Lunar Magic is a level editor created by FuSoYa for Super Mario World. The interface runs on Microsoft Windows and allows people to create custom graphics and edit levels and the world map. 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) custom music. It is quite easy to learn and includes a help file. After a 4 year hiatus, FuSoYa released version 1.64 on September 24, 2009, followed by version 1.65 on October 1, 2009, then version 1.70 on April 1, 2010, 1.71 on April 17, 2010, and then version 1.80 and 1.81 on September 24, 2010. Version 1.82 was released on October 31, 2010, and on September 24, 2011 FuSoYa released version 1.90 at the 11th anniversary of Lunar Magic! On May 5, 2012 FuSoYa released Lunar Magic 2.00; it can load a DLL by Alcaro which runs an emulator inside of Lunar Magic.
Yoshi's Island Level Editor. This is the place for video games! 3 posts. Page 1 of 1. HealthyMario Ripper II Posts: 308 Joined: Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:06 am. Ever since the Nintendo Gigaleaks began around a week ago, one cool tidbit after another has been revealed from the formerly tucked-away archives of Nintendo. Now we have some new reveals, such as Mario originally having wings in Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island on the SNES having a level editor built into it. Level Editors: SNES: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island: Win: 0.005: 05 Dec 2010: Ycompress - Yoshi's Island Compression Tool: FuSoYa’s Niche: This program can decompress and dump most of the graphics in Yoshi’s Island, so that they can be modified by any chosen SNES tile editor.
As of 2019, Lunar Magic is the only known public level editor for Super Mario World.
- 1Features
- 4Easter Eggs
- 4.1Level Editor
- 4.2Overworld Editor
- 4.3Datafiles
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
Internal Emulator
To use the internal emulator, LMSW must be downloaded and extracted in the same folder as Lunar Magic.
- Test a level inside of Lunar Magic
- Edit a level while playing it
- Optional: Use a different emulator by replacing retro.dll with another implementation of libretro.
Overworld Editor
- Point and click Overworld editor
- OW Path and Event editors
Title Screen Editor
- Point and click Title Screen Level FG editor
- Title Screen Movement recording (with help of ZSnes emulation)
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. This offers the best support, and is the ROM recommended for editing.
- '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 24, 2009
- 1.65 - October 1, 2009
- 1.70 - April 1, 2010
- 1.71 - April 17, 2010
- 1.80 - September 24, 2010
- 1.81 - September 24, 2010
- 1.82 - October 31, 2010
- 1.90 - September 24, 2011
- 1.91 - December 25, 2011
- 2.00 - May 5, 2012
- 2.01 - May 20, 2012
- 2.12 - March 13, 2013
- 2.20 - September 25, 2013
- 2.21 - December 25, 2013
- 2.22 - February 11, 2014
- 2.30 - September 24, 2014
- 2.31 - November 20, 2014
- 2.32 - January 14, 2015
Easter Eggs
Level Editor
Chelsea
Upon opening a ROM in Lunar Magic, immediately type in Chelsea, case sensitive. A message will appear stating 'Chelsea is *really* cute!' The editor's icon will change. From versions 1.10 to 1.30, this unlocked the Overworld Editor: press Ctrl+O to open it. From 1.30 to 1.63, this unlocked the Title Screen and Credits editor.
Alternate Super GFX Bypass
Simply press Shift+F4 in the level editor to unlock an alternate Super GFX bypass. In this one, instead of browsing from a list, you can simply type in the number of the files you wish to use. It also has a box with the currently active GFX files for viewing purposes.
Sprite 19 fix
Press Shift+F8 in the level editor to install a fix for Sprite 19 (Display text from level Message Box #1). However, if Mario's starting position is a submap, Level 1C5 will be used for the intro level instead of C5.
8x8 Extended GFX Viewing
Open the 8x8 editor and press Ctrl+Shift+Page Down. Now you can view much more GFX; i.e. Mario's GFX, but you can't edit them.
16x16 Sprite GFX Viewing
Open the 16x16 editor and press Ctrl+Shift+Page Down. Scroll all the way down for the sprite GFX.
M16-7k
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
Chibi Moon
There is an Easter egg where 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 in the rom header to whatever you typed in.
