Super Mario Bros. 128K (Demo) Walkthrough, ZX Spectrum
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2019
- A walkthrough of the 2019 ZX Spectrum demo, Super Mario Bros. 128K. A pretty decent port of the classic NES game, this demo features most of the first five of the eight worlds of the game. Written for the CaFe 2019 demoparty, it can be downloaded here: events.retroscene.org/cafe201...
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By far the most impressive part is how smooth it scrolls.
i probably wouldve even be surprised if there was even chunky not-so-smooth scrolling due to the limitations of the spectrum, hombrewers have proven us wrong a lot to this day on many obsolete systems
@@Freda_Productions wondering if the game in real spectrum casette would run this smooth. I guess yes as the emulator just 'emulates' the clock cycles of the Speccy, but nonetheless it seems crazy how damn perfect this is, I don´t think this scroll can get any better.
@@luckyknotidk, i dont own a spectrum
Sometimes it's impossible to believe what Spectrum programmers can do. This port isn't perfect, but technically it looks great: music, smooth scrolling and identical sound effects! Is this some kind of magic?
This spent many years in planning and making. The author is also responsible for the previous, already forgotten port of SMB to speccy. The techniques themselves were already known, but they need RAM, so the 48K port was scrapped(but 48k prototypes exist)
@@noop9k Holy moly, those were the same person?! I remembered the older one and thought this was a spiritual successor by someone else. I'd make a "Quantum Leap" joke or something, but it really is a huge step up.
@@The_Boctor The old mario "port" from 2002 was made by the same guy, yes. Also he made the recent Speccy improved port of Nothing.
OMG!!! The underground music is the theme song to Doctor Snuggles. I always think i'm the only one that remembers that show from when I was a kid back in the 80s!!!
because this is a reference to the other zx port
*Lets download this before Nintendo decides to take it down*
That's an amazing achievement. Imagine if that came out back in the day? It would have changed history, and knocked manic miner off the top spot !
LOL indeed. The same is probably true of many modern Spectrum games. A couple that come to mind are The Sword of Ianna, Mighty Final Fight, or even Manic Pietro :)
This needs to be checked, whenever it can be run on original 128k hardware, or it uses some pentagon/scorpion mod. Scrolling is way too smooth for genuine speccy :D
@@Scripture-Man Checked all 3. None has anything special that was not available even on 48K spectrum. Just check Savage 1-2-3, Dan Dare 3, Dynamite Dan 1-2.
Yeah, but imagine sonic 1 on the zx and other computers at the time? That would be awesome.
The one thing Mario was missing was weird klezmer music, so I think we can all agree this is the definitive version.
I REALLY like the added echo on the water music
Didn't know the Spectrum could do this! If this was around back when I had my old speccy, it would have blown my mind!
it's very nice pushing the limits of old hardware, uncovering some aspects we though they weren't on it, this shows also the fact most time we don't unleash 100% the power of technology we buy...(and this is true not only about computers).
The Speccy had a whole assortment of really good platformers though, in fact, I'd say the speccy specialised in good platformers.
@@benpeterjohnson7850 Yeh I don't remember many, if any being able to scroll like that. Most just flipped from one screen to the next.
There were big differences, and yes, there was a habit of each screen being a "next room", and the enemies tended to be a bit more random. But then, if you look at something like the ninja turtles game that came out, that was really impressive.
Wow! It is really amazing what some talented people can do with a spectrum. A 15 year old me would have shit himself if he saw this back in the day.!! Hats off to whoever programmed this. Amazing job.
Thanks for the kind words! Hope you enjoy playing the game.
2:02 now there's that classic underground beat I love. Doo doo doo doo...
Где-то в Японии заполыхает жопа у Нинтендо, и она пообещает подать в суд
Привет!
тоже самое они сделали с портом для Commodore 64,в Nintendo работают одни мудилы
@@mikkkeh об этом и речь. Я бы на их месте бы на оборот радовался, что такая классная игра, что её до сих пор любят, и всячески бы информационно освещал бы появление новых портов... Но этож, блять, Нинтендо
Хммм...а что если запихнуть Марио на все консоли мира? Нинтендо помрёт?
