| Name: | JUMP½ |
| Authors: | JUMP Team, Lazy, Sixcorby, lolyoshi |
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| Demo: | No |
| Hall of Fame: | No |
| Length: | 130 exit(s) |
| Type: | Standard: Very Hard |
| Description: | This is the long-awaited sequel to JUMP. Started by aterraformer as a smaller collab inspired by the VIPs, it quickly spiralled out of control and became a true sequel headed by lolyoshi, Sixcorby, and Lazy, and was saved by worldpeace several times over. JUMP½ features even more of the wacky design and creativity JUMP is known for, on top of several new features and a significantly less brutal difficulty curve. JUMP's storehouses and dragon coin reward system return, along with the level info menu, hint movies, and a retry system for the hardest levels. This hack also boasts a brand new ASM-heavy boss or two, new unlockable items, plenty of hidden puzzles and 3-UP moons, saving at any time on the overworld, and a few other neat features. |
| Tags: | asm bosses gimmick less exgfx music puzzle variety |
| Comments: | 135 (jump to comments) |
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This is by far the best hack I've ever played and I'd honestly recommend it to anyone. There were very few levels I didn't have a great time playing.
5/5
Only complaint is in one step forward, two jumps back - the yoshi coin puzzle is inscrutable. I can't see someone sorting this out effectively without just a bunch of brute force, which ended up being my solution, was I kind of bumbled into it. I found bowser's cinema after and saw that it seems like I more or less did it right, but that was the only one that stuck out as poorly layed out - probably makes sense if you can look at it in LM, but on screen in 4:3 it's hard to determine what I'm actually up to. It's difficult to really get a handle on what is expected of the player.
And I'm going to go against the grain and say that Maw of the Beast is a great puzzle level! I managed to solve it completely on my own, because it is so well designed. There are plenty of graphical hints (besides the separate hint room) to push the player into the right direction. And on top of that comes the eerie atmosphere of being caught inside a sleeping giant. It's painful to watch a playthrough where the streamer just skips it by looking it up in Bowser's Cinema. Shame!
Indeed, this hack offers better puzzles than the dedicated puzzle hacks I've played.
Scattered thoughts:
-The home run bat is my favorite custom SMW powerup by far and the bomb powerup is also very fun.
-The overworld is an absolute mess but I kinda like what a pile of yarn it is, everything connects to everything.
-The mechanic in The Bootstrapped should be used in more hacks.
-The P balloon physics are soooooo much nicer than vanilla SMW. If every hack from now on used only these P balloon physics, that'd be great.
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Favorite levels:
-Every time I see worldpeace, gbreezesunset or lolyoshias as the level creator, I know I'm about to play a fun level.
-NOJUNP NOLIFE, the star block/no jump mechanic is used in fun ways.
-Bowser's Castle is tough but fun, and the Bowser fight is one of the best boss fights I've seen. It reminds me of the big Brutal Mario type bosses, but with more polish.
-RNG is tough but not fun, but the boss fight makes up for it.
-Dynamic Dungeon is a great concept and I'd love to see that switch mechanic used more often. Same with that other level, this group of trees is cOLD.
-Der Lockere Raum is a great level.
-I love Koopa Hiking Trail. Clever level design. ft029 and Enjl level.
-Curse of Discontinuity's layer 2 reset mechanic should be jank but it feels natural, I like this one a lot.
-2 out of 4 switch palaces are really fun, The Switch of Blue Hue and Green Palace of the Alchemist.
-Penguin Spankin' - give me penguin launchers in every hack please.
-Mountain of Frugality is a super cool level. I wish the need to re-enter was telegraphed better, though.
-Nitroglycerin Betrayal, the bomb powerup is so much fun.
-Goomball Machine is creative and very fun, somehow, despite not at all being a Mario level.
Less favorite levels:
-So Sadistic It's Mischievous was really a nightmare the first playthrough. Every playthrough, it feels slightly less obnoxious though.
-Illusiyellow is difficult to look at.
