Super Mario World | Cheerful Ghost

The Story of Super Mario World

According to some, Super Mario World is one of the best platformers of all time. For me and my family, this game sold us the Super Nintendo. My parents were really impressed by the 16bit graphics and I think that convinced them to buy us one that Christmas.

If you love Super Mario World or have yet to play it, the Gaming Historian has a great video all about the game and it’s historic creation.

Watch All Three GrandPooBear's Speedrun Sessions in Portland!

GrandPooBear is one of the best Mario Speedrunners in the world and he recently came to Portland to the Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade for his first ever Speedrun Sessions. He brought along Oatsngoats as well as Andy to speedrun Super Metroid and Link to the Past and I was able to make it to the event with some friends. In a nutshell, it was a really fun night and watching these events live has been one of my highlights in gaming. Poo closed the event to an incredibly warm audience that was whooping and cheering as he beat Grand Poo World 2, one of the hardest Kaizo Mario games i've ever seen.

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Cheerful Ghost Radio Episode 53: The Lost Archives - RADICAL VIDEO GAME REVIEWS WITH FRIENDS EXTREME

Recently Jon was going through some old boxes in his attic and came across a very special tape, a recording of RADICAL VIDEO GAME REVIEWS WITH FRIENDS EXTREME from April 1992 where we review Super Mario World on the SNES!

Speedrunner SethBling Explains His Sub 1 Minute Super Mario World Speedrun

Speedrunner SethBling recently figured out the first sub 1 minute credits warp for Super Mario World and made a pretty detailed video explaining how it works. Seth uses 4 controllers and by doing that it puts certain values in RAM pushing the game into the right state to get the credits.

Seth provided a detailed Google Doc below that details how you can route this run yourself and all things you need to achieve it such as the Japanese version of SMW.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cgr0jFw4AU8hF00JcQlOTRb8I1qPd-tF73LtTF4lzZE/edit
https://pastebin.com/V3EtvyGT

SNES Classic Launch Day

Today is the SNES Classic launch day! I was able to get an in stock order off of Thinkgeek at midnight last night, so I should have mine in a few days. Did anybody else get one?

jdodson Admin wrote on 09/29/2017 at 04:17pm

Even though I had a pre-order on Walmart I wanted to pickup another as a Christmas present. I went to Target and they were sold out. They said they had 60 people in line and sold out in minutes.

Many of my friends picked them up though, one missed out. Hopefully Nintendo can keep stock flowing to stores!

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member Post Author wrote on 09/29/2017 at 04:24pm

The initial launch seemed better than the nes classic. Nintendo said that they are going to produce more units than they did with the nes classic. Hopefully everyone will be able to pick them up at retail price.

jdodson Admin wrote on 09/29/2017 at 04:26pm

Seems like they did produce more units, just not enough for everyone on launch day.

> Hopefully everyone will be able to pick them up at retail price.

I agree.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 09/29/2017 at 04:58pm

Man, looking at the games list again... it's *really* hard to stay away from this one!

Travis Admin wrote on 09/29/2017 at 05:10pm

I was in the same boat as Jon-- struck out at Walmart and Target. If I didn't have on on preorder I would have gotten there at like 6 to get in line. Still waiting on that shipping notification. Hopefully all goes well!

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member Post Author wrote on 09/29/2017 at 06:07pm

You need one Adam!

jdodson Admin wrote on 09/29/2017 at 06:56pm

Yes Adam, yes you do.

https://m.popkey.co/0fcdd8/7gJQk.gif

jdodson Admin wrote on 09/29/2017 at 09:55pm

If everyone wants to load up on the PDF manuals for the original games you can download them from Nintendo here:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clvs/manuals/en_us/index.html

ALSO the original manual for Earthbound was the Players Guide which is a full walkthrough / Nintendo Power style guide available for free to download. Pretty awesome.

The Secret of Mana manual has a walkthrough for the first part of the game up to Underground Palace. FFIII manual has a walkthrough up to the point where you choose the which characters to follow.

Ben_Dodson wrote on 09/30/2017 at 01:48am

I checked online Thursday and found that my local Walmart was getting 30. Also accross the parking lot at the Game Stop, they verified that they had 16 extras after pre-orders. Living in a smaller town I had a good chance. So I headed out at 4:am. Surprisingly I was not the first one in line. Two other guys showed up about 10 minuets before I did. Then more streamed in after I arrived at 4:30.

About 5:45 the Walmart manger came out and informed us she had 12 left in stock. In Confusion I asked “the count showed 30 last night.” She said they sold 1/2 last night at midnight. The end of the line was not happy, but they made their way accross the parking lot to wait 4 more hours until Game Stop opened. 6:10am this morning I paid $79 and went home and played my heart out. That is until my phone kept reminding me I had customers to go see.

It was an early morning but worth the lost sleep. It has been a fun day geeking out on SNES memories and making new ones with my boys.

Travis Admin wrote on 09/30/2017 at 05:16am

That's super awesome, Ben!

jdodson Admin wrote on 09/30/2017 at 05:56am

What games have you all been playing the most of?

