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ROM Map wrote:010DB - 3 bytes - Change this and/or 01109 from 20 12 90 to EA EA EA to disable writing the score to the status bar when playing as Mario and/or Luigi, respectively. Useful if you want to place another counter in place of the score using Smallhacker's Status Bar Editor.

raocow wrote:Wait, I can't seem to be able to change the thing in the hex thing. I try to find those adresses with Cntrl+G - that's what I'm supposed to do, right?

Oni wrote:10 points to whoever can guess what the idea is.

Oni wrote:1. What's the limit on functional switch palaces? This is mainly to restrict parts of the world for me.
The original four: yellow, green, blue, and red.

2. How much can I change what powerups do? Example: Can I make the feather still have the cape spin attack, but remove flight from it? I want to make a type of sword slash attack, and am curious of the possibilities here. As for the fire flower, can I either make it shoot straight, or remove the bounce (as in, it hits the ground once it stops)?
SMWC has patches for both of those, if I remember correctly.

3. The hit system. Is it possible to create a healthpoint system accross the entire game? What I'm thinking is you would start at something like 50hp (little), the mushroom equivalent would give 50hp (big), but not change the sprite. I don't want the character to grow when he receives powers. Same for the Feather/Fireflower. I suppose this would be fine without displaying the health, it's more the sprite size that I'm concerned with here.
I think that making some changes to the Metroid Health Patch (or whatever it's called; I know it's something like that) and applying it to your hack would have the desirable effect.

3a. If this is possible, can some levels constantly decrease the HP by a small amount (like a DoT, for those familiar) in some levels? An example is something like the pink poison cloud level in VIP3, but that uses the clock as a health-type thing.
Definitely possible, but you'd need some basic ASM knowledge to pull it off. I would suggest using either the LevelASM patch or a custom generator to decrease the HP RAM address when the frame counter is at a certain value.

3b. Can I have mario be perma-small for half the game, and then have an event or unlockable that changes his sprite to be big for half the game? While retaining this 50/100hp health system.
This would be a bit more complicated, but again: as long as it's within the capabilities of the SNES, you can do it with ASM. This particular thing would require coding a patch that sets Mario's powerup status to a certain value depending on some RAM address which would be cleared at the start of the game and set at the event. However, in that form, the patch would make using the other powerups (flower, feather) kind of impossible.

4. This is probably a simple one, how big can I make the overworld? Is it limited to a certain amount of screens or levels?
Open up the overworld editor. The part that is covered with the original overworld is what you have: one main overworld and six submaps.

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Oni wrote:10 points to whoever can guess what the idea is.

OoT sidescroller adaptation.

supercharizard64 wrote:I have a few questions:

1) Can i make a pipe to another area in the same level or does it have to go to a different area?

2) When raocow LPed some games, he was able to move on without doing a level (i think because it was a demo?). How do you do that, since testing levels is gonna get hard to do when i have to reset all the time. or if theres another way to play a level alone, id like to know

thanks :D

yoshicookiezeus wrote:Or, if you already have an overworld done and don't want to change it, just use the overworld editor to move Mario's starting position to the level you wish to test. That's what I usually do.