Star Revenge 8: Scepter of Hope
This is Star Revenge 8, based very heavily on the Touhou series and lore wise one of the last SRs.
You explore a sm64tified Gensokyo, trying to beat multiple bosses to unlock cap switches, keys and 2 of the badges from SR7/7.5.
The hack has an open world structure with interconnected levels and quiet a few branching paths.
Given the touhou theme, there are 2 extra stages hidden across the land, which can be unlocked close to the start of the hack. These require a password which can be acquired from SR6.9 or beating the final boss of this hack.
Story: After the events of SR7.5, a mysterious big star took hold of the Scepter of Faith and turned Earth into a Void, Mario now traversed Gensokyo to obtain enough star power to face this greater evil.
Star Revenge Lore Order:
SR0 ➜ SR1.5 ➜ SR2 TTM ➜ SR2.5 ➜ SR3.5 ➜ SR3.9 ➜ SR4.5 ➜ SR4.9 ➜ SR6.25 ➜ SR6.5 ➜ SR6.9 ➜ SR5 ➜ SR7 ➜ SR7.5 ➜ SR8 ➜ SR5.5 ➜ SRX