1. All new levels, made in style of NSMBW (i.e longer and more expansive than those of NSMBDS),
2. New or downported from Newer tilesets,
3. An entirely new soundtrack, featuring various songs, including those from Newer Wii,
4. New world themes, focusing most on the mini worlds from Newer Wii,
5. Remodelled and retextured World Maps,
6. Texture and model hacks on enemies and objects,
7. New mechanics, enemies, menus, etc...

Well, it wouldn't make sense to post a separate thread for each and every patch, so instead I'll collect them here.

These patches should apply to both EUR and US versions, unless stated otherwise.

I. Direct ROM patches

How to apply

Using an older (r356 seems to work) revision of NSMBe, decompress the overlay specified in the last column of the table. Extract it out of the ROM. Then, using a hex editor, search for the values in the "Search in ROM" column one line at a time. Replace them with values in the "Replace with" column. Once done, save, and import back into the ROM using NSMBe.

If an overlay isn't listed, you have to decompress all overlays and search the entire ROM.

#	Patch description	Search in ROM	Replace with	Overlay number
1	Stop timer	5C2042E2002081E5	5C2042E20000A0E1	0
2	Always play as Luigi	5C029F150010A0130010C015 80019F150010A0130010C015	5C029F150110A0130010C015 80019F150110A0130010C015	9 9
3	Always play as Mario	4C229FE50130A0E3 70219FE50130A0E3	4C229FE50030A0E3 70219FE50030A0E3	9 9
4	Screens don't switch even if entrance is set to do so; lets you control when the player can use inventory items.	0219C1E3B010C3E1 0209C013B000C111 98009FE5000090E5000050E30100A01300 00A003000050E304D08D120080BD187C00 9FE5B000D0E1020900E2C007B0E10C00001A	0219C1E30000A0E1 0209C0130000A0E1 0000A0E138079FE50010A0E1561C81E224 1081E20000A0E10000A0E10000A0E10020 90E5021191E70F10D1E5011011E20C00009A	54 10 0 0 0
5	Disable challenge mode completely	000094E5080050E3 3300A0E30010A0E30030C2E5	000094E5FF0050E3 3300A0E30010A0E30000A0E1	8 8
6	Make it so that Star Coins appear on the bottom screen quicker	641084E5050C84E20110A0E3	641084E5050C84E20210A0E3	54
7	Disable the opening cutscene	E5021011E20300001A	E5021011E2030000EA	9
8	Disable the minigame/multiplayer/options buttons on the title screen.	5C009F150010D015011081120010C015 040093E5520AFEEB	5C009F150010D015011081120000A0E3 040093E50000A0E1	9 9
9	Disable the titlescreen cutscene Warning: breaks minigames	2183E00BB220D2E1	2183E00B0000A0E1	Not in overlay
10	Save anytime (US)	3C209FE50010D0E5 9C029FE50210D1E7 0060A0E30060C1E5	3C209FE50110A0E3 9C029FE50310A0E3 0160A0E30060C1E5	8 8 8
11	Save anytime (EUR)	3C209FE50010D0E5 A0029FE50210D1E7 0060A0E30060C1E5	3C209FE50110A0E3 A0029FE50310A0E3 0160A0E30060C1E5	8 8 8
12	Tower Bowser Jr. takes 18 fireballs instead of 8	0110A0E3103083E2	0110A0E3083083E2	28
13	Groundpounds don't do extra damage to tower Bowser Jr.	B818D00148108102 B818D00130108102	9010A013B818C011 9010A0130000A0E1	28 28
14	Bahps don't glitch Boos	0120A0E3B42AC1E1	0020A0E3B42AC1E1	71
15	Can't scroll overworld maps with L/R	0500A0E1017043E0007082E5 0500A0E1017083E0007082E5	0500A0E1017043E00000A0E1 0500A0E1017083E00000A0E1	8 8
16	No Dorrie Dip on groundpounds	B612C0E1B602D0E1000050E31B00001A010AA0E3	B612C0E1B602D0E1000050E31B00000A010AA0E3	47
17	Fix Big Wiggler's Glitch Segment	000000000D00000022000000340000004800 00000000000006000000110000001A00000024000000	000000000A0000001A0000002A0000003C00 000000000000050000000D000000150000001E000000	33 33
18	1-up from red coins if Player is mini	0100000A040050E30100001A0050A0E3020000EA	0300001A0050A0E3040000EA0000000000000000	54
19	Shorten outline coin change delay	010040E2B400C8E1B400D8E1	020040E2B400C8E1B400D8E1	?
20	Dorrie Z-Order fix	0C208DE5B0EAD4E1B2CA 0C208DE510208DE51420	00208DE5B0EAD4E1B2CA 00208DE510208DE51420	47
21	Fix Giant Springboard Pickup (Deprecated)	0319A0E30030A0E390C185E0022BA0E3	0B1AA0E30030A0E390C185E0022BA0E3	54

