I'm not typically one to release demos for my hacks. If I were to release another one, I'm afraid it would be just as limited as the first demo. I don't want to spoil the experience of playing a full game by letting people play an unfinished version years in advance.

That's why I host Pic of the Week. So people get updates without being spoiled.

Pic of the Week - Week 42



When I designed this area, the structure I had in mind was "a sequence of small chambers that combine to look like a target". You can't see the whole view here, but that's exactly how this area turned out. But why the target shape? Is something else here?

Pic of the Week - Week 43



Just another Underwater Escapade. Incidentally, that's the name I dubbed for the Underwater music. It's going to be an original composition made by the same person who composed the MIDI for the Forest Music. He goes by "Bob. B".

Done, I've also jazzed up the look of the credits a little.

Please note that the list of credits is not complete.

Pic of the Week - Week 44



Deep down in beneath the crust of the Endless Earth, Mario explores the intricate cave system.

Wait, hold up.

Is this Endless Earth or Planet Zebes!?

Edit: Apologies to anyone who intended to follow my twitter page. When I signed up, the terms of privacy were unclear. I had the setting to let people who follow me see my tweets, but that setting also means that people have to request to follow me. That I wasn't aware of, and thanks to twitter's less than user friendly handling of notifications I had no idea up until today.

Breezy Guitar #1 (bgitar1.mid)

To fill up some post space, I might as well come out and say that I'm intending on making a new trailer by the end of the year.

Pic of the Week - Week 45



Another door. This is the third one we've seen so far. You know, if you want to know what these doors indicate, I should tell you that all the pieces are already there. Figure it out!

An another new progress report. I've been working more on the game soundtrack. It's almost complete! Remember back when the hack was announced and I said there would be 18 tracks in the hack? Well, double it. The final count for the soundtrack is a whopping 36 songs. 28 of which are already complete, and about half of them are completely new pieces.

I only had to make one unfortunate compromise. I'm not sure what exactly has caused this, but apparently jamming a whole lot of custom music into sound_data.sdat kills the World Map sound effects, which includes footsteps, Mario's voice, fanfares and ambient effects. It's not a particularly big deal as the World Map screens are mostly useless in this hack. If I could, I'd simply get rid of them and replace them with a nice, clean Mission Select screen.

Which is especially strange, because the sound effects died after I replaced BGM_FINALCLEAR_DEMO.sseq.

Pardon my mistake. I replaced BGM_FINALCLEAR.sseq, along with its corresponding sbnk and swar. When the World Map sound effects disappeared, I moved it to BGM_KUPPACLEAR_DEMO.sseq, but still no sfx.