Hack Removal Log

Removed
Hack Name: Super Mario In Bowser Last Stand Final Fixup - 273.7 KB - 19 downloads.
Length: 13 levels
Author: Keyblade Master - Submitted by: Keyblade Master
Description: Thank you Kyoseron for pointing out even more bugs that I did not know about.

This is the final version of my short hack I did for C3 a while back,and in the process of making this hack I worked on for 4 weeks now the last two week being devoted to fixing all of the bugs that may possibly exist that even I,a mere perfectionist may not even notice during the development of my hack.I would like to thank everyone in SMW Central for inspiring me to make this short but enjoyable game.
but enough of the idle talk,let's get downloadin' and don't make me (meme censored)

Reasons
Very, VERY close to approval this time. But a lot of these errors are easy to fix and all could be fixed in under 10 minutes in one sitting, plus a few for testing.

1. Yeah. You still don't give any sort of warning for instant-death-even-with-star munchers. The player can not tell the difference by its palette unless they read this removal log - you need a message box.


2. You still didn't make the quick Map16 fixes to the redrawn bushes, so they're still boxy and nasty. Bushes aren't tileset-specific - they are always what they are. Nothing else will be affected if you change just the bush Map16.




3. When I come out of that bonus door, this room has a weird palette:


4. Last time, layer 1's ceiling was too low. This time, it's too high. Move it down just one tile and it should be perfect.


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And now, just a really stupid nitpick. This is not a removal reason. I hate "LIVES" in the status bar as is - every single hack I played with it, it irks me - but on the course clear screen, that's just fdadfs - it makes it look as though you named your character "Lives". xD I think you did this because a lot of your BG's use palette 0... but here's another solution: delete the "MARIO/LUIGI" in GFX28, find a tile you are not using, and draw an icon for the player's face to use instead, maybe. However, the status bar palette is NOT a major issue unless it's almost unreadable, so I'd just take the easy way out and restore "MARIO/LUIGI".

Removed
Hack Name: Mario Emprise - 443.8 KB - 64 downloads.
Length: 52 levels
Author: cyphermur9t - Submitted by: cyphermur9t
Description: Bowser's Target is Mario. Luring Mario into his traps, he knows that if Mario is dealt with the Mushroom Kingdom is his for the taking. Mario needs to stop Bowser!

Reasons
1. At least two places you can get stuck permanently until time runs out or you reset or die some other way.

a) Early on, if you collect the coins in front of that music note block pair, you're screwed.


b) Bring a fireflower into this boss battle, and if you kill the piranha plant and lose the fireflower, you can't kill the goomba. Before you smart alecks say "use spin jump", there IS no spinjump in this hack.


2. Ugh. I HATE WITH A BURNING PASSION WHEN PEOPLE DO THIS!

Can't even remember... how many times I got shot and didn't even see the bullet bills coming, because of the freaking OPAQUE MIST going over every single layer. Never force mist above all the layers if you can't see through it.

3. ...Ow... once on this platform, I could not avoid this damage:

Lower it one tile so you can duck and dodge the munchers, at least.

4. Player tilemap weirdness, mostly can be attributed to extra Mario graphics in GFX00. Delete those graphics, and you may just have a teeny bit of cutoffness in Mario/Luigi's feet when swimming, but that's preferable to being... a quadpod. Yes, I said it. Quadpod.


I just thought this frame was weird since when he looks up, his neck is completely gone and his head seems more pushed down than when he's looking forward.


(The ones above are the biggies. The rest of the errors after this are somewhat minor, with the exception of Luigi's palette, fade problems, and the P-switch glitch.)

5. Glitches and random errors:




Two levels out of thirty-something I played had this "music block turning into Snifit" glitch - neither of the levels used the Snifit, so I'd paste the music note graphic over the Snifit.


Silver switch carried through a pipe acts like a blue switch. Simply replace the silver switch in the cave with a blue switch by moving the silver switch to the right by one space. You don't appear to have any use for the silver switch anyway, and it was clearly meant to be a blue one.


HEY! Don't think I can't see that background garbage at the bottom. Set layer 2 scrolling to H: Constant, V: None, or H: None, V: None, and hopefully it won't mess up, although the stars won't scroll vertically. That gave the level an awesome effect to it, but eh. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made. This one is minor though since this is the only point in the level you can see it, so whether or not you make the sacrifice is totally optional.


There's a quarter of a tree hanging off the edge of the coast here.

6. Should do a tiny bit of title screen remodeling, as the layer 3 text cuts into the border.


7. Tons of bad palettes. First one I noted was Mario in Small and Big form; his face is has a bad palette. Actually, that one's minor compared to his brother... Mario's just got a brighter shadow.. if that, uh, makes sense... while Luigi looks like he's poisoned D:





More sprite palettes:


This didn't happen to the Ptootie in other levels except this one.


The fire muncher has some weird orange "patch" on his back, and the throw block palette is bad - it should either be all pink or all blue, and not have a pink/blue shadow or light source on it. Make palette 7 all blue or all pink on colors 3-7.


