ROM Hacks: Luigi vs Mario: Dead but Released

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Update By: DahrkDaiz

Yes, I finally decided it's time to release what I DID get finish for Luigi vs Mario. For those who forgot, this is the rundown:

Luigi vs Mario was going to turn into Mario Adventure 2. The premise of the game was going to be collecting green coins which would be used to open up new locations. World transitions would work by pipe levels. There would be no kings castles, no airships. just a long adventure. The maps were going to be free roaming also. Alas, my brother reinstalled Windows and over wrote my progress. What you have here is the final version of Luigi vs Mario BEFORE I started the free roaming maps. The Green coins are here and in almost every level I have completed.

Worlds 1-4 for Luigi's side are complete, along with half of World 5.

worlds 1 and 2 are complete for Mario's side.

PATCH TO SUPER MARIO BROS. 3 (PRG 0) (U).NES!!!!

NOTE: There are still lots of bugs in this hack, so save state often!

Relevant Link: (http://dahrkdaiz.panicus.org/Manual/)

Oh, that f-tard!  I remember a virus forced us to erase all our programs.  Now I've got my laptop.

I was excited when I heard "free-roaming."

Here's a question. Will Romhacking make an exception for this? I mean they only want complete hacks. I would vote for an exception in this case.

Why not?  It's as finished as it'll get (hopefully not).

This is why everyone should have at least 2 hard drives installed in their computer, or a USB hard drive for quick backups. Hope you get enthusiasm to continue the hack 

Um, how does re-installing Windows & deleting programs affect the hacks?

Your tools, yes, but the data files...

If he wiped his hard drive as part of the Windows install (like most restore discs from pre-manufactured PCs do) he'd lose EVERYTHING.

Um, how does re-installing Windows & deleting programs affect the hacks?

Your tools, yes, but the data files...

Let's not start this discussion here, there was already a very long (too long) topic about it at Acmlm's:
http://board.acmlm.org/thread.php?id=6944

Let's just be thankful he released what he had done, even if it is incomplete.

wow this is a really nice hack i do wonder  what it was going to be like
good luck with your future projects i will be looking for them 

P.S. can any one tell me what  "free roaming" means?

Free roaming means you can almost go anywhere you want at anytime and complete what you want when you want to. A linear game forces you to beat levels and complete tasks in a certain order, sometimes following a set storyline.

Hello everybody! I'm new here, but I just had to drop in to bug you all..
I just read how DahrkDaiz lost all his work from the harddrive, and I suppose you all have already been over this several time (if so is the case: I'm sorry for the repetition), but I was just thinking.. The same thing happened to me a while back and I lost everything I had saved. But with the help from a little inexpensive program called FileScavanger I was able to save about 99% of everything that accidentally had been deleted. Wouldn't this be worth a shot? Maybe it is possible to save if not all but maybe a lot of the work you had done DahrkDaiz.. Just a thought.

Hello everybody! I'm new here, but I just had to drop in to bug you all..
I just read how DahrkDaiz lost all his work from the harddrive, and I suppose you all have already been over this several time (if so is the case: I'm sorry for the repetition), but I was just thinking.. The same thing happened to me a while back and I lost everything I had saved. But with the help from a little inexpensive program called FileScavanger I was able to save about 99% of everything that accidentally had been deleted. Wouldn't this be worth a shot? Maybe it is possible to save if not all but maybe a lot of the work you had done DahrkDaiz.. Just a thought.

If such a thing works depends on the kind of hdd failure. If it's physically broken (eg: headcrash) you even be able to run such a program over it If the HDD got formated you are lost as well. The only thing which can be done would be if the files got accidentally deleted. But even then you have to be lucky that no files got written over the old data in the meantime.

If such a thing works depends on the kind of hdd failure. If it's physically broken (eg: headcrash) you even be able to run such a program over it If the HDD got formated you are lost as well. The only thing which can be done would be if the files got accidentally deleted. But even then you have to be lucky that no files got written over the old data in the meantime.

This is not entirely true. It does not matter if the harddrive has been formated, as long as you haven't used a program like KillDisc to fill it with junk information. If you just have formated it and installed windows and other programs it is still be possible to retrieve the lost data, as long as the same HDD clusters hasn't been used by new information.

If such a thing works depends on the kind of hdd failure. If it's physically broken (eg: headcrash) you even be able to run such a program over it If the HDD got formated you are lost as well. The only thing which can be done would be if the files got accidentally deleted. But even then you have to be lucky that no files got written over the old data in the meantime.

This is not entirely true. It does not matter if the harddrive has been formated, as long as you haven't used a program like KillDisc to fill it with junk information. If you just have formated it and installed windows and other programs it is still be possible to retrieve the lost data, as long as the same HDD clusters hasn't been used by new information.

I think this depends simply on using quick format vs complete format. If you do a quick format it will only delete the file table. But if you do a full format it will write zeroes over everything afaik.

Wouldn't matter, write heads don't go over the exact spot previous data was written when writing data. This is one of the reasons data recovery folks have jobs. :p