Mario on the 2600

If this is real it rules.

impressive
the mario sprite is a bit chunky but big and well defined

The sound along with the music seems too rich for the Atari 2600 sound capabilities. And Mario's sprite is too good me thinks. And even enemies are multicolored sprites with animations? That's too much but i don't know better.

the music doesnt come from the atari its played along as the game plays
probably an mp3 or something

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Originally Posted by KitsuneNight

the music doesnt come from the atari its played along as the game plays
probably an mp3 or something

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That music is generated from the game and stock 2600 console

It was done in basic o_O.
Respect.

I remember seeing earlier versions of this homebrew on AtariAge, it's definitely real. The underground theme sounds pretty much the same as it has before, but it looks like the game has had some improvements.

As of right now I want this game on a cartridge.

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Originally Posted by Guntz

I remember seeing earlier versions of this homebrew on AtariAge, it's definitely real. The underground theme sounds pretty much the same as it has before, but it looks like the game has had some improvements.

As of right now I want this game on a cartridge.

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Isn't making an atari flash cartridge or devcart pretty easy? I wonder if you can download the rom anywhere.

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Originally Posted by Drakon

I I wonder if you can download the rom anywhere.

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The retail release hasn't shipped yet, and AtariAge is selling the cart and manual version indefinitely, so I doubt there is going to be an official release of the rom.

I saw the early level 1-1 version of this a while ago. Is it the whole game now?

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Originally Posted by Zz Badnusty

That music is generated from the game and stock 2600 console

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unpossibrue !

Yeah that's real.
There was a megaman 2600 demo made a while back too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvrpXc8C3S8

People seem to think the 2600 was more limited than it is.
But you can squeeze out some impressive stuff out of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZp51PltKis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM1CbBePcdk

The Super Mario de-make really isn't doing anything more astonishing than Pitfall 2 as far as graphics and music are concerned.

Also for some neat graphical tricks take a look at stuff like Solaris and Enduro. There's some truly impressive games on the 2600.

its still pretty bloody impressive considering its 1977 tech

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Originally Posted by Drakon

Isn't making an atari flash cartridge or devcart pretty easy? I wonder if you can download the rom anywhere.

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Screw that, I want a dedicated cartridge. Official Atari carts are basically impossible to open anyway.