Super Mario Bros. 6

AA2004 · Postby **AA2004** » Sat May 16, 2020 7:27 pm

THIS EPISODE IS ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH SMBX 2.0 (BETA 4)
Hi! This is my third SMBX episode ever created, but unlike the others, this episode is completely made with 8-bit graphics! There are 8 worlds (with no particular themes), with different fun levels. Each world has 4 levels, with some worlds including an extra tank or airship level. You can play as either Mario and Luigi to save Princess Toadstool! It's pretty much a standard 2D-Mario game with no advanced story.

OTHER INFORMATION
There is no world map music, since my abilities with luna.lua vary.
All of the music is mostly from Mario games, excluding some music from Mega Man 2, and DuckTales (NES).
Each level was play tested, and all levels work accordingly.
The other name for this episode is "Mario's 8-Bit Adventure"

SCREENSHOTS

Spoiler: show

DOWNLOAD
https://www.mediafire.com/file/nji90t6o ... e.rar/file

SBells27 · Postby **SBells27** » Sun May 17, 2020 7:56 pm

wait... what's Super Mario Bros. 4 and 5 then lol

AA2004 · Postby **AA2004** » Sun May 17, 2020 8:07 pm

SBells27 wrote: ↑
Sun May 17, 2020 7:56 pm
wait... what's Super Mario Bros. 4 and 5 then lol

I looked up "SMBX Super Mario Bros. 4 and 5" and there were projects for those, so thats where the "6" came from.

MarioLover64 · Postby **MarioLover64** » Sun May 17, 2020 8:36 pm

Why two super mario bros 4?
We got Super Mario World (labeled as Super Mario Bros 4 in Japan) AND the SMBX project mentioned above

AA2004 · Postby **AA2004** » Sun May 17, 2020 10:30 pm

MarioLover64 wrote: ↑
Sun May 17, 2020 8:36 pm
Why two super mario bros 4?
We got Super Mario World (labeled as Super Mario Bros 4 in Japan) AND the SMBX project mentioned above

I don't know, I just saw a project named "Super Mario Bros. 4".

stageleft · Postby **stageleft** » Tue May 19, 2020 4:52 am

So, this is pretty good to play if you are tired of messing around with puzzles and just want to run some simple mario levels.
I'm gonna enjoy any episode that uses 8-bit graphics regardless, something about it.

However you might include in the description that the difficult is easy, absolutely nothing hit me from world 1 to world 4.
Speaking of world 4, in world 4-1 the stage just seemingly ends abruptly into endless bottomless pit.
I checked again for secret vine blocks but couldn't find anything... u sure its completed?
Also check world 2-2, there is some pipe cutoff and a potential soft lock near the secret exit.
One other thought, the odd invincible star wouldn't hurt.. its not needed for difficulty reasons just to make the stages more fun.

AA2004 · Postby **AA2004** » Tue May 19, 2020 8:52 pm

stageleft wrote: ↑
Tue May 19, 2020 4:52 am
So, this is pretty good to play if you are tired of messing around with puzzles and just want to run some simple mario levels.
I'm gonna enjoy any episode that uses 8-bit graphics regardless, something about it.

However you might include in the description that the difficult is easy, absolutely nothing hit me from world 1 to world 4.
Speaking of world 4, in world 4-1 the stage just seemingly ends abruptly into endless bottomless pit.
I checked again for secret vine blocks but couldn't find anything... u sure its completed?
Also check world 2-2, there is some pipe cutoff and a potential soft lock near the secret exit.
One other thought, the odd invincible star wouldn't hurt.. its not needed for difficulty reasons just to make the stages more fun.

Hi! I fixed the main issues mentioned in your comment, I'm not sure what happened to World 4-1, it probably didn't save correctly after play testing. World 2-2's pipe cut-off was fixed, and for the soft-lock near the secret exit, there are invisible ? Blocks that you can hit to take you back up. The download link has been updated, and if there is anymore issues please tell me. OH! And about the Starman, I completely forgot that Starman was even in the editor until I was nearly finished with the game, so there is a few Starmen in the game somewhere.

Xboy1 · Postby **Xboy1** » Mon Jun 01, 2020 2:37 pm

"There is no world map music, since my abilities with luna.lua vary."
You don't need lunalua to add world map music

AA2004 · Postby **AA2004** » Mon Jun 01, 2020 2:43 pm

Xboy1 wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 01, 2020 2:37 pm
"There is no world map music, since my abilities with luna.lua vary."
You don't need lunalua to add world map music

I was talking about custom world map music.

mcnakahr · Postby **mcnakahr** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 4:59 pm

Is this just demo? I couldn't get passed W5-3. No path opens up after I complete it. If it's a demo shouldn't it be in Projects?

AA2004 · Postby **AA2004** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 5:34 pm

mcnakahr wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 05, 2020 4:59 pm
Is this just demo? I couldn't get passed W5-3. No path opens up after I complete it. If it's a demo shouldn't it be in Projects?

No, it isn't a demo. I don't know what's happening with the episode.

mcnakahr · Postby **mcnakahr** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 6:10 pm

Well I know people can open the episode up in the editor but out of respect I'd like to ask permission to view the world map. So maybe I can figure out what's up... please? I promise not to edit anything, just look at it. I'll screenshot what I find.

AA2004 · Postby **AA2004** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 6:12 pm

mcnakahr wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 05, 2020 6:10 pm
Well I know people can open the episode up in the editor but out of respect I'd like to ask permission to view the world map. So maybe I can figure out what's up... please? I promise not to edit anything, just look at it. I'll screenshot what I find.

Sure, go ahead.

mcnakahr · Postby **mcnakahr** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 6:17 pm

Okay... I took a look at it and I found the issue. W5-3's exit flag is set to open the path forward to the left once the player touches a exit roulette. I know it ends with a boss fight that spawns a crystal so setting it to the crystal exit will fix it. Also if you use the blue path tiles Mario/Luigi will appear to be swimming that should fix the graphical "walking on water" thing while walking the path over water tiles on the overworld
Another thing, I'm not sure if you added the custom sprites correctly to each level as some levels have the smbx default powerup image in the reserve box instead of the custom image. Bonus one loads the default power-up images, default character sprite, and default reserve box power-up images. So I'd check those folders over.

Edit reason: Clarification.

BrokenAce · Postby **BrokenAce** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 4:50 am

Bugged exit in 5-3 aside, this episode actually has some decent ideas but it's badly held back by the fact that none of the levels have any difficulty curve at all. Every level is as hard from the start as it is at the end, which leads to them feeling really boring. The fact that the later levels tend to be extremely long with no checkpoints doesn't help.

This video from Ceave Gaming has some great guidelines for difficulty curves. I'd recommend it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9NdAao9y_4