ASPE Mario is an SMW romhack created by around 20 members of the Japanese hacking community. They organized themselves over twitter, and they even got some of the more well known members of the community (including the likes of Anikiti or Sui) to donate some levels.
The game itself contains 53 exits and spans over four worlds, but because of its steep difficulty curve this project might take longer than you'd think.
The hack seems to be inspired by the more "oldschool" of Japanese romhacks, which means that there are a lot of gimmick levels, some of which are very creative and that I've never seen before. However, as tends to be the case with these type of games, there are a couple of rage-inducing, bad levels in the project as well - but (at least in my opinion), the rest of hack more than makes up for it.
You can think of it like one of the later VIP hacks, if they ditched any and all of their vanilla levels and only kept the crazy gimmicky ones.
You can download the hack HERE, and find an English translation HERE. If you're wondering where some of the custom music is originally from, check out GlitchMr's post HERE!
(Helpful Tip: There's a lifefarm in 1-1 that works very similar to the one in VIP2. I can't quite shake the feeling that it's not an oversight either...)
1 - atheris nitschei
- Lakeshore Trail
- The Valley Where the Ghosts Reside
- Book House
- This Stage
- EXPRESS
- Boing Boing Sweets!
- Akarin!
- R Lake
- Submerged Castle
- Inverted Castle
- Flooded Hiking
- Watch Out! Underground Exploration
- Summit of the Gods
- Switching Factory
- The Great Christmas Mission!?
- THE SKY
- I Bought New Support Beams!
- Rainy Mountain
- Recycling
- Recycling [Dragon Coins]
- The Castle of Ice!
- Wanna Dance Yosakoi?
- Examination! Underground Water Pulse
- The Cave of Many Slopes
- Rape Is A Crime, No Good, Absolutely
- MARIO PAINT
- MY DONUTS
- "It's Too Heavy!" Athletic
- Storage
- The Forest of the Baby Yoshies
- Voltic Tower
- SUPER ASPE WORLD
- PHANTOM OF MIRROR
- Now Mario, Disappear!
- Good Thing You Didn't Press It!
- The ??? Computer
- ⊂二二二「Garigari-Kun」
- Sorry
- FRONT DOOR
- Megaspike Room
- Elevator Room
- Plant Room
- Boss
- FRONT DOOR
- Warp-Around Room
- Pipe Room
- Fire Room
- Doll Room
- Hurry, Hurry! Run, Run!
- Sorry [Dragon Coin Reward]
- Interstellar Flight
- ( ^ω^ )detteiu lololololol
- Boo Trick