[SMBX2] Section in new level won't load

[Animebryan]

I'm making my series of Toad Houses for all my worlds but hit a roadblock with my W9 Toad House. For some reason, the 2nd section (Section 1) won't load when I try to enter the door. The music for that section loads but the screen remains black & eventually the game crashes with no proper error report. I went back & tested my W8 Toad House but there were no problems so it must have something to do with that section. I don't have a special layers or events set up so its pretty basic. None of my previous Toad Houses have given me this kind of problem & the set ups are nearly the same, so I have no clue as to why it won't load.

Perhaps maybe you can find the cause that I couldn't.

World 9 Toad House.zip

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[Wohlstand]

I see here is a strong memory leak of the game happens which fills memory up to 1GB+ and crash happens once it reaches the maximum.

I did a research, and the blame on your custom "background2-5.png" which has a width smaller than a screen size (I.e. it MUST be 800 pixels or wider). It's problem is because it's horizontally non-repeatable background and it should be longer than section. In result, internal memory overflow happens because of a bug.

Added after 2 minutes 20 seconds:
So, take the fixed image:

And retry a game
For SMBX2 guys I'll leave a report about this bug.

[Animebryan]

I just realized something else. The background2 image is in png format instead of gif. Could that be part of the problem? Because apparently a bug with having background2 images (and I think a certain type of World Map graphic too) being png instead of gif causes problems.

[Wohlstand]

The background2 image is in png format instead of gif. Could that be part of the problem?

Since MAGLX3 and PAL it's no more a problem. It's no matter which PNG or GIF. It's matter the width of picture: it shouldn't have width less than 800 and it shouldn't have a length less than 600 (except of SMB3 hills/plains, etc. are two-row backgrounds).

[Animebryan]

Width & Length? Aren't those the same thing? Which one is Height?

[Wohlstand]

Width & Length? Aren't those the same thing? Which one is Height?

Both meaning same, yeah, I have just phrazed not so accurate. But, speaking about height, it's also suggested to keep height bigger than screen size. The only exception is SMB3 hills/planes where you are required to use a fixed height value to make your background work correctly with it.