The Best Animated NES Game

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[@vinterbjork4128]

I get some nice Castlevania vibes from these graphics right of the bat.

[@xVDRx]

And what's left of the bat?

[@bboyhanvzla]

sadly, the bat had an accident and now he's all right.

[@Ryusuta]

It's amazing what an extra frame or so of animation can do for the fluidity of movements.

[@cube2fox]

Back in the day, ROM space was extremely limited, and the original Super Mario Bros had to use some pretty smart programming tricks to fit such a large game into a 40 KB cartridge (Sharopolis has a video in that). Additional animation frames would have totally destroyed that limit.

[@yurr7408]

​@@cube2fox we can fit quite a bit more into the same space now, programming knowledge has just grown since then so more complex and faster techniques can be used to make the same product smaller and more efficient

[@pigfish99]

Snek

[@Ryusuta]

@@pigfish99 Maybe a bit~.

[@cube2fox]

@@yurr7408 In some areas yes, in others no. The way the NES works, people can't use any compression algorithms on sprite graphics.

[@thepanpro]

Kosmic guy cool

[@wickedwhispers595]

Ya kosmic cool guy

[@IrisGalaxis]

Guy kosmic cool

[@TRAMANOSIA]

guy cool kosmic

[@JohnGunn-]

Cool kosmic guy

[@jonothanthrace1530]

the mention of "escort mission" in 1-4 gave me the idea of a hack where you can only kill bowser with a Bill and they make doing so increasingly convoluted as the game progresses.

[@anon_y_mousse]

That would be a completely cursed hack. I might enjoy watching someone who's not me playing it.

[@MateDrinker33]

@@anon_y_mousse A concept similar to this has actually been executed in the Doom "Mega-WAD" community. :D

[@beyondobscure]

This ain't even a rom hack at this point, this is a whole other game.

[@PierceArner]

I am now curious if the castle fireworks had extra animation. What a fantastic Romhack!

[@Kosmicd12]

Ah, usually firworks use whatever animation happens when a fireball hits a wall. But this has enough custom stuff, that maybe not!

[@PierceArner]

@@Kosmicd12 Well, now that's another fun fact that I didn't know about Mario! Always learning things on Romhack Wednesday videos. Thanks, dude!

[@DarkReturns]

Stage 4 is like a creepypasta waiting to happen.

[@Ryusuta]

Wow, Mario is NOT taking anyone's crap anymore.

[@cornbreadbutcringey5723]

wow. this game works its way around smb's limitations so well, you can barely even tell it's doing it.

[@JakeRazorClawson]

Popeye style mario looks extra cool in small fire form. Really good graphics and some crazy game play.

[@Stiggandr1]

High quality rom hacks like this one let Kosmic really show of his skill at this game. I love it.

[@RoninCatholic]

I love spooky bones and ghosts and stuff, this aesthetic would be up my alley even without the extra frames.

[@klop4228]

2:07 Sometimes I think that about my ex, but in the end, if he throws too many hammers around he ain't worth it.

[@seanbrockest3888]

With there being so much extra data for the extra frames of animation on things like the flags and enemies, I wonder if that changes how many sprites can be on the screen before you start seeing flickering and FPS drops.

[@EebstertheGreat]

Flickering and lag aren't directly related. The PPU in the NES has a hard limit of 8 sprites per scanline, so if there are more than 8 sprites on the same line, some will not be rendered. So games like SMB1 accommodate this by changing the priority of these sprites every frame, so that each frame, a different sprite fails to be rendered. That makes all the sprites flicker. Lag occurs when the CPU is unable to finish executing the logic for the next frame during VBLANK. When that happens, the same graphics from the previous frame (or often corrupted graphics instead) get drawn this frame, and the game picks up normally on the next one. So the former is just a hard limit about where sprites appear on screen, and the latter is a soft limit about how long it takes the game to execute everything needed for a frame under current conditions. But actually, these more detailed animations shouldn't make any difference at all. For instance, the piranha plant already has several animation frames, but some are just duplicated to save space in CHR ROM. Even when you add more frames, it takes very little extra time to render, just a few instructions.

[@BagOfMagicFood]

I wondered whether those background elements were animated individually or if they just added a constant CHR-ROM bank cycling effect.

[@nakano15]

I never thought I'd see Mario so impressed for finding nothing.

[@wagamaoh7154]

You might not have noticed, but you did something very interesting Small Star Mario

[@user-ellievator]

The parakoopa sprite is amazing.

[@dannybversion1.028]

I wonder if anyone made a tier list of best animation for every Nintendo game.

