Mario Mods

Mario Party 9: First Texture Hacks

MnSG — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:19:17 +0000

It has been quite a long time since I’ve posted anything here. Ever since I got my 3DS in January, I really haven’t done much of any texture hacking, and the maintenance issues that this site dealt with a few months ago didn’t make things any better.

Anyway, I’ve been making up this hiatus after getting hold of Mario Party 9. So far, I’ve done two different hacks for that game, so here’s what I’ve worked on…

Red Yoshi

I did a lot of work with these texture edits. Not only did I modify Yoshi’s body and face, but I also modified his portraits and icons. What you see on the image above is only a portion of my edits. To see them all, you’ll just have to try out the edits yourself.

The download comes included with a bunch of text documents, which tell you what files to look for, along with the offset placements for each texture part. The icons are merely aesthetic, but it’s just something that I did while viewing the ISO’s contents.

Red Magikoopa

Yup, it’s the Red Magikoopa, which appeared in the Paper Mario and Mario Baseball titles. Simply put, I merely changed the Magikoopa’s cloak to a red coloring. And of course, I altered his icons and portraits along the way. Just like with Red Yoshi, you’ll just have to go through all the files that the download contains to see all the portraits that have been modified.

On a side note, some of the content is region-specific, since in the PAL version of Mario Party 9, Magikoopa is named Kamek. Since the download contents are from the NTSC-U version of the game, I’m not too sure about how the PAL version will handle them.

Now, I did show these hacks at the RVLution forums, but apparently, Mareep, our newest member here, could not figure out the icon replacing stuff. A lot of the icon replacements involve hex editing. Also, my game’s region is NTSC-U, so the contents of my downloads may not be too helpful for PAL users; the NTSC-U version has a folder named locale_us, but it’s named locale_eu in PAL. Anyway, let’s just say that the icon and portrait replacement work is quite advanced, and involves a lot of texture hacking and hex editing experience to pull off; all of which I’ve been able to accomplish during my soon to be 3-year old texture hacking career.

Regardless, however, the hacks are here for you to enjoy, so feel free to use them if you want to.

Tool: ARC Decomp v0.2

darkly77 — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:11:58 +0000

Mr. Game has released a tool for decompressing batch ARC files and comes with a GUI.

Source | Via | Download

Portal 2 Sentry Turret Goomba texture hack! (NSMBW)

Mareep — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:45:35 +0000

Greetings friends!
Cave Johnson here, business Salesmen of Aperture Science! Here something me and the Lab boys came up with: A walking, Goomba shaped millitary Turret! All those goombas in the Mushroom Kingdom will become just like our Millitary Turrets! It’s a blast to use and has many killing methods such as: Bumping into a Test Subject! Installation is simple! Follow the download link and place it in the objects folder in your NSMBW ISO! Unfortuantelly we are unable to upload a picture of it in-game, due to technacal issues. Don’t worry! I fired the guys that did the photos! But I assure you the hack is great! Place a few out the front of your house to PROTECT the things that matter most. HAH! Just try and get to that Baby! Your funeral.
- Cave Johnson! We’re done here!

Download link for Goomba Turret texture hack: http://www.4shared.com/file/RJ22VN8M/kuribo.html
WARNING: These work differentally then your average Turret. It does NOT shoot Test Subjects, doesn’t say phrases and whatever you do, DO NOT try to bump into it to push it over! These things work a little differentially, pushing it will result in death, I highly discourage you from touching it.

Pictures in-game: (Sorry about the poor quality!)

Post by- Mareep

Hi I’m Mareep!

Mareep — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:45:35 +0000

Hi! I’m the newest contributer to Mario Mods! I’ve been following the Site since around June 2010 and have decided to become a member! I can’t bare to see the site slowly die away (the last post was on 28th March) so I’m going to post my texture hacks from time to time! I used to rush on here to nab the latest texture to put onto NSMBW and use, now since nobody really publishes many texture hacks on here anymore, I’m gunna’ do just that! I’ve mad texture hacks for a variety of Mario Games! (NSMBW, MKW, MP9, MSM, M&S2012, ect.) Once I’ve figured out how uploading files works you can expect some nice things from me! Stay tuned! :D

This is my signature, everytime I post something here this will show for easy recognision! :D

NSMBw: World Map Creation Guide

darkly77 — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:47:49 +0000

You’ve all been waiting for it! and here it is! (NO ASM HACKING NEEDED!)

