Uploaded October 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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(Disclaimer as usual: I do not own Super Mario Bros., Lunar Magic, etc., but I made the level showcased here and some of the custom sprites shown.)

So, boredom strikes again. c: Digging through my old computer I found an almost (almost) non-glitchy version of the SMW hack I used to work on forever ago. Really forever ago: it seems that most of the work here was done during 2006 and 2007, and I more or less quitted SMW hacking at some point during 2008 [?] due to several nonsensical reasons, among them breaking the main copy of the hack and another one I was working on and general loss of interest. I didn't know, in fact, I had such a recent backup.

After finding it, I also noticed that very recently Lunar Magic v2.20 had been released. Given that the last version I got to use was v1.67 and I was struck with some serious nostalgia, I got curious about how much had changed in it. You know, custom sprites were still a kind of novel thing at the time I was into SMW hacking (a couple years before I learned about Touhou) and via trial and error I learned some basic ASM and could create some relatively interesting custom blocks and sprites, such as quicksand (not shown here) and the Fire Nipper that features prominently in this. I also recall making a Bully and a Big Bully (which didn't get a release) a couple months before a way better one was released by someone else (leading to me never releasing mine |3).

Well then, I decided to make a new level out of boredom and fix some glitches with the ol'hack. I don't think I'll really go back to SMW hacking, and this video was purely made out of boredom+nostalgia and for fun, so don't expect cool level design or something that would've been a novelty after 2008. But, who knows, if I get bored enough I might try to finish this after I make some reasonable progress on my Touhou Project project (ha ha ha).

Thanks for reading~ |3 If I'm bored enough, I'll make a video about some of the original levels of this hack, instead of this one I made during this weekend as an excuse to abuse the Fire Nipper. :3

PS: Sorry for the serious lag at some points. I made the mistake of using old Blocktool instead of newer versions (which didn't exist when I started working on this) and never really got to update before I broke the game.