[@hawshimagical]

mario&luigi 3 in my opinion

[@jonothanthrace1530]

This hack is a prequel to Mario & Wario; Wario tried to stop him by pulling his hat down but it didn't work.

[@neilt82]

Really enjoyed watching this hack. The level design looks excellent, particularly in world 3. The difficulty curve seems really well-judged too.

[@lilschlagen]

So when are we adding "I forgot to read you the lore" to the bingo card?

[@paxhumana2015]

You know, I would like to know the name of the person that made Starlight Mario Underworld, as I think that they would be able to also make their own Metroidvania game quite well...yeah, I said that they needed to make a Metroidvania on the NES/FDS, as their artwork is that good.

[@aajlakapsio6715]

Based on the captions, Kosmic said Hi to Bowser in 2-4 :D

[@brighthades5968]

The upside down pipes are supposed to be always enterable. Maybe something happens if you enter one of them? (I guess not, I think it would just take you back to the beginning of the stage.) Anyways, cool hack!

[@anon_y_mousse]

That is really cool. Some of the graphics, and that end music kind of remind me of Duck Tales. Is it actually a rom hack or did they create this from scratch? If that was all hacked then they went through far more trouble than I even want to think about. The extent of that, it'd be easier to write it from scratch.

[@Pulverrostmannen]

That was a cool Mario game, pun intended

[@ultrabikeboy]

I love romhack Wednesday

[@ural0304]

Almost weird not seeing the mushroom animated too.

[@lukahmad5683]

Animation in this hack wow man.. wow it looks like SNES game. So cool!

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

This has to be one of the top 5 in the list of well made SMB1 romhacks. Sprite and tile-work is spot on!

[@Nob1ej0n]

Just when I thought the animations couldn't get any better, 4-1!!! Didn't actually add any animations. LOL

[@jamiesnow8190]

Cool game! Thanks!

[@MathIguess]

Romhack Wednesdays are the best ^^

[@EebstertheGreat]

The skeleton koopas look fantastic. Maybe the best skeles I've seen on NES. Castlevania III's whip skeletons are cooler, kinda, but their animation isn't nearly as good as those parakoopas.

[@GeFeldz]

Cool rom-hack =)

[@TransRoofKorean]

5:55 was it the save state (doesn't make sense to me) or you shooting the Bowser fireball with yours?

[@cold_warrior]

Gorgeous hack

[@basedSkeleton]

Piss lava 2:24

[@NatnatGaming101]

It surprises me that this isn't mesen that does the animation work

[@ItsartoTV]

Super Mario Bros but + and Serious

[@mirabilis]

Must be MMC3

[@bblir]

Valo makes such awesome graphics, its nuts

[@keiharris332]

Look at that There is nothing here.

[@turborunner7859]

Pretty great graphics if it were 1988 still.

[@jsteeles]

What's the point of having pipes at all if you cant enter one of them !? Sorry for the phrasing lol tbf this was awesome they did an awesome job on this hack

[@kirbygam3r]

Can you play some smb3 hacks too?

[@Kosmicd12]

I played smb3mix, which was really insane. Probably the best NES hack. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnSmmap9n7ySmLc

[@DillonDank]

I know mushrooms are all about peace and love but why they gotta be prostitutes?? IDK what else he could possibly mean by 🍄 escort mission

[@lukahmad5683]

I wonder is Kosmic play this on NES console? How? I thought we use emulator to play that romhack?

[@Kosmicd12]

Using an Everdrive flash cartridge

[@lukahmad5683]

@@Kosmicd12 I just googled it wow I never know this existed lol Thanks man!

[@lukahmad5683]

@@Kosmicd12 Oh wait, you change the hack ips file to NES file and put it into sd card right?

[@CamelConsumer]

fungus

[@porkyminch5131]

Mario looks like the edgy anime boy

[@MathIguess]

Agreed, he looks like he'd mumble something from under his cap about only using some portion of his power when fighting someone

[@bmardiney]

What happened to you streaming on KZbin once a week? Didn’t turn out to be worth it?

[@Kosmicd12]

Yeah I kinda stopped after the channel split. I like twitch more.. 🤷‍♂️

[@bmardiney]

@@Kosmicd12 That's a shame. Well I'm glad you still posts videos over here at least.

[@Imsijs]

You took long to upload

[@Kosmicd12]

What do you mean

[@calangosovietico]

wrong

[@IrisGalaxis]

what?

[@Mythraen]

I'm disappointed when I hear there was a "whole team" of romhackers, and apparently all they did was graphic design, music, animation, and level design. I mean, sure, that's cool, but where's the unique mechanics?

[@wrestlingjesus2893]

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