-I can't tell if I love or hate Brain Plague. It's a cool concept, but it's dark, but it's somehow fun, but it doesn't flow well...I don't know.
-Rubicon is not a great level. Rubicon is probably the worst level in the hack for my tastes.
-I'm sure Maw of the Beast is a well designed level but I just don't like that sort of massive puzzle. 6ish minutes to finish it, played optimally.
Took 14ish hours to 100%. Video of most recent playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqvIHerHvautW2-BI3oeFp3FB46jYMt4e
I think I personally prefer JUMP. That has more audacious, daring, and challenging individual levels, plus I find the world map significantly more chaotic (in a good way), which makes exploring more interesting. However, JUMP 1/2 is still a strong sequel to one of the unquestionably best romhacks. The aesthetic design of the world map is at least on par with the original (world 7, are you kidding me?) and it brings back variations on the storage facilities, with the level videos and helpful upgrades plus some new features, which helped make JUMP stand out. I do wish there were more uses for dragon coins, since it seems like there's nothing for getting more than 60 levels' worth this time around despite there being 80 available, but the rest is great. The levels aren't quite as distinct from each other as I would like given that this is a giant collab hack, but I can still appreciate a range of designs.
I can only hope there's a third one coming eventually.
On the emulator snes9x it gives me a black screen and a corrupt message on it. pretty much on every game i download says the same thing. HEEEEEELP Please
If you rom clean says it couldn't fix the rom you're using then you need to find a clean one, then you can patch whatever hack you want on the site to it.
On the emulator snes9x it gives me a black screen and a corrupt message on it. pretty much on every game i download says the same thing. HEEEEEELP Please
Unlike its prequel, it doesn't feature any kaizo levels, however you can still find a handful of tougher challenges if you're willing to get all exits. The difficulty is MUCH better, making it more approachable for newer players. If you're someone who's trying to get into SMW hacks, this hack will provide a large amount of content for you.
If I had to take a shot in the dark at it, Yoshi's House and the level it leads to may be 2 of the exits you're missing. It's also possible you may have forgot to return to Dynamic Dungeon as the red switch is pretty far away from it. If those aren't it I may be able to help you figure it out on our discord server.
its littered with lootboxes
Lol, yeah was me being dumb.
Out of curiousity: Where did you find surprise deaths (beyond the Chuck in Helium Cavern past the midway point) and blind jumps (which I couldn't find any in World 1)?
And besides: This is one of the harder hacks out there, for advanced players.
I didn't consider the Chuck a surprise death to be fair. Moreso the Lotus that falls down just a bit after it, in the same level. The blind jump was either in the first or second level of World 2.
Honestly I was a bit pissed off, though, and I should give this hack another chance. So apologies for the impulsive response.
Out of curiousity: Where did you find surprise deaths (beyond the Chuck in Helium Cavern past the midway point) and blind jumps (which I couldn't find any in World 1)?
And besides: This is one of the harder hacks out there, for advanced players.
Thanks!!
The overworld in this hack is just top-notch, both music and ambientation (decoration, events, etc). I also like the non-linear structure for the OW, which felt very interesting regarding the sense of freedom of the player.
As for the levels themselves, the majority of them are very clever and fun. Almost all of the gimmicks were nailed on regarding their presentation and developing. However, and this is something difficult to control when you have a really big collaboration hack in your hands, some of the levels feel a bit rompy for what the hack intends, to the point where I would have just cut them out because they feel like fillers (specially talking about some of the early levels, such as Over Hills and Valleys and Destiny of Grassland). Others have some problems regarding their gimmicks, such as being underdeveloped (Home Run Derby, altough I can forgive that since it was very fun anyway) or just badly developed (Factory of Necessity, which was tedious at certain parts, specially when having to repeat entire sections because of a hit).
There also exist a huge problem with difficulty in the hack: huge difficulty spikes exist here and there (Koopa Kaos, for example. The final part with the Winged Yoshi is just too tight and it feels very unfair; Ugoku suponji tachi no doukutsu feels too long and difficult compared with the surrounding levels). Some of the midpoint positions were also badly placed (A la reserche du gout perdu, just before a puzzle: it quickly becomes tedious to repeat it when you die).
