Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 – Color Restoration: SMA2 - Super Mario World Color Restoration

A lot of GBA games were released with brighter colors to accommodate the original GBA's dim screen. This always bothered me, so I thought I'd take matters into my own hands and remedy this. All colors were taken directly from the SNES ROM.

There are Patches for the Europe and the USA/Australia release.

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Nov. 7, 2008 - v0.91

Pretty sure I got all the skies now.
Included a patch for the European version.

Nov. 5, 2008 - v0.9

Initial release.

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This patch will restore Super Mario World (Super Mario Advance 2) to the
original SNES color palettes. Pretty sure I've missed some things, so
there'll be another release down the road.

I'm gonna estimate I've got 99% done, but let me know if you find
omissions. There's a few extra palettes I didn't touch because I don't
know what they go to yet. Be on the lookout for anything that wasn't in
the original SNES version, let me know what you find.

Almost forgot to mention, the "Super Mario Advance" title screen,
"choose a game" screen, and the entire Mario Bros. minigame are not
altered (among other things), and possibly won't be. Possibly. Not
really that big of a deal right now, I think.

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I'm going to assume you know how to use IPS patches. I'm also going to
assume you know how to obtain a ROM to patch. Please don't ask me.

U and E patches are included. I could do a patch for the J version if
anyone wants, but I can't imagine I'll get too many requests ;)

I built it using a clean ROM, but it seems to work okay with an intro.

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Special thanks/programs used:

HackMew for the wonderful Advanced Palette Editor
creaothceann for vSNES
Christian Maas's dandy hex editor, XVI32
JASC's ever-useful Paint Shop Pro 3.12
MrClick's TilEd
Tenchi's ips XP
ZSNES team for their emulator
VBA team for VisualBoy Advance
and Nintendo, of course ;)

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lordasaki (at) hotmail (dot) com

Super Mario Advance 2 - Super Mario World (USA, Australia).gba
CRC32: 5206880A
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Super Mario Advance 2 - Super Mario World (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es).gba:
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