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Super Mario Galaxy 2.5 demo available!
- Thread starter TunaLover
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R_thanatos
Member
this look nice
Doctor Decimate
Member
the Bowser level looks like the only one worth mentioning. others look big and empty. probably would have been better off just remaking 64/Sunshine levels.
KillerTravis
Banned
Minimal? Not at all.
No idea indeed.
Brawl alone has been homebrewed beyond recognition. PSP doesn't even come close, honestly.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
You tell'im, Curry.
BassForever
Member
Oh wow I could probably remove the part that says 2.5 and slap the 2 logo on there and no one who's not played SMG2 would know the difference.
No I expect a minimal attempt at design.
Even something as simple as water or hazards underneath the bridge (which looks like it was slapped there at the last minute), or having the bridge connect two of the big hills and having a spiral path up one of them would go a long way. Outside of the blocks theres nothing going on, which i hope isnt the direction they intend for the full project since empty space is bland and not fun.
Like I said I dont even expect constant platforming, if you look at Banjo Kazooie its platforming is all simplistic but the worlds are still fun to explore because the terrain is interesting. In the first world alone you're constantly going up and down slopes, theres platforms you have to slide down the mountainside to reach, a little river, an area off to the side with trees, like stuff is going on. The custom levels they've shown so far all look generally flat with samey terrain
I havent messed with the demo yet, but it looks like its only that Planet Plains level. It just seems like releasing Bob-omb Battlefield would make for something thats more exciting to play while they worked on getting the attention of more people to help with original level design.
Empty worlds would certainly make some people wonder.
The camera needs a bit reworking too. I'd like to be able to have it at a different height.
Only if they charged for it. Nintendo don't stop free fan projects. They're not Square.
LOL
evilromero
Member
Oh god they remade one of the best Mario levels ever. And seeing it makes me a little sad that we haven't gotten a new Mario game like that.
Nintendo don't give a shit about romhacks, unlike certain other companies (square), and never bothered us on acmlms or smwcentral.
TheCongressman1
Member
Like it's been said, this is just a demo to show what they are trying to do. They state at the end of the video they need level designers, so I'm sure that they know it can be better.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
BK's platforming is pretty minimal though and BT is flat-out an adventure game, so they might run into the same 'barren' issue they're having with Planet Plains.
That said this hack looks amazing. Hope they release those remixes too.
Also, its more of a proof of concept than anything. The first SMB1 level editor was shit, bit the documentation led us to better software. SMB3 improvement and the first few rom hacks were unbelievably shoddy - but now we have Dharkdaiz's unbelivable editor (Ruben) which allows possibilities in the game which not even Nintendo could have achieved. His current hack, Mario Adventure 3, looks brilliant.
So yeah. Even if this hack isn't up to scratch, it opens possibilities for the next. The thing is, there's a huge amount of genuinely superb SMW hacks due to the relatively simple structure (2D), and amazing editor (lunar magic). SMG2 is totally not the same, so we shouldn't expect the same as of yet.
No you did it right, you have to load your game and go to the world map, then go to the first level in World 1. It would have been nice if they had actually explained this somewhere...
Anyway, this is really cool. I've never bothered with Riivolution before now, are there any hacks for other games worth mentioning besides the ones for Brawl and Mario Kart Wii?
It's the Mario & Sonic 2012 remix of Sky Station Galaxy. It and Winter Games both have a bunch of spectacular remixes courtesy of Sega's sound team, who seem to be hellbent on showing Nintendo what they're doing wrong.
Yep, quite a few came out for nsmb Wii. I remember there being a section for the game in the SMWCentral forums. Have a look.
The game looks little more than a proof-of-concept at this point, but that's fine. Most of the best rom hacks you may have heard of only came out after years of horrible terrible attempts at hacks made when people didn't know what they were doing.
Heck, it took YEARS for people to start making SMW hacks better than Demo World after LM came out, and that itself, while a quality game in its own right, was intended as nothing more than a demonstration (hence the name)
Hopefully this project will eventually lead to bigger and better things.
Heck, it took YEARS for people to start making SMW hacks better than Demo World after LM came out, and that itself, while a quality game in its own right, was intended as nothing more than a demonstration (hence the name)
Hopefully this project will eventually lead to bigger and better things.
blizzardjesus
Banned
Pretty darn neat.., Looking forward to N64 levels, and areas from Sunshine with out that piece of crap backpack.
You have to also bear in mind that fusoya released Demo World two years after the first lunar magic release. It wasn't a demo to show off level design as such, but to showcase the new map16 functions (BG image importing) and custom blocks, using blocktool and ASM.
What Demo World showed was the sheer amount of possibilities present in SMW. The scene exploded since then. Some of the hacks on SMW Central are mindblowing, and there's a tonne of brilliant completed hacks too with new graphics, new music, new powerups...essentially, SMW is now used as a base engine for original Mario games in terms of hacking. That's how good its got.
commanderpepper
Member
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Some of the SMW hacks are incredibly good. If people here haven't looked at any of them it's definitely a good idea. This hack looks amazing too, but it's crazy thinking how far Galaxy hacking already is. I feel like Mario 64 hacking barely got on its feet and we're already here.
TheCongressman1
Member
I'm having a hard time getting this to work on my Wii. I can't even get Riivolution working... Sigh.
Is there not a way to patch the ripped iso? If not, there really should be.
Darko
Member
oh my god.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Not particularly impressed so far. Some of it looked somewhat decent, but it feels like it's going We're trying to be Mario 64, and we're failing it.
I think this actually made me realize that the small compacted worlds for the game actually means more to SM64 than before considering all the neat things that could be done in the game.
I think this actually made me realize that the small compacted worlds for the game actually means more to SM64 than before considering all the neat things that could be done in the game.
TheCongressman1
Member
Even if there was I wouldn't know how to do it. I'm really new to wii modding. I've had my wii homebrewed for a long time, but I haven't done much with it.
I'm trying to read up on how to patch and whatnot, but there is just so much stuff out there it's hard to keep everything straight.
Are any of them good?
Wrestlemania
Banned
That does not look good at all. Nostalgia levels aside, the new ones look appalling.
Holy crap, some of the remixes are a bit too messy, but some good remixes in there.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
You don't have 10 minutes of time?
Always-honest
Banned
Pffffwhaha. What a thing to say.
Man..this has me wondering; what other Mario hacks can be considered "expansions" to a main game? I think most of the hacks I've seen clearly enter the realm of fangame, but this, if you didn't know this was a hack, looks like a Nintendo product..
I'm sure something like that happens to exists with NSMB and NSMBWii, but I don't know the details on those. I know I've seen hacks on Youtube with new levels and stuff.
I'm sure something like that happens to exists with NSMB and NSMBWii, but I don't know the details on those. I know I've seen hacks on Youtube with new levels and stuff.
Wrestlemania
Banned
That level isn't actually going to be made better by trying to recreating it in the SMG engine though, is it? It'll be much, much worse than just playing SM64.
It's like whenever someone recreated SMB 1-1 in any game with a level editor. Fun idea, always plays terrible. The custom levels they show also don't inspire much confidence in the level design skills of whoever is making this.
Doesn't it simply require the retail disc plus some homebrew files it accesses when booting the game? What's wrong with that? It's essentially a mod. You wouldn't do fan-created content if this were a PC game?