The World Is Not Enough
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. Prior to version 1.43, this also unlocked editing of Super Mario All Stars + World.
Amy Is Cute
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.
Chocobo
After performing the Amy Is Cute easter egg, re-open the change events passed box. Type the binary that appeared in that code (01000001-01101101-01111001) in the box and hit escape. The program's icon in the titlebar is now a Chocobo and the program's name in the titlebar changes to 'Wark Wark!'
poisson
Finally, after all that, typing poisson into the dialogue box and pressing the X will cause the status bar to change to '...wark?'
Palette Hack
Hitting Ctrl+Shift+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 Ctrl+Shift+F8 to turn it off, or back on again (changes are saved after you save Level C7).
Mario Overworld Sprites
Mario's sprite in the overworld editor changes on various days. Luigi's is similarly modified from 1.90 on.
- February 9th: Mario riding a blue Yoshi. This is FuSoYa's birthday.
- April 1st: Mario riding the Blue Bird. Prior to a certain version, he rode a green Yoshi instead.
- March 17th: Prior to version 1.90, Mario will instead be Luigi. From 1.90 on, they will both be riding green Yoshis instead.
- September 24th: Mario riding a yellow Yoshi. Anniversary of Lunar Magic.
- December 25th: Mario riding a red Yoshi.
Datafiles
SMA2?
By opening the Lunar Magic executable in a hex editor, one can find interesting things, including *.gba files grouped in with the dialogue for Open ROM, and information on several sprites from SMA2. By modifying the executable, it is, in fact, possible to have GBA files available for selection there. The results are interesting, but disappointing ('I don't think so, Tim.').
Weird Text
There's quite a bit of amusing text hidden in the executable. Some of these are related to the easter eggs, some are related but don't appear to be used. Others appear to be bizarre additions.
- Shortly after the data for the object descriptions, before the sprite descriptions are descriptions from the custom blocks from the original Demo World have their own personal descriptions in the executable.
- Similarly, there is text around reading 'A custom tile programmed by FuSoYa'.
The Poem
A poem alluding to many of the hidden features is in the Help files, under 'Overworld Help Menu : About Overworld Editor'. Interestingly, the part of the poem referring to Mario Overworld Sprites still states there are four days, despite there being five.
External Links
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (sometimes referred to simply as Yoshi's Island) is a 2D platform game for the Super Nintendo, developed by Nintendo EAD. The game is the prequel to Super Mario World and chronologically the first in the Mario franchise. The game is notable for introducing a time-based health system rather than hit points, an anomaly to what many platform games typically did in this game's time period. Rather than relying on powerful pre-rendered graphics as its contemporary, Donkey Kong Country did, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island employs a very distinct, stylized arts and crafts style to stand on its own. The game makes use of the Super FX2 graphics chip (one of only four commercially-released SNES games to do so), which allows for larger, more detailed sprites and more advanced effects that emulate 3D space.
- 1Hacking Tools
- 1.1Standard
- 1.2Deprecated
- 1.3Beta/Unfinished
- 2Notable ROM Hacks
- 5Technical Information
- 5.1Special Chips
- 5.2Memory Maps
Hacking Tools
Yoshi's Island Level Editor
Standard
Golden Egg
Main Article: Golden Egg
Golden Egg made by Romi is the main level editor of the game, therefore the basic and essential tool. Still in beta, it allows editing objects, sprites, header settings (tileset, music, etc.), palettes, screen exits and much more.
YI Entrance Editor
Main Article: YI Entrance Editor
YI Entrance Editor is a pack of 2 tools made by Romi. The first one edits the start position of Yoshi in every level, while the second one edits the midway entrances (the position where you start after you collect a midway ring in-game), both features that Golden Egg lacks. The latter is currently deprecated by Raidenthequick's Better Middle Ring ASM patch.
Ycompress
Main Article: Ycompress
Ycompress is a tool made by FuSoYa that decompress and dump most of the graphics in Yoshi's Island, so that they can be modified by a graphic editor. It can then be used to recompress and insert the graphics back into the ROM.
