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Super Mario Archipelago
Mario has found Bowser’s secret archipelago, magically hidden in a mysterious ocean ! Bowser begins to cast a spell to banish Mario. Try and collect as many of coins as possible before the spell is cast ! In Super Mario Archipelago, you get to run 50 times into levels before the game is over. Coins you collect are added to a 5 digits coin counter. You get to choose your path on the overworld. At the end, you can view your rank. There is 2 player support with possibility of checking both players score at the end. Moons are hidden in the game which are worth 192 coins and 2 lives. The difficulty is fairly high, especially considering each life counts ! This is intended to be playable by anyone, but to reach a very high score is surely very difficult. Good luck !
Extra Files:
Super Mario Archipelago.txt
Super Mario Archipelago 2019 By ProMeTheus
How to play :
- If you have "Super Mario Archipelago.bps", you must use "Floating IPS" found at "https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=11474" to patch it over a original ROM of Super Mario World. These seem difficult to find to this date, and come with many versions. The safe version to use for patching the bps over is "Super Mario World (U) [!].smc" (US version). When launching Floating IPS, click the "Apply patch" button, then select "Super Mario Archipelago.bps" and finally "Super Mario World (U) [!].smc". You will get a output file which you can name "Super Mario Archipelago.smc", and place it in your roms folder.
- When you have "Super Mario Archipelago.smc", you are ready to play.
- Use a Super Nintendo Emulator such as ZSNES or Snes9x to run the rom file ("Super Mario Archipelago.smc"). You can set up your own keys and other settings. If you were provided the game with the Znes emulator, the default keys for player 1 are "ZQSD" for movement, "IJKL" for the four A B X and Y buttons, "UO" for the L and R buttons, "V" for start and "C" for select. For player 2, "Arrow keys" for movement, "8456" for the A B X and Y buttons, "79" for the L and R buttons, "0" for start and "." for select.
Game rules :
When you lose a life or complete a level, the "bonus stars" counter increases by 2. If playing a 2 player game, the second player's "bonus stars" counter is also increased when the first player loses a life or completes a level, and vice versa.
The goal is to collect as many coins as possible before the end of the game, which happens when a player runs out of lives or the bonus stars counter reaches 100. There is also a bonus at the end for remaining lives.
You can save the game, but if you load, your lives will be reset to 5. In order to get a maximum bonus for lives, you must play a full game without loading. Of course, using saves states counts as cheating!
You can try to get a better score, explore more of the archipelago, and find more secrets. If playing as 2 players, you can compare the score of each player for the Versus result, and also add both scores together to see the Coop result.
For extra challenge, try to get better scores without reloading saved games after mistakes.
Good Luck Have Fun!
You can share the game if you liked it!
If you would like to donate (euro) to me for making Super Mario Archipelago, here is my paypal account email : [email protected]
You can also message me at this address if you want to tell or ask me something about it.
Thanks and credits to smwcentral.net (Hub), Nintendo (original SMW), Fusoya (Lunar Magic Editor), Technius and Ragey (Coding), Bob and Krigorn (Graphics).
Thank you for playing.