I was wondering if anyone would like to work on this project idea for 2015. Ok, so, I’ve always wished there was a Mario game on the VB besides Mario Clash(not counting Wario Land), and I looked through the homebrew games and saw Jorgeche made a Mario VB demo a while ago. I was wanting to see, with Jorgeche’s permission of course, if we could finish the rom. Like download what he had and use the sprites and design levels and make it into a full completed game. Would anyone else want to do this? EDIT: We could also use the backgrounds from Mario Tennis also

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I though about continuing (or rather starting over) on this one a couple of times. I never managed to compile the demo in the first place though.

However, I think making a true complete Mario game is a massive undertaking that takes allot of dedication from everyone involved. Personally, I’m tied up with a different game which I will hope to release for the anniversary next year.

You mean 20th, right? It was released in 1995.

Yeah I meant 20th. Sorry.

I say go for it.

I didn’t manage to compile this on VBDE, either. I wouldn’t mind designing some levels and playtesting the game if you can get it to compile. 🙂

Earlier this year I worked with Jorge to bundle a new VBDE version with a new vbJAEngine version plus a barebone demo based on Mario VB. Unfortunately, contact broke and Jorge stopped working on the engine rewrite.

The engine GIT repository on Bitbucket is public, but the barebone demo repo currently is not.

https://bitbucket.org/jorgeche/vbjaengine

I guess that Jorge will grant access to the barebone repo to anyone who (seriously) wants to help with it.

So, as life goes, Jorge got in contact again shortly after my last post above and since then we have been working non-stop on extending the engine and getting it fully working and integrated in VBDE, as well as creating a demo game. For it, we heavily modified and extended Mario VB to create a generic platformer with custom graphics. I guess it will be our anniversary project. 🙂

Anyway, after we got everything done and released later this year, we could of course modify the demo to have a Mario game again.

Yaaay!
It sounds like so many awesome things are taking place this year. Keep up the good work guys. When my masters is done in May I’ll have to catch up on all the developments and recreate my development environment.