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Super Mario All-Stars is a collection of the four main NES/Famicom Super Mario Bros. titles, upgraded to take advantage of the SNES' improved hardware. Unlike most SNES games, all of the graphics data is uncompressed. There's a lot of unused stuff here, some of which suggests that All-Stars may have originally been developed as a more straightforward port of the games.
In 2010, a completely-unchanged ROM image was packaged with an officially-coded Virtual Console emulator and slapped on a Wii disc for the 25th Anniversary of Super Mario Bros.
General
Content not specific to any particular game.
Unused Nintendo Logo
This alternate version of the Nintendo logo can be found among the sprite graphics for Super Mario Bros. Unlike the final version, the racetrack surrounding the text is less round, and the logo isn't paired with a giant Mario coin.
Unused Sounds
The majority of the game's sound effects were imported directly from Super Mario World. This includes a number of sounds that ultimately went unused, such as Yoshi's sounds. It's likely that these are just leftovers, and were not actually meant to be used in Super Mario All-Stars.
Debug Mode
To activate debugging features for all four games, either use the code 008C1E01 or set SRAM address 700007 to 01 in a debugger.
All Games
Super Mario Bros./The Lost Levels
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
(Note that this does not activate the debugging features left over from the NES version; the 'new' method of changing suits is glitchy, does not apply the correct palette, and does not allow you to toggle Goomba's Shoe.)
Placeholder Text
Some image banks in the ROM have placeholder text that marks where graphics will be loaded in-game.
Before
The black text box is プレイヤー, translated as 'Player', marking where the Player graphics are stored in VRAM. The three orange tiles are パワ床 (POW Block), スイショウ (Crystal), and フラスコ (Flask).
(Source: BMF54123, Tauwasser (additional translation support))
Before
Taken from the Battle Mode tile bank. Again, the black box is プレイヤー (Player), marking where Mario and Luigi's graphics are stored.
(Source: BMF54123, Tauwasser (additional translation support))
Before
From the Super Mario Bros. 3 tileset, this text translates as 'Mario, Luigi' and denotes the location of the player graphics.
(Source: BMF54123, Tauwasser (additional translation support))
Before
This text block appears in both Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2. BGカキカエ エリア translates as 'BG Transfer Area', and is used to indicate the location of animated background tiles in VRAM.
(Source: BMF54123, Tauwasser (additional translation support))
Before
Hopefully this doesn't need translating. 'PLAYER' marks the slot for player graphics in the Super Mario Bros. and Lost Levels ending sequence.
Unused Pause Screen Option
Found in all versions of Super Mario All-Stars, this text is located with the rest of the pause menu graphics. またもうやめ translates as 'Take a Break'. What this would actually do is unknown.
(Source: BMF54123, Tauwasser (Additional translation support))
Unused Spiny Egg Behavior
In Super Mario Bros. and The Lost Levels, the Spiny eggs are thrown by Lakitu in a simple way, with no horizontal movement whatsoever. However, this is not the intended behavior; it's actually the result of a bug! The eggs are supposed to be thrown out relative to the player's speed, Lakitu's speed, the player's position, and a pseudo-random value, as well as bounce off of any blocks or walls that they hit on the way down. The following patch will fix the Spiny egg bug in the NTSC version:
(Source: ZeroShifts Spiny egg function patch)
Anti-Piracy
As a means of copy protection, all versions of Super Mario All-Stars perform a check to see how much SRAM is present: the game writes a value to $702000, then compares it with the value at $700000. If the values match (due to address mirroring), it means 8 KB of SRAM is present and the cart is likely genuine, but if the values are different, it means more than 8 KB of SRAM is present and the game is likely running on a copier. If the latter scenario occurs, the game stops and throws up a warning message.
The message text differs between versions, but the location of the routine is the same; to trigger it, use Pro Action Replay code 1180508F and choose Super Mario Bros. 2/Super Mario USA from the game menu.
Super Mario Bros.
The game that started this whole mess.
Unused Graphics
Yes, even this port has unused graphics.
