More Super Mario World

There's this insane Super Mario World hack called Kaizo Super Mario World that's like Syoban Action in that it's a fiendishly difficult take on the conventional Mario paradigm. There's a lot of videos of it on YouTube, which are very entertaining. Then there's another take entirely, by a guy who hacked Snes9x to record all the times you reload a save state and play them all on top of one another. The whole thing takes on a quantum-mechanics "multiple-world" kind of thing where there are many copies of Mario doing slightly different things. Very cool.



But while he was testing out this wonderful hacked Snes9x he ran into some problems, resulting in this gem:



Reminds me aesthetically of another very cool (intentionally glitchy) creation, Crystal Castles.

Supaa Mario World

While trying to relocate my recordings of Sadao Watanabe's amazing smooth jazz-fusion arrangements of Super Mario World (and earlier Mario) songs, I found this interesting cover of the entire SMW soundtrack by what was initially described by some stupid website as a one-man band, getting my hopes up for a Dick van Dyke-in-Mary Poppins interpretation, but what turns out to be just a young man like myself making what turns out to be remarkably competent versions of pretty much every song in the soundtrack. It's actually really good, well, recorded, and almost entirely accurate. They've all got kind of a Jon Brion-I Heart Huckabees vibe going on, if Jon Brion slammed some Howling Monkeys and could get over himself. There are SOME notes that are wrong, but he gets a lot of stuff right that I'm sure I wouldn't be able to do. And it's all free. I am impressed.

You can also download the Goldinum edition from his site, which includes about ten more songs that he didn't include in the original.

Here's the guy's website, just for fun. He's also got an album called CINEMA 80'S, in which he covers 30 songs from video games based on 80s movies.

Not only that, this mysterious Jason Cox fellow outlines this spooky and scary tale of Videogame: The Movie: The Game, a bootleg game that began appearing around 1988 and including "mashups" like Mario during a historical circus fire. He's provided the original soundtrack for us to download, along with cover versions. This guy gets busy.

Here's some tracks for you:

XOC - SMW - Title Screen
XOC - SMW - Donut Plains
XOC - SMW - Underwater Theme
XOC - SMW - Vanilla Ice Dome
XOC - CINEMA 80'S - Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom Mine Cars
XOC - CINEMA 80'S - Roger Rabbit Theme
And this one's really good:
XOC - Sonic 1 - Green Hill Zone

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