Do you remember that crazy Super Mario Bros. 3 fan remake we posted about late last year? Well, creator SKJmin has finished a sizeable update to his ambitious remake, one you'll be able to download on June 16. If you plan on doing so, we'd suggest making sure you actually own New Super Mario Bros. DS -- you know, for legal reasons.
The update adds enhanced graphics to each level, including new block sets and backgrounds, plus 84 bonus rooms, a new final castle and over 30 different cameos. For now, we must be content with 14 minutes of footage, which we've gone and tucked just past the break.
As old as the Internet, there's been the myth going around that if you own a physical copy of the game, it's okay if you download a ROM. Or that it's okay to download a ROM if you delete it within 24 hours. Both are completely false. The only way it's legal for you to have a ROM or ISO of a game is if you made the backup yourself.
It's also not illegal. You can make a ROM from the official game cartridge, and this is just a patch for the ROM. It should fall under the fair use doctrine, but I doubt Nintendo or a consumer really wants to take it to court to find out for something like this
So Nintendo (or whoever) should just allow anyone to hack their games? People put hours into creating these games. Why should some hacker get to ruin that bars work. To me it just seems they are ungrateful, that they can't appreciate a product for what it is.
Because you own your copy and you damn well should be able to do whatever you want with it. Modding is as old as video games and entire franchises wouldn't have existed without it. Mayhaps you've heard of Left 4 Dead.
@tendoboy1984 Ungratefull? What are you an idiot? "Please take my money I be gratefull if you took it from me!" Seriously they should be gratefull you buy it. Infact both sides shouldn't be "gratefull" to anything but their own lifes and the simple pleasures it gives. It is nothing mroe then a financial transaction for which both sides pay something and get something in return. You money for a game, and they money for their game.
All this crap about this being ungratefull.... seriously...
@BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam Technically it's illegal to have a backup of anything, even if you made it yourself, if you had to "circumvent" copy-protection to make it.
Did the level at 2:32 remind anyone else of the tree level in "Tiny Toons Adventures" game for the NES? For a split second I thought he should switch to Furball and that stage would be much easier.
@FunkMasterRitter It's a ROM hack, meaning it's a patched version of NSMB. In most cases, the hacker provides only the patch to apply to a ROM, then you gotta go find the ROM yourself. You can play it on a PC with an emulator, or on an actual DS with a flash cart.
I'm never a fan of any project that mixes and matches different art styles so badly (in other words, copy+paste of SM All-Stars sprites into 3d-rendered NSMB worlds). I'm still trying to figure out why he replaced some decent, style-matching backgrounds with carbon copies of backgrounds from SMB 3 (All-Stars) and SMW, black outlines and all....
@s1xtyn1n3 In the description of the video, he states that Tanooki will be added in version 3 of the hack. I'm hoping this will lead to the other SMB3 powers being added. It's not impossible to add new content via ROM hack, look at things like Mario Adventure. It's a heavily modified hack of SMB3 on NES. So much has been changed, it would be easy for Nintendo to pass it off as a new Mario game. http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/70/
I wasn't so mad at the mod as I was Nintendo for making it so you can't fly or turn into a statue. I get cutting the running start but they could have made it so you jump into it or something similar with shorter air time. I just feel its the same type of approach that gave us generic Toad clones in NSMB Wii instead of literally anyone from the massive collection they have.
