Made all levels by default use Sprite Memory Header 0x08, allowing to all original levels have up to 22 sprites on screen.For the effectiveness of this solution, please change all patches to use DMA channel 2 instead of 0 or 1. In addition, DMA channel 0 is now reserved for transfers during game play (outside interrupts), fixing a rare bug on the LZ2/LZ3 decompressor when you decompress a GFX file while the game is running and just when the DMA executes, a NMI occurs and the DMA settings end up reseted. Added DMA remap which moves all game DMA logic to channel 2 and Windowing HDMA to channel 1, freeing up channel 7 for custom HDMA.Added the “finish OAM” hook, an extremely useful feature for programmers.Here’s the full list of changes to the tools: While SMW fans can just patch their rom and play, there’s also a list of update’s in Vitor’s tools package that ROM hackers can use for their own work as well. The blurp fishes will no longer disappear out of sudden if there’s just too many on screen. Soda Lake will be more challenging as well, where Torpedo Teds will have pretty much unlimited power to spawn as many torpedo’s as possible. The same applies for Splittin’ Chucks, which depending on many enemies were on screen, they simply would not split at all or split at most two. Enemies like Lakitu, Digging’ chuck and Magikoopa pretty much no longer have limitation on spawning new enemies, which was a not so common situation. The effects of bringing this setting on are interesting.
Here’s what Vitor’s found after the patch is applied: This will reduce flicker and slowdown in areas of the game where there’s a lot of enemies on-screen, but in some cases it will actually make the game harder! In the original game, Nintendo used the sprite limit as a way to control how many enemies can spawn on-screen at once. In this SMW patch, the SA-1 chip allows up to 22 active sprites on-screen at the same time. These hacks can be played on the MiSTer, via the FXPak & FXPak Pro, via software emulation…and if you’d like to go through the trouble, you can hack an original SA-1 chip enabled game with this patched SMW rom. Vitor’s patches use the SA-1 enhancement chip to allow higher performance than the original Super Nintendo could have provided. Romhacker Vitor Vilela has just released an updated rom patch for Super Mario World.
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