A Secret Pipe?!

[@lankymaccrazyhair264]

"This is a pro gamer move" *slowly walks foward and jumps into pit*

[@VisaCardholder]

He had to get his lives back, yo.

[@lankymaccrazyhair264]

@@VisaCardholder it's still a hilarious execution, especially if it's out of context

[@heeheex2]

lol

[@JettJamesGD]

3:44 It’s crazy to me that after all these ROM hack Wednesdays, there still seems to be at least one weird oddity per video that you’ve never seen before playing SMB1

[@bruhgaminghd7914]

yay! I love watching these videos, and it also reminds me that today is wednesday

[@Claire-ing]

Looks like the best hack you've played since Deluxe, maybe

[@yelir64]

Kosmic: gets star so he doesn't die from firebar Kosmic with star: dodges firebar perfectly

[@armtdawg99]

Then promptly jumps into spikes

[@mineland8220]

The platform behaviour is rad

[@baddestmofoalive]

“This is a pro gamer move” *jumps to death* I know what he was doing, but I still lul’d

[@thag_simmons]

tight jumps like small fire or power-up jumps are so relatively simple, yet they never fail to wow me. and that hidden pipe, dang!! it's a clever way to hide one, but I think it could've been put to better use if the reset pipe at the end took you back to the start of that room or the level scrolled slower or something. DEFINITELY would've felt better as a bonus pipe or something, but it's still such a cool way to hide a pipe regardless.

[@flames2089]

This felt like one of your older romhack videos. This was extremely fun!

[@607]

A hack that is both technically cool and has good level design? That's rare!

[@barsaf9989]

This is one of the better ROM hacks you've done. Challenging, but not frustrating. Creative, but not over the top. Only weird part is the stupid secret pipe that's super hard to find without any knowledge of it.

[@exxor9108]

11:58 Sick pro gamer move! I gotta try it sometime! ;D

[@AndyGoth111]

I'm gonna need to practice my butt off to develop the skills needed to pull off that trick

[@solgaleo3533]

I love the combination of SMB3 assets, SMB2 assets, NES-ified SMW assets, and everything else

[@barsaf9989]

Kosmic: 😖 Kosmic's mind: This was a mistake.

[@Kosmicd12]

That is exactly the face I made lol

[@carlp.6196]

The Bucky O’Hare Red Planet intro music hit me with a wave of nostalgia. Good stuff.

[@aguynamed9au1]

Damn, level designs actually pretty shnice here. Using the bouncy blocks to push you slightly upwards with leftward momentum turned right. Odd moving platforms. Insta kill spikes making one think about positioning where to kill enemies. And I actually really like how you need to make invisible blocks with Poison Mushrooms in them tangeable in order to progress, it's like a new enemy, real nice~

[@T3n50r]

This is my favorite SMB Romhack I've seen him play yet for those reasons. It's a complete game, very refined and a decent difficulty level to it. The only thing I didn't like was the hidden pipe to progress, if there had been some type of hint on what to look out for it would have been a great execution of it as a puzzle though.

[@TransRoofKorean]

I'd at least have the wrong pipe keep you in that same room, causing you to look for something specifically in that room. I still don't think I'd _ever_ have found that. But really, this is still just the best level design in any of these I've seen.

[@T3n50r]

@@TransRoofKorean Agreed! :)

[@BrianzMyth]

Rom hack Wednesday... Got the day off of work AND Kosmic uploaded... Good day!

[@atkman]

Small Fiery Mario has to be one of the best glitches!

[@kruksog]

Watching you play SMB brings me a pretty silly amount of joy.

[@zibberebbiz]

Few things make me as happy as Kosmic getting excited over cool romhack details

[@riahlexington]

That last castle looks like something someone would make in Mario maker with the long fire bars and crazy jumps.

[@aadityasharma7971]

7:19- And a vine right here….. no but I knew something 😛 Imagine if there was a vine there though :P

[@konkurer775]

Haven't watched a video of yours in a while and forgot that your videos have a sort of old look to it. Always loving it and keep up the great content

[@Nob1ej0n]

This one threw me. Many of the other hacks you've played are interesting, but this one sets the quality bar pretty high! Impressive.

