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underway @underway.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

made a little "anti-mixtape" tool called "unwind" for C3, check it out if you'd like, it's got knives and demons inside it smwc.me/t/133038

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ever felt that feeling when you wanted to do something and were excited about it but something happened in your life and that something made it so unenjoyable to do the thing you were excited about? Yeah, that is me right now...

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Shoujo @shoujo.gay · 14/08/2026

for a long time, i've wanted to make a website but put it off because i didn't have anything to say. now i do. mixtape: a postmortem shoujo.gay/mixtape-a-po...

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

As for me, I hope I can finally go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight and keep working on my little indie game. Who knows, I might work on my little christmas/new years eve SMW project again soonish, so that you guys get a fun little expierence for next winter Thanks again for your support ❤️

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

of our friends are working on creative solutions and ways to counter the system currently in play If you wanna check one out, that just released not long ago, our friend Daizo has got you covered with his MIXUP-TAPE Anti-MIXTAPE patch: bsky.app/profile/daiz...

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

of power and energy to voicing your opinions in a polarizing topic such as this Not everyone will have the willpower to do so and its understandable. We got your backs and we will be there for you 👍 If you consider making a hack but don't want it to be used in the Mixtape tool, no worries, several

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

For the sake of my sanity, I will limit who can answer this thread. I will also once again mute it for many, many reasons Thank you everyone who got the courage and spoke up about this. Let your voices be heard and share your concerns but remember to keep it civil 👍 I know it can take a lot

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

for me to keep talking to the other party, since I already voiced my issues previously, multiple times and explained what can be done to make me (and many others) happy and even gave some advice on how to tackle certain things or alternatives there is really nothing more to discuss from my side...

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i forgot to mention that earlier) back to the vibes tho, it really unfortenately feels like that all the talk with trying to resolve issues and listening to us is just a form of masked damage control and to keep face in public, at least that is what I feel sadly Because of this, there is no reason

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

even a better approach than the opt-out one, just on the moderation site of things and technicallities, as you would have an easier time seeing and checking what actually would work well and maybe even to tackle technical issues hack by hack instead of the full catalogue (just added this here since

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

how harsh and awful life can be sometimes. We want to make people smile and happy with the work we do but also, we want to make ourself smile and happy too All we want is to be respected and our voices to be heard Not forget to mention, to go back to the opt-in system, in the long run, it would be

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

be often the target of bullying and people doing awful things to my art and even myself. I would never want to do anything like that since I don't want anyone to go through the same awful stuff I had to go through Our hobby is for escapism, for making something cool while also relax ourselfs from

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I am just a guy who wants to enjoy the creative process of making games/mods and hang out with friends who share the same hobby, making folks smile and interact with things I can proudly call my own I am not having the intension of causing chaos or destroying others Especially not since I used to

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Now, I want to make clear I have zero intension of harming anyone and I beg anyone involved in this to not directly attack people. Keep it civil. Just to repeat it, I am a dumb little hobbiest game dev and hobbiest game modder. I am not someone who "bricks peoples PCs" or anything similar to that

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

case drop and just accept it. I feel like my opinion didn't matter, my attempts at trying to help weren't taken seriously and all this was for was just wasting my time and making me give up Trust me, I really really wanted to help here But aside from very bad sleep and wasted time, I got nothing

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I really really am a stupid nice guy, who gives people multiple chances to show that they can do good stuff and are willing to work together. But I really just don't feel anything was even trying to come to a wavelenght where both parties tried to find a ground. It felt more I was supposed to let my

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

and not take the effort to even try to understand the other side of the discussion. When I feel a discussion leads nowhere and there is zero progress, because any alternatives I bring up, any idea or explanation is followed by a counter or statement meant to just end the conversation, why bother?

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I just don't feel the will is there to help us. You can say "we will listen and talk about the problems" as much as you want, but its not helping, whenever someone brings ideas or tells you about what they would like to improve, you basically just try to counter the argument as much as you can

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Without saying too much, I don't think, even after it was said the tool was tested etc., that this is something that should have been released without considering it being a problem 5. The vibes This is one of the big reason why I will no longer talk with the team. While better than last time,

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

which technically means you could just disable/remove the part of the text, which I heard is not that difficult, and completely ignore the opt-out list bundled with it Again, I am by no means a tech genius, but I have seen pictures floating around and again from (for me) trustworthy sources

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

putting the workload on the creators and expecting that people wouldn't opt out from it. EVEN, if it is not the intent, it is the feeling this gives to us creators and its not a great feeling... Sidenote, I heard from sources also that the opt-out system is handled locally in the files of the tool,

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

who would love a curated expierence where they know the community gave their yes to. But how it stands right now, it feels more the extra few levels and quicker developement were more important than the community and shortcuts were taken just for the sake of more content and less work, while also

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

were interested if it were opt-in to join and maybe even create things for it. Again, you miss out on a handful of levels maybe but still you could have grown this thing and that is the saddest thing about this drama... the idea behind a random level selector is not too uncool and there are people

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

at the start and you would need to slowly build your stuff up as time progresses... BUT Especially if you are well known and big, wouldn't it still be possible to use your size and community to just advertise this in the places it matters and weave connections? Heck, there are people who actually

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

cases nobody asked for that in the first place and the difference is, its harder to get a big corpo to listen to you as well since money and all is involved again... Here? I mean... streamer money aside, this should have been a opt-in community driven approach. I get it, you don't have much stuff

