A warrior who ported the NES masterpiece 'Super Mario Bros.' to Commodore 64 in seven years appeared
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The action game ' Super Mario Bros. ' for family computers, released by Nintendo in 1985, is a very popular game worldwide and one of Japan's leading game titles. Fans ported such Super Mario Bros. to the Commodore 64, which was released before Family Computer. It is a completely different hardware, but a content that faithfully reproduces the original Super Mario Bros., and has become a hot topic among Commodore 64 fans.
Super Mario Bros. 64 has been released-Commodore 64 (C64) Forum
https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=71262
Commodore 64 is an 8-bit computer released by Commodore in 1982. The CPU was a 1.02MHz MOS 6510 with 64kB of RAM and 20kB of ROM. The price is 595 dollars (about 140,000 yen at the time rate) and it seems to be quite expensive considering that the sale price of the family computer to be released in 1983 the next day was 14,800 yen, but also 64kB RAM The Apple II or IBM PC equipped with has been over 1000 dollars (about 240,000 yen), and it is a huge hit as a very reasonable hobby PC worldwide. According to one theory, the sales volume is believed to have been more than 12.5 million .
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Commodore 64 is still popular around the world even after more than 30 years since its release, and there are fans who personally develop new games that can be played with emulators and peripherals for Commodore 64. In March 2018, the C64 Mini, the mini version of the Commodore 64, was released.
ZeroPaige has released a Commodore 64 version disc image, which he developed over seven years, at the forum of the Commodore 64 fan community site ' Lemon64 '. Not only the emulator, you can play on the real machine if you use the floppy. According to the forum participants, the emulator was a bit sluggish and that the real machine could enjoy a more faithful play.
You can see how the Commodore 64 version Super Mario Bros. is played on the actual game from the following movie.
Super Mario Bros-2019 Commodore 64 port-YouTube
Loading of software begins ...
Start-up. Under the title 'SUPER MARIO BROS. 64,' it is '2012-2019 ZEROPAIGE' and it can be seen that it has been developed over seven years. The Commodore 64 version includes the
When you start the game, you will see the loading progress along with the giant Mario who walks with me.
After loading, the title screen almost identical to the Family Computer Edition was displayed.
When I took out the mushrooms that appeared from Hatena Block, Mario grew up properly.
The score displayed above Mario's head when stepping on the enemy is also appearing properly.
If you take a flower and become Fire Mario and fire fireballs in a row, the playback speed of BGM will be slightly slower.
If I get a star ......
Mario is invincible and detonates. After all there is a little influence on the reproduction of BGM, but there is no change in the game speed and it seems to be able to play without any problem.
Also, in the following movie released by the YouTube channel 'Kenobisboch Productions' that focuses on retro games, you can also see the player who plays Commodore 64 version Super Mario Bros. Unlike a family computer, which plays with a pad-type controller with a cross-shaped direction key and a row of buttons, it operates with a joystick-type controller, so although the degree of reproducibility is high, the level of difficulty is improved compared to the Super Mario Bros. is what they said.
NUOVO! SUPER MARIO BROS su Commodore 64 !?-Giocato da Bisboch su real hardware-YouTube
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Furthermore, Commodore 64 and Super Mario Bros. are known to have a 'relationship'. The Great Gear Pear Stars , released in 1987 for the Commodore 64 in Europe, became a topic that apparently mimicked the Super Mario Bros. Although it was highly popular at the time of high game nature while plagiarism, it was provocative after having reopened plagiarism 'The brothers are history (that brother is already a thing in the past)' written in a package for the UK Nintendo rages at the message. The 'Great Gear Pear Stars' is said to have been called off and has been discontinued.
C64-Great Giana Sisters-YouTube
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