For me, the ideal NSMBHD is a place where one can get help concerning hacking NSMB (DS, Wii, 2 and U), share one's NSMB series games hack's progress and screenshots and share one's NSMB series games hacks, but also a place where one can just relax, have fun and chat about random stuff. I've always compared this board to Kuribo64, which has the above mentality (but replace "NSMB series games" with "SM64DS and SMG1/2"). Also, I think the board and the NSMBCentral Discord should be two seperate things that shouldn't influence each other. For example, both NSMBHD and K64 have a forum dedicated to NSMB2 hacking, but for neither board this is redundant. They're two separate things, even though some hacks have hack threads on both sites. Similarly, one should be able to choose whether to focus one's posting behaviour on the board or on the 'Cord.

That'd be my ideal NSMBHD.

EDIT because ninja'd: agreed,  KingYoshi. The board worked just as fine before the cleanup IMO, and it's totally true that Discord is lightyears far from being lurker-friendly. And that's what boards are: lurker-friendly. For example, forum game threads like my fave, Corrupt-a-Wish, are just as - if not more - fun to read as to participate in. And I've been lurking here for months before regging today.

That. Why do we have to divide tasks between NSMBCCord and NSMBHD, if they can co-exist as two separate, full-fledged entities. In such a case, one could choose between the board, the 'Cord or both - a lurker for example (and there are often more lurkers on any board than users) would choose the board because here they don't need to register.

So, I've just been b& from Kuribo64!

What did I do, you ask? I inputted "Attack helicopter♂, i.e. a man who doesn't care" in the gender field, which apparently got me auto-banned for... TRANSPHOBIA? WTF. The only thing I meant with that "attack helicopter" ruckus was that I don't care about my gender, and don't do labels. IMO "attack helicopter" is label-assignerphobic, not transphobic! I fully support the LGBTIQIA+ community, but I just think all those labels used nowadays for all different kinds of groups in society are bullshit, because they only cause less unity! Why does anyone have to be their own label? I am who I am! I don't care that I'm a man, hence the "attack helicopter" thingy. And, it was an auto-ban, which is bullshit for three reasons:
1. The board banned me and didn't change my gender field? Can't it just say: "You can't input that!" and disallow me to save my profile changes until I've inputted something that is OK?
2. Admins are the ones that should ban users, not algorithms. Algorithms have no sentience.
3. See above about algorithms: wordfilters are toxic bullshit anyways. See Pokémon games.

So yeah, I'm a banned user now! Lawlz! And the board didn't warn me! I call unfairness. Not to insult  Arisotura, though, plus, I know she takes REAL transphobia personally, because she's a transwoman, but I didn't have any transphobic intentions at all! Just wanted to rant about this. Sorry.

But this can be closed now. I want this board to continue with whatever its users were doing. I'm sorry for flooding some users' usercomments and I've deleted all comments on my profile about the ban. Tomorrow is another day, another dawn, and as time goes on, I will be unbanned and all this will be forgotten. Plus, this thread could turn into a bashfest or something. So just close this. Let's discuss stuff like hacking again.

Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and hacky New Year, NSMBHD and the NSMBC Discord alike!

I should have a Christmas mood avatar... Done. Shittily made on my 3DS, as usually.

No I agree with Ztardust
Die in a fire.......works accident

Nah, merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you too, crook.
^{_{Geez, where's the Christmas spirit?}}

I've chosen this one to add to my now six-membered (may there be many more) hack library on my 3DS. This is a very good hack, I must say. You're a god,  Arceus!

_{^{Yes, I did say that because you're nicknamed Arceus.}}

I've played through World 1. Here's what I thought of each course:

W1-1

I like how long and exploratory it is. Played through this one three times because my 3DS's battery decided to disconnect twice, blarg.

W1-2

I always dig W1-2s that aren't cave levels. This one is sorta-kinda underground, but no cave. The secret exit/third Star Coin/Arceus sprite requires you to realize one of the pits isn't an actual pit, which you can derive from the pits found earlier. I also love to just slide around on the slopes!

W1-3

Lol, upside-down mushroom platforms! Because some are hard to reach, I love trying to reach them. The first one spawn some goodies if you reach it, and is best reached with a jump with a Ground Pound Cancel at the peak of the jump. The bonus room with the fast up-and-down mushroom platforms was really challenging!

