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Overworld Speed Changer v1.1

SMW Patches → Overworld Speed Changer v1.1

Submission Details

Name: Overworld Speed Changer v1.1
Authors: ASMagician Maks, carol, wye
Added:
Version History: View
Tool: Asar
Requires Free Space: Yes
Bug Fix: No
Featured: No
Description: This small patch allows you to easily change the player's speed on the overworld (hex editing isn't really an option, as many values cause glitches and none make the movement look as smooth as the original's). It's mostly a patch version of carol's "fast.asm" overworld sprite, except much less bloated.

With this patch you can multiply overworld movement speed by whole or fractional values, have different speed while on Yoshi, and even add a run button.

If you want to make climbing be as fast as walking then you can easily do that by hex-editing $049415 (x21615) to the same value as $049414 (x21614).

Credit isn't needed, but if you desperately want to lengthen your credits list, credit carol instead.

2024-05-03 Fixed SA-1 incompatibilities
Tags: lorom overworld player sa-1 speed
Comments: 17 (jump to comments)
Download 1.20 KiB | 1,586 downloads

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Comments (17)

Playing Link
hm useful
Maarfy Link
I always liked this patch way back when, and this update makes it that much better with some new options, approved.

The "fractional speed" system is interesting, but one should be wary of treating it too literally. The patch doesn't specify that the "lower fraction" components for each entry are intended to be powers of two - halves, quarters, eighths, etc. Setting a speed to two and one fifth, for example, won't work as expected. The walk speed also gets jerky in practice as the fraction numbers get bigger - 32/64 is equivalent to 1/2 numerically, but in terms of walk speed the former will look considerably worse. Not that there's any reason one would want to set it that way, but just the same.

Also, note that while any button(s) can be assigned as the "run" button, picking B will include A, and picking Y will include X given how SMW is coded. Hardly a gripe, it's very cool there's a "run" button for the overworld at all!

Tested with Asar 1.91, Lunar Magic 3.40, SA-1 1.40, Snes9x 1.62.3, BSNES Accuracy 0.7.1.
ModernKiwi Link
I imagine the SA-1 incompatibilities in question are the level names not changing on BSNES?
El Cuh Fermin Link
The best patch of all time for ones who makes longer path.#tb{^V^}
Nowieso From older version: Overworld Speed Changer Link
It fails to update level names on SA-1.
simon.caio From older version: Overworld Speed Changer Link
I think this still doesn't update the level names properly on original hardware...(?) Is there a fix for that?
00frank From older version: Overworld Speed Changer Link
TLDR: Avoid this if you are using SA-1.

I believe this patch to be the cause of the bug where a level name will not update sometimes when you move to a new tile, as the issue went away when I set the speed back to normal. This issue is only on bsnes/higan and consoles, it does not show up in snes9x.

EDIT: I found that increasing the multiple decreases the chance that the level name updates. x8 speed results in the name almost never updating, even if you reduce the base speed to compensate. I should also note I tested this on SA-1. It may work fine on non-SA1 roms.
Maarfy From older version: Overworld Speed Changer Link
Still works great. Super useful for making overworld navigation not take forever.

Tested with Asar 1.71, Lunar Magic 3.04, SA-1 1.32, Snes9x 1.59.2.
 Erik From older version: Overworld Speed Changer Link
Small update (not a remoderation) to make it compatible with the "Multiple Songs on Main Map" patch.
Marcozzo Daro From older version: Overworld speed changer Link
But is it SA-1 necessary?
 Aram From older version: Overworld speed changer Link
One thing I always noticed is that this patch is incompatible when you disable the event path fade and make it faster. Is this intentional?
 Blind Devil From older version: Overworld speed changer Link
Added SA-1 support.
 RussianMan From older version: Overworld speed changer Link
Works fine, having separate speed when riding yoshi is a nice touch.
Added missing tags.
 Daizo Dee Von From older version: Overworld speed changer Link
Very nice fix.
mish1 From older version: Overworld speed changer Link
rip no sa-1 support
IHMPRKB123 From older version: Overworld speed changer Link
Esto crashea el juego al entrar al overworld
This crashes the game when entering the overworld
paiinsteven From older version: Overworld speed changer Link
This broke my rom? I set it to thrice speed and now whenever I want to visit the overworld it just breaks.
(Nothing was lost; it merely just crashes at overworld.)