Lunar Magic

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Lunar Magic (SMW Multi-Edit Tool)
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Use(s): Editing Super Mario World levels, overworld and dialogue texts, inserting extra graphics into SMW
Developer(s): FuSoYa
Platform(s): 32-bit Windows (can be run on Linux and Mac OS X, using Wine and Darwine, respectively)
Latest Version: 1.71 (released on April 17, 2010)
License: Proprietary
Home Page: FuSoYa's Lunar Magic page
Download(s): v1.71

Lunar Magic is an editor made by FuSoYa for Super Mario World. It has many features and is an extremely advanced editor. Some of these features are custom palettes, overworld editing, custom Map16 pages, custom graphics, entrance/exit modifying, support for custom blocks, sprites and (recently) music. It is quite easy to learn and includes a help file. After almost a 4 year hiatus, FuSoYa released version 1.64 on September 30, 2009, followed by version 1.65 on October 1, 2009, then version 1.70 on April 1, 2010, and then version 1.71 on April 17, 2010.

As of 2010, Lunar Magic is the only known public level editor for Super Mario World.

Contents

Features

Level Editor

  • Point and click Layer 1 and 2 editors
  • Exit and Destination editor
  • Time Limit and Music setting editors
  • MAP16 (blocks) settings editor

Overworld Editor

Title Screen Editor

  • Point and click Title Screen Level FG editor
  • Title Screen Movement recording (with help of Emulator)

Credits Editor

  • Point and click editing of the tiles from the Credits scene

Compatible ROMs

  • "Super Mario World (U) [!].smc" - This is the standard North American version SMW ROM.
  • "Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World (J) [!].smc" - The Japanese SMW ROM. However, editing of the Japanese ROM is limited.
  • "Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World (U) [!].smc" - The North American SMAS + SMW ROM

It is recommended that you get a clean, unmodified "Super Mario World (U) [!].smc" ROM for your hacking, as that is what the various tools and patches available at SMW Central are designed for.

Also, it worth noting Super Mario Advance 2 editing is possible with Smallhacker's experimental tool.

Lunar Magic Release History

  • 1.00 - September 24, 2000
  • 1.01 - October 2, 2000
  • 1.02 - October 10, 2000
  • 1.03 - October 28, 2000
  • 1.10 - December 25, 2000
  • 1.11 - February 9, 2001
  • 1.20 - May 20, 2001
  • 1.30 - September 24, 2001
  • 1.31 - October 1, 2001
  • 1.40 - December 25, 2001
  • 1.41 - January 1, 2002
  • 1.42 - February 9, 2002
  • 1.43 - June 15, 2002
  • 1.50 - September 24, 2002
  • 1.51 - September 24, 2002
  • 1.60 - September 24, 2003
  • 1.61 - December 25, 2003
  • 1.62 - April 11, 2004
  • 1.63 - September 24, 2005
  • 1.64 - September 30, 2009
  • 1.65 - October 1, 2009
  • 1.70 - April 1, 2010
  • 1.71 - April 17, 2010

Easter Eggs

The 8x8 Extended GFX Viewing code

  • Open the 8x8 editor and press Ctrl+Shift+Page Down. Now you can view much more GFX i.e. Mario's one, but you can't edit them.

The 16x16 Sprite GFX Viewing code

  • Open the 16x16 editor and press Ctrl+Shift+Page Down. Scroll all the way down for the sprite GFX.

The M16-7k code

  • Open the 16x16 editor and press Ctrl + Shift + Alt + F1 + N + O + Insert to open up the window where you can import backgrounds made with Pic2SNES. It's a nice method to get nice backgrounds you normally can't rip.

Overworld Editor

Please note that not all of these codes have been tested on the current version of lunar magic 1.71!

Chibi Moon

  • In Lunar Magic 1.60 and above there is an Easter egg were if you open the overworld immediately after opening a rom and then type in ChibiMoon (case-sensitive. There is no text box to enter it into- just don't click anything and type it), the editor's icon will change and the status bar will say, "ChibiMoon is cute!" At this point, you can press CTRL+E to bring up a dialog box. Type in the name of your hack (no more then 21 characters long) and press OK, and it will lock your hack and change the rom name to whatever you typed in.

The World Is Not Enough code

  • Open the OW editing window, and navigate to the "change events passed" box under the Overworld menu. Open it, and go to the dialogue box. type in "The world is not enough!" (case sensitive). and hit escape. Now you have a star to view. Repeat the process to regain the moon icon.

The Amy Is Cute code

  • Open The OW editor and go to the "Change Events passed" box. Type "Amy is cute!"(case sensitive) and hit escape. A message box will appear and there will be some binary near the top.

The Chocobo code

  • Copy down the binary on top of the message box from the previous code. Re-open the change events passed box. Type the binary you copied down earlier in the same space and hit escape. Now you have the Chocobo to greet you every time you open LM. It makes the Wark Wark Wark thing happen, too.

The Palette Hack code

  • Hitting F8 allows you toggle the palette hack on the title screen. Normally, the background turns blue when "erase file" is selected, but LM installs a hack that bypasses this when you first save Level C7. You can use F8 to turn it off, or back on again (changes are saved after you save Level C7).


External links

Official site

Tools commonly used in SMW Hacking
ASM Hacking/Custom Blocks/Custom Sprites BlockTool - Blocktool Super Deluxe - Overworld Sprite Editor - SMW Freespace Logger - Sprite Tool - Tweaker - VWF Cutscene Tool - xkas
Emulation bsnes - Snes9x - ZSNES
Graphics Terra Stripe - YY-CHR
Hex editors Okteta - Translhextion - XVI32
Level/Overworld Editing Lunar Magic
Misc. Lunar Address
Music Addmusic - SMWS
Patching Lunar IPS
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