The hack has also a problem with bosses: apart from some exceptions, they feel pretty boring and dull (the Boom Boom boss on Factory of Necessity is a clear example), so they could have been cut out without major problems.
Won't spoil anything here, but the last two levels of the "main" game, altough well though and clever, last for too long without checkpoints and became very annoying to play, specially So sadistic it's mischievous.
Overall, though sometimes irregular, the hack mantains a pretty high level quality until the end, which is admirable taking into account the big number of exits on the hack. I give it a 4 over 5.
Even stranger, player 1's B button input DOES allow player 2 to normal jump off the clouds! So, I was able to help my partner out by pressing B on my end for those particular spots. I'm guessing the coding for those upside-down clouds isn't properly checking for the current player's B button input, even though it does for the A button.
(I'm reminded of A Super Mario Thing, which we tried to co-op play in the past, but had a similar issue that affected the whole game in general, where player 2 could not spin jump on his own, but player 1's A button input activated player 2's spin jumps. I'm baffled such a glitch could even happen there. And, attempting to play ASMT co-op was pretty much futile.)
this special powerup room always has a yoshi spawning on the right, but if you enter with one you have an invis yoshi which you can then use to spinjump off and right into this powerup.
this isnt very useful as currently i have all yoshi coins which gives me 19 and i need 20 for this powerup.
in case you wonder what the point of this is: well nothing, i'd just like to remind people that the best non tas hackbreaker is back (thats me you know. so remember me!)
edit: https://puu.sh/DWkxS/c633639486.png found a softlock. the level "the goon docks" allows yoshis and its not that unlikely to reach this point with one. problem is you cant enter this pipe with a yoshi and a 2 block height isnt enough to jump off. cant go left either cause the autoscroller stops right here.
One thing I would note is that the later levels are very hard, and I think this hack's difficulty should be classified as Very Hard.
Overall, a perfect hack that makes other hacks seem dull. Thank you to everyone who worked on this for putting it together! I am very much anticipating Jump 1/3.
Levels are clear, well designed and use wonderful palettes, and so is the overworld.
Difficulty is, yeah, hard, especially to the end where it becomes clearly very hard, still doable without savestates but needs some practice to acquire good strats.
While in JUMP I couldn't get over 90 exits, I could manage to get all 130 here.
10/10 (5 stars) Thank you all team for this masterpiece, and hope to see you again in a (JUMP) third hack =]
I definitely recommend checking this out!
update, it turns out i did not patch it
The level design really is something else. Every level feels like there's been an insane amount of attention to detail. No hack I've played has had this kind of consistently excellent level design. Well done.
I was promised reasonable difficulty, and this hack mostly delivers. The levels overwhelmingly feel fair, though I don't know if I'll still think that when I get further in. If anything's a problem, it's the random difficulty spikes where the second half of one level takes me as long as the next three levels combined *cough* VLDC media player *cough*.
One thing that really stuck out like a sore thumb was the time limits. It doesn't feel reasonable to expect a player to complete any level in one shot within the time limits given. Maybe that's just me; I tend to be rather slow.
Compounding this problem is the fact that the HUD doesn't show up in many levels. That's probably a technical error, albeit one that should be fixed as soon as possible.
Still, great hack so far. 5/5. I doubt I'll change my mind, but maybe I'll update this review with more thoughts later.
it's possible to help me? :/
You're not supposed to surf on the lava, as one of the rooms give you a very clear hint of what to do. You have to
If you still don't get it,
it's possible to help me? :/
I dont save because i play through the levels quick without losing much life, just dont see why i should save after every level lol. It might be me but it's still design flaws.
Ah just one little thing, had a lot of fun with this hack for the rest. Gonna try to get all the dragon coins. Hopefully we will see more JUMP in the future!