Zoom Sprite does not die on Level Completion (by Skawo)
Decompress and open Overlay 10.
Go to 0x58E90
Replace 7C8F09027C8E0902 -> 7C8F0902E07F0D023C

Sprite 255 scrolls horizontally instead of vertically (by MeroMero)
Open up arm9.bin
Replace 0x84 of zeroes with the following at offset 0×19C0:

1C002DE9444490E5441480050600000ABC20D0E1463FA0E3030052E1000000
1A444480E51C00BDE86D8B05EABC20D0E1463FA0E3030052E10000001A4444
80E51C00BDE8708B05EA00000000000000001A002DE9BC10D0E1014BA0E314
4084E2460F51E30300001A304084E22C1490E5443490E5012083E0042080E7
1A00BDE8BA8D05EA

Decompress and open Overlay 54
At offset 0×11F5C replace 44148005 with 8774FAEA
At offset 0×128EC replace 142480E5 with 3772FAEA

Always load Boss Victory Music (by MeroMero)
Decompress overlay 0;
Go to offset 0×1495C (US) or 0×13FB4 (EU);
Replace 0100A0031EFF2F01 with 0100A0E31EFF2FE1;

Star Coins are worth 4000 points (as in NSMB Wii onwards) (by MeroMero)
Decompress overlay 54
Go to offset 0×244C (US) or 0×21D0 (EU)
Change 04 into 06

4-1 secret exit path fix (by MeroMero)
Open w4_move.nsbca located in the map folder
Go to offset 0×750 and change the 25th consecutive 02 80 into 01 80

Change World Unlock Order
Boss Damage Table
Tempo hacks
Sinking Snow Pile Works with Length 0
Keep Events between areas
Blooper and Flame Chomp projectiles die upon collecting flagpole
Slopes and Tightropes can coexist
Mini Mario isn't heavy in low-gravity
Move Petey and Mummypokey to different worlds
Improved Blue Shell

II. ASM Template Patches


How to apply:
1. Set up the ASM Hacks template using DevkitPRO.
2. Open up "Makefile" in a text editor and change this line:


Replace the "X.X.X" with whatever version your installed devkit has. Find this out by going to C:\devkitPro\devkitARM\lib\gcc\arm-none-eabi\
or whatever location you installed devkit to.


3. Make a file with extension .s in the "source" folder. Paste the code copied from this topic there.
4. Put a ROM in the template folder and open it in NSMBe.
5. Insert the code into the ROM by pressing "Run make and insert" on the "Tools/Options" tab in NSMBe.


