Peach's Ruby is an extreme kaizo ROM hack made by Angry. In this hack, a Bob-omb Buddy has lost Princess Peach's favorite ruby Star somewhere in a massive, elaborate stage.
It contains one linear stage, named Wuthering Heights, that is very long and has a single ruby Star at the end and a Troll Star elsewhere.
The stage can be split into four main sections; the beginning castle section (containing the warp pipe leading to the Metal Cap stage), the central section (containing the warp pipe leading to the Vanish Cap stage), the red brick box section, and the ending section. In between the final two sections is the Wing Cap stage.
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Abridged Walkthrough[]
The Cap Switches provide some "relief" when completing this stage. Each of the cap stages are accessed via warp pipes in the main course, and all three cap switches must be pressed in order to complete the stage. Furthermore, if the player dies in any of the cap stages, they are sent back to the very beginning of the whole stage, and not right outside of the entrance to the cap stage. This adds additional challenge on top of the extreme geometry that's already present.
However (and this is where the aforementioned relief comes into play), once any of the cap switches are pressed, the player can save the file and the cap stage doesn't need to be completed again in the future. In fact, the player is unable to reenter the cap stage once the switch is pressed, not without dying immediately.
When transitioning between the beginning section to the central section begins, it starts to get very difficult. There is a large spiraling lava pillar that requires the Metal Cap to traverse. Failing to climb the lava pillar may not result in death, however, as the player can attempt to land on the platform below.
Immediately after the tall lava spiral is a short section of icy slopes that the player must traverse. The slopes being icy makes this a lot more difficult than it needs to be, since the player falls down the slope very quick. However, there is a slope patch applied to the hack that removes some of the difficulty when it comes to jumping on slopes. Mario is able to press jump on the first frame that he touches the slope, rather than having to wait five frames. This does not mean he can actually jump earlier, just that the input is able to be made immediately, and then Mario will jump five frames after that input; a "pre-input" if you will.
Coming onto the central section, there are some very brutal jumps. Near the end of this section is a tricky area requiring the Vanish Cap, which leads to a crossover wallkick section. Immediately after this are some more icy slopes with kuromames right next to them. This small section is extremely challenging. Afterward, another tight section containing a moving clock arm greets (or haunts) the player. The player must time this area very well, since the clock arm takes a very long time to do a full rotation, and there is not any safe ground nearby to wait for the clock arm to rotate to where it needs to be.
Afterward, Mario is warped under the third section: the red brick box section. There are some precise wallkicks followed by more icy slopes, and then possibly the hardest jump in the entire stage, which is a very thin section of icy slopes that Mario has to traverse, and in some places the jumps can be near frame-perfect.
Once the player gets around these obstacles, they find themselves officially in the red brick box section. It is a very large brick structure with a lot of tight jumps. Once the player gets to the top of this section, they must jump down to the side of the structure and do a tedious wallkick section, which leads to more icy slopes. After these icy slopes, the player must do a buttslide onto a floating Goomba in order to reach the next section, which has more crossovers. This section is also very tedious. After this, the player reaches the fourth and final section.
This final section contains a few precise jumps at the start, and then some thin wallkicks before heading up to the top of the section. There is not much to say about this section since it is not very long, but it is just as tedious as the rest. Once the player reaches the very top of this section, a wing cap box awaits them, and they can grab it and fly to the top of another section containing the Star.
Now, this hack has two Stars, not just one. After the player obtains this first Star, they can re-enter the stage to find that the pink Bob-omb buddy from the start has accidentally shattered the ruby star into 22 pieces. Essentially, the player must do everything again, but this time with 22 red coins, all placed in very hard locations, and some requiring multiple reclimbs of the toughest sections in the whole stage.
Areas[]
| Area ID | Name | Stars | Requirement | Acts | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | Wuthering Heights | None | Act I: The Ruby Star / | ||
| VC | Just Narcolepsy | N/A | |||
| MC | Ivy Undergrounds | None | N/A |
Music[]
| Used in | Track | Source |
|---|---|---|
| File Select | ??? | ??? |
| Wuthering Heights | The Shining Needle Castle Sinking in the Air | Touhou 14: Double Dealing Character |
| Ivy Undergrounds | Spider Dance | Undertale |
| Just Narcolepsy | Morphogenetic Sorrow | 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors |
| Corroded Castle Crematorium | The Elemental Stars | Golden Sun |
| Metal Cap | Ravine [Slowed] | ESPGaluda |
| Vanish Cap / Wing Cap | THE SAFARI | Beatmania IIDX 3rd Style |
| Shell Ride | Northern Desert | Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time / Darkness / Sky |
Trivia[]
- The cap stages are extreme renditions of the same cap stages in Mario in the Dreamscape, another ROM hack by Angry.
- The name of the main stage, Wuthering Heights, is a reference to a book of the same title by English poet Emily Brontë.