![]() ![]() He was eventually overthrown, so you're playing the game as a Fallen Hero trying to Take Over the World. However, the success got to his head and he became a very corrupt ruler. ![]() The story in later demos is that, prior to the hack's start, Mario finally defeated Bowser once and for all and was made Mushroom King. ![]() Since Carol himself is something of a hermit and can't speak English, updates travel through the forums via indirect word of mouth, so it's largely unknown what kind of progress has been made on completing it. Both are listed as demos therefore, they're incomplete. ![]() The official game is available on SMWCentral here, which has an unofficial English translation included. It's inspired many hackers to make their own custom bosses and ASM modifications. Made by the Japanese hacker "Carol", this hack's success comes from the fact that it contains many modifications that the vast majority of SMW hackers can't do, including new bosses, transition effects, new powers, and more. One of the most well-known Super Mario World hacks. However, since the wow factor of the latter half has remained intact after all these years, and since it is responsible for me getting into the medium that is ROM hacks, I can't give it a lower score than 5 Stars depite its many flaws.Three guesses as to the difference between this and the normal Super Mario World box. Something more subjective is that there's also no custom music, but at the same time the age of the hack would mean that the music would be too dated to work on accurate emulators, as shown in the Cheep Demo. Something that hasn't held up however, is the below avarage level design that makes some of the stages boring to play through once the wow factor is gone, which is something that happens quite frequently during the first half of the game, since many of the lesser gimmicks and are easily available on SMW Central by now.Īnother thing that hasn't aged well is that some of the bosses, while impressive, are heavily rng dependent due to them only being vulnerable during a certain selection of attacks. The ROM hack that got me into smw ROM hacks, and many of the bosses and gimmicks still hold up today. ![]()
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