Yoshi's Island Level Tool
Main Article: Yoshi's Island Level Tool
Yoshi's Island Level Tool is a tool made by FURiOUS that can be used to export and import level data and entrances from/to any rom (another lacking feature of Golden Egg). It can be also used to apply Asar's patches.
BTD6_maker's YI Text Editor
Main Article: BTD6_maker's YI Text Editor
BTD6_maker's YI Text Editor (also known as BYTE) is is a text editor written in Python made by BTD6_maker, and it's used to edit various text in the game, such as level names and message boxes. The difference between this and Y.I.P.E.S. (a deprecated text editor) is that the latter may occasionally overwrite important data, which sometimes corrupt the level data.
Yoshi's Island Level Editor
Sprite Set Editor
Yoshi's Island Sprite Set Editor (also known as YI Sprite Set Editor or just Sprite Set Editor) is a tool made by Kipernal that lets you edit, as the name suggests, the set of sprites used by the game, allowing you to replace existing sets with new combinations of sprites. Even being a standard tool, it has some crashing bugs and it's tedious to use because their listing system is in decimal (instead of hexadecimal).
AddMusicY
Yoshi's Island Level Editor Forest
AddMusicY is a tool made by Jimmy which is used to insert custom music into a Yoshi's Island ROM. Due to the lack of flexibility of the YI ROM, this tool only replaces the existing songs, rather than adding new ones.
Deprecated
EggVine
EggVine was the first editor for Yoshi's Island, and was made by Squash Monster (and later improved by Yoshis Fan). It was known for crashing a lot, and for lacking graphical display, but other than that the tool was decent and several hacks were finished by using this tool. It was obsoleted by Golden Egg.
Y.I.P.E.S.
Yoshi's Island Phrase Editing System, usually known as Y.I.P.E.S. (or just YIPES) was the first text editor for Yoshi's Island, made by Kipernal. The tool is very intuitive and has a good user interface with graphical display, but at the same time it isn't safe to use, because it may ocasionally overwrite level data. It was obsoleted by BTD6_maker's YI Text Editor.
Title Screen Editor
Yoshi's Island Title Screen Editor (or just Title Screen Editor) is a tool made by Kipernal, which lets you edit the title screen island sprites. It's a very buggy tool (it crashes a lot and most of the time it doesn't work) and it has no practical use.
Beta/Unfinished
Pastel
Pastel is a beta tool written in Python 2.7 by Lui37, that can be used to edit the palette sets in the game. Despite being useful, it has at least one crashing bug that corrupts the rom, and one that crashes the tool.
Overworld Editor
Yoshi's Island Overworld Editor (or just Overworld Editor) is a beta tool made by tehaxor69 which lets you edit the tilemaps and sprites of the overworld (the level selection screen, specifically). Despite the tilemap editing works, the tool is unfinished and unpolished so it's hard to use (bad user interface and functions and lack of core features).
Golden EggVine
Golden EggVine is a unfinished level editor, started by Yoshis Fan and default0. It's presumable it was going to be a kind of blend of Golden Egg and EggVine.
YoshiOmelette
YoshiOmelette is a unfinished level editor, started by shibbo.
Notable ROM Hacks
SMW2+
SMW2+2
NEW! SMW2 Yoshi's Island
Kamek's Revenge
Yoshi's Highland
ASM Patches
Tutorials
Technical Information
Special Chips
SuperFX 2
See also: Super FX
Memory Maps
Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island Level Editor
WRAM
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System has 128kb of system RAM (aka WRAM) that every game can access, spanning from $7E0000~$7FFFFF. This map explains what each address represents in Yoshi's Island mostly in standard gameplay gamemode $0F. In Yoshi's Island in particular, since it has the Super FX enhancement chip, much of the game's memory is stored in cartridge RAM instead. This is why there is so much free WRAM in this game. Nonetheless, there are still some pretty important pieces of data stored here.
Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island Level Editor
CARTRAM/SRAM
Yoshi's Island Level Editor
Yoshi's Island has 32KB of Save RAM, spanning from $700000~$707FFF. This map explains what each address represents in standard gameplay gamemode $0F. The reason so much important stuff is stored here is because the Super FX can only access cartridge RAM, not SNES system RAM. Note that other gamemodes may use these addresses for completely different purposes.