Vitor Vilela, a Brazilian Super Nintendo hacker also known for his FastROM projects that speed up classic Super Nintendo titles, has officially released a widescreen hack for the landmark Super Nintendo title Super Mario World. This hack renders the entire game as it should look normally, but expanded to fit the widescreen resolution that's standard today. Currently, it only supports 16:9 and 16:10 monitor resolutions, but more additions are planned, such as support for 2:1 or the 21:9 ultrawide aspect ratios. As of right now, a patched ROM will only be compatible with the bsnes-hd emulator.

Twitter user @fraencko shared some images of the game running on a widescreen monitor that can be seen below.

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You can download the Super Mario World widescreen hack and get patching instructions at Vitela's GitHub page here.

 

[Mama Dizzys]

I’m one of those weirdos who plays the older games in stretched widescreen

 

[x65943]

That is really awesome - I am loving all of these widescreen hacks

 

[SexiestManAlive]

I’m one of those weirdos who plays the older games in stretched widescreen

im one of the weirdos that plays with a filter so everything looks smoother, lol

 

[godreborn]

I’m one of those weirdos who plays the older games in stretched widescreen

Same for me. That's why I kinda hate the nso nes and snes screens.

 

[Deleted member 534570]

Nintendo: NOT ON MY WATCH!

 

[eyeliner]

I play with the black borders, so yeah. I like the games as they were.

But this hack is cool.

 

[DaniPoo]

What would be cool now is if someone figures out a way to put hi-res graphic mods onto these roms.
Similar to texture packs for newer emulators. This is probably not gonna be a big focus as a lot of people like to look at pixels for retro games. And it’s probably going to be tricky to figure it out.

but I would absolutely love to play Mario kart mode-7 widescreen with HD sprite replacements.

 

[BitMasterPlus]

Good for those who want to experience the classics better.

 

[Reynardine]

I’m one of those weirdos who plays the older games in stretched widescreen

Same haha. I can't stand black borders, they drive me crazy.

I stretch all my emulated games to full screen size, even on the switch and 3ds.

 

[SG854]

Will this mod give me wide yoshi?

 

[Plunt]

Will this mod give me wide yoshi?

It gave me a wide yoshi

 

[godreborn]

It gave me a wide yoshi

You stick the wide yoshi into @JuanMena .

 

[zxr750j]

My personal aspect ratio had also changed during the years, but i’m taking measures not letting it get to ultra wide…

 

[Reploid]

GX emulator can make any MegaDrive game even ultrawidecreen. Sega does, what nintendon't.

 

[Moon164]

It's really cool to see Brazilians shining in the retrogamer scene, first the MegaMan X ports for the Sega Genesis and Sonic 1 for the SNES and now this, it's really pretty cool to see.

 

[Razor1993]

Any chance of getting this widescreen hack running on the Analogue Super NT?

 

[hippy dave]

Any chance of getting this widescreen hack running on the Analogue Super NT?

No, the hack requires an emulator which allows modifications compared to how the original system worked, whereas the Super NT is coded to run as close to the original system as possible.

 

[Lucaserf]

It's really cool to see Brazilians shining in the retrogamer scene, first the MegaMan X ports for the Sega Genesis and Sonic 1 for the SNES and now this, it's really pretty cool to see.

There was a port of mega man X for the genesis ? Wow

 

[AmandaRose]

There was a port of mega man X for the genesis ? Wow