Here's a bit of game history: when Super Mario Bros. was rereleased for the Japan-only Famicom Disk System, the "minus world" generated via a well-documented glitch changed along with the format. Instead of an infinite water level, players were treated to a whole suite of glitch-tastic levels, loaded with air-swimming and Princess Toadstool sprites floating in mid-air.This kind of classic minutiae is exactly what we want out of the Virtual Console. We'd seriously buy Super Mario Bros. again for a crack at this new minus world. Check out the video after the break!
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4-04-2007 @ 11:57AM
Brian said...
thats pretty cool, i'd like to try that out if it were available
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4-04-2007 @ 12:13PM
Han Su Kim said...
It does exist in the VC version. I bought the VC version just to be able to go re visit the minus world
I know that I recently saw an article that says that the minus world does indeed have an ending, you can get to -2 and -3. I saw an actual map / guide. Can't seem to find it any longer though.
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4-04-2007 @ 1:31PM
theLoneYoshi said...
The Minus World has an ending on the Famicom Disk System?! Heh, at least there's more variety then the NES Minus World.
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4-04-2007 @ 2:35PM
Fortyseven said...
Some day -- though probably at least a decade from now -- someone will dump the raw contents of these "diskettes" (or even entire Game Paks) and through complex herculean feats of holodeck-like computation, be able to create a tool that will process the media-shifted contents of these games and allow an ordinary user -- an average Joe like you or me -- to experience an interactive "simulation" of what it would be like to play these so called Minus Worlds in the comfort of our own computer rooms.
Now, I know, I know.... this is all pie in the sky nonsense, but I swear I have a friend who's father works at a computer lab in Nevada under contract with the government and they have stuff like this. (Then again he also says he thinks we got the technology from aliens, so, I dunno...)
He says some day he's gonna get his dad to give me a tour and I'll be able to see Mike Tyson's Punch Out! on a really huge 20" screen and playable with the knobs on the front of the machine while an NES sits POWERED OFF in the corner and not even hooked up. I call balderdash on that, but he swears up and down he saw it himself.
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4-04-2007 @ 4:24PM
sixtyfps said...
@4:
Well played.
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4-04-2007 @ 8:37PM
Spex said...
Fortyseven, they call in "Emulation". It's nothing new. In fact, that's what the VC is. =P
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4-05-2007 @ 6:57AM
Adrian vG said...
Fortyseven, was that a joke? Well, download NESticle to play NES games on your computer or SNES9X for SNES games (though downloading games for these apps is illegal). And 20" isn't huge at all ;)
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4-05-2007 @ 4:07PM
Directive0 said...
*Laughs as fortysevens joke flies over peoples heads.*
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