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Looking for testers for moderate difficulty kaizo hack

Kaizo: Beginner

Hey! I posted a few levels of this hack a few months back and after fixing some issues in those levels and adding the rest of the levels I'm looking for some feedback again.

Here's the link https://bin.smwcentral.net/u/46431/Stunyhacktestdraft.bps

As far as difficulty, It's hard for me to say since I've played it so much, but I assume it's mostly in the range of Akogare and Invictus.

There is 14 levels and basically all of them are what I like best, just pure platforming. There is almost no item tricks, I think there's 4 shell jumps in total and one level where you do some stuff with a key, but apart from that it's pretty much straightforward platforming.

The hack is vanilla with custom music and some custom backgrounds and foregrounds.

As far as issues I am currently aware of.
1. Don't have a title so title screen is not done.
2. Overworld is most likely a place holder.
3. switch palace messages and colors released after beating are wrong.
4. Final boss is most likely a place holder assuming I can get what I want working eventually.
5. I don't have anything triggering credits in the version I am posting, as I don't have the credits done.
6. I have full movement unlocked from the start for easier testing.

Not sure if I am forgetting things or not but feedback on anything is pretty welcome.

Thanks in advance to anyone who checks this out.

Hopefully you don't need videos to figure out anything, but here are videos of me clearing each level.

Level 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4gPoIXvrBg

Level 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm1RRvHyUY4

Level 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBUCcwQHC8c

Secret exit 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUO1lM_My_Y

Palace 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zr_hJzOaPo

Level 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afls_XxwcLg

Level 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7CbRe4Eje4

Level 6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzNIqhXKQJs

Level 7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj1r6R28KXM

Secret exit 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjVrNBMwzJQ

Palace 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIsA-RV8FZE

Level 8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La08nprLem4

Level 9 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwJKWkYOssE

Level 10 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWQ325AHZks

Best of luck!
It will take me a few days, but I'll give it a look
>There was multiple levels in the hack where the music was too loud. There’s no magic number in the music file to know the outputted volume level, but mess around with the master volume value while jumping in the level with Mario. You want the jump sounds to be louder than the music.

OW
>There's B0 lives on the OW after beating levels where there player is triggering multiple 1-ups

Machinehead
>Since the camera scrolls at will there are times where jumps become blind https://streamable.com/arhxg0

Aerials- Secret
>There’s a lot of blind jumps due to the camera scrolling

Time After Time
>When I enter the second room the pipe takes me to a completely different level, which is the secret exit for Going Under

Fences
>There’s a misplaced foreground tile on the stones above Mario


The Islander
>The back shot shell jump is a tad bit blind on where to land even though you can follow the shell

One Last Breath
>There’s a misplaced foreground tile above the spike


Almost Easy
>I was able to get rope glitch in this level. I’m aware that the current rope glitch patch only works most of the time, and it’s hard to fault the creator on the patch's flaw. On my first attempt in the level I was able to pull it off, but other attempts didn’t work. I would suggest to redo all of the foreground to some sort of death blocks to completely prevent this possibility.


>There’s two brown platform sections in the first half where I can just ride it the whole time by clipping against the foreground to bypass the rope section
https://streamable.com/49ntt1

>The first fuzzy I can also go under the foreground, b/c of the same brown platform issue
https://streamable.com/x35jn1

>The only time that I watched you clear video to understand the intentions was the final part of the Yellow Switch Palace. Since the level is forcing you to go fast it's hard to know to go back to the winged platform the final time especially giving how tight the p-switch section is.
Thanks a lot man, I probably never would have caught most of those things!

Kaizo: Beginner