idol wrote: ↑2 years ago
honestly, while kaizo is big, smwc still gets more standard hacks submitted on average. in the past few months alone i could recommend plumber for all seasons, daizos alpha sphere is cool (heard ppl like super mario challenges by him too), another special world 2 / gaiden, russianman's marisa and reimu switch hunt, r-ack, golden yoshi's hack series, isikoro mario world (might be divisive), so on and so on. all of these are interesting and cool standard hacks from the past few months i don't think raocow's played, and none of them were made for other ppl / kaizo twitch streamers.
the hacks are out there still, much as they always have been.
this is an aside from magl4, but i wanted to bring it up anyways since i don't quite agree that everyone makes kaizo hacks nowadays. we have a lot more kaizo hacks, but i can also say smwc has grown a ton in the past few years, so it all averages out just the same as it did before.
I've actually downloaded Gaiden, MariRei, Isikoro, R-ACK, AnoSpe2, as well as some Standard Hard and V Hard that seemed good or I wanted to replay for the sake of savestateless play, and a healthy number of Kaizo Lights to practice. However, I'm too busy with commercial games to grind in V Hard romhacks right now, currently doing Farland Story (PC98)/Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn)/Grandia (Saturn)/Summon Night 2 (PlayStation).
Still messed about with Isikoro, Hyper 6 and ASPE on completed save files (Summit of the Gods and That Which Can Eternal Die are pretty funny if you're not playing to win) and tried to play through Another Special 1 (which is surprisingly tough for a Nintendo-style hack) and Luigi's Adventure, non-OSE (it gave me brain injuries, please stick to OSE).
As for standard being the more submitted, I'm not gonna refute that, you being the owner of the site and all, though Kaizo: Light by itself is bigger than most difficulties
by themselves except for Standard: Normal, of which the two are pretty close by around 100 entries I'd say? It's much easier (relatively, it's not exactly brain dead, far from it) to make a 10 stage Kaizo hack with sort of run of the mill tech for a two-three hour stream than make something like Morsel and the like.
Also, it's much less time consuming than an eight world all romps type hack, so I kind of expect Kaizo: Light to eventually become the difficulty with the most entries due to its sheer accessibility of creation, along with the streamer angle. Not exactly take over the site entirely to the point that no one makes Standards anymore, though. I'm not exactly pissed off at that fact, just a bit depressed hacks in the same vein as Mario X World or TSC's stages in VIP aren't too much of a thing these days, likely due to their focus on longer experiences and many worlds. I also wonder how many people still expect impressive ASM out of them, which honestly is asking for too much.
I honestly have better things to do than complain about Kaizo, and I'd be down to make something similar to Morsel's Kaizos someday and upload it onto RH.net, especially since I can ASM and all. My comment about interesting Standard is also colored by me being more of a Very Hard player, so sorry for that.
Scarfley wrote: ↑2 years ago
Hey, I would like to ask something.
After the submission periodt is over, the entries are probably all being collected by someone and send to the judges, right?
Is it maybe possible for the person who collects them to also upload a .zip-file (or something similar) containing all the entries like last MaGL?
(Especially if there turn out to be a lot of entries after all.)
Only if it is not too much work of course!!!
That would be very nice of them! :)
I actually did one for MaGL1-3 for someone who turned out to be aterraformer, if you want it, then
yeet. Kudos to Zandro for archiving all of 'em. I didn't include a certain person's due to them being a complete piece of shit none of us want to associate with though.
Valentine wrote: ↑2 years ago
most likely will happen
If no one does one for MaGL4, I could whip one up in an hour or so and put it on my site.