997_1307572388.pngI'm almost too ashamed to admit it, but I've created a romhack again.
A romhack of Super Mario World, of all things.
Yes, the Super Mario World that has been hacked to death a bazillion times.
But bear with me as this at least brings a couple of new things: Gone are overworld, titlescreen and game selection.
This game dumps you right into one of three specially-crafted time-attack stages repeated in an infinite loop after selecting them via a (admittedly poor) main menu.
You don't have lives, score or coins anymore.
All that counts is the time it takes you to complete a stage and this time is displayed on-screen with single-frame precision.
This was created for a local Nintendo convention called NCON and took over 70 hours to develop in total, including working for almost 3 days straight without catching any sleep. Like ever so often, it's a pretty rough hack job under the hood.
It was really enjoyable to see people getting hooked to this, trying to beat each others record by the millisecond for hours.
I created 3 cartridges of this game and people were constantly occupying them, all the way through the night and the next day.
On a not-so-fortunate sidenote, I've decided to drop all future support of any kind for NCON and related events.
The reason being that I have not once in my life met such ungratefulness for supporting an event by one of the organizers, having been treated downright disrespectful.
All I got from him was constant bitching and whining over non-issues.
Best part about this is that I even sent him a preview version the week before, so he could have easily checked it out and made suggestions about the parts he didn't like while I was developing it.
Needless to say, he didn't even bother to try it out beforehand.
I just don't get the arrogance and stupidity of people, sometimes...
Release includes sourcecode.
