Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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The TAS starts at 7:00.

This SNES Super Mario World 2: Yoshi Island ROM Hack Mod features 11 Custom Levels in the game. I show 100% Completion / Gameplay and Tool Assisted Speedruns of the first 3 Levels, including the Intro Level.

0:00 - Casual Gameplay
7:00 - TAS

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Video Details:

The format for this video is a little different than most of my other ones. I decided to include very casual gameplay along with the TAS of these levels. This was a new idea I had because of how rare this hack is. (Read more on this in the Hack Details section.)

So, I figured it'd be nice to show the game (layout, design, etc...) before showing the TAS of it. I don't think many people watch speedruns of a game they've never played or looked at before, but maybe that's just me.

I tried to show as much of the game as possible, at a reasonable pace. The goals were:
1) To show the location of all the important stuff like winged clouds, flowers, and red coins.
2) To show the entire level. Even stuff that can be skipped.

I edited in the Flower & Red Coins HUD myself. It's not a part of the hack.

The Score Menu editing was done to decrease transition time between levels. I owe my inspiration for doing that to Brooklyn's awesome Yoshi's Island Speedrun Montage:
youtube.com/watch?v=0iDHlndB3oc

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TAS Details:

This TAS is a Work in Progress (WIP). I plan to TAS all 11 Custom Levels. Progress has been pretty slow though, that's why I released this WIP. It's been pretty fun to relearn TASing Yoshi's Island again. This was a fun de-rusting exercise.

It's not the most optimized run, but I don't mind. There are several improvements that could've been made throughout each level, and possibly better egg management, but I'm just having fun with it for now.

Re-Records: 31,970
Emulator: BizHawk
Tools & Resources: Yoshi's Island Lua Script by BrunoValads
(Seriously an incredible Lua script by him. I probably wouldn't be TASing Yoshi again if it wasn't for this.)

Script Link:
github.com/brunovalads/yoshis-island

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Hack Details:

This hack was made by @Jeorge535
Unfortunately, it is unfinished and untitled. I wasn't sure what to name it on his behalf so sorry for the pretty generic title.

All 9 Levels in World 1 are finished. 2-1, and 2-2 are finished. From 2-3 onward are levels from vanilla Yoshi's Island.

Because it's unfinished, the hack doesn't play completely as intended. Some red coins, and flowers often despawn, making a few levels impossible to 100%.

So, I used Golden Egg (a Yoshi's Island Level Editor) to fix that as best as I could. I moved the location of a few red coins and flowers, until they no longer despawned and I got consistent results. I tried to stay as faithfully to Jeorge's original design as I could. It only happens in 2 or 3 levels iirc, both of which I haven't even TASed yet.

Jeorge535 started working on this hack back in September 2010, and made his last update on it in May 2011, where it was posted to Raocow's Talkhaus Forums. Originally, and usually, Yoshi's Island Hacks get posted to either SMWCentral or YouTube, but he never posted this hack on either. It's only posted on Raocow's Forums, and the link to download the demo of it is dead...

This hack is pretty much non-existent. No gameplay of it exists. It can't be found online anywhere as far as I know. Even Jeorge535 hasn't had any activity on any of these sites in apparently almost 8 years.

I would provide a link to download this hack, but I'm not entirely sure if I can. I only managed to keep a copy of the patched ROM, rather than the patch file (IPS or BPS) for this hack. And I think we all know how Nintendo feels about sharing ROMs. If anyone knows a way to somehow provide a download to the hack, let me know.

Edit (3/10/2021):
Thanks to Brooklyn & others, this ROM Hack is now on SMWCentral here:
smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=26408