Super Mario Bros. 2: Super Mario Bros. 2 - POW and Eye Hack Nintendo Entertainment System

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Mario, Luigi, and Peach have had their eyes graphically hacked to match how they look in the menu screens. The POW block graphic has also been bugfixed: the letter "O" was misaligned in one frame.

Mix it with http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2600/ for best results.

The patch should work for any region of ROM, but not the beta.

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Jan. 30, 2018 - v1.0
Public release, "whites" no longer drawn.

Jun. 03, 2017 - v0.9
Initial test release.

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"Just because", I graphically hacked Mario, Luigi, and Peach to have
their eyes match how they look in the menu screens. I almost always play
as Toad, so I never noticed how weird the whites of their eyes look,
especially when they flicker. Thanks to SpiderDave, now the whites are
not rendered at all, so the entire game will have slightly less flicker.

I've also bugfixed the POW block graphic: the letter "O" was misaligned
in one frame.

Feel free to pick this apart and throw it into other hacks. If you just
want the POW fix, I believe the two tiles are at 0x027410 and 0x027430.

Mix it with SpiderDave's Improvement patch for best results:
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2600/

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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.

The included patch will work fine on either NES U ROM revision, but
REV A is preferred, since it has a few bugfixes.
I quickly tested the E and J ROMs, and those seem to be working fine.
The beta ROM does not comply.

As with my other patches, feel free to use this as a base for your own
projects, as long as I am credited in the readme.

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Special thanks/programs used:

SpiderDave for finding the "white" drawing addresses: 0x01F3AD
Martin Freij for Nestopia
Bloodlust Software for NESticle
YY for YY-CHR
Ma?l H?rz for HxD Hex Editor
FuSoYa for Lunar IPS
and Nintendo, of course ;)

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lordasaki (at) hotmail (dot) com

No-Intro Name: Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) (Rev A)
(No-Intro version 20130731-235630)
File SHA-1: 67F68CABC5237A5892AFF746F5B784C62FCCDFAC
ROM SHA-1: FF5BCACF7417B4DE1C49F9E54C2905D91391455B
Time to Beat
Main Story 2h 59m
Main + Extras 3h 1m
Speedrun Avg 0h 18m
Release Date
Jan 30, 2018
6 years ago
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