The Last King of Hyrule

LockeZ · Postby **LockeZ** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:45 pm

The dark wizard Ganondorf, seeking to conquer Hyrule, vowed to put an end to the Hylian bloodline. Wielding the Triforce of Power, he took it upon himself to end the royal family once and for all. Princess Zelda is already dead, and the king is slain before Link's own eyes. This will be the Last King of Hyrule.

The pieces of the Triforce of Courage have been scattered to prevent Ganondorf from seizing them. Link, drawn by their essence of courage, must reforge it from its shards in order to face Ganondorf.

The kingdom is already lost. The royal bloodline has been ended. Waves of evil wash over Hyrule as Ganondorf's armies try to find the pieces of the Triforce before Link. Ganondorf, fortified in the Dark World beyond anyone's reach, has achieved absolute power. The situation is utterly hopeless.

Yet as he obtains the strength of the Triforce of Courage, Link presses on into this hopless situation regardless.

The Last King of Hyrule is a Zelda game created with SMBX as a collaborative effort by a group of fifteen users at rpgmaker.net. It stars Link as the only playable character, and uses Zelda 2 graphics and classic Zelda sound effects, with 8-bit remixes of music from later Zelda games. It uses a modified version of the SMBX engine - it won't play properly if you copy the files into the normal version of SMBX. Supports 1 or 2 players.

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Original Concept: Kentona
Unexpected Director: LockeZ
Event Coordinator: Solitayre
Story and Dialogue: Halibabica
Level Designers: DarklordKeinor, Deckiller, Halibabica, Isrieri, Jackalotrun, Kaliesto, Kentona, LockeZ, Mordenglory, Nin8halos, Ratty524, Seiromem, Solitayre, TangledLion
Graphics and Sound: The Zelda series, Link_2112, and the internet at large

Postby **Murphmario** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:59 pm

Hooray! King Harkinian is in this!

I might play it later, but judging from the screenshots you all did a nice job, regardless of clash.

Edit: Just realized that he dies in this. Now who will wonder what's for dinner!?

Ratty524 · Postby **Ratty524** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:45 pm

Murphmario wrote:Edit: Just realized that he dies in this. Now who will wonder what's for dinner!?

The kings subjects would be too worried about scrubbing his remains off the floors of Hyrule to wonder about that!

I'm one of the level designers of this game, by the way. I made the Dark Woods, Sand Trap, Darkworld Cave, Lake Hylia, and Fire Temple levels.

Postby **Murphmario** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:03 pm

Ratty524 wrote:
Murphmario wrote:Edit: Just realized that he dies in this. Now who will wonder what's for dinner!?
The kings subjects would be too worried about scrubbing his remains off the floors of Hyrule to wonder about that!

I'm one of the level designers of this game, by the way. I made the Dark Woods, Sand Trap, Darkworld Cave, Lake Hylia, and Fire Temple levels.

You guys did a great job with this game. I'm currently trying to beat the Sky Temple.

Suckerman7 GM · Postby **Suckerman7 GM** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 5:28 am

I'll try this and review it after I finish it.

Mable · Postby **Mable** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 9:25 am

Wooo i was waiting for this game to be done since i saw it on rpgmaker.

Hype

AxelVoss · Postby **AxelVoss** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 2:11 pm

How did you replace the SMBX website with that picture in the startup menu? I'd like to try your technique of packaging a modified version of the original game folder for my Harry Potter project. ^_^

Mable · Postby **Mable** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 3:32 pm

Finally got the time to post part 2 of it:

HenryRichard · Postby **HenryRichard** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 6:35 pm

This looks really fun, though I can't help but wonder: What exactly did you change in your modified version of SMBX?

LockeZ · Postby **LockeZ** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 3:06 am

AxelVoss wrote:How did you replace the SMBX website with that picture in the startup menu? I'd like to try your technique of packaging a modified version of the original game folder for my Harry Potter project. ^_^

I used a hex editor, the URL for the splash page is on line 31A30. I strongly recommend linking directly to an 800x600 gif image.

Honestly the only reason I did so was because of the splash page errors in SMBX 1.3, where it tries to open a page that no longer exists. I think SMBX 1.3.0.1 fixes this issue by pointing to the new website instead, but we started The Last King of Hyrule before the new version was released.

HenryRichard wrote:This looks really fun, though I can't help but wonder: What exactly did you change in your modified version of SMBX?

In addition to the modified splash page, I also used the hex editor to change "You need 6 stars to continue" to "You need 6 Triforce pieces". And we also replaced a ton of sound and graphics files to give the game as much of a Zelda feel as possible. Sound files can't be changed without distributing the whole engine, and we put many of our graphics files in the base engine folders instead of the episode folder to reduce the file size of the download.

AirSeus · Postby **AirSeus** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:12 am

Murphmario wrote:Hooray! King Harkinian is in this!

I might play it later, but judging from the screenshots you all did a nice job, regardless of clash.

Edit: Just realized that he dies in this. Now who will wonder what's for dinner!?

Thanks for spoiling the episode to everyone lol.

AxelVoss · Postby **AxelVoss** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:34 am

I downloaded a hex editor; what do I do now?

Mable · Postby **Mable** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:07 am

After 1 week you finally get Part 3 to see:

'_>'

LockeZ · Postby **LockeZ** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 3:46 am

AxelVoss wrote:I downloaded a hex editor; what do I do now?

The URL for the website shown by the splash page starts on line 00031A30. Replace it with a different URL. It has to be exactly the same length as the original URL.

If your URL is too short, you can make it longer by adding a ? or # symbol followed by random gibberish to the end of it. If it's too long, host it at imgur.com, they have really short URLs and allow direct hotlinking to image files.

AxelVoss · Postby **AxelVoss** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:08 am

I think I got it! If I want to change anything else (Like say, the title displayed in the window, or the message that tells you how many stars/Triforce pieces I need), do those lines have to have the exact same number of characters too?

EDIT: I did exactly what you said, but I keep getting runtime errors!!

Postby **Ness-Wednesday** » Sun Sep 13, 2015 10:16 am

We really needed a Zelda themed episode.
There are simply to many with the same thing: Bowser kidnapps Peach.
I wish that there were more episode that don't include the Mario series.

Radishl · Postby **Radishl** » Sun Sep 13, 2015 12:54 pm

Wow, i'm so far in the Dark world, the story is very nice and I love how the game is so uniquely different than other episodes.

It's a very good pull.

AirSeus · Postby **AirSeus** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 12:32 pm

Ness-Wednesday wrote:We really needed a Zelda themed episode.
There are simply to many with the same thing: Bowser kidnapps Peach.
I wish that there were more episode that don't include the Mario series.

This is a "Mario"forum you should expect Mario related stuff on this forum.

Postby **Ness-Wednesday** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 1:24 pm

AirSeus wrote:
Ness-Wednesday wrote:We really needed a Zelda themed episode.
There are simply to many with the same thing: Bowser kidnapps Peach.
I wish that there were more episode that don't include the Mario series.
This is a "Mario"forum you should expect Mario related stuff on this forum.

What I meant was that we have all this other video game stuff rather then Mario.
In fact, it's usually Mario music and Kirby music used in SMBX, not that much Zelda, Metroid or Kid Icarus (I don't think it's music is needed) music used.