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I had no idea but Grand Poo Bear, the grand Master of SMW, is 13 days into a subathon - where he is live in twitch 24/7. Please go over and see for yourself what kind of person who is at the top of this community really is. Good luck P!
You might not think this is something you want - but it is. If you like retro games, emulation, whatever, doesn't matter. Just watch this video of a speedrunner called GPB playing a hack called Super Dram World at an event.
Feel the energy of the crowd? Like you're there with them? It's not just because the players are entertaining - its because these hacks are intensely fun. You will suffer, yes. But you will triumph more than you can imagine if you persevere.
To Play a Hack
A legitimate copy of SMW must be owned. You use a simple tool called an IPS Patcher found at the same place the hacks are: SMWCentral. Download one, unzip, and the patcher will apply the changes to the original game. Easy as pie, and plenty of tutorials exist to teach it. You also need an emulator.
"Kaizo"
If you're not familiar with the phrase, you soon will be. The phrase for difficult SMW hacks is a Kaizo Game". It means difficult to the western world, but rearranged to the native tongue of Japanese.
How Is This Possible?
Mostly through the help of a program called Lunar Magic. It's a level editor, map editor...
...and can make SMW into just about anything. Even Sonic the Hedghog.
The Download Database
A beautiful site SMWDB was made as a mirror that stored all hacks from Central, but it shut down (or went into maintenance mode) in late 2021, but luckily an intrepid soul gave us...
And as long as we have have wget
installed on our systems - and we all can. (I won't be explaining that part.) All you need to do, is run the following script in the folder you'd like to download the files to.
wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=3 -R index.html https://archive.org/download/super-mario-world-hacks/
THAT'S IT!!!
...Now, wait a few ... days?
Because This Might Take A While
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Here's the sequel spritually to the above video."
If you didn't watch the youtube video before, watch this part at least. The SMW community is a place of love, and passion, and we want you to join our anguish and suffering with a smile.
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You'll thank me later. ↩
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