Mario, Luigi and the 7 Eggs of Peace

nicely made fun

This isn't quite a vanilla hack. The main change is the fireball that functions like a Liu Kang fireball that can go through anything and does 2 fireballs worth of damage. There are some custom tiles and all (?) the music is SMB3 music but the bosses are all vanilla including Bowser.

Very early on there was some ultra claustrophobic tight platforming. This was bad in I think World 2 with a lot of caves with very low ceilings and wide gaps underneath them. Bowser's Land 3 second half was a choke point for me for a long while. The final level also gave me trouble. It felt like a level from The End Is Nigh, both in how the platforming worked and how stressful it was.

This hack was fun in a lot of levels and very unfun in a lot of levels, and it was inconsistent in when I would get which. The difficulty curve was also all over the place.

It took a little under 3 hours to complete. Video of playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqvIHerHvauvXH9FkhXNF9MdxQ-RnYWpy

A very nice hack, with pretty palettes and overworld =]

The game is fun to play ! Although, as BeeKaaaay pointed out, some levels are a bit frustrating, especially Star World 1.

The 53 exits are all beatable without using savestates. I even think there are 57 exits in total, but the 4 orbs collected in the 4 loto houses don't seem to count as exits.

9/10 (5 stars) Thank you very much =]

The fixme tag is still there

The level design in this hack is mostly fine but some things definitely haven't aged well (having some blocks behave differently while looking the same as other blocks, for example). Bowser's Land 3 and Star World 1 are also pretty unpleasant to play but everything in the hack is beatable without save-states.

No it's fixed the fix me line should of been removed I missed doing that in the update and a mod will need to remove that line.

Was the broken VOLCANO COVE event left not fixed?

Thanks.

It is possible without tools assuming the floor below the pipe at the end is still there. I assumed it was a pit and that you needed to keep the P-switch active and use the coins (in block form) to enter the pipe.

Just if you are interessted, gameplay from the level 'Bowsers's Land 3'

https://youtu.be/Qku9hsjIC6w?t=612

That's the 2010 version, did the level change BeeKaaaay?

In this video, already some secs in it seems impossible without tools.

I would like to see a video of the intended solution for Bowser's Land 3 without any tool use. I'm not convinced it's reasonably beatable.

You gonna fix this hack by now
It's exits ur only say 22

Initially, this hack didn't look like something worth a removal, but by World 2 it became evident why it did: difficulty skyrocketed, esp. because of overly cramped level design, excessive enemy hazards, enemy ambushes, unfair hits, and constant difficulty spikes. I started getting frustrated and eventually resorted to save states. Level lengths were inconsistent: some levels were incredibly short in comparison with the others.

Your OW also felt like a big mess here: misplaced and broken events, tiles cutting off, wrong tiles/perspective problems and bad layer 3 border colors.

Aesthetically the hack falls short to SMW's paletting as most palettes were vanilla, but the custom ones weren't any decent as most shadings were messed up by incorrect colors. World 3 also had basically the same FG colors for every level. All goal posts were one tile above the ground, making the bottom bush tiles appear, which is very unprofessional-looking.

About music: well, it's the timeless SMAS soundtrack (inserted with a patch). It works on accurate emulators, but some crackles can be heard when entering a level due to echo buffer clearing issues.

Some level specific issues:
- Castle 1: Layer 2 scrolling stones should've had layer priority over the climbing nets.
- Sandy Desert 2: if I become small in the first part, I'll get stuck and be forced to suicide to get the mushroom and try again.
- Sandy Desert Cave: major difficulty spike: dark level + spotlight gimmick, too cramped, requires memorization to pass some segments unharmed.
- Vanilla Secret 2: unchanged level name (probably unintentional).
- Castle 2: layer 3 in front of 2 in an odd way.
- Volcano Caves: midway point takes me to the level entrance.

Overall a hack with clear design and difficulty issues (I wonder if it was tested savestate-less). Levels that weren't cramped were fairly enjoyable, but those that actually were just made the whole experience decent at best. It's a shame because I could see some potential on level structuring, which later came to prosper in the author's later hacks.

Rating: 2/5