Ending text graphics which appear after the Princess Toadstool sprites. This is supposed to be for...well, The End. Given the different sizes, it was probably supposed to be animated.
This is what it would look like.
A 'PAUSE' graphic which might have been used before the save menu was implemented.
This page appears to have been used as a 'scratch pad' for testing multiple variations of some common Mario poses. None of these graphics are used by the game itself. The red and blue sections of the palette are swapped compared to the final version. These graphics were used in Nintendo Power video previews and can be seen in screenshots on the back of the North American Box.
Early
An early Mushroom Retainer, found in the main enemy graphics bank. This was likely used before the unique 'castle clear' cutscenes were implemented. Only the top half of the second frame was cleaned up and reused in the final game.
An early Princess Toadstool. She's quite short here, much like her original Super Mario Bros. counterpart.
16-bit renditions of the original 8-bit Super Mario Bros. tiles, and a unique ground tile not found in the original game.
An unused piece for the underground background.
An alternate sea coral. What's more interesting is that it's animated, unlike the coral block used in the final! Judging by its' darker coloring and lack of black outlines, it's likely these were meant as background decoration, and not actually of the level.
Unused Text
The ending text of the original NES version is present, but not used. It had already been altered to take into account some changes in All-Stars: 'BUTTON B' was changed to 'BUTTON Y' in accordance with the All-Stars control scheme, and 'SELECT A WORLD' was changed to 'START A URA-WORLD' since you can no longer select the world from the title screen.
(Source: Mattrizzle)
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
Also known as Super Mario Bros. 2. Super Mario All-Stars was the first time players outside Japan got to play this entry.
Unused Graphics
The Super Mario Bros. graphic set contains tiles for an early Super Mario Bros. 2 logo that is much closer to the original FDS style than the final All-Stars one: the letters are taller, the 'FOR SUPER PLAYERS' subtitle is missing, and the star (indicating how many times you've beaten 8-4) is present
A mockup of what the logo would look like with the above tiles.
Unused Text
This text is loaded on layer 1 of the preview screen shown before a level starts, but is never visible. This was used in the original FDS version when you successfully beat the first eight worlds without using warps, thus unlocking the secret World 9. This doesn't happen in All-Stars, where you're simply taken straight to 9-1. The text contains the apostrophe and quotation marks, but these characters aren't present in the font used in All-Stars, so they appear as garbage.
This was used when dying in World 9 in the FDS version but, again, doesn't appear in All-Stars. For reasons unknown, besides the apostrophe, the N character in the word 'AGAIN' appears broken as well.
The original ending text of the FDS version. As with the FDS game's message, the last two lines' palette settings are different than the rest, though in this case it's a pinkish color not used by anything else in the game. It should be noted that the All-Stars version does not have the 100,000-point bonus for each extra life remaining, likely because the game's save function includes your current life count (capped at 128, which can easily be accumulated at the structure just into World 1-1) and goes level-by-level, which would make it rather easy to get an absurdly-high score.
(Source: jdaster64: World 9 text, Mattrizzle: other text)
Super Mario Bros. 2
Also known as Super Mario USA and 'Doki Doki Panic Romhack'.
Unused Graphics
These slot graphics are based on the NES version, but the 7 is brand new! These were discarded for the larger slot icons.
A tomato that should've appeared in Wart's boss chamber, as it does in the NES version. Instead, it's replaced by the cabbage-looking thing from World 2.
An unused fire sprite very similar to the original NES version. The final game has an animated spinning fireball instead.
Graphics ported directly from the NES version, unmodified.
The mountain/cavern tiles from the NES version, revamped for All-Stars, but left unused in favor of new and better terrain design.
This was the block that composed the icy terrain in ice levels in the NES version. It suffered the same treatment as the cavern tiles above.
The dark lines in this tile match the wood tiles from the 'inside tree' sections of World 5 in the original game, which means this could be a revamp of said tiles, though it doesn't look anything like wood.
This could be an early version of the bricks pattern seen in tower sections, based more closely on the original design from the NES version.
A static, non-animated, whale tail.
