| Name: | Super Mario World-2 |
| Author: | Easy Difficulty |
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| Version History: | View |
| Demo: | No |
| Hall of Fame: | No |
| Length: | 90 exit(s) |
| Type: | Standard: Very Hard |
| Description: | So this hack has 8 Worlds and a Special World, and it's by far the biggest project I've made. There is a lot of custom ASM, sprites, bosses and such, just to keep it interesting. As for the difficulty, this hack is mainly recommended for experienced players. Nothing in the first worlds should be too difficult, but in later worlds and especially the Special World, some may struggle. The original aim for this hack was to be what a harder, more gimmicky sequel to SMW could've looked like, though that became less of a focus as development progressed. The earlier worlds are most similar to vanilla. Obviously, however, the graphics rarely stray too far from the original SMW graphics. Update v1.1 In this update we have changelog.txt <---- read it |
| Tags: | asm bosses epilepsy warning hdma less exgfx music sa-1 traditional |
| Comments: | 26 (jump to comments) |
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how can i update the rom and keep my savefile?
Shorter answer: just replace the old rom with the new one using the same name and it should work.
^^
It was just like a naughty but excellent child, I'm almost brain-dead on completing this hack.
If author gives an easier level with these details and decorations, all the matter will be more positive.
But this hack is amazing and almost certainly the best hack I've ever played--this includes JUMP-likes. Every day I've played the aforementioned blue Switch Palace, I feel like my strat has grown more refined. I get further. My technique is easier to repeat. Not every level is the type that I could spend weeks playing, but this is a very consistent feature of the levels; they are difficult, but no matter how many times you die, you never feel trapped, you always feel like there's a way forward. I have never played a game that maintains this level of brutal difficulty while consistently rewarding every little bit of skill and experience the player acquires.
This has a lot to do with the openness of the level design; each obstacle is demanding, but there are usually many ways to get past each one. Each level is infinitely receptive of each player's own vision and preferences for how to play the game. For a Standard hack, there is no greater virtue.
There are a few design choices I disagree with. I also think that overall it might be better if there were, say, more checkpoints and powerups. But those are minor in the face of the hack's absolute mastery of the very core of Super Mario World.
Anyways more hacks to come from Easy Difficulty.
Played on SNES 9x Android Yes, Im a touch screen player not controller 🤣
Got stuck at Bastian of Gravity (couldn't make some jumps) and Red Tower Returns (couldn't get P-speed for one jump). Looks like my jouney ends at 88.88%
Additionally, when entering this same stage from the midpoint, the air meter does not function in the first room (though it works as normal in the second room). This allowed me to go back in the first room, get the springboard, and use it to accelerate my swimming to get the mushroom in the second room.
The time restrictions in this level seem pretty tight in general but the hack is supposed to be hard so I guess I can't complain too much. In particular the final leg of the first room (where you use a springboard to accelerate through a narrow passage with green Blurps) seemed pretty hard to do without tanking a hit, which is what I wound up doing.
The only issue that persists from the previous moderation is that the level names often won't update since Mario moves faster than the extended level names patch updates them, but it's a minor issue that doesn't affect gameplay and it's apparently emulator-specific too. Everything else was seemingly addressed.
Anyway, this hack was a blast to play! The special world's difficulty did feel unforgiving but it didn't take away from my overall enjoyment with it. The music choices also go along nicely with how the levels play out, and some of those songs are just awesome! It's definitely one of the most fun that I've had with an SMW hack and one that I recommend people to check out.