[@sharpkidthugga7980]

I hate when a rom-hack has great level design, real challenging but fun setups, then proceed to top it with some cryptic, controller breaking, secret... Shoutout to that person in chat who noticed a few pixels out of place lol

[@Kosmicd12]

To be fair on the website it did say there was something very tricky in 4-4 and to "pay close attention." But it was pretty tough to spot 😂

[@idabomb00]

Excellent level design up until the hidden pipe. That's a little too obscure.

[@neoxus30]

I love that the chat still loves Shovel Knight) Especially with Pocket Dungeon now out, DIG coming this year and even the fangame Striker of Fate in the works)

[@fuzzbombxx-1213]

love seeing you play rom hacks Kosmic!

[@infinitelybanta]

Happy to be caught up on this series! Finishing binging it last night and was thinking, damn, now what do I watch? So I was pleased to see the notification! They’re really well put together plus Its super cool to see perhaps the world’s greatest SMB1/2J player attempt these. It’s a real value-add, haha. . Keep up the great work Kosmic!

[@oldtimegames96]

Cuz of timezones,ROM hack Wednesdays are always ROM hack Thursdays for me, but still love them

[@riahlexington]

That hidden pipe was sadistic.

[@SuperNickid]

@Kosmic: I know that in FDS/NES Super mario bros. the lost levels even in the SNES version, if the vine disappear because you open a power-up that vine is still climb able, their is no way to know if it is the same in the original Super mario bros, since the power-up are not close enough to the vine, the only way to find out is to back clip into every block untill mario is push enough to the right side of the screen so he can hit the vine before the star power, the vine as to reach the top of the screen before it disapear to be able to make you climb all the way to the top.

[@nemojimeister8769]

That was a crazy pipe near the end I couldn’t even see the different blocks :0

[@Tailstraw_xD]

Mario punches the vines and ladders while climbing

[@MasterZebulin]

3:44 Yeah, that happened to me the time I touched Super-Mega-Ultra-Death Spikes. I was so pissed, lol. I wonder what old hack also Super-Mega-Ultra-Death Spikes? 9:06 Ah, yes. I remember my first Poison Mushroom, lol.

[@sirgog]

This looked great. Not a Kaizo hack, but genuinely halfway to it.

[@JoeDan54]

Bucky O'Hare music at the beginning, NICE

[@Kosmicd12]

Just played it last weekend for the first time, sick game

[@EazzyBeezie]

These are relaxing to fall asleep too

[@travisdodge8279]

It will be a matter of time until Kosmic sets a world record here.

[@riahlexington]

Those custom graphics are really sick!

[@TommyVinMI]

The death spikes are a little much but looks fun.

[@Rjj5150]

10:19 coin wrap

[@stylis666]

Now _that_ is some impressive perception, good sir.

[@riahlexington]

“Get speed, my guy!”

[@daviddeanthehumanjuggernau6182]

That star death got me

[@solgaleo3533]

It’s so insane that they made a castle out of SNES assets on the NES

[@kphoenix137]

Smb3 instruments with the smb1 songs is epic

[@trapadvisor]

Bro I’m happy when a streamer blows air out his nose at my comment that dude must’ve felt so big brained noticing the pipe in the last level

[@gunsandmoses8670]

Whoever made that comment in the chat, Good observation! I definitely didn't see it! Hidden pipe? Wow!

[@blasterfox3000]

Wow, they changed the instruments of the music to sound like SMB2/SMB3!? That's sick!!! Edit: But all these custom stuff is even more amazing!

[@CrashMan6547]

Kosmic should try hacking Mario with game genie if he hasn’t already

[@KevinIsSoAwsome]

Look up Chanel kill gruz if you wanna see some Mario game genie stuff.

[@rody3199]

He used it a lot in his exploration of glitched worlds.

