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Nah, I've just been busy these past few days and haven't been able to follow back. I intend to work this project to completion. (Just got an offer via PM and I'm working that out now)

Ideally, the engine wouldn't be literally be built from the NES version, it would just be based on it in terms of design.

@93143, Espozo

Ah, good suggestions. I just used dithering since that's just how I knew to do it, but if there are ways on the programming side of things that achieve what I want more efficiently, I'd be willing work with them.

- Download Lunar Magic (smw rom editor)

- Now make your game with that program by replacing mario and such.

- Pretend that you actually had a programmer who did it.

That's lame...

Lame would be taking Super Mario World, rewriting every single subroutine to do the same thing in a different way, and then using that as a base for your hack.

Dang it! I wanted to make a multijointed Madusa!

I really should make a tutorial for how to use my animation engine, without getting into details of how it works. Would superfamicom.org be okay for this purpose?

Why not! By the way, do you treat the limbs of multijointed bosses as separate objects, or what?

They're seperate objects.

How do you keep track of them? Are there registers in the main object that say what other objects it is using?

Yes, and each object has a link back to the main object, and the object it's connected to.

Erockbrox wrote:- Download Lunar Magic (smw rom editor)

- Now make your game with that program by replacing mario and such.

- Pretend that you actually had a programmer who did it.

SMW hacking is for noobs who like to:
-use no original gameplay ideas
-be limited to 16x32 sprites
-not have a clue how the game actually works

psycopathicteen wrote:-be limited to 16x32 sprites

Really? I know there are plenty of objects in that game that are bigger than 16x32, like Charging Chuck or Banzai Bill.

psycopathicteen wrote:-use no original gameplay ideas
-not have a clue how the game actually works

Pretty much...

The SMW hacking community are totally afraid of making large custom sprites with complex animation.

They're totally afraid of doing anything ambitious.

In their defense, I would say that hacking SMW or any game for that matter probably becomes exponentially more of a pain in the ass the more changes you try to make to it. It probably doesn't take long before writing a whole new game would be less work than hacking SMW into your game. So I would wager it's not so much that they're "afraid" to try to hack it so extensively, it just doesn't make sense to try. As soon as they start wanting to make something so drastically different, that's probably just the point where they'd transition out of the SMW Hacking community and show up somewhere like here.

(... and I guess the reason I'm saying it is, is that how you'd want to welcome those potential new recruits?)

Most people who leave smwcentral hold a grudge on the website anyway.