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member Post Author wrote on 09/30/2017 at 04:22pm

When I get mine I am going to fire up super mario rpg. The mario rpg’s are so much fun!

jdodson Admin wrote on 10/01/2017 at 04:29am

So my brother brought his new SNES Classic to my Mom's tonight and we were playing it. It's actually better than I thought it would be. The Operating System menu is very similar the NES Classic but the menu music is different. The games lineup is crazy great, which when your scrolling through it is just really surprising they pulled it all together the way they did.

I think the standout thing for me is that the two included controllers have much better action than the NES Classic controller. Not a fan of the buttons on the NES Classic, I think they are too mushy but the SNES Classic controllers are darn near perfect. The didn't print L or R on the top of the shoulder buttons but everything else is the same. I didn't realize there was a bumpy matte finish on the SNES Controllers but apparently there is but we played with our original controllers so much we simply wore it down. When I came home I picked up my original SNES Controllers and the SNES Classic ones really are a nearly perfect recreation of them.

The games look incredible in HD and the selection is great. I think Nintendo blew this one WAY out of the park. Christmas can't come soon enough.

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member Post Author wrote on 10/02/2017 at 03:17pm

Looks like the SNES classic is the same hardware as the NES classic:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-snes-mini-teardown-confirmed-recycled-nes-mini-tech

Travis Admin wrote on 10/03/2017 at 03:12am

That's not at all surprising. How long until someone combines the software so you can play them all in one package?

jdodson Admin wrote on 10/05/2017 at 04:52am

Breakdown of the SNES Classic value if you bought all the game straight up and how long to complete them all.

TLDR; it’s a solid value

https://www.vgprice.com/article/snes-classic-analyzed-playtime-and-price-breakdown

Timogorgon Member wrote on 10/06/2017 at 02:46am

lol, Earthbound kind of screwed up the average cost of the games there. :P

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member Post Author wrote on 10/06/2017 at 03:37am

I got my SNES classic today. I focused on Super Mario World and had a blast. The controllers feel great, and the system feels responsive.

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member Post Author wrote on 10/06/2017 at 09:40pm

If anybody wants a pdf version of the Starfox 2 manual here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d56xdbtys0y0u2/StarFox2%20Manual.pdf?dl=0

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 10/11/2017 at 11:06pm

Holy crap, my wife just surprised me with an SNES Classic!

jdodson Admin wrote on 10/12/2017 at 02:33am

> Holy crap, my wife just surprised me with an SNES Classic!

That's a great surprise. Let us know which on your play first.

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member Post Author wrote on 10/12/2017 at 04:58am

Awesome Adam!

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 10/12/2017 at 06:13am

I had to fire up Super Mario World first, because that just felt right. But I didn't play it long. I then bounced around a hunch of games and got my butt handed to me in Contra, Ghouls'N Ghosts, F Zero, Super Street Fighter and Star Fox.

Star Fox 2 was an interesting experience. I had to beat the first stage of Star Fox to unlock it, but that was fairly simple. Once I reversed controls on Star Fox 2, I beat it in about 45 mins, but I got a D grade. That one will be fun to go back and try to improve each time. The game starts out with a similar looking space map to the first game, but you can choose to fly anywhere in it. Andross is back and attacking your home world. You can choose to shoot down incoming bombs, or save other planets or fight destroyers. It's like a RTS game, where you have to plan out where you're going to attack whilst your planet is getting attacked. There's also some mech levels, where your ship transforms to a mech. These were incredibly easy, but ended up being my favorite part of the game.

I can't wait to find some time to dedicate to the RPGs in this system, but I didn't start up any tonight :)

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member Post Author wrote on 10/12/2017 at 02:23pm

And your wife never saw you again...

Star Fox 2 is that short? That is disappointing.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 10/12/2017 at 04:36pm

It was short, but will be replayable, since things on the map are moving in "real time" you can choose to go about your objectives many different ways. There are also multiple difficulty levels to up the challenge. I liked it, but yeah, it did feel short.

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member Post Author wrote on 10/12/2017 at 05:50pm

Does it feel like a complete game? The shortness of the game might be another reason why they never released it.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 10/12/2017 at 06:02pm

The end does have a "did I beat the game or the first full mission?" feel, but then the credits roll and you know it's over. I am guessing there was more planned for the game, but they realized the SNES was on the way out so they threw together what they had into a game to try and not be cancelled completely.

Now that I think of it, the end boss battle was a pretty big disappointment. I was glad at the time that it wasn't difficult, because I wanted to beat the game, but it wasn't a satisfactory win. (I feel like I'm talking myself out of enjoying the game at this point lol)

jdodson Admin wrote on 10/13/2017 at 02:56am

I think short games are OK.

I just checked out how long the average playthrough is and it's 45 minutes. From everything I read of StarFox 2 is looked like that was the full game and they were gonna ship it and Nintendo shelved it because of the Nintendo 64 coming out.

https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=9036
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/exclusive-legendary-star-fox-coder-on-series-history-surprise-sequel-launch/

Now that you mention how short it is I want to play it more. IN A WORLD WITH 60 ZILLION HOUR GAMES I kind of like the idea of a short experience that isn't too hard.

