Transmission Chain Experiment

Released: March 4, 2022

By: Various Authors

Found on: smwc

Difficulty: 0

When users of SMW Central were given the prompt to partake in the then untitled “Transmission Chain Experiment”, our observers noted some truly unexpected behaviour. Each participant was given the task of creating only a single screen per level, and must have built it on top of a previous participant’s screen. The results were garish, incomprehensible, and maddening.

More research must be done for further conclusions. A note for players: as a spontaneous collaborative hack, that was made screen-by-screen, the levels do not follow any common conventions of design. The result is a game that is quite idiosyncratic and sections vary widely in difficulty, so it may be an unusual or tedious experience when played without tool assistance.

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README.txt

ABOUT
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When users of SMW Central were given the prompt to partake in the then untitled 
"Transmission Chain Experiment", our observers noted some truly unexpected behaviour. 
Each participant was given the task of creating only a single screen per level, and must 
have built it on top of a previous participant's screen. The results were garish, 
incomprehensible, and maddening.

More research must be done for further conclusions. 


NOTES
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This hack is almost entirely vanilla, but the retry system and SA-1 was added 
to make the experience more enjoyable or even possible in the case of SA-1. 

Nearly every screen in this hack is used as-submitted, the following very minimal 
modifications were made to allow progress where the addition of screens would not 
suffice, or to solve or prevent breaks:

  - screen 10 in the ghost house has the addition of a P-Switch coin block to make 
  progress possible, a keyhole was also removed as per the rules against level ending
  sprites/objects.
  - screen 0F in the grassland level required the addition of a sprite killer to 
  prevent the block snake from eating through the rest of the level
  - screen 07 in the cave level had its donut bridge changed to clouds since bridges
  are not semi-solid in Super Mario World

An extra screen was added to the ghost house (03) and to the castle level (0C) to make 
progress more plausible.


CREDITS
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"Customizable Reznor v1.2" by Kevin (https://smwc.me/s/18880)
"Invisible Sprite Killer Box v1.1" by Darolac, Mandew (https://smwc.me/s/19185)
"Retry System (+ Multiple Checkpoints) v2.06c" by Kevin, lx5, worldpeace (https://smwc.me/s/26078)
"SA-1 Pack v1.40" by Arujus, Vitor Vilela, et al. (https://smwc.me/s/25938)


CONTRIBUTORS
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All of the following people contributed to this collab, to see a breakdown of who made what
you can view the included spreadsheet (thanks to DeppySlide for gathering this data).

	Aja, Alex_X8, Anorakun, bebn legg, TheBourgyman, Chester, codfish1002, Darolac, DeppySlide, 
	Disk Poppy, E-man38, ECS.98, FPzero, GbreezeSunset, GigaCrash, Green Jerry, Hatsune B., 
	Heraga, idol, Impetus, JamesD28, Jead, JolpenGammler, JupiHornet, Katerpie, KennyJ, Koopster, 
	Lazy, MarioriaM, Margot, Minish Yoshi, NopeContest, Sweaty Noodle, SF - The Dark Warrior, 
	sio-kedelic, Snessy The Duck, snoruntpyro, solgaleo35, SquirrelyMan157, Teyla, 
	TheKazooBloccGosh, Valentine, and Veck

Thanks to Alex_X8, who tested this hack on their birthday and made sure nothing broke 
when I compiled it.

I would like to thank all those who contributed in this spontaneous collab and I hope
people enjoy playing it!

Tags: #Kaizo