What You’ll Need: A computer, Szs modifier, a 3D modeling program with a .obj exporter, a Wii or Dolphin, Microsoft Excel, and the NSMBW worldmap files.

Step 1: Making The Model:

First, use a 3D modeling program to create the model. (Google sketchup is recommended since you can import from the 3D warehouse) Keep in mind that your model will have to be pretty big in order to be an adequate worldmap!

Step 2: Picking the course numbers & locations:

In your NSMBW worldmap folder from the game, open the Routeinfo.arc with Szs modifier. Inside, you’ll see folders W1-9. Since we are using W9 for this guide, open the W9 folder. Inside, you’ll see routeW9.csv and pointW9.csv. Export them as .csv then open them both with Excel. In pointW9.csv column B lines 2-9, you see 1 W901- 8 W908. If you wish to delete courses, (NOT RECOMMENDED) then delete the corresponding section of text. Adding courses is currently not possible without ASM hacking. In routeW9.csv, if you know how to hex edit, then you can edit the path nodes. VERY DIFFICULT. If you made any changes, import the .csv files back with szs modifier, save routeinfo.arc, and put the new routeinfo.arc in your patch folder.

Step 3: Importing the Model:

Go into CS_W9 with Szs modifier. Go into the 3D models folder, and click CS_W9. In the model editor, and highlight the polygons you want to replace with your model. For this guide, highlight polygons 10-42. Then, go to import, and select/import your .obj. SAVE. If you wish to edit the model now, do it by “pinching” (szs modifier feature)

Step 4-Infinity: Test and improve!

You may want some model templates to play around with, so here’s the one shown above!

maptemplate

SMG2: NES SMB1 1-1 Remake

darkly77 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:51:57 +0000

This great video of an SMG2 custom level mod is pretty old, but it’s still awesome. Check out Martboo48?s channel here.

NSMBw: COTB Early Version

White Toad — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:43:52 +0000

Note: Due to time restrictions COTBT is not finished. This is an early build using levels from the NSMBw File Depot. See below (or click ‘Read More’) for a list of File Depot level developers.

We apologise to anybody who does not want their work included in this pack. Please comment below if you’d like your content to be removed.

This is an early release version of Curse of the Black Toad. Some things are buggy/unfinished, and the mod pack is filled out with File Depot levels. Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD HERE
Click ‘Read More’ to also read info on this release, trailers, instructions on usage and full credits.

Release Info

Format: NTSC

Features:

All-new levels and textures (custom made & from the File Depot)
New music
Edited world maps

Videos

Instructions

This mod pack works with Riivolution. No Riivolution XML is included, just drop the ‘nsmb’ folder inside the zip file into your mods folder.

If you’re on PAL (rather than the US format, NTSC) don’t include openingTitle.arc – the custom title screen causes black screens on PAL systems.

Credits

Toad Team Level Designers

White Toad, M, MetalKingBoo, TheOptimime, BLDmeals, Yoshi875, Nickskins, zhrty314159265358979323

File Depot Level Designers

Assassination, Chaosdragon13, FlameKoetsu, Ganjagrinda, Giovan, Kingzeric, Maxoxpower, MnSG, Red Shifter, Taxis, The Frenchman, Tonttu from finland, Treeki, germanruiz, guest (Unknown, User), islishe, kotan, legomyfoot, mengplex, mikelan98, morenoingrato, mralpha, valentin19990923, weland1234

3D Modelers

TheOptimime, TheLordKhon, White toad

Textures

MetalKingBoo, White toad, Yoshi875

Misc

greenisgood11235, zhrty314159265358979323, BDLmeals, White toad, My mom

Music

Mareep, Mr. Bach

Guide: Soft Mod Any Wii

darkly77 — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:09:07 +0000

For information on modding your Wii please read this guide.

We won’t have our own guide here on this site as the guide linked above is more than adequate, and often updated.

MKW: Black Toad/White Toad

White Toad — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:38:16 +0000

Black toad/ White toad/ Mr.T.?! You saw it here first folks! The body of Black toad, the head of White toad, a strange likeness of Mr.M. that is being called Mr.T., it’s… an awesome MKW texture hack! All files are named correctly and everything is compiled, so just stick the stinkin’ file in your patch folder and let-sa go!

Note: You must use the quacker!

Download here

NSMBw – Videos by Leplap1

Leplap1 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:34:48 +0000

Hey people, I am a new member of mariomods and if you wanna see what I do you can.

Check out my YouTube channel here. And you can view my playlist of the custom levels here or below.