Mario World: Peach's Peril (PLAYTESTERS WANTED)

Hello all!
This hack is a collaboration hack with Froggyman75 (Not an SMWC member yet).
It will be entirely vanilla. Even though I have experience with ExGFX, I want to see what I can do with the vanilla GFX.

This is my first large-scale project. I have made several smaller hacks in the past though.

The game will have around 5 worlds. Perhaps more if interest is taken.
Each world will have 5-8 levels, including secret exits of course.
Not a whole lot is planned ahead of what we have made as of yet.

We now have the teaser released for world 1
Here it is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_szPvp3vHk


Here are some screenshots of what we have done so far.
Please note: These screenshots aren't for showing off, but to show progress and to show that the hack is actually being made.


Title screen: Finished

Overworld progress:2.1/5 worlds finished.

World 1 status: Finished

Un-named level 1: Finished
Cheapcheap lake: Finished
Pipe forest: Finished
Termite bridge: Finished
Yellow switch palace: Finished
World 1 castle: Finished

World 2 staus: Finished

Moon storehouse: Finished. This level just gives the player 15 lives and some power-ups.
MountainPeak Cave: Finished
Spiny Beach: Finished
Muncher Mountain: Finished
Eerie Transport: Finished
World 2 castle: Finished

World 3 status: early stages.
All of the events are made, and the graphics and levels have been place. I just need to actually work on the levels now.


Overall progress: 26%


PLAYTEST DEMO AVAILABLE
PM ME FOR THE PATCH FILE


Keep tuned :3

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CURRENT HACK: Mario world: Peach's Peril


Youtube accounts:
Lets play's: http://www.youtube.com/NaturalOmen
Ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/ocarinasherb

The ol' flying munchers. The main reason to get your hack deleted.

Cutoff.

Also, perspective error!

You can easily fix the cutoff and flying/stacked munchers with Map16.

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@Jowth: The flying munchers are ONLY for the title sequence. I will probably replace them with something later, but that is just me being lazy. They will not be used in the main game, I assure you.

The cutoff screenshot is of a rough and unfinished level, it's just showing the kind of simplicity the early levels will have.


@Catobat: Perspective error?
If you mean the floating bridge, it's because the other side isn't currently on-screen, the bridge get's built across a little more after Termite bridge, and then the bridge is finished when finishing the next level, to reach more land.


Anyway guys, thanks for the help and thanks for showing interest.
I will definitely drop a PM to anybody who wants to playtest the hack.
The first playtests will be sent out when we have finished world 2!

~Sherb



UPDATES: Fixed title screen floating piranhas.
Made a level for world 2
Decorated overworld a bit nicer

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CURRENT HACK: Mario world: Peach's Peril


Youtube accounts:
Lets play's: http://www.youtube.com/NaturalOmen
Ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/ocarinasherb

Oh that's intentional. It's a play on words :3


UPDATE: World 1 is very nearly complete. Just gotta add the finishing touches to the castle and make the final event on the overworld. Yay!

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CURRENT HACK: Mario world: Peach's Peril


Youtube accounts:
Lets play's: http://www.youtube.com/NaturalOmen
Ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/ocarinasherb

I don't know, you may have patched it badly.

C7 now looks very different, and so do most of the other modified levels in that ROM.

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CURRENT HACK: Mario world: Peach's Peril


Youtube accounts:
Lets play's: http://www.youtube.com/NaturalOmen
Ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/ocarinasherb

So I have been away for the weekend, but I came back and got to work on the game a little more.

I have done quite a bit, including tidying up some of the levels and finishing the W1 castle.
As soon as froggyman finishes level 3, we will be releasing a teaser video of world 1.
A playable demo will be released to any playtesters when world two is finished.

I have also edited the screencaps in the first post showing you guys that I have been taking what you say in to account, and editing the hack accordingly.

Thank you for the help
~Sherb

UPDATE: World 1 is completely finished (Apart from naming levels)
You can now see the video teaser of world 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_szPvp3vHk

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CURRENT HACK: Mario world: Peach's Peril


Youtube accounts:
Lets play's: http://www.youtube.com/NaturalOmen
Ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/ocarinasherb

Okay!

So with world 1 completely finished, we have started world 2. Only one of the levels are complete, but I am currently working on the castle. The castles gimmick isn't entirely original. By which I mean I am sure someone has done it before.

Screenshots of what I have done so far are to come soon!

We are still looking for a few more people to playtest the game. the first playable demo will be released when world 2 is completed.

