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kosmic's aim in every ROM hack Wednesday: get infinite 1 ups, an 8000 shell kick, and small fire Mario.

The "Hello!" easter egg in 4-2 actually has both a hidden 1-up and a hidden power-up block above each of the L's, so it's not completely pointless, in the original at least you can actually farm 1-ups there.

I love how committed Kosmic is to learning the mechanics of every romhack, at the expense of all else lol

7:52 - The good ol' tens digit of the score matches the ones digit of the clock 1UP trick.

I love all of the unnecessary clips that Kosmic does. And he just giggles to him self afterwards. Always something to look forward to!

29:40 Nintendo rejected Hudson, but then was like "that castle had really good design." *slaps it into SML2* "it's Mario's castle"

“Time to celebrate Mario’s 35th anniversary by making a rom hack!” Nintendo: “no it’s not”

14:46 your infinite 1-up trick was killed by finding a 1-up

The level designers' salaries must have been based on how many fire flowers they included in each level.

6:23 Yeah, in the real SMB Special, you didn't have to be standing on ground to enter pipes like in SMB1, so you could actually go through both those pipes (8-4 in the PC version actually requires this, there's a pipe just in the wall above lava and no ground to land on, you just jump into the wall and hold right and you still enter the pipe).

6:52 the music foreshadowing that death 😄

Man I really really love this. . I've tried playing the original SMB Special before but it's very hard to get used to the various limitations of the system it's on, but transferring it so faithfully to SMB1's engine like this but with everything unique intact is just what I've always wanted to see. And the game itself is really sick -- there's more different about it I feel than the true sequel or many player hacks over the years, just little things as Kosmic menetioned like all the unique block patterns or how seemingly every single pre-flag staircase or bonus area is totally unique, some really cool ideas like the 'sub-water' blue areas and levels-within-levels kinda like SMB3 and World do, awesome powerups including what seemingly inspired Nintendo themselves to make the P-Wing, cute easter eggs, and even these little touches like allowing multiple powerups onscreen simultaneously and actually being able to hurt piranha plants with shells... all around way cooler and better than I frankly expected going in to this vid, and now I gotta play it myself!

ROM Hack Wednesday! Like my favorite thing the last 2 months

"a bunch of custom power-ups" The Hammer and Wing are the only custom power-ups. Custom items are Hachisuke (Hudson Soft bee) in 1-1 gives 8000 pts, The Clock in 8-3 adds 100 seconds to timer+1000 pts and the Lucky Star in 4-1 giving 1000 pts and acting like a Moon-Kill in SMMaker2.

6:12 I love how casually he performs the double/wall jump trick, goes to show how much SMB1 he’s played

30:11 Yes, it does do that whole ending sequence with the credits on the original. As for warps...there are no warps. There's one pipe that in the original is located where you'd think a warp would be, in 4-2 I believe, but in the original it just softlocks you as the pipe leads nowhere, you just get stuck in it until the timer runs out.

2:36 Yeah, many of the levels in SMB Special are just altered/remixed versions of levels from SMB1 (though some of them are pretty creative in how they do it) as it technically was a "port," so yeah, many little sections like that are VERY similar or even identical to SMB1. Same reason why 1-3 is almost identical. It looks like Hudson when making this "port" was just trying to recreate the levels roughly, but doing a 1-to-1 recreation would be too tedious so they got the basic level structure, then decided to do their own spin on said levels and also add some completely brand new ones. Like how 8-1 is basically original aside from the row of bricks with the star somewhere in the level, while 8-2 is basically a remixed SMB1 8-3 but with arguably more interesting tiling with the brick wall because it has an actual castle building in it.

30:00 I just checked that blind firebar in the original version. The two firebars are present in the same screen, so the fact it's a blind jump is completely unintentional.

Your joy while playing this was fantastic.

An 8000 pt. shell kick right out of the chute? What is this madness!!??

26:01 that edit made the music sync up smoooooth

From 1:10 to 1:25, you unintentionally caused in-game sound effects to line up almost perfectly with the tempo of the game music.

Bowser hammer kill was hilarious

Bonus levels in castles make sense. Bowser and the koopalings would of course have rooms of money like Scrooge McDuck.

This is super cool! So happy to see restoration/preservation works like this, especially since the original Special edition was so obscure.

1:13 don't worry bismuth, you did great 🙂

I am so happy to see this, I played the old hack some years ago and always wished for a more complete port like this

The level patterns look like they were made by a man who played SMB1 once, and then recreated the game from memory

the underground palette looks really nice

We've finally done it, we've achieved the special version of Mario Bros. Special.

6:46 The original Mario Maker Troll

I was so excited to see the sidesteppers and fighterflies. That's amazing that they included them.

I'd absolutely love to see you speedrunning romhacks. Not as in a competitive way, but it's fun to speedrun something new and unique like that.

This game is so fun, you can feel the soul of the level designer when you play it.

The intro music is Creative Exercise from Mario Paint, for anyone wondering

Kosmic's videos are just so entertaining at times it feels like this isn't something a whole lot of people aren't interested in but its my kind of humor somehow. Keep it up Kosmic you're awesome

I love all these rom hacks you play, thanks for the quality content.

It's always cool when I find out there's stuff like this or the rejected Mario 3 PC port. The power ups were very underutilized especially with how temporary and rare they are and are all fairly well hidden.

I was surfing through the Internet because I heard of SMB Special, and I'm glad I got to see you try it out. Also, in terms of 2-3 and 6-3 where you got the 1UP on the flagpole, the reason you got it on those two levels is because you were able to collect every coin on those courses. I hope that helps.

