Holy effing 3-up moons, these pictures are all awesome Dinomar/Conte de Contis! I always knew you're a great drawer and pixel artist, but that awesome pictures...I've never seen better before than this, ever! Seriously, if these would be shown off at SMW Central, there would be an epic post madness to applaud your breathtaking work.
The graphics in the level look amazing too, the 3D-effects, the character and sprite graphics, everything! I can't wait to try this sometime!
Holy effing 3-up moons... i should remember this XD - Thanks but on something i could disagree: if i would show it in smw central, it wouldn't an epic post madness: firstly, i am banned for that awful and crappy crap, then... everyone prefers Broozer's graphiics uaaaaah D:
So, this is not likely :/
About your video, i'd say it is nicely done level, but as you know, could have more criticism about it: i hope you don't get annoyed:
1- i acutally never liked "buy to proceed" method, like in SMW+2. but do as you want about it, it's your hack
2- in 2:21, there are those little coins that you get if you duck: if you acutally stand up there, mario gets blocked and goes to the left, and die: i acutally recommand you to fix all parts that contain this.
3- in 2:42 i didn't know they were pipes (also susaka said that, looks like): you should find a way to make people understand that's a pipe.
Also:
And the pipes...well, most of people liked them, or even better, they said it's an awesome idea to make them similar to the ground. I worked quite hard on the middle part of them, so I don't think I'll change them too much...:/
No offense, maybe it's what they wanted you to believe!! And this acutally annoyes me because this gives me the proof that... or compliments, or nothing, if you give criticism you are an asshole!!! (it's an example) I remember when i tried to give advices... please hold me back otherwise i'll start to rant ... (enough with this)
4- you may make passages larger that those, and maybe, remove some unnecessary sprites (if they are), sometimes, we try to make our best, but doing so, people may get stressed, seeing Mario always hitting ceiling with its head, some too much tight passages: in my opinion, FPI, in his SMW hacks, made the same mistake. It doesn't seem unfairly difficult, but a moderated playtrough is always enjoyable.
5- for the graphics, you could remove outlines to columns graphics and add them to wall's one and little passable bricks could use a darker palette. The BG sucks so much that i could put it on youtube and say "Worst background ever!" (i acutally can, becuase... i made that BG xD)
Notice that i'm just giving some advices. And no drastic changes you need, agreeing
Conte de Contis, those all look fantastic. You will probably want someone to proofread your dialogue. There must be a sprite you can insert in the cutscenes to disable layer 3? (They really should be doing that already though... )
Thanks, also, there is no sprite that i can use to remove layer 3
Maybe there is in smw central, but i am not welcome anymore there (altough i acutally logged out when i was tempbanned)
This is another screenshot of another my hack, which doesn't use any external ASM:
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(it's acutally italian language xD)
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