08-25-2020, 04:23 PM
in regards to the super mario war that the topic is actually about: i don't think i ever played this game myself, but i know that someone ported it to the playstation vita, of all things. i'm pretty sure it had a psp homebrew port back in the day, too, but i don't remember. i was really into the psp homebrew scene when it was a brand new system, but i was mostly using homebrew so that i could run emulators and not much else. that said, i do have some sharp memories of a game called super mario war, but it's way different than the one in this topic.
now, i remember a game called super mario war, but it was a super nes homebrew rom that i stumbled across back in the day. this would have been 2002-2003 or thereabouts, so you pretty much had to find roms individually on the internet if you wanted to emulate. i discovered zsnes and i went for it, scouring the internet for what few individual roms i could find on whatever geocities sites had any. i remember that i ripped a ton of sprites in a really amateurish way into clickteam IDEs like the games factory back in the day, so i'd be hunting for roms i could rip sprites from. i picked the one called "super mario war" from whatever internet backalley ROM site i was on this week. because i wondered what the hell it could be, and i got this:
i suppose this is obvious given the imagery in the game and its generally janky feel, but this is a homebrew ROM. you play as mario with a musket or something, shooting bullet bills up at a flying snake thing made out of super nintendo cartridges. i bet you five bucks this thing was made by a stoner because of the background in the first level- you've got bob marleypede sitting on top of a mushroom with a bong while the game quietly plays out before him. there's really not that much to it, but i thought it was utterly bizarre when i was a kid.
now, i remember a game called super mario war, but it was a super nes homebrew rom that i stumbled across back in the day. this would have been 2002-2003 or thereabouts, so you pretty much had to find roms individually on the internet if you wanted to emulate. i discovered zsnes and i went for it, scouring the internet for what few individual roms i could find on whatever geocities sites had any. i remember that i ripped a ton of sprites in a really amateurish way into clickteam IDEs like the games factory back in the day, so i'd be hunting for roms i could rip sprites from. i picked the one called "super mario war" from whatever internet backalley ROM site i was on this week. because i wondered what the hell it could be, and i got this:
i suppose this is obvious given the imagery in the game and its generally janky feel, but this is a homebrew ROM. you play as mario with a musket or something, shooting bullet bills up at a flying snake thing made out of super nintendo cartridges. i bet you five bucks this thing was made by a stoner because of the background in the first level- you've got bob marleypede sitting on top of a mushroom with a bong while the game quietly plays out before him. there's really not that much to it, but i thought it was utterly bizarre when i was a kid.
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