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Original Super Mario Bros. Fan Port Now on Game Boy Color (www.retronews.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A new fan-made project has successfully ported the original Super Mario Bros. to the Game Boy Color, titled Super Mario Bros. Mini. Developed by homebrew developer Mico27, this version of the classic NES game includes several exciting enhancements and new features that expand upon the original experience.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

What sets this apart from Super Mario Bros DX?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

SMB on the NES and the DX port share graphics with a 16x16 tile size. Therefore, only 10x9 tiles can be shown at once, as opposed to 16x14. The small FOV and resulting camera tilt was very frustrating, especially with the Lost Levels.

This port scales the graphics down to the GB's resolution. ~~I imagine it takes a lot of CPU cycles just to rearrange the graphics data into the Game Boy's 8x8 tile structure in display RAM. Either that, or it's precomputed and the ROM is huge.~~

Edit: the tiles are not 12×12 but 8x8 so there is no need, they correspond to the RAM.

Also, they have backported some content from later games

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, kinda like how Super Mario Land deals with the small screen? That's awesome!

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