I'd estimate about 50 rooms will be needed

Currently 27 rooms in 1-4.. i think i can consolidate room 42 and 43 though.

and 12 so far in worlds 5 and 6.  estimate another 10 rooms for the next 2 worlds


unfortunately we're going to have room numbering conflicts.. not a big deal except for the pipe connection commands will have to be modified once the final room layout is determined.

oh also i removed a bug in the optimized code I posted on the last page in the Upsidedownpipe2 block of code.. if you've already inserted that code please be sure to update it

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-Rob

cheers   i just need to double check world 6 and i'll post it

There's a bunch of junk left at the end of room 43 which i should have cleared out but didn't..  the only relevant pointer is the one which points to room 01 page 7 in world 2.  hex bytes: 9e 01 27

I checked the rest of the pointers and they all point to room 43 in world 8 (the room used to be the world 8-4 castle which is why it has to many pointers to itself).  oh wait i do see one which points to room 02.  it is set for world 8 though so it's not a big deal and it's way past anywhere the player could get to so no big deal.  I suppose I should clean up all the levels though for the final version haha

Room 02 has no enemy data at all so i'm not sure why you're seeing pipe pointers in it

Exactly what do you want tested and what types of bugs do you want reported? I can point out several issues with worlds 1-5 ranging from simple graphics issues and nitpicks caused from improper use of background graphics, improper enemy placement causing erratic or incorrect enemy movement patterns, graphics issues caused by hacks, disappearing objects, glitching color issues, places where the original map was poorly designed and could be corrected or improved, and sometimes broken levels. I don't want to report stuff yer already well aware of or personal opinions and minor nitpicks you might not care about

Also me and a friend have been thinking of converting the game off and on for some time now but we really don't have the hacking skills required for many of the things needed by the conversion. So it's good to see other people had the same idea. We started some maps but never got far. We wanted to be a little less true to the original then you guys are being though. Like we wanted to replace the lame Hudson added enemy's from MB and DK with more traditional SMB enemy's.

I also wanted to add new enemy's to SMB in general (for use in other hacks) but again do to lack of hacking skills never could. For example blue and yellow Koopas that would change their direction of travel depending on the side Mario was on. Like if he was on the left side and the Koopa was walking left then you jumped to it's right side it would turn in place and walk right. Blues would be like greens and will walk of a ledge or into a pit and die if led to do so but yellows would stop at the edge of the ledge/pit and wait for Mario. We also wanted to add piranha plants that could shoot fire balls. They would come out of the pipe fire a few fireballs (in a straight line or in an ark to the left and right side) then go back down. They would be blue and yellow as well and blue would be the same as green and yellow the same as red as far as when they do and do not come out of the pipe. We also wanted support for piranhas that could come out of horizontal pipes. A Fire Brother is another enemy we wanted to add. They would use the same basic fireball pattern as Mario uses to attack. We also wanted to add Mario a flying power up like from Special and a new Hammer Brother power up. Also the ability to play as Toad and the Princess with their SMB2 (US) like play mechanics. Luigi would be the same as he is in SMB2 (Japan). Would also love to see the game hacked to allow left scrolling. That kinda stuff might be asking to much of the games engine and proly takes mad hacking skills to implement if it's even possible. Anyway just wanted to take this opportunity to share some of my ideas for SMB hacks but I don't want to ramble to much.

well you certainly describe a lot of problems.. I would be interested to know about "graphics issues caused by hacks" and "glitching color issues".  as for the map design i'm only interested in knowing if there was an error in copying the level over.  broken levels of course I would like to know about.

I suspect Karatorian was primarily asking for someone to test his expanded ROM to ensure it plays like the unexpanded rom



the PC8801 version is one block shorter.  this has been incorporated into the hack as much as possible

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Hey Karatorian i noticed sometimes enemies aren't rendered exactly in the right place.. look at map 6-2 chunk 3 it looks like two enemies (buzzy beetle and last plant) are misplaced