is this real?

Post by **mrgoodbytes** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:02 pm

mario on the 2600... if so I'm impressed, the physics look exact [which leads me to believe its fake]

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech ... 0-makeover

Post by **diehllane** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:03 pm

That's what SMB would look like if it would've been on the Atari 2600... I also saw one recently of what Super Mario Galaxy would've looked like had it been on the SNES.

Post by **Mozgus** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:18 pm

This is just a sprite hack of the NES ROM most likely. They said the 2600 couldn't have done sounds or text like that, but I also say 2600 couldn't have done physics like that. They were very complex for the time.

Post by **lordofduct** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:30 pm

now check out this Atari 2600 makeover of the original game.

Yeah like Moz said, just a sprite hack most likely. On top of the physics issues, the 2600 couldn't handle that many independent simultaneous sprites either.

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:02 pm

lordofduct wrote:
now check out this Atari 2600 makeover of the original game.
Yeah like Moz said, just a sprite hack most likely. On top of the physics issues, the 2600 couldn't handle that many independent simultaneous sprites either.

Yeah, it would have been one crappy game.
I think 2600 Pac-Man would have been far better.

Post by **mrgoodbytes** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:59 pm

but is it really just a rom hack? I couldnt catch everything they were saying when they were talking about using the fireball in 1-2, made it sound like there was ALOT more involved in this than just replacing textures.