Posted: 4/19/2010 3:33 AM
Post subject: SMB hack
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Weirwindle
Joined: 8/24/2009
Posts: 51
Is Super Mario Bros Bowser Jumping Challenge an exceptable hack for publication here? Here is a speed run I have done of the hack yet nowhere near optimized. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8s9YTUgqLM
Posted: 4/19/2010 4:00 AM
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Derakon
Joined: 7/2/2007
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I'll freely admit to not being a huge fan of SMB TASes, but personally I don't think it would be. It looks like a fairly generic "hard but playable" SMB hack, so the gameplay is basically like it is in standard SMB. As a general rule a hack needs to be significantly different from the game it is based on to stand a good chance of being accepted (this isn't a hard rule; it's just an observation of how the audience here reacts to hacks). So SMB Air is impossibly hard to play by hand, and Extra Mario Bros. brings Metroid gameplay in and a noteworthy final boss.
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Posted: 4/19/2010 4:04 AM
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Weirwindle
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Thanks for the reply. You have also answered a question about SMB air 2.
Posted: 4/19/2010 8:28 AM
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Warepire
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Quite interesting hack, it seems to me like something submitworthy, but it might be a little "too much like the original" for a few.
Posted: 4/19/2010 9:30 AM
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Kuwaga
Joined: 10/20/2006
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Well, I'm not a big fan of SMB TASes either, but I think the quality of the level design in this hack is almost up to par with the original. So I think it has good chances of being accepted here.
Posted: 4/19/2010 12:39 PM
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henke37
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I say, publish this.
Posted: 4/19/2010 1:09 PM
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Sticky
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Location: Minnesota
PM adelikat!
adelikat wrote:
I very much agree with this post.
Bobmario511 wrote:
Forget party hats, Christmas tree hats all the way man.
Posted: 4/19/2010 3:12 PM
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BigBoct
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Why would he need to do that? If memory serves, the rule about needing prior approval for hacks was removed when HappyLee's Extra Mario Bros. was accepted.
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Posted: 4/19/2010 4:14 PM
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Weirwindle
Joined: 8/24/2009
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It is just that adelikat threatened to boot me from the forums if I ever submitted another SMB hack after I posted my SMB forever run. That is why I asked.
Posted: 4/19/2010 8:21 PM
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Sticky
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Location: Minnesota
I didn't know that boct1584. Never realized the criteria was changed.
adelikat wrote:
I very much agree with this post.
Bobmario511 wrote:
Forget party hats, Christmas tree hats all the way man.
Posted: 4/20/2010 6:33 PM
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Canar
Joined: 4/1/2010
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I'd vote "Yes" on this, FWIW.