SM64 Stars of the Beast 2: The Legend of the Crystal Stars

Extra Files:

Readme SotB2.txt

Super Mario 64: Stars of the Beast 2
By: Milgram355

(March 31st, 2019 - December 12th, 2019)


1. Info
2. Legal considerations.
3. How to play this game
4. Details with this hackrom.
5. Contact me.
6. Credits.
7. Thanks.
8. Challenges



INFO

	*In this game there are 67 stars (68 stars, but the last one works just as warp)

	*30 stars required to get to Bowser battle (30 of 44= 68.18% of collectable stars before the 30 stars door)

	*I made 14 music ports, so you can downloaded and use them (just give credits please)

	*Levels: 3 Overworls (one uses Rainbow clouds slot); 6 Main courses, 3 bonus levels (the last one uses B2 slot); Wing Cap, Metal Cap 
	        and Vanish Cap levels.

	*TOP 10 HARDEST STARS IN THIS GAME IMO:

	1- C5 Reds
	2- C5 100s
	3- C6 Reds
	4- C4 Reds
	5- B1 Reds
	6- C6 100s
	7- C4 100s
	8- B1 Star - Snufits room
	9- C3 Star 5
	10- MC Reds



Hi! Thanks for trying this game. Sorry in advance if this short game took many months but this is practically work of only one person.

This game is based in hard jumps and tight box timing and not mainly wallkicks like Stars of the Beast 1. It is hard so I hope you enjoy it, 
but if you are not an expert with sm64 hacks, you could try it using savestates c: everyone is welcome playing it!

Btw, The size of the levels is huge but the structure is nor big neither small like in other hacks. Mine are simple cause I didnt want to 
create big structures because big big levels are interesting but tired IMO.

Also, there are many REDS stars which the coins are in a specific zone and not in all the entire level. I didnt use wind collision. Not 
slippery collision abuse.

I know there are some music themes from Touhou 15 but I realized that Th15 fits perfectly on sm64 very well.

You can ask for the 3D models of the levels and you can freely download the .m64s files made by me and use them (give credits please). 

I hope this game will give you hours of fun or frustration (Im kidding) lol... To beat it could take 5 or maybe 50 hours, I dunno. Let me 
know!.



LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS

This game is contained within a patch, so that is considered legal.

You play this game and wont claim it as yours. This game is a fangame & has no connection with the official products of Nintendo Co.
This game is free and is under Fair use terms as it is possible, so under any circumstance cant be sold.

The engine of this game, objects (their respective geometry & behaviors), title, menu and file screens and some music themes are 
property of Nintendo Co. and are under their intelectual property rights, and any direct profit generated with them will be considered an 
illegal act and it will creates its respectives responsabilities.

The structure (no textures) of some 3D model levels, some music ports and most of the texts are created by Milgram355. The measures 
used between platforms & objects and every mission concept can be used freely in any other ROM.



HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME

A. PATCH A ROM!!

For legal terms, I cant give you directly the game as a ROM, so youll need to patch a ROM (this wont affect the ROM).

The patch which comes in the file of this game practically contains my fangame, to play it youll need 2 original SM64 ROMS with .z64 
format. Go to the next page to download one file, and create a copy of that .z64 file and save it with a different name:

https://sites.google.com/site/supermario64download/Home/download-super-mario-64

I recommend to download the file: Super_Mario_64__U_____.z64

Use FLIPS to patch it (you can find it here: https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=11474). To patch the ROM, open FLIPS and 
press "Apply patch", you select the patch named "SM64-Stars of the Beast 2", after this you select your original SM64 ROM (.z64), 
and later youll select the copy youve created of that SM64 ROM (.z64). And thats all!!! Your copy will contain Super Mario 64: Stars 
of the Beast 2 (I suggest you name your patched ROM "SM64-Stars of the Beast 2" to recognize it every time you play it).


B. TO PLAY IT:

I use the Project 64 1.6 EMULATOR because is so stable, so I highly recommend this Emulator to enjoy this game as maximum as possible.

To PLAY this game, you need to change your Emulator "Default Memory Size" to 8MB. You need to Click on Options > Settings > Options and 
uncheck "Hide Advanced Settings". Click OK and now click on Options > Settings > Advanced Settings > Default Memory Size > 8MB.

Starting the ROM will appear two errors, only press enter, theres no problem with them, they are practically "NORMAL". The ROM will run 
perfectly.

And Lets have so much fun!!!!.



DETAILS WITH THIS HACKROM:


	*****If you find music in C5 have static, please report it with a message or an email (I found again that problem in 
	     the last test of the game and suposeddly I fixed afterwards, but lets see)



CONTACT ME

	For any problem, feedback or request about the content created by myself and used in this game, contact me please: 

		[email protected]; itsmilgram on Twitch; or you can find me on the SM64 ROM Hack Community server on Discord.



CREDITS


Credits for some music:


Pablos Corner
Mosky2000
TheGael95
Tsucnent
VanessaWolfe2015
64Modder


Credits for the tools used:


Editor Importer 2.0.8 by Skelux

Toads Tool 64 0.6.8 version by Skelux.

SM64 Text Manager 1.0.2 version by Pilzinse64.

Parallel Lakitu Patch 1.2 by aglab2

Tweaker 0.4.7.1 to its respective creator or intelectual property rights owner(s)

Seq64 by Sauraen

Anvil Studio, Paint.net & Sketchup Make 2017, to their respective creators or intelectual property rights owners


If any program have an original creator of a first version, credits specially to all of them (I didnt found all the info about their 
creators).


Textures:

Super Mario 64 textures file by Messian.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 textures file by Quote.

Banjo Kazooie textures file by UED.

Mario Party textures file by Vinnyboiler.

Mario Kart 64 textures file by UED.

I got some textures from DANIEL EDC.

Sushi image used as Recovery heart (I converted it to PNG format and I adjust the measures to import it with TT64), was obtained from: 
https://www.tattooforaweek.com/es/8-Bit-Sushi-Tattoonie-Tatuaje-Temporal

The Note block image used as boxes in the 3D models was designed by myself on Paint.


References:

All the references to Iron Maiden and any other reference in this game are just that, references.



THANKS


Thanks specially to: 

	*Beta testers for the feedback (AndrewSM64, and The Reverser of time)

	*Mosky2000 for his help with any doubt I had about problems with music ports 

	*aglab2 for his Parallel Lakitu Cam 1.2v

	*Mushie64 for grammar english texts corrections

	*Sizzling for helping with the ROM cause I couldnt expanded it this time

	*Williatico for some midi files (Touhou 15: Clownpieces theme and Stage 6 theme)



EXTRA:

Challenges: 

Overcome my personal record on First challenge level: 1585 (obviously mine is savestateless, it took me more than one hour of attempts to 
overcome the first record I got)

Get C5 Reds + 100s in the same attempt

Collect all the 67 stars of the game

You can try a 30 stars speedrun!