Collaborate Disseminate
We definitely needed to reach for a sed reference guide for this one, but looking at the animated GIF of the script running, it is recognizably Super Mario World, albeit …read more Continue reading Super Mario In sed, Sort Of
Turning a game like Super Mario World for SNES into a widescreen game is not a small task, but [Vitor Vilela] accomplished just that. [Vitor] has a long list of …read more Continue reading Modifying a SNES Rom To Be Widescreen
A niche community of heroes keeps the crude hacker spirit alive in Mario. Continue reading Why ‘Super Mario Maker’ Didn’t Kill the Mario Hacking Community
[SethBling] has released a Super Mario World jailbreak that allows players to install a hex editor, then write, install and run their own game mods. What’s more is this all works on unmodified cartridges and SNES hardware. No hardware hacks required.
[Seth] is quick to say he didn’t do all this alone. This mod came to be thanks to help from [Cooper Harasyn] who discovered a save file corruption glitch, [MrCheese] who optimized the hex editor, and [p4plus2] who wrote some awesome mods.
While no soldering and programming of parts are required, installing this mod still requires quite a bit …read more
Continue reading Super Mario World Jailbreak Requires no External Hardware
This is a hacking and gaming tour de force! [Seth Bling] executed a code injection hack in Super Mario World (SMW) that not only glitches the game, but re-programs it to play a stripped-down version of “Flappy Bird”. And he did this not with a set of JTAG probes, but by using the game’s own controller.
There are apparently a bunch of people working on hacking Super Mario World from within the game, and a number of these hacks use modified controllers to carry out the sequence of codes. The craziest thing about our hack here is that [Seth] …read more
