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welcome back eye :3 :3 ----- So with the first map transition into the main map, I guess I'll explain one of the major obstacles to getting this hack to work on anything beyond ZSNES. As usual, this is a somewhat long and technical explanation, but in short: it was the amount of time the custom ove...

Thing about the whole "VIP has always had sprite replacements": the first VIP in particular was written in such a way that always seemed to assume the characters were vanilla Mario & friends, so there's reason to believe that the sprite replacement version was added later. I'm gonna ca...

Sebby19 wrote: ↑4 years ago I thought DKC2 was next.

The only VIP I see in COMING UP NEXT was #6

That is exactly the reaction I was going for, thank you.

Remember when he said at the end of the JUMP 1/2 LP that there's an invisible list of things to play as they get released?

(´・ω・`) And so it is written, that at the denouement of The Third Recital of the fourth instalment in the episodic narrative known as the Very Important Person saga, the Holy Bovine of Dubious Internet Popularity, known as 'raocow II of Quebec', was notified of the presence of deafening ventilation ...

Update: minor update for Hyper 6 to fix a translation oversight where the first world was called by the wrong name in the castle cutscene.
Nothing else was changed, so the Japanese version of the hack is identical to the one released before.

Big update this time as VIP 5 is now available fixed and translated.

Yes, I can confirm that the dotted blocks are in fact triggers for the cannons to fire. Or at least the red kind in the gif is, I haven't checked what the yellow ones do. Whatever they do, I do not believe that the hack would pull a deadlock like that deliberately.

I think wa_ commented on the video today. Poor attempt at translation: I made a mistake in placing the launch sprites on the cannons... I feel like it should have been fixed by the translators... Actual translation: It seems like the bullets fired from the cannons aren't going in the right directio...

Update: due to a bug report, SUPER has been updated. Specifically, some of the cannons in one particular level were not firing their bullets in the right direction, which was caused due to a mistake in one of the fixes.

So this level was home to an interesting (and somewhat baffling) emulator compatibility bug, which involved the dual platforms that spin in circles. This is going to be a fairly length and maybe somewhat technical explanation, so strap in. Or just skip past the spoilered part if you want the short v...

I'm surprised you guys translated it as "Exciting Switch", considering the Japanese name for that level in YI has "Dokidoki" in it, which people typically translate as "heart-pounding". Given it's supposed to be a stressful run, I'd probably translate it as either &quo...

Yeah, so if the Yoshi's Island background and gimmick in this level didn't give it away, this level is a huge reference to the level "Hit That Switch!!" from that game. The proper name for this level should've been ' "Hit That Switch!!"-esque', but we totally missed it. Oops.

Don't get too excited about the notes on the OW, cause that's the only one we put in. There's actually another reference in this hack that we were total idiots and missed, resulting in a very slight mistranslation I guess. I'll be pointing that one out as it comes up, but I think most people who hav...

What? Something I had a hand in? This is totally unexpected and I didn't see this coming at all.

Welp, better climb out of my Discord hole for once.

Update:
Two new entries in one go!
(And totally not because we had one of them finished way earlier but discovered a bug in one of the patches and had to delay it, nope.)

Scarlet Devil Mario (or whichever of the many names this thing has) and Hyper VI now available.

Novelty

Anybody caught in between those two is many things, but a winner is not one of them.

Who should I be today?

Update: Updates to VIP 3 and 8 Powers have been released. The main aim was to fix a slight audio delay glitch that was introduced due to our music fixes, which would happen whenever the music switched during gameplay. 8 Powers also has some typo fixes in the translation. Full changelogs are in the i...

One more than a quadressential nicety.

How should I decide on a name for my firstborn?

Because pineapples that are sold at market on a hot evening when a tree falls in the woods are known for secreting fatal mustard, DUH.

What man?

Update: Our translation/fix of SUPER is now available. Check it out if you like really difficult stuff.

Some minor updates for existing releases should be coming really soon.

I get that Nancy is pretty fashion-conscious, but I think she misunderstood when people said that tube-tops were back in style.

The name of that "Chamber of Secrets" level in Japanese is actually the same as the movie's Japanese name too. We had considered whether it might have been a reference to it, but decided against writing a note about it since we couldn't find any evidence for it, and the name is generic eno...

While we're at it, the userbars for the two best raophrases each have a different phrasing for the category, and the Owl Control one is missing a space in its category name.

Wow. First year here and multiple wins.
And they're some really nice-looking bars too.
Thanks guys.

I'll make sure to try real hard and win Best Newcomer next year too!

Congrats to everyone else too.