Wavy backgrounds don't require water
Improved Blue Shell
Mini Mario isn't heavy in low-gravity
Pipe fix
Giant Swooper collision fix
Balloon Boo Regular Boo mode collision fix
Giant Springboard fix
Glitched Starman fix
Mini Mushroom can go through half-tile gaps
Buzzies and Roof Spinies can't go through half-tile gaps
Ice Snake improvement
Star Coins are worth 4000 points
Clone Player Fixes
Improved Red Coins
Podoboo Graphics Flip on the way down
Podoboo Jump Timing Nybble
Quick Star Coins
Goomba and Koopa Troopa retexture
Include setting to freeze Timer per View
NSLU physics for Luigi
Red Coin Ring Remodel Code
X/Y Tracking and Event Activated Midway Point
Red Coin Ring Retexture Code
Junglekusa Retexture Code
Spiky Ball Retexture Code
Wobbling Rock Retexture Code
Time Stop
Pokey Retexture Code
Jelly Bricks Groundpound Fix
Tilted Bullets Collision Fix
Bullets layer nybble
Choose which actors to spare on level completion
Always load the correct boss particles if necessary
Choose which levels load boss music
Buzzies can hit Grounded Piranhas
Track Controlled Swinging Rope Speed Adjustment Nybble
Grounded Venus Traps can be killed by shells
X Scrolling JungleKusa
Cloud Platform Retexture Code
Snow Effect Retexture Code
Unused Spinning Log Improvements
Select Jyotyu Palette
Darkness Setting

Other useless notes:

Update explaining the constant state of delay

There's no use dressing it up as anything else -- Newer DS's final stages of development are taking excruciatingly long.

Why is this so? Well, there are several reasons. One of them is that, as I've mentioned frequently before, the project grew significantly. What used to be a simple level hack with some extra graphics and a rare ASM hack here and there grew into what's not unlike the effort spent on Newer Wii.

After the end of 2016, which was scheduled to be the initial release we've added several things; swapped nearly all the enemy graphics, wrote over 10 sprites, overhauled even things that technically weren't needed to be overhauled, like the titlescreens, file select, world select, credits, etc. Even things which... probably no one ever will use, but were easy enough to very quickly finish up:




However, all of that is done at this point.

What's really holding Newer DS back right now are just a few things. One, is the final boss. The difficulty there is that the planned one requires modeling and animating, which is not something I can do. The job was given to RicBent, who has done some progress on it, but as usual, free time gets in the way quite often.

The second thing holding Newer DS back is a new sprite that was meant to be used in two levels - 2-4 and 8-A, which would replace the final tower before the Final Castle. What I planned it be was a vehicle-like stage, not unlike the Submarine/Airplane sections from Super Mario Land. It's a bit more complex than that, and hasn't appeared in a 2D Mario game as of yet, which is why despite the fact it's been taking so long, it hasn't been scrapped; it would be very cool to include. That sprite is almost entirely written already; there are only minor adjustments to be made to it, really. I and RoadrunnerWMC worked on that sprite; myself, all the graphics/collision/Mario/state code, and Roadrunner working on the physics side of things. The remaning adjustments are to be made by RoadrunnerWMC, but again, free time gets in the way.

Free time gets in the way for me, too, though. The remaining things left for Newer DS are tiny, yet significant things; for instance, finishing redoing new SFX for the game and leftover 2D adjustments. The problem there is that this requires two people working in tandem, and that obviously requires coordinating free time between time zones as far apart as Europe and the US. I've (and the others, too) personally stayed up to 6AM sometimes, having to go to work at 7:30, trying to get as much work done as possible. Lately, however, these ocassions where we could work together on stuff became more scarce.

And really, the final clincher is this -- I'd happily scrap whatever has been done towards the final boss and the other sprite, rustled up a final level or two and quickly made the adjustments that need to be done, just to get it out of the gate.

That would mean scrapping days of work of mine and the other guys, though. And while I'd at this point be fine with it, I don't want to do that to them.

As such, I can only offer you the known catchphrase of "Please understand." Rude comments really don't help. I do feel really bad, and each is just making me feel worse. Lately I honestly can't help but feel... lost, because of all the things being piled on, and all those do is escalate that feeling more.

Before I lose it or something, here's a patch that unlocks the SAVE menu from the start.

