Some time ago, I stumbled upon an ancient post by Nurykabe in which he provided a large selection of screenshots showcasing most of his tilesets and mentioned having unsuccessfully tried to make a KS level in the past: https://nifflas.lp1.nl/index.php?topic=1368.msg14691#msg14691

I was quite intrigued by the look of these screenshots, so I thought it was worth asking him if he still had that level and would be open to sharing it. In response, he uploaded a ZIP of a directory containing various things related to the game that he worked on: http://nurykabe.com/temp/holes.zip And he shared this video of a level he'd worked on: https://www.mediafire.com/file/48do0e5oe6azbqa/03+-+Knytt+Stories+-+cut01.mp4/file

There is a lot of interesting stuff in that ZIP. First of all, it appears that Nurykabe had actually attempted to make three separate levels. And every time he started a new one, he left the old screens in there. They're all far from completion, but with some basic edits (mostly to the starting coordinates and powerups), I made them somewhat playable. If anyone wants to go through them, here they are: https://knyttlevels.com/levels/Nurykabe%20-%20Holes%20Area%201.knytt.bin https://knyttlevels.com/levels/Nurykabe%20-%20Holes%20Area%202.knytt.bin https://knyttlevels.com/levels/Nurykabe%20-%20Holes%20Area%203.knytt.bin And here's a series of videos in which I traverse them: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPY6G2hmt_KpJwdllARCXg7YxjcG4St4f

However, none of the screenshots are from those levels. As it turns out, they're from example screens that were made to demonstrate the tilesets. But those screens are also in that ZIP. It appears that at some point during development, KS used a different level format with separate files for each screen. The example screens along with a few others are in that format. Thankfully, Gliperal managed to insert them into Map.bin files. They're here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/hrjmwlt57pnydxb/Nurykabe+recompiled.7z/file

By renaming them, putting them into appropriately named directories and adding empty World.ini files, I managed to make them usable. I also had to reconfigure their tilesets and gradients, since they're numbered differently in the game's own data. Some of them had weirdly misplaced tiles that also had to be deleted. And a few rely on tilesets or gradients that don't match up with the default ones, so I included those where necessary. My work can be found here (updated twice): https://www.mediafire.com/file/e2muehpkv8kju0b/Nurykabe+single+screens.7z/file And here's a summary of what these screens are:

Backup Screen 01-18: These are the example screens. A few use unreleased gradients and the last one has an unreleased tileset.

ec_Screen1-2: These are both identical, so I only covered the first one. It's a basic example screen for the Planetes 01 tileset. It was designed for an unfinished version of it, but still works with the complete one.

Screen vide: No idea what this was meant for. It only consists of a handful of tiles. It's so unfinished that it's impossible to determine what tilesets and gradients it was even made for, so I didn't cover it.

Screen: Showcases the Spacefiller tileset by Sergio Cornaga and a gradient that also seems to be from him. It appears that the screen itself was also his work, rather than Nurykabe's.

Screenb: Showcases a tileset and gradient Nifflas made for the spooky town in A Strange Dream. Probably his work. Would explain why it has functional collision.

Everything with a coordinate as a name: I didn't check them all, but those appear to be the screens of the level seen in my third video. I didn't cover them, both because it would be a huge pain to stitch them together and because the level should already be in the ZIP's Map.bin.

Since the ZIP has a few tilesets and gradients in there that were never released to the public, I've attached anything noteworthy.

Beyond that, there's some more interesting stuff. Such as various GIF animations that seem to have been made to accompany some of the tilesets. It's pretty strange to see those, since I don't think KS can work with them. Perhaps it was planned to at some point? Though it may be possible to convert them into COs. There are also PSDs of most of Nurykabe's tilesets and what appears to be early prototype screenshots of WaDF.

Nurykabe said that people are free to use anything in the ZIP. So if anyone wants to use the unreleased tilesets or gradients, make COs out of his GIFs, try finishing one of his levels or create something based on his example screens, feel free to do so. Worth noting however that from what I can tell, the example screens don't have much in the way of functional collision. If someone wants to directly incorporate any into a level, they may need to be reworked.

