/vr/ - Retro Games

Plumber for All Seasons. You're probably tired of seeing people dickride that hack, but it's very well made and a safe recommendation.

Check out the Self-Made Island youtube channel. It's a video catalog of mario hacks, usually good ones.

>>9479835
12 Magic Orbs is pretty good, aside from a few awful levels that ruin the hack.
Super Mario Bros: Peach's Adventure.
Panic in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Adventure in the Gemstone Island.
New Super Mario World 2: Around the World (same dev as Orbs).
Also, there is this pic, but so far I only like Luigi and the Island of Mystery.

Mushroom Kingdom over crimson skies, JUMP games, /ourhack/, Brutal Mario and some Korean hacks like Piranha Island are pretty well made
>>9479905
That channel has been inactive for a while and his latest videos are mostly old hacks. But he has some good recommendations I accept that.

>>9481552
>Mushroom Kingdom over crimson skies
Garbo.
>Brutal Mario
Boring.
>Piranha Island
Extremely boring.

Super Peach World. It's not too hard (for me personally, it's hard at all), levels are clever and not too long, has an amazing original soundtrack. It's almost a hidden gem, I'm surprised that it never gets brought up.

>>9479835
I played a few, "Bowser Rampages Again", "Return to Dinosaur Island", "TEN", "ASPE Mario", "Super Mario Bros. Plus". "Romancing Mario", " NOT SO SADISTIC MARIO" to name a few

why not try out my romhack? it's the first I ever made but it's pretty cool. I would say it's worth trying just for the cool overworld I created and the music. It's fairly vanilla but I like it that way, no weird puzzles or kaizo shit, while still being fairly difficult.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/w9wu695zet1y7hf/Super+Julie's+world.sfc~/file

>>9481547
It says epic fail when you game over, which will happen often. Idk felt pretty tough to me, although I'm admittedly not very good

>>9481547
>Brutal Mario
>great tier
It's an important and technically impressive hack, but the levels are mediocre and the bosses are tedious.

>>9479887
This. There's a lot of good SMW hacks out there but to be completely honest, most of them are going to kick your ass if you aren't pretty well acquainted with the game.
Plumber for All Seasons is definitely the best one if you're looking for something close to the original SMW in terms of difficulty.

>>9481630
Post hacks that you consider good so I can give you recommendations, else you're just blabbing shit without elaborating.
>>9482675
Filtered.

>>9482797
I'm >>9481547
>>9482485
"Epic fail" is retarded, but the enemy placement and the level design are pretty creative. It's hard, but I never got bored of trying again. Until some idiotic level you have to beat later in the hack.
>>9481726
I'll try it, man. But what the fuck is sfc file and how do I make it playable?

>>9483148
.sfc files are SNES ROMs, like .smc. He messed it up and added that tilde at the end. Just remove the tilde and then you can load the game.

The

Po's Adventure Neko Burst
The Annual Vanilla Level Design Contest: Collaboration Hacks
JUMP and JUMP Half
Super "Mario" World 2
A Plumber For All Seasons
Super Wakana Land
Mushroom Kingdom - Under Crimson Skies
Super Mario Land 2.5
The Legend of Zelda - The Mini Quest

>>9483148
>what the fuck is sfc file and how do I make it playable?
sfc is a normal snes rom that runs in any emulator or flashcart, my bad though, just take out the ~ at the end of the file extension and it should work

THIS HACK NEEDS A NAME

Play in a parallel universe version of Mario World with creative level themes, alternate switch palace colours, an interconnected map, mysteries main villain, and an awesome post-game experience.

>>9484861
Thanks for the shill

>>9481547
>2+3: The Essence Star
I remember this being like, the most popular or highly rated hack on SMWCentral. People don't really talk that much about it anymore though.

>>9484964
Yeah, why is that? I love the game. It had a nice story

How would you guys go about shilling your romhack release if you had to? I'm planning on releasing a demo for my hack on SMWC during C3 in a month. I'd like to bring attention to it without just spamming it all over the place.

Side question, what are some things you guys want to see done/attempted in more hacks? I feel like many traditional hacks have felt pretty generic recently.

>>9485443
Are there streamers who play SMW hacks? I'd ask them to play mine. That's what I was doing during Mario Maker 2 prime.

