Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Hack: Adventure in Gemstone Islands
Author: Burst Man
Length: 73 Exits
Difficulty: Standard: Hard / Skilled
Status: Accepted
Patch: smwc.me/s/40884
This hack was in the section 3 times, and all these times this hack was taken for moderation by other mods, until now.
This is a neat hack, even if some levels appear to be kinda empty at times, and some graphics are not my cup of tea but that's just that, personal preferences.
Now, This hack seems to have changed since 2011, I say this because one LP from someone else has different music but this one has different tracks, it seems that the cape got nerfed big time as well, I remember seeing another mod cheese stages by flying but now that's not possible.
Hack is your standard stuff,nothing crazy, grass lands, deserts, ice, spoopy worlds, caves, standard stuff for Mario standards, the levels are varied in difficulty, sometimes you get free levels, sometimes they throw stuff at you, sometimes you can skip the whole level. Secret exits also are a thing to a lesser degree, and some of them are cryptic to find, like one where you have to run in a wall with no indication, hack doesn't have custom bosses, it's the vanilla koopalings.
So yeah the hack is neat with some hard stuff here and there, and it's kinda long but not too long, at least for me, try it if you want a challenge
Hack: Adventure in Gemstone Islands
Author: Burst Man
Length: 73 Exits
Difficulty: Standard: Hard / Skilled
Status: Accepted
Patch: smwc.me/s/40884
This hack was in the section 3 times, and all these times this hack was taken for moderation by other mods, until now.
This is a neat hack, even if some levels appear to be kinda empty at times, and some graphics are not my cup of tea but that's just that, personal preferences.
Now, This hack seems to have changed since 2011, I say this because one LP from someone else has different music but this one has different tracks, it seems that the cape got nerfed big time as well, I remember seeing another mod cheese stages by flying but now that's not possible.
Hack is your standard stuff,nothing crazy, grass lands, deserts, ice, spoopy worlds, caves, standard stuff for Mario standards, the levels are varied in difficulty, sometimes you get free levels, sometimes they throw stuff at you, sometimes you can skip the whole level. Secret exits also are a thing to a lesser degree, and some of them are cryptic to find, like one where you have to run in a wall with no indication, hack doesn't have custom bosses, it's the vanilla koopalings.
So yeah the hack is neat with some hard stuff here and there, and it's kinda long but not too long, at least for me, try it if you want a challenge
