Well (and yes this is offtopic like hell), you could just look if the ROM has a couple file IDs (say, some random tileset/background and a level) with the same filename as NSMB should have and detect it that way, fixing Mr.everything-has-to-be-long-and-impossibly-difficult's problem and let the gamecode be edited that way, but it's probably not something to care about.

Aside from the fact DSTwo has an additional CPU and is compatible with all systems, it's... FUCKING terrible.

It's slow, it has a clunky menu, and the horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE patches that enable it to do all the fancy real-time-save stuff inexplicably ALSO are pretty much required to use SDHC cards with it. And as an added bonus, they cause graphic glitches in NSMBDS and won't even launch edited SM64DS, meaning for hacking you get stuck with <2GB cards.

Well, nope, that doesn't seem to have anything like that...

Incidentally, this is the topic that mentions this: http://nsmbhd.net/thread/1500-how-do-you-import-backgrounds-into-empty-slots/

You can set it to 24x24 and it'll still work (what it actually displays is a different story), whereas setting it higher will not.

Well...I mean...You can't change where the paths are or assign them the proper chunks of the path texture, right?

Yeah, exactly. And no, I did read it, hence my conclusion; can't really replicate it in full yet. The "slightly transparent" bit is quite important.

blrgh
Well, I've never used Maya, so this seems pretty complex.
I'll take a stab at this later, I guess.

Heh, looking in the editor at how some of the things are done ruined the magic a bit :l

I've never used 3D Max either, unfortunately.

Added preview #3.

What is this even. Do you seriously think that whether Nintendo sues or not hinges on whether the hack changes the credits or not?

You're insane, if so.

Progress update:

Uh... What progress? Yeah, there hasn't been much, as my entire free time was either consumed by school or editing videos for my channel. I did, however, finish a few levels and also changed the World 5 map, albeit rather slightly. I will now be moving onto making World 6, theme of which you may be able to discern by watching Preview 4:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5eHjGK7JVI

No, Worlds 3 and 4 aren't done.

This is probably incredibly non-relevant by now, but here's how to do it if you still need to:

Decompress overlay9_8.bin using some old edition of NSMBe (the current one can't decompress)
Extract it
Open in hex editor
Find the hex values on the left and replace them with the ones on the right:

000094E5080050E3 -> 000094E5FF0050E3 <- this makes the last key of the sequence be a non-valid button
3300A0E30010A0E30030C2E5 -> 3300A0E30010A0E30000A0E1 <- this disables switching on the challenge mode entirely, just in case

Save, replace.

Technical notes:
02085A10 <- variable which turns the challenge mode on (1 if on)
020D05D0 <- Place in RAM where the above happens (both US version of the game)

There's other downsides to Wii; the multiplayer and camera control. It's a rather serious problem to take into consideration when making a Wii hack: very easy to make a non-MP-friendly level, and there's literally nothing that controls camera.

NSMB2 fixes one of the issues, but...yeah, that's not happening unless an emulator/3DS-riivolution-equivalent is perfected/made.

Why's that?

Scrolling isn't dependent on the bg slot. And, it'd be a... really boring background with only one.

Hum, any of the instruments in particular or just overall? I must say it'd be hard to find a replacement SWAR that'd be better than this one, especially because the song is doubly-size-restricted due to the amp sound effects having to load the boss victory swar...

Assuming "smw2_flower_garden" is in the same folder as midi2sseq, you want to do:

Uh, no. That entire thing is a single command. Only press enter after you write ".sseq"