W1-Tower

_{^{(Why does everyone have to use the same tower theme?...)}}
Really fun, because it reminded me of NSMBW's W1-Tower, which was always chaos playing in multiplayer with a second player. Near the start, I got trolled by a Goomba. The secret exit is a sneaky one again, even though it's hinted at with ONE coin...
Near the end, where there are a lot of big and small pendulum platforms, some Z-fighting occurs between the platforms.
The Bowser Jr. fight was quite challenging! And that's quite the achievement, making NSMB's Bowser Jr. fights challenging!

W1-4

Reminded me of SMW's Forest of Illusion, with the go-behind trees. One gripe: when you exit the bonus room with the P-Switch (which reminded me of vanilla NSMB's W1-4 P-Switch bonus room in a positive way) and go to the right a little, the game will lag in a certain section. Probably because three Wigglers and the reskinned arrow actors (the go-behind trees) are loaded. The game runs full speed again when you reach the pipe and two mini pipes.

W1-A

This course is full of surprises. The P-Switch spawning a coin formation shaped like a Poké Ball, the offscreen Star Coin found by swimming into a current... I tend to like water levels BTW. I'm not one of those people who hate water levels just because 7.8/10 Too much water. (Though SMB's water physics were jank.)

W1-5

The level design reminded me of Newer. Stalactites and stalagmites as spikes is really fun too.

W1-Castle

Reminded me of vanilla W6-Castle. Really challenging, especially the part with the moving blocks above lava and below Thwomps. I can't really say much about Bowser, since his fight is mostly vanilla.

W1-Cannon

So, a speedrun of W1-3? Reminds me of SMG's Speedy Comets and some of SM3DL's Special World courses.

EDIT: Played most of World 2, except W2-A and W2-Cannon because I haven't found W2-3's secret exit yet.

W2-1

So, I guess this world's theme is mushroom desert, nice twist on the forever-World-2 desert.

W2-2

[insert SMG4: Who Let the Chomps Out video here]
Is the trick to get the third Star Coin really to stand on the still-opened Flipper, then spawn a Minishroom from the inventory and jump from the Flipper? Or is there something I'm missing? Also, apparently Spinies can't kill Chomps.

W2-3

Lots of explosions!

W2-4

It starts with up/down shrooms, the second half is nailbiting stretcing/shrinking shrooms.

W2-Tower

Technically not a tower. What are the spinning platforms? A custom actor? The zoomed-out section with lots of spinning platforms and 6-7 Dry Bones lagged the game a lot. Very fun 'tower' nonetheless.

W2-5

We're still in Bowser's territory... spike balls and Fire Bars (which are made of fireballs, so all-in-all lots of balls ) pose a challenge to our portly plumber. The first swingable rope is a little jank: if you swing too high, the lowered ceiling pushes you off the rope. Cost me my Super form.

W2-6

Autoscroller. Really fun usage of trickily small moving platforms.

W2-Castle

The start is iconic, with the scale lift lifting the Goomba from the small space so Mario can 'unalive' it... Though, if you fail and the Goomba doesn't get carried out above the semisolid, there's no way to reset except suiciding into the pit, so maybe make the scale platforms longer so they can extend beyond the walls, so you can reset (or add a reset door). And,  Arceus, you managed to make Goombas of all enemies a lethal threat! Cool!

Oh yeah, some normally unused animations can be seen in specific situations:
• Mini Mario/Luigi crouching: in Challenge Mode, when pressing DOWN on a slope descending towards the left edge of the screen if you're on the far-left. Doing so as Shell Mario/Luigi will make the plumber rapidly alternate between crouching and uncrouching, giving him a translucent, ghostlike appearance.
• Shell Mario/Luigi sliding: if on the ?-Switch triggered stairs in one of the ghost houses if they're collapsed. Shell Mario/Luigi will slide off on his butt.

EDIT: Thanks for the +1,  Keeper! I found those myself, by accident.

Warning: gonna speak in allcaps now!

THIS. LOOKS. AMAZING. ZTARDUST!
No, really. Seriously, those graphics - tilesets, backgrounds, the rain and the HUD! This doesn't even look like a DS game anymore! Plus, obvious Mario 3 reference in W2-1 is obvious.
BTW, those Bowser paintings in the World 1 castle level, are those ripped from SM64?