[@GolfinhoVoador]

@@rody3199 I was about to comment the same thing! Anyways, you gotta watch it, its a fever dream

[@horsedirt8044]

Two lovers, forbidden from one another A war divides their people And a mountain divides them apart Built a path to be together ...Yeah, and I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes... Secret Pipe! Secret Pipe! Through the mountain! Secret, secret, secret, secret Pipe!"

[@barsaf9989]

Omg stop lol

[@Toprak135]

Differences (spoilers) Most of the textures are different, not exactly Lost Levels textures but there’s some SMB3 textures All of the music is slightly higher pitched The bottom of the text is tinted based on the theme of the level Spikes, small pipes, ladders and bouncy blocks have been added Moving platforms now have the ability to move left and right, these include squares, circles and “diamonds” There’s a few yellow block/brick structures, but they aren’t diferent and are just there for texture, and that also includes the castles at the start and end of the level, and also bullet bills The axe in castle levels is now a key for some reason Many different decoration blocks, which first appear in 2-1 where almost every block is yellow, supposedly turning Worlds 2 and 3 into a desert The empty blocks now have angry eyes like in Super Mario world and they’re open for a bit after being emptied, but when they do it they’re green??? Invisible blocks are now visible, but they are just an outline until you hit them The “blue” pipes now look even more gross than before Most of the new gameplay results in completely different levels You can be fire Mario without being big Mario but it kinda breaks when shooting fireballs Normal mushrooms and poison mushrooms have the same texture 4-4 in this ROM hack is a bit like 8-4 in the regular SMB1 where it’s sort of a maze, but not as confusing

[@olbluelips]

This was a great one!

[@vreschen939]

Hey, Kosmic - have you ver thought about doing a countdown for Super Mario Bros. ROMhacks, like "Top 10 Underrated ROMhacks" or something? I think it'd be a nice idea.

[@ChamblesRNG]

Great romhack, very clever but this hidden pipe was crazy, how can anyone spot that!

[@riahlexington]

“Non-trivial” did you get that from Darbian?

[@M_Alexander]

Watching these videos has made me want to make a hack of my own

[@M_Alexander]

I wouldn't put instant kill spikes at least

[@seanbrockest3888]

SMB romhacks are a pain. Good tools don't exist. Lots of coding.

[@M_Alexander]

@@seanbrockest3888 That's a bit intimidating but Mario Maker is too limited in a lot of ways

[@SlickONick]

Yo, Kosmic. Hope you're having a great day. :)

[@Planetkid32]

A SECRET PIPE?! OMG

[@VxW2020]

1:07 *Nice Block*

[@mint0012]

hooray for romhack wednesdays

[@tigheklory]

I missed ROM Hack Wednesdays so much!!

[@cyonofgaia]

Just in time for some new content!

[@RepressedButton]

Yo I forgot it’s romhack Wednesday lol

[@pallafox]

Those 3 blocks pipe detail is so small… how can anyone see that on an auto scroll stage lol

[@PatrickDavis28]

Now that flag despawn is a thing you should try your hand at it in some romhacks

[@mineland8220]

The hack looks neat graphics wise

[@riahlexington]

I don’t like autoscrollers but that one looks decent. And seeing SMB1 bowser sprite and SMB3 Mario is funny

[@JeffDayPoppy]

Vines AND ladders in the same hack! That seems difficult.

[@Kosmicd12]

Oh I didn't even think of that. So actually there's an "unused" object in smb1 code that is basically just a vine but doesn't have to come out of a block. That's what most of these hacks are using for the poles, etc. to climb on. The original tile for it is just the circles from the top of the flagpole. You can see it in the tankachi mario video!

[@tyo6896]

Weird seeing this version of Mario with no P speed lol

[@meredithwallace5378]

i'm curious, how much harder would it be to beat these romhacks without fast accel? a few parts look much harder without it to me, but i'm not very experienced with smb1

[@Kosmicd12]

Fast accel gets used in a lot of different ways i guess, i think you just mean doing a backwards jump right? Yeah several times in this hack you're like stuck on a block and need to jump up a wall. Could probably do it with no backwards jumps though

[@paul_warner]

It is Wednesday my dudes

[@Koolee2]

That one looked fun

[@ademisc]

Mario has the water weight.

