Hello, everybody!

🟢All tech works has been completed on 2nd of February, 2026, the rest of the services has been restored. Further works on the incomplete stuff will go in parallel without interrupting the runtime. Thank you everybody for the patience!

Tomorrow (on 31^st of January, 2026), I will start maintenance works on the operating system upgrading on the WohlNet server, so, it will be temporarily powered off for one or more hours until works will be finished.

That means, all the services running on this server will be temporarily suspended until the system will be fully ready on completion of done works.

There are next services will be affected:

• SMBX Preservation Archive (https://smbxarchive.wohlsoft.ru/)
• WohlSoft's archive of old versions and various content (https://archive.wohlsoft.ru/)
• FoxyBot
• WohlNet Mail Server
• XMPP Server
• etc.

As a good case, this won't affect the work of WohlSoft site, Forum, Codehaus homepage, project downloads, they will remain work during the maintenance, as they work on the independent place.

Giving apologies for possible inconvenience!

The Christmas Contest 2025 hosted by our friends SMBX Equipo Estelar has been finished!

Contest results and jury reviews for all 14 participated works are published here (in Spanish, English and Chinese languages) https://www.smbxequipoestelar.com/foro/viewtopic.php?t=752

Here you can read the official message regarding the finished contest (in Spanish, English and Chinese): https://www.smbxequipoestelar.com/foro/viewtopic.php?t=753

Also! DavFar, the main organisator of the contest, released 7 videos of walkthrough of participated works:

• Places 14 and 13: https://youtu.be/u4YJdYzzoJ0
• Places 12 and 11: https://youtu.be/6JIM0kuSaZg
• Places 10 and 9: https://youtu.be/YDRZPYDf3Zg
• Places 8 and 7: https://youtu.be/hfP6GoG6wVI
• Places 6 and 5: https://youtu.be/sKRoeaQLgqQ
• Places 4 and 4: https://youtu.be/MxE1W3gFMqM
• Places 2 and 1: https://youtu.be/NVQHoY9T5QA

 Thank you all very much for your time, your effort, and your commitment!

There are many important bugfixes introduced since the previous 1.3.7.1 release, and implemented some more of convenience.

And also, since this version, the loading screen is now fully localisable, and the rest of mainstream TheXTech-based games already introduced translated loading screen into Russian, Chinese and Japanese languages! (Details here)

All details and downloads are on the project page!

See complete description by clicking the "Read more..." link.

Visit release forum topic to give any feedback.

We are happy to announce the begining of the Cristmas Contest 2025 by SMBX Equipo Estelar, a historical event where are multiple communities are united to celebrate the creativity, friendship and the spirit of the Catholical Christmas and New Year together!

EDIT: The Deadline (31^th of December, 2025) is passed, no new submissions accepted. The evaluation of already submitted works is began.

This contest is a collaboration between:

• SMBX Equipo Estelar
• El Baúl de FanGames
• SMBX World
• WohlSoft Community

Each of these communities will bring their own style, talent, and enthusiasm to make this contest something truly special.

In this contest, all members of the affiliated communities will be able to participate by creating Christmas/New-Year-themed levels (I.e. winter, snow, gifts, decorated spruces, etc.). In addition, the use of custom graphics, own music and programmed mechanics is allowed.

At the official contest post you will find all the rules, participation details, judges criteria and important dates in Spanish, English and Chinese languages:

https://www.smbxequipoestelar.com/foro/viewtopic.php?t=743

We invite you all to join our joint celebration and be its part! We can't wait to see all the Christmas/New-Year magic that will be created!

Official video (Spanish/English):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-gJ440iW9s

Official contest post (Spanish/English/Chinese):
https://www.smbxequipoestelar.com/foro/viewtopic.php?t=743

This update features a lot of platform-related improvements and stabilisation. Since this update the exclusive full-screen modes on some platforms (such as retro computers) are supported to maintain the graphics performance which is impossible with the regular configuration and windowed mode.

All details and downloads are on the project page!

