Flutter! V1.1 Release

Those of you in the audience who are above the age of 3 and a half may remember this dewy-eyed C3 thread that we made back in the beginning of 2024 - how foolish we were thinking that our hack would be submitted to the section directly after release. Six months later, after some more toiling in the horrific dungeons of Golden Egg, and thanks to the dedicated baserom management from the ever steadfast and wizened Blue Leaf, we are happy to finally present V1.1 of Flutter! At last, we will be submitting the hack to the YI hack section officially.

If you somehow missed the other two C3 threads on this hack - Flutter! is a YI romhack created by myself, Blue Leaf, Lazy, and Medic. The hack features 30 stages and includes traditional and classic design, Kaizo style platforming, puzzles that abuse unusual game mechanics, and everything in between.

So why a new thread for C3? Well for starters, the original hack release definitely had a lot of breaks and things that we wanted to fix - as time went on, a fairly significant amount of things were fixed or tweaked. The hack not being in the section for many months probably prevented it from getting some traction as well. Essentially, you can think of the time between the original February C3 post and now as a trial-period. Today, however, the definitive version of the hack is finally here. To celebrate, we’ve created this trailer, which is extremely off-brand for us, but ya know... So is us hacking YI…



You can download the hack Here, which by some miracle, will link you to an actual SMWC submission instead of the mysterious and mystical land of Lazy’s filebin.

If you need help patching the rom, please contact an SMWC admin. No actually I’m kidding, just read the YI FAQ.

The hack has been tested on Snes9X, bsnes/higan, and an original SNES. At the time of writing, it has NOT been tested on a Super NT, so play on that at your own risk.

In the coming weeks, we will be posting clear videos of individual levels to our youtube channels. If you’re impatient, or if you’d like to sit down with a nice bowl of popcorn, recline in your seat, and watch nearly 4 hours of nonstop YI content, you can check out a new 100% longplay video that TreuloseTomate kindly uploaded recently.

Thank you everyone for your patience as we worked on fixing everything for this release - if you’ve never tried out the hack before, we hope you are able to give it a try!

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I played a couple levels of Flutter a few months ago and liked what I played, but I recall hearing you were working on an updated version so I held off continuing. I'm looking forward to trying out the definitive hack! Congrats on release!

Easily the best Yoshi's Island hack out there, congrats on (re)release!

I very distinctly recall playing this a few months ago for my own enjoyment, and it's nothing short of amazing. Really nice to see some of the most talented members giving YI hacking a shot! There's still a bunch of things on YI to be taken advantage of.

I may replay it sometime that it's (re)released and I have some free time. Great job with making, all of you!

Oh right, I tend to forget that Yoshi's Island hacking is a thing. This looks really good! I love the music in the trailer. That's not in the game itself, right? (Does Yoshi's Island even support custom music yet?)

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Feel free to visit my website/blog - it's updated rarely, but it looks pretty cool!

Thanks everyone!


So the music is William Kage - Sunbathing from this album. It's not in the hack, though every song from this album does use original YI samples.

As for your other question - yes, YI hacking supports custom music (there's actually a YI Music section on the menu on SMWC). That said, currently, you can only replace songs, not add, so you're a bit limited in terms of custom music.

It looks nice from the video, but it looks like Dr. Kaizo Mario so I don't know if I'd be able to play it.

Yay, congrats on the (re)release! I played through a bit of Flutter! when it first came out and had so much fun with the hack, it was great. I didn't get a chance to share these thoughts before, but thankfully now I can remedy that.

Even as much as the trailer makes it clear Yoshi's Island has so much hidden potential for creative level design. I hope it paves the way for more YI hacks that take advantage of what the game has to offer, that would be really neat I think.

Definitely gonna dive back into Flutter! when I'm able to, and subsequently watch that 100% playthrough with a nice bowl of popcorn.

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