Super Mario World Hacks

DaveToTheGraveDaveToTheGrave
in The Brewery
Hey guys, hopefully someone can shed some light on this for me. Today I tried to play two different SMW hacks on the SNES Power Pak; Reality Project and Expansion Deluxe. I got them both to load up fine and a few levels played. Then the sound got an overlap of a static-like sound, the sound then got completely muted (No music or FX sounds). Once the sound vanished whether I beat that level or died the game would black screen and require a system reset. I assume it's because a sound file isn't 16bit or something... Is there a solution?

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  • Faltain1Faltain1

    Originally posted by: DaveToTheGrave



    Hey guys, hopefully someone can shed some light on this for me. Today I tried to play two different SMW hacks on the SNES Power Pak; Reality Project and Expansion Deluxe. I got them both to load up fine and a few levels played. Then the sound got an overlap of a static-like sound, the sound then got completely muted (No music or FX sounds). Once the sound vanished whether I beat that level or died the game would black screen and require a system reset. I assume it's because a sound file isn't 16bit or something... Is there a solution?

    The problem is a huge portion of the hacks that were made for SMW weren't designed/built to be played on actual SNES's, but instead to just be played through emulation. I've seen threads on SMW central discussing the fact that many games simply won't work on actual SNES carts, (or in your case a Power Pak).



    Custom music is 99.9% of the time the culprit by the way I've found in my (fairly) extensive personal testing of hacks of what'll bone the chances of them being playable on real hardware.
  • GuntzGuntz
    A good rule of thumb to go by. The fewer graphics, music or code / ASM changes, the higher the likelyhood of it being compatible with real hardware. There are exceptions, but they're rather hard to find. New levels typically won't cause any problems, Lunar Magic is very bullet proof in that regard. Just obey SMW's rules (unless you change them with ASM) and you'll be fine.
  • thankyouforfuthankyouforfu
    Try Reality Project Reloaded, which I own on cart and it works fine.
  • DaveToTheGraveDaveToTheGrave
    Thanks a lot guys. If the music/sounds are the problem in most cases is there any way to alter them? I can't open them in Lunar as they are right protected, which I completely understand, but is there a program that can simply alter the audio files without actually letting me in to see the code? Thanks in advance.
  • GuntzGuntz
    Best thing to do is contact the author of the hack you want changed. They made the edit, surely they know how to undo it.
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