Posts by DarkBones

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Only the people win that have the right number when it's drawn, you can change it to the drawn number later on and your name will be displayed but you won't win anything.

DDDchu, I guess you'll get PMed.

Could you provide a screenshot of your screen exit in the editor, so I can see where it is in relation to the screen boundaries?

(By the way, I'm pretty sure pipes to Bandit minigames still function. I've done it with an "invisible pipe" side exit before, so I don't see why a normal pipe would not. The main reason to use a door is that you always come out of entrance type 0.)

The GFX looks good. But I don't really like the Mario jumps GFX.

Is your enterable pipe the one on the right? If so, I think I know what the problem is...

If Yoshi is on or near a screen boundary when taking a screen exit, the game may load the other screen's exit instead. Try creating a copy of that screen exit in screen 63, and see if that works.

As for editing the midway entrances (where you restart after dying) themselves, you can either download the Entrance/Midway editors and be limited to a certain number of total midway entrances, or apply a patch to allow 4 checkpoints in every level that requires hex-editing some of the actual entrances. (See "How can I edit level/midway entrances?" in the FAQ.)

They're both normal sprites. Middle Rings are sprite 4F, goal rings are sprite D (and the goal platform and Yoshi's House are objects).

Make sure the goal platform extends a certain distance after the goal ring sprite... Not sure exactly how many tiles (maybe Yoshis Fan knows?), but 32 (decimal) tiles should be more than enough.

By the way, the Yoshi at goal sprite isn't needed. (There are plenty of sprites in the sprite list that are mostly-useless to place manually, but are created automatically during other portions of the game.)

(Also, midway entrance hex-editing is actually faster than using the tool once you learn how (at least in my opinion). I understand that a lot of people would prefer to avoid unnecessary hex-editing, though.)

I don't really want to listen to the A/An bullshit again this time around, and I'm sure nobody else does either. Therefore, let's pick a name for the hack from the following:

"SMWCP 2/II"
"The Second SMWCP"
"Another SMWCP"
"SMWCP²" (squared)
"The Production Line"

...or suggest something else.

You can't use anything custom.

...The Cookie Crisis...

Um. Yes?

It ends with "End of demo", so yeah.

You shouldnt get down just because you dont get enough support. It happens to all of us and that part of the hacking process (i think)

Start a side project if you want but i suggest you keep up with your current one, who knows, people might like it.

Well, I see things are hopping along quite nicely here! Thought I would pop in and check on things. I see you lost alittle hope there for a minute with little support. But things seemed to have sorted out for you. I really hope this hack works out, It was quite fun to test. Here's to a good hack!

I think its more a case of you slipping under the radar a little bit combined with the fact that you haven't posted any screenshots in a while. Its a lot easier for a person to comment on pictures than simple text.

But I do think you're probably one of the most promising newcomers on this site now and I do look forward to your demo. I watched your videos last night and in general, they were good and conveyed the feelings of the games you were trying to invoke - Mario 1 & Mario 2. The two biggest gripes I had with your levels weren't too huge. First, the levels were pretty flat and lacked decorations. I know the actual games didn't have much in the way of hills but they compensated with other obstacles and they did have more decorations. For example, you can put in those oval clouds in your 'black' Mario 2 areas.

I also felt like the levels were a little short in my opinion. Its your call if you want to lengthen them. Oh and there was a blatant Mario1 1-2 edit in there. Highly discouraged in this community.

Anyway, promising hack so far. As I said, I await the demo.