It's awesome watching Kosmic play. Great at the game and genuinely enjoys playing Mario of all types, not just doing it for content.

One of my favorite people to watch, no drama just fun times and smiles

Adventure Island 1 had the icicles too. It was made by Hudson & released in 1986 in Japan, 1987 elsewhere.

Kosmic on 4-2 screen: "Dont tell me thats a star" Me: Ok I wont

Small fire works with this game the guy from blue television games accidentally got small fire in the game and was confused why he was small with fire. He even hit Bowser when he was jumping on the ax and had the double death glitch.

Yo the moving fire thing at 29:47 transitioned perfectly into the subreddit link that was kinda sick

Wow, I've been waiting for this, finally I can watch some special Mario

What an awesome rom-hack!! Props to the original game aswell, it was the first one that really went crazy with it, before SML even

The crab things and the flies and the the falling ice is from the original mario Bros and that hammer was from donkey Kong

I started watching ur channel just wanting to start speed running now every Wednesday I look forward to Romhack Wednesdays:)

Okay.... you saying "Gaming!" as you fall down a bottomless pit is hilarity on par with ManlyBadassHero yelling "Seeecret!" as he yeets himself off a cliff. Watching you play around with these romhacks is quickly becoming some of my favorite content on KZfaq.

Don't know if you caught this, the transition from 1-1 to 1-2, where you said, "Wait, I have to move to the pipe?"... the time counts down and continues through 1-2.

10:14 "I can just ride it down and get the points!" -Man who did, in fact, ride it down and get the points.

honestly I wouldn't mind there was a way to add all if this items and enemies were added to a fresh rom to be able to make your own romhacks with them, This looks awesome and I love it

I love all the subtle color changes to make it look more like the PC CGA colors.

Oh, THIS game... I've made a few TAS-es of the first NES "port", but now are in my private vids

Small fire with hammer looked like Mario was lighting a pipe

16:20 I’ve done something like that in Mario maker. I made a pipe to a whole complex dead end sky room with bouncing blocks spelling out No Point.

Oo another rom hack Wednesday! My fav

Intro music is "Creative Exercise - Mario Paint" I read the description. Give me my award now, coward!

This is my second video I watched of yours - great job. I see that in your description you may not know the intro song. It's from Mario Paint, the song is called Creative Exercise.

I've seen this version of Super Mario Bros about a couple months ago and I'll say ITS SOMETHING SPECIAL!

Icicles debuted in Mario Bros., reappeared in Special, eventually appearing in NSMBWii, then 2 and U, then SMM2. Their appearance and behaviors in SMM2 are based on U, which is the same as Wii and 2. Despite huge icicles existing in all 3 New series games, you cannot use mushrooms on em. If only, as the big ones don't shatter upon landing, and instead bury themselves in the floor, acting as platforms. Those would've been great in SMM2.

Edit: Whoops, I typed this just before I got to the point in the video where someone in chat pointed this out lol. 5:10 The reason the flagpole, castles, and well, everything that goes to the top of the screen is a block shorter is because the screen on the PC-88 and SharpX1, which the real SMB Special was made for, was a block shorter than the screen for the NES, the aspect ratio was very different and all. Whereas the NES was 4:3, the PCs were widescreen but also a tile shorter, so Hudson had to fit everything into that and had to lower some things. Super Mario Bros. Crossover, when it added SMB Special as a map, tried to raise things back up again, but in doing so actually created a softlock in 1-2 so yay. In this romhack it says accurate to the real SMB Special.

This is amazing! I had no idea Super Mario Special existed.

Amazing play through! Super Mario bros. special is quite the wacky game.

Kosmic making Pog content like always

That bowser quick kill was amazing.

Would absolutely love to see him speedrun that SMB Crossover flash fan game.

Buzzy Beetle is so cute when I first saw them when I was kid. My mom called them Buzzy Beatles cus the shell looks like Beatles haircut lol

Yay, SMB Special!

The pallettes in this game have a refreshing feel to them.

[19:48] Help Me Stepper Marion, I am stuck! Edit: I missed the bus for five minutes...

so I've heard from this channel that only 1-1 has no Parana's in SMB1, and also been shown that only 1 powerup can be on screen at the time, so did they like change a lot of the code in SMB1 to make in be as close to SMBS as possible? cuz that's so cool

I really enjoyed this installment of Romhack Wednesday :^)

they probably had to do a massive object refactor, there's trees and bill blasters in the same level

34:00 great, now I can never unsee the Hudson bee monkey

Killing Bowser: 4000 points Shell kick : 8000 points Watching Kosmic destroy a podoboo with a hammer: MuthaFkin Priceless

*2:30 am* wake up babe, new kosmic dropped

When will you play the Giana Sisters?

I love the puzzle in 7-4!

Very nice video, kosmic.

This is so dope.

These videos lately have been so sick 😼

0:30 adventure island

Looks like I will have to play this one myself

Man, this game has some fun level ideas

This blew my mind

This is amazing

I would have preferred if they made the color palettes more similar to the original PC game. Though idk if the NES color palette allows for that

26:50 "You can't stop me"

…I _need_ to play this. -NOW- right after I finish 242-ing Galaxy 2

My biggest problem with the OG Mario special on PC was the lack of screen scroll

i just realized that this is the basis for the special levels in super mario bros crossover

The intro music is kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q6mCdZh_nbK1fmg.html (Creative Exercise from Mario Paint), in case you were still needing it for the description

7:00 big brain moment

I've played this version of SMB one year ago in Mario Royale

Sick gamer jump!

Honestly, if these are legit recreations of SMB Special using the SMB engine, the problem with that game at least wasn't level design

Level desing is way more better than original smb.