Comments List

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Environment Tiles

I like the not-quite Green Hill Zone tileset

Oct 23, 2022, 7:26 AM

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The Slot Machine Brothers

"THIS IS THE GREATEST MEXICAN STEREOTYPE COSTUME EVER!"

Oct 23, 2022, 7:21 AM

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Enemies

ego orb moment

Oct 23, 2022, 7:15 AM

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Ness

The big dumb smile on Ness' nude prototype sprites reminds me of THIS:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M_OMtAjO73Q

Oct 23, 2022, 6:54 AM

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Font

Where's the larger English font used? Might also be missing the Japanese Mr. Saturn font, but idk

Oct 23, 2022, 6:49 AM

JonGandee

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Mario (Great Giana Sisters-Style)

@shadowman44: Thanks!

Oct 23, 2022, 5:56 AM

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Xbox Live Store

this is a game?

Oct 23, 2022, 5:55 AM

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Security Thwomp

i love this

Oct 23, 2022, 5:54 AM

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Mario Kart XXL (Tech Demo)

why this is exist?

Oct 23, 2022, 5:53 AM

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Mario

super mario odyssey 2 be like

Oct 23, 2022, 5:24 AM

Fawfulthegreat64

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Track

The track is just Peach Circuit with small aesthetic changes.

Oct 23, 2022, 2:39 AM

Dr. NES

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Enemies & Bosses

Upscaled Dr. Andonutts

Oct 23, 2022, 2:00 AM

PGE

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Weapon Replacements

Names are conjectural. Spoiler:Translation: They don't actually have names to my knowledge so I made some up to sound cool B)

Oct 23, 2022, 1:54 AM

PGE

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Blockman

The AO stands for Among Ous

Oct 22, 2022, 11:42 PM

Hunsicker

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Mega Mech Shark

Most of the boss could be put on the background layer, and the only part of it that overlaps with the background, its fin, could be recreated with sprites, maybe you could even change the background color per scanline to replace some background tiles, resulting in even less overlap. There would still be a lot of flicker, of course.

Oct 22, 2022, 10:49 PM

Takerboi365

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Dry Bones

wild how this game was the last to use this design for the dry bones, both for the Paper Mario series and the Mario series as a whole

Oct 22, 2022, 10:17 PM

yiey20

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Cheep Cheeps

@TomAndTheCats green Deep Cheeps didn't appear in SMB1, I'll add them to my sheet once I make SMB3 enemies

Oct 22, 2022, 10:15 PM

Alxala

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Title Screen

Where are the language select elements & the company logos used in this game?

Oct 22, 2022, 9:20 PM

Yoshimallow

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Krang

Fear the wrath of SUPER KRANG!

Oct 22, 2022, 9:03 PM

Alxala

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Game Over Screen

EEK!!! That is 100% scary!

Oct 22, 2022, 8:59 PM

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Vinny (Family Guy Desk Buddy-Style)

Does Vinny really count as "reoccurring"? He appeared in 2 1/2 episodes like they said below and also had a few cameos. Maybe put him in like "side" characters.

Oct 22, 2022, 8:58 PM

Alxala

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SMB1 Enemies (Improved, NES-Style)

I wonder if the SMB1 Koopa Troopa would look like as an improved NES-style version. I like it btw!

Oct 22, 2022, 8:50 PM

thejohnston7

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Bosses

The white Mouser with red ears only appears in Doki Doki Panic. It is replaced by Clawgrip in SMB2.

Oct 22, 2022, 8:40 PM

TheWhillieHotDogUGD

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Street Fighter 2 / Super Street Fighter 2

The fact they gave a Japanese guy the name "Edmond" is absolutely beyond me.

Oct 22, 2022, 8:16 PM ^*

Maxio68

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Gameplay Graphics

I see there's a right-side Survival lifebar; is that actually used anywhere in-game? (Survival can't be played in multiplayer, is there anywhere else it is used?)

Oct 22, 2022, 8:04 PM

Dr. NES

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Encounter Swirls

@ton i think they used pallette swapping for those. i don't know though, i've only been past giant step

Oct 22, 2022, 8:00 PM

Dolphman

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Big Bruty

@Yawackhary I wonder what's preventing the PC port from getting rereleased? The Whole Can O' Worms ports of both games are buggy and inferior despite the impressive redrawn graphics. (One of the main problems with the compilation is the fact they're missing levels and other things from the originals)

Oct 22, 2022, 7:47 PM

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Princess Kurumi

Not to be confused with the Princess Kurumi from Ninja Princess.

Oct 22, 2022, 7:28 PM

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Mario (Syobon Action-Style)

These sprites look like either parodies you would see in cartoons or the original NES commercials that tried to recreate the graphics.

I like em either way.

Oct 22, 2022, 7:26 PM

Yawackhary

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Enemies

@Barrett I don't get what you mean...

If it's about the 64 tile limit for sprites that only applies in game (and not the ROM), then it is either well designed to make sure that there is some breathing space or more commonly it drops tiles once it gets to that limit. When you see parts of the sprite flash or even sprites themselves flash, it is called sprite flicker. The NES does suffer from sprite flicker, so does the Master System, even the Genesis and the SNES it can happen. There are a few ways of getting around this, you could have some of or most of the sprites be part of the background. It is usually used in bosses but is also used in a few Master System games on the cost... of... making... the... game... run... really... slow...

Also not all of them on the sheet is on the screen at a time, you generally only get a few enemies and bullets or just seeing one of the larger enemies. Due to the limitations of the NES and the game like most NES games has to use a mapper to get around the 40kb memory limit, the game is constantly adding and removing tiles. You usually don't see sprites get added (unless you go into another room and the enemies pop up) but you do see them getting removed when you kill enemies, bullets disappear or blocks where they break away.

If it's about all of the sprites on the sheet. Well... Tiles get reused, they can also be horizontally or vertically flipped meaning that it wouldn't take up as much space in the ROM. Also Mega Man 6 is a late NES game so it would have had a larger cartridge, so late that it never officially came out in PAL regions.

Looking into the ROM and Capcom was sloppy wasting quite a bit of space (lots of blank space, square blocks, checkered blocks, mentions of ZAKO, all not used in game, even a bit of leftover Japanese, probably enough space to squeeze another level or two actually)...

Oct 22, 2022, 7:26 PM