thanks, I'm glad you liked it and thanks everybody else for the kind words

as far as CIB..  if there was enough interest AND people were willing to pre-order, i would be happy to design the box artwork and manual for it.   i'm not sure of the interest level though.  I could make something special for the box edition too, there's a whole bank in the rom left for stuff, but I just wanted to get the game out there since it's been in production for like 4 years.

btw can anyone point me to templates for the boxes and manuals and such?

I would be interested in a LE CIB. If numbered I call #1!!!

What's your price point??

I would like one as I hate emulation.

i don't know how much it would cost to have everything produced.. I wouldn't try to make a huge profit or anything though since it's a hack.. but a little pocket change would be nice

and #1 stays with me buddy

Fiiiiine... #2

If you have never done a cart release; talk to those who have.

How about we have a couple members chime in and let us know what costs are involved.

if you do decide to do a CIB, I wouldnt mind having one as well

Man do I love my PowerPak. Everyone should have one, well worth the price tag just even just for something like this.

Put me down if you do a CIB

Depends on what board it uses. I'm assuming standard MMC3 similar to Mario 3. Also depends if it needs to be able to save so adding battery support. Mario Adventure had ram issues so you had to switch the ram with an obscure sony chip.

Eproms fluctuate in price and quality. Failure rate can be high if you go the used route. Profit margin drops when buying new.

If you plan on producing the boards yourself you have to obtain chips beyond eproms - mappers, CIC chip etc.

How do you plan on printing and cutting the boxes? Offset printing? That's about $800.00 just to fire up the machine.

You could do inkjet, but that's about the most expensive way to print and it's slow.

Labels need printed and cut.

Cart plastics need to be in good shape. When aquiring donors thats hit and miss and you usually have to rob from other games to have nice clean plastics.

How are you printing manuals? Again, could do offset, but high. Could also do laser, however color toner is pricey.

I'm not trying to disuade you from doing this, your game looks amazing, but I've made a lot of repros and can tell you, it can be quite a pricey thing to do a large run of games if you haven't done it before and don't know the pitfalls.

I recommend getting either coinhaven, bunny, or (ahem) myself to do it for you (had to throw in a plug... oh the shame).

-S

At the moment, according to Nestopia, Super Mario Unlimited uses SJROM. According to Bootgod, there's only 3 US released games with that board... Air Fortress, The Chessmaster and Miracle Piano.

I'd have to research it a bit. It appears to me that it's a hack of SMB3, which is an MMC3 game.

SJROM is an MMC1 board. Chessmaster would work, as it seems to be readily available at reasonable pricess.

Regardless, love the hack.

It says in the first post that it's an SMB1 hack.  Also, the other clue should have been the status/timer/score bar being at the top and being see-through.

it's a hack of Super Mario Bros 1, not 3  

and yeah mapper is MMC1.

a long time ago i talked with coinheaven and bunny about making a run of carts.  ill look into it again.



this is a lot more than just a graphics hack :-p  but yeah hacking the SMB3 engine to look like SMB1 would be a ton of work

Put me on the list for a CIB (if your ever make one)

Just checked it out and it is AWESOME! I really wanna put this one on a cart for my collection too! Thanks for all the hard work! Hope there's going to be more in the future.

I just updated the patch to v0.994.. fixed some pipes in the later levels that you're not supposed to be able to enter. download link in first post

for those who can make your own carts, i would hold off a little while since game is in final Beta stages and people are still discovering bugs

I also hate emulation, put me down as interested in a CIB. I still buy records and CDs and I still don't own an MP3 or whatever you call those newfangled gizmos.

Please don't take my comment as disparaging your work or effort.  It was more along the lines of saying it is worlds easier to make SMB1 have SMB3 quality graphics than it is to make SMB3 have an SMB1 status bar.  ( also, straightforward doesn't need to imply easy or fast, since a good graphics hack takes awhile to complete... It just means the path to completion is clearly defined )

If you decide to make a CIB, make sure these are all fixed!!!

bump this back to the top because it looks cool

that's the plan

patch v0.995 released (link on 1st page updated).. fixes some very minor 8-5 pipes.. should *hopefully* be the last level revision.  the level editor i use needs to make it move obvious which pipes are "open" and which are closed cause i left way too many set wrong. 

Is it just me, or is there something wrong with level 5-5? Ive spent almost 3 hours on it, and it just keeps looping. No matter what I try, it just seems to loop. Don't tell me what to do, I just want to know the game isn't broke.

edit: nevermind, figured it out

^ Mog is no mere mortal, he's pure machine.

muhuahahaha </evil laugh>