One note in case a future version is ever released:
I got soft-locked in the special world castle where if you jump the sprites freeze. After CP before the second spring on a 1F0 section, you spin jump on two podoboos, if they drop too low you cannot get out of that pit or kill yourself (and the level has infinite timer). Thankfully I was pretty good about saving after every CP, but thought I would mention it.
But then i got into this level ''the maw of the beast'' or whatever it was called in world 8. I got softlocked in this level, wasnt trying to break the level i just got screwed by the turn blocks.
mod edit: fixed table stretch
So mad, my last save was coming into this world so i can start everything over again lmao.
Edit: this is why levels without timer suck ;'D
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Lotta words and thoughts down below for big smartypants.
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So, the good news: this game has a lot of heart. A lot of effort went into putting together a full game made by various level designers, and a lot of functional programming was also put into this game. A good amount of effort has went into not just refining and polishing the base Mario World gameplay, but also providing extra content, new obstacles, and new toys to play with.
Some of the levels are also really stellar, providing a great deal of fun and professionalism. Several of the contributing authors put a lot of thought into not just making different levels, but also presenting them to a broad audience. There are high points in JUMP 1/2, and at these high points the game presents well-designed obstacles, and a difficulty that, while harder than usual Mario fare, is still accessible to people coming into this hack after playing and mastering Super Mario World.
Those high points I can't find any fault in; they are pretty close to Nintendo quality fun meant for a more skilled audience. I couldn't be happier with something like that. I just wish that was the entire hack, because where you'll have a high point, I feel you'll have a moderate point and a low point to go with each one of the highs.
The issue with collabs, even with this one that looks like a lot of true collaboration went into this, is that different design philosophies can't exactly mix into eachother, and a lot of different approaches went into this collab. It is extremely difficult to find all walks of Mario fan level design enjoyable, especially when, even if you aren't experienced, you are already basing your expectations on official Nintendo games. The biggest issue I've found with massive fan collabs is that every level designer makes radically different levels, and inevitably you will notice some authors you'll really like and some you'll really dislike.
That sums up my experience with JUMP1/2.
I can give you a sorted list of level designers that contributed to JUMP1/2 I liked the most to the least. When I'm playing levels by those on the top of that list, I am having a lot of fun and enjoying what people can do in SMW. When the authors are at or near the bottom of that list, I am constantly questioning design decisions and finding myself rewinding constantly, because the level design is either unfair for mortals or awkward and hard to parse. I'm not having fun in that case. I am instead groaning and wondering what was suppose to be fun.
I'd rather have not feel an urge to make that mental list in my head, but the quality of fun is wildly variable depending on who made the level. That's my biggest complaint: some level designers in this game have made a wildly different game than others, and a presentation like JUMP1/2 is not conductive towards a game with multiple target audiences. So if you notice the differences between author to author, you will inevitably reach points where you are really not having fun.
Aesthetics also suffer as a result because some times vanilla graphics will be remixed into appealing themes and sounds, and other times you will have literally zero effort put into presenting a more interesting Mario World to look at and play. (I am not kidding. There was a level made in 2 hours. It's one of the worse levels in JUMP 1/2. Big surprise there.) I once again notice the Overworld is the most appealing place in the game because it's by probably one or a couple people. While the lottery of level designers each put in different effort in presenting their levels. I'm usually not a big stickler for aesthetics, but the high points in presentation made me enjoy the level a lot more, and the low points made me want the high points back.
I shouldn't sell short those who really tried and succeeded to create an entertaining Mario game though. Not all of JUMP 1/2 is mediocre at best, and although you may look at the author and cringe, sometimes you'll look at the author and get hyped for their work. I just honestly wish that a one true design philosophy was followed, more than one if needed, instead of letting every sort of level in. I really enjoyed almost every castle, for example, and the others I thought were okay. Some gimmicks are not only very interesting, but are executed really well in the level. The authors who accomplish this entertained me quite well, and they would be responsible for this hack getting a high rating from me if it wasn't for the rest of the levels putting a damper on my mood.
