Comments on: The Princess is a Lie....You Monster.

The Princess is a Lie....You Monster.

schmod — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:18:22 -0800

Mari0 is a Super Mario Bros and Portal mashup currently under development. Previously, the same developer made Not Tetris; a faithful reimagining of the original game, but with the addition of realistic physics and geometry.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:21:59 -0800

The IM indicator sounds mixed into that video are really distracting.

By: theredpen

theredpen — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:23:13 -0800

That is the single coolest thing I have ever seen.

By: Uppity Pigeon #2

Uppity Pigeon #2 — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:43:05 -0800

Much Less angering than Portal Tetris.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:44:20 -0800

By: P.o.B.

P.o.B. — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:29:55 -0800

Honestly I find most of the "re-imagined" games to be bad imitations that fail at really capturing what that game is about. Portal seems to be one of the games I'get seen this done a lot with and every time I just end up thinking "that's not Portal, not even close", but I'll have to admit this was done right.

By: davejay

davejay — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:47:45 -0800

Perfect.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:55:13 -0800

Hello? Excuse me! I don't blame you.

By: chemoboy

chemoboy — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:07:22 -0800

I literally just drooled on my keyboard from slackjaw.

By: Chekhovian

Chekhovian — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:05:06 -0800

Yawn.... Oooooooohhhhhhhhhh......

By: Brodiggitty

Brodiggitty — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:29:56 -0800

See! I told you you can jump the flag at the end! My cousin's best friend's next door neighbor did it once.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:17:14 -0800

Ooh this is really really great.

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:56:09 -0800

I couldn't find it on a quick browse of his site... is this being done in LUA?

By: dosterm

dosterm — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:25:40 -0800

I hope they make a version where Mario can't jump very high. As is the portal mechanic is kinda superfluous. It might be more fun if you had to negotiate your way through the world with just the portal gun. I doubt this would convert flawlessly on all levels but you could probably make some small tweaks and get it to work.

By: dosterm

dosterm — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:28:02 -0800

I know, a Mario who can't jump is like rain on your wedding day, but still.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:26:08 -0800

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:49:04 -0800

Not exactly what you're talking about, but I thought this was clever for a SMW hack. (warning, the absolute worst narrator ever) There's an emulator called FCEUX and a scripting language called LUA which can be combined to do some pretty crazy stuff in the vanilla engine. It looks like this is a custom engine that the guy is working with, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it was the original engine with LUA scripting over top. There was a pretty cool post about it a few years back.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:47:40 -0800

I couldn't find it on a quick browse of his site... is this being done in LUA? Yeah, their fact sheet says it is done in the Löve engine. It's amazing they can do something this awesome and not even index their arrays properly .

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:44:59 -0800

Any mefite out there able to comment on whether such a mechanic would have been achievable on the original NES hardware? Seems like it very well could have been, but I might be misunderstanding something. The portals themselves all line up nicely along tile lines. However, drawing half a sprite in one place and half a sprite in another would be a problem. I don't think the NES had anything in terms of sprite masking. So you would need to cheat and make the portal "glow" large to cover up the fact you are drawing things in two places at once. Mario also didn't have any physics to deal with things going sideways, so that would complicate things quite a bit in terms of how to deal with collisions. It also requires a lot of extra graphic memory since I don't believe you could rotate sprites on the NES. They also couldn't rotate smoothly if you wanted a goomba to get back on his feet after falling on his side. The rest comes down to if there's enough processor speed to deal with checking if everything is in two places at once. Dealing with a vine going through a portal (especially a sideways one) would be a headache, but you could probably design levels around that. Same goes for the spinning fire lines and fireballs in the castles. The original Super Mario also didn't allow you to backtrack, so that move at :38s wouldn't be possible. But you could backtrack in later NES Mario games, so that was a limitation of the game, not the hardware.

By: zixyer

zixyer — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:32:49 -0800

I don't think the NES had anything in terms of sprite masking.

I think it did have some support for this, for when Mario went down a pipe. But it might only be vertical masking.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:43:52 -0800

You're right, the portals could act like the pipes do, of course. It's not masking like I was thinking but you can set sprite priority to draw below the background.

By: purephase

purephase — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:57:28 -0800

This is amazing.