The 7th Annual Vanilla Level Design Contest: Collaboration Hack

Hack of Super Mario World

Title screenHack Information
Released By2706
CategoryComplete
PlatformSNES
LicenseN/A
Patching InformationHeader (SNES)
GenreAction > Platformer
ModsG, S, L, T
Game DateNov 21 1990
Patch Version1.0
Release DateJul 11 2014
ReadmeYes
Last ModifiedJul 16 2014
Game Description:
Super Mario World is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo in 1990. When Mario goes on vacation, Princess Peach gets kidnapped and Mario must go through Dinosaur Land in order to rescue her from the evil Bowser.
Hack Description:
For the past seven years, SMW Central has held a vanilla level design contest every spring. "Vanilla level design" refers to using only Lunar Magic to create your level - that is, no custom blocks, no custom sprites, and no custom code of any sort. They eventually began allowing people to use custom music, but this is not factored into their score. Once they finished designing their level, they would submit an IPS file, it would get judged + ranked, and that would be the end of it. This year, however, S.N.N. decided to assign resources (secondary exits, Map16 slots, etc) to users with the intention of putting all of their levels into a ROM and essentially creating a full hack out of it.
The hack features 82 submitted entries and 4 switch palaces, which makes a grand total of 86 levels for you to beat. All of the levels are open from the start - you can play them in any order you'd like. To help you keep track of your progress, the game autosaves on the world map and beating a level will give you an "M" in the top right corner of the overworld. As a disclaimer, the levels are organized on the overworld by theme, and not by ranking. This means that the quality of the levels might fluctuate dramatically from one to the next (e.g. having a 70th place entry directly before a 12th place entry). The bottom 8 and top 8 each have their own world, however, so it's easy to distinguish them from the rest.
ROM / ISO Information:
Super Mario World (USA) - NOINTRO
CRC32: B19ED489
MD5: CDD3C8C37322978CA8669B34BC89C804
SHA-1: 6B47BB75D16514B6A476AA0C73A683A2A4C18765
SHA-256: 0838E531FE22C077528FEBE14CB3FF7C492F1F5FA8DE354192BDFF7137C27F5B
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Files:
  • Readme File
  • Patch File
Screenshots:
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