Hmm.  I might be interested in the data.  You can send me that stuff if you want to.  Thank you for your help!  Once I finish ripping the maps, VGmaps.com viewers might get more interested in this game.

Oh, and I have an idea for this project.  When I was playing through a Sharp X1 level, I ran across an area where a Sidestepper was walking on a path made of brick blocks.  I decided to hit the block below it and the Sidestepper was instantly defeated.  Then it hit me:  This might be asking too much when it comes to the programing but maybe we could change that to it getting angry like it did in Mario Bros. instead of dying from one hit from below.  That way, we don't confuse players who grew up with the Mario Bros. arcade game.

Man, I really should write something about that in the README.

You can download it here: http://static.karatorian.org/gaming/nes/smbs-rip-x1.tar.bz2

I didn't bother packing up the tools, so it's just the level images and the text files that explain the pipe connections. If you're interested in the tools too, just let me know.

While poking through this stuff, I realized that I never released a patch to fix the level corruption in 4-2. It's not a game stopper like the corruption in 4-4 was, but it'd be nice for people to be able to get to the bonus area. I'll have to do that.

There are a few significant differences in the NES version of the maps, due to limitations in the SMB engine. So I'd recommend using the original data rather than the NES version as your reference.

Speaking of which, would it be difficult to make similar renders of the NES port levels for easy comparison?

Also, I can't seem to find the Sharp X1 version anywhere...

i tried to make them as close as possible.. the enemies move differently so it coulnt be an exact 1-1, plus there are lots of enemies missing in the nes port

Sorry I said that.  I guess you can't move the enemies by 8 pixels rather than 16 right.  Well nothing's perfect.

karatorian might be interested but im not planning on doing any more work on the hack unless there's some glaring graphics glitch

Just wanted to bump again simply because I noticed a significant difference in Mario's jumping between the X1 and the PC88 versions.  In the X1 version, the distance you jump is about a block or maybe even half a block shorter, making some long distance jumps significantly harder, most especially those long jumps you have to make in 8-4 (SO hard in the X1 version, pretty easy in the NES and PC88 versions).

-Rob

Sorry for the sudden bump, but since this is where the NES hack-port is discussed, I wanted to let in my honest opinions.

*I think the colors should've been closer to the PC88 version (of which this hack is based on), using only shades of RGB% blue, red, and yellow (plus black & white, the later for several things that were meant to be green.)
*The SMBS-exclusive enemies and items should have their original appearances, and via proper HEX editing, their original traits and behavior. I know the SMB ROM is already pretty much filled up to a brim, but maybe with a utility that can expand the size of a ROM, we can add these items and enemies in, plus other things, like Mario entering/exiting an area the intended way, the large castles being the proper height, and the underwater tiles being on the surface, like in W5-1.
*The overall structure of the levels should be perfectly accurate to the original version down to the finest detail, including the block graphics and backgrounds (not really a big deal, but just what I feel).
*The ROM hack should keep the W4-3 dead-end room, but have it so the exit pipe on the other side of the room actually warps you to the pipe that's underneath the mushroom staircase just beyond where you find the vine to access the room. If the point of doing this hack is to make both an easier and more fair experience for the player than the original PC88 version, then this change should be put into effect.