design.