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SMW Central is the largest ROM hacking community on the internet, and the gathering place for all the resources you need to create your own ROM hack. We offer a large selection of completed hacks as well, ready for you to play! Traditionally SMW Central focuses on hacking Super Mario World, but over the years we've collected a ton of resources and hacks involving other games, too. Our community is ever-growing — sign up now and be part of it!
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Super Famicompo 5
Super Famicompo #5 has now begun! Check out the details, including the return of the Challenge category, here: https://smwc.me/1627112R.I.P. SMWCentral Twitter Account (2012-2023)
Announcements will only be posted on our Discord server and the front page from now on.
Results of the 2023 Overworld Design Contest
The results of this year's OWDC are in, check out who won right over here!
Latest Content
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back - Hang Eight Death Route
An intense and fast paced surf rock track that plays in the death routes and secret paths on the river levels from Crash 2.Bowser's Revenge v1.1
It's just another hack I spent all my free time making for some time.
Of course, it starts off easy, but gets harder in the end.
Just a fair warning, the Bowser fight can be slightly… (read more…)
Fireball Magikoopa
A magikoopa that shoots Bowser's fireballs instead of magic.Based on the disassembly by Telinc1 and yoshicookiezeus.
Requested by autisticsceptile1993.
Note Blocks
A near identical replica of SMW's note blocks. Can be set up to be bounced on the sides but can't be used to spawn an item. Included with it is a variation which shatters either on use or at least… (read more…)
Alpha Test Area
This tileset has many vibrant colors for their respective objects, also containing items from other Mario games, such as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario Maker,… (read more…)
Bonus Game Destination Expander
This patch rewrites the handler that sends players to level 000/100 or 0C8/1C8 when collecting 100 Bonus Stars or collecting the Yoshi Wings, respectively.
With this patch, you can define the… (read more…)
Lunar Magic 3.40
This is THE required tool to hack SMW.
This release of Lunar Magic adds support for language packs, which allows displaying Lunar Magic's interface in a different language. This version also… (read more…)
Overworld Translucent Layer 3 v1.1
This simple HDMA code will make the OW layer 3 translucent without affecting the top and bottom edges of the OW border. Since it still affects the left/right edges, you'll probably want to remove… (read more…)
Content of the Day
Magikoopa Palette Editor
This patch was inspired in the "Big Boo Boss Palette Editor", by Chdata.
What it does is basically enabling the user to edit the Magikoopa's palettes in a per-level basis. It's asar and SA-1… (read more…)
Graphical Air meter
This is basically similar to the sprite version, but recoded from scratch, but the amount of time of being in the water is no longer dependent on how long the bar is.
Hourai Gakuen no Bouken
All of the musical samples from Hourai Gakuen no BoukenFollowing Wall Cannon
A 32x32 cannon sprite that follows Mario vertically, shooting sprites. Extra bit determines if the spawned sprite will be normal or custom.Works best with Davros' SMB3 Cannonball sprite.
Status Bar Code Blocks
These highly customizable blocks allow the player to input a code that will show up on the status bar! If the code is correct, the player will move on. Read the readme for details. Also, credit… (read more…)Super Spooky 64
Happy Halloween 2020
2 Stages with 14 Stars to collect
Patch Notes for v1.1
Added way more coins
Slightly easier platforming in course 2
Added walls to stop cheesing 2 Stars in course… (read more…)
Improved Super Mario Land Enemies
The included graphics on some of smkdan's Super Mario Land enemies aged poorly in my opinion, so I gave them a nice image improvement. Specially Nyololin which was ugly.
This is to make them… (read more…)
NEW! SMW2 Yoshi's Island (English)
NEW! SMW2 Yoshi's Island is a more-than-full Yoshi's Island Hack.
The story basically is the same like in the original game.
Outline Data
- 60 brand-new, difficult levels
- Custom level… (read more…)