Wario Land 3: The Master Quest: The offical thread!

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Tiger21820

Master of Fire & Ice & Wario Land 3: Master Quest!
I got bored, so here is my current revision of Wario Land 3: The Master Quest (Formerly known as Almost Kaizo edition)!

Please go here: ROM hack: Unnamed Wario Land 3 hack!

Disclaimer:
There have been some mixed reviews on the nature of this hack, but just to be clear: The focus of this hack is mainly harder (Or even easier!) levels. Many levels have been modified, and some others are brand new levels. This is akin to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Master Quest (Where the hack is named after): Dungeons have been changed to make the game more challenging. Criticism is welcome, but please, take the intended focus of the hack into consideration when you post your thoughts.

So anyway! Here is the story!

To make it simple (Run-on sentence alert!):
Wario flies a plane. It catches fire and crashes to the ground. Wario sees a cave. Wario goes into the cave. Wario sees a music box. Wario tries to wind it up. The music box absorbs Wario. Wario wakes up to a face in a temple. The face mentions that the world was made by some guy called Tiger21820. The face tells Wario that Mr. Face was the sage Tiger appointed to protect the world. Tiger was sealed away by some invader, and 5 music boxes are needed to reverse the seal. Mr. Face also mentions something about treasure being free for the taking. Wario agrees to rescue Tiger along with some loot to boot. Wario leaves the temple. The game begins.

About this hack:

The focus of this hack is difficulty and skill. It will test your precision skills, your reaction skills, your patience, and you may even have to abandon Wario logic to get past some areas! You may have to think outside the music box! (Get it? Wario is in a music box)
The game actually has REALLY hard parts, and really easy parts. The part that are hard ARE HARD!!

The first thing to be aware of are these things:
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The skull tile. These are actually the common warp tiles used everywhere in the game, but with a different graphic.
If you touch one, you will return to the title screen! This is the "Highlight" of the hack.

Think you can handle it?

Some tips to reduce the stress:

You can create a "Restore Point" by pausing the game and selecting "Save". The next time you get sent back to the title screen, you will return to the point where you suspended your game. This can be done as many times as you want, so make sure you do it!

For those with keyboards that have rollover, it is not recommended that you play this with the arrow keys! It will not work! Try using ASDW or use a number pad, or use GameYob, a Nintendo DS Gameboy Color emulator (If you have a NDS homebrew card)

The game can be completed. You can get all 100 treasures and 8 musical coins in all levels without cheats. I suggest that you get all 8 coins BEFORE you get all 100 treasures while you are still able to save!

Changes (Not all of them will be listed, this is to find out for yourself!):

More changes are listed in the other topic.

Various:
A few key locations are changed.
The robo mouse from N2 The Peaceful Village (Not actually used, but updated none the less) and E1 The Stagnant Swamp will return you to the title screen if they get you, so watch out! The bosses from N6 Sea Turtle Rocks and E1 The Stagnant Swamp will also do the same.
Various level oversights present in the regular game (Such as shadows and a few breakable blocks that should not be breakable in the first place) have been fixed.

Notable changes to levels:
Remember how W1 Desert Ruins did not distribute the treasures evenly? Well, that is no longer the case! The green chest and key was moved to the daytime side. You will still need to do the golf mini game if you want all 8 musical coins!

W4 A Town in Chaos's blue chest was moved to the boiler room (with the fans) to accommodate the unused goal door tiles

E2 The Frigid Sea's blue treasure room was changed to be more puzzle (not really) oriented that involves the snowball mechanic. It is actually simpler.

S6 Above the Clouds is harder. Way harder. Like a "perfect precision enemy jumping where one slip-up awards you with the title screen" kind of harder. Take my word for it. I got sent back to the title screen 60 times doing the blue chest and getting 8 musical coins.

That's it!

Enjoy!

Remember to apply the IPS patch to an unmodified ROM!
You can use Lunar IPS to apply the patch. Go to the Lunar Magic Website to download it.
A suitable ROM would be Warioland 3 (J) (M2) [C][!]

I plan to release an updated version every 6 months (2 a year), one in June, and one in December.

A few screenshots:
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I have one question though:
Has anyone figured out where the chest items for each level are stored in the ROM? I want to swap the green treasure for E3 Castle of Illusions with the blue treasure for E6 The East Crater.

Current release: July 2018
Release Number: 000
Next release: December 2018 (#001)
Changes in this release:
N/A

Fun facts!

I counted how many times I was sent back to the title screen on one playthrough, and I was sent back 439 times, with 60 of them being from getting the blue chest and 8 musical coins from S6 Above the Clouds!

This hack was originally a hack just to mess around with things, and was never intended to be released to the public! The oldest known version was in November 29, 2012! That's a long time!

And finally:
The hall of fame!

If you complete the game (Get all 100 treasures, and 8 musical coins in all levels), then your name will be posted here (along with how many times you were sent back to the title screen)! I also recommend that you count how many times you get sent back to the title screen! Those who post how many times will be given a rank! The less times they had will have higher ranks!

Current completionists:
1. Tiger21820 / Sent back to the title screen 439 times


Enjoy! Any thoughts, experiences and/or suggestions are welcome, and the next release will be on December 2018! I also would love someone to do a let's play of this hack sometime too!
 
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