An extension of ComplexPlane's Super Monkey Ball 2 mod, ApeSphere, adding features useful to custom pack creators. Includes the original practice mod, as well as quality-of-life and feature-adding patches, and easier options for tweaking in-game variables.
Features include:
- Easy-to-modify configuration file for tweaking and enabling or disabling patches
- All REL patches included in the smb2-rel-hacks repo
- Patch extending reflective stage objects
- Patch adding SMB1 camera toggle
- Patch adding the missing 'w' to the story mode data select
- Patch that automatically skips story mode cutscenes
- And more miscellaneous patches!
Original ApeSphere features included:
- Console savestates
- An RTA timer that tracks time spent paused
- An individual-world practice mode
- Frame advance
- Jump mod
...and more to come!
Planned upcoming features:
- Difficulty rearrangement in configuration file
- Lighting modification in configuration file
- Double 'Stage Select' REL patch
- Ultimate mode patch
- Custom party game configuration (lap timer, course names, etc)
- Custom stage timers
- Custom UI element names (replacing Stage with Floor, etc)
Instructions for setup and usage of this mod are located in the relevant section of the Super Monkey Ball Custom Level Guide.
Thank you to:
Zephiles for their numerous code contributions. These include:
- The initial TTYD-Practice-Codes framework of which this mod is based on
- The current REL loader Gecko code
- A custom heap implementation for the mod
- A revised REL loader which serves as both a Gecko and ISO loader (not yet included)
- A Super Monkey Ball 1 port of the REL loader (not yet included)
PistonMiner for their ttyd-tools framework, which provides everything you need to turn C++ into a .GCI savefile which can be loaded into a Gamecube game at runtime. In addition, thanks very much for the detailed answers to my romhacking-related questions.
CraftedCart for their substantial contributions to the Monkey Ball 2 decompile project, as well as the many large contributions to the Monkey Ball hacking and custom level scene on the whole.
Yoshimaster96 for labelling hundreds of functions and data in Super Monkey Ball 1, many of which were ported to Super Monkey Ball 2.
TheBombSquad for their decompile contributions as well, and for writing the current version of the ISO REL loader.
Alist and PetresInc for providing insightful feedback on a pre-release alpha needed before publishing an initial beta version of the mod.
The Monkey Ball Speedrunning Scene for inspiring this mod! Thank you for being so fun to be a part of.