Winter 2024 C3 Spotlight Nominations - Winter 2024

It's that time again for Spotlight Nominations! Please nominate any threads to be featured for the top of the site while C3 is ongoing and make sure to follow these few guidelines:

- Don't nominate your own thread, unless it is really being strongly ignored!
- Explain why a thread you're nominating is worthy of the spotlight! $#smw{O_O!}$
- Try and nominate underappreciated threads for how good they are!
- Don't go overboard and keep your nominations limited to just a few choices!
- Help us out and provide a link directly to the thread--it helps us get them added to the Spotlight faster. $#smw{^_^;}$
- Check the list below before you nominate! It may already be up there!

Happy nominating!

Once we have a few nominations, the tip box will be updated with items to showcase periodically throughout C3.

I also just didn't nearly copy the previous nominations post word for word, I promise.

Current List of Winter 2024 C3 Spotlights

trillian has made an easy to work with userbar generator to spice up your bio and post footer!
Nitrogen hack has been SPOTted!
OEO6 shows that the GOOD OLD DAYS of trilogies are dead!
Ice Man showcases some beautiful graphics for the upcoming Toad's World 2!
yoshifanatic shows off that overworlds can be bigger in Texas, err, the Mushroom Kingdom!
OrangeBronzeDaisy and Batata Douce shows off impressive updates for The 3 Little Princesses!
Anas provides 2bpp graphics for us to enjoy!
icrawfish gives us so many more samples to use!
Segment1Zone2 told us we love tracker songs and we do now!
bebn legg spins us right round baby, right round!
Fullcannon provides more sounds for songs to be used in!
King Mayro shows how CD can be better than cartridge!
Dispace showcases some new ports, remixes, originals, and all!
Zavok gives us some creative ports!
RussianMan has some hot requests coming through!
Rykon-V73 rips some great graphics from Yoshi's Island DS!
Darolac reminds us that like the job market, experience is required!
Big Brawler has teamed up with Sanrio to release a My Melody hack!
Idunno has a remake of a classic Ninji hack!
Roberto zampari has a story to tell...VISUALLY!
Mr. MS remastered this hack and it's beautiful!
Eevee shows who needs Mario when we can have Anna!
anonimzwx mixes Mario with DKC and Metal Slug?!
MarioFanGamer gives us some new blocks to use!
Anorakun shows us some BERRY good graphics!
trillian provides an update for a tool used by all!
Dzing collabed with Deckard Cain for a few ports!
Pink Gold Peach gives us not one, but TWO OSTs?!
KungFuFurby provides an update to AddmusicKFF!
Skewer retells the story of The Devious Four!
LadiesMan217 is working on two awesome OSTs!
Daizo Dee Von has a song...release...thing!
Blaagon and P OOP JUM P!
Lazy gave us a Yoshi Island hack that makes our hearts FLUTTER!
Wavee gives us a fresh demo hack with fresh music!
Mischievous Marc pits us against the Island of Infestation!
Heitor Porfirio gives us a semi-normal hack!
Israelcv12cv shows off some neat YI and SMB2 sprites!
wolfram shares a creative OST from QLDC Hackjam!
E-man38 shows the love with Spesh Planet 2! and a kaizo hack!
Steven Atauchi C. mixes up Super Mario World!
wye and Gal Gadot remake Super Mario World...in godot!
Hammerer is quizzing us!
Hayashi Neru provides some pretty Layer 3 graphics!
Ahrion showcases unused ports and an OST!
Heitor Porfirio shows off some advanced Super Mario fonts!

i made an userbar generator, by trillian
It's an easy to work with userbar generator, very useful for anyone looking to spice up their post footer or bio.

SPOT, by Nitrogen
A recent hack in progress from Nitrogen that brings scrapped and unfinished levels together in harmony. The hack's name is even a clever acronym, what more could you really want?

good old days 4 - Some levels and their descriptions, by OEO6
OEO's latest entry in the good old days series once again pushes the limits of pure vanilla with creative concepts and visuals. Please give it all the support it deserves.

What is a Lunar Magic, and can I eat it?

Toad's World 2 Screenshots (All Levels done) by Ice Man
These graphics look amazing!

I'd like to nominate 3 threads:

Yoshifanatic's ASM Showoff: Part 17
The Overworld Revolution patch is a massive upgrade over the original SNW and it would be great if many users opted for this patch.