EDIT: Thanks  Mr. Ztardust, for the +1!
I'll give you a +1 too.

@ KingYoshi: Without a clear subject? But Castle Courtyard is a thing: a thread to chat about anything. Not that the difference between one big random-chat thread and lots of smaller, specific threads really matters, so I wouldn't really care if Castle Courtyard got nuked, TBH. I'm neutral on that. But the introductions thread should remain open, for example.

You'll be surprised about what SNES music haxx0rz can pull off (geez, now I sound like those automated ads): I watched a YT vidya of a recent SMW hack, Adventures Begin. It had a 1:1 port of SM64's Big Boo's Haunt's Merry-Go-Round song. I was like: holy shit! Yeah, SMW hacking is VERY advanced. I hope NSMB hacking will someday reach that level too. I mean, DS has more capabilities than SNES.

My mom also has a Commodore 64. I used to read the manuals a lot and write quite sophisticated BASIC programs on paper. Yeah, I'm a quick learner when it comes to programming languages, so I have good hopes about learning the DS's ARM ASM in the future for my SM64DS hack.
_{But let's not forget this thread's topic - your favourite NSMBDS song!}

@ __fp: Yeah, I like the fact the W3 worldmap music is a remix of the Starman theme.

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One should really make a patch that makes the music play on even when the game is paused. Had that idea for my SM64DS hack. For the music lovers.

... oh wait! Rereg... You... you're...  Pika_boy16! Imma tell Thierry!

Also, , you derp!

No, I can't be the Terminator. He always says: "I'll be back," while I as a hacker say brb.

I hope the universe doesn't divide by zero from me telling you I'm from the future...

My mom had a dream that her front- and backyard were used as a military training site, and they were aiming BUK missiles at her bedroom window.

At least they didn't aim nukes at the window.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to bring back some activity, if we started working on a new Community Remix? And I don't mean continuing the old one - it's better left dead. I mean a new one - with development going step by step, so it can actually go somewhere. We'll join forces with the NSMBCentral Discord, and maybe we can even join forces with another board, like Kuribo64 (lots of users here have an account there too) or SMWC (we used to host level design contests (another good thing to bring back, like SMWC VLDC) together with them). This could cause the board (and the Discord alike) to get more activity. More activity increases the chance of formerly-guests registering and that could increase the activity even more. What's your opinion on this? Let the board know!

Also, very festive subject for my 100th post! I'm a Koopa now! I'ma earn Mario infinite lives on the staircase!

Bump, but...

... I won!

Nyan Cat SPAM

awsum art was draw by me. i leik vewy much. if u leik, +1 PLEEZ?

Niice. Nice tilesets and stuff. Beyond DS quality, like before. Some stuff I noticed:
 • Mario and Luigi have no cap in some screenshots. Do they lose it when they have 99 lives, like in later games?
 • In the screenshot with the hanged Dry Bones, are those Rupees from Zelda?

Well, welcome back Thierry. You haven't missed much, this board was as dead as Dry Bowser.

_{^{It probably won't be long until you make yet another failed attempt at being more active on Kuribo64, lol}}

If you have the Starman, you can defeat Blockhoppers by crouch-sliding (or just walking if you are Small or Mini) into the ? Block. If there's no way to do so, first jump on top of the Blockhopper, then quickly run into the ? Block while it still shows its head and feet.

If you have the Starman, you are fully invulnerable to the falling piles of snow.

EDIT: If you have a Starman, you can only defeat Whomps if they're in faceplant state. This is because you can normally only defeat them by Ground Pounding them while in faceplant state, like in SM64 and its DS remake. With the Starman, all you need to do, is to basically run into them.

Mega Goomba and Petey Piranha are the only bosses that can be OHKOd with a Starman.

With StreetPass Relay being a thing now, I figured I should make a 3DS Pretendo friend code sharing thread here too.

Rules are simple, only 3DS Pretendo (make sure your 3DS is connected to Pretendo Network when opening the Friend List) friend codes. If you want to friend another user who has posted in this thread, please send them a usercomment.

My Pretendo friend code is
2422-5722-1695.
I look forward to friending you.