See complete description by clicking the "Read more..." link.

Hello there!

I just want to make a post that yesterday I released new stable versions of my software MIDI synthesizer libraries libADLMIDI (an OPL2/OPL3 FM synth based) and libOPNMIDI (an OPN2/OPNA FM synth based).

I hadn't released stable updates of them for a while, just having enough dev-version at everywhere. However, since I done several significant changes, I guess it's a time to release stable updates.

Most significant changes:

• Both libraries now finally can play the same note twice in the same MIDI channel without "Device Change" workaround, this fixes playback of music like Heretic's E1M6 and some my custom remixes like this Cumbia Arabe shown in the attached video below.
• I impemented support of more chip emulators, including accurate and heavy Nuked LLE emulators (however, they disabled by default since they require really powerful computer to work in real time).
• Some glitchy emulators I replaced with nice YMFM emulators, however, they will be enabled when compiler supports C++14.
• At libADLMIDI the experimental support for Serial-based hardware support has been implemented such as RetroWave OPL3 boards. It works right now via terminal player (adlmidiplayer) and via VLC plugin if configure properly.
• The libADLMIDI now supports OPL2 chips too, before it supported OPL3 only.
• Two-voice instruments might be squashed to single-voice if no enough chip channels available to increase polyphony.
• At the DOS version of libADLMIDI player now allows to manually specify the hardware address, the type of chip (OPL2 or OPL3), and use Dual-OPL2 as duo-chip, but for polyphony, not for a stereo.

(First half of video: before, second half: after)

Details for both libraries are here:
- libADLMIDI v1.6.0 Release page
- libOPNMIDI v1.6.0 Release page

Updated libraries would also appear at various applications that do use them.

Good luck to everybody!

UPDATE 19^th of June, 2025:

All the DDoS-related issues has gone on 18^th of June around 11 O'Clock of the Morning, and everything should work back as usually! See detailed report of the hosting provider where WohlSoft host works to learn more details (in Russian).

Hi there!

In recent two-three days you might already noticed that WohlSoft-Ru, Codehaus, and SMBX-38A were suddenly became unavailable. Everything on the server itself is okay, however the hosting provider (Rusonyx) received a massive continuous DDoS attack to their infrastructure that stole all the bandwidth and let several DNS servers to fail, and that of course affected my WohlSoft infrastructure too. In order to rescue the infrastructure, staff of the hosting provider decided to temporarily block entire foreign IP range (so, these servers became inacessible outside Russia). However, the server itself is absolutely fine and just works.

In order to keep the infrastructure work and being accessible to the rest of foreigners, I had to set up a reverse proxy using my second server called WohlNet (where SMBX Archive and other content is hosted), that works on independent infrastructure and is physically maintained by me.

I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by my hosting provider, and I will do everything to keep resources available by alternative ways until the problem is fully resolved and the main access will be fully repaired.

So, please use these mirror URLs to access the WohlSoft-hosted websites until the DDoS trouble will finally end, and please, share them to others:

• https://softmirror.wohlnet.ru/ (Equivalent of https://softmirror.wohlnet.ru) - the WohlSoft main site / forum / wiki / etc., TheXTech, Moondust Project, LunaLua-SMBX, etc. downloads.
• https://builds-soft.wohlnet.ru/ (Equivalent of https://builds.wohlnet.ru) - the automatic builds storage.
• https://codehaus-soft.wohlnet.ru/ (Equivalent of https://codehaus.wohlsoft.ru or https://codehaus.moe)- the Codehaus' official site with SMBX2 downloads.
• https://smbx38a-soft.wohlnet.ru/ (Equivalent of https://smbx38a.wohlsoft.ru) - the SMBX-38A project page.
• https://ru-a2xt-soft.wohlnet.ru/ (Equivalent of https://ru-a2xt.wohlsoft.ru) - Russian Wiki about A2XT.
• https://gitea-soft.wohlnet.ru/ (Equivalent of https://gitea.wohlsoft.ru)- Internal WohlSoft's projects repository storage.

