The Devious Four Chronicles 3: The Crater

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Readme.txt

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Part 1:  The Story

If you're reading this, then that means you have downloaded the First Episode (Technically) of the
most intense story in Super Mario World hacking.  You're about to dive into a series that many have
come to love and enjoy!  You are about to experience "THE DEVIOUS FOUR CHRONICLES"!  While you may 
not completely understand who this Racter person is, do know that scene is only in there to set up
for the prequels.  To keep things short:

Racter is a being from another world who came to the Mushroom Kingdom with a friend of his named
Magna.  They both tried to take it over.  That's simply all there is to it.  Mario does not like
Racter or Magna.  Be expecting their episodes in the near future!

While the opening cutscene with Racter may confuse you, do know that will not keep you from
understanding the rest of the story.  Also, if you just want to play the game and not experience
the story, just press the START button on your controller.

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Part 2: Difficulty

There's not much to be said about this, but those playing with a controller may want to put it down
and play with your keyboard instead.  This game is difficult and was not designed to be played with
a controller.  Use a controller at your own risk, unless you're better with a controller than you 
are with the keyboard, in which case it's encouraged!

The difficulty is fair for the most part.

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Part 3: Bugs

This hack has been thoroughly tested, but there is always the chance that we of the Devious Four
Team or our testers have missed something.  We aren't paid to do this, we produced this product 
for you free of charge.  If you do encounter an error, do post in our WIP Thread or send me, Skewer
 or Antimatterhunter, a PM detailing your error.

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Part 4: Other Information

Do not rip anything from this hack.  Ask permission from the Author (Skewer) before you do anything regarding this SMW Rom hack.
Skewer does not claim ownership on Super Mario (World).  He does claim ownership of the original graphics, which
is a majority of graphics in the rom.  He claims ownership of the story, and of the original characters in the rom hack.  They ARE copyrighted.

This hack has some long levels at points.  These levels have more than one midway point.
This hack is compatible with: ZSNES, SNES9x, Higan/BSNES High-Accurate version. 
(I have not tested on Performance or Balanced versions.  Use those at your own risk)

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Version Information :

1.0 - Initial Release.
1.1 - Update Release (The Ending Update)
	 BIG UPDATE: Flame Skull enemies no longer crash the game randomly when killed: They don't crash the game at all now.
	 BIG UPDATE: Completely remade the ending.
	 Courtesy of StrikeForcer for updated Screenshots
	 Removed "MARIO" from the status bar, as your not playing as Mario for all the time.
	 Removed several ports and replaced with others.
		Water Cliffs has a new music.
		Focur Castle has a new music.
		Darkness Palace has a new music
		Cyber Castle 2 has a new music.
		OW Music added to the Iceberg area
		OW Music added to the Crystal Mountain area
		OW Music added to the Tower area
	 Made Tileset/Aesthetic changes to several levels.  This does not affect gameplay.
		- Removed roofing on the "Racter's Stronghold" Scorpion battle to avoid him getting stuck in the roofing. 
		- New tileset/BG for Crystal Mountain 1 and Disturbing Evil (BG only)
		- New cave foreground for several of the first world, second world and Redlands cave levels.
		- Darkened foreground pallete of Darkness Palace
		- Added a pipe to Hunter's Cyber Castle (1) entrance
		- Made the majority of the tileset of Scorpion's Base 2D instead of the psuedo 3D.
	 Made spikes act more like the way the do on The Fourth Sector which was released prior to this re-release.
	 Remove a copious amount of "Buddy Drones" from the second challenge room in "Cyber Castle 3"
	 Lowered the volume of the BGM in "Hunter's Tower"
	 Made conveyors push you off the corners.
	 Added Leod's name to the credits
	 Added Mayonnai's name to the credits
	 Added OW paths to the Iceberg and Crystal Mountain.
	 Fixed Block Duplication
	 Fixed the bug where hitting the the beam in Furnace Challenge creates a block.
	 Skipping "The Furnace" 's opening cutscene will have you simply exit the level.
	 Changed the graphics of an enemy in Darkness Palace.
v1.2	- The Molecule Fix
	 Added spikes to the Molecule Monster's boss room to discourage glitching.
v1.3	- Security
	 Added security measures to keep mod from being tampered with.