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Super Cream 64 v5 Release Trailer & Patch Notes:

N64: https://romhacking.com/hack/super-cream-64 PC: https://github.com/Gamebunn/Cream64_PC Will also be available on sm64pcbuilder2 for easier compiling at some point. Will update when it's available.

Patch notes:

New Levels

Added two new levels, The Mountain of Sir Percival and Melancholy Mines, replacing Tower of the Wing Cap and Cavern of the Metal Cap in that order.

Changed up the collect star/death warps in Melancholy Mines to boot you back to the Castle Lobby rather than outside Hazy Maze Cave, unless you fall into the waterfall which just dumps you outside like before.

Updated the collision in Mission Street to make certain things easier to interact with.

Replaced textures in Big's patio to indicate boxes are not breakable.

Gigaboot's Pokemon Adoption Center has now expanded! Several other NPCs have arrived in the city, some additional art in places and two new stores have sprung up as well. Take a look when you can!

(PC Only) Added optional interior area to Pocky's Emerald Theater. Someone seems to be in there.

Charmy and Espio can be seen hanging around the two new levels! What are they up to?

Old Levels/Gameplay

(PC Only) Current outfit when grabbing a new star will be saved to the save file. Kind of a coin flip if it saves or not when grabbing a transparent star. Cause of this, old save files are not compatible with the latest version.

Adjusted the speed on the Tails race in Tiny Huge Island to be more fair.

Added secondary starting warps to Dire Dire Docks for Stars 3, 4 and 6 to make getting to the second area much easier. Note you must select the Star in the Act select.

(PC Only) Opening the pyramid top activates an unused cutscene. Didn't program it myself, just apart of the repo. In here to let people know that it'll happen.

There's these things in certain levels. They don't look dangerous but they sure are freaky lookin'.

Princess Secret Slide has the same layout and collision but is now given a visual makeover.

You can now fly off from pole vaulting.

Cream Outfits

Moved switching outfits to the DPad. For the PC version, you may have to rebind it in Pause > [R] Options > Controls.

Added several new Cream outfits, totally up to 64.

Removed: Cinnia Cream and Bean Cream

Newest added since v4.3: Cheese the Chao, TF2 Engineer, Demon Slayer Nezuko, MM8 Roll, Megaman X, Castlevania: RoB Maria Renard, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Sena, a Mexican Forklorico Dress for CaptainQuack64, Kate the Wolf for MainMemory_ and Dot_Lvl and Voxandra for Dot_Lvl. You can view the whole set of them here.

Reshuffled the Cream outfits in the N64 version. It's now: Normal, Riders, Winter, Spring, Unicorn, Halloween, Yukata, Swimsuit, Young Vanilla, Amy Rose, Mario, Klonoa and Creamocchia.

The "We did it!" soundclip when grabbing a star is now replaced when wearing certain outfits. Those being: Klonoa, Sena, Kitten, Layla and Katalina.

The Collect Star theme will now change with certain costumes. Those being: Tails, Mario, Klonoa, Ichiban, Travis, Jack, Austin, Dudley, Engineer, Goku, Pan, Roll, Megaman X, Lan, Vergil, Maria, Sora, Dawn, Serena, DQ3 Mage, Wonder-Bun, Sena and every outfit past that.

To follow up on that, the Austin outfit has a unique jingle that'll play when actually grabbing a star or key.

The Mario, Klonoa and Creamocchia outfits in the N64 version also have these themes with the Klonoa outfit keeping the Wahoo!

Music and Sounds

Castle Interior now has a new track: Apotos - Day from Sonic Unleashed.

The following stages and actions also have new tracks since v4: Bob-Omb Battlefield, Whomp's Fortress, Big Boo's Haunt (main and merry-go-round), White Park Carnival, Tiny-Huge Island, Eggman 3 Phase 1 and riding the shell.

Landing the final hit on Eggman 3 will play a proper finale track.

Credits track has also been replaced with its regular version. Midi version still on N64 due to space.

Added new soundbytes for the following NPCs: Layla, Kitten and Katalina

Since v4: The results screen will now play a random clip from 5 different voice samples. All from SF3 Third Strike.

The End track has been replaced with a new one.

And the Rest!

(PC Only) Rings have been replaced with 3D models. Big thanks to Alonwoof for implementing them!

Giant Mario head has now been replaced with a proper Cream head, as seen in the video. Big thank you to BWGLite for implementing it!

Added an extra animation for Amy's third encounter in BBH to indicate new dialog.

Updated some models and animations for certain NPCs.

Game Credits sign at start of game has been updated to reflect the additional changes added as well as a new "Cream and Vanilla design" credits section.

Dialog has been updated for certain NPCs and actions.

Karaoke Bar has some brand new karaoke champs!

Credits have also been updated to reflect new changes.

There are now two ending pictures instead of just the one.

Man I sure hope I got everything.

