SMW Custom Level - Shadow Forest

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EvilGuy0613

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Published on October 6, 2013 9:21:05 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI0NCJHEZT0

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Super Mario World (1990)

Duration: 4:02

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Well....I'm sort of kind of back....somewhat....I'll explain. Encase anybody didn't see my video announcing that this channel will be on break (A forced one.) I mentioned that my computer has recnetly had a lot problems and I wasn't willing to compromise through them, especially after everything got deleted. Well turns out some good actually came out of this. It deleted things that were causing my internet to lag so now it runs pretty fast. (Can actually use Youtube normally now.) That and....I was honestly kind of dreading not being able upload or hack or write so I decided that I'm going to compromise with all the problems my computer has after all. Still saving up to get a lap top but I figured I might as well use this computer while I still can. I'm actually working off my flash drive and my dropbox account so I can avoid the worry of things getting deleted off my computer. So for now I can still upload anything on the SNES (Or any other emulator that has a built in recorder.) Still can't upload console gaming yet but it still might be awhile before I have my lap top, so I'm not going to wait that long to upload.


Info: With that said, oh man....it's been almost 2 months since I last hacked and even longer since I've worked on Super Mute World. I just started hacking again this weekend....and it feels....strange. Usually when I hack, everything kind of just flows together but there were a lot of questionable choices while I was working and I kept revamping certain parts of the level. All I know is, it's going to take some to get use to hacking again but I'm just glad I can again.

So anyways, I decided to kind of start simple and by that I mean using resources that were already in the ROM. This level is a secret level in Area 9: Oriental/Tower though it doesn't really fall into those themes. The gimmick to the first part of the level is those disappearing and reappearing blocks. (Palette wise.) Not the most original gimmick I know but I've been wanting to make a level that involved those for awhile now. The blocks aren't as tricky to deal with as they may seem but over-thinking where to land can easily be the death of you, so taking your time with making those jumps is required. (Died a few times due to over thinking.)

The vertical part of the level was meaningful until I learned that in vertical levels priority is automatically off for some reason. (At least it was here.) Going behind bushes and enemies popping out of bushes was kind of the planned theme for that section but I moved it to the last part of the level instead. Overall this level's difficulty is average being that it's not too hard nor too easy, just right in the middle. A lot of the mistakes I made were due to not being use to playing on the keyboard. Being that it was my first level within two months, I'm quite satisfied overall. I also plan to go on a major revamping streak for this hack but for now I'm just going to ease my way back into hacking little by little.


Comments and Feedback are always welcome and appreciated as I'd really like to your thoughts! (Haven't said that in awhile

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