I'm debating whether or not to add co-ordinates above doors to give people an idea where they'll end up. Opinions?

Pic of the Week - Week 59



With the release of skawo's ASM hack, I decided to get working on the opening to get the plot of the hack across. In the end, the video I produced was 7 minutes 20 seconds long, so it was no surprise I had trouble getting the hack to work properly, but rest assured one way or another this is going to happen. Worst case scenario I include the video with the Download Pack and provide an unlock code for the ending sequence in the game credits.

This was the first 'slide' I made for the introduction, which is my personal favourite. Mario and Princess Peach enjoying each other's company on a starry night. Unlike the story sequence in New Super Mario Bros. 5: Clone Tag Team 2, this video was rendered at DS screen resolution, so it was worlds easier to make better quality images with a smaller resolution.

If you'd be happy to help I would oblige, sir.

I'll send them right to you but I'll have to duplicate some slides and add dialogue to them first, because I used my video editor for that. Or is that not a problem?

Pic of the Week - Week 60



I am the whore of the resource forum. I needed a way of rejuvenating the underground and underwater areas, so I decided to make an water/cave area to mix it up. I manually edited the palette of the Volcano backgrounds to preserve its quality.

1. The background does animate if it's used in 8-6. I haven't figured out how to get it working outside 8-6 yet.

2. It's not specifically about graphics, but game mechanics that can be achieved from mixing underground and underwater.

3. I don't see an urgent need to update the jyotyu blocks, but mostly I'm afraid I'll screw it up.

Yes, but that didn't work.

Don't worry, I think I have a solution.

OK, got it. I'll see what I can do. But how would I add an extra two palettes to those tilesets without affecting the first one?

EDIT: I just tried replacing the tileset completely and the animation is intact.

Pic of the Week - Week 61



A filler pic this week, sorry guys. But I have some new design ideas that I'm going to try out in my upcoming 6-Day Weekend.

I could do more time variants for the Flower Fields, but first things first I have to see if I'll have enough background space once I've reached a point where the hack is more complete.

Once the overworld is complete, the hack will basically be 80% done.

Pic of the Week - Week 62



If you've played the demo, you might've noticed that there's a part of the underwater environment that isn't accessible.

This is a part of that little area, and it seems the reason it was blocked off is because there was Power Star hiding here!