>>9485963
Yeah, but they mostly play kaizo. There's a few who play standard, though. Check the twitch directory for SMW

>>9484964
>>9485262
according to comments, it has problems running in modern emulators. if you haven't used ZSNES in a long time, hacks like that can be a hassle

>>9485963
As the other Anon said, most streamers only play Kaizo and only play normal hacks when it's a "major" release, such as Jump 1/2 or A Plumber For All Seasons. Do people really just ask streamers to play their stuff? I figured that would be annoying. I do know one guy I could ask to play my hack, but at the same time I don't want to be that annoying guy in twitch chat spamming "play my level!!!" That mario maker streamers always complain about.

>>9486202
There isnt much of a "pway my wevel" presence in SMW. Hacks are too long for that to be viable.
Upload it to smwcentral and pray one of the streamers has to moderate it

What hack feels the most like Mario Maker light-kaizo levels? What I mean by that is I feel like Mario Maker kaizo has a very distinct feel from SMW kaizo and I would like some of that in SMW. But only light-kaizo since I'm not that good, so nothing super technical.

>>9479835
check out Bowser's Cataclysmic Trap

>>9483327
Retarded walking simulator that's boring as fuck and stops being interesting after the novelty wears off in 2 minutes. No explanation for any of the shit you're expected to do. It's 100% youtuber bait.

https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=25738

>>9487212
That's not Peach

>>9487212
I keep seeing the end of her hair as a tail.

>>9487212
This could be the single greatest ROM hack of all time and I still wouldn't play it

>>9487473
You're missing out on pure, unfiltered SOUL.

>>9486202
What hack is this it looks kino. Or is it just art?

>>9487884
Not sure honestly. I just stole it from the SMWC discord because I thought it looked cool

>>9487625
you mean obesity?

>>9488098
No I said
>pure, unfiltered SOUL

>>9487212
>>9487625
God that's fucking revolting.

>>9488119
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>>9487473
Sad that you guys need to be so serious and tough over a simply drawn sfw character and can't just have a chuckle over the dumb inexplicable fetish while playing an otherwise great romhack. This place is really full of the most bitter people.

>>9485443
There's youtube channels that showcase hacks, send it to them. Spamming is really the only way other wise, dude. Just be tasteful with your spamming.

>>9486202
god, kaizo is such a fucking stain on smw nowadays. nobody gives a fuck about "regular" hacks unless they're insanely intricate projects that someone has been slowly working on for years. meanwhile kaizo hacks are all OVERdesigned and clogging up the smwc hacks section beyond belief

imagine being a newcomer to the scene and you want to make a simple, fun hack, maybe something with a story or a short one-world game. then you try to show it off and guess what. barely anyone will give a fuck because its not kaizo. fucking clown world

>>9488364
Seethe retard, try being talented instead.

>>9488364
>meanwhile kaizo hacks are all OVERdesigned
unless im misunderstanding what you mean, but a lot of kaizo gets shit on for being unoriginal and uncreative. it's rare for kaizo to be overdesigned.
also, a lot of kaizo is easier than a lot of Standard, the bar for kaizo has gone down a lot and is more accessible than ever
but yes it is a clog, good thing for filters. but even if kaizo was gone, a 1-world hack would be treated as fodder. there's multiple streamers who's played all the world 1 hacks cause they take less than 10 minutes

>>9488364
Well that's where the demand is apparently. The only way to counter it is to keep playing and promoting the non-kaizo hacks. Have any good vanilla or normal difficulty hacks come out in the last few years?

>>9488391
i was referring more to the aesthetics design. so many kaizos have pretty visuals and the fanciest asm effects you'll ever see, all to disguise the hollow shell of a game they really are. sorta reminds me of the vldc7 gambly night drama, except i dont see anyone complaining about it in kaizo. people eat it the fuck up though.

idk maybe im just a washed up smw grandma. it's just disappointing to see kaizo overtake everything else in prevalence so much. go to most online communities, or any inperson events that they happen to go to, and they're probably playing or talking about kaizo. i still remember going to agdq 2020 and there was a dude playing touhou mario on one end of the practice room, and there were two people watching him. and on the other end someone was playing some kaizo game and there was a bigass crowd. amazing

>>9488424
You're either very old or very stupid.

>>9488284
I am not indulging in your fetish

The Sicari series is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMSvpE-sKcs
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=25665
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=10495
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=32095

>>9487212
I don't get why this bothers people so much. It's just a fat cartoon character, oh no.

