I've been working on the overworld today.

Having trouble with events but I got it to work.

As you can see in the picture, the first 3 levels work perfectly!!

The event paths work and the levels reveal themselves.

I honestly thought that I was going to wiz right through lunar magic and become an expert in no time.

It turns out that I'm struggling to just accomplish this. Of course, part of it is because I'm learning it for the first time.

I have wanted to make a Super Mario rom hack for a long time (several years). Now I'm finally going for it.

Ever since I first heard of rom hacks I had an instant fascination with them. I grew up playing an SNES and there are many games which are very important to me. Being able to remake or rewrite my all time favorite games that I grew up playing as a kid is just awesome. 

I want to make high quality rom hacks. Right now I'm struggling to understand Lunar Magic and all of it's wonders. This program is absolutely brilliant by the way.

I'm going to try and post my progress as I become a more proficient rom hacker since I'm currently only a beginner.

These are the first custom graphics that I've ever loaded into Lunar Magic and the SMW rom. I was so happy to finally figure it out.

Here are some more custom graphics. The vertical pole was really just a mushroom stalk but since I wanted to make it like a solid pole I made it act like block 130 (if I remember correctly).

I want to eventually be able to rip my own graphics from other games or draw my own but I'm working on that.

The biggest problem I'm having is understanding those darn color pallets.

I understand the entrances to levels but don't understand the secondary entrances. Need to work on this.

Why can't it just say: (From and To) just like mailing someone a letter. Where are you coming from and where are you going, isn't that all you need right?

My first attempt at over world editing. I got Mario to go down this path and back up and the levels work. I will work on events next time but still struggling overall with finding the right tiles that fit and knowing whether to use the 8x8 mode or the 16x16 mode and I didn't understand why I can't select a tile and start flipping it x or y to then paste it again somewhere else where I need it. Anyway, its a work in progress.

In closing, I plan on doing a few small and basic hacks first so that when I want to do bigger and better hacks I'll be able to manage them later.