SM64 Royal Legacy

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READ ME + Credits.txt

SM64 Royal Legacy v1.0
 <an SM64 hack>

by Stunning Cactus

SM64 made by Nintendo

[Author's Note]

	Thanks for downloading my hack! This is my first hack. It started as a 
	mini project around May 2019 that I thought I'd never actually finish, 
	and it was put on hold mid June of that year. Enter March 2020, when 
	I lost my job to COVID-19 and needed a project to fill my time. I rebooted 
	the project and decided to put my all into it. I finished it in August 2020
	and released it on September 14, 2020. I'm very proud of the work 
	and I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.

[Credits]

	***<Beta Testers>***

		ToasterKetchup
		7KNGS (Jules Mansour)
		LinCrash
		Mushie64

		Thank you SO much to my 4 beta testers for diligently and thoroughly
		working through my hack and providing invaluable feedback. Each of you
		were integral to increasing this hack's quality - it simply would
		not have been as great without your input. Thank you so much!
	

	***<Coding>***

		Custom Rain                 ...    Kaze
		Many ASM tweaks             ...    aglab2
		Custom Crown integration    ...    ToasterKetchup

	***<Modeling>***

		Levels                      ...    Stunning Cactus
		Crown Object                ...    Stunning Cactus
		Textures                    ...    SMW Central
		Oak Trees in Course 1       ...    Dan from GomePlayTV
		Flowers in Course 1         ...    Dan from GomePlayTV

	***<Custom HUD>***
	
		Letter and Number Fonts     ...    Stunning Cactus
		Title Screen                ...    Stunning Cactus
		Act and File Select Screens ...    Stunning Cactus

	***<Music>***

		The soundtrack is all original music. Special thanks to my good friend 
		Daleroysteve for writing and co-writing a handful of the tracks. He is 
		a very talented dude!
	
		File Select                 ...    Stunning Cactus
		Tartaruga Castle            ...    Stunning Cactus
		Course 1 Bountiful Basin    ...    Stunning Cactus
		Course 2 Toad Taiga         ...    Daleroysteve
		Course 3 Brimstone Banks    ...    Stunning Cactus; Daleroysteve
		Course 4 Desiccated Desert  ...    Daleroysteve
		Koopa Race                  ...    Daleroysteve
		Wing Cap/Shell Surfing      ...    Stunning Cactus
		Eyerock Fight               ...    Stunning Cactus
		Bowser Course               ...    Stunning Cactus
		Bowser Fight                ...    Stunning Cactus
	
		Music Porting               ...    Stunning Cactus

		Q: Can I use your music in my hack?
		A: As this music was custom written exclusively for the purposes of my 
		hack, I would strongly prefer that you do not. However, since I can't 
		exactly stop you from doing so, if you choose to do so anyway, I would 
		very much appreciate that you credit me and/or my friend for the work.

	***<Tools>***
	
		Sketchup                    ...    Google
		ROM Manager                 ...    Pilzinsel64
		Quad64                      ...    Davideesk
		Seq64                       ...    Sauraen
		N64 Rip                     ...    Joe (Frontend by gamax92)
		N64SoundTool                ...    SubDrag, Ice Mario & Zoinkity
		HxD                         ...    Maël Hörz
		Star Display                ...    Credits listed here: https://github.com/aglab2/SM64StarDisplay
		Project64                   ...    Zilmar et al.
		FL Studio                   ...    Image-Line (FL Studio is a music production software which I used for writing all my tracks)
		Anvil Studio                ...    WillowSoftware (Anvil Studio is amusic notation program that allowed my MIDI loops to have intros in game)

	***<Special Thanks>***

		Countless people contributed in so many ways, large and small. I apologize 
		if you don't see your name here even if you helped in some way, but it's 
		more likely that you'll see your name here and think "wait, I didn't do anything!" :)
	
		ToasterKetchup, for patiently enduring my endless inquiries, for diving head-first 
			into coding catastrophes and coming out alive, for checking up on my 
			progress, for beta testing even when you weren't feeling it, for walking me 
			through Seq64, HxD and N64Rip, and for being an internet buddy.

		Daleroysteve, for writing some killer tracks (many of which I am jealous I didn't 
			write myself), which made the task of writing all custom music for this 
			hack a whole lot easier.

		IndieMusicMinute, for making a sick trailer to showcase my work. Very talented video 
			guy and has a great YouTube channel if you like indie rock, guitar lessons,
			gear reviews and music theory lessons - I recommend checking it out! 
			<https://www.youtube.com/user/blizzdizzl2323>.

		7KNGS (Jules Mansour), for getting me into speedrunning vanilla SM64, for beta testing,
			for playing a boatload of ROM hacks with me, and for being a bro for many years!

		Mosky2000, for being open to having long conversations about porting music into SM64 
			and for taking the time to walk me through N64SoundTool. I learned a lot from 
			you and enjoyed talking to you, you're a great dude (and his music ports are 
			awesome - check them out!).

		Aglab2, for stopping in to my stream one night and telling me to blend my texture seams lol

		SM64Pie, Kaze, Brodute, OnFullTilt, and Nutta, all of whom have one or more valuable 
			video tutorials on YouTube that helped me in some way to make this hack a 
			reality. Thank you so much for contributing your know-how, guys!

		To the many discord servers - SM64 ROM Hack Community, SimpleFlips Server: The Idiots, 
			SM64 ROM Hacks (previously SM64Hacks Discord) - and the people in them who 
			answered so, so many of my questions. There is no way I could include everyone 
			who answered a question for me, but off the top of my head, special thanks to 
			Pyro Jay (I know for a fact this guy answered at least 10 of my questions lol), 
			Rovert, Kaze, sizzlingmario4, Samantha, GraymonDgt, and The Sweet Matt, among 
			so many others.