Music Is The Secret Weapon Of Mario Speedrunners
Is there anything so satisfying to watch as a well-played Mario speedrun? What makes an expert run of Super Mario Bros. …
Programmer Hacks Cartridge To Run SNES Games On The NES
The homebrew scene is always coming out with ways to emulate old games on new hardware with as much fidelity to the…
People Can Now Beat Super Mario World In Less Than A Minute
Super Mario World has plenty of warps and tricks to help players finish the game faster than usual, but none are as…
Twitch Man Plays Super Mario World Theme With His Nose, Says He Has Perfect Pitch
Jason Yang is a musician and composer who live streams on Twitch, taking song requests to play on his violin, keyboard,…
Nintendo Devs Reminisce About Making The Leap To The SNES
The SNES is old. As much as I love the first Mario Kart, going back and loading up the Mode 7 graphics of Bowser Castle…
Confirmed: Mario Was Originally Punching Yoshi
Among Nintendo fans, there has been dispute as to whether Mario was telling Yoshi to get something or smacking the…
227 Artists Remade An Episode Of Super Mario World's Cartoon
This is The Mama Luigi Project, a year-long effort to bring together over 200 artists so that they could completely…
Dark Souls to Super Mario World: Highlights From Our 12-Hour Stream
Yesterday, my colleague Jason Schreier and I spent 12 hours sitting on my couch and streaming video games. We ate some…
Brutal Super Mario World Hack Has An Even Harder Sequel
Panga’s Super Dram World is a notoriously hard Super Mario World hack. Last week’s sequel, Super Dram World 2, seems no…
Streamer Jailbreaks Super Mario World Cartridge To Run Mods
Streamer and speedrunner Sethbling has taken Super Mario World hacking to the next level. Using a save glitch…
Blindfolded Speedrunner Beats Super Mario World In Under Fourteen Minutes
Clearing Super Mario World in just over thirteen and a half minutes is a stellar achievement no matter what. One…
A New World Record For A Brutal Super Mario World Hack
Super Dram World is an exceptionally cruel Super Mario World hack. It’s an accomplishment to survive a simple…
A New World Record For Beating Super Mario World While Blindfolded
Watch in wonder as a Super Mario World player defeats Bowser without ever setting eyes on him.
Speedrunner Crushes Super Mario World Without Using A Single Power-Up
There were some remarkable speedruns at Summer Games Done Quick 2016, but this might be the most impressive: Rezephos…
Streamer Transforms Super Mario World Into A Whole Other Game Just By Playing
Using an exploit allowing him to write processor instructions to Super Nintendo system memory, speedrunner and Minecraft…
Super Mario World and Other SNES Games Coming To New 3DS
Good news, Virtual Console fans. Starting on March 3rd, a slew of Super Nintendo games will be hitting the new 3DS.
Custom Super Mario World SNES Is A Thing Of Beauty
Custom-themed, limited edition consoles weren’t really a thing back in the day of the SNES and the Genesis, so it’s up…
Happy 25th Birthday, Super Famicom And Friends
On November 21, 1990, Nintendo Japan released three amazing things—the first F-Zero, Super Mario World and a console to…
Super Mario World Music Medley Will Brighten Up Your Day
Super Mario World was great for a lot of reasons, but I think it might have been the music of composer Koji Kondo that…