Language…
19 users online: anonimzwx,  Atari2.0, codfish1002, Domokun007, gemstonezVA, Green Jerry, hhuxy, iamtheratio, Macrophaje, mario90, Metal-Yoshi94, monkey03297, nonamelol1,  nycvega,  Ringo,  Saphros,  Segment1Zone2, xMANGRAVYx, ZachJamesGames - Guests: 262 - Bots: 358
Users: 64,795 (2,375 active)
Latest user: mathew

Ganymede - Some music credit (or, how Kevin ported 30% of the entire soundtrack)

Standard

Hello, and welcome to GANYMEDE.



Giving my romhack the "Dark Side of Oz" treatment:


Current Feature (satisfaction guaranteed or your money back):
Ganymede 40th Anniversary Edition
YouTube Channel:
Ondore's Lies
Original Trailer:
Back of My Eyelids (2017)
The Internal Emulator series, part 1:
Back of My Eyelids



A little story about greener grass



A big stupid romhack that is now Five Six Seven Eight Nine (!) years in the making. Holy shit.
This is the demo showed off at Summer C3 2022, and is the sixteenth (!!) public release of Ganymede since Oct. 16, 2014.


This is the story of a boy who seeks adventure and fun.




The real-life story of GANYMEDE:






GANYMEDE (the album)



Previous demos and old versions, etc.




Shoutouts, hell yeahs, and things of that nature






Unexpected end tag (</center>) at 13922, expected </div>
Tag (center) was not closed.
Tag (center) was not closed.
GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
Wow. These levels are very neat! You seem to be very experienced with Super Mario World Hacking. I've always loved choconilla hacks, but this one is, just.. just wow. Looking forward to play this.
First of all, welcome to the central Ten

Second, these levels are looking great! I really wanna see more!
Thanks, both for the welcome and the kind words.

I'm thinking I might touch up some of the earlier levels and put up a patch, because I'd really love for people to play it and get some feedback. I'm dedicated to finishing one way or another.

Funny thing is, I'm not really very experienced with hacking, and what I did took me a couple of years to figure out. I haven't even attempted to alter the world map (other than change the level names) both because I care a lot more about level design, and because it seems a lot harder to do. The bulk of my experience comes from designing Mario levels on pen and paper starting when I was in elementary school.
GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
Here are a few more levels.

The Sentinels

This level replaces Forest of Illusion 4. After I finish the Forest Fortress and Roy's Castle, I'll be ready to release the first part of the hack.

A few levels I retouched:

Tricky Treetops

This replaces Yoshi's Island 4. A somewhat more demanding level than the ones before it, but short so that it doesn't become frustrating.

Constantly Under Fire

This replaces Vanilla Secret 2. There's only one exit, but managing to stay up top can get you there much more easily.


I should have a patch ready within the next week or two.
GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
Looking great so far! I notice that there's a missing tile on Constantly Under Fire (at the beginning), and on The Sentinels, I'm not a huge fan of the goal being against the wall like that. It looks awkward when Mario finishes the level, if you know what I mean.

Other than that, looks great. Looking forward to more! :)
Click here to enter the world of mediocre!
Dude, these look wonderful! Very cool designs so far. I love your philosophies too, I think they'll help you create a very fun and replayable hack (replayability, to me, is very valuable). Also, Goodybasket Grove is pretty genius.
My thanks for the sentiments are late but no less appreciated for it. I promise! I'm really glad you guys like it so far.

So, I'm a bit behind my stated schedule. I have been hard at work on this, in between everything else (I'm getting married tomorrow). Being that I want to release this for public consumption, I wanted to go over my earlier levels and tune them up, fix little broken things and so on.

Here's a handful more. It won't be long now until it's playable. I promise! Again!

I want to thank K3fka for his/her help in writing a script for me that adds a second onto the timer for each coin collected.

Here are some more of the levels:

Risky Reservoir

Replaces Yoshi's Island 3. It's actually one of the larger levels in the game for how early it appears.

Secrets of the Tomb

Formerly known as Donut Plains 2. This is one of the few levels where I followed the law of starting off with Ctrl+Del. Yeah, most of these others are actually alterations.

The Fiery Belly

Formerly Vanilla Dome 3. See? It's just an alteration! It's also the longest level I have, and it's one of my personal favorites.

Mines of Malice

The level once known as Vanilla Secret 1. I think I mistakenly identified another level as that. Anyway, it's a haunted mine level. I virtually entirely redesigned it recently because I hated how it originally looked.

Caramel Puddlejumps

Used to be Vanilla Dome 2. Again, merely altered. Another level that I replay sometimes just because I like it.

