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SMB Remix is an episode that was born out of an idea that I had after watching several videos of SMM/SMM2, where there was always a modified version of the classic 1-1, so I thought:
"Why not take this to all levels of SMB?"

SMB Remix then happened, where I redid all the levels of SMB, adding some gimmick/twist, making them more... interesting.
The episode is more focused for skilled players, the difficult is quite elevated, so I don't recommend this episode for noobs/newbies.

Gifs:

Download (v1.0):

The episode has 14 achievements and a special world that is only accessible when finishing the episode for the first time.

Bugs, errors, advices, numbers of your credit card ?
Just post on the thread and I will see them when I have time.

Credits:
Launcher - Created using SMBX Mario Challenge as example.
AwesomeZack, MadNyle, Sednaiur & BackwardsPingeon1985 - Custom NES SMB1 playable Mario
Ridge Troopa - SMB1 Style Bowser
SmithyGCN - 5-4 Castle Blocks
Evan.F - 6-1/6-4 Castle & Ground Blocks
Mushroom Hedgehog - TLOZ2 Link
MrDoubleA - WarpTransition.lua & OneWayWall.lua
Enjl - Spawners.lua, Spawnzones.lua & CosmicClones.lua
h2643 - SMM1/SMM2 Backgrounds Pack
GTW - Flame Chomp
SetaYoshi - Balloons.lua & Amped Jewels.lua
Ochefe - General help
Soundtrack - Check the soundtrack folder

Changelog:

Episode created using PGE for SMBX2, last tested on version: SMBX2b4 (2.0.0.b4.4.1)

awesome! finally i can play your epic levels in an episode !

Looks Cool!!

In 2-3, I paused the game and it was stuck in pause, I had to restart to level 1, it would be good if there would be a level selector so you dont need to beat all level in 1 run, or a save. But I really like the episode and the music remix are so good, especially the music in 1-2.

Welp, I played the episode again, got to 2-4 this time but got stuck in the pause menu, I think is it a glitch with SMBX that when you pause in a level that mario alway move or duck, if you press pause, you get stuck in the pause menu, so I restarted again, still no save so do all those level again and I was really enjoying the level but I gived up after seeing the impossible boss fight in 5-4, how are we supposed to kill a koopaling 3 hit with almost nowhere to land, a SMB3 turning ball that can kill you in the middle, you dont even have power-up, no checkpoint and the control reversed?? That make just no sense, and if you need to go, you have to start the game all over again.

What I would do if I were you is put a checkpoint before every boss in castle levels and add a world-map so we can choose level we want to play and we can contunue our game when we need to go. I would really like to see the rest of the level if that boss in 5-4 was possible and the music in this episode are so good, I never heard a so good remix of underground theme in 1-2, that's my favorite underground theme remix I ever heard and I played alot of SMBX episode.

i really like how this episode is styled, simple yet effective

gameplay is definitely interesting and sometimes very challenging but i almost plugged at 2-1, please don't make a level like that again

on a side note, you could probably release the same episode with very minimal gameplay changes compared to the original smb and still have a banger episode

dericobanjo wrote: ↑

Sat May 01, 2021 8:09 pm

In 2-3, I paused the game and it was stuck in pause, I had to restart to level 1

Welp, I played the episode again, got to 2-4 this time but got stuck in the pause menu

Yeah, a problem with my code, that seems, will be fixed in the next update, I hope.

dericobanjo wrote: it would be good if there would be a level selector so you dont need to beat all level in 1 run

A stage selector is a good idea, to be honest, probably will be added in the next update too.

dericobanjo wrote: but I gived up after seeing the impossible boss fight in 5-4, how are we supposed to kill a koopaling 3 hit with almost nowhere to land, a SMB3 turning ball that can kill you in the middle, you dont even have power-up, no checkpoint and the control reversed?? That make just no sense, and if you need to go, you have to start the game all over again.

What I would do if I were you is put a checkpoint before every boss in castle levels and add a world-map so we can choose level we want to play and we can contunue our game when we need to go. I would really like to see the rest of the level if that boss in 5-4 was possible and the music in this episode are so good, I never heard a so good remix of underground theme in 1-2, that's my favorite underground theme remix I ever heard and I played alot of SMBX episode.

The difficulty of the episode has thought to be really extreme, I know that some setups seems really unfair, but with determination and courage, you will be victorious! or no, who know ?
...but yeah, the lack of checkpoint and power-up looks very punitive, probably I will added these in the next update.

Captain_Toadli wrote: awesome! finally i can play your epic levels in an episode !

lucstar06 wrote:Looks Cool!!

YourLocalHungarian wrote: i really like how this episode is styled, simple yet effective

Thank you guys, I hope you guys enjoy it!

YourLocalHungarian wrote:gameplay is definitely interesting and sometimes very challenging but i almost plugged at 2-1, please don't make a level like that again

spoiler: 2-1 isn't the worst level of the episode.

huh, I'll definitely give this one a shot

PROX wrote: ↑

Thu May 06, 2021 2:35 am

huh, I'll definitely give this one a shot

yeah, you definitely need to try this out.

