How to make on SMB1 the same title screen of the lost levels?

[S.D.A.]

Hi, I'm trying to do my first ever ROM hack of Super Mario Bros. (NES), and I want to edit the title screen's marquee to the size that has the marquee on SMB the lost levels. I did it with SMBedit, but the result looks like it's half broken:Is there something I can do? Thank you to whoever is going to respond.

[Cyneprepou4uk]

What is marquee?
And post some screenshots

[KingMike]

I'm sure he means the title logo.

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[S.D.A.]

Er...I tried posting the screenshot but it strangely did not load. How do I do that?
June 11, 2019, 07:45:01 AM - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)
Ok, I think I've managed to load the screenshot.

Do you see it? I know there's a 3 instead of the 2 at the end becuase I want to call this hack "Super Mario Bros. 3: Bowser's comeback". I'd like to eliminate this green with the blank square inside.

[Cyneprepou4uk]

I don't see any screenshots. You need a direct link to a picture, and post it beetween "img" tags, there is a button for those tags. Use preview to see if it worked.

Or just post links here if you have troubles

[S.D.A.]

I did that first and it did not show up. Then I loaded the scratchpad picture and on my PC it shown up. So...here is the link to the image
https://www.romhacking.net/scratchpad/21178/

[Cyneprepou4uk]

It says "You are not the owner of this file! Access Denied!"

[S.D.A.]

OK. I just can't load at all a screenshot on this forum.
June 12, 2019, 10:41:58 AM - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)
Now there's no way of having any help if I can't post screenshots. It doesn't show up at all in the post nor in the preview.

[KingMike]

You cannot use the Scratchpad to host image files, that section is for submitting content for staff review only.
You'll need to use an image-hoster such as imgur and link to that.

[S.D.A.]

Never heard about that. Seriously.

[Psyklax]

Never heard about that. Seriously.

Well to be fair, you haven't been here long.

And I agree with the policy: instead of RHDN having to pay to host thousands of random pictures, there are a thousand sites out there that host pictures for free. And at least a couple of them are NOT used for porn.

Of course files can get deleted from such places due to age, but you could always pay a couple of bucks a year for your own website.

[S.D.A.]

Whatever. Anyways, I tried hosting the screenshot on imgur and tell me if the link works.
https://imgur.com/a/iD2RtwZ

[Cyneprepou4uk]

Seems like background attributes are messed up.

Still this screenshot doesn't explain to me what marquee is and what do you want to accomplish

[S.D.A.]

Seems like background attributes are messed up.

Still this screenshot doesn't explain to me what marquee is and what do you want to accomplish

It's the TITLE LOGO!!! HOW DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT!

[Cyneprepou4uk]

I'm not american, and this word means some bullshit according to a translator.

I need a screenshot of this marquee from original smb and from lost levels.

[S.D.A.]

Ok, ok. I'm also not American (I live in Italy) but I understand English pretty well.
Here are the links. Link for the SMB1 original title screen:
https://imgur.com/a/6YaI21Q
Link for the SMB2 (J) title screen:
https://imgur.com/a/N9aLgca
I hope you have understand, then.

[Cyneprepou4uk]

Now I see the difference.

Ok, my opinion is by making logo bigger, that editor overrote some data from the logo, which was used for background attributes. Since smb doesn't have free space by the looks of it, I have no idea how editors suppose to edit anything in the game if user wants to make something bigger.

If I wanted to make this hack by myself, I would find an existing hack for converting smb to another mapper with more free space (or made one myself), then transfered logo data to a new free space and manually edited it anyway I want to. But you said this is your first hack, and I guess you don't know assembly at all, so this might take too much time to explain how to do this.

Maybe I'm wrong, and your editor can do such magic things, but I can't help you with that. There should be several editors for smb (after all, this is freaking mario we are talking about), perhaps you should try another one.

[S.D.A.]

There are only two title screen editors. There's another one but unfortunately it saves changes only if the logo has less tiles onscreen than before. If you said that there's a mapper converting hack, where can I find it?

[Cyneprepou4uk]

Look in goodnes for a special name, something like hM04. This means hack converts the game to a 004 mapper (mmc3)
June 13, 2019, 06:01:53 AM - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)
Also you can search for names like PRG1, and keep an eye on roms which seems original by their name, but have bigger size.  I think I have read somewhere that such hacks were intentionally oversized for launching on some old emulators or something. But don't quote me on that.