I would recommend /v/orld, Wakana Land, Mario Treasure Hunt 1 and 2, Keytastrophe and Buried Treasure.
>>9488712
More like a fetish character.

>>9485443
>How would you guys go about shilling your romhack release if you had to?
i wouldn't, it'll never get finished and no one will play it anyway. yet i continue on

>>9487212
>>9487625
The beta's were great and it had soul, but when he removed the derpy running face and made it serious it lost it's charm.

>>9488364
I would understand kaizo being niche but I never understood how popular it is and why it dominates romhacking. Don't know what SMW kaizo looks like but it seems like every few weeks there's a new SM64 kaizo hack with the most soulless visuals you will ever see and the same exact tricks over and over again.

>>9489532
>the same exact tricks over and over again.
Definitely happens in SMW kaizo. Now glitches are becoming popular in kaizo, but they're always "oh ok that's neat" and then boring.
As for it's popularity, i think it's 50% of the romhacks on SMWC? There's almost a new kaizo hack everyday

>>9488364
I agree. I dislike how the modern hack venn diagram of
>High production value, high quality level design, new .asm and level gimmicks while remaining pretty faithful to the core Mario playstyle
>Not Kaizo
is practically two completely separate circles these days. The only really great stuff that fall under both feels pretty limited and I've only seen:
>JUMP and JUMP1/2
>YUMP 2
>TSRPR
>Plumber for All Seasons
>Mice series
>Nachos and Fried Oreos
A lot of other stuff just feels either dated or too different from traditional Mario. Maybe I'm just not seeing enough of the good stuff but it feels like every hack worth a damn these days is a Kaizo. I don't even really mind Kaizo either because I like a good few (Luminescent for instance is great) but it feels so overbearing now.

>>9488665
No, it's not. Plus the aesthetics are fucking garbage.

>>9481726
>Try this
>What the fuck am I playing.jpg

>>9488364
That's just something that the entire indie/"underground" game industry suffers from to some extent. Why come up with something fresh when you can slap procedurally generated roguelike souls-like mechanics on everything or make a kaizo mario hack #34656?

>>9490036
yump 2 is practically kaizo
but i understand where you're coming from in general. i think a lot of people who stick with smw eventually transition over to kaizo for some reason, maybe because of popularity/streamer/mario maker autism? i dunno

>>9490730
honestly, i feel like a lot of Jump is kaizo too. "Kaizo with powerups". I dont like the idea of standard levels being as strict as kaizo levels with damage forgiveness.
But this is exactly why i said earlier i think kaizo level design is easier to make. kaizo levels you just force the player to do what you want, so you know exactly what the player is going to get. in a true standard level, they're a bit more open and have multiple ways to get around an obstacle, but how do you make that good and consistent? I do wish more people tried making Standard, but it's not easy

>>9479835
Just play Super Mario Land 2 DX or Super Mario All-Stars. Or just straight up SMW2

>>9490730
>>9490746
JUMP and YUMP 2 definitely have some kaizo levels (1F8 and Cape Fear being the standouts respectively) but the hacks themselves I still think are primarily not-kaizo enough for them to count

>>9488712
because it says "Peach's Adventure" and that's clearly not Peach

>>9488284
Idgaf about fetish and nta but it’s fucking irony that the mascot of /vr/ is very chill, friendly, and cool with everybody, yet many faggots here are most bitter.
>What happen to you, man? You used to be cool. -Tre/vr/‘s message to all anons here

>>9481547
>Play it with save states
Fucking pussy

>>9492649
/vr/ is worse than fucking /v/ nowadays.

>>9492649
>/vr/-tan is very friendly
>is that... MARIO IS A...
lmao even

>>9493921
/vr/-tan has a very good standards for niggers.

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>>9486729

Bump anyway.

I liked that fat Peach romhack, but I wish the author didn't insert his fetish so hard.

>>9492791
Post your savestate less kaizo run if you think it can be played without it. I'm waiting

>>9498278
Imagine caring about others' fetishes. Jesus fucking christ.

>>9499096
I care about the character not being disgusting. But, hey, what can I do if the dev is a weirdo? By the way, are you his boyfriend? Are you fat?

>>9498382
lots of people have beaten Kaizo Mario without save states. but i'd recommend infinite lives patch over save stating

>>9484861
came to post this, its actually good

>>9499237
Can't find any playthroughs on YouTube tho