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member Post Author wrote on 10/13/2017 at 02:25pm

Short games are ok, but I imagine Nintendo wanting to charge full price for a 45 minute game, and it kind of pisses me off. I don't think the game should be judged on that though. Just a bias I have.

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Play Super Nintendo Games On The Go With The Newly Updated Supaboy S!

If you hang out in retro gaming circles of have hit up a video game convention or two you may have seen the Supaboy, Hyperkin's portable Super Nintendo. The Supaboy has a pretty large following of people that play SNES carts on the go and as such Hyperkin has refreshed the hardware with an all new Supaboy S. Sporting a larger screen, better form factor, improved speakers and the ability to play NTSC and PAL games the Supaboy S is an interesting way to play Super Nintendo games anywhere.

"Daily Dot: "Time to crack open your vintage game collection (that is, if you don't have a shrine to it in your living room already)."

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Super Mario World Completed in 3.07, New World Record

SethBling just posted the new world record for completing Super Mario World in an astonishingly quick 3 minutes and 7 seconds. The run takes advantage of getting the game into a strange memory state and then pausing to warp all the way to the ending credits.

Incredibly, who comes up with this stuff?

Travis Admin wrote on 01/31/2015 at 06:24am

I watched a video the other day, like a week ago, where this was exploited for a 6ish minute run. 3:08 is insane!

scrypt Supporter wrote on 02/02/2015 at 03:58pm

Is finding an exploit that takes you to the end credits what qualifies for completing a game these days?

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 02/02/2015 at 08:08pm

I kinda agree with Script, but wow, that was interesting and impressive.

Travis Admin wrote on 02/03/2015 at 04:00am

These generally don't count for "legit" speedruns. There are various levels of speedruns. This one wouldn't compete with a more "legit" speed run.

It's kinda like Magic: The Gathering. Some cards are just too powerful and get banned from the game, even in Legacy, but there's always the all-in formats where nothing is off the table.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/04/2015 at 02:19am

I'd say that this does count for a speedrun in that you can do it in the game as you normally play. Your right in that it isn't a traditional run of going through it. Like Travis says there are more traditional runs and then these kinds of bugged runs.

Travis Admin wrote on 02/04/2015 at 03:08am

Yeah, it's not tool-assisted, so it's a legit speedrun, it's just not a "legit" speedrun. I couldn't think of a better way to put it! Traditional doesn't exactly describe it. I can't define it but I know it when I see it! :)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/04/2015 at 04:12am

Glitch free?

scrypt Supporter wrote on 02/04/2015 at 07:58pm

But it's still an exploit, right? Hypothetically, if Super Mario World was another game released in today's market, it might likely be patched to fix the bug. Should exploits like this just be considered "part of the game"?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/04/2015 at 09:42pm

It is part of the game, yet not designed at all. So i'd say it's valid for this version of the game YET think that separating bugged from traditional is a good point.

There was a Zelda Links Awakening bug that if you did the magic right caused you to warp to the other side of the screen which meant you could easily clip and get past areas they didn't intend. They did release a patch to fix it in later karts so I imagine some runs are shorter because they don't have this exploit.

That said a traditional run wouldn't be impacted.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/04/2015 at 09:44pm

And since I had to bring back my memory of it, here is a video showing it off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbs0bcg9U68

Travis Admin wrote on 02/04/2015 at 09:45pm

Every Super Mario Bros. speedrun uses glitches though. Little things like being able to stick to the wall if you hit it at the right angle and jump again. That's why I didn't go with "glitch-free" as a description because they're widely used. There's a line somewhere, I just don't know where!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/04/2015 at 09:49pm

I saw a Half-life speedrun that was using clipping like crazy. It seemed a bit out there but it seems the census it's legit if it's non tool assisted.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/05/2015 at 06:58pm

I'm by no means an expert, but I think there are four generally accepted types of speed runs: With glitches/bugs, Tool assisted, any percent, and 100% completion. I have no problem with someone using and abusing glitches/bugs for a speed run, especially since this sometimes requires a very deep understanding of how the game code works. But I do think there needs to be separate world records or whatever for people who do and don't use them. :)

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RetroLiberty Reminisces about Super Mario World

Super Mario World is one of the most beloved and iconic Mario titles. RetroLiberty, Game Sack, Leo Camacho & Crossroads Reviews talk about the history and personal recollections of one of the best console launch titles of all time.

Yoshi's Fortune Cookie Tells All

http://www.superluigibros.com/funnypics/yoshis-fortune-cookie.jpg

Yeah, I've done this many times. But Yoshi always comes back so it's all good right... That's the same Yoshi right?

Right?

Rewriting Super Mario World on the fly

Another wonder from Awesome Games Done Quick-- using a modified controller cable, these guys are able to rewrite Super Mario World as it's running, inserting new minigames like Pong and Snake.

Essentially two pins that normally go unused allow you to transfer data to the game. I'll let you get the full explanation from the video, because I'm sure I'd get something wrong if I tried to summarize further.