Question, do we pronounce the "u"? ?



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Ok, so it's been far, far too long since I started this, but this time I'm determined to finish it. (Lol almost a 4 year bump)

To give you guys context, I actually lost inspiration because I had like 4 tracks left to do and 2 themes to finish properly: the ghost valley and choco island one.

So for an update, I got inspiration to finally finish and settle for the choco island replacement theme.

Here's a sneak peek with how the theme is shaping up:


Name of the theme is Sunrise Ridge. (Huge inspiration from Celeste's level 4 theme)
I'm finishing on the BG, and then I will add more road GFX and change the repeating tile to be a cloud graphics, as well as re tile the track with the new tiles and decoration.

Also, never posted the video here, but here's the theme that replaces Vanilla Lake:

New video of my SMK hack:


based the theme around Oriental stuff, specifically those mountainous regions where rice is grown on paddies.

The tileset is an import with some tweaks of the donut plains theme as it appears in super circuit.
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Posted by Anthe

Looks really slick. I hope you find some time and interest to wrap up the project. I'm excited to try it.

Thanks! Always nice to hear feedback like this! Can't wait to finish the themes.

Speaking of themes, I'm close to finish Sunrise Ridge. I'm just missing the front BG pink and purple mountains GFX and then I'll be able to start laying it out with the clouds.



You can see the now outer tile is clouds, and the pink and purple tiles are more of a rock formation, so now there's more to see, instead of the purple offroad GFX.

I know the track might look weird with the colored blocks, but keep in mind this was an already existing track. However, the second choco island type track isn't made yet, so I'll be able to make it more interesting.

Also I'm thinking to ditch mario circuit 4 and replace it with either a vanilla lake (Rice Terrace) theme or this new choco island one.

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As much as it saddens me, I think archiving would be the best way to go.

It still amazes me that the board has been up from such a long time; all the memories and people I've met through here, etc.

However I feel that boards in general died out when instant messaging became more readily available to use with simple configuration from the user./minimal configuration Also I guess most of the early members who were really active, they just... grew up? (as in, they went with their lives/focused on other things) Not to mention the decline of rom hacking in general.

Still, if the board will be archived, please let us know in advance <3 (Don't want to be taken by surprise

Posted by salty

gridatttack: three t's is still fucking stupid, but goddamn talking to you about gc controllers was really rad, and I hope we eventually play smash, maybe in ultimate?

<3
also lmao I hope you already know how the 3 t's came to be, right? xP
And sure, hmu on other platforms. You can reach me out more reliable at Steam and then Discord. I still play Smash regularly. :>

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Ok, new theme is done:


Liked how it turned out!

Also, for more progress, I'm working on the second track (potential second to last track) which is on this same theme.

Let's have a K64 exclusive sneak peek, shall we?


This is how the first battle track which uses the theme turned out.

Fun fact, it's asymmetrical because this was the first custom battle track I ever made, which might look rough around the edges. It used to be more... empty? Used the new tileset and decorations to spruce it up.

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Joker looks like it has issue killing without Arsene, or unless it hits the specifics kill confirms at tight percents.

Seems edgeguardable enough too. Lets see how it develops, but for now it's like a sheik from smash 4 with specific kill confirms (and kill power with Arsene)
Downside seems to be he is combo food though.

Also I guess we should use the actual smash thread tho, which speaking of, we should play online sometime too :> It's been quite some time.

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Seems like the RPG stats images are broken too ?

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I made another video of another track I had completed:

It's the second track of the special cup.



Also I think I have settled on the name. While it may sound similar to an already existing "Deluxe" hack (which is nothing special BTW), I'll go with it. However I might actually change the name before making the title screen.

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Damn, I just noted it was your BirthDay on Monday...

Happy Birthday Arisotura! (Even if it's late lol)

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So, I wanna share some great news regarding the hack.

Due to the more free time from the Quarantine, I got more interest in finishing the hack, and just reachied a milestone today!

All 24 tracks have been finished! I had a bit of creativity block since I was focused on other things, but today I just finished laying out the last track.

Here's a new reveal, for the final theme (and the last track to be done):


I guess I kinda cheated tho, as I recycled 2 tracks from Sour Music Kart (the rice terrace 2 doesn't count because I made it first for this hack, but since there is no full snow theme I decided to repurposed it there)

The recycled tracks are this one you see and sunrise ridge 2. They are no entirely 100% copied, as I added some minor gameplay variations here and there.

Up next should be to finish this new theme BG, which I named Chilled Chasm, and make a new BG for the Raceway and Rainbow Road themes. After that, touch up the existing BGs and then move to the title screen and other misc graphics.

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Nice Read! That 1000th day achievement is something special I'll say
I was actually looking back at these kind of forums where I first joined, and oh boy, it's been while.

While I feel guilty of not getting to know relative new members like you, it's always nice see some activity still going around. It's sad that forums aren't really that popular anymore, as everything is moving into easier things to set up like Discord.

Also lol at the post layout things xD Back then people did indeed had interesting post layouts ?
And of course, let's not forget the Post Layout maker, where everyone had similar layouts.

Posted by salty

i can't say much besides hell yeah i feel the same way

this board was very important in my life. helping me mature, establishing social things with people, hell i'm still friends with some of these people.

these guys helped me a lot. you all helped me a lot. yall are the bomb. <3

unrelated but GODDAMN i was here for 6 years. back when we still used blargboard LMAO, good times

<3

I can't believe I've been registered for over 2800 (exactly 3900 days on my first acml-like forum!) days here! Now that you mention blargBoard... I dot miss some themes :<
I think there was even some sort of blog regarding SM64 DS hacking before that too :o

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It's been a while, hasn't it? ?

I'll always remember dearly my times at these forums (Jul, NSMHD, K64, other ACML boards...)

Sad that mostly forums have been replaced by Discord.

I tried setting up one for SMK hacking, but uh, was overall quicker to communicate on Discord

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Posted by Arisotura

hey hey, long time no see, what's up?

Hey Arisotura! It's been some time indeed haha. I suppose I've been lurking around but then I saw it was over a year since I like posted so decided to change that haha.

Nice to see people still sticking around! How are you doing? For me I suppose "grown up" life haha; busy with work and other responsibilities you get eventually ?
Though I always appreciate some time seeing the forums and doing ROM Hacking stuff. Turns out there is still a niche and people are somewhat interested. (There's this thing called F3 which showcases fangames/rom hacks/mods and was suprised that people still cared haha)

Posted by LeftyGreenMario

It does, but I don't think it's a perfect replacement for forum. I think it generally beats out IRC, although IRC is smaller scale and probably isn't subject to the whims of updates and crap like Discord is.

Agreed. I mostly use it for quicker communication, but looking at past messages is cumbersome. Though this is a bit alleviated by the search function if you remember the exact message to jump to it ?


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