Furthermore, I feel there's a lot of experimentation with different gimmicks and not enough proper refinement. Some of the gimmicks used are exceedingly janky and difficult to read at first glance. (partly due to poor level design) Honestly, in a world where many people are working on a project, I seriously think better attention should've been paid to why the high points were high and how their tricks could be used to bring up the low points, because I have a hunch that despite everything the JUMP Team still had to refine and reject some levels. I'd put money on that because that's my feeling, because while I think the low points are low, there's only a few really low points that made me seriously question why everything about the level. In a hack with over 100 levels? That's a good percentage that only 3-5 made me wish they were heavily reworked in the shop.
I do feel that, while progress has been made to create a more accessible and entertaining collaboration hack, there's still a long ways to go. Almost everything new and/or programmed by the team is used against the player; the player is given few features that gives them a new twist to gameplay they can use. The few exceptions to that rule are used for one level and discarded immediately. The moment I realized this my expectations sank because I still get the vibe that any attempt to program something new is just to either make the game more streamlined, or create a new obstacle for the player, of which so far, from what I've seen, Jesus Christ, I think we've got plenty of both already.
The big collabs of Mario fangaming still feels like a stomping ground of ideas instead of a true fangame. I say that because the biggest things missing from JUMP 1/2 is design cohesion and a general presentation. Not that SMW was perfect in both, but I can argue that JUMP 1/2 was worse at it than SMW. What's truly entertaining, I feel, is still a wide spectrum in the romhacking community and even Mario level design in general, and even when things aren't explicitly baby mode or Kaizo, level designers still make levels for audiences that simply don't cover the whole spectrum. Levels/whole games shouldn't attempt to appeal to every walk of fangamer because that's literally impossible, but collabs do that anyway by having each level cover a different field of interests, inevitably.
It's jarring and painful to experience that firsthand. Several gimmicks felt really good and enjoyable to play while others felt really lazy and easy custom programming that are grasping at straws to find applications for them. (Like for instance, all the levels that just remove a functionality of a game. Not a fan of any of them, even when the level in of itself wasn't painful to go through.) I think I would enjoy JUMP 1/2 a lot more if it didn't have levels that look like they're for people who take gitting gud at Marios way too seriously, or instead went all in on being a sort of Lost Levels imitation for SMW. That way I can at least decide unanimously if I like the hack or not, instead of wish I could split the hack a certain way and play only one part of it, or instead try to find works by single authors I loved.
And that's what made me give it a 3/5 overall and a recommendation on several conditions. I feel like those who have yet to break into mario fangaming and get a true idea of what's good and what's bad will find a lot more fun in this than I did. A lot of the points I have against JUMP 1/2 is simply because of poor application/execution, but are otherwise playable levels. Overall, there's a good deal of exceptional levels put into it that only gets marred by the presence of poor levels and poor gimmicks. If you want to experience the SMW romhacking community in all its strengths and weaknesses, and you're ready to deal with gimmicks and design that work against you at times, I think this hack was made exactly for you. There's a lot to experience here, both good and bad, and I think if you aren't deterred by hitting real low points in the game then you'll enjoy the trip.
I personally just wish this collab would get further refined after initial release to polish the rigid parts, but that's a pipe dream of mine I don't think I'll ever see in collabs like this. Not unless when the next collab comes out it's better than JUMP 1/2, which isn't impossible.
On the overworld, press L and R at the same time
YES...... just F*CKING YES!!
I'm on a level called "Maw of the Beast"...stuck in an area where you get a yellow Yoshi and there's a blue block..also, a yellow and blue switch....not sure what to do.
Any ideas?
Anthony
Highly recommended.
However, I played JUMP 1/2 in 18 exits, but it is nearly impossible because of the image:
Sorry for not helping more, JUMPers.
This Hack makes Much Fun and Has Some Challanging Secrets where you must Think Twice
e: it worked that time. what i said was that there are good levels and there are bad levels, and overall it's about what you're expecting (though ive found the more interesting creative levels start appearing much earlier here then they did in the first jump)
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