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Twistd4932 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 02, 2022 3:02 pm

I'll be more detailed. I don't like the "checkpoint right before boss battle" because in most episodes the Impossible and dangerous boss is just an overused Boom Boom, or any easy boss. If it's a REALLY tough boss, the "checkpoint right before boss battle" can/must be applied especially for final bosses. And I'm not going to talk about the boss' difficulty. I think too many people knows about that topic.

Just dodge the checkpoint for extra challenge! No need for the option to be removed.

One thing I am not a big fan of is when, after finding a secret path in a level, you discover that you need a specific power-up to finish it, so you have to take the normal exit, search for the needed power-up, and take the exact same path to conclude the level. Personally, I prefer when everything you need for a secret is obtainable in the level.

Also, painfully slow autoscrolls.

In general, I would say anything that slows the player down without adding a challenge/something interesting.

(Sorry for my bad English).

Twistd4932 wrote:The checkpoints are supposed to be the middle of the level, not a reset place.

For the record you can have multiple checkpoints, so, one for the middle and one for the boss. Perfectly reasonable.

Smibbix wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 30, 2018 6:49 pm

Bosses that are just a Mother Brain reskin with a couple of generators. There are SO many of these...

Ah yes, MOTHER BRAIN RESKINS. Good god, I hate those.

I don't like when SMBX Episodes use EXCLUSIVELY Built-in Stuff. You should get creative with your Episodes, fill them Custom Graphics. And even if you're a novice at Making/Adding Custom Graphics to Episodes, look up some tutorials or just find pre-made Graphics Packs. Just be sure to thank them for the Graphics

KurttheKing98 wrote: ↑

Sat May 28, 2022 3:20 pm

I don't like when SMBX Episodes use EXCLUSIVELY Built-in Stuff. You should get creative with your Episodes, fill them Custom Graphics. And even if you're a novice at Making/Adding Custom Graphics to Episodes, look up some tutorials or just find pre-made Graphics Packs. Just be sure to thank them for the Graphics

Custom assets don't define an episode.
They open up a lot of possibilities, yes, but they do not define the episode. Plus the amount of basegame assets is quite massive compared to pre-2019.

KurttheKing98 wrote: ↑

Sat May 28, 2022 3:20 pm

You should get creative with your Episodes, fill them Custom Graphics.

Custom graphics don't equal creativity in the slightest; you can get insanely creative with just the built-in stuff as shown by the Vanilla Contests.

Yeah, I'd say making the most with what you have is the best way to get creative

Eric wrote: Custom graphics don't equal creativity in the slightest; you can get insanely creative with just the built-in stuff as shown by the Vanilla Contests.

ShadowStarX wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:11 am

Custom assets don't define an episode.
They open up a lot of possibilities, yes, but they do not define the episode. Plus the amount of basegame assets is quite massive compared to pre-2019.

krakin wrote: Yeah, I'd say making the most with what you have is the best way to get creative

Alright fine, I was wrong. I shouldn't have said that.

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Yumetaro wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 18, 2015 11:28 am

I get really annoyed when people put a super serious novel-size story in their episodes even though Mario isn't a series known for its story, or when they put in characters that have no reason to be in a Mario game.

yeah i regret that i use sonic.exe to my episode but now i can't do anything with this, because i'm sick of updating this 50 times in one hour

Still using MP3s instead of either looped OGGs or emulated audio files. That and removing lives.

Dragon0307 wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 18, 2022 6:16 am

Still using MP3s instead of either looped OGGs or emulated audio files. That and removing lives.

Their worst forms are:

• "Extended" versions for the hour length and with the huge file size (the example is here)
• Using of WMA files, however, this case is very very rare. This format sucks because it's a proprietary mess which is supported by a small number of libraries, like, FFMPEG which is a very heavy thing.

For me, there are so-called "lazily-made" sprites very annoying cases: there are vanilla sprites that have mask images copied from the front image, but with a white background. They are often sources of conversion problems and unexpected transparency mess. That is why I developed the "LazyFixTool" in 2014 among which GIFs2PNG and PNG2GIFs to simplify the future works. Anyway, I am glad that usage of masks is now the past because of PNG support by most of the SMBX-based engines.

Wohlstand wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:59 pm

Dragon0307 wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 18, 2022 6:16 am

Still using MP3s instead of either looped OGGs or emulated audio files. That and removing lives.

Their worst forms are:

• "Extended" versions for the hour length and with the huge file size (the example is here)
• Using of WMA files, however, this case is very very rare. This format sucks because it's a proprietary mess which is supported by a small number of libraries, like, FFMPEG which is a very heavy thing.

For me, there are so-called "lazily-made" sprites very annoying cases: there are vanilla sprites that have mask images copied from the front image, but with a white background. They are often sources of conversion problems and unexpected transparency mess. That is why I developed the "LazyFixTool" in 2014 among which GIFs2PNG and PNG2GIFs to simplify the future works. Anyway, I am glad that usage of masks is now the past because of PNG support by most of the SMBX-based engines.

To be fair, I've only ever seem WMAs used once, and even then that was just because I saw an Eclipsed video where an episode used it and therefore couldn't play back correctly in SMBX2.

Dragon0307 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 22, 2022 12:50 pm

To be fair, I've only ever seem WMAs used once, and even then that was just because I saw an Eclipsed video where an episode used it and therefore couldn't play back correctly in SMBX2.

About WMA I know two cases:

• the "Island of Dreams & Illusions" episode by Nicholas-Link used WMAs a lot, and I had to make the "TheXTech Edition" port where I replaced most of the music with VGM chiptunes (from Sonic games) and converted WMAs into OGGs with adding of loop points instead of ultra-long files.
• Mentioned WMA usage somewhere by SAJewers who asked me about WMA support because he had some, but no explicit mentions of what the stuff is.

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Anyway, WMA is still not supported by MixerX, and there are controversial reasons for adding that support. But, that would go off-topic from this discussion.