Via the Debug Mode, it's possible to see a wall of otherwise-unused colored bricks placed to the right of Wart's chamber. These are styled after the bricks used in the NES version, and were replaced with a completely different design in the remake...though evidently not completely replaced.
Unused Music
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A fanfare not present in the NES version. Possibly an alternate win cue for the slot machine? This fanfare would later be used in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 for when you win the picture slots minigame.
Suicide Cheat
Carried over from the NES version, just without the need for a second controller. In all versions, pause the game then hold L + R and press Select to cause the player to lose a life.
Super Mario Bros. 3
Since this was essentially a direct port of the NES game, this has the most unused content! For more information, see the Super Mario Bros. 3 article.
Sub-Pages
Old Debug Mode
While a new debug mode was put into the game, the old NES debug mode can still be accessed with the code 7E016080...although this unfortunately doesn't seem to activate the level select. Press Select to cycle through Mario's forms, or Select + A/B/X/Y to toggle Goomba's Shoe.
Due to a programming oversight, the old debug mode has a tendency to randomly enable itself on real SNES consoles. See the Notes page for the technical details.
(Source: BMF54123)
Unused Spade Game Behavior
Just like in the original game, the Spade game has an unused counter variable which controls how many times you get to play. Setting the value at address 0x7E1019 to any value besides 00 during the game will allow you to keep trying until either you win, or the counter reaches zero (whichever comes first). Simply press A, B, or Start to spin the reels again.
Unused Enemies
Like in the original Super Mario Bros. 3, two enemies remain unused in the remake.
A gold version of the Cheep-Cheep enemy. These only appear in the seventh unused level, and always come in groups of three. They swim faster than normal Cheep-Cheeps, in a wave-like motion.
A faster green version of the Para-Beetle enemy. These enemies only appear in the ninth and tenth unused levels, and can only be generated by the also-unused Green Para-Beetle spawner.
Unused Text
Present near the Super Mario Bros. 3 graphics. Probably development text that was left in the ROM.
Regional Differences
Title ScreenJapan
In Japan, Super Mario All-Stars is called Super Mario Collection, and the title screens reflect the regional releases. In Collection, the logo characters offer a broad flashing palette, whereas in the international versions the title logo is rather bland, still flashing albeit less frequently.
Pressing Start before the lights turn on causes the game to go to the menu straight away, rather than the lights turning on first (as is the case in the international versions). A glitch can be performed in the international versions where the title music still plays by timing the Start button just right before the light switch transition.
The 'in the dark' chatter is also different between the Japanese and international versions. This was changed because the line, 'One more beer please' can be heard in the background in the Japanese version, and Nintendo of America did not allow mention of alcoholic drinks at the time.
Japan
(Source: Japanese Nintendo Official Strategy Guidebook)
Main Menu
The Japanese version uses the original box art for each game on the main menu, whereas the international versions use the US box art. For whatever reason, Nintendo opted not to rescan the boxes for the European version, and instead edited the US versions to add a few Europe-specific details, such as the round Nintendo seals and the changed dates.
The international versions also received a few other minor touchups, including larger shadows, a white arrow border, and brighter colors.
For the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, which was unreleased elsewhere, Nintendo simply took the Famicom Disk System box and edited it to say Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (with part of the original black text being moved down below the logo) while removing Diskun, the FDS mascot. The European version doesn't list a year.
Japan
The Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 is referred to as Super Mario Bros. 2: For Super Players on its title screen, a subtitle that would later be used for the Super Mario Bros. 2 mode of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. The international versions also added a trademark icon.
Japan
The US/European Super Mario Bros. 2 is referred to as Super Mario USA in the Japanese version, with both the original 1988 and later 1992 release dates; its title screen uses both of these and the 1993 release date which was appended to all four games. Also, the logo for Super Mario USA uses a brighter shade of blue that the Super Mario Bros. 2 one.
Japan
The level cards were also changed, although interestingly the international logo looks far more like the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 logo.
Japan
The Super Mario Bros. 3 date was also changed (1988 for Japan, 1990 for America).