A really minor Albatoss palette error. The beak and feet are all black. Perhaps recoloring it with YY-CHR so that the beak and feet use the oranges would be better than going to every level and adding a custom palette for it.

Then, we could use some fade fix here:

Although... lots of your palettes are on palette 0 and there are a couple of colors there especially that a fade fix patch won't fix. You can assign those backgrounds a new palette as to not use 0 or 1, although you don't really need to since it's only going to be noticable in a few levels when the screen fades out or when you look at the status bar.

Actually, I prefer the hex edit that prevents fade out at the end of most levels. That's somewhere near the top of the ROM map. Since you're not using traditional bosses, which wouldn't be affected by this hex edit, this would definitely be a much, MUCH better option for your hack.

Now some fore/background palettes:

The yellow in the sand, as well as the gray outlining around the plants when some have a black shadow, look really, really bad. The sand should be all shades of brown, and the plants should be outlined in black. That's the problem with trying to recolor everything to use SMW's palettes - it's almost never going to be perfect.


Not liking how it looks below the grass.


The green is bad. Make the edges a shade of brown, and if that conflicts with the trees and cacti, copying colors onto palette 5 and using the greens in the second half of that palette should be good for them on this submap.


Not too fond of this foreground/background palette either. It's not painful to look at by any means, just really... awkward. I would expect that the space between the rocks is the darkest, and that the contrast of colors in the foreground be lower since the whitish color in the ground stands out a lot and seems unfitting.

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Other:
I have no idea if you meant to exclude the cactus thing that the Ptootie spits out, but I'm just going to point that out, that it doesn't spit those out. If you intended for it to be like this, then that's fine. It's not a removal reason, just something I'm not used to seeing.

Removed
Hack Name: Chaotic Mario World - Koopa's Revenge Version 1 (Re-Update) Demo - 299.4 KB - 16 downloads.
Length: 5 levels
Author: Voltrez One Million and Game Moron - Submitted by: Voltrez One Million
Description: Sorry for the last version being a bit incomplete and stuff but this version is a bit more complete.
If i missed a level, please tell me.
More in the readme.

I give credit to whoever made the SMWRedrawn GFX Patch

Reasons
1. Stuck forever spot. You can get up there when you're small, and you can't get back down, and you either have to use the shell on yourself to die or you have to wait time out or reset. Solution: move the message box further away so you can't jump on it to get up there, and make a gap in it for the player to get out of without having to reset or die, since the springboard in this level and a cape later on in the game will still let the player up there easily.


2. HOLY GLITCH ON A STICK

NPC sprite works, but looks like a chopped-up Chargin' Chuck. Insert the ExGFX for the sprite.


Pipe top... remember, tileset specific sprites have a number at the top of the screen - that SP slot is followed by the number of what graphic file you need to load into this level.


I don't even know what the hell those things between the munchers are.


Glitched Lakitu, glitched Spiny

3. Forced hit when you come out of this pipe. This is why you should never put enemy generators in the first screen. You should also never be required to have a split-second reaction time to avoid a hit. It's plain stupid, and that's why you rarely ever see them in a commercial video game. If Nintendo did this in SMB1, I think they would've ended up back making playing cards instead of video games before long. In other words, this stuff is not fun, and is going to lead your hack to disasterous ratings and reviews.


4. This jump is incredibly cheap, and it's the first level in the game. You have to spin jump off that Blargg to even have a chance at getting across, and that makes it a pain to carry the item over because the Blargg is placed too close to the block you have to jump from. Make this jump shorter or raise the ceiling, and just forget the Blargg. >_>


5. The top half of the Volcano Lotus has layer priority, making it look cutoff over the radish top. Remove the radish top or remove the Volcano Lotus.


6. Why does the speed booster have two halves of different blocks welded together? It looks pretty bad... so just have it have a solid graphic, not two clashing halves. Also, not liking the pink at all on the dark blue turn block... Enable custom palettes and make the pinks dark blue in this level.


Also, protip: Work on a difficulty curve, and eliminate anything that constitutes savestate abuse, like the Boo generator in the first screen that makes you land on a ghost. This hack is all over the place, and that's not good. The first level was harder than every level after that up until the castle (that annoying cave part is mostly to blame), and the one with the moving pipes was easy.

Removed
Hack Name: Mario And the Time Travel Crisis Demo - 257.3 KB - 31 downloads.
Length: 24 levels
Author: Whiter - Submitted by: Whiter
Description: This is my old hack I've been working on, I just wanted to resubmit it.

Anyway, the story:
Mario was walking around the Mushroom Kingdom after another successfull rescue of Princess Peach. As he was walking, he stumbled into a Time Warp.He found himself in Yoshi's Island past, and found that Bowser had also found this same Time Warp. Bowser Has started to destroy Yoshi's Island, and Has Kidnapped Princes Peach. (From the Past, of course.) Mario must save Peach, Stop Bowser and the koopalings from destroying the Island, and Find a way home!

Note: If you can't get to the level before the fortress, just move mario in Lunar Magic.