Applies to overlay9_8; decompress it.



Just search for the values on the left and change them to what's on the right. I would just give you the addresses, but, uh,
lazy there's some reasons.

Not sure if this applies to this section, but I don't see anything that'd it fit better into.

Maybe not.

This is something I've finished working on a couple days ago. It's a video and audio player that will replace the regular NSMBDS cutscene. Messy, half-working code ahead, because I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.

The video player portion is a version of Dirbaio's fireworlds video player, modified to compile and work in NSMBDS:
https://github.com/Dirbaio/Fireworlds/blob/master/fireworlds-game/arm9/source/video.itcm.cpp

The audio player portion is a version of Dirabio's WavPlayer code from the now-dead NSMBCR:
https://github.com/Dirbaio/NSMBCR/blob/master/source/wavplayer.cpp

1. Usage

1. Set up the ASM Hacks template using DevkitARM v41.
2. Copy the "IntroCode.cpp" and "IntroCode.h" files from /source in the downloaded RAR into the template's /source folder. You also need the "nsmb.h" file that's included with the template, but may skip the others.
3. Put a ROM in the template folder and open it in NSMBe.
4. Insert the code into the ROM by pressing "Run make and insert" on the "Tools/Options" tab in NSMBe.
5. Replace ARCHIVE/vs_wrecking_crew.narc with "SampleVideo.vds" and replace ARCHIVE/wrecking_crew.narc with "SampleMusic.raw"

2. Making your own video:

1. Render an avi video at the DS resolution (256x192)
2. Install VLC Media Player
3. Go into Tools -> Preferences. At the bottom-left corner, select "All" in "Show settings"
4. Click on "Video/Filters" and check "Scene video filter"
5. Expand the "Video/Filters" list and select "Scene filter"
6. Create a directory somewhere and enter a path to said directory under "Directory path prefix"
7. Change image format to jpg.
8. Change recording ratio to 1.
9. Press save. Close VLC Media Player.
10. Reopen VLC and open the rendered avi video with it. Let it play all the way through.
11. The directory you made earlier should now have images in it. Now, run VideoMake.jar and point it to said directory.
After a while, it'll create an "out.vds" file in the same folder. You're done.

3. Making your own sound clip:

1. Open a sound file in Audacity
2. If the track is stereo, split it to Mono by opening a drop-down list next to individual track's delete button (top-left corner of the track listing).
3. From that same drop-down list, select "Set rate -> other" and put it at 32768.
4. Input the same rate at the bottom in "Project Rate" field.
5. Go to File->Export audio. Save as type "Other uncompressed types". Click "options" and select "RAW (headerless) as the header and "Signed 8bit PCM" as the encoding. Confirm. You're done.

4. Problems

1. Couldn't get any timers working, so the video plays significantly faster than it does on a flashcart. By modifying line 246, you can even make it run 60fps on an emulator.
2. If you "Go back to titlescreen" and try to open a new file, no sound will play.
3. The video/audio player is picky with files and may crash if it dislikes one.

5. Download

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9vnl1cf6f7ffs1j/VideoIntro.rar?dl=0

Here we go again. Basically this but you can choose between Mario and Luigi by pressing left or right, if you press SELECT on the intro screen. You then confirm your selection with A.

Video:


1. Usage

1. Set up the ASM Hacks template.
2. Copy the "SuperLevelIntros.cpp" and "nsmb.h" files from /source in the downloaded RAR into the template's /source folder and the "symbols.x" into the template's root.
3. Put a ROM in the template folder and open it in NSMBe.
4. Make the preview screens, convert them to ENPG, or (if you're just testing it out) import "Top Screen Template" and "Bottom Screen Template" over some useless files. I suggest adding files to the ROM and using those. Put all the bottom screen files in order.
5. Open LevelIntros.cpp and edit the "enpgAssignment" table by changing the zeroes under appropriate level slots to FileIDs in the rom of the files you just imported. Put in the first worlds' bottom screen file ID on line 104.
6. Insert the code into the ROM by pressing "Run make and insert" on the "Tools/Options" tab in NSMBe.

