General SMW ASM Section Submission Guidelines

1. If you are not the author of a resource, do not submit it without permission.
   Updates to another user's work will be refused without explicit permission (outside of special remoderation projects). Submitting a resource on behalf of a banned user is forbidden.
   
   
2. Do not submit simple modifications of an already existing resource.
   Contact a moderator if you would like to tweak the name, description, tags or screenshots of a submission of which you are an author.
   
   
3. Do not include unnecessary files in your submission.
   Avoid including screenshots or excessive folders, or test levels/.bps patches for relatively simple resources.
   
   
4. Name, describe and tag your resource in an appropriate manner.
   Please give your resource and its .zip file reasonably descriptive names, and be reasonably clear when adding the description and tags. Useless, inappropriate or misleading information may be altered or removed at a moderator's discretion.
   
   
5. Please make sure you have thoroughly tested your resource prior to submission.
   Be sure to test your resource in all formats it claims to support - if your resource is written for LoROM and SA-1, then test your resource on both.
   
   
6. If your submission includes a palette file to be inserted with Lunar Magic, ensure it is of the .palmask format.
   .palmask files are used as to only replace the needed colors in the palette.
   
   
7. If submitting an update to a previously accepted resource, please include an appropriate version number.
   A version number may be assigned at a moderator's discretion if none is provided by the author.
   
   
8. If your resource is designed for SA-1 compatibility, make sure to identify the ROM type accordingly.
   For resources compatible with both LoROM and SA-1, correct mapping must be automatically detected and applied:
   Example SA-1/LoROM Check: Show/Hide
   
   

   Code

   	!dp = $0000
   	!addr = $0000
   	!bank = $800000
   	!sa1 = 0
   if read1($00FFD5) == $23
   	sa1rom
   	!dp = $3000
   	!addr = $6000
   	!bank = $000000
   	!sa1 = 1
   endif

   
   Code is subsequently adapted using the defines

   !sa1

   ,

   !dp

   ,

   !addr

   and

   !bank

   .
   
   
   
9. Your resource may be gently modified during moderation.
   A moderator may make very small technical changes to a submission, generally to fix small errors that lead to a bug or crash as discovered during moderation (for example, a missing SA-1 conversion). This is done as a courtesy to spare the author the effort of resubmitting after making a trivial fix. Any changes made are documented by the moderator in a comment on the resource and may be freely challenged by the author(s) if desired. Stylistic changes or changes that alter the core function of a resource will not be made in this way.