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Aeron's Golden Cookie Quest

Released:
By: Anorakun
Found on: smwc
Difficulty: 10

Aeron’s Golden Cookie Quest is an old-school styled hack, that has inpiration in various videogames, including Kirby, Mega Man, Castlevania, Ganbare Goemon, Shinobi, Mario and others. Instead of inspiring myself in any hack creator, I wanted to make this project as a love letter for videogames and I plan to achieve that with this hack.

That’s not to mean that there isn’t SMW hack inspirations, because there’s some fews, including: Mario in Japan (a CLDC entry made by Hadron in 2010), FPI’s The Second Reality series, Luigi Adventure series by Anikiti (A bit of aesthetics), Wakana Land, and a small sprinkle of kaizo stuff I’ve seen streamers playing, before I joined Discord in 2020.

Prepare to die a lot and good luck, I didn’t add any retry door or retry pipe, just like old-school games. Pain is part of the experience. But don’t worry, if you manage to beat the second half of most levels, you can get an 1-up checkpoint to have a second chance against bosses.

The story is simple. Aeron was making a magical experiment, everything went wrong, him and Natsumi were teleported to another dimension. Now they must figure a way to go back home. Each level is planned to have cutscenes.

This hack has lore, but the cutscenes and the player sprite are not done yet, so I only have these 9 levels, for now. In the next version, I plan to have cutscenes and the player character, Aeron.

What this demo contains:

  • Various patches aimed for quality of life experience, to make the platforming even more fun;
  • 9 levels, filled with graphics ripped mostly by me, save some exceptions.
  • Neat selection of custom musics (I included a music list in the zip file, do note some of them are not in SMWCentral);
  • Tough platforming;
  • Simple and challenging bosses;
  • Bumpties (Segment1Zone2 angry noises);
  • A small dose of lore;
  • NPCs. Try to talk to all of them. They provide more context about the lore…or not.

I hope you have fun!

Download Patch File

Extra Files:

IMPORTANT STUFF, READ ME!.txt

First of all, thanks for downloading my hack. It has been in production since the beginning of the year 2020. 
This hack is Very Hard and has many old-school influence from tough SNES games like ActRaiser 2 and Ganbare Goemon 4.

In this demo, there's two save points: Seaside Resort (unlocked since the start) and Setsuma Village. 
When in danger of losing all lives, save your game progress. This hack follows the idea of being oldschool, like old videogames. 
There will be tough moments, sometimes RNG may screw you up, but that's part of experience. 

There's no retry doors or pipes in this hack. 

Pain is part of the experience. Conquer your fears and you shall be rewarded. 

Every stage that has a boss contains an 1-up checkpoint, so don't be discouraged if the bosses are tough.

Second thing, some things are subject to change. The second half of Mechanical Oedo is using a port that may be tweaked in the future.
This hack uses the new AddmusicKFF, because some few songs use the pwm command. And finally, I don't know why, but when the controllable
character hits a block with a normal jump, the coin sound or powerup sound doesn't play. But with a spin jump, it plays just fine.
There's some small sfx issues, but I hope they don't compromise the whole experience.

Third, I've added a lot of quality of life patches to make sure the game is fair.

Lastly, I hope you enjoy this hack. Cheers!

MUSIC LIST.txt

Since people is bound to ask "Which song is this one that plays in that stage", I'm making this list of musics I'm using for the hack.

>>>> Nintendo Presents: 

- Omae wa mou Shindeiru from Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius. Ported by my friend KiloMinimo. 

I don't plan to release this sfx, sorry.

>>>> Title Screen: 

- Final Fantasy VI - Cyan's Theme, ported by Infinity;

>>>> Intro Level: 

- Sutte Hakkun - Stage 1, ported by Tamaki;

>>>> Death jingle:

- Castlevania Dracula X - Richter Died, ported by Hooded Edge;

>>>> Stage Clear:

- Streets of Rage - Round Clear, ported by Nameless;

>>>> Archipelago of Confusion (Main Map): 

- Donkey Kong Country 3 - Northern Kremisphere, ported by Marcozzo Daro;

>>>> Seaside Resort: 

- The Legend of the Mystical Ninja - Keep an Adventure Log?, ported by EDIT3333;

>>>> Gargoyle Cliffs:
 
- Secret of Evermore - Lonely Halls, ported by musicalman; 

- Demon's Crest- Cursed Towers, ported by ggamer77;

- Ai Senshi Nicol - Boss, ported by Samantha;

>>>> Qubasa Sport Field:

- Live-A-Live - Under The Fake, ported by EDIT3333;

- Mega Man Soccer - Wood Field, ported by Dippy;

- Mitsume ga Tooru - Boss Theme, ported by Teows;

>>>> Nocturnal Glacier:

- The Jetzons - Hard Times, ported by Samantha;

- Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Tomboyish Girl in Love, ported by Wakana;

-Touhou Hisoutensoku ~ Choudokyuu Ginyoru no Nazo o Oe - Tomboyish Girl in Love, ported by Kusamochi;

>>>> Forgotten Library:

- SaGa Frontier - Trick, ported by Masterlink (only compatible with Addmusic KFF);

- Super Castlevania IV - 6-1 (Entrance Hall), ported by K.T.B.;

- Final Fantasy IV - The Dreadful Fight, ported by Tamaki;

>>>> Mt. Mutsu (Submap):

- Romancing SaGa 3 - Aurora, ported by Samantha;

>>>> Yamato Bamboo Field:

- Tricky - Japan, ported by yoshi9429;

- Shinobi III - Izayoi, ported by com_poser;

- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages / Seasons - Boss Battle, ported by Major Flare;

>>>> Kyushu Bridge:

- The Legend of the Mystical Ninja - Kyoto, Ancient Capital of Japan; ported by Teows;

>>>> Mechanical Oedo:

- Lagrange Point - Tum's Boogie, ported by Milon Luxy;

- Mega Man VI - Yamato Man Stage, ported by Segment1Zone2;

- Spanky's Quest - Boss, ported by Nicoke42;

>>>> Setsuma Village:

- The Legend of the Mystical Ninja - Town of Yamato, ported by Infinity;

- Goemon's Great Adventure - Ryugu Castle, ported by S.N.N. (They gave me permission to use this port, check the folder included with this zip);

>>>> Gorgeous Stage Fort:

- Ganbare Goemon 2 - Fortress, ported by Masterlink;

- Mamorukun Curse! - YO-KAI DISCO (KDL3 Arrangement), ported by tcdw;

- Romancing SaGa - Beat of the Evil, ported by Infinity;

- Deltarune - vs. Lancer, ported by Infinity;
Tags: #Demo #Chocolate #Custom Music #Custom Sprites #Exgfx #Platforming #Retro

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