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Last of the Cream Outfits

Went ahead and got the last couple left done.

in order: Maria Renard with Ritcher from Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, The Engineer and The Demoman from Team Fortress 2 and finally Roll (her Megaman 8 design) with Megaman Cheese.

And that's all 64 different outfits for the hack (least in the PC build). Some mild frustrations with some alts and also some points of me gettin' real lazy but overall, really happy with how they all came out. Hope there's something for everyone who they try the final build!

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Current batch of Cream Outfits from the last set.

Not quite done yet but I got most of the new outfits done from this final set.

In order: Sena (from Xenoblade Chronicles 3) with Lanz, Megaman X and Zero, a traditional Mexican forklorico dress with the design by CaptainQuack64, a design based on vtubers Dot_Lvl and Voxandra and the last one being Nezuko (from Demon Slayer) with Tanjiro.

There's still three left to finish for this set, alongside from smaller stuff that I'll eventually on this blog at some point. Enjoy the buns!

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Had some extra space now in the Mission Street level and dammit I wanted to do something about it. And I've been in a real Pizza Tower mood sooooooooooo...

I split the place into two different stores. The first one is based on the most recent (as of this post) story pic by Sonic Channel, with Tikal and Chaos opening up a pizza place in Mystic Ruins. It's real cute and you can read it here. The pizza tower inspired Tikal and Chaos pic on the bottom left is by GadgetTR (sauce here).

The second is good boy, Peppino, checking out one of his licensed pizza joints and uhhh....just being Peppino.

I really gotta stop putting more things into this level cause man it's a lot. Don't even want to say that's it cause I feel at some point, there will be another thing and don't wanna jinx it lol.

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So the last few days have been interesting.

Last week, I went ahead and started working on a cream head model to replace goddard (the interactable mario head at the start of SM64). Replacing that model has been proven to be one of the worst thing to do for a casual hacker, so nobody really messes with it or just outright removes it.

Still, I guess it's something I wanted to do anyway. It's been a long time since doing this kind of modeling from scratch so I was really happy with how the model was coming out.

Smoothing out the model, adding a mouth, etc etc and it was starting to shape up! There was still the one problem of ...getting it in-game. There does exist an exporter but it's extremely limited and might as well be abandonware. Some people have had better luck with it but I'm sadly not one of those people. Still, I persisted with it.

Still hoping to achieve this, I kept fiddling with the exporter with no luck, except for a single build of SM64, which thankfully has some compatibility with one of the builds I'm using. Either way, I just kept running into a wall so I went to someone whose done it before.

@bwglite, whose done several mods at this point such as Super Spamton 64, has managed to replace the goddard model with the spamton head as seen here.

They did try helping before but I just had no luck and just blamed the plugin but it ended up being much more to it than I thought. Some DMs later, not only were they able to get it in-game but also get it fully paint weighted so match Mario's animations.

And the final product is the video at the very top. It's a crazy ride but it's all thing and I cannot thank BWGlite enough for helping me with this mess. Check out their hacks, they're all great!

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So there's this spot I've been trying to sort out and I guess I wanna talk about it. There's two red coins I want the player to get and I've laid out an obvious path that has you flying through it. Though if you've played SM64 before, you know how awkward the flying is.

I've placed some cannons in spots to help grab them (even moved the one in the castle further back to be easier) but still kind of tricky.

So after some playtesting, I've come up with a simple solution: Go for both at once or place them closer to not require the cannons.

The line of rings with the green rings are still there for those who wanna go for it. But for those who want a safer approach, you can can to them at a safer speed from nearby spots.

I get this was TotWC but doesn't mean I have to completely follow the old level gimmick.

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So for the final update, I'll be removing one of the Cream alts that's in both versions for personal reasons. The replacements are as followed:

For the N64 version, which only has a limited set of alts due to memory constraints (and just how I have it implemented it so that's on me), I've replaced it with Amy Cream. Though thinking about it, I might also go in and swap out a few other alts for the sake of giving those stuck on this version some new outfits to mess around with. I'm not sure yet but I guess time will tell.

For the PC version, it'll be replaced with a brand new alt: Kate Cream, based off of MainMemory_'s OC/Persona, Kate the Wolf! Cheese has taken the form of Kate as well, complete with ponytail~

Both of these changes will take effect when the final update goes live in (hopefully) less than two months. Wanna say a month but wanna give myself some flexibility. This also goes without saying, for the PC version, this will also be accompanying with eight brand new alts.

Stay tuned~

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Hard to believe I got this all done in a single day. I did skimp out on some details like the Time Crisis 2 cab but still pretty happy with the progress. I go back to work tomorrow but the hours don't look too crazy so I can still prolly get a lot done these next few days.

Also the Sonic grafitti was done by @funkys0da and here is a direct link to the post~

Currently hoping to finish all these by the end of the weekend!