Sugartop Spookhouse

Okay, just have all of Vanilla Dome, why don't you? This is the ghost house for that area, obviously. I committed the cardinal sin of using two mildly-glitched sprites on purpose.

That's all the screenshots for now. Next time, it's playable. I promise. Yet again!
GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
Okay, seriously and for real: I am about to make it go live. All of the levels are done (at least, all of the levels that will appear in the first part). I just have a little bit of tweaking and testing to do. It should be just another day or two.

Since it is just one part of two (the second will have every level replaced), it will end after Roy's castle. Worlds 6 and 7, and the Special Star World levels will not yet be playable. However, there will be rewards awaiting those who make it all the way to these points in the game.

I'm really excited at the prospect of other people playing, and hopefully enjoying, this hack.
GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
Wait, what about the overworld? Also, love your pallets.
Thanks. The palettes are all I've changed on the overworld, actually. I find the overworld editor a great deal less intuitive than the level editor, and I've never gotten comfortable with it. Every time I've tried to toy with the overworld, I've ended up wrecking it. I want to do another hack one day, and devote the time to learning how to edit the overworld and toy with ASM (another aspect of hacking that has confounded me), but for this one, I've just worried about making levels.
GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
I now have a full release thread for this hack here. Please come and check it out!
GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
Hi, I'm back, and I'm still working on this. Thanks to everyone who's given it a try. If you haven't, please do. Link's up top.

I have a few new levels completed, which will be playable in the final and full version of the game. Take a look, let me know what you think. Your feedback is my food and drink. Even if you tell me you hate it, you've given me a bit of your time and attention, and that's valuable in its own way.

Now, on to the levels. As I am not moving around the overworld in this hack, these levels replace the first four of World 6.

Surefoot Summit 2 3

The bridges honed your precision jumping skills, and the forest made you wary of secret passages. If you're good enough to get this far, you'll have the skills you need to go on. And you'll need them.

House of Many Teeth

Perhaps here, the more useful skill is knowing how to fall.

Valley of Spears 2

You probably don't want to do much falling here, though. It will do you little good.

Wraparound Ridge

If you don't know where you're going, you won't really ever get anywhere.
GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
The Heinous Holdfast

It's a descriptive name. These levels are getting nearer to the end. The ones in the Valley are going to be a lot of fun to do, as well the Special World levels.
GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
I am shouting into the darkness (of the latest level).

It's called Fairyfire Grotto, so as to justify a reason to have lava that was a strange, different color. Fairyfire Grotto is filled with treasure and a lot of tricky jumps and traps that will make you use all the jumping skills the previous few levels have taught you to learn. It's one of the longest levels I've made for the game, so far. I had to adjust quite a few things that initially made the difficulty unfair.

There are 20 more levels to go before the hack is complete. I'm excited!
GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
I'd say getting rid of the layer 3 background stuff would be the best idea, since you already have a full layer 2 background. The palette of the layer 2 background I'm not too sure about though; it looks kind of...discolored? It feels like it wasn't made with a proper gradient or anything like that.

As for the design itself, it looks rather empty. There doesn't seem to be much enemy population, just a bunch of annoying jumps on very steep slopes. Even the places that aren't are still empty. You also miss a lot of opportunities to hide 1-up mushrooms, like that alcove at the beginning where you just shoved a bunch of coins. That would be a perfect place to hide a 1-up.
I actually forgot that I had Layer 3 on, and I hadn't noticed. That will be gone. Fair enough point on enemy population, and that I will also see to.

Regarding that alcove that has only coins...

GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
Umm, I don't get the point of these pipe-like blocks, I think cement blocks or proper ground corners will do the work better. The design, hmm... I think it's lacking enemies, but watch out with the steep slopes, because you have to jump to climb these. The palettes are okay, however I'm not a fan of the BG palette, the outlines should be darker, but that's just me.

A small, stupid question... what are those black, electro-like blocks? Do they hurt the player?
They do. They are basically my way of getting floating munchers without the silliness of literal floating munchers.

I've been working on this just about every day. I'm hell bent on having a finished product. Now that I'm down to the last several levels, I've been going back and seeing what more could be done with levels I've already finished.

One example is with Icewater Lake, which looks like this in the demo and will resemble this in the final release.
GANYMEDE

Chapter Two: Land of No Shame
The vanilla palette looks a bit like abstract, but that's just me. That's because of the white outlines on the icy ground, maybe it was the point.

Nevermind. Looks interesting. The chocolate version looks fine as well except for the Koopa palettes I find a bit weird. They are too saturated and the green/yellow ones have a lack of shading. Other things look fine. The choco version looks more icy, I think.

Standard