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Charlies lost a hit point and gained immunity to fireballs for this hack. Charlie has always had invincibility frames. :)

I thought I recognized Valios from somewhere... He's none other than the third incarnation of JOWEY, the poison cow! Our bovine buddy may have lost a lot of weight, toxicity, and had quite the facelift, but that battle pattern is unmistakable! Not to mention all that HP! To think that he ascended to...

Wow. Suddenly: difficulty! And not of the good variety, I'm afraid. It's not just you, CowRao: I also experienced the same headaches in Acrophobia. Luckily you've got a nice lives farm now that has absolutely nothing to do with DKC blast barrels, so hopefully you can conquer this obstacle next time!...

Tomorrow's video encompasses the final secret exit of the hack, if anyone's curious. Spoilers, I guess! And there's so much more that could have been done with the trans-boo-mation level. Another underutilized opportunity, there. Oh, you haven't seen anything yet. Things are about to get hilarious. ...

People always suggest the most awkward life farms. Who would shy guy bounce in the Ludwig battle when there's a perfectly canon cannonball cannon with complimentary koopa shells in You Aren't a Pirate?

oh my god i had audible mention Anyway, world 6 secret exit-containing levels: Earth Catacombs Mirror Volcanic You're going to gain access to the path to the secret world after the first of these secret exits, but obviously can't walk the whole thing until you beat world 6's temple. After that, I'd ...

I thought that the background glitch was an easy fix. I think the last two level might have been star locked just so the hack could pass review. I guess SMWC isn't geared towards fixing up single author hacks. It's an extremely easy fix; its presence is indicative of a lack of playtesting. Also, no...

AUS wrote:This would be a better argument if romhacks were food.

Man, what are you talking about? I take my ROM hacks creamed with sausage and a side of toast every morning.

On one hand, more videos equals more power, and it would be quite funny...but I sorta think it would be 'unfair' to DM, since I think NL makes it look kinda bad. True, but on the other hand, I'm sure many people were bothered by the ludicrous drop in quality between Drama Mistery and most of raocow...

Disabling start does seem a little silly, especially in this hack where the entire main overworld map is available to you right from the get-go. An application, though, would be hiding world themes and sections of the map from the player for the endgame in order to make the world feel grander in sca...

So, some guy on Youtube (no, not SomeGuy, NanosparkLP) brought up that Lumos has a slightly different walking animation (complete with an extra frame) when he's big, allowing you to tell when you have an extra hit. I decided to take five minutes and compile the two different walking animations into ...

So raocow, you've cleared about 65% of Drama Mistery here, and while the game does get tougher, it doesn't ever really get frustrating. May I suggest perhaps turning this one into a B-side let's play to get it out of the way? Of course, if you only want to do one SMW hack at a time, then that's cool...

Fair enough!

Also, at the rate raocow is going, I feel that posting this is appropriate...

World 6 secret exit-containing levels:

Yeah, the health system brings along its own design pitfalls, namely making certain enemies more dangerous than others by the nature of taking off more health per hit. This ends up pigeonholing a lot of foes into "easy" or "hard" labels (when before they all dealt equal damage), ...

So yeah, my belated warning about placing a save state in Merlin's Place pertains to the fact that he really will answer only a single question of yours during the cutscene. It is impossible to return to the level, so you either have to savestate, rewind, or play through the game twice to ask both o...

Oh. Well, I guess that lets me know when you record your videos. I should probably post my things a day earlier or something. It's not too big of a deal, though, since we can all make goofy faces at what occurs in that level in tomorrow's video, I suppose! Does...does the writing include more delici...

Why yes. Yes, it is. World 5 secret exit-containing levels: A 'Cerrado' Jungle Big Hole in Forest Bush of Our Love By the way, when you get to an area called Merlin's Place, make sure you put a save state or something before asking any questions. Another brilliantly questionable design decision is i...

The game is a gigantic vat of missed potential. Just wait until the plot starts kicking in. It's going to be a good laugh. :lol: Refreshing Play's secret exit is dumb because You Aren't a Pirate's secret exit is much easier to get and leads to the exact same level. No idea why the difficulty discrep...

Hey raocow, read my secret exit hints unless you like guessing! You missed one! :) Also, you died at 9:42 because of the game's air system. Also also, I really dislike using Kood because pressing A in the air causes him to freeze and do his power stomp straight downward. Even though he has spinjumps...

The game stays at about the same quality throughout its entirety, to be honest. It only gets mildly better, to me, because the difficulty increases.

Nah, the boss theme is from Megaman X1. If you're talking about the danger song at the end of Toxic Factory there, though, then yeah, that's the Kaptain K. Rool fight music from Donkey Kong Country 2. Also, yeah, I think Blackout Basement was a little unnecessary almost right after The Dead Factory....

World 4 secret exit-containing levels: You Aren't a Pirate Relaxing Play There's a very easy lives-farming spot in an upcoming level if mortality ever become an issue. raocow might spot it on his own, but just in case he doesn't: It's in You Aren't a Pirate a few screens before the midpoint. A bull...

World 3 secret exit-containing levels: The Dead Factory Random, spoiler-ish comment about game design: So far, the secret exits have mostly all been obvious, with the most obscure ones actually being in the first world. Kinda' backwards, huh? I'm hoping things become more secretive as the game goes...

Windy Well sure was a well and not a series of outdoor cliffs, huh? Also, them Banzai Bills and them green eyes, man. It's some sort of conspiracy...like all the enemies have been infused with mako energy or something. I think the quality of the hack increases in world 3, personally. Mostly because ...

The cutscene is there to prove how awkward it is for Mario game characters to curse aloud, censorship or not. Anyway, yeah. Since the level design, the way things are hidden, some aesthetics, and some of the music choices (later on, not now) are directly influenced by the DKC series, I can only imag...