I can confirm it.

Hooray?

What's even wrong with it? It's the same idea as in NSMBW's airship and of course it is going to move around when the boss is zooming around, that would happen to every single background I could put there.

What is this even.

A set of four enemies for a level is perfectly fine. There's levels in NSMBDS with only one. In fact, the longest level in NSMBDS (The final castle) has the same amount as that airship. The most varied of levels have five.

In fact, news flash: if you're putting a large enemy variety into your levels, you're doing it wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong.

Go eat a hat, you programmer extraordinaire

Before I begin, I should mention that this process is quite crummy and you'll have to fiddle with the results to get it working quite right. The point of this is to get songs that wouldn't quite fit into the RAM to the point of doing so.

1. Convert the swavs to WAV using either VGMTrans or Kiwi.ds. Keep a copy of the unconverted swavs somewhere, as well.
2. Open the wav corresponding to the swav you want to resize in audacity. Change the "Project rate(Hz)" to something lower than it is. Export the result as an Uncompressed 8-Bit PCM WAV. (Yes, this will lower quality, but that's unfortunately how it'll have to be)
3. Reconvert the WAV to SWAV using wav2swav
4. Open the original, unmodified swav and your newly made one simultaneously in a Hex Editor.
5. Take note at 0x19 in the unmodified swav. If it's 0, skip to step 15. If it's 1, keep going.
6. From the unmodified swav, note down:

2 bytes at 0x8 (Overall filesize)
2 bytes at 0x1e (Loop Point)
2 bytes at 0x20 (Non-Looped Size)

From the newly created swav, note down the 2 bytes at 0x8.

7. Change the order of the bytes in each case (so, if you have "0E56" noted, change it to "560E"
8. Change the hex values you now have to decimals (use, eg. Windows' Calculator's Programmer mode)
9. Calculate what percent the loop point and the non-looped size are of the overall filesize of the unmodified swav (Divide the loop point and the non-looped size by the overall filesize). Note down the results to the fourth number after the dot.
10. Multiply the overall filesize of the newly created swav individually by the values you came to in step 9.
11. Change the results you come to in step 10 to hex.
12. Change the number of bytes of the hex values you arrived to in step 11 (So, if you have "0012", change it to "1200")
13. Insert the byte-order changed hexadecimal you arrived at by multiplying new SWAV's filesize by the percent the original loop point was of the original filesize at 0x1e of the new SWAV.
14. Insert the byte-order changed hexadecimal you arrived at by multiplying new SWAV's filesize by the precent the original non-looped size was of the original filesize at 0x20 of the new SWAV.
15. Save the new SWAV. Rebuild the SWAR using SWAV2SWAR.
16. Test the song. If there's something wrong, and your song has 0x1 at 0x19, subtract 0x10 from the loop point (i.e decrease value at 0x1e) in the new swav and try testing again.

Progress on that

You press A and it shows an enpg from a list. Woot. Timing/details/fades/music player/the A button prompt graphics to be worked out.

If you could, please send me your slides so I can adjust it to work nicely with them.

No demos.

Code updated; will now check if the save data is blank. If it is, it won't proceed until A has been pressed. You can also define the amount of time the screen has to stay on before it can be dismissed with the A press.

I always enjoy this little collage I made:

If you ever played Newer Wii, you know the drill. It's a star coin that disappears when collected, but doesn't count toward level completion. Plays a Boo laugh and some fancy effects while at it; needs sound set to have the boo laugh enabled, of course.

Ghost Star Coin:

To put into a level - Nybble 5 (counting from 1):
0 - Regular star coin
1 - Ghost star coin
2 - Appear on bottom screen immediately without spinning down



Tested on NDS.

Timed Podoboos:

Uses nybbles 11 and 12 (the two last ones). If 0, it'll use the timer the game calculates (i.e a random one). If not, it'll do 5 ticks * nybble.

I just finished this completely pointless addition to the game:



I sure know how to prioritize.

Here's another custom sprite preview:



Something I implemented a while back. And yes, the game crashes if you stomp a too- big one, simply due to the amount of polygons it's trying to display. I may limit the amount of Goombas it spawns to make the larger ones usable, but I wasn't planning on using those super giant ones in NerDS anyway.

YEP NO PROB HER:

Level Darkness Setting:

This goes into a .cpp file. You also need the "Disable broken Unk functionality" from this post.

By setting Unk 2 in view settings to 2, you enable darkness, the intensity of which is controlled by Unk 1.

Congrats on having the highest pointless arbitrary number, bro!

What a twat
hope he stabs himself in the eye with them

me too,
me too.

<- has just spent three days on asm for one level

This lets you play an external SSEQ/SWAR/SBNK combo, essentially allowing for virtually unlimited music variation.


How to setup
1. Setup the ASM Hacking Template,
2. Copy the contents of the SOURCE folder in the zip into the source folder of the ASM Hacking Template.
3. Copy the symbols.x into ASM Hacking Template root
4. Replace any three (or two, which should be enough for most purposes) songs (their SSEQ/SWAR/SBNK) in the original SDAT with the ones provided in the SDATA folder.
6. Add some files to the rom. Import your custom theme SSEQ/SWAR/SBNK into three files in a row (in that order).
7. Open MusicModifier.c in a text editor. On lines 29, 32 and 35 change "FIRST SONG FILE ID HERE" to the ID of the first new file in the ROM
8. Compile the code in and replace the SDAT in the ROM.
9. Place sprite 143 into every zone you wish to swap the music in. The three last nybbles define the song ID. This means, if, for instance, your first song occupies slots 2000, 2001, 2002, it should be set to 0. If set to 1, it'll play a song occupying the files 2003, 2004, 2005. Etc.
10. Change the Music ID in the zone settings to that of the one of the replaced songs. If you wish to swap songs in between zones or areas, the IDs have to differ in each (which is why multiple songs were replaced with the dummy ones)


LIMITATIONS:
1. The external SSEQ, SWAR and SBNK have to be smaller than the ones included in the package. This isn't much of a problem, as the ones included are pretty much the maximum you can have anyway.
2. Doesn't work in levels that load the boss victory music.
3. Doesn't let you swap music mid-zone.


Download: http://nsmbhd.net/file/qUbYK0xTMq6Ofi43/MusicModifier.zip

My Mario bathes everyday I'll have you know

Shift Podoboo By Half Tile Right Nybble:

Nybble 10