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With SMB3 riding high in the BGE I just wondered if anybody else has played this wonderful fan made game based on the original engine?



It really is an astonishing achievement as well as a heartfelt tribute to the Mario series throughout the years. Just about every entry in the series is paid homage and/or recreated in the art style of the NES. Just discovering

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Yoshi

in the game for the first time was a treat but what some of the later worlds do to recreate

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the more recent titles like Sunshine and Galaxy

are nothing short of awe-inspiring with amazingly creative level design and none of the Kaizo rubbish that normally infest fan made hacks. In fact, I'd struggle to even call this a hack, it would be doing it a disservice.

I bought it on a counterfeit Chinese cart without knowing anything much about it and expecting it to be a silly ROM hack but have been blown away by the attention to detail that the creator has put into it.

I just looked this up and it looks amazing. I'm definitely going to check it out sometime.

Han Solo wrote:I just looked this up and it looks amazing. I'm definitely going to check it out sometime.

I've been playing a few stages every night. The invention on display is crazy. I know we live in the era of Mario Maker these days...but stuff like this is probably why. The level design and attention to detail surpasses some of Nintendo's own...and this was a one man project.

If you have the original hardware I'd recommend buying it from the likes of Aliexpress...otherwise it's available free to download. I've read that the same guy did a Sonic game before this that was also praised. Might be worth checking out if you're a Sonic fan.

Yeah this looks awesome, a surprising amount of new elements added too. The Super Mario Land Music was sweet.

Would love to this guy make Super Mario Maker levels, even though they would probably be less sophisticated than the levels seen in this game.

I'm almost at the end of World 8, what I presume is the final world...although I've been collecting keys to a "world Zero" that I've only seen from afar in secret warp pipes. There looks to be a lot more to do even after the main game is over.

I beat this last night. There is a ton of post game stuff (inspired by Galaxy) and a secret world that I have still have only glimpsed and haven't figured out how to get to the main levels!