Reasons
1. The correct overworld event does not trigger on two levels:


Can't go up


Can't go right.

Please work with these more so that you can move the correct way after beating these levels - make sure every level triggers a different event, and that secret exits do not conflict with other levels' events.

2. Tile 1EB attacks! You should make a corner that acts like 1EB to put under the triangle, or just take out tile 1EB since I don't think you really need it here.


3. There should be an alternate path or a reset pipe/door since if you waste the P-switch thinking there might have been a secret back there, you'd end up having to die.


4. Blarggs should not be placed too close to slopes, lavafalls, or land, because they can jump right through them and you can see their cutoffness in all its glory. For example:


5. Every classic piranha plant in the game has a black stem. Red is perfectly acceptable. The biggest problem with the black stem is in the "Scorching Sea" level, where the background is all black, and it seems weird to only be able to see its head and not its stem when its stem can also hurt you, so that is why it is important to fix it.


6. I think this music note block should be replaced with a cement block since you can still reach up there with it. The music block glitches with the castle sprite set.

Removed
Hack Name: Mario in the World of Matik - Demo 2 Demo - 769.7 KB - 18 downloads.
Length: 20 exits
Author: Red Chameleon - Submitted by: Red Chameleon
Description: (sorry beta-testers, but I wanted to release this, and most people are getting prepared for Christmas, anyways)

This is Mario in the World of Matik Demo 2 (2 worlds), a project I have worked on for 4 months. It contains:

- New Levels
- New Overworld
- ExGFX
- Custom Blocks
- Self-Composed Music

Read the readme for more information. Comes with a folder with the music used, removed, and unused in the demo.

STORYLINE:
The seven gems that kept the land Matik in balance have been stolen! Now it's up to Mario to find out who's behind this disaster, and save this peaceful land!

Reasons
1. Mario at death's door... literally. This is not a clichéd metaphor in this respect, but a pretty important factor that was overlooked. You should make sure the screen exit leads to the correct level, since it just goes to a bottomless pit. If it's close to a screen boundary, make both screens have the same exit. :x




Excuse the fact I had a different amount of lives. The bottom screen was taken before I had a picture of the door that led there, and between those times, I lost a couple of lives.

The problem appears to be that you are using a secondary exit that dumps you in the middle of nowhere rather than at the start of the level you intended for Mario to go to.

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Now, just a funny thing I could only trigger once in testing: the boss got stuck in the floor. I'm not exactly sure if it's a Map16 problem or if it's the enemy itself (I'm guessing it's the former), but this is the first time I've seen it. Perhaps if you make this whole room (ground, ceiling, walls) be built out of blocks that act like 130, it won't happen, but I'm not entirely sure. Just speculating.

However, this is a really rare occurence, and as stated before, this glitch doesn't really matter, aside from the fact it can make the boss fight insanely easy.


Great demo, otherwise. I managed to get almost all the exits except for one in the great sea and any levels that are on that secret path. I'll give you a full review after the fixes are made and after I finish everything.

Removed
Hack Name: Chaos Chronicles Demo 1 (fixed) Demo - 441.5 KB - 36 downloads.
Length: 11 exits
Author: dragonphoenix29 - Submitted by: dragonphoenix29
Description: One after noon while mario was out for a walk, he stumbles on a secret tunnel going into the ground, one that he has never seen before. Mario decides not to go alone, so he goes home to ask Luigi if he wants to come with him into the tunnel and Luigi quickly agrees.

Meanwhile, Yoshi overhears the two brothers talking and decides he wants to follow them. He decides to get a head start, so he goes to the tunnel and wanders inside, unforunately he gets caught in a trap.

Will Yoshi get freed, or will Mario and Luigi ever find out, and what lies within this secret tunnel, continue on and find out.

CURRENT KNOWN GAME FEATURES
>Some custom graphics and SMW Redrawn graphics
>Unique Bosses
>No time limits (Time Fix Patch has been used)
>Power Down patch and Fade Fix Patch are both used
>More to come...

I just remembered two errors I had made that weren't fixed before I uploaded the game, so heres the fixed version (delete the old one please)

Reasons
1. I managed to run over the ceiling and get stuck down here permanently:


Make sure you patch that up - prevent the player from running over the ceiling, or use solid dirt inside of there so that you have zero chance of falling down here. This is the big reason for its deletion, and everything listed below is less significant.

2. This is most likely caused by the pipe being close to a screen boundary. If you make new pipe tiles on a different Map16 page, it will not change colors depending on screen.



-- Credit for stuff below goes to Lightvayne for playing through the rest of the hack. --

Something is messing up the status bar palette here when it doesn't look like anything should. This isn't important, as the status bar is still readable. It would also be good to use commas to separate clauses, but again, it's still easy to understand.


*Welcome to my castle, Mario. Can you survive my castle full of tricks, traps, and every other nice thing that will kill you?


An extremely minor error: Sprite buoyancy isn't enabled, so the Koopa ends up dropping down to the bottom of the puddle as if there was no water, but this can be overlooked. It's not really important at all.