Munchy's Big Day - World 1 Edition

Oh hell yes. This C3 is epic win. Just epic win.
You're a great hacker from what I've seen, and this is really, REALLY well made. The palettes seem to differ from level to level, they are colorful and have nice color transitions. The level design also seems to be 10/10.

I know I said I'll play pretty much all of the hacks, but this is going to be the first on my list.

Oh, this one looks very promising! I really liked your paletting style (reminds me a lot of Aeon's) and also your muncher player GFX look kinda fun to play with. I may try this one later and post a review. :)

question: what the heck do I do with a .bps file?

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Oh wow, I love those resprites. They remind me of my first time playing ASMT.
Looking forward to the full version!

if they're basically IPS files that are just in a different format... why do they even exist? (I will have to download floating IPS just to patch it, I've never seen this format before...)

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Want to see my Super Mario Timeline?

In a nutshell, .bps are smaller in size.

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The demo felt really good in general, it was both good looking and well designed. For a first world, the difficulty felt appropriate, it was easy enough to be cleared without dying a lot (or at all), but didn't felt empty or boring. You also added path splits and secret rooms which added a lot of exploration feeling, something hard to achieve in SMW hacks.

My only complaints design-wise would be a bit of emptiness in the first section of Veggiesaurus Snack, you used some parakoopas, but no grounded enemies, and in the first indoor room of the castle, too many dry bones are easy to jump over. Also, Seafoam Steppe felt a bit hard compared to the rest of the levels in the demo, especially after the midpoint.

There's a few minor bugs with the Veggiesaurus: I was able to get here by eating a blue parakoopa, and there's some remaining of Yoshi's GFX when he eats enemies (couldn't take a screenshot).

Finally, this is just a personal recommendation, but since you're not using Mario for this hack, you should give our little muncher different abilities. It's weird to see a muncher run, jump and spinjump just like Mario would. Instead you could give him his own abilities and/or powerups.

Great hack. Keep it up!

Ok, I just finished playing this one and I've gotta say it's a pretty fun hack to play, just like I expected! Those player and enemy GFX are pretty unique, although I got a bit disappointed to see some enemies still using their vanilla GFX, especially the koopas. Level design was varied, yet simplish enough to make it fun to play. And, like I said before, you did a very nice job with paletting.

There's one thing that I have to point out, that is Cookie Coast. It definitely was a bit of a difficulty spike in comparison with the other levels and it felt somewhat longer (maybe because of the slow auto-scroll part or because I died a few times, I don't know). Tbh, I don't think Buster Beetle is a good enemy to use in early worlds, because it acts just too fast and is kinda out of pace, considering a world 1 level.


I think it'd be a good idea to add a black outline on the grey rocky floor, so it'd look more like part of the FG.

Another thing that I noticed is that the Smiling Coin counter is way too close to the player's name. I suggest moving it to the right side of the status bar, since there's no timer in this hack. Also, I have to agree with aj here. It'd be more stellar if Munchy had his own abilities, but that's just a plus. Good work so far and good luck with your project!

That was a nice little demo with beautiful visuals and great level design. My only complaints are that you can see Yoshi's neck bulge animation when the Veggiesaur swallows an enemy and that the secret exit in 1-3 seemed to be non-existent despite it being a red dot level.

To fix the flickering HDMA gradients, try applying this patch to the ROM.

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Quintesson Judge: Silence, or you will be held in contempt of this court!
Hot Rod: I have nothing but contempt for this court!
- Transformers the Movie (1986)

A Playable Muncher? Oh man! That is a new experience I am dying to try out! I want to LP this so badly when it's done!

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Just finished trying the demo, it was very fun to play :D
The graphic look is what I'm enjoying the most - the BG gradient in Seafoam Steppe looks absolutely gorgeous (by the way, where does the music come from? I'm pretty sure I've already heard it somewhere).

You can fix the disappearing HDMA in Bubblegum Islands with this hex edit:

Keep up the great work!