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

it so we don't get picked by the system or are opt-out'ed. It is our job to do it right now. I can't be the only one who thinks that is in general a pretty annoying and incorrect approach right? If your counter argument is "well big corps do that too with stuff like AI" then I just say: in most

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

a lot of people won't opt-out either because, A. this tool isn't all that well known yet and B. people that left or gone inactive won't be able to opt-out obviously Why is this such a big point you ask? Because this means, the whole workload is shifted to us creators. Suddenly we have to work for

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

4. The opt-out system I don't need to explain this one in grand detail but the short end of it: the pure existence of this is so that hacks of authors who are difficult or impossible to contact (example: Takamoto, creator of the Kaizo Mario Trillogy) can be by default taken by the tool, since

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This alone already has put me in a bad mood and broke a big part of my trust I am fine with talking about differences and doing it civil once I know the person on the opposite side is willing to do so. However, this was one of the first responses that day and... ngl, not a good first impression

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

being confirmed by multiple people in multiple places, I can be sure to trust that At least, I can trust that far more, than someone accusing me of "threatening to brick peoples pc's", who then instantly backpaddles when called out about it, just to say "Sorry that was a reference to others"

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

people already can confirm that the tool has signs of AI in it. Now again, I don't know much about coding programms, I am just a dumb silly game developer and no super hacker who steals crypto at night or something like that so I wouldn't know, but judging from who made these discoveries and it

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

post instantly telling me "No AI was used". I didn't want to assume things, since I am not the type of guy that would do that for no reason and no proof of it. Unfortenately, from what I have gathered from other posts on Blusky and even other places (including Twitch streams), that many professional

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Okay, just for context: This was brought up during my first write up, in which I explain, that its sad we live in a time where AI is being accepted. There was nowhere in this sentece any type of accusing that the tool was made with AI or AI assisted. Yet, the first reaction to that post was a

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

knowing they wouldn't work?" that is not the issue I want to bring up. The fact that it is possible to do this and how there isn't an edgecase to remedy this, is the thing to note here. On it's own, you can call this nitpicky, but the problems to pile up the more and deeper we go 3. No AI was used

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

or at least an older version, since there was no need for using it. What about longer hacks or hacks not with a standard level by level structure? Horror hacks like 'the come here to mind which obviously wouldn't work Now now, you can always say "why would anyone package these into packs, when

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

popular romhack "Invictus" by juzcook. The game ends with you beating the final boss and unlocking the "Credits" level on the overworld, which means this is technically a level, dressed as a credits sequence Technically the vanilla credits are still in the hack but I am sure they are not changed

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the vanilla SMW credits, which in some older hacks are fine since a lot of oldschool hacks did change the vanilla credits to include the names of the people involved. HOWEVER This brings issues with itself. What if my hack doesn't use the vanilla credits? A prime example of this problem is the

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

your ideas and questions 2. The new tool shows credits and title screen of the hacks the level came from for creditablilty While I think it is a step in the right direction to have the credits attached to this, this unfortenately has a few downsides You see, the files created by the tool only use

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It is the places where most of the tools are made, discussions being held and of course... where a lot of the hacks are being kept I don't need to say it makes the most sense that, whenever you do a SMW modding community driven thing, that these are places you get the most results for presenting

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

not every player and viewer is a creator, it just happens to be that some people are viewer/player + creators. However, Twitch is not the main place for creators. That place would be both, the SMW Central Forums/Site and the SMW Central Discord as both serve as the biggest known hub for SMW modding

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Before I continue, let me just go back and talk about some of the points made earlier: 1. Twitch is... and I repeat it, not the place most of the SMW modding community is active. It is the place where most of the SMW mod playerbase or/and viewership is active. This is an important difference since

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

But I am getting ahead of myself there... The short story is, party creators is not happy how the situation is handled and that... party mixtape wants to use the hacks with a opt-out system for a tool, which was already heavly criticized years ago. A bunch of us feel disrespected and betrayed

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

puts up the work and actually says they don't want that to happen to their works... it is designed to be as inconvenient as possible (or at least it give that feeling of that, imo). Meanwhile, when suggesting alternatives which would require work from the opposite side its too hard or time consuming

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I also must add a lot of the hacks, while free to download, were uploaded without the intention of being used for a tool like this This isn't like Mario Maker, which asks for consent when uploading a level online and you know what you are getting into. It is just assuming it's fine until someone

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

for a good reason. These are passion projects people made with the intent to make cool stuff and show it to others, be passionate about the craft and just hang out and share a cool hobby together, not because they wanted fame or riches It is simply not fair to put these two sides on the same scale

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

like your standard run out of the mill big businesses or market. Big corporations like Big N compete on a market with money, they sell stuff, because they want to grow as a business and make money We make hacks mostly for fun. It would be wrong to ask for money and most people don't do that

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

with that is you are technically right, but this doesn't help anybody in the situation. Of course, we could all just stop and drop all the works in an instant and stop making things, but that is not anyone wants, i assume. The SMW hacking community or any hacking community in general doesn't work

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the people who made and uploaded the rommods to SMW Central, some of us, don't like the idea of a tool to just grab things we made and ripping them out of the context 'WITHOUT' our consent. The general counter argument is "well you guys did that with nintendos game so hypocrite much"... the problem

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Hiro-sofT @hiro-soft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

away with the opt-out stuff and "the hacks being free to temper with for everyone", you will sadly open dozens of other can of worms we definitely dont want to open, just like people using other peoples hacks/art and steal/taking their hacks without consent and respect Now, we, the small creators

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