2. Download

https://www.dropbox.com/s/moxld60f9ygrw2m/SuperLevelIntros.zip?dl=0

Disclaimer: Not tested thoroughly.

Well, I'm never gonna finish this anyway, so I may at least release what I have.
This is a follow up to Another Super Mario Bros. Wii, the first full NSMBW hack
created back in 2010 (albeit pretty crappy by today's standards:
http://rvlution.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=573).

Complete are almost two worlds: entire World 1 is done, and most of World 2.
Everything in this predates NSMB2 for the 3DS. Just saying, because Nintendo
has a habit of having the same ideas as I do.

Credits go to: Me, me, me, me, me and Pop006 for making the logo.

Here's a video of two levels:
http://youtu.be/P4-xxwxEWw8

Some images:


And here's the download link (Patch applies to the US ROM [A2DE01]):
http://nsmbhd.net/get.php?id=1206

This ASM hack, made by Mariomaster and improved by myself, allows you to put in a Super Mario Allstars-Esque level preview in place of the generic "World X-Y" screen before each level. On top of that, you can put something on the bottom screen as well.

Example:


1. Usage

1. Set up the ASM Hacks template using DevkitARM v41.
2. Copy the "LevelIntros.cpp" and "nsmb.h" files from /source in the downloaded RAR into the template's /source folder and the "symbols.x" into the template's root.
3. Put a ROM in the template folder and open it in NSMBe.
4. Make the preview screens, convert them to ENPG, or (if you're just testing it out) import "Top Screen Template" and "Bottom Screen Template" over some useless files. I suggest adding files to the ROM and using those. Put all the bottom screen files in order.
5. Open LevelIntros.cpp and edit the "enpgAssignment" table by changing the zeroes under appropriate level slots to FileIDs in the rom of the files you just imported. Put in the first worlds' bottom screen file ID on line 104.
6. Insert the code into the ROM by pressing "Run make and insert" on the "Tools/Options" tab in NSMBe.


2. Download

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dn1d3d12cxavbl4/LevelIntros.zip?dl=0

EDIT: If you downloaded the initial version, do redownload; added code to prevent it from crashing if the level doesn't have an assigned File ID.

An absolutely awful, finnicky half-working tutorial, GO!


Tools
DS Lazy: http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/793/
Modified NSMBe: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cc9q1nhv8vazps8/NSMBe_ID%20Extract.rar?dl=1
This shitty bat script: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fgd5zddv0npfzws/add_zero.bat?dl=1

Steps

1. Open your ROM in DS Lazy and click unpack. Let it finish. The files will be in the same directory as the exe, in a folder named NDS_UNPACK.
2. Open your ROM in the provided NSMBe. Go over to the ROM Filesystem tab and extract the whole filesystem somewhere.
3. Out of what NSMBe extracted, save fnt.bin somewhere.
4. Go into what NSMBe extracted, and into the course folder. Create a new folder, and move all files starting with a number less than 1000 into it. Place the shitty bat script there, too, and run it. It should append a zero to every filename's beginning. Move the files back into /course, delete the folder you made and the batch script.
5. Go into what DS Lazy extracted and copy over the four files that aren't in folders from data folder somewhere. Delete the data folder afterwards.
6. Copy over the NSMBe-extracted data folder over to the NDS_UNPACK folder of DSLazy. Delete the files that aren't in folders, and copy over the ones from DSLazy.
7. You can now add your new files. To do so, create a folder in NDS_UNPACK/data/ that's latter alphabetically than all the rest. For instance, start it with "z". Then, add your files into that folder.
8. Once done, start DS Lazy again and click "pack", choose destination. Test the ROM.

