SMBX2 (2.0 Beta 3)

[IAmPlayer]

You know. I wish we could get in touch with Redgit so we can get our hands on the source code. I want to know how the suggested changes could break compatibility with older episodes. I think maybe have any changes to Toad and Peach like say letting them slide and ride Yoshi along with my suggested changes be able to be turned off (Have it off by default to be safe) so it won’t break compatibility. That way you could have an episode that splits the Bomb and Boomerang into separate power ups and let Peach and Toad be on equal footing with Mario while having an episode that gives Peach and Toad their old properties.

But I don’t really how the development works so take this with a grain of salt if it’s not possible.

Even if we still be able to gain communication with Redigit now, would he still have the SMBX source code? I mean, it was a long time ago.

[Fuyu]

Even if we still be able to gain communication with Redigit now, would he still have the SMBX source code? I mean, it was a long time ago.

The answer is most likely no. I seriously doubt he would have it, even if it hasn't been a long time since he abandoned the project long ago and went on to do other things on his own. Keeping the key of what in his mind might as well have been a sinking ship would have no meaning to him.

[Murphmario]

Wasn't the issues with releasing the source code discussed with Redigit himself one time?

[Hoeloe]

Even if Redigit turned up and offerred the source code (which is extremely unlikely considering how long it's been, his distain for SMBX, and his past trollish behaviour), it wouldn't gain us anything significant at this point. What it would do is lose us a lot of compatibility, since rebuilding the game from scratch would alter the memory footprint of the program, effectively breaking a lot of LunaLua, and requiring that to be reconstructed. And even if we did that, certain episodes would still break.

It's not worth it, in short.

[vitzie629]

Even if Redigit turned up and offerred the source code (which is extremely unlikely considering how long it's been, his distain for SMBX, and his past trollish behaviour), it wouldn't gain us anything significant at this point. What it would do is lose us a lot of compatibility, since rebuilding the game from scratch would alter the memory footprint of the program, effectively breaking a lot of LunaLua, and requiring that to be reconstructed. And even if we did that, certain episodes would still break.

It's not worth it, in short.

You will just leave LunaLua installed for beta 4 and NOT rebuild the SMBX2 engine in order to avoid delaying beta 4's release, right?

[ElectriKong]

Even if Redigit turned up and offerred the source code (which is extremely unlikely considering how long it's been, his distain for SMBX, and his past trollish behaviour), it wouldn't gain us anything significant at this point. What it would do is lose us a lot of compatibility, since rebuilding the game from scratch would alter the memory footprint of the program, effectively breaking a lot of LunaLua, and requiring that to be reconstructed. And even if we did that, certain episodes would still break.

It's not worth it, in short.

You will just leave LunaLua installed for beta 4 and NOT rebuild the SMBX2 engine in order to avoid delaying beta 4's release, right?

Why would they want to rebuild the engine at all?

[Hoeloe]

We can't rebuild the engine without the source code anyway. I was just saying that if we DID get the source code, it would come with a host of problems and wouldn't help us much anyway.

[Teemster2]

I was really hoping the dev team could start making new enemies while we wait for smm2 to be released and wind down as to not look like we are competing with them and it was nice to see snalicorn has been added. Will he be immune to fire balls as he was in the game? I know the dev team is short on man power so I'm just grateful for whatever we get. Thanks Enjl.

[ElectriKong]

I was really hoping the dev team could start making new enemies while we wait for smm2 to be released and wind down as to not look like we are competing with them and it was nice to see snalicorn has been added. Will he be immune to fire balls as he was in the game? I know the dev team is short on man power so I'm just grateful for whatever we get. Thanks Enjl.

We don't know if beta 4 will be ready by the time Mario Maker is out with the feature lock in place, so it would be a bad idea to assume that will be the case, remove the feature and add more enemies in order to delay beta 4 past the release and initial sales period, as it is possible that will happen naturally anyway.

[Emral]

I was really hoping the dev team could start making new enemies while we wait for smm2 to be released and wind down as to not look like we are competing with them and it was nice to see snalicorn has been added. Will he be immune to fire balls as he was in the game? I know the dev team is short on man power so I'm just grateful for whatever we get. Thanks Enjl.

Snailicorn, by default, will be immune to both fire and ice balls, as they are intended as a more "hazard" kind of NPC rather than an obstacle to take down with your tools. The Sleepwalking Snailicorn resembles their SMWcentral custom sprite implementation and brings an interesting AI with it which constantly rams its face into the wall like so:

Spoiler: show

[Teemster2]

I was really hoping the dev team could start making new enemies while we wait for smm2 to be released and wind down as to not look like we are competing with them and it was nice to see snalicorn has been added. Will he be immune to fire balls as he was in the game? I know the dev team is short on man power so I'm just grateful for whatever we get. Thanks Enjl.

We don't know if beta 4 will be ready by the time Mario Maker is out with the feature lock in place, so it would be a bad idea to assume that will be the case, remove the feature and add more enemies in order to delay beta 4 past the release and initial sales period, as it is possible that will happen naturally anyway.

