A hack I have been working on over the course of last September.
Story: Mario and Luigi were heading back to Peach's Castle after another one of their amazing adventures, however as soon as they walk in, Peach sends them out on another mission to collect the 7 Golden Statues which Bowser had stolen from her not long ago. Where did they come from? And what's so bad about Bowser stealing some statues?
Play and find out!
Even when the game ends, theres more to do!
Features:
-A few new animations
-Ground Pounding
-New Powerups
-Custom Enemies
-Custom Music
-Custom Bosses
-Item System (like SMB3/NSMBW)
-Pause Menu
-An Original Mario-like Story
And much much more!
Known bug:
-When using the Ice Flower I have made Mario/Luigi revert to their normal colors on the Overworld because for some reason they are transparent when they have that power while on the Overworld.
Five times. Five times I have completed this hack to 100% and every time it gives me the same sense of wonder and enjoyment as the first time. There is so much to say here, I remember playing through 'The Seven Golden Mushrooms' before that mysteriously vanished from the internet (it still exists, but doesn't work on accurate emulators) and I had a love/hate relationship with that hack. But this one, my god did you hit the nail on the head with how well this hack holds up, even now in 2022.
I could go into depth, but the fact I've completed it five times should speak volumes. I actually plan to do an LP at some point, the games just so damn good.
It would be nice to see you bring a new hack to the table, but honestly this is one of the greats imho, not much is able to top it.
There are two bugs I found in the newest version that need addressing though.
-Completing a level as Luigi results in a softlock where you cannot choose to save your game, resulting in having to reset the game and play as Mario. A crying shame, as I only ever played this game as Luigi, except where the situation forced Mario upon me.
-The Power Star in "An Unexpected Appearance" will NOT appear for Mario, I actually had to re-enter the level as Luigi, get the star, and then START+SELECT out of the level to obtain.
These two issues aside, this game still gets 5 stars from me.
Finally completed the Hack and I can honestly say it’s by far the best SMW Rom Hack ever really love the music choice and that you can also play as Luigi as well as Mario even though in one level you can play as Peach, overall a really amazing Hack, a few frustrating parts here and there but still an amazing SMW Rom Hack at the end of the day and I’m super glad I got to play the whole thing in full and a big massive shout out to SimFan96 for making it all possible and for making this SMW Rom Hack along with all the other broken SMW Rom Hacks playable, where exactly would we be without him. .
Ice Flower Mario and Luigi are translucent because you're likely using palettes C-F for them, those palettes are translucent for revealing event tiles i believe, you can turn that off in the overworld's extra options
This is a really cool hack, there are a couple of things needed to be mentioned (not with gameplay entirely but with controls) I did have to switch my start and select buttons from my symetrical Xbox controller from the triggers (Lt was start RT was select) to Start and Back/Select (yes I know it was a weird idea for them to be on the triggers). That wasn't a problem it's just gonna take some getting used to it being similar to my Desmume controls, but you can also ground pound by holding down A and hitting B (for example you can also do the reverse) that's also not a problem, it's just weird as hell that you do the ground pound no matter what in water by just using the A button. I actually find it easier with the ground pound executed by pushing both jump buttons together in the air, cause I do tend to hold the down arrow when I jump for some reason (even spin jumps, don't ask why, cause I still have no idea why) so is there a way where you can make a patch for it that only uses the jump buttons together for the ground pound? other than those things, it's still a fiver in my book.
I loved this hack too, it was a lot of fun! It's amazing all of the stuff that mario90 could implement into SMW especially for 2009-2010!
Thank you for the kind words too, I really appreciate that! (: Thank you for moderating this fix! It was a lot of fun and a nice challenge to fix this hack!
Originally posted by Amethyst
An absolute delight to play through - it would be an impressive hack to have been made this year, let alone over ten years ago.
Big shoutouts to SimFan for helping bring this classic to modern consoles and emulators. - you are doing important work for preservation and I appreciate you for it. 💚
An absolute delight to play through - it would be an impressive hack to have been made this year, let alone over ten years ago.
Big shoutouts to SimFan for helping bring this classic to modern consoles and emulators. - you are doing important work for preservation and I appreciate you for it. 💚
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