i have a question: is it an actual requirement that the resulting hack HAS to have an exceedingly high difficulty when a romhack of just about ANY super mario game is being made?

9 times out of 10 (or close to that) most romhacks of a super mario game wind up being VERY hard to play, let alone beat.

why? why do they have to be SO hard? i get that a challenge might be fun to some people but most of the time it's so difficult that i don't see how anyone at all can play the romhack.

whenever i go looking through romhacks to find a new one to try out the overall difficulty is in the extreme when i reach the mario games. sonic has some hard hacks, mega man...maybe, but mario? forget, i can't go anywhere near the majority of them.

i like a challenge but imo that's not a challenge that's demanding darn near flawless perfection in a lot of cases.

also, in regards to super mario 64: the game is 19 years old now. is no one capable of making a hack that somehow miraculously FIXES that gawd awful camera? by far, that crappy camera has ALWAYS been the WORST aspect of the game, easily. if someone could fix that worthless camera, maybe then i could at least try some of the SM64 romhacks here.

A lot of Mario hacks are way too hard, but there are some that aren't. The best one I have found is SMB3 Chaos Control. There are also some other ones that are okay such as: Super Mario Bros. 3 2nd Run, SMW The Lost Adventure Episode 1, SMW Chaos CompleXX, or Super Super Mario Land. I don't know if you've played some of  these yet.

nope haven't tried any of those but i'll certainly check them out. thanks for the suggestions.