Popular games built on game engine Lunar Magic

This is the collaboration hack of SMWCentral’s 12th Vanilla Level Design Contest from 2020. We started working on this hack right after the VLDC11 compilation got finished. 8 months of work that paid off in the end. This hack has 127 entries and 4 switch palaces, with 131 exits in total.

The 9th Annual Vanilla Level Design Contest Collab Hack of 2016 features 108 contest submissions, along with various staff, judge, and post-game levels. There are a total of 152 exits spread across 117 levels.

This ROM hack/mod of Super Mario World is a collaboration made by the SMW Central community, based on the levels submitted to the 11th Vanilla Level Design Contest (VLDC).

Super Demo World: The Legend Continues is a project put together with the goal of displaying the capabilities of the SMW Level Editor Lunar Magic. Super Demo World, was first released in 2001 as a few short levels to show off custom blocks which had varying requirements for when they could be broken such as the typical only when big breakable bricks or bricks that could only be broken with a fireball. Since then, the project has gone on to be a complete hack of SWM spanning across and heavily altering all of its levels. As this hack is designed with the explicit goal of showing off Lunar Magic, players will find a wide variety of challenges across Super Demo World‘s many meticulously crafted levels and will assuredly find themselves stretching out fiber of their SMW muscles along the way. Each on of the castles in this hack come with a quirky blurb at the end once you defeat the boss, many of them referring to bizarre or somewhat dark scenarios where the Koopa’s were experimenting on the eggs or simply hording them for buffets.

Grand Poo World is a ROM hack of Super Mario World created by Barbarian. The ROM hack was dedicated to Grand POOBear, who is best known as a speedrunner and Twitch streamer. This hack is designed to challenge even the most skilled Super Mario World Kaizo players. This hack features customized music and palettes over a more vanilla SMW style.

This is SMW Central's third completed collaboration hack based off of the 2015 Vanilla Level Design Contest (VLDC.) It contains 95 levels which you can play in any order you wish - all of them are open from the start except for the secret world, which is unlocked by completing every exit in the game.

A hybrid Standard/Kaizo Super Mario World ROMhack.

The last Super Mario World ROM hack made by MURA before his retirement as a modder.

Daisy's Crazy Adventure is a choco-nilla hack with standard - normal difficulty. The hack is loosely inspired by Super Mario Land.

For the past seven years, SMW Central has held a vanilla level design contest every spring. “Vanilla level design” refers to using only Lunar Magic to create your level - that is, no custom blocks, no custom sprites, and no custom code of any sort. They eventually began allowing people to use custom music, but this is not factored into their score. Once they finished designing their level, they would submit an IPS file, it would get judged + ranked, and that would be the end of it. This year, however, S.N.N. decided to assign resources (secondary exits, Map16 slots, etc) to users with the intention of putting all of their levels into a ROM and essentially creating a full hack out of it. The hack features 82 submitted entries and 4 switch palaces, which makes a grand total of 86 levels for you to beat. All of the levels are open from the start - you can play them in any order you’d like. To help you keep track of your progress, the game autosaves on the world map and beating a level will give you an “M” in the top right corner of the overworld. As a disclaimer, the levels are organized on the overworld by theme, and not by ranking. This means that the quality of the levels might fluctuate dramatically from one to the next (e.g. having a 70th place entry directly before a 12th place entry). The bottom 8 and top 8 each have their own world, however, so it’s easy to distinguish them from the rest.

This a compilation of the levels from the 2008 Vanilla Level Design Contest (VLDC) It contains 50 levels which you can play in any order you wish - all of them are open from the start.