So I finally got around to playing Uurnlimited. And while its new additions left me with mixed feelings overall, I found a way to use a few of them for this super unconventional challenge that wouldn't have been possible in the original. I'm not particularly optimistic that anyone will actually give it a shot, given that this is probably one of the least popular of Nifflas' major games, but I'd love to be proven wrong. So here goes:

Get the Vault Ending without ever entering the save room. No cheating whatsoever.

This is yet another one of Nifflas' games that has a sheep hidden somewhere. Specifically, in
As a few Miiverse posts I archived (really need to get around to uploading those) can attest to, people already found it years ago, but not in the intended way. That same level turned out to have a glitch that allows you to find the sheep through unintended means. When that glitch was patched, people falsely assumed the sheep was now unreachable.

After getting Nifflas' confirmation that there is indeed an official way to get it, I managed to find it. In the unlikely event that anyone else wants to find it themselves, here are the hints he gave me:



And here's the full solution:

Four days ago, this game inspired Nifflas to make an extremely short "game" of his own using a tool called Bitsy. You can "play" it in your browser here. Do note however that this is probably Nifflas' simplest "game" ever.

I guess this topic could be moved into a sub-forum of its own. Then again, I don't think there's much to discuss about this "game". After all...

I just went through the Robo Fairy museum in the game's Wii U version and encountered two bugs.

First, some of the buttons on the third floor didn't trigger their corresponding sounds the first time I stepped on them. And no, there were no other sounds already playing while I did that.

But the real problem is what happened when I got up to the fourth floor. Upon doing so, the game made a loud beep for a few seconds, then froze my console. I had to hard reset it to get out of this.

Worst of all, upon doing so, I was horrified to discover that I had just lost hours of progress. Apparently, the game doesn't actually save anything until closing. Is this an inherent limitation of Wii U applications? If not, this is a really poor design decision.

Afterwards, I headed back to the museum but thankfully encountered neither of these bugs this time around. So I guess this only happens under rare circumstances. Regardless, if anyone is still playing this version, make sure to close and relaunch the game before going to this place.

I'd been planning to make a very simple mod for Knytt to fix an issue I have with it. Unfortunately, the game has at least one minor bug when compiled with Clicktime Fusion 2.5 (the laser fired by that tank with a weird Swedish name doesn't always fade in and out correctly).

If anyone reading this still has Multimedia Fusion 2.0, could you compile the game with a single alteration?

Just download the source from here, if you don't have it already, click on "This Level", "#Secrets", "Teleporter 6", and the icon that says "A-Z", then change the value "Teleport to X" from "895" to "290".

Given the Wii U's failure, Nintendo should truly be grateful to developers like Nifflas and NapNok Games who not only bothered to support the platform with quality titles despite its small user base, but even utilized its features in creative ways. Same goes for those who supported said developers by buying their games. So how does Nintendo reward these people? Why, by butchering their games of course!

On November 7th/8th, Miiverse will shut down, permanently disabling features of over 100 games, including this one. As a matter of fact, someone at IGN just wrote an article about this in which he named this game the most tragic victim of Miiverse's upcoming closure. While I have not yet played it, I've heard from multiple sources, including some of its developers, that its finale depends heavily on Miiverse and would be a lot less memorable without it.

So if you want to experience this game the way it was meant to be played, this is your last chance. As for me, guess I'll have to scrap together some money to buy a Wii U within the next months. Was planning to wait a few more years until it's cheaper, but as Nifflas is my favorite game developer, I don't want to miss out on whatever that thing that'll soon disappear forever is.

A while ago, Nifflas held a competition that required playing through the game with specific restrictions. It's already over (here are the videos of the winner's playthrough), but I thought it might be worth discussing here in case someone still wants to give it a try.

The conditions are that you have to get both endings on a single fresh save file without using the cheat code or developer mode. However, you're not allowed to ever enter the village, either through the A door or through the back entrance found in the trophy room. Furthermore, one of the ZUG doors has to remain locked.

Personally, I had to look up the winner's playthrough to learn the location of (don't read this before you're done with this challenge)
Was pretty fun overall, though some parts were a bit too frustrating and grindy. Though in hindsight, there would've been less annoying alternative solutions to these sections.