VIP and Wall Mix (also known as VIP and Wall and Alaska Mix, VIP Mario, or just VIP or Mix) is a series of hacks made by japanese communities, mainly the several boards of the 2channel BBS, such as Newsoku@VIP (a shitposting board), the Kabe and Alaska hidden boards, and Game Urawaza and Kaizou (the game hacking board), mostly several anonymous people. The hacks are known for being the one of most famous japanese specimen in the hacking scene (among with Brutal Mario) during the 2000's period. There are already 5 finished released hacks, plus a sixth one still in progress.
Overview[]
There are several aspects which makes this hacks unique, some of them are:
- References to japanese culture and/or memes, including obscure, edgy and questionable topics.
- Graphical replacement of most Sprites (including Mario, Peach and Bowser) to 2channel memes (*).
- Graphical replacement of some global objects (like cement blocks and doors).
- Extremely hard or tricky levels in late game (Kaizo borderline in some cases).
- Unusual, creative and/or weird gimmicks.
- Minor relevance of "polishing" aspects (palettes, cutoffs, clashing, glitch abuse, powerup breakage, etc.).
- Sequels or references to some levels across all the hacks.
(*) For each hack there is an alternative version which uses all vanilla sprites.