[Dirtbag]

Great work Mattrizzle, and wonderful timing.  I was just in the process of tweaking my graphics/ colours for the shrinking mushroom.  This has saved me a lot of time in testing it against all themes.   

[ChronoMoogle]

Amazing!! Now somebody really should make a Super Mario Kart Plus with those "new" items 8)

[Mattrizzle]

I'm surprised that this simple thing has created so much buzz! Thanks to JoeresioRex (the OP) for giving me the idea.

Anyway, I'm not finished with this yet. A patch is in the works which makes these items attainable by normal means.  The hardest part left is figuring out how to prevent the fireball from hitting its user shortly after dropping it behind them, unless I only allow it to be thrown.

[matt!]

Wow. Super awesome!

[B.B.Link]

This is great now all we need to do is infinite jump like the AI and we'll be equal to them

Also, Mario and Luigi throws poison mushrooms instead of being invincible? Weird.

[matt!]

Anyway, I'm not finished with this yet. A patch is in the works which makes these items attainable by normal means.  The hardest part left is figuring out how to prevent the fireball from hitting its user shortly after dropping it behind them, unless I only allow it to be thrown.

Did you ever get anywhere with this?

[Mattrizzle]

I'm not at my home computer at the moment, so I can't post any new media.  However, I can say that everything is finished aside from figuring out how to make a dropped fireball not hit its user, making squashed shrunken players lose a balloon in Battle Mode, and the biggest thing: modifying the subroutines for item probabilities to allow the roulette to stop on the "new" items.

Edit: A video.

[matt!]

Superb work. Thanks for the update.

[MathUser2929]

Mattrizzle, you really need to finish that patch. It'd be awesome.

[dACE]

Ah - necroposting. How very constructive of you...

/dACE

[Candra Software]

When I see a bump, I hope for news on the production, not someone wanting the hack to be finished. I just asked him in the video if there's an update to be shown.

[MathUser2929]

The best way to find out if a hack is dead is to ask. We just asked in different places.

[Mattrizzle]

Have I had time to work on the hack recently? Yes, but not quite as much time as I had two years ago.
Have I felt like working on it? No.
So the hack is dead, then? No, I never said that. 

[MathUser2929]

Well, thanks for the update anyway. Your thread got bumped in gamehacking.org which made me remember this hack.

[Bahamut ZERO]

Ah - necroposting. How very constructive of you...

/dACE

I'm kinda glad this thread got necroposted, as I didn't know it existed until yesterday. Pretty awesome stuff! Whenever the patch is eventually finished I'll have a reason to play the shit out of SMK again for the first time in like 16 years.