• Offscreen hazards and blind leaps. You're on a platform and you can't see any other land or platforms at all. All you can do is jump and hope you land on something solid. Not good! Or when you know there's ground below, but you can't see it, and you jump and land in a hole or on spikes. SMW hacks in particular tend to have this problem, where they abuse the lowest row of tiles being off-screen and put a floor with holes in it there. Being killed by invisible hazards = BAD.
  
• Inconsistencies in level design. In one level you can jump across the treetops, but in the next, they're just background images, and you try to jump on one and fall to your doom. Backgrounds that look like foregrounds = BAD.
  
• Exploiting glitches. Requiring that the player know all of the little programming errors, especially the ones that are hard to pull off = BAD.
  
• Lack of powerups. Small Mario is no fun. One level without powerups is long enough. Being screwed over for an entire world because you screwed up once = BAD.
  
• Poor difficulty balance. Huge jumps or spikes in the difficulty level (going from easy to really hard, or really hard to easy), backwards difficulty ramp (levels get easier as you go on), or being too hard to start (one-block jumps, bouncing off 25 Koopas in a row over a bottomless pit etc in the first level) = BAD.
  
• Ridiculously hard patches. Requiring super-human precision timing to jump through a one-block-high gap lined with spikes and bounce off an enemy while avoiding falling Spinies and fleeing from a gang of Chargin' Chucks in a fast auto-scroll level = BAD.
  
• Lack of save points. When you're finished playing, you don't want to be forced to keep going for another hour. Requiring players to beat 16 levels to save their game = BAD.
  
• Using cheat codes or save states during testing. Remember that you're going to be better at your own hack than most since you know all the secrets and level layouts. Levels that even you can't beat = BAD.

Originally posted by aganim

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I hate it, when I don't know, if my text, I write is alright.

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Originally posted by Hhllrssstttxaaeioy

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Is it just me or does the initial post have absolutely nothing to do with what you guys are doing?

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Originally posted by Clockworkz

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You're right. Nintendo is kiddy. That's why they're launching Red Steel, as well as a gritty, ass-kicking Link (which may involve red blood! gasp!).

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