The 'FILE' text in the file select menus is pink in the Japanese version, and red everywhere else. The controller button colors in the US version were changed to purple and lavender, and the Y and X buttons were made concave. The European version retains the original button colors, but removes the glossy look for some reason.
Revisional Differences
In December 1994 (1995 for Europe), Super Mario All-Stars was reissued as Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World, and was released solely as a pack-in title in the US. As this edition was not released in Japan, Super Mario World is based on its American release featuring slight changes.
Title ScreenAll-Stars
Aside from the addition of '+ Super Mario World', the title screen's background was changed to orange, 'All-Stars' to blue, the floor to pink, and the copyright info to light red with a dark red outline. Birdo was moved to a sitting position in the front, pushing the Spiny towards the center, and Yoshi was put in Birdo's former place. Bowser's snout was shifted slightly to the right, and the shading on Peach's crown was fixed.
Main Menu
The menu was of course updated to add the Super Mario World box and info. As a result, the other four games were positioned closer together, and the shadows underneath the boxes were reverted to their smaller Super Mario Collection versions.
Interestingly, the Super Mario World box used in the European version does not match any known PAL release of the game (three variations of which can be seen here, here, and here), but appears to have been created from scratch.
The NES boxes were rescanned and resized. Once again, Nintendo scanned only one set of these boxes for the US and European versions, but this time they opted to use the European 'NES Version' boxes as the source, editing them in the US version to replace the European-style round seal with a US-style oval one (but neglecting to remove the telltale extra 'NES Version' text).
Oddly, the Lost Levels box replaced the black text below the logo with a much larger 'stamp' graphic, which clarified that it had not been released in America (Europe in the European version). The '1986' graphic was also removed.
All-Stars
When selecting Super Mario World, the controller settings at the lower-left corner is replaced by a picture of Yoshi with 'YOSHI!' below it, as World uses its own distinct control system. Pressing Select to change controls plays the same error sound heard when trying to change worlds in a new file. Selecting a file causes Yoshi to wink, while deleting one causes him to lick his lips. Also, the 'FILE' text was reverted to pink.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Pausing and exiting the in-game menu takes one second longer, for some reason.
Super Mario WorldSuper Mario World
Super Mario World itself was altered a bit, most notably to give Luigi a set of unique sprites based on his distinct Super Mario Bros. 2 appearance (although certain sprites, such as ducking on Yoshi or running sideways using a triangle ramp, weren't altered). In addition, a fourth save file was added, the unique '96 exits' completion marking was removed, and the player can return to the All-Stars menu by pressing Select on the map screen and selecting the option.
Unlike the other All-Stars games, there is no uniform pause menu and 1-Player/2-Player modes are not 'locked' into the save files.
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Super Mario All-Stars: 25th Anniversary Edition is a video game compilation having the same contents as Super Mario All-Stars developed by Nintendo for the Wii. It was released in Japan on October 21, 2010, in Australia on December 2, 2010, in Europe on December 3, 2010, and in North America on December 12, 2010. The game is part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. and includes an emulated ROM of the original Super Mario All-Stars. The game is bundled with a 32-page book of Mario's history, and a 25.24-minute soundtrack audio CD of music through the whole series.
Emulation InformationController Map Overlap
Super Mario All-Stars: 25th Anniversary Edition is capable of using both GameCube controllers and Wii Remotes. If a physical controller is set to emulate both a GameCube Controller and a Wii Remote concurrently, it will operate both devices at the same time. To fix, migrate controls to use separate physical controllers.
ProblemsTexture Cache Issues
Texture Cache Accuracy must be set to 'Safe' to avoid delays in sprite updates with medium/fast.
EnhancementsAspect Ratio Correction
The Widescreen Hack will not work for this game. The game is usually stretched with the Widescreen mode of the Wii. It can all be fixed with a Gecko code.
NAConfiguration
Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.
Graphics
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Super Mario All-Stars: 25th Anniversary Edition since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.
5.0-10560(current)
2.0(r5384)
Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.
Testing
This title has been tested on the environments listed below:
Gameplay Videos
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