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SMW Central is the largest ROM hacking community on the internet, and the gathering place for all the resources you need to create your own ROM hack. We offer a large selection of completed hacks as well, ready for you to play! Traditionally SMW Central focuses on hacking Super Mario World, but over the years we've collected a ton of resources and hacks involving other games, too. Our community is ever-growing — sign up now and be part of it!
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New Submission Guidelines
We're announcing some changes to all submission guidelines on the site! Read about that here.If you're a hack or resource creator be sure to read up on those, otherwise you can visit the new "Submission Guidelines" directory from the site menu.
72hoOWDC #1 - Starts Now!
Due to the incredible patience of all overworld fans, it is now officially time to begin the first 72hoOWDC contest, the contest WILL end on monday so make sure to be quick!Read da Rules!!
Winter 2024 C3 Results
The berries are ripe, must mean it's time to harvest this C3's crop of award recipients.
Latest Content
Tower of Fantasy (Celestial Relaxing, SMRPG Remix)
Super Mario RPG Remix, Could fit on the fantasy tower levels.We Like It Here
Join us for a celebration of Mario Maker creators in the world of Kaizo SMW. Our team is the Super Mario Makers. Although most levels are intermediate, be warned that the difficulty curve on this… (read more…)Asar v1.91
Asar is a Super Nintendo assembler based on xkas v0.06. It's the assembler used primarily on SMW Central. Asar's got a freespace finder, will ask for filenames if double clicked, can use… (read more…)Super Mario World - Trees
A conversion of the forest tileset's foreground trees that works on Layer 3. The trees are a couple pixels wider to work with the palette limitations. Hiding or removing the status bar is… (read more…)Explosive Eerie
This Eerie is of explosive variety.Requested by Zavok during Winter C3 2023. Credit is unecessary.
Extended Sprite Despawn Range Fix
This patch modifies the despawn handling and OAM of most of the extended sprites so that they can safely go offscreen without issues: -They disappear if the top-left part of the 16x16 bounding box… (read more…)Final Fantasy VI
A collection of all the samples from Final Fantasy VI. Contains 70 samples total.Kill Player on Button Press v1.3.0
Kill the player after a button of your choice has been pressed a given amount of times. This UberASM allows to configure which button(s) to detect, how many times you need to press them, if you… (read more…)Content of the Day
YI Ball 'n' Chain
This long ball 'n' chain sprite rotates around a block. Both the chain and the ball hurt Mario. It is perfect for castles.Requires the No More Sprite Tile Limits patch.
Cave
These graphics can be used in caves and crystal caves with level mode 1EPlayer Death Priority
This simple patch simply gives Mario top priority when he dies. The top priority isn't always guaranteed (e.g. layer 3 super priority) due to limitations, though.Requested by Knight of Time.