Now the world 1 patch is an awsome Birthday present for me, I just played through it and it's pretty cool. I hope to see this finished like yoyoyo... 

^ yeah i haven't seen it yet.. i'm hoping it's not in there actually lol

I hacked the piranha plants so they do not ever show up in pipes automatically, and also adjusted it so the piranha plant enemy object shows up correctly in the pipe when you place it there manually.     only certain pipes have plants in them in SMBS.  Just need to add the plants to 2-1 and 2-1 will be done   hopefully i can get all of world 2 done by today

List of differences in the engines

new enemies:
* barrel
* crab
* jumping fly
* falling spike
* plants not in every pipe (done)
* upside down plants (done)

power ups/misc:
* star man question block tile  in addition to brick tile
* hudson bee

pipes:
* upside down pipes (done)
* upper screen entrances - require work around in level design or some other kind of trick to tell the engine which entrance type will be required

data limit:
* requires expansion (will use mmc1)

Well, I've been looking at the level header data and I started to figure it out. In particular, I've mostly figured out how pipes work. I've also figured out that there is a mechanism to stop the sceen from flipping on some screens. With these things and a few others figured out, I've decifered almost all of the level data. There are still a couple of bytes who's function is unknown, but it's pretty well all accounted for.

I've discovered a bug in my level renderer. The elevators/platforms are rendered four pixels lower than they are supposed to be. I hope it's not too big of an inconvience to you to remember to correct for this when building the levels. Also, as the current renderer doesn't take the movement codes into accound, elevators/platforms are all currently rendered as though they where large size. I'm planning some more changes to the level renderer, but I can't say when they'll be finished and the next set of renders will be produced.

By the way, I played the world one beta and it's pretty cool. I didn't go over it with a fine toothed comb, but it seems to be pretty accurate. (Except for some background elements, like bushes being larger.)

Me and my roommate gave it a try and he managed to beat it on regular and hard mode. My roommate, did, however find something he didn't care for. In level 2-1, he managed to get stuck. He'd use the wall jumping trick (or whatever it's actually called) to get to the top of the level and then fell in the hole where the 1-up ends up after you get it. He couldn't get out and had to time out.

I don't really think this could be considered a bug, as it's not even possible on the original game, and depends on glitch abuse to even reach. Furthermore, the way the 1-up drops down like that depends on it, which is a kinda neat little thing, so it proabably should be left as is. I just mentioned it as it was some playtester feedback.

Download: Super Mario Bros Special (worlds 1 and 2)



 

I did notice that all the ceilings in the underground and castle levels were lowered one block. So could you fix that while you do your job? BTW, I thank you for posting the update with World 2 in it!

~Ben (SMB2J-2Q)

Way to jump to conclusions... Relax. Server directories for PC-88 hacks didn't exist, thus it was waiting on that issue to be resolved. It's been added. Honestly now, can you name 5 decent hacks, that weren't incomplete, that were turned down here?

The guy who's in charge of reviewing and approving hack submissions works 50+ hours a week (plus 9 hours of commute time a week) so sometimes fails to check the submissions for a few days. The only reason he got to it this morning was because he injured his shoulder and called in to work so as to go to the doctor.

Um, 32x games can be made into a ips patch. That site don't host ips patches, cause sega don't care about people distributing roms. But a ips patch is possible to create, but I won't be the one to do it cause it might get rejected anyway.

Also, UMKT was already posted on the site before, with emulator. It was taken down as it wasn't final yet, and then i submitted the final later, which was promptly rejected.