Originally posted by: MLOriginally posted by: the_wizard_666
I can't remember who owns it, but essentially it was Super Mario World's early development. They knew it'd be going to the SNES, but they didn't have the hardware to work with at the time. Can't remember specifics of it, kinda curious about it now.
*Facepalm*
This is just a hack of Armadillo with the main character being replaced with Mario and an hacked title screen. Nothing else. It is the most common Mario pirate.
SMW developpement started on SFC. Many people think the prototype picture that appeared on the internet was from 8bits but it's not.
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That Super Mario World pirate has nothing to do with that game. And it wasn't released on a NES cart.
EDIT: about Yoshi, Miyamoto said that they couldn't make Mario goes on Yoshi on the NES hardware so they started a whole new game for the SFC. Pirate did show the reverse but they used some palette tricks and other things that Nintendo R&D possibly didn't have in 1989.
Also if it is so common, why can't I find it anywere? I do have other Pirate carts though
I do agree there is no evidence so far to suggest there was a prototype. But still I like these pirates.