| Released By | Mister Man |
|---|---|
| Category | Improvement |
| Platform | GBA |
| Patching Information | No Special Requirements |
| Genre | Action > Platformer |
| Mods | G |
| Patch Version | 1.2 |
| Hack Release Date | 19 January 2022 |
| Readme | Readme File |
| Downloads | 1527 |
| Last Modified | 19 January 2022 |
Description:
Super Mario Advance, like many Game Boy Advance games, features bright and washed out colors in order to compensate for the unlit screen of the console’s original model.
This hack replaces the palettes in the “Super Mario 2 / USA” portion of the game with the ones from the SNES (Super Mario All-Stars) version where applicable. The palettes for the new objects, screens and menus were also updated to go along with the imported palettes. Additionally, a few graphics have been altered to fix some oddities or to match how they looked in the SNES version.
As for the “Mario Bros.” portion of the game, all palettes have been adjusted to have their brightness slightly toned down.
Additional information can be found in the “Readme” file included.
ROM / ISO Information:
- Database match: Chaoji Maliou 2 (China)
- Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
- File/ROM SHA-1: 4FC77A2397086408554C50F9BF06327ABE04066E
- File/ROM CRC32: 14A87B75
- Database match: Super Mario Advance - Super Mario USA + Mario Brothers (Japan) (Virtual Console)
- Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
- File/ROM SHA-1: 146FDC181061A8B6CF6A97D4DA0530B0E45C5FD2
- File/ROM CRC32: 49684D37
- Database match: Super Mario Advance - Super Mario USA + Mario Brothers (Japan)
- Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
- File/ROM SHA-1: 5AB5ADE42EA0C5F255B3FBF00CDCC07B71BA20B8
- File/ROM CRC32: B993B92F
- Database match: Super Mario Advance (USA) (Demo) (Kiosk)
- Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
- File/ROM SHA-1: 05E41B04CDCD73194C0F836639C5774779F50A3F
- File/ROM CRC32: 69924CBD
- Database match: Super Mario Advance (USA, Europe) (Virtual Console)
- Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
- File/ROM SHA-1: B646CE9765A5061AAC9F1A52346A1F5E42B3D871
- File/ROM CRC32: 5251F2BF
- Database match: Super Mario Advance (USA, Europe)
- Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
- File/ROM SHA-1: F071D45D8F5CB05B48D7D2B804C6CB6A79AD96FB
- File/ROM CRC32: 1E4C6D6A
Links:
Screenshots:
Credits:
| Contributor | Type of contribution | Listed credit |
|---|---|---|
| Mister Man | Hacking |
Incredible hack, must try out
Reviewed By: SuperStarFox on 23 Jan 2022This hack makes this into a proper port of Super Mario Bros. 2 on the Game Boy Advance. All of the bright colors are changed to resemble the SNES All Stars game and changed Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Peach look far more accurate. The Mario Bros. game also had its colors tweaked to look exactly more like a 16 bit port of the original arcade game.
Although the “Choose A Game” text has some tiny white lines left over, but that isn’t too much to fix a little. The bosses and enemies have the same colors from the SNES port while some new bosses were given a new color design to look less bright.
This is totally worth a try, you can also play it along with the music pitch correction to get the most enjoyable experience that Nintendo never actually thought of before.
Version 1.2 Recommended - Yes
| Headline | Author | Date | Version | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Even better than Asaki's color restoration, must-have hack | saulfabreg | 28 Jan 2022 | 1.2 | Yes |
| Incredible hack, must try out | SuperStarFox | 23 Jan 2022 | 1.2 | Yes |
| Excellent Restoration | NelsonPalacios2001 | 24 Dec 2021 | 1.0 | Yes |
| Very Faithful to the original remaster of the original game | Johnny008 | 23 Dec 2021 | 1.0 | Yes |