Released By | TRIFORCE89 |
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Category | Addendum |
Platform | NES |
Patching Information | No Special Requirements |
Genre | Action > Platformer |
Mods | G,L,T,GP,Other |
Patch Version | v03-04-202 |
Hack Release Date | 03 April 2020 |
Readme | |
Downloads | 3877 |
Last Modified | 08 April 2020 |
Description:
This started off as a palette restoration of Messatu’s X1 hack. It is a combination of Messatu’s enjoyable new minor features and lovely title screen, but with how Levi “Karatorian” Aho and frantik’s hack actually looked like a NES game. Once the palettes and flash effect cycles were restored to that of their version, sprites were then also restored and a few small tweaks made.
SMB Special should be… special. So, inspiration was taken from All Night Nippon SMB. That game had a mix of tiles from SMB and SMB2j. So, the same was applied here. There are some tiles here from SMB2j as a result, but not all of them are. The intention was to make SMB Special feel like an in-between-quel for SMB and SMB2j and this seemed like a solution.
The beta ground tile from SMB2j is used here for the same purpose as well.
The end-game text was also modified to remove the Hudson thanks Messatu added and changed it be more like a traditional Mario ending. Starman also smiles now like he does in the actual SMB Special game by Hudson.
This has been play-tested. Applies to a bare SMB rom.
The archive contains multiple versions of the patch:
- v20170114, is the original release
- v20170325, is contains a few minor additional tiles from “All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.” and “Super Mario Maker”
- v03-04-2020, is the current release. Redone from scratch, it is more conservative with its tileset changes for a hopefully more authentic look.
ROM / ISO Information:
- Super Mario Bros. (World) (HVC-SM).nes
- MD5: b6fa79abf0aa1bce8831c7c5ad8ab1f2
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Screenshots:
Credits:
Contributor | Type of contribution | Listed credit |
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Levi “Karatorian” Aho | Original Hacking | Original Release: Engine Hacking, Tool Programming, Packaging |
frantik | Original Hacking | Original Release: Engine Hacking, Level Editing, Graphic Design |
Messatu | Original Hacking | X1 Release |
TRIFORCE89 | Hacking | NES visual restoration and improvement |
Headline | Author | Date | Version | Recommended |
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The Best Version of Super Mario Bros Special | PowerPanda | 15 Oct 2020 | v03-04-202 | Yes |
Great slight improvements... but not fully | Eden.GT | 15 Jan 2017 | 2017114 | Yes |