Oct 18, 2023

SM64 ROM Hack collaboration by various creators

Level made by HIbaNYA

The Stars:

Enter Metal Cap 0:00

Metal Cap Switch + [S4] Switch Room Star 0:28

[S2] First Lavabounce Challenge 2:06

[S3] Extreme Crossover Wallkicks 3:04

[S5] Blue Building Parkour 5:10

[S1] Advanced Lavabounce Challenge 7:23

[S6] Narrow Lava Tunnel 11:19

[S7] Akuro's Red Coins 14:50

Here's the last cap stage, where the difficulty goes up considerably.

Starting off with the (DE C9 inspired?) WK dive at the end of spawn, a jump you'll need to get quite confortable with. One of the most precise jumps is the chain LJ WK on the metal cap switch path, then further along the main climb comes the worst section for me: a dive slide into WKs, not so much the technical aspect of it, rather due to a chuckya camping the arch. I failed to figure out a consistent way to manipulate it away so in the end I just hoped it wouldn't throw me off if it were to grab me. The lavabounces at the end of the main climb might look complicated but my method proved always successful in attempts.

For the red coins you're required all of those (including the WK dive 3 times) plus some detours (tricky jumps for reds #7 and #8) making it the hardest star in the hack so far.

Despite that I think the hardest individual section in the level is the S3 WKs, with tight crossings, constant height variations and even a direction change, a pretty challenging jump. The sharp turn in the lava tunnel (S6) is also very nasty.

The stark contrast between these tough sections against the more open/fun areas like the blue building or the cool WKs before the chuckya arch create a bit of an unbalanced gameplay experience,? still it was an enjoyable level.

The DE Course 9 inspiration is even more noticeable visually and with the exception of a few texture choices I liked the overall aesthetics. The huge towering structures to me create a fake sense of size, making the level feel larger than it in fact is.

At first I thought the music didn't belong here at all though I must say this weird song pick grew on me during the grind.?

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