My first contact with SMW Hacking was
a video about Super Windows World, which I first watched on YouTube back in 2014. It had only three levels and I liked it, especially the song UN Owen Was Her?, which I know thanks to that video. I also found
a video about a Windows 98 level (YouTube is down this pipe, LOL)
and started watching videos from Betamaster64's hack Windows Mario World.
A few years later, thanks to YouTube, I knew about the hardest SMW Hack: Item Abuse 3.
I started to be really interested in SMW Hacking in 2019, when I found a gameplay of "New Super Mario World 1: The Twelve Magic Orbs". I wanted to play that game and I knew I would need the game file and an emulator. It made me investigate about SMW Hacking, which led me to this page for the first time.
Now, look at this net that I just found.
I started playing Brutal Mario, but I didn't finish it. Then, I started playing T12MO and, after some days, I finished it, so that was the first SMW Hack that I played until the end.