Oh boy, here we go again, huh? Flogging the dead horse that is Super Mario World Central Production 2. It used to be such a great project with an interesting story, the graphics and ASM were cool for the time, but as the project neared its completion...people who were in charge of the hack just left abruptly. And then everyone else who was on this project (especially those with ASM) left as well.
Torchkas and Magi working on the project and improving the graphics was such a nice thing to kickstart improving the project which was left in the dust and quickly got dated. But, as of late, we've gotten...radio silence. SNN, Kieran, and everyone else in charge of this project are either periodically active, resigned from staff, or left the site all together. Nobody even bothered to think about this project, mostly because we either thought it was a lost cause or because we were confident someone else was going to do it for us.
So based on this silence, and how tired I am of seeing SMWCP2 and its legacy go to waste with nobody giving any shits about it, we'll probably have to kickstart the discussion and improvements to this game ourselves. We shouldn't be relying on our staff for ASM improvements anymore, nor should we be putting all our eggs in one basket like we did with Kipernal, RednGreen, SNN, etc. This is meant to be a project involving the entire website, not a personal staff member collaboration. I understand that this was because back then, staff members were ASM wizards, and anyone else were lucky to have known it. But nowadays, we know a lot of ASM wizards, and several of them are regular users.
We also have a lot of excellent graphics artists, such as Magi, StrikeForcer, even myself. We've got ourselves to rely on for a bunch of stuff. The rarest thing to find nowadays is anyone in the music department, but that's a whole 'nother beast. The point is, we the users of SMWCentral have been putting this project in the dust for too long, hoping that a staff member will just do it for us. If it means finally pushing this project to its actual release and get it out of development hell while also reimagining the project and bringing it up to our usual SMW hacking standards, I'll sit down and work my butt off with a bunch of other people who are willing to do this.
...not like anyone else is willing to anyway lol
Normally, I would say "fuck it, close the project, it's cancelled", but at this point, I just really want to see this game being released in full, and to live up to our SMWCentral quality standards. Because our original project, SMWCP1, may have been released, but it is HORRIBLY unpolished and to me seems like a blemish on our community. I really don't want to see this project just end up a ghost of its former self and left unfinished forever. And I don't think you guys don't want it to be left like this, either. Do you?
------------------------------
BlindEdit:
thread hijack mode on
Gonna put here all relevant links posted so far, which were scattered across many posts.
----------
Repos and Resources:
Old ROM: BPS | All resources | Lui's repo
New ROM: BPS | All resources | Blind's repo (fork)
Old ROM Playtesting docs:
Teyla | FPzero | Aeon | lion | Blind Devil
Level Overhaul Spreadsheet
You may also PM Blind Devil/Falconpunch or DM through Discord to get an invite to the SMWCP2 Discord server if you wish.
Torchkas and Magi working on the project and improving the graphics was such a nice thing to kickstart improving the project which was left in the dust and quickly got dated. But, as of late, we've gotten...radio silence. SNN, Kieran, and everyone else in charge of this project are either periodically active, resigned from staff, or left the site all together. Nobody even bothered to think about this project, mostly because we either thought it was a lost cause or because we were confident someone else was going to do it for us.
So based on this silence, and how tired I am of seeing SMWCP2 and its legacy go to waste with nobody giving any shits about it, we'll probably have to kickstart the discussion and improvements to this game ourselves. We shouldn't be relying on our staff for ASM improvements anymore, nor should we be putting all our eggs in one basket like we did with Kipernal, RednGreen, SNN, etc. This is meant to be a project involving the entire website, not a personal staff member collaboration. I understand that this was because back then, staff members were ASM wizards, and anyone else were lucky to have known it. But nowadays, we know a lot of ASM wizards, and several of them are regular users.
We also have a lot of excellent graphics artists, such as Magi, StrikeForcer, even myself. We've got ourselves to rely on for a bunch of stuff. The rarest thing to find nowadays is anyone in the music department, but that's a whole 'nother beast. The point is, we the users of SMWCentral have been putting this project in the dust for too long, hoping that a staff member will just do it for us. If it means finally pushing this project to its actual release and get it out of development hell while also reimagining the project and bringing it up to our usual SMW hacking standards, I'll sit down and work my butt off with a bunch of other people who are willing to do this.
...not like anyone else is willing to anyway lol
Normally, I would say "fuck it, close the project, it's cancelled", but at this point, I just really want to see this game being released in full, and to live up to our SMWCentral quality standards. Because our original project, SMWCP1, may have been released, but it is HORRIBLY unpolished and to me seems like a blemish on our community. I really don't want to see this project just end up a ghost of its former self and left unfinished forever. And I don't think you guys don't want it to be left like this, either. Do you?
------------------------------
BlindEdit:
thread hijack mode on
Gonna put here all relevant links posted so far, which were scattered across many posts.
----------
Repos and Resources:
Old ROM: BPS | All resources | Lui's repo
New ROM: BPS | All resources | Blind's repo (fork)
Old ROM Playtesting docs:
Teyla | FPzero | Aeon | lion | Blind Devil
Level Overhaul Spreadsheet
You may also PM Blind Devil/Falconpunch or DM through Discord to get an invite to the SMWCP2 Discord server if you wish.