Posts by Sonikku - SMW Central

I handmade this trying to make a forest BG, but failed, so I made clouds instead. It reminds me of Cave Story's Balcony BG, which is funny because I had no intention of making it look like that.

Also am I the only one getting the CPanel page every time I go to the forum main page here..?

It's in GFX20.bin, the same file that the actual Rex is in. In YY-CHR, the tiles for the completely squished tile for Rex are 22 and 32. In Lunar Magic's 8x8 tile editor, they tiles are 3A2 and 3B2.

Originally posted by Broozer

@Sonikku: I'll have to agree with X-King on your level design - that's the only thing I actually dislike on your hacks - your levels are generally too small, IMO. I'm not saying that you should give up, I just think it would be cool if you make them longer. The rest, as X-King said, is pure win - you are definitely one of the most talented guys around here, in my opinion. Also, I realized that you removed the points counter... how did you do that? I wanted to do something similar for my hack too, and if you would be willing to let me know, I would be thankful. You don't need to do it if you don't want, though.

I've never been good at long levels, the reason is that I generally lose interest in the level about half way through, so I cut them in half. I could try to expand the remaining levels, add more stuff and such. I'm thinking of adding other routes through the levels, but I'd need to add extra coding to certain blocks, like the silver coins, so I'm trying to do something like what the Yoshi coins do, appearing once and only once per level.

And the points counter was removed using a hex edit.

I changed 16 bytes to 00 at $12F78 (Score added from score sprites, divided by 10 (low byte)). It was an experiment, and it apparently worked. Although, you need to remap the score sprites to a blank tile. I personally used tile 0C, which is what I used for all of the things I needed blanked out. If you're using the original SMW Koopas, you could remap the score sprites to 8x8 tile 83, which is the blank tile of the right part of the Koopa's head. I also remapped all of Mario's 8x8 tiles (Hands when running, etc.) to tile 0C as well. This works for me because I seem to have this problem that I can't stand large lots of blank space in my graphics. I always have to fill them with something.

I modified it some more. The difference from the video is that it now has new graphics, a background, and some other gimmicks to make it awesome. I modified Davros' coin sprite to fall through objects, and to increase something other than the Coin or Silver Coin counters. Once you get 25 coins, it ends the level, and gives the player a 1up.

The thing on the chain is part of Layer 2, it goes back and forth, either you can have a nice ride, or you can try to avoid it to gain coins faster.

..Although, I still need to do some things to remove something;

I've removed all of the text.. But for some reason, I can't get rid of that zero near the middle of the screen. It's the score counter at the end of the stage, but I just don't know how to remove it, I was thinking of hiding all of layer 3 at the end of the stage, if I am unable to hide the zero.

Here's part of a new level I was thinking of making for the passed couple days. Notice the 3 pipes in the screenshot? The bottom one leads to the top left one, and the top right one leads to the bottom one. You have to carry the springboard back to before the first pipe where there's a hole at the top of the screen, if you jump into it, it leads to the passage where that blue brick is, which leads to other parts of the level. There will be 2 passages that both lead to the boss room. The only way to reach it is, like most other hidden passages, is by getting all 5 silver coins in the stage, and breaking the green brick, spending the 5 coins you've collected.

Because I used the Bonus Star RAM address, the silver coins carry over from level to level, so you can spend them whenever. There are other methods of spending the silver coins, however. There are special springboard that you can spend a certain amount of silver coins on, which shatter upon launching.

I'm in a bit of confusion at the moment, so I need a bit of help. I made collectible block, but the problem is that they reappear, allowing the player to collect an infinite amount of them. What would I do to go about making them disappear if it was collected already?

I found this post on Acmlm;

Originally posted by 2ch

Please pardon my poor English.

I am a member of a japanese SMW hacking forum.
All members of our forum wish to express our gratitude for mikeyk.

This comment is about japanese sprites.

Four people made these sprites.
One is the auther of starsw.zip.
He wants to remove this archive file from sprite tool, because he will update frequently.

Another one made chain chomp, revserse spiny, YI penguin, homing bullet, and ptooie.
He said that all rights of his works were abandoned. Therefore, modification and redistribution are free.

Another made the graphic of bokoboko and aramaki.
He also allow who doesn't pretend making by oneself, to modify and redistribute.

The last one made the sources of bokoboko and aramaki.
He has not shown in our forum.

I'd assume the bolded part would be the same reason why the maker(s) didn't want the archive distributed, because they planned to update it, wouldn't you guys think?

Haha, mister Magician you cannot word filter my posts. Only my bio and signature shall be affected. All of these word filters are merely illusions! I can say Mario, Luigi, Hack, SMW, Custom, anything you can throw at me are merely like the air that surrounds us! Nothing, all of your attacks on our posts are nothing!

..Good day sir!

Yeah well..

..I know the secret..

Of the Magician!

2 sets of ExGFX. The left side is a stone/cement type, while the right is a frozen, slippery type. Both screenshots are exactly the same level, but with different ExGFX and palettes. They both have the same Map16, to make it save space. They also are supposed to replicate the actual cement and ice textures, while keeping the simple, yet detailed style the hack uses.

..What is that green thing..? Could it be..? Is that a FAIRY?!

It's based off of Davros' flying coin in the way that it flies around. Green ones completely heal you, and give you an extra life. Red ones just completely heal you. Once collected, they disappear. One of two of them appear ONCE every 2 levels. Might I add, they are 8x8, and are 2 frames, so they use a tiny amount of graphic space.

@Schwa: Thanks, and that SM64 health bar is just.. Amazing. I honestly never thought such a thing could be implimented into SMW.

..That video also gave me inspiration to do something very secret and blooper-y. *Hint Hint*

Video

It seems as if no games are safe from Poison Mushrooms. The generator renders Mario's spin jump useless, running fast is also gone. His jumping ability has also been poisoned. The effect happens when Mario collects the blue mushroom.

The blue mushroom is a sprite modified from Davros' coin.

New overworld graphics. I've been working of perfecting a simple, but effective overworld graphic style. I've yet to add certain things, but for the most part, the style has been finalized. The red dot on the castle thing is a save point sprite.

Originally posted by Daboys121

I would defintely use it in my hack, but what do you mean by certain hacks?

Oh, I meant that by a possible revival of Super Blooper.

MikeyK's air meter seemed to always slow the hack down, which irritated the players. If I made a sprite that didn't use any tiles, but used Layer 3, then it should remove some slowdown.

I'll fix some things up, add some tags to tell the user what to change and such, and then release it.