Just played a bit of this yesterday on my 3ds before going to sleep.
I reached worlds 3 & 4 in the split section of the map and its been an excellent experience so far, the levels are fun, its not too dificult, there's the top secret areas styled houses to get more powerups and the level design is really solid.
I would just like to give a feedback that this hack needs just a bit more of testing & polishing as I had run into a few issues during my playthrough, for that I sugest putting it on the testing section inside the works in progress so people can beta-test it and give you feedback on issues that must be solved.
Now for me I'll start with the main issue first since it lies with the level design itself.
Now I must say, the level design IS really good so far, but there's an single issue that kinda ruins it: Item babysitting & softlocks.
I dont know what the intention was with this kind of design but nearly every level has an section that goes like this: You run into a an wall of brown blocks and must find a p-switch elsewhere to get past it, the problem is this create lots of item babysitting sistuations that just get repetitive,now they are pretty short and it would be a cool gimmick if it was used for 2 or 3 levels during the entire game, but nearly every level I played so far had an section like that.
And the second problem that is present on these sections are softlocks since the P-switches are pretty much always inside a block and they only spawn once in most levels, which means if you fail to get past the brown block wall or lose the p-switch you will just be softlocked and forced to die unless there's an secret entrance somewhere in the level.
A reset pipe or door would instantly fix that, but in my opinion the hack would be really fine without these sections, the levels are long and well designed enough to stand out on their own without them.
The third issue is a minor one and can be easily fixed, you just forgot to disable the vertical scroll on Castle 2 and it makes the layer 3 water get in the way, its easily fixed on lunar magic with the option "no vertical scroll".
The only other issue i had other than these was that the hdma would flash from time to time, but I think that its mostly my emulator fault since snes9x on the 3ds is a bit outdated.
Great job so far, Im loving your hack.
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