[@DouglasFish]

I want some of these visual hacks for just the base game

[@eggery]

11:15 why is this so funny to me

[@yemelyabelova2406]

Seeing bearless Kosmic is kinda weird

[@triplepancakeattack5053]

Why is this unlisted?

[@youtube.commentator]

Because of the violence

[@infinitelybanta]

@@youtube.commentator I did not honestly expect Mario ripping that guy’s throat out to look so realistic, it’s amazing what they can do with 8-bits these days.

[@ben949]

Nice video bro

[@araknair9605]

thanks

[@stevenjones8575]

You kinda look very suspicious that eagle eye tip was actually a knowledgeable spoiler, ha. Eyes too sharp to be real. But maybe.

[@Tovvvija]

19:25 Orcus moment

[@DJIncendration]

Do you think that if someone were to speedrun this game, the water would save time?

[@gasparguruoftime5475]

I'm not even the one playing these rom hacks and even I'm sick of seeing that unused pole asset. It makes an annoying noise and is never really implemented in a way that seems fun.

[@wipeyz4536]

There is an unused block which they changed into a ladder

[@DembaiVT]

A lot of the sprites look like they're from super Mario Bros 3.

[@Gutbomber]

Cool levels

[@zaphod77]

Pretty sure second half means stage select to world 5.

[@Kosmicd12]

It wasn't possible to go past 4

[@joshuakelly9390]

7:32 - Jewed...? Really Kosmic?

[@ThePharphis]

I couldn't even see what was different about the blocks after pausing. Huh?

[@justinvallange]

The brick textures are mirrored across the vertical axis, look for the funky pattern in the bricks on the right edge of the blocks mario enters

[@pranavsonimusic]

Would you someday play Virtua Cop 2 or commonly called VCOP2 ? It can be played on a PC, sorry I should not teach "YOU" like that! You would already had played that game on the Sega systems...

[@PKMNwww411_MkII]

For the subtitles you haven't bothered capitalizing and punctuating them

[@Kosmicd12]

They're auto generated

[@Silentema]

Where is the secret pipe? XD

[@stylis666]

Ask your mom.

[@hillsborosam]

24:44

[@markm0000]

@@hillsborosam thanks

[@MoreInsane96]

I absolutely hate the font color, other than that is a really good hack.

[@singlereedenjoyer]

I think the blocks check your speed and bounc you the opposite way.

[@Kosmicd12]

We ruled that out as well! Im still not positive haha

[@singlereedenjoyer]

@@Kosmicd12 odd. Maybe it's just random and you were astronomically lucky idk.

[@PatrickDavis28]

@@Kosmicd12 Could it have to do with the screen position? I noticed that there seemed to be more rightward launches when it was on the left side of the screen and vice versa

[@Kosmicd12]

@@PatrickDavis28 i don't think so, then it would do some pretty unintuitive stuff at times. Also i think it went both directions while underground in a pipe where the screen doesn't move

[@ChefSalad]

@@Kosmicd12 Clearly, the bounce direction from those blocks is determined by the direction you are coming at the block from. If you come in from the right, you bounce back toward the right, and vice versa, regardless of where on the block you hit or what direction you're facing when you hit it. It just matters what side of the block on which the ground you were last touching was. Hopefully that's as clear as mud. This just goes for when you hit the top or bottom of the block. When you hit the sides, you're just flung away from the block, or so it seems. It'd be pretty hard to test that last assumption. You'd have to jump from, say, the right side of the block and somehow hit the left side of the block before hitting the ground. If it always works the way it works for the top and bottom, you'd be flung through the block, which would be weird. I'm not sure what the behavior is if you jump from directly above or below the block and then hit the top. I suspect it would then matter which side you swung around to get to the block, or maybe it would just bounce you straight up (or down).

[@HarrisonCheng]

sounds like nesticle lmao

[@ramzi6585]

So cool❤️❤️❤️

[@ayoitscat]

Awesome

[@TAYLOR-113]

Hey kosmic

[@spidermacho123]

one of the more unique hacks i have seen