Guide To Hacking Super Mario World

CUZ I'M BORED. But honestly. If any of you dont have anything to do, this is really fun and one of the easiest games to hack.

Lesson 1: The Basic Tools

To hack Super Mario World, there's only one real tool nessecary, and this one IS required. However, there are other tools that can help make your hack awesome-sauce. In this lesson, we're going to learn about these tools.

Lunar Magic: Lunar Magic is the tool that does almost everything in the realm of Super Mario World hacking. This tool can edit EVERY level of the game. By edit I mean, it can move Sprites, Land Masses, Random Blocks, Mushrooms, etc. You can change the standard overworld aswell. New Graphics can be inserted with this, Palletes (colors) can be edited, the music can be changed, you can edit what doors/pipes lead where, etc. This is required if you're going to do anything with Super Mario World.

Block Tool: This tool makes a longer process shorter, but doesn't work out as well for you in the long run. The Block Tool allows you to easily insert blocks that do things that weren't in the original SMW. This tool HOWEVER lags your hack the more blocks you insert. It's better in the longrun to code the ASM and make the block graphics yourself.

Lunar Expand: All this tool really does is expands the amount of space in your ROM. Perfect if you're adding new Sprites, Blocks, or Music.

AddMusic: AddMusic inserts the custom music you make. It's somewhat difficult to use though. More info on how to code your own music later.

ZSnes: SNES Emulator. Needed to playtest your levels.

Xkas: A patching tool thats easy to use but it's not clear on what to do at first.

YY-CHR: Possibly the best tool I've listed next to Lunar Magic. This tool is nessecary to edit graphics for your SMW Hack. Very Straight-Forward and Easy to use. It comes in Japanese, but there's a simple edit in the .cfg file you can make to change it to english.


And that's it for this lesson. Tomorrow's lesson: Learning Lunar Magic.

Moved to general discussion cuz not spammy.

I hacked the NES version of this game a long time ago.