The 7th Annual Vanilla Level Design Contest: Collaboration Hack

11.07.2014
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.

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21.11.1990

A 2D platformer and first entry on the SNES in the Super Mario franchise, Super Mario World follows Mario as he attempts to defeat Bowser's underlings and rescue Princess Peach from his clutches. The game features a save system, a less linear world map, an expanded movement arsenal and numerous new items for Mario, alongside new approaches to level design and art direction.

Part of collection:
The Annual Vanilla Level Design Contest (last 3 games)

14.11.2022

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.

21.02.2022

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).

22.12.2016

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.

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A truly expansive Mario fangame based on Super Mario 64 that combines elements between it, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy. Released in 2009 and featuring 64 Shine Sprites and another 64 Star Coins to collect, it remains the largest-scale Flash-based Mario fangame to this day.

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22.03.2012

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15.10.2012

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