@@user-pw9ko3tt4m ты что!нинтендо же обанкротится,ведь портирование игры 34 летней давности очень влияет на экономику и доходы компании!(рофл)
FANTASTIC! :) :) :) This is one of my favourite videos ever!
I've wanted a Spectrum version of Mario for so long. I've often made my own graphics of how Mario could look on the Spectrum. In fact, just a couple of hours ago I was making Mario Bros 2 Spectrum graphics - then this video pops up! :)
Where to begin praising this amazing game… (It may be a "demo" but it's longer than many full games!) First of all, the music and sound effects are amazing - absolutely spot on. Then there's the brilliant graphics. The loading screen is great too (taken from Mario Sunshine, which came out 20 years later, but never mind).
I just adore the shading/dithering technique used here. One of my biggest dreams is that the Spectrum could have more brightness levels - and this technique allows 5 levels within a single tile.
So you have here not only a playable Mario game, but with the shading routine, AND music, and the whole thing STILL runs at 50fps! Amazing! Huge respect to Sergei Smirnov :)
Thank you for such a great response. Enjoy the game!
I can barely believe this is real
@@SergeiSmirnov God bless Russia! You guys are awesome :)
Speccy never ceases to amaze me 🥰
It's so amazing and impressive what today's homebrew developers can do with ancient hardware!
Awesome. It's amazing what smart cookies can get the 128k Speccy to do. 20 years from now I look forward to a port of The Witcher 3!
Chris Goodson we went from good PCs running super beefy games to making super beefy games on shitty PCs. I am all for this
That game has a homosexual character in it. You're all bitches.
@@AgeofReason Ironic name is ironic.
@@Ceaseless_Watcher There's no reason homosexuality, which targets children should be accepted and tolerated.
@@AgeofReason Haha! You're liking your own comments! You're full of hate because you're unemployed and unemployable and sliding towards 41. Having dumb opinions and conflating homosexuality with paedophilia won't get you a debate out of me, nor will it fix your situation.
50 FPS game engine for ZX Spectrum 128K running at 3.5 MHz. Software side-scroller. One-frame logic pipeline. REALLY AWESOME !!! it squeezes at 100% the old Zilog. Incredible scroll and sensitiveness. This graphics in 1986 would be really mind-blowing!!!. I can imagine this game in 80's, a Nintendo-ZX Spectrum +3 Special Edition Pack in a 720kb disquette with a lot of levels and enemies and the Spectrum +3 in the pack. It would had rise the solds of +3 to the skies. You are a really brilliant programmer. So superb Work.
Brilliant to see this on the Speccy
Nintendo: That's a nice game you got there. Be a shame if someone were to..... send you it cease and desist.
How good to live in Russia, where the police use Windows from torrents and don't care about c'n'd letters from american and japanese patent trolls. Recently Eugene "sinc lair" Chavez and Sanchez (Power Blade for ZX Spectrum developers) received similar letter from Taito. They laughed and continued their work.
@@RedOverlord2017 sounds awesome
my all-time 'what if?' gaming question is finally answered! fantsatic job
@Mind Control Experiments really?
@Mind Control Experiments apologies.i didn't intend to cause offence. My 'what-if?' was whether the Speccy could run a playable Super Mario. (Again, sorry. My bad)
Some programmer: Makes Mario for the ZX Spectrum
Nintendo: Oh, okay.
Another programmer: Makes Mario for the Commodore 64 (requiring an addon)
Nintendo: *That wasn't very cash money of you*
Joke's on Shittendo
Both versions are still relatively easy to get. There are like at LEAST four links for the C64 version on archive.org for example. Shitendo only took down tow of the MANY links to the game.
Hell just download the gamebase isos and you can even get the trained version of the game
Наконец таки Спек спустя 35 лет приблизился к уровню NES
Me: Mom can we have Mario?