The 3 Little Princesses V1.4
OBD, along with Batata Douce did have major progress. Adding a level indicator, a character switch feature, as well as their current hack shows great promise.

Anas's 2bpp Bazaar
His thread not only shows very impressive Mode 0 tileset, but it was also the reason I got to use Mode 0 in a level of mine also.

BRReaking the Mold: 1000-Sample Spectacular by icrawfish

Uhhhhhhhhh... I don't have anything for C3 so enjoy these very awesome and cool Tracker ports, I guess. by Segment1Zone2

Come find ports among (🤣) slightly rotated text (Surprise Status: POSTED!) by bebn legg

List Soundtrack - List Hacks

Mega Man X3 OSTs

Fullcannon’s sample pack thread has a lot of value, with it’s one massive brr pack release, updates to an existing giant pack, and more.

bebn’s music thread has a lot of unique and wacky port choices as well as just being funny to read.

King Mayro Super Mario Bros. CD Famicom:
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=126918
This is probably might be the first time I ever seen an SMW Romhack go beyond the limits of the SNES/Lunar Magic itself! Thanks to the special mode 0 feature! Needs to be spotlight!

Dispace C3 Ports Collection:
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=126830
Loads of collection ports, the original composition being the stand outs!

Zavok's C3 Audios
I like this music.

I would like to nominate This thread: Show/Hide

by Rykon-V73, allot of very nice rips and useful layer 3 aestetics worth checking out

For the 2nd, I will nominate yoshifanatic for his continuing thread of useful tools and resources, allot of dedication here: Show/Hide

The final nomination, for RussianMan and his interesting use of sprites once again, a bunch of shenanigans to use here: Show/Hide

You are challenged by Champion Daisy!

LAYOUT FOOTER:

I nominate Darolac's Platforming Experience Required
It's always cool to see people from our community branch out into full game development. Platforming Experience Required is a game where Darolac fully embraces his experience and style with SMW Hacking and translates it into his own take on a 8-bit platformer.

My Youtube Channel

Onegai My Melody - My Melody Adventure (おねがいマイメロディ- マイメロディの冒険)

Really cute hack and very well done, in general. I think it deserves a bit more attention.

The gorgeous Ninji Land remake by Idunno

A charming remake of the Ninji Land 1 hack by Idunno. It uses an unique "no outline" design for levels and sprites.

Roberto's visual novel game and amazing graphic rips

Roberto is trying to expand his horizon, by making a visual novel game and he brought some versatile graphic rips, as well.

Luigi's New Quest Remastered

A lot of effort went into the aesthetics and reworking of this hack, so I think it deserves much more attention than it got.

Anna's Treasure Trove by Eevee
The hack continues to look beautiful as is.

[ASM] Dynamic X by anonimzwx
Still a very wicked sprite system.

Two New Custom Bounce Blocks by MarioFanGamer
More minor sprite showoffs for the win.

Anorakun needs some attention:

Anorakun's Berry Good Stuff by Anorakun

I nominate trillian's Asar v1.90 release thread.

Given that asar seems to be a heavily-depended on tool of SMWCentral these days, I think it deserves a spotlight since, like my own AddmusicK topic thread, it may not be discussed about very much on the forums, but C3 tends to be a good way to show its release.

Stay a while and listen... by Dzing
Four covers, with each of identifiable qualities and sound direction.

A few ports by Pink Gold Peach
Porting over the Crash franchise to it's completion, including the spin-off series.

AddmusicKFF + AddmusicK 1.0.9-1.0.10 Winter 2024 C3 Update Thread by KungFuFurby
Updates of importance and quality are still active on what is one of the most essential of music writing to this day.

The Crater ReTold by Skewer

It is being overlooked, but taking a moment to visit the booth shows the high level of quality put into the hack development that is quite unlike most hacks.

Super Mario Land (All-Stars) Soundtrack by LadiesMan217.

Also overlooked, but his music porting is quality stuff and understands the All-Stars style of music very well.

~omh~ music by Daizo Dee Von

Resource release of the compositions and ports bespoke to Team JANK's ~omh~. Also an overlooked thread.

Modern Redrawn Mario Bros. 1.5 (last update - February 14, 2023, some new bonus frames, tons of minor touchups to various poses)

On Pixel Art Requests: Depends on what it is and if I have the time for it. If its complex and I don't have the time, don't expect me to accept it.

Projects I support:

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[19:44] <StrikeForcer> When the information posted clearly is fact-based.