Now…in Color!?
Welcome back to another halftime special! This time we had a special little presentation of a couple of re-imaginings of our first two entries. The first is New Super Mario Land , a complete homebrew recreation of Super Mario land to be run on an SNES emulator. It supports 4 player play a la New Super Mario Bros Wii, and 30 carts were supposedly made for the 30th anniversary of the title, shipped to a select number of people. If anyone out there has a copy of one of these carts, please tell me! I want to look longingly at something I’d never afford.
The second title is Super Mario Land 2 DX. This one is a more relatively simple idea, but I don’t want to undersell the work put into it. The entire game has been fully colorized, with updated sprites to certain objects due to the lack of limitations. They also added a playable Luigi with his own unique physics, and put in work to provide compatibility with the Japanese ROMs and randomizers, as well as reduce the lag inherent in the original game.
Two labors of love for two games I am quite fond of. How could I not feature them?