LORE
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Mario’s world has been drained of its energy. Determined to restore it, he sets off on a journey deep underground in search of precious iridium — a material once used by the ancient Toad civilization to ignite star-power energy. Can he reignite the energy his world has lost?


ABOUT THE GAME
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This is my third hack, and while it still features plenty of custom blocks and sprites, it uses a bit less ASM overall compared to my previous projects. For this game, I wanted to focus more on delivering a stronger platforming experience.

Trailer: 
https://youtu.be/aUvvKjFi7_E?si=3lz-z1ogAifIGGKV

Game Details:
- 17 exits total (including 1 tutorial prologue level)

- Most levels fall into the advanced to low-Expert range

- All sections are fairly short in length

- Plenty of auto-scroller sections

- Also plenty of vertical sections

- All Pipes and Doors are checkpoints 

- Pressing Start + Select within a level will return you to the overworld

- Pressing Select on the overworld brings up the save prompt


THANK YOU
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A big thank you to the Kaizo community for always welcoming my questions and being so kind and helpful whenever I needed it. Special thanks to all the testers who helped with this hack: Pixelpadlock, Splitty, Snadge, and Fanfan!

Additional thanks to AlyssaSMW for providing some last-minute ASM!

BIG thanks to everyone who’s played my previous titles — you’ve all given so much feedback and encouragement throughout my creative process.

Thanks to all the creators out there putting SO MUCH hard work into their hacks. This is always inspiring me to do better.

I genuinely hope you enjoy playing this hack as much as I enjoyed creating it!


I do plan on making a sequel, but in the meantime I wanted to let the community know that I’m open and available to help with game testing, and I’d love to be part of any hacks that are group collaborations!
Note: I probably won’t be much help testing any Master/Grandmaster levels :)

Feel free to reach out on Discord or through the SMWC inbox, anytime!

- Slak


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