Please see the detailed version of this post to see other mirror URLs were made earlier as a quick solution. They might be useful for cases when mirrors would not work.

We are announcing TheXTech's port to DSi, with a tech preview available for immediate release!

I, ds-sloth, am proud to present TheXTech's port to DSi, representing a nearly 100-fold reduction in the system requirements of SMBX 1.3. With 16 megabytes of system memory and 512 kilobytes of video memory, the DSi is truly a final frontier for TheXTech's optimization and porting, and nearly every system of the engine was rewritten or optimized in some way for this port.

This is a large update. We worked long and hard on this update, and we finally ready to present this big update for you all! This update will be the biggest in TheXTech's history and features a huge set of features, bugfixes, and improvements.

Thank you to @0lhi who served on our core development team for design and quality assurance from version v1.3.4 (2021) to v1.3.7 (2025). His contributions are much appreciated.

Most important changes

• Widescreen and small-screen support, done right. No hacks, no editing luna.lua, no broken spawns. Play all of your favorite SMBX 1.3 content at your device's native resolution for a smooth and polished "remaster" experience, while the engine keeps track of which important items would have been onscreen (or offscreen!) in SMBX 1.3.
• Classic playstyle for classic content. Disable TheXTech's unnecessary bugfixes and new features to play your SMBX 1.3 content the way its authors intended it, or go totally Vanilla (at your own risk).
• An options overhaul. No more editing thextech.ini, every single game setting can be changed in the new in-game options menu.
• Refined player select. A huge thank you to Savby for reimagining our text-based player select menus with an intuitive and colorful interface that feels right at home on your TV.
• Multiple asset packs. TheXTech is good for more than just SMBX, and now you can conveniently switch between asset packs within the engine itself. Just add your extra asset packs to the assets subdirectory in your TheXTech folder, and switch by holding select at the main menu.
• Beta 4P support. Ever wanted to play Battle Mode with 3 of your best frenemies? Now you can! This version introduces shared and split screen 4-player co-op and split screen 4-player battle. Please share your feedback and experiences with us so we can make it better!

All details and downloads are on the project page!

See complete description by clicking the "Read more..." link.

The new BETA version of TheXTech 1.3.7-beta has been released!

This is a BETA version for the upcoming v1.3.7 release. We worked long and hard on this update, however, we still need additional testing before we can release a stable version. This update will be the biggest in TheXTech's history and features a huge set of features, bugfixes, and improvements.

Most important changes

• Widescreen and small-screen support, done right. No hacks, no editing luna.lua, no broken spawns. Play all of your favorite SMBX 1.3 content at your device's native resolution for a smooth and polished "remaster" experience, while the engine keeps track of which important items would have been onscreen (or offscreen!) in SMBX 1.3.
• Classic playstyle for classic content. Disable TheXTech's unnecessary bugfixes and new features to play your SMBX 1.3 content the way its authors intended it, or go totally Vanilla (at your own risk).
• An options overhaul. No more editing `thextech.ini`, every single game setting can be changed in the new in-game options menu.
• Refined player select. A huge thank you to Savby for reimagining our text-based player select menus with an intuitive and colorful interface that feels right at home on your TV.
• Multiple asset packs. TheXTech is good for more than just SMBX, and now you can conveniently switch between asset packs within the engine itself. Just add your extra asset packs to the assets subdirectory in your TheXTech folder, and switch by holding select at the main menu.
• Beta 4P support. Ever wanted to play Battle Mode with 3 of your best frenemies? Now you can! This version introduces shared and split screen 4-player co-op and split screen 4-player battle. Please share your feedback and experiences with us so we can make it better!

Known issues

• Audio may be choppy on Old 3DS.
• Texture load stutter is present on Wii.
• The viewport is sometimes incorrect on Vita.
• On Windows 10 when running OpenGL with some ~2006 Intel iGPU on laptop, game would crash (possibly fixed).

All Beta downloads at the official GitHub release page