Baron of Shell

Baron of Shell is a hack that I’ve had in the works for almost two years. It is my take on a classic shell hack, but it includes more traditional platforming elements than today’s shell hacks. It uses traditional shell physics. There is a practice / tutorial path that provides insight into some of the more esoteric item abuse setups.

My goal with this hack was to show how diverse shell levels can be, and to push the narrative on item abuse in Super Mario World. Although there are a lot of Uberasm patches and custom sprites at work, the hack at its core is vanilla and vanilla inspired.

— Disclaimer (1) —

This hack is not made for everyone. There are a lot of people who will hate this hack; it was not made for them. It was made for the players who love shells and item abuse.

— Disclaimer (2) —

This hack has can cause repetitive strain injury if you are not careful. Please take periodic breaks so you don’t hurt yourself.

— Disclaimer (3)

This hack uses Uberasm that requires BOTH L & R to be used. If you use a nontraditional joystick or remap your buttons, this may be a problem for you.

— Disclaimer (4)

Have fun :)

Updates in 1.1:

• Removed a lot of unnecessary tightness.
• Added a room in the tutorial for a specific setup.
• Made some levels more consistent for speedrunners.
• Fixed some cheese in Ultra Shell.
• Replaced the last section in Bloodlust with a section that is less hard on the hands.
• Revamped Pit of Abaddon to be much less blind and casual playthrough friendly.
• Added some more people to the credits that I had missed.
• Various tweaks were made from feedback from the community.

I’d like to thank everyone that played through 1.0 and gave their feedback! You have helped this become a better romhack!

Updates in 1.2:

• Removed the cheese in the second section of Ultra Shell
• Patched the yellow koopa framerule
• Fixed a bug in the disco spiny that was preventing it from working on Mister and bsnes
• Fixed the port in Uzumaki
• Small tweaks in various levels