Super Mario Bros 3 Demo by Chris & LadiesMan217

Some backstory
During SMW 30's development, I ported SMB physics over to use for the arcade and classic levels. After a while it got me thinking... what about SMB3? I had achieved the ability to modify SMW's physics into SMB3's. However, I didn't just want to copy-paste SMB3's physics to any SMW ROM because it wouldn't feel right if the graphics werent from SMB3 when doing such a thing. As a result, I set out to find any SMB3 style hacks I could try this on. Thanks to SF - The Dark Warrior I was led to a great hack by someone who goes by Chris . I patched the physics and not only was I surprised by how similar it felt, but the hack was extremely fun and well-made! I couldn't stop playing it and actually completed the entire hack which is a rare thing for me to do. The hack was severely outdated and broke modern emulators bc it used the SMAS Music Patch and had other things I was confident I could help improve. I set out to find his whereabouts and with SF - The Dark Warrior's help, I found him at smwhacking.de, a German SMW hacking community. Through wye's help I was able to get in contact with Chris and we started talking. I loved his passion for SMB3 and how much work and effort he put into the hack. I pitched the edit I had made of his hack as an idea for possible improvements. Coincidentally, he had been trying to finish the hack for many years but it was a slow process due to his lack of free time. He was sold on idea with the aforementioned physics changes and other fixes I made to his hack along the way that I was entrusted to finish the hack and as a result, here we are.






Features
-SMB3 Physics
-Switch to Luigi by pressing R
-SMA4 Luigi Physics
-SMAS SMB3 Graphics
-SMAS SMB3 Music
-SMB3 Custom Sprites
-SMB3 Koopalings
-Lx5 Powerups adapted to act exactly like in SMB3

The hack aims to be as close as possible to SMAS SMB3. In fact, we hope you question whether or not this is an SMW hack haha! The level designs are from Chris and most modifications are from me with the exception of smwc resources and advance asm such as the powerup triple animation being from  imamelia and Larry Koopa being made by binavik (still in the works too). The demo ends when you defeat Larry Koopa. The player will catch the wand and it soft locks afterwards due to the sprite not being finished (yet). I would like to thank imamelia and yoshifanatic for helping me through a lot of debugging issues that I couldn't figure out on my own.

Chris's Super Mario Bros. 3

Hope you love it!

More stuff!

Hey bud! Sorry I didn’t see your post sooner! The boom boom sprite is codfish’s sprite. All I did was add the sma4 features. The glitch you’re describing, is this the hack or from smb3 itself?


Cool to hear someone who’s played the og! I hope the differences make this a much different experience worth replaying! The sprite is from codfish. I don’t know whether or not about the flying offscreen unwinnable bug. Fireballs do indeed affect the boss exactly like smb3.


Thank you for the opportunity and entrusting me with your project! I know for some it can be very difficult to entrust a project to someone else, especially when you have put so much time and effort. I will work my damn hardest to ensure your vision is met and maybe even surpassed!


If I was more talented with asm I’d definitely directly hack smb3 haha but yeah, smw offers more freedom with all the resources we have, as well as the people available to help. Chris has expressed wanting to add more levels to the hack and maybe even redo some. Planning to use Yoshifanatic’s ow revolution patch to make maps much bigger to get that accurate smb3 overworld feel. All new levels designs will be handled by Chris as far as I know but for now I’ve taken control of development with Chris’s feedback.


Tell me how it goes!


Any non public resources used for this hack will not be released until we finish. I’m looking at a possibility of 2 years on this if all goes well and we don’t hit any bumps both in the project and ofc irl. If and when the resources are released they most likely won’t be released into the sections since the resources are only being made in mind for this hack so it’ll be up to the individuals that use said resources to make it work for their own projects. The only exception so far for this is the Koopalings which do plan to have a public release into the section (though lately it’s been running into a lot of problems that involve a specific setup to function so I’m not sure if it will get a section release seeing as how it’s not noob friend for the general romhacker but we’ll see).

List of Bugs So Far
-On hardware, Airship level colors mess up. Need to further look into this to see if it really is a hardware emulation inaccuracy for emulators or if the fx cartridge pack isn’t emulating something properly.
-Luigi doesn’t have proper y speed for some interactions yet so expect sometimes jumping super high.
-When switching to Luigi in the OW, his colors aren’t yet coded in.
-it seems under certain circumstances you can jump backwards at insane speeds but verification is needed.

@Moltz, yep! You can choose what map16 tiles get spawned and there’s no issues with there being multiple boom booms.

Also I seemed to have forgotten to make tags in the op…

Oh definitely! Chris brought the idea up of making a base so anyone can make an accurate smb3 hack after we finish this. The GFX would probably be reorganized to have the accurate tilesets of the fg/bg and sprites as well as all the resources that'll be made for this hack. Not sure how noob friendly they'll be but we're hoping to expand on the results of this hack bc it would really benefit the community and spawn a ton of creativity!


I can't thank imamelia enough for the hard work on that. I started editing the smb3 goal card somewhere around the end pf July/beginning of June and it took me like 2 to 3 weeks I think to get everything working minus that triple animation. I would never have been able to do that seeing the end result's code involved XD.


Haha it sure is!


Can't wait for that reaction bud! The physics really are what make this faithful!

Future Plans
-Definitely want to use yoshifanatic's cutscene revolution patch to recreate the sma4 cutscenes
-Use yoshifanatic's ow revolution patch to recreate more faithful maps that span beyond 1 screen like smb3.
-Have smb3's inventory system ported over to work with lorom/sa1, lx5's powerups, and the vanilla/ow rev maps.
-Add new levels with the expanded new maps.
-Have the remaining smb3 sprites that aren't yet made.
-A disassembly of SMB3 Bowser to be more accurate.
-Recreation of the credits but using the new maps instead and creative changes.
-Get Luigi fully functional.

If there's any asmer's that'd like to help out please don't hesitate, my dms are open (if we share servers that is)!