Mario Forever: Community Edition | 2.2 - The Complete Update

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Update 2.2 - The Complete Update

This is the last major update for Mario Forever Community Edition, that finishes all planned in-game content (Words, Secrets, etc.)

Added

Human Laboratory 2 by Meteo Dream.

Squario Worlds - a port of a Flash game with the same name.

World U by nmnmoooh, with 3 difficulties to choose from.

Syzxchulun's World 13 and Advanced Editions for Syzxchulun World 13 and 12.

Detailed changelog will be included in a post below.

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Additions:

• Added Human Laboratory 2 by Meteo Dream.
• Added Squario Worlds - a port of a Flash game with the same name.
• Added World U by nmnmoooh, with 3 difficulties to choose from.
• Added Syzxchulun's World 13.
• Added Syzxchulun's World 13 Advance Edition.
• Added Syzxchulun's World 12 Advance Edition.
• Added some hidden levels.
• Added more achievements to the achievement board.
• Mario Minix: Added unique music for the "Mario Play" map.
• Added a unique checkpoint activation effect on Maximum quality.
• Added a suspicious cloud above the Human Lab 2 pipe.
• And many more little things not listed here.
  

Skin system:

• Added global sounds p_switch_activate, bonus_stopwatch, and enemy_freeze, plus a stopwatch_sound_delay_sec global skin tweak.
• Custom checkpoint image for Maximum quality can be set with checkpoint_max.png.
  

Console cheats:

• Added setgravity, setplayerrotation, and cv_shownames commands.
• Text completion on Tab / Shift+Tab has been improved, with options now being displayed.
  

Save Game Room / Kevin Mode:

• More extra worlds and levels can now show purple Kevin labels.
• Added a Kevin death counter in Save Game Room, and a "deaths completed" counter for Kevin Mode.
• Save pipes before this update are unaffected.
• Completed save pipes now show "cleared ..." text (warpless, no hit, no death).
• Added an achievement paginator in the Save Game Room
  

Changes:

• Player physics have been adjusted to feel closer to Cloud Engine / original Mario Forever (walk/run speeds, jump height, crouch-jump consistency, fireball speed, and several enemy speeds).
• Big Mario and Frog Suit hitboxes are now shorter.
• Lava heat effect has been enhanced.
• Snow Roto-discs now work with jump buffer and are easier to see.
• Made some corrections in the Harder Story Mode level design tweak.
• Checkpoint effect on Medium quality has been changed to be more similar to MF v4.4.
• BTE worlds label text has been updated in save room.
• Cave cutscenes can now be skipped with the jump button.
• Syzxchulun World 9 (regular) now has a unique map music.
• Ice blocks are less fragile when thrown.
• Game audio is now muted when the window is minimized.
• Credits updated: Bullex (level remaking), Nerton (GFX), and Valtteri (Squario GFX).
• On Windows, the game is now using D3D12 renderer by default. You can choose to use Vulkan renderer back by launching the included bat files.
• The game now requires the SSE4.2 CPU instruction set to run.
• Windows: The game does no longer support Windows 7. Upgrade to Windows 10 or 11 for the game to work.
  
  

Removals:

• Removed the Modloader.
• Removed the frog suit from World 7-2.
• Removed the BTE Kevin achievement from the board. (It still changes the world name's color in save room.)
  
  

Fixes:

• Fixed a lot of jittering problems, including platforms, autoscroll, shaking tank ground, and more.
• Fixed shells getting stuck in blocks.
• Fixed enemy stomping being way too lenient.
• Fixed Buzzy Beetle shells not killing each other properly.
• Fixed the player sometimes skipping gaps in walls when falling.
• Fixed suspended progress being skipped in Devastator and Human Lab Tower.
• Fixed suspended profile deletion on world completion for BTE World 9, Syzxchulun worlds, and Christmas Laboratory.
• Fixed life counter resetting when continuing progress.
• Fixed Retro Scroll Challenge issues, including previously impossible levels, the 6-4 maze and Expert 4-3.
• Fixed broken circle transitions on some Save Game Room warps.
• Fixed Princess Toadstool sprites and animations.
• Fixed Expert Mode intro cutscene missing piranha plants.
• Fixed some bullet bill launcher graphics (including upside-down ones).
• Fixed upward spikes in Expert 8-4 dealing damage from the sides.
• Fixed joypad input still being read while the window is unfocused.
• Fixed "game saved" tweak popup appearing when it shouldn't.
• Fixed starting cutscenes not being skippable with Esc.
• Fixed water with no collision having no splash effects (e.g. World 2-3).
• Fixed an exploit in Devastator.
• Fixed completed Story Mode saves incorrectly modifying warped/died/damaged flags.
• Fixed minor graphical mistakes, misaligned objects, and layering errors in many places.
• Fixed Thwomps sometimes being left in the "restoring" state forever in certain cases.
• Fixed ice flower memory leaks, stuttering, and wrong ice sprite layering.
• Fixed gravity bodies incorrectly keeping speed after leaving platforms.
• Fixed enemies losing speed on corner correction.
• Fixed a bug where bumping into a wall would cause the player to stand in place during the level finish sequence.
• Fixed unreliable antistuck with question blocks.
• Fixed a bug where Frog Suit animation would flicker when swimming.
• Fixed Hammer Bros. sometimes permanently stopping throwing projectiles.
• Fixed a bug where dots on map would sometimes be delayed on fast-forward.
• Fixed several thwomp / chilly thwomp / piranha / paratroopa / wing animation and collision issues.
• Fixed 1-tick sound delay.
• And many more fixes.