Mom: we already have Mario at home
Mario at home:
Nintendo: hippity hoppity, this game is no more and Mario is my property.
Wow, that is really impressive for a speccy, great job.
I like how 2-2 is just a flooded 1-1
The colors are amazing!
Just shows what potential the ZX Spectrum 128K had as well as other platforms never got to see their full potential.
Imagine if Nintendo created this back in the day and on the ST or Amiga it would of been just like the Arcade version.
I love how it progressively gets more and more bootleggy with the different musics and enemies lol. Nice stuff.
Fast and smooth game play. Very impressive!
So this is basically improved version of Sergei's Smirnov's game for Your Game 2002 competition.
Thanks for sharing this
I thought, why not continue what I wanted to do back in 2002 ... and now, this is a completely new engine written from scratch. In general, it is not just Mario game, but an engine for creating similar arcade games for ZX Spectrum.
@@SergeiSmirnov Are you using bits of the original SMB source code? And are you planning on making both a 100% accurate port and a fanmade version with custom levels? :)
@@Jeansowaty No, I am not using the original source code or its parts. Everything is written anew. And I am planning to develop a fan-version only.
I prefer to use original 128K machines, and a 100% accurate port is not the option for original ZX Spectrum 128K :)
@@SergeiSmirnov Ah, alright. Kind of sad, I was hoping I could do the minus world glitch like in other ports, haha. But still, good luck with the project ;)
@@Jeansowaty Thanks! :)
You can find another SMB port for ZX Evolution made by AloneCoder earlier, it's running @14Mhz.
AloneCoder had used a 100% of original sources, rewritten to Z80 CPU, and therefore he kept all the nuances and glitches.
very nice work, hats off!
Exceptional skills. I honestly can't quite get my head around believing this is real.
power up sounds are beautiful
Круто!!! Никогда бы не подумал что Марио выходил на спектруме!!!))) Спасибо за ролик)
Не выходил. Это лишь технодемо 2019 года
Выходил. Несколько дней назад.
@@noop9k я имею ввиду что в свое время не вышел, т.е. в 80е-90е года
Omega Rockman к тебе вопросов нет
@@noop9k По моему выходил и раньше но был слишком убогим даже что бы задержаться и поиграть
Woow ,this is mind blowing ,i never knew the ZX spectrum could generate audio as good as a typical famiclone,wich in itself is already close,, i also do like the colission detection under waterwhere you still can just grab mushrooms or break blocks,something sadly not possible in the nes or snes version of that game,am also very stun about that mario picture how it turns out well on the ZX spectrum!!!
That’s pretty amazing!
Wow! This is so impressive!
This is the best Zx spectrum game out of all Zx spectrum games
0:02 incredible image
Best ZX Mario ever!!!
World 1-2 02:18 doctor snuggles theme tune, ohmydays haven’t heard that in about 30 years plus lol fantastic achievement and very little colour clash, this would have decimated all if it was released what back when
This is awesome 😎
"played by someone who clearly never played mario before"
Doctor Snuggles theme tune, (in case anyone's trying to place it).
I thought it was that! Thought it a bit strange to use in computer game.
I loved Dr Snuggles!!! God, I'm old :-D
Christ...🎶 Dr Snuggles Friend of the Animal world 🎶 ... I loved watching that... completely forgot about it... Now I've got that stuck in my head I need to listen to some Megadeth or Slayer lol 🤘🏻
@@pbarratt73 Dr Snuggles was a bugger for his Megadeth. He listened to them loads in episode 4.
@@DVDfeverGames ha ha ha ITV must of edited it out when I seen it 😂
Download this game here: events.retroscene.org/cafe2019/gamecompo/2217
how can I play it ? I managed to load it onto two diff zx spectrum emulator, but I can't move whatsoever 😅
@@jonny_0093 Try ZX32, it works there nicely, just verified.
What's the graphics flicker like on HW?