Now, for the stupid bit of this; unfortunately, someone decided that NSMBe should load levels and tilesets per filename. Thus, while the created rom will work splendidly on an emulator or console, it will no longer be editable in NSMBe aside from the ROM Filesystem and Background tabs.

To fix this, you can either become a wizard and manually return all the names to what they were originally in the fnt.bin, or you can import the original fnt.bin and then relaunch the editor. This will cause all the names to go back to what they were, and the new files will stay over too and work -- but without extensions or names. You can, of course, reimport the new fnt.bin again to get those back and keep switching if you wish.

What can I do with this, though?
Well, that depends on you. Mostly useful for ASM hacking, but you can rewire backgrounds to use those newly added files or things like that.

Here's a preview of a custom sprite I made:

Just for you, 2019

I personally think you just need to shut the fuck up.

This tiny ASM hack allows you to put in your own logo/disclaimer screen after the initial Nintendo one.

Example:



1. Usage

1. Set up the ASM Hacks template.
2. Copy the "BootDisplay.cpp" and "nsmb.h" files from /source in the downloaded RAR into the template's /source folder and the "symbols.x" into the template's root.
3. Put a ROM in the template folder and open it in NSMBe.
4. Go into the "demo" folder in the ROM File Browser, select a random enpg and extract the image. Use that image as a template to make your top/bottom boot images (256x256 bitmap, displayed is the top 192x256 of it).
5. Import one of your images into the enpg. Then, extract the enpg out of the rom. Do the same with the other image.
6. Replace two files in the rom listing with the enpgs you just extracted (use files that are unused by the game, or add new ones). Note the File ID of both of those files.
7. Open "BootDisplay.cpp" and put in the FileIDs of the files you replaced with the enpgs on lines 25 and 31, replacing the comment that is there.
8. On line 45, replace the comment with the lenght of time the screen is supposed to stay visible (in frames).
9. Insert the code into the ROM by pressing "Run make and insert" on the "Tools/Options" tab in NSMBe.


2. Download

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3fk43hmnd0qdhk1/BootCredit.rar?dl=0

That's just rude. I spend several hours working on it every fucking day.

And no. You don't get a demo.

1. Decompress overlay 1 and open it in a hex editor,
2. Copy the following data, starting at the left address and ending at the right, saving each bit as separate file:

(US ROM, didn't check Europe)
Top Screen NCG 0xE64 - 0x1455
Top Screen NCL 0x1454 - 0x1654
Bottom Screen NCG 0x1844 - 0x256B
Bottom Screen NCL 0x256C - 0x258B

3. Import the NCGs and NCLs into any NCGs/NCLs in NSMBe. Upon opening them, you should get the boot screen graphics.



4. Edit the graphics, save, compress, export the files out of NSMBe.
5. Copy the data back into the aforementioned adresses. If the data is shorter, copy just the size the new file is and leave the rest of the data alone.

6. You're done!



PS. The remaining data of Overlay 1 are likely the NSCs.

That's quite the version number

And for people who aren't total dicks, here are some updates: We're working on the final castle. I've made two new sprites just for it with the help of RoadrunnerWMC and Mariomaster is working on a custom final boss.

After that, I still have to do something about the ending and opening cutscenes and finish that secret project.

Decompress overlays 9_0 and 9_9 using some old revision of NSMBe (as the newest one at the time of the posting can't do that).
Open the rom in a hex editor
Use the search function to find the values on the left. Replace them with the values on the right.

Disable other main menu buttons (this means you can only get into the File Select screen by pressing A)

5C009F150010D015011081120010C015 -> 5C009F150010D015011081120000A0E3
040093E5520AFEEB -> 040093E50000A0E1

Disable titlescreen cutscene (timer is at x21C7AFC, x200A4DC is where the jump to "Check if B pressed" is done)

2183E00BB220D2E1 -> 2183E00B0000A0E1

This is for the US rom.

EDIT: Updated the titlescreen cutscene skip, because the old one broke the opening scene.
This makes the game think you're constantly pressing B on the titlescreen.