Wouldn't it make sense that you can't move past the left side of the screen, seeing as how you couldn't in the NES version? Just a thought.

Yes, I think it's very normal, on TI89/92 Super Mario Quest doesn't allow that neither.

Although you couldn't move past the left side in the original, you could in Super Mario 3 for the NES. I'm not sure about 2, though.

For SMB2, you could. Thing is, 2 is so unlike 1 and 3...when was the last time you pulled vegetables out of the ground and chucked them at snifits and shyguys?

SMB2 was a ripoff of a Japanese game called Doky Doky Panic. Nintendo bought the rights to the game, changed the sprites, and marketed it. It was a quickie release, but the effect was a psychedelic party of tripped-out eye-candy. My favorite part was throwing the test tube (I wonder what was in it) to open up the "door" to the alternate reality where you got coins and mushrooms.

Yeah, SMB2 was definitely as trippy as it got back then :) In Japan, SMB2 looked a lot like the original SMB tho. (Remembering info from the players guide to Super Mario World, SNES, great game :) I wonder if that GameBoy Color version of SMB is really the SMB2 Japan levels...and if it could be ported to a Ti :)

Point in fact: The GBC version of SMB (alright acronyms) has both the SMB1 and SMB2 Jap levels in it. The Lost Levels are accessed in the game by getting 300,000+ points as a high score. Not like it really matters, because this is a TI site. Oh, and BTW, the game looks awesome.

I was just thinking that, so I decided to post a comment. Guess I'm just a bit too late.

The first ever public release is what it should say.
Looks a lot like the engine for JnR.

Those two things are the same... beta programs are not considered released. And it's not really that similar to the JnR engine, because there's no parallax and it doesn't let you go off the left edge (whether that is intentional or not). And I *highly* doubt that they somehow got his source code.

The grayscale smooth-scrolling engine has been completed for months. It was done well before I heard about JnR. And it was privately released to friends at school months ago. The primary reason that 2-way scrolling was not implemented has because it was not in the original for the NES.

Well aren't you the world's biggest idiot, this is nothing like JnR. I have seen JnR, and I know what it is like........

I'll second that - It's odd that people who haven't played JnR accuse it of being similar. . .

I might sound stupid but what is JnR (I assume Jump and Run but is it for a calc or something?)?

it was a beta game by Clem, it was in grayscale, but it was different. it was like having a monochrome game, with a stationary light gray background. so the foreground moved, but the background didn't.

I'll second that - It's odd that people who haven't played JnR accuse it of being similar. . .

What about MCMik? Greyscale sidescroller LONG before Mario here. . .

No, M.C.Mik doesn't scroll. There's just separate screens. And it was really kind of slow, considering that it didn't scroll (no offense Andreas, after all, it was written a while back)

that's a little different though, i'll agree it was slow. but that was SO SO old. He made that thing when other people were making nibbles and other simple games like that.

pretty good game - if it becomes better than bill nagels a level converter would be cool
it wont run from rascall tho but it doesnt crash - just remove a battery and put it back in and its all good (and its all in fun so get in the pit and try to love someone) sorry kidrock is speaking to my inner spirit or some crap like that
id better stop b4 i make a big fool of myself
oops too late :P

He probably wrote a dos utility to edit levels, seems to be the way to go these days...

It worked on Rascall for me.