Super Mario World: The Definitive Edition

What it is

The Definitive Edition began as a remaster of the author's earlier Super Mario World Plus hack and keeps the original adventure while layering on improvements. Course tilesets and music come from Super Mario Maker 1 and 2 and from community contest hacks, some level structures follow the Game Boy Advance version, and bits of the prototype, such as the unused "Super Mario Bros. 4" title text, are restored.

Highlights

• Wall jumping, smoother turning, faster vine climbing and a sound for skids, pick-ups and climbing borrowed from Super Mario All-Stars.
• Red and blue ! blocks give fire flowers and stars, Yoshis of different colors gain extra abilities, and a power-down system like the US Super Mario Bros. 3 replaces losing everything at once.
• More checkpoints in castles and ghost houses, a better camera in vertical levels, less slowdown and an improved bonus game modeled on Super Mario Advance 2.
• Luigi gets his own graphics and save spot on the map, switch palaces can be re-entered, and lives and power-ups are saved.

Version 1.3 adds the wall jump and screen dimming on pause, cuts slowdown further, fixes several enemies and ghost house tilesets and adds a night version of the underwater music in Forest of Illusion 2. The author says it has been tested on real hardware with a flash cart.

Playing it

Apply the patch to your own copy of Super Mario World (USA), following the instructions on the hack's page. Created by T-Bone.