Posted by Hamtaro126

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After Dahrkdaiz made MMC5 conversions of SMB3 before you, I was the one originally making a SMB3 hack of a similar fashion, But you beat me to it...

Anyways, I am going to work on my SMB2USA MMC5 patch instead, unless anyone beats me again, It will be not released until it is finished!

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1024kb/1mb PRG-ROM
1024kb/1mb CHR-ROM
32kb SRAM

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UPDATE 2-17-2020. The N8 Pro Everdrive can now run my MMC5 titles. It is the only flashcart to date that can do so.
https://krikzz.com/store/home/57-n8-pro.html

The N8 Everdrive uses 512kb SRAM chips for it's PRG & CHR ROM's. My game will not work on this device. The PowerPak is in the same boat as the N8 Everdrive. My game will not work on that device either. Unless Krikzz, the creator of the Everdrive devices, releases a new version of the N8 with larger chip support, then this game will only be playable on real hardware via an official MMC5 cartridge.

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Super Mario All-Stars NES has been confirmed to work properly, on the following PC emulators latest builds. "FCEUX" "Nestopia" & "Nintendulator" For the correct/best results via PC, I strongly suggest using any of the 3 emulators I've mentioned.

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The MMC5 "Mapper 005" is a sophisticated/complicated mapper, and alot of NES emulator ports for gaming consoles do not emulate that mapper correctly/or at all. However, the most consistent emulator port to demonstrate the correct results for emulating the MMC5, are ports of the emulator "Nestopia." I recommend using the launcher known as "RetroArch" for whatever gaming console you are using, and use the "Nestopia" core that goes with "RetroArch" to play Super Mario All-Stars NES. You will get undesired results trying to play this game on ports of "FCEUX" or other NES emulator ports for gaming consoles. I'm making note of this to stop users from saying the game is corrupted or broken, the game is not corrupted or broken, it is the lack of MMC5 "Mapper 005" support for whichever NES port the user is using.

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1. Top Score

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1. Restart as either 1st or 2nd player, from when game was saved

2. Power-Up state (small, big, fire)

3. # of lives

4. Current world & sub-level, (you save at 1-2, you start at 1-2, this also retains the individual world & sub-level for Luigi. Whoever is the furthest in the game, that world & sub-level # will be shown on the main menu, where you select one of 4 files)

5. Whether 1 or 2 player mode is active

6. Current high score

7. Mario's & Luigi's current scores

8. Mario's & Luigi's coins

9. Whether game has been defeated

10. Halfway point (within allowed worlds)

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1. On 2 player mode, players now switch off after clearing a flagpole. No more waiting for the other player to die, or defeat the game in order to play your turn.

2. Implemented the skidding sfx from Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan.

3. Implemented a new feature, where when a player dies during 2 player mode, he/she starts at the beginning of the current world they died in, and not being forced to not play the game anymore. Your lives are restored back to 3, and your score and coins are restored back to 00's.

4. Implemented Unused Lakitu Spiny Egg Toss

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1. Power-Up state (small, big, fire)

2. Lives

3. World & Sub-level

4. Coins

5. High score

6. Current score

7. How many #-4 castles have been cleared

8. Whether you have access to worlds A-D

9. How many times you have beaten the game

10. Halfway point (within allowed worlds)

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1. Implemented Unused Lakitu Spiny Egg Toss

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1. Number of bars in life meter

2. World & Sub-Level

3. # of lives

4. If first & second mushrooms have been pulled in saved level

5. If 1-up has been pulled in saved level

6. # of continues

7. Number of cherries obtained in saved level

8. Number of coins obtained in saved level

9. Number of big vegetables pulled in saved level

10. Number of levels finished as Mario, Luigi, Toad, Princess Toadstool

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1. Implemented SpiderDave's fix for missing 8th animation

2. Implemented SpiderDave's fix for missing sfx when player dies

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1. Power-Up state (small, big, fire, raccoon, frog, tanooki, hammer)

2. Current score

3. Whether you saved last as Mario or Luigi

4. Current world

5. 1 or 2 player mode

6. # of lives

7. Power-Up form when on world map

8. N-Card 3 byte next score registers

9. Whether you have unveiled the penny ship, white mushroom house, etc

10. Map positions, as well as previous map positions (like when you die, and you get skidded back to your previous last spot)

11. Level complete flags

12. Inventory

13. Stage cleared cards

14. Coins

15. All sprite map objects

16. All sprite x/y map object locations

17. All sprite map id's

18. World map locations (example, world 2. If you saved at the castle in world 2, the game will load up that part of the world map, not the very beginning of the world where it says START. This goes for both Mario & Luigi!)

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To erase a saved file, press the SELECT button over the desired file. An "ERASE?" prompt will appear at the top of the screen. Make your selection via the D-PAD and press the START button over your selection.

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To erase the top score, press the SELECT button. The text "ERASE TOP SCORE?" will appear above the logo. Make your selection via the D-PAD and press the START button over your selection.

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PAL Nintendo games run much faster on an NTSC system. This goes for both gameplay & sound. I was convinced by fellow Acmlm member Da_GPer, to take a look at Mario Bros. Classic to see if I could use that version, instead of the version known as Mario Bros., because the PAL version is the closest to the original arcade version, than the NTSC version I incorporated into Super Mario All-Stars NES.

I came up with an idea to slow down the game, since it was designed to run at 50hz. I created a frame counter register, within the beginning of the games NMI routine. (after A,X,Y have been pushed to the stack) I then perform an LDA of that register, AND it for #$07, if this does not match, I then perform a JMP to the very end of the NMI rountine, where the pulling of Y,X,A from the stack occurs. What this does/what I am doing, is forcing the game to bypass everything, and have it return to it's reset vector loop until the NMI is fired up again. So what this does, is force the game to basically wait. If the AND #$07 does match, then I perform a JMP to the start of the games NMI after the pushing to the stack, resuming everything within the game.

In doing that, the game & music slowed down to NTSC speeds. The next step was to try to adjust the pitch to the games sound engine. I tried applying my AND method to all the sound registers before they were written to. It almost worked, but it didn't perform the proper results for all notes. I was shown some incredible 2 byte pitch tables, for converting PAL pitch to NTSC pitch. So I had to manually edit every 2 byte pitch that there was within the game. Once I had done that, I would play the original PAL version, along with my NTSC conversion, to see if the notes matched, and they do.

And on top of all that, I decided to incorporate the ability for the game to retain it's top score. It is consistently stored to SRAM, everytime that it is updated.

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Posted by jonwvsu

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Nice work! Might I suggest adding the Item Select patch to SMB3 and the De-Engrish patch to SMB2us? Also, are you going to add that block to the end of the the last boat in the second level of World 8 in SMB3, (like they did in all stars)?

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Posted by Jonesy47

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Wow....this is too cool...
A ten year old version of me would have sold his entire game collection at one point for this on a cartridge.

I love your intro (what is that bg music from? A wii menu or something? SOOO familiar...).

I love how you fixed the .unl dump's problems (something that has bothered me for a god ten years at least now)

Everything is amazing.

Two things I would add (if at all possible)

1. It's already been mentioned, but the ability to back out to the game selection menu.

2. SRAM support.

Neither of these two things being absent cheapen this experience tho. GREAT work.

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