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Super Mario World (1990)

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This is a Super Mario World level that I created in which you don't have to touch the controls at all.

This was made for SMW Central's Automatic Level Design Contest 2024. Info can be found here:
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=127304

Download link for this level:
https://bin.smwcentral.net/u/12382/SMW%2BAutomatic%2BLevel%2BDesign%2BContest%2B2024.bps

Man, this took quite a lot of time and effort, especially when I got to the point where adding or modifying a sprite almost anywhere in the first area would cause something else to break earlier in the level for whatever dumb reason. Also, I had to deal with "random elements" too. As such, this is only one of the possible "timelines", but I think I managed to make it so that this level always works to completion regardless, although points scored and time taken can vary slightly. (So, I didn't try to make all of the digits match or anything like that, which I had done in a few of my past automatic levels.)

I'm really hoping all of my efforts paid off. I definitely felt happy when that last red Parakoopa I added at the end turned out to be just about perfect for helping wrap up the level. And, I'm glad I was able to make both sections last long enough so that their respective songs both completed at least one full loop.

And, I got it done with a day to spare, just in case it's discovered that something is broken somehow. So, if you download and play it before the April 22, 2024 deadline, let me know if something does indeed go wrong somewhere.

Also, for those that do download and play it, there's a little bonus level for you to "play" afterwards, and also maybe a couple of small secrets to find if you decide to manually take control in certain places...

Level music:
-Siren (Alexander Brandon) - Snowfall
-Siren (Alexander Brandon) - Bright Club Lane

Download links to these songs on SMW Central:
Snowfall: https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=29475
Bright Club Lane: https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=8172

Links to Alexander Brandon - Topic's videos of these songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy1xJjMHmZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJHg8mVnk1A

Also, MarkVD100 made a couple of unlisted videos of my level. The first one being a "reaction video" (which also includes the level that can be "played" afterwards), and the second one being an HD version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKJ0xkj1Ufg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7sWM54eBC8
And, Mark got the other "timeline" of this level, which finishes in a slightly different amount of time, and with a different score.

UPDATE: Flandre tested this level too, and the first attempt resulted in Mario losing Yoshi while stomping the Chuck at about the 2:00 mark here, instead of bouncing cleanly off of the Chuck, and this causes Mario to die to the Bullet Bills shortly afterwards. I tested it again myself, and yep, that can indeed happen occasionally. Nuts... I guess this level isn't 100% successful after all... I'd say it still works approximately 75% of the time or so.

Also, Flandre mentioned that it can fail at the very end as well, where apparently Mario and Yoshi end up stuck in between the fourth and fifth note blocks in that horizontal row of them, but I was unable to replicate that myself after several attempts. That must be a super rare occurrence then.

Feel free to comment, but just know that I dislike profanity. Any comments containing F-bombs and/or S-bombs will be Bullet Billed! (In other words, they'll be deleted.)
(Comments containing other types of inappropriate content may meet this fate as well.)

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