The 12th Annual Vanilla Level Design Contest: Collaboration Hack

So since I changed the internal rom name for this hack, you cannot open it in Lunar Magic. So if anyone wants to open the rom in LM to take a look at the levels or overworld, patch this to the rom:

You can do this for VLDC11 too.

Anyone know what the songs are for Spin Thwump Cavern and RAINY DAYS? Thank you all in advance love this hack

Hi, has anyone got this hack working on snes mini classic?

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Error this so i good level patches rom end make.

Is there a .ips version or a way to convert .bps to .ips?

Perfect!

Lifesaver! Lookin' forward to proceeding to get all exits!

Tried for about 30 minutes, but even bouncing off the Wiggler, I couldn't get enough height/distance to even land on the first of the red koopas. Kinda bummed, as I was making my way through levels pretty smoothly until I hit that snag.

Is there an issue with GabrielJohn's Dark Forest in Fire World, where if you die after the midpoint, due to not being able to bring items into stages, you literally can't finish the stage?

I'm required to fly, and there seem to be no capes, and the pipe doesn't let me backtrack. Think I just got blueballed out of getting all exits. Resetting the game doesn't remove the midpoint, so not sure if there's any way to play the stage from the start again.

Also, maybe typo? "Elevetade Vaults" in Fire World, claims in-level to be called "Elevated Vaults"

yea that 1.51 version of snes9x is about 15 years old and is a non-compliant version - dump it and get a much newer version
you need snes9x v1.60 or newer to run VLDC12

quote from the Readme.txt file

I'm having some issues trying to run the rom on my snes9x, it opens it but it doesn't run, it says "bad checksum", is my snes9x outdated maybe? I use v1.51

Awesome hack! Really liking a lot of the levels

good hack

why are stages released?

why are phases released? what is the purpose of the hack?

This is an awesome compilation. The overworld map and music is all great. Thank you for making all of these levels more easily accessible to regular players.

The only real complaint i have is that the level "muncher underground" has an midpoint that is essentially a kaizo trap, forcing the player to "clear" the level and then try again. But annoyingly it saved the Yoshi coins so i felt like i was cheating a bit in my otherwise perfect save-stateless run. I honestly feel like this midpoint should have been removed, but i understand leaving it in since that's what the creator did in the first place.

Otherwise i'm not sure i agreed entirely with the judges placements but that's obviously got nothing to do with the creators of this hack. Good job! Recommended play!

Wow it’s finally here!

I'm pretty new to the romhacking scene, and I'm having trouble working this one. I've tried a separate patching tool (Android APK), and the built-in patching tool on this site. It didn't work out on either, and here it says the patch isn't intended for the rom. I just used the SMW rom from removed, and it's worked for another SMW romhack, but maybe this hack requires a special rom as a base? Likely not, but I've seen that before, and that's the only reason I can come up with. I'll probably troubleshoot it successfully before anyone replies, but on the off-chance I don't, I appreciate any help. Cheers.

Edit:
Fixed the issue, I just had to get a fresh rom. Can't wait to play this!

snes9x 6.0? for what OS?
maybe you need to get a newer & faster computer (unless you are already using a modern one)


I also use Snes9x but a dev build (it was 1.61 10/22/2022 nightly build but there might be newer nightly builds available) on Windows 10 LTSC (on an old 2011 HP desktop computer with an AMD Phenom II X4 955 quad core CPU & 8Gb of RAM) and VLDC12 runs fine without any problems

Wow! It's finally great having an entry in one of these (Hint: Mine is located near the giant pumpkin). Loving the new additions, and I can tell a lot of work was put into making this as easy to navigate as possible. Great work, and once again, congrats to everyone who participated!

Those Emulators are all dont working on my Os the Curently Working ones are Snes9x 6.0 I think was The Versions name and Zsnes I Would like to Record it but on Zsnes its Slowdown and some Freezes and Snes9x Doesnt Record Long Parts and as i Record its witout Sound using Bandicam or Hypercam 2 It Lags a lot and Destroys the Sound to

thanks for the newest version, Stivi.

btw, speaking of the "Diet Pit of Vulldec" level, how do you get the 3up moon there? I got all the 3up moons in nearly all the levels except that one.

just a heads up, there are currently 2 issues in the hack that need to be updated
- Muncher Underground spawns you into thin air when you get the midpoint.
- Diet Pit of Vulldec has a bug where yoshi won't respawn in the boss arena.
This was already fixed in 1.03, but i must have accidentally opened the rom in LM 3.31 instead of LM 3.31 when i updated the hack to 1.04.

EDIT: it's all fixed now in version 1.05

I use snes9x and it works very good.

BTW nice new collab hack!

what versions of bsnes, higan & mesen-s are you using, lordkronos100?
what levels were you encountering those "slowdowns?"

I haven't found any problems playing VLDC12 on those emulators as it runs okay on my end, using bsnes-plus v05.88 (10-2021 dev build) & mesen-s v0.4.0.0

I Know About The Warning Becouse of Zsnes I Tested it i didnt had Chrashes Yet but its Very Slow Down yet Now My Question which one is The Prefered Emulator I Tested it on Zmz and Snes9x to And even there its a Bit Slowdown Bsnes Alias Higan and mesen-S Seems not to work for me

I look forward to the aesthetics, music and plot

It's finally freaking here at long last! VLDC 12 overworld is one of the best SMW Romhack overworlds ever made along with VLDC 11!!! Also, I am in this VLDC 12 Collab as well!!!

I love collabs like these! Some of the levels are hard to believe that they're actually vanilla, these guys are that creative! Great work as always