
Graphics space: the game can’t have all graphics available at the same time, so each level Not all objects and sprites will look right! For example, Thwomps only look right in castle That’s also true, but it’s not what we’ve come to use in SMW (Elsewhere, you might have heard “sprites” to mean just graphics, and “objects” to mean SpritesĪre things that can move independently of everything else (like enemies, powerups and Objects are things in the foreground that are fixed to a rigid grid (like ground, pipes, coins and question blocks). Two terms you’ll hear a lot are “ objects” and “ sprites”. More tools involved than just Lunar Magic.) (Some people say “Lunar Magic” when they mean “SMW hacking” as a whole, but there are a lot It can open Super Mario World ROMs, and it lets you edit levels, The level editor for Super Mario World is called Lunar Magic But once you do, you have a lot of creative freedom!

Some parts of SMW hacking are pretty easy, others are strangely hard, and getting the hang of It also means you can’t do everything you may want to – the SNES just

Game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, so everything has a special format: graphics aren’t just PNG, music isn’t Other game-making tools (like Mario Maker or game engines like Unity). SMW hacking is one of the easiest ways to make a game! However, it’s quite different from ipsįiles tend to be larger, and they don’t give you an error message when you patch them to the bps files, we onlyĭistribute the changes that people made to the original game, not the game itself. If we hosted them as ROMs, we’d beĭistributing parts of the game that belong to Nintendo. bps patches? Why not just share the ROMs? Instead of the online BPS patcher, you can also use the program Floating If you get an error, or if the hack doesn’t work, make sure your ROM is clean (see the information about ROMclean in Step 2). The output ROM is the hack! You can open it in an emulator to play it.

For “Base ROM”, select the clean ROM of the original game.It has only the changes made to the original game. bps file is not a ROM, so you can’t play it in an emulator! A. zip file contains one or more original files that have been compressed. You can check if your ROM is clean using the ROMclean tool.ĭownload the hack you want to play from the SMW Hacks section on SMW It’s not clean, the next steps won’t work. Make sure your ROM is clean (an exact, unmodified copy of the original game). We don’t distribute ROMs, and we can’t help you find a ROM! You’ll have to search for one yourself or make a backup of your personal copy of Super Mario World. ROM files for SNES games are always either. You also need a ROM of the original Super Mario World. To play SMW hacks, you need an SNES emulator.