Just great !
Superb work and very impressive! I'd really appreciate some technical information about how it can run so smooth.
Some guessing:
All tiles are pre-rotated. Every pair of tiles that are adjacent are rotated together, so tile data can be copied to screen.
Sprites are ORed to screen, but can be copied instead if target location is empty. This can be decided on a per scanline basis.
No back buffer, everything painted directly to screen while being aware of horizontal raster position to avoid flickering.
Sprites are erased by zeroing out previous location, but a data structure is used to minimize cleared area (taking into account overlapping sprites, and new location of sprite).
Perhaps in the near future I will write a couple of articles on how it all works
Great Spectrum Version. Why some many games on ZX Spectrum had not have such a fluid horizontal scrolling?!
The good scrolling techniques that can be used with these resources weren't very well known yet.
I LOVE IT
Excellent!
Is there something the 128 does that makes this faster (like unrolling large amounts of code or pre-rotated sprites etc into RAM) or does it rely on there being a certain amount of 'blank' tiles onscreen etc?
Speed is awesome!
lets see how long this lasts
i'll give it a week and 11 minutes
Awesome ! :)
Compromises were made....... But they achieved something which resembles mario.
The graphics are clear and the scrolling and animation are very smooth, but there are no backgrounds at all, and is it actually all there too? I was really impressed at first but maybe a little more... nice big mario though. Didn't nintendo recently ban a c64 version?
Looking forward to playing Diablo on my Spectrum, or C64
ZX Spectrum can do everything :)
Can it run Crysis?
Much Better than the donkey kong ports
C64: Requires an accelerator to run super mario properly. ZX Spectrum: Hold my beer.
craigix they just need to make the rest of the game and do it properly...
))))
Actually it can run on a stock C128 without an accelerator too without any slowdown
@@satan3959 так то да, но это забавно)
So that's what happened with that old demo that I used to play quite a bit back then.
That's a great game for the speccy. It's better than the last effort for the speccy.
This is an amazing upgrade from Gogin's 2002 version.
The 2002' source code was not used. Everything is written anew
@@dmitry_kokhno графика читается стеком. Иначе не успеть :) Но чтобы не попасть в тормоза на целое прерывание, возможны ситуации, когда движок начинает работать вне прерываний некоторое количество кадров.
@@SergeiSmirnov Прочитал описание игрового цикла в комментариях внизу, стало яснее. Видно что проделан большой труд по выработке оптимальной стратегии. Это можно сказать прорыв. Надеюсь, вы не остановитесь на достигнутом и сделаете Соника :)
@@dmitry_kokhno Соника уже сделали :) Правда, не под классический ZX Spectrum, а под TS-Conf. Там очень мощная работа проделана, сконвертировано графическое ядро целиком. А в отношении текущего движка, я думаю, что под классику можно лепить подобные игры-платформеры, коих на Dendy в свое время было очень много.
@@SergeiSmirnov да простят меня спектрум-модеры, но я не считаю эву спектрумом, поскольку она лишилась главного, аппаратных ограничений и вышла в другую категорию машин. Это всё-равно что взрослый спортсмен победит в детских соревнованиях, да ещё и при этом будет хвастаться этим. Соник под спектрум, это действительно амбициозная задача, я бы сказал, сверхзадача.
Gimme time machine, this game and lemme back in 80s :D
oh my damn
it's better than the one from 2013
Isn't it weird that the MSX was more advanced than the ZX Spectrum and yet this plays 10 times better than Super Boy I?
Just awesome... one question only, why is mario B&W? The rest is just perfect. Congratulations
ZX Spectrum graphics allows only 2 colors within a single 8x8 pixels area.
when a game sound is played, the uppest voice of the music stops playing. this is because all channels of the 8 bit music generator are full with music voices and there is no separate channel for voices. so when you here a jump sound, you will hear an abcense of a note.