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version 1.0 is out!
- Now with a stage selector, for babyspeoples who can't finish the episode on one take or have better things to do!
- Fixed the bug in 2-4/3-1, where the pause menu don't work.
- Added checkpoints and power-ups in every ?-4 level (except 6-4, because of the nature of the level)
- Fixed the friendly lakitu in 4-1
- Changed background of 4-3
- Slights changes in 8-1 and 9-4

Know Bugs:
- A bug happens with WarpTransition.lua when entering a level by the level selector, just ignore and proceed normally.
- Random disappearance of bumpers in 2-1

Download (v1.0):

AirShip wrote: ↑

Fri May 07, 2021 12:26 pm

PROX wrote: ↑

Thu May 06, 2021 2:35 am

huh, I'll definitely give this one a shot

yeah, you definitely need to try this out.

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version 1.0 is out!
- Now with a stage selector, for babyspeoples who can't finish the episode on one take or have better things to do!
- Fixed the bug in 2-4/3-1, where the pause menu don't work.
- Added checkpoints and power-ups in every ?-4 level (except 6-4, because of the nature of the level)
- Fixed the friendly lakitu in 4-1
- Changed background of 4-3
- Slights changes in 8-1 and 9-4

Know Bugs:
- A bug happens with WarpTransition.lua when entering a level by the level selector, just ignore and proceed normally.
- Random disappearance of bumpers in 2-1

Download (v1.0):

Fixed the lakitu in 4-1? Oh no, dont tell me you found out that the lakitu and his minion dont hurt you and you fixed it, lol.

I'm having a problem with the stage selector. It only seems to save progress up to 5-1; any level beaten afterwards remains inaccessible from it.

BrokenAce wrote: ↑

Sat May 08, 2021 7:03 pm

I'm having a problem with the stage selector. It only seems to save progress up to 5-1; any level beaten afterwards remains inaccessible from it.

I just played and got to 5-2 then I leaved and came back and I can enter level 5-1 and level 5-2 so is it working for me, you stopped at wich level and what pipe in world 5 dosent work?

dericobanjo wrote: ↑

Sat May 08, 2021 10:55 pm

I just played and got to 5-2 then I leaved and came back and I can enter level 5-1 and level 5-2 so is it working for me, you stopped at wich level and what pipe in world 5 dosent work?

I took a break at 6-1. I even made sure to manually quit the game on the pause menu first just in case. Upon returning to the game, I could not enter 5-2 or any of the levels after.

BrokenAce wrote: ↑

Sun May 09, 2021 5:01 am

dericobanjo wrote: ↑

Sat May 08, 2021 10:55 pm

I just played and got to 5-2 then I leaved and came back and I can enter level 5-1 and level 5-2 so is it working for me, you stopped at wich level and what pipe in world 5 dosent work?

I took a break at 6-1. I even made sure to manually quit the game on the pause menu first just in case. Upon returning to the game, I could not enter 5-2 or any of the levels after.

I continued playing through 5-3 and went to 6-3 but I was in pause menu and I did not know that you can press enter to select because A button was not working because mario jump alot so when I went back, I had to restart from 5-3 again so it did not saved, Idk why but when I was doing 1 level everytime, it saved, so the save just work and dont work sometime, that's weird but I never saw any episode that those pipe work without star counter.

dericobanjo wrote:

BrokenAce wrote: ↑

Sun May 09, 2021 5:01 am

dericobanjo wrote: ↑

Sat May 08, 2021 10:55 pm

I just played and got to 5-2 then I leaved and came back and I can enter level 5-1 and level 5-2 so is it working for me, you stopped at wich level and what pipe in world 5 dosent work?

I took a break at 6-1. I even made sure to manually quit the game on the pause menu first just in case. Upon returning to the game, I could not enter 5-2 or any of the levels after.

I continued playing through 5-3 and went to 6-3 but I was in pause menu and I did not know that you can press enter to select because A button was not working because mario jump alot so when I went back, I had to restart from 5-3 again so it did not saved, Idk why but when I was doing 1 level everytime, it saved, so the save just work and dont work sometime, that's weird but I never saw any episode that those pipe work without star counter.

I believe that is some problem about the SMBX save system ?
I Played the episode again after you post to check the problem, I Even checked the lunaluas and everything seems ok, everything is working correctly.

I believe, that a definitive solution to the problem will be to create a real world map, don't know for sure.

dericobanjo wrote:6-3 but I was in pause menu and I did not know that you can press enter to select because A button was not working because mario jump alot so when I went back

oof, I will fix that later.

in 2-4 there's a ?-block at the very end that seems to be impossible to get, is that by design or just an oversight?

YourLocalHungarian wrote: ↑

Tue May 11, 2021 12:34 pm

in 2-4 there's a ?-block at the very end that seems to be impossible to get, is that by design or just an oversight?

A oversight, unfortunately, will fix later.

dericobanjo wrote:Fixed the lakitu in 4-1? Oh no, dont tell me you found out that the lakitu and his minion dont hurt you and you fixed it, lol.

Yes.

this clearly seems impossible without cheats, you prob need to make a easier version some time soon.

ThatRoadRunnerfan727 wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 21, 2023 10:39 pm

this clearly seems impossible without cheats, you prob need to make a easier version some time soon.

Not impossible, but actually very difficult, as the intention of the episode was to challenge skilled and experienced players.
But yeah, I am planning to create an update adding an easier mode for less experienced players (which to my surprise, is the vast majority of people who play SMBX), but don't expect anything until 2024.

What does the toad say in 4-4?