Remember that hack I was working on on the other site? The one that had altered remake levels and sucked ass. No, it isn't in production again, but I am now working on a new hack that temporarily shares the same name.

Papermario766 is helping me with this, it is somewhat of a collab hack.

Story: Me and my boyfriend are taking a vacation, when a cheerleader who wants to get even with me for some reason, kidnapps him. Now I have to save him.

I have no idea how extesive I'll change the GFX, but I am considering this to be my first real hack that I entend to complete.

Here is a vid, it isnt very good quality.
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Here are a few screenies.


Me jumping, while holding a shell.

Me jumping.

Me in mid-spinjump.

Me dieing.


A sneak-peak at the overworld, this is my first game with a fully functioning not-copied overworld. (ignore the island that was taken from Mario's Ketastrophe, I will be removing that soon)


Please don't comment on the levels, they havn't been made yet.

It still sais mario. >_> other then that its good... i guess.

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hey that a part from SNN Overworld

Glad to see you'll remove that island, or else I would have been a tad upset that you didn't ask permission. Other then that, the overworld doesn't look bad, and the graphics look pretty good, so nice start.

I see a couple minor places where the proportions are off, but I tend to notice every minor detail, so don't worry about it >_>

o_O



Why did you take it anyway? >_>

It was partialy a joke, I made an island, and my cousin said it look similar to SNN's, so I just copied it over just to make him laugh. But yeah, I will be removing it, either that or altering it to the point that it woud be unrecognizable, and wouldn't be considered a copy.

This is just a start, I have no idea how extensive I will make the changes, as ov now, the ones I know I will alter will be Mario (me), Peach (boyfriend), Bowser (cheerleader), and various others that will need to be changed (like "Mario Start!").

@Bloodstar: Thanks, I'm good at designing OW, I just fail at working them, that's partialy where Papermario766 comes in, I'll fix the player a bit, I agree about that.

I'll just chang Luigi into... ... ... ... ... ... ... I don't know. Good question, give yourself a cookie.

I "fixed" the skin, now I look like I'm sick.

I don't like making custom palettes, I'll tinker around with the normal GFX editing to see if I can make me look good, but I might end up making a custom palette anyways.

If you saw the vid, it shows the game as nameless, I don't like making a game without a name, no matter how bad it is.

8-Bit Mario was mainly just a GFX hack, I just threw the levels together, however, this one is a real game that I'm going to take time to make well, that includes level design.

The entire OW is beta, it is an unfinished idea, the first world is mainly just to test the GFXs of me, remember, I'm not working the OW, just designing it, thats what I'm good at, notice that the rest of the sub-worlds arn't there, thats because I havn't made them yet. The OW is going to be undergoing a lot of changes as this game progresses, including the first world.

As I believe, the original SMW's first world had no secret exits, either.

Great idea. This looks like it could turn out very well. My only suggestion is to give your character sprite more of an outline. If not, that's cool too.

The GFX of my character will probably change frequently, until I come up with one I like.

I sense a lot of custom sprites, but it is great that you actually put yourself in the game. I possibly thought, and this might be my ego throbbing, that bumping the GFX thread all the way back with ideas on utilizing the sprite self-profile would increase awareness to the author that possibly an update or two would help. I am also sort of against Super Riko World as it sounds like this game would fit into Against All Odds or some High School teen movie that came out. I know that this sounds lame but what about Not Just Another Mario Hack. I know that it sounds so similar to another hack on here.

The only way to forget about many custom sprites is to establish the story-line to connect with the original 8-bit one. It sounds interesting. Who is your best friend? Can't you include her or him as the second player in the hack? Best friends always try to help their friends out, don't they?

The storyline, as I've said sort of earlier, is interesting. There could be issues of teenage infidelity(why did the cheerleader kidnap the boyfriend? Jealousy or perhaps they were still dating each other), or possibly none at all. It does break from the rest at having a female villain and not having Bowser, along with an atmosphere of a John Hughes production.

Speaking of that, will some of the OW feature part of a United State or will it take place completely in some foreign land? This will probably be a very interesting diversion from usual Mario games.

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I am not a hacker by trade, I am an observer and I can be very observant. I tend to lurk around here to prolong the good experience of playing the original SMW. Whatever can add onto it is something that I will definitely do when I am bored which is often. And I will rarely post and give praise when needed to the hacks that may make me interested to relive memories.

My worst enemy in Mario isn't Bowser but my controller that keeps on getting disconnected from the inside. Might be my memory count.