Amazing for the humble Speccy. If the background had some colour, it would be even more awesome.
don't be greedy! its a speccy
I agree about the background colour. The water level at 7:02 uses blue instead of black, and to me that looks much more like real Mario. I would have used the blue throughout, with black just for underworld levels.
Shame the spectrum only had 8 colours and no brown.cracking port
@@benprastitis3341 if background was just white i dont think its being greedy and i think it would be nicer
@@mikelong230 The brown colour comes when you see Mario Bros running on a Spectrum! :)
cool mario game
Looks stellar, but what's the deal with the reused levels? It's a reoccurring theme that not many have mentioned. Is it to save space, or is there another reason for it?
Probably simply because it's a demo.
Gostei. Bom trabalho!
i really love the new look, but i think some level designs could have been made differently than remaking the old levels from the original nes game
Absolutely agree.
Someone makes a demo port of Super Mario Bros for ZX Spectrum 8 years ago, is this also ported by the same person later then?
Amazing, top work! Can you do sonic the hedgehog next please!
First, I would like to implement all my ideas in the mario engine, then release this engine itself
Why music in rom different from music in the video? Copyright issues?
The ground and castle music sounds pretty goofy, and I like it more than the original
why have they change the music of the underworld levels?
This is so much better then the Atari 2600 version, that console was just too limited even at the max of it's powers. But this looks playable
Феерично !
Now please port this to the Amstrad CPC :D
And port Super Mariop World to the Amiga
@@satan3959 Oh that would be neat
The levels from World 2 onward and the music theme other than the classic ground theme are completely different...
Is that really an AY chip making that sound track? Outstanding
It is, here's a video of it running on real hardware: th-cam.com/video/-bW6mo81voI/w-d-xo.html
Yes, this is the AY chip.
Why not use this to make a better and smoother version of the game Super Mario Bros. Special?
Why is there Doctor Snuggles music?...
They re-used tunes from another guy who did Mario on spectrum earlier, but did not did the same tune, for unknown reason
¡Qué pasada? 😱
Super Mario: Night Mode
I love the new songs. They could pass for official Mario game songs
Thanks! These songs were taken from the 2002' version of SMB
This uses the same songs as that SMB demo from 2004... Also looks similar but with more colors. What this made by the same person?
Yep, the same person. :)
HOW MANY 1-1's ARE THERE???
If Ultimate Play the Game, A.K.A. Rare Ltd., ported Super Mario Bros. to ZX Spectrum.
4:51 -- lol
Так вот это Сережа 7 лет делал. Весьма плавненько.
примерно три года, чуть больше.
Amazing job, congrats all involved!! although I agree the colors could have been better, and even better using the interlaced technique recently discovered which allows the speccy to have 128 colors (facebook.com/groups/1066251293516270/), then it would look like a nes or even better.
But why is the video looking like it is interlaced? is it you tube, the video codec, or some engine feature?
The reason is that the rendering engine is designed to run at 50 FPS on real hardware. And most video converters and players on a PC display a picture of 60 FPS. Some emulators, however, are able to smooth out flicker, but it will not be as perfect as at 50 frames per second.
@@SergeiSmirnov thanks fot the explanation. TH-cam should have support for 50 fps, some codecs have
BTW congratularions for your incredible work! Hope you finish it, or suport for gigascreen interlaced,and if you want support with graphics, you can count on me
@@xanvision You mean horizontal interlaced line by line, not a chess fill pattern?
@@SergeiSmirnov just vertical. Please follow that facebook group or this youtube channel (th-cam.com/channels/PAeyJwHf55LgvEP_x5vCFw.htmlvideos) and @george will explain it to you. I think you will find the technic interesting because we are talking of double resolution and almost 128 colors on original 128k spectrum at almost no cpu cost, just memory and the obvious price of managing more graphic data. Your engine could not move a game @50fps but maybe 25-20
watch in 360 and a flicker is gone.
that first level was played like someone who never played super mario before...seriously who tries to go down the last pipe on the stage and misses the one up
how do i even run it?
Well this is super mario bros on PCE
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