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CURRENT HACK: Mario world: Peach's Peril


Youtube accounts:
Lets play's: http://www.youtube.com/NaturalOmen
Ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/ocarinasherb

My internet has been down for a while, but I still worked on this hack the whole time.

The first 2 worlds are now finished and ready for playtesting!
Caps to come

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CURRENT HACK: Mario world: Peach's Peril


Youtube accounts:
Lets play's: http://www.youtube.com/NaturalOmen
Ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/ocarinasherb

This looks like fun. I'd playtest this for you.

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My Current Hacking Project: "Static E"
Supporting:
Mario's Kool-Aid Acid Trip (maybe?)

So I would like to thank the playtesters who helped me with the problems. Thanks to them, I have sorted many of the issues, and fixed a lot of cutoff (which I didn't notice).

I will no longer be requiring playtesters.

The next version will be release for testing once world 4 is finished.

Also, I will update the first post, with info on what I have done on world 3.

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CURRENT HACK: Mario world: Peach's Peril


Youtube accounts:
Lets play's: http://www.youtube.com/NaturalOmen
Ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/ocarinasherb

so yeah, as i wrote in the PM, i'm very interested. the hack is not perfect but this can be changed with some expirience. if you want i can make a walktrough of your hack with some text-comments what you could edit and so on ;)

I responded to your PM Thanks for showing interest!

Also, I guess I should update the first post with all of the progress I have made.

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CURRENT HACK: Mario world: Peach's Peril


Youtube accounts:
Lets play's: http://www.youtube.com/NaturalOmen
Ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/ocarinasherb

I think it needs a new story, I'd love to help with that

Well I was going for the sarcastic 'generic' approach, but this is because I am awful at making stories.
If you would like to help me in writing a new one, I completely welcome that!
Thanks~!

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CURRENT HACK: Mario world: Peach's Peril


Youtube accounts:
Lets play's: http://www.youtube.com/NaturalOmen
Ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/ocarinasherb

I welcome this challenge

usually it takes me 5-10 mins to make an amazing story the author loves and is amazed at

but this...you want a princess story?
the most generic over used scenario, will be remodeled by my hands into the greatest thing ever

well now I have very high expectations
Thanks a lot for this help, I will make sure to credit you.

(All of my playtesters shall also be credited).

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CURRENT HACK: Mario world: Peach's Peril


Youtube accounts:
Lets play's: http://www.youtube.com/NaturalOmen
Ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/ocarinasherb

BITCHIN'
did it in an hour

=OPENING SCREEN=

The princess has been kidnapped, bowser must be up to his old tricks again. Go and defeaty him like usual, it shouldn't be too hard, this happens 5 times out of the month.

=game=
mario goes out to find out what happened to the princess, assuming bowser has started up his old tricks again, he was ready to beat some sense into bowser.
the first castle, you see bowser, and he tells you nothing that happened involes him, and shows you what he HAS been up too (its a picture of the ice king from adventure time capturing princesses, only its not the ice king, its bowser)

mario returns to the castle, and talks with luigi and toad. they have no idea who is behind the kidnapping, but toad says he saw wario acting strange, and says to check it out.

you reach the castle with wario, and see a figure behind a cage with a sheet covering it, and mario demands to know what he has done with the princess.

he agrees to reveal what he has done, if you beat him
-battle-
wario removes the sheet, and you see waluigi, and they double team you and send you to an alternate realm

the realm is darm and evil, enemies instant kill you and the world gives off a bad vibe.

the castle is a dark evil you, with the cape ability (flying and hitting ground to stun you)

and fire flower

once you defeat him, a pipe is erected, and it sends you to the final world, a night time/lava/cave/mountain/final world thingy

fortresses, ghost houses, and lava, a final world!

you reach the final castle...but its...weird...its...a mansion?

you travel thorugh, ghosts and baddies...its...familiar somehow...

you reach the final room

ITS LUIGI'S MANSION!!!

luigi was behind it all

~~~I made this up next part up, use it if you want, or come up with a new ending~~~

"so you figured it out, have you mario, I thought I had you going, I thought i threw you off my trail"

"why luigi! you're my brother! you're her friend!"

"ah, but that didnt seem to matter to you, a quest to save the princess? why ask luigi for help, let luigi have any part of your life, its not like he was her friend, not like he could help! well i showed you, I had you running around like a chiken with your head cut off. well you see? luigi CAN make it on his own. the only game I got was luigi's mansion! no on liked that game!!"

"..."

"nothing to say? well we'll say what you have to say after we fight, by the way, I learned a few things!!"