Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
This is an excellent Quality-of-Life focused ROM hack for Super Mario Bros. 3 (original revision, not 1.1 / Rev A) that focuses on bringing the game somewhat more in line with the SNES / GBA versions while adding improvements to graphics and features. This video showcases some of World 1 and World 4, where the new higher resolution background elements are shown.
This hack was made by Doodle Dangernoodle, and many of the features of this hack also comes from another hack that this one was based on called "Super Mario Bros. 3: Definitive Edition" by Action Gamer, which itself included many patches that came from other contributors.
This hack adds a save feature to the game, improved animations for many background elements such as coins and ? blocks, updates sprites such as Luigi's sprites to match the All-Stars or GBA versions but downgraded for NES colors, adds shading to many sprites and background elements to improve their appearance, adds music to the title screen, changes the text font to match All-Stars, adds a reserve item box a la Super Mario World, new mega-sized background elements for things like World 4, and many more subtle changes.
The title screen music may be updated in the future to a proper 8-bit version of the music that plays on the title screen in the SNES and GBA versions as well, but the Athletic theme will play in the meantime as a placeholder.
You can get the patch here: romhacking.net/hacks/5939
Note that you will require the original ROM version, not 1.1 / Revision A, where, for example, Toad in the N-Spade card game will say "You can only miss twice!" instead of "Miss twice and your out!". This patch will not work with 1.1.
This is an excellent Quality-of-Life focused ROM hack for Super Mario Bros. 3 (original revision, not 1.1 / Rev A) that focuses on bringing the game somewhat more in line with the SNES / GBA versions while adding improvements to graphics and features. This video showcases some of World 1 and World 4, where the new higher resolution background elements are shown.
This hack was made by Doodle Dangernoodle, and many of the features of this hack also comes from another hack that this one was based on called "Super Mario Bros. 3: Definitive Edition" by Action Gamer, which itself included many patches that came from other contributors.
This hack adds a save feature to the game, improved animations for many background elements such as coins and ? blocks, updates sprites such as Luigi's sprites to match the All-Stars or GBA versions but downgraded for NES colors, adds shading to many sprites and background elements to improve their appearance, adds music to the title screen, changes the text font to match All-Stars, adds a reserve item box a la Super Mario World, new mega-sized background elements for things like World 4, and many more subtle changes.
The title screen music may be updated in the future to a proper 8-bit version of the music that plays on the title screen in the SNES and GBA versions as well, but the Athletic theme will play in the meantime as a placeholder.
You can get the patch here: romhacking.net/hacks/5939
Note that you will require the original ROM version, not 1.1 / Revision A, where, for example, Toad in the N-Spade card game will say "You can only miss twice!" instead of "Miss twice and your out!". This patch will not work with 1.1.