I did not know there was a lock in place. Is this to prevent new enemies from being made? My understanding from previous posts was that the dev team wanted to wait until after smm2 came out before considering release as to not look like we are competing with Nintendo thus why I was hoping with the delay more enemies could be added and Enjl did add snalicorn so I have no idea what this lock is your referring too.

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I was really hoping the dev team could start making new enemies while we wait for smm2 to be released and wind down as to not look like we are competing with them and it was nice to see snalicorn has been added. Will he be immune to fire balls as he was in the game? I know the dev team is short on man power so I'm just grateful for whatever we get. Thanks Enjl.

Snailicorn, by default, will be immune to both fire and ice balls, as they are intended as a more "hazard" kind of NPC rather than an obstacle to take down with your tools. The Sleepwalking Snailicorn resembles their SMWcentral custom sprite implementation and brings an interesting AI with it which constantly rams its face into the wall like so:

Spoiler: show

Thanks. That sounds pretty cool. Your hard work and helping to keep the project alive is apreciated.

[Emral]

The feature lock is a thing. You can trust Electriking on that since he's on codehaus where the topic appears from time to time. I just added Snailicorn cause I currently don't have much else I can do, and all existing NPCs are now checked as much as they can be. Beyond that, it only took a few hours to get Snailicorn to a state where it's more finished than some other NPCs that have been claimed for over a year. I don't see myself adding another NPC in the near future.

[vitzie629]

The feature lock is a thing. You can trust Electriking on that since he's on codehaus where the topic appears from time to time. I just added Snailicorn cause I currently don't have much else I can do, and all existing NPCs are now checked as much as they can be. Beyond that, it only took a few hours to get Snailicorn to a state where it's more finished than some other NPCs that have been claimed for over a year. I don't see myself adding another NPC in the near future.

Will the feature lock mode be used until beta 4's release date or no?

[Emral]

The feature lock is a thing. You can trust Electriking on that since he's on codehaus where the topic appears from time to time. I just added Snailicorn cause I currently don't have much else I can do, and all existing NPCs are now checked as much as they can be. Beyond that, it only took a few hours to get Snailicorn to a state where it's more finished than some other NPCs that have been claimed for over a year. I don't see myself adding another NPC in the near future.

Will the feature lock mode be used until beta 4's release date or no?

That's the idea, yes.

[Teemster2]

The feature lock is a thing. You can trust Electriking on that since he's on codehaus where the topic appears from time to time. I just added Snailicorn cause I currently don't have much else I can do, and all existing NPCs are now checked as much as they can be. Beyond that, it only took a few hours to get Snailicorn to a state where it's more finished than some other NPCs that have been claimed for over a year. I don't see myself adding another NPC in the near future.

Will the feature lock mode be used until beta 4's release date or no?

That's the idea, yes.

So basically the lock is there to prevent any new npc's from being added until after Beta4 so the focus can be on finishing Beta4 if I understand you right. Thanks for clearing that up.

[vitzie629]

Will the feature lock mode be used until beta 4's release date or no?

That's the idea, yes.

So basically the lock is there to prevent any new npc's from being added until after Beta4 so the focus can be on finishing Beta4 if I understand you right. Thanks for clearing that up.

You are welcome! After beta 4 releases, the feature lock will not be there anymore and more NPCs will be added in probably beta 5! As of now, the team is focusing on finishing beta 4 with the requirements on the ToDo for Release list to get done.

[ChromaNyan]

I have a good suggestion for a later beta (maybe not beta 4 since it's close to completion), it would be nice to have the ability to use more than 1 custom song per section (changing this custom song with events maybe?). Idk if this is even possible or if it's been suggested before, but I had to find many difficult workarounds in my hubworld due to this.

[Emral]

I have a good suggestion for a later beta (maybe not beta 4 since it's close to completion), it would be nice to have the ability to use more than 1 custom song per section (changing this custom song with events maybe?). Idk if this is even possible or if it's been suggested before, but I had to find many difficult workarounds in my hubworld due to this.

You can do this in beta 3, either by replacing music with music.ini or by loading custom music with Audio.MusicOpen()

[cpeka66]

Two ideas for future versions.

1) Some messages in this thread say that without breaking compatibility you cannot add triangular blocks from SMW. But why not make "inverted" character sprites for these blocks as controlled effects? In the likeness of Mega-characters from SMBX38A.

2) Make a new SMB1 Bowser. Have which can be turn off attack hammers or fire. And also it would have a few drop frames (given below).

[Emral]

1) Some messages in this thread say that without breaking compatibility you cannot add triangular blocks from SMW. But why not make "inverted" character sprites for these blocks as controlled effects? In the likeness of Mega-characters from SMBX38A.

Since those responses, Hoeloe has written a player:render function which re-draws the player character, so now the hardest thing is really just the physics involved. If we on the team don't take a look at it for a long time, someone else will have the same tools as us to attempt it for themselves in the next release.

2) Make a new SMB1 Bowser. Have which can be turn off attack hammers or fire. And also it would have a few drop frames (given below).

Maybe someday. The team mostly works on NPCs they currently want to work on, so there's a high chance that someone outside of the dev team feels inspired first. If they make one and the code is nice, they can ask us to include it in basegame in the future, crediting them.

Currently our focus is more on polish, but if noone beats me to wall triangles, I might just try them for Beta 5.