Posts by Buried Alive

I honestly believe it's an elaborate troll because:

a) That IPS link in the comments is from HackerOfTheLegend's file bin, not carol's site - I'm not saying HOTL is the culprit, but rather both that he's a victim of the troll and that his file bin is not a credible link.
b) The wiki page was made by someone who literally just joined to write it and he's the only one following it
c) Crappy page quality
d) This thing about carol and trust: I just don't think that, especially after his account theft, he's trusting enough that he'd give his demo, in private, to someone who turns around and makes it public. If he wanted other people to see it, again, why not just post it on his site or on a forum himself? Why does he need a "proxy" for feedback? It doesn't make any sense.

I do have a problem with this level. In ZMZ, the level has NO sound at all and it can crash, if I go to a sublevel.

TheGuyWhoDoesNothing has said a couple of times that he's good with ASM but not with level design. The level that didn't crash in the 8MB SNES9x was pretty boring and repetitive...but then again, it had like 0 custom stuff besides the palettes changing every screen. I noticed that the boss at the end didn't work at all.

I say hoax.

Damn, according to slogger, in this new demo, there are only 0x43EFF3 bytes of freespace left. That's 25 banks.

1. Of course. This demo was released for two reasons. To show how that the game is being worked on currently, and two, get feedback on a new level. Most of the level was made recently, but some levels are borrowed from previous demos, the water stage in the beginning is from Vip and Wall Mix, and before, was in the first demo from 2005.
2. From 2014, but it was finished Febuary but not released until this month. The level building only took one month due to freetime.
3. Fix the game up a lot. That has already began sort of. The game is English starting from Demo Only 1, and most if not all levels have been translated. The graphics need to be fixed, such like Mario's graphics, which are being drawn by carol. But in the next demo Mario graphics will not be finished, but the placeholder GFX is from SMB2. There's also planned to be a major overhaul of level design on old levels. The levels being replaced are the Forest Star, Cave Star, the sun level, Chomp Panic 2, Ultima's Keep, and Aquatic Special. Levels with level design change are the leaf shield levels, Darklich's Keep, Kirby Superstar, and Lift Go!.
4. We have not discussed yet.
5. No. But this two demos combined will be a demo 10.5, because there is 10 finished worlds and most of a 11th. Like how demo 7 had 7 finish worlds.
6. Not many besides an email which I have been told not to tell.
7. Focus on carol's personal life made this game a side-project. The reason why so much progress has been done is because of those personal issues dealt with currently.
8. Its not Luigi. It could be Mario fighting Mario, we don't know. It's not a thought right now, the only thought now is finishing the Hot Head Bop, Thunder Blues, and Beginning of the End levels and to make starting marks on King Luigi's Keep.
9. No, that was for Vip and Wall Mix part 3, and kept in because the level it was tested in happened to be the level which will become the final battle level.

Thank you for asking me so many questions. Ask more if you want. Excuse me if my English is rusty, I originate from Japan, but I know lot of English.

Thanks a lot for the information, Buried Alive.
I guess this means Brutal Mario will get finished at some point... great.

This looks fake as hell. I mean, why's the demo in English? Every level in this hack obviously has an Assembly gimmick, but it has none. For the background it looks like generator F3 to me. The port itself has problems, and why do you start exactly in the rock world? (That's how I call it) and the last part doesn't look like a level Carol would design.

Honestly, I think somebody messed around with Carol's work and claimed it as a 'new' demo.

Yeah, because a guy that came out of nowhere (especially with that kind of name) is totally a legit source of information. Seriously guys, I also want to see BM finished, but not at the extreme of believing in every single rumor out there.

First off, why in the world would Carol work with a random English guy instead of his Japanese friends from 2ch? He can do it alone, just see how far he went for the last playable demo (the one hosted in the hacks section), and in case he would ever need help, he would ask a Japanese guy that is close to him.

Second, anyone with enough free time can do a level that long, or you really think only Japanese guys are able to design that? Also, anyone can learn ASM, and if their perseverance is high enough, they can do really awesome things in a relatively short period of time without being Japanese (say hi to my friend anonimxwz).

I'm with Macky on this one, so I'll call this a total fake unless we somehow get a confirmation from Carol himself, rather than a random guy that popped out of nowhere.

That's because you must aim for something higher. When you start SMW hacking, you aim for something (like; I want to be able to make good choconilla hacks!) After you finally get good enough, you will start to lose your interest cause you now are what you wanted to be. You should always aim for higher.

Also, ASM isn't a must in my opinion. You can make nice stuff, like interesting levels but it is not like you should do everything yourself, you can always get help, or if you get a teammate, he can do it for you.

Anyways, I guess I keep myself interested in hacking by looking at experienced hackers' levels. I somehow get interest from it. I try to be good as him/her. I try to learn new things from them.