Hacking Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii is out now.

[The_Hulkster]

Would someone care to reveal the classic power-up they mentioned?
And maybe confirm if it's true what Crediar said about being able to play it with just the classic controller?

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Would someone care to reveal the classic power-up they mentioned?

The hammer bros. power-up.

 

[The_Hulkster]

The hammer bros. power-up.

Great! Thanks!

 

[Etkar.H]

Someone should hack it and make it into an .iso file. I only have my Wii U! What am I gonna do? Wait? Heh, no.

 

[WiiUBricker]

There's only one thing I don't like about it:

Riivolution doesn't work on Wii U, I was planing to sell my Wii, once Wii U can play GC Games ... but, they want to force me to keep my Wii ...

No they don't. It's just that the riivolution devs aren't interested in making RV work on the Wii U. You can complain to them.

 

[damysteryman]

I have to say, was never really psyched for Newer, but tried it out on release, and I am quite impressed
I am actually liking it, some of it does seem to have a Super Mario World feel to it, which I like
Up to world 5 so far.


As for the whole "OMG PLZ MAEK ISO FROM DIS" and "NOOOEZ ITS IMPOSSIBRU":

Dunno if I should post this, but...
For shits and giggles, I did actually try building an iso from this for myself tonight, and I did get it to load the game fine, however said iso blackscreened whenever the game tried to load the world map, and I am not quite sure why... I think I may have just built the iso wrong, but not sure atm...

 

[Excelsiior]

No they don't. It's just that the riivolution devs aren't interested in making RV work on the Wii U. You can complain to them.

That's actually wrong. Chadderz and Bean have a working Riivolution for Wii U. But they want to make it so, that only /their/ hacks will be supported. I have to admit I hate the direction the community is going.

Only stereotypes, complaining about A/P, waiting for others to do the stuff (failoverflow), keeping things private and ensure only your own stuff works (Chadderz and Beans). Bah.

Yes, of course newerteam does not explicitly force me, but implicitly, if you know what I mean... Either way, I'll just skip it.

 

[WiiUBricker]

That's actually wrong. Chadderz and Bean have a working Riivolution for Wii U. But they want to make it so, that only /their/ hacks will be supported. I have to admit I hate the direction the community is going.

Who are Chadderz and Bean? The RV devs are tueidj, megazig and Aaron.

 

[Excelsiior]

Who are Chadderz and Bean? The RV devs are tueidj, megazig and Aaron.

They are from CTGPR community (unless I'm totally wrong).

 

[WiiUBricker]

They are from CTGPR community (unless I'm totally wrong).

But they are not the RV devs. I don't know what they were using but it most likely wasn't RV.

 

[Excelsiior]

But they are not the RV devs. I don't know what they were using but it most likely wasn't RV.

I don't know, but it's atleast compatible to Riivolution.Who cares, it's not going to be usefull anyways.

 

[kid sampson]

Only came here thinking this was the original Super Mario Brothers remake that was abandoned.

 

[AshuraZro]

The conversion is rather fantastic. The success of how well the art blends into the New style varies but I appreciate the efforts all the same. The same goes to new original music although I swear I hear part of the Fringe tune in some of the towers music. I've finished a direct play-through of it (skipped levels, etc) and will definitely be going back to 100% the game.

What Crediar says is true. You can play with the classic controller and also a Nunchuk I believe. The game tells you this the very first time you start it. Unfortunately I didn't enjoy having X be the spin jump/shake action and having B and A run and jump. Personal preference mind you since it is understandable why it is like that.

And to the folks complaining that they cannot play this from an ISO, stop being cheap. A burned out drive is not the devs problem and your "standards" on how much homebrew should support piracy is utter bullshit. I've pirated before. Yep. You know what that entitled me to? Jack shit. They made this, its their choice what they want to support. Don't like it? Find something else to do instead of bitching how you are being inconvenienced today. Here is another rationalization for you. Console piracy is cheaper than it has ever been to engage in. Spend some fucking money on a copy of the game and/or to replace your DVD drive/Wii console if the drive is legitimately your problem.

 

[Rydian]

Hey AS, USB loaders dump discs as well.

Just so you know.

You know, FYI.

 

[CanadaX21]

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[Rydian]

If the on-disc compression is known, it would be theoretically possible to decompress the main binary, get a copy of the decompressed changes (after patching in R), and recompress that modified binary?

Throw in a batch file with a delta patcher, and you have a patch for the ISO. But this is a good bit of work if it's not just a binary or two that won't take direct file replacement.

 

[JoostinOnline]

If the on-disc compression is known, it would be theoretically possible to decompress the main binary, get a copy of the decompressed changes (after patching in R), and recompress that modified binary?

Throw in a batch file with a delta patcher, and you have a patch for the ISO. But this is a good bit of work if it's not just a binary or two that won't take direct file replacement.

Yeah, this has been done with translations before.

 

[Treeki]

As for the whole "OMG PLZ MAEK ISO FROM DIS" and "NOOOEZ ITS IMPOSSIBRU":

Dunno if I should post this, but...
For shits and giggles, I did actually try building an iso from this for myself tonight, and I did get it to load the game fine, however said iso blackscreened whenever the game tried to load the world map, and I am not quite sure why... I think I may have just built the iso wrong, but not sure atm...

Did you apply the memory patches in the XML, and Loader.bin? All of that stuff is necessary, there's a reason why we added it

 

[2ndApex]

I have to say, was never really psyched for Newer, but tried it out on release, and I am quite impressed
I am actually liking it, some of it does seem to have a Super Mario World feel to it, which I like
Up to world 5 so far.


As for the whole "OMG PLZ MAEK ISO FROM DIS" and "NOOOEZ ITS IMPOSSIBRU":

Dunno if I should post this, but...
For shits and giggles, I did actually try building an iso from this for myself tonight, and I did get it to load the game fine, however said iso blackscreened whenever the game tried to load the world map, and I am not quite sure why... I think I may have just built the iso wrong, but not sure atm...

It intentionally doesn't work by building an ISO like that, but I'll look at the Riivolution XML and codeset it uses and see what I can make.

 

[Hanafuda]

So, help an old geek out here for a minute guys. I read the use instructions on the newerteam website and I'm confused ... it says to create an apps folder on the SD card, drop the Riivolution folder into it, unpack the newer files onto the root directory of the SD card, insert SD card into Wii, load Riivolution in the homebrew channel, insert retail disk, play.

Fine.

But question ... on their installation instructions page, it also shows what your SD card directory structure should look like, and even though it said to put the riivolution folder into "apps", they show a riivolution folder at the SD card root too.

If I put 'riivolution' in the apps folder, what's it also doing at the card root directory?


EDIT: Nevermind, I got it. Hadn't realized a 'riivolution' folder was included in the newerSMB download packet.

Also, second question:
I've already got an SD card in my wii which holds all my VC and wiiware, and still has a couple GB free. Is there any problem using this same SD card to also hold Riivolution plus this mod, or is it intended to be kept on a separate SD card for some reason??