I am still a beginner, but I have what I think is a really cool idea for a hack. It goes like this:
Queen Eris, mother of the Koopa Kids, is tired of her husband constantly getting beaten up, dropped into lava, or bopped on the head, so she takes control of the situation, kidnapping not only Princess Toadstool, but also Mario and Luigi, so they can't stop her. She even steals seven of the kingdom's fabled Triskadeca Mushroom 30-sided power crystals to increase her own power. The only remaining person who might be able to help is...
Enter the Royal Sorceress Emma Amelia Toadstool, more commonly known as Plum. (She ALWAYS dresses in purple.) She is Peach's cousin, so of course, she is devastated at what has befallen the kingdom. So she sets off to find the crystals, her cousins, and her plumber friends, to defeat a whole new brood of Koopa Kids, and to counter Bowser's evil Koopa magic with her own special brand of colorful homeopathic Mushroom Magic (no pun intended), striking a blow for feminism.
The theme of the game would be "chaos", which would be reflected in the title (though I haven't come up with an actual title yet). Plum would have all new powerups, and if I could figure out how to pull it off, each Triskadeca Crystal obtained from a Koopa Kid would increase Plum's power, enabling her to, for example, shoot more...uh, whatever her equivalent of fireballs would be, like four at once instead of two. I would probably give one of the secret worlds an elemental theme. Though I don't know how I would number the levels and phases (which most people would probably refer to as worlds and levels), I would make a lot of phase names puns, such as a bridge phase called William Shake's Pier, a fortress called Fort Eewinx, or a phase set in a dark canyon called Sar Chasm.
I would prefer that nobody actually use this idea until after I create my own version of it a year or two down the road when I am more experienced in the world of SMW hacking, but if you really want to use it, YOU MUST a) credit me for the idea and b) not accuse me of plagiarizing if I should happen to make my own version of it
after somebody else has already used this idea. If I admit defeat and actually post a message that this is too complex a project for me to be undertaking, it's open to the general public, but until then, anybody who wishes to use this idea should follow my rules.
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I'm working on a hack! Check it out
here. Progress: 64/95 levels.