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Carol , also known as "Carol0151" on Youtube and "Dragon" or "Dragon151" on Xera, an e-mail site, is a Japanese hacker who created Brutal Mario (Super Kitiku Mario), the most popular ZSNES hacked ROM.
Life[]
Location[]
They live in Tokyo, Japan, the most populous city in the world.
Gender[]
They were very secretive about their gender, sometimes assumed to be female because of their name. When asked what gender they are, they always responded: "My father is male, and my mother is female", implying that they may be somehow non-binary, or at least that they don't want their gender known. However, it is most widely assumed that they are male, with the large interest in hacking among men. Despite this, there was one user on YouTube who wondered if the supposed female version was "hot".
Language[]
The only languages that Carol uses in the Internet is Japanese or English. As of 2013, their English has been improving, being seen in the Internet and in demoOnly1.
Legacy[]
They are considered to some extent to be a god of ASM, although their skill is moderate and they lack even the basic knowledge to rename and lock the ROM file. They are assumed to have accumulated most of knowledge from SMW Central, even admitting that Brutal Mario took so long to develop because of the time it takes to reinstall all of the custom sprites with SpriteTool. Most of their fame comes from the following feats, (including Brutal Mario) :
- The development of Carol's Addmusic, the first Addmusic device submitted to SMW Central. It contained all of the SPC files in the cheep.demo, but it was deleted from the site. There are two alternate links for the file, one is on their account on Xera, which is missing the SPC, but has everything else, and the second link is in a user's files on SMW Central who will remain anonymous. It is possible that the whole of Brutal Mario was made to promote Addmusic, much as "Super Demo World" and "Super Demo World: The Legend Continues" were made to promote Lunar Magic.
- Their ASM skills that were highly advanced in a time before most of the custom sprite software surfaced. Many continue to marvel at their creativity, diligence, and skill.
- Their contributions to the infamous "VIP", "Alaska", and "Wall series", dubbed as "VIP Mario". It is somewhat obscured by Brutal Mario, and it even lacks a page on the SMWiki. The VIP Mario series originated on "2-Chan", the Japanese blog similar to "4-Chan", which was the original one. The series of hacks is very similar to Brutal and "Kaizo Mario" in difficulty, and it's graphics have a distinctive ASCII style, confirming Carol's deep involvement in the art type. The hacks revolves around a central character, 'Boon', who is an ASCII version of Mario with him battling various cat-faced enemies. The most popular hack in the series is 'VIP Mario 4'.