Kinda late, but you can also import Peach's model over Mario's and let her use Mario's animations. mibts did the latter in Super Mario 256, a hack that added two extra playable characters (Peach and Toade the Toad (sowwy guise, no Waluigi >:])), because adding custom animations (Peach's unused anims don't include attacking, carrying, death, Star get, swimming etc. animations) would be too much work (each character has over 100 animations). There's a tutorial in the General SM64DS Hacking subforum about replacing Mario's model with a custom one.

I know from TCRF that an unused parameter exists for the Power Flower that makes it grant Mario the powers of the Wing Feather. Will come in handy for my hack, as I want to nuke the P-Balloon Flower Power (even though SM64DS did the P-Balloon way better than SMW. Tubular in SM64DS would actually be fun) and give the Power Flower different graphics depending on the current character. Which would also mean the Power Flower should despawn if the player character transforms. But these aren't the droids code hacks I'm looking for. What I'd like to know, is how to make it so that every Power Flower in the game gives Mario the Wing Cap, because I can't set the parameters for Power Flowers spawned from ? Blocks. Would I need a code hack or is a hex edit enough?

Posted by Thierry

idea: lock those accounts ahead of time? if bad actors can find people with those passwords, so can you

This was an idea of both Arisotura and kikilxve - it's already a thing on the MelonDS board, in fact. I think Arisotura is currently working on it.

they do? I recall seeing only like, two posts in the SM64DS forums with no reply. it was rather depressing

I feel like if there's an active SM64DS hacking community, it's not here. there may be a Discord for it or something.

The Discord is indeed the cause of this low activity, but pants64 told me they might return to answer some of those questions - and added we should go to Discord instead. But I really think that if newbie SM64DS hackers with a question get an answer more quickly, they will be more likely to remain on the board and continue their hack projects.

a Kuribo64 account is not a bank account, and you are not an admin. there's barely anything they could use to their benefit, so your account isn't enticing.

They could use it for spam. Accounts of users who have had 0, 1 posts have been hacked, so.

dyou have any info on who's being hacked? also is this still happening, or did it happen all at once?

lezg_g, LadiesMan217, cooll and ethanthegamer_100. The accounts were hacked over the span of multiple months. It seems like the hackers are still failedly attempting to do shit with them, as I still see their accounts in the online users list every day, trying to post in the Announcements subforums.

too much
we aren't a bank
typing your password shouldn't be an annoying minigame

Okay, but some basic rules could be implemented, like the ones you mentioned in your post.

EDIT: hey, the board doesn't seem to take daylight savings into account... I posted this on 9.something o'clock and it says 10.something. Might be that it checks my device's clock, though, whose clock hasn't been changed.

A special character can be as simple as a hyphen (-) or an underscore (_) though. I don't believe Arisotura has stuck to her plan of archiving the board though. She's probably already working on implementing the feature to lock inactive accounts.

Also, inactivity will lead to less registering users, which is a feedback loop spiraling downwards. So more activity will probably make more guests motivated enough to register, causing even more activity. Also, we could advertize the board on the K64 and SM64DS 'Cords. Not in an intrusive way, or the owners of those 'Cords might banninate our overlord and then our overlord would be sad uwu. Just a banner of sorts linking to K64. NSMBHD has such a banner on its homepage in desktop view.

Despite the existence of Discord, ROM hacking boards can still survive. Look at SMWC! It's still very active and new hackers still get their answers questioned I derped. Questions answered the same day. The only thing we'll need for more activity is... more activity!

I've finished a challenge run of Super Mario 64 DS with the following rule: every Star has to be obtained by the earliest character in vanilla unlock order that can obtain that Star. The results (half Stars mean two characters have been used for one Star):

  Yoshi: 105

  Mario: 25 (24²/₂) Stars

  Luigi: 8¹/₂ Stars

  Wario: 12¹/₂ Stars

BOB:

  Yoshi: 5 (+100 Coins)

  Mario: 2

WF:

  Yoshi: 7 (+100 Coins)

JRB:

  Yoshi: 5

  Mario: 100 Coins

  Luigi: 1

  Wario: 1

CCM:

  Yoshi: 5 (+100 Coins)

  Mario: 1

  Wario: 1

BBH:

  Mario: 5 (+100 Coins)

  Luigi: 1

  Wario: 1

HMC:

  Yoshi: 3 (+100 Coins)

  Mario: 1

  Wario: 3

LLL:

  Yoshi: 7 (+100 Coins)

SSL:

  Yoshi: 5 (+100 Coins)

  Mario: 1

  Wario: 1

DDD:

  Yoshi: 5 (+100 Coins)

  Luigi: 1

  Wario: 1

SL:

  Yoshi: 6 (+100 Coins)

  Luigi: 1

WDW:

  Yoshi: 5 (+100 Coins)

  Mario: 2

TTM:

  Yoshi: 6 (+100 Coins)

  Wario: 1

THI:

  Yoshi: 6 (+100 Coins)

  Mario: 1

TTC:

  Yoshi: 5 (+100 Coins)

  Luigi: 2

RR:

  Yoshi: 6 (+100 Coins)

  Mario: 1

Secret Stars and keys in next post.

Posted by Thierry

but we aren't SMWC. that site is focused on modding SMW, which is massively popular.
other mario games, not so much. SM64DS lives in the shadow of SM64, for which modding has always been more popular as well as easier since it's much better documented.

SM64DS hacking isn't dead; all (or at least most) activity has moved to Discord; it'd be nice if we could get some Discord-onlies to register on the board too. Most new users here also register because they're interested in SM64DS hacking, including our newest user. Whether they post or not is a different thing. Arisotura could make something that sends an automated PM to every newly-registered user, saying hello and inviting them to introduce themselves in the introductions thread.

Secret Stars and keys

TSutM Reds: Mario
TSutM Switch Star: Mario
Glowing rabbits: Yoshi
? Switch Reds: Mario
SA: Yoshi
BitDW Reds: Yoshi
BitDW Switch Star: Yoshi
Courtyard Reds: Mario
BF: Mario
PSS normal: Yoshi
PSS <21 s: Yoshi
SI: Yoshi
GB Reds: Mario; Luigi
GB Switch Star: Mario
BBB Reds: Wario
BBB Vanish Cap Star: Luigi
Basement Toad: Yoshi
BtW Reds: Wario
BtW Balloon Star: Mario
BitFS Reds: Yoshi
BitFS Switch Star: Yoshi
2^nd floor key: Mario
White room Star: Yoshi
CCC Reds: Luigi
CCC Metal Cap Star: Wario
2^nd floor Toad: Yoshi
3^rd floor Toad: Yoshi
OtR Reds: Mario
OtR Black Brick Star: Mario;Wario
BitS Reds: Yoshi
BitS Switch Star: Yoshi

Indeed, it isn't a bad thing, considering K64's openness is even mentioned on the homepage:

Posted by the homepage

We're a small community centered over ROM hacking, but we also like discussing about whatever.

Probably when someone (not necessarily saying that'll be me) posts a thread about a promising SM64DS hacking project, the popularity of the SM64DS hacking subforums will spike again, but that isn't going on right now. Chances are it will happen again, though. Currently the subforums ain't getting any posts from users other than me. But I know that that might change someday. NSMBHD kinda has the same problem, though general discussion is less popular of a subject there. Still, sometimes, more than one thread pops up in NSMB Hacks in one day. Happened today.

But don't say there isn't any SM64DS hacking discussion going on on here currently: lately, I've been engaged in an active PM conversation with pants64 about that subject.