Sponge and Pretzel are the Wario and Waluigi to Wario and Waluigi

Dev: "The look up and down button was causing bugs." Vinny: *Proceed to break the game by looking right*

Game: gets slightly difficult Vinny: “it’s rewind time”

It’s astonishing how much the Mario world victory theme in minor sound alike a Russian melody

11:06 - this glitch happens whenever you L + R scroll into an autoscroll section. it's one of the reasons people usually recommend to not put auto-scroll sections in the middle of levels unless you're going to disable L + R scrolling. it's kind of funny how Vinny coincidentally managed to trigger this extremely specific glitch, especially after how the message box literally talks about camera scrolling causing game breaking bugs.

I missed Sponge. He's been needing more content

He's on his journey to soak up the sadness out of the world. Sponge Mario. The greatest hero of all time. Respect this man.

I've watched so many hacks make use of the silver P switch turning munchers into coins, that I forgot the original game didn't use that feature.

"It was not worth it" Dev appears in the chat: "Excelent job on this!"

I love how Sponge flips you off after the goal

While Mario and Luigi save the princess, Sponge makes sure everyone is happy.

fuhking nice rom hack, good job to the people who worked on this!

Hey guys, remember that thing? You know, that bad thing. The thing that almost destroyed chat and all of the stream. Yeah, that thing.

Okay but that remix of Ballad of Sponge was so good??

18:00 Vinny struggles to use his stand power

So Sponge is depressed all the time since he grew up impoverished in an Eastern bloc country Thicc lore

Poor Sponge. Even his fangames are depressing.

I like how Vinny reversed his own yell for some reason 21:26

My headcanon is that Sponge is a Mario Brother, though an illegitimate bastard child fathered by Mario and Luigi's father, Anthony Jumpman, during a period spent in Kraskatalia during the war. Perhaps he could instead be a failed(?) clone of Jumpman, if the factory/lab stage is anything to go by... And Pretzel is an even more botched clone.

Mario: when life gives you lemons, you make limonade. Wario: when life gives you lemons, you sell them. Sponge: life give you lemons, at least they give you something.

mario is red. Red is a primary color. Luigi is green. Green is a secondary color, and the complementary color to red. Wario is yellow. That is also a primary color. Waluigi is purple, the complementary color to yellow. You see where I'm going here? Sponge is orange. That's a secondary color. This implies he is the number 2 of a pair of bros. Of course, he does have a brother, pretzel. However, Pretzel isn't even a primary or secondary color. He's brown. You get that by mixing a primary color with its complementary color. So pretzel is half of a number 1 brother, he would've been a blue brother as that is the complementary color to orange. So this could be interpreted in multiple ways, you could assume that since sponge soaks up all the depression, his brother absorbs some of it by being in close contact, thus mixing with orange and becoming brown. Or you could just assume the pretzel and sponge duo are not worthy of having a number one brother because they fail to be heroes, as seen in super sponge bros.

Sponge is an extremely distant relative of Mario. Probably ten generations past and the family moved to krutzkratalia

I like to imagine that Sponge gets to Bowser and due to his major self confidence issues and depression he feels he's not good enough to defeat Bowser and save the princess so he has an existential crisis about his past failures and how much he thinks everyone hates him, only for Mario to run past him during his struggles and saves the princess. This adds to his pile of self hatred.

3:50 Sponge puts up the middle finger instead of the peace sign

Never in my life have I ever seen a ROM hack inplement a form of Anti-cheat.

The Superstar Saga music holy shit AAAAAA

Well, I've watched the absolute masterpiece that is Mario's Mystery Meat twice now. It's high time I see Sponge's story.

shoud've had a MIDI version of what a thrill. would've really set the mood, a broken man climbing in the storm.

31:36 "Is that an upside-down fish?"

Considering the setting, if Sponge were to fight He Thicc in this game, would he be called We Thicc?

Alternatively, ''Vinny VS Rewind''.

Sponge is Mario's doppleganger from Russia who also happens to be able to jump insanely high and is a tank mechanic in my mind.

The stage clear tune is so similar yet also feels that a TOTALLY different mood

This reminds me how much i miss Mario X

I'm not happy.

I come back here every so often. I always feel that massive vine is a serious missed shot to just play Snake Eater

36:15 who's mr. pixelator he sounds like a nerd

That minor key victory theme was top notch.

That "rain" is going to give me a migrane.

I knew this day would come.

I think that secret room is supposed to be a clone chamber of Princess Savnya, and Sponge is nothing more than a clone to soak up all the depression. The lore deepens!

Super Sponge World and mario's mystery meat was great, can't wait for continuation of sponge series.

That tomodachi song at the end was perfect

looking forward to the Pretzel DLC

I think one of the best parts about watching the romha- I mean, fan creations is the music that's added in. I completely forgot how much I loved FF7's music until I heard it in this format, now I have to go listen to it.

Poor Sponge can't even get his own final boss OR more than one ending after 4 years... the end of this totally real game is just as unfulfilling as everything else in his life. Perfectly fitting for him, 10/10!

20:08 Is the game programmed to skip a very large number of frames to prevent rewinding?

Sponge: Recently someone made me a New Game! Waluigi:

Sponge doesnt get tearshots for his fireflower pick up? Otherwise, fucking LEGENDARY

Watching Vinny always makes me want to play the things he plays. Because with Vinny, you're guaranteed to get the base experience from everything.

I wonder if Vinny will remember to return to Tomodachi Life this year.

“Overstory” LOL

It's not everyday that you see Ms. *Jen* shroom without her masquerade, right Mr. Vincent?

That's some official Sponge lore, if I ever seen something like that.

7:29 I thought I was going insane when I was hearing Death By Glamour, such a shift change in music instantly.

I'm going to call this game Mario's Mystery Meat: The Precursor Legacy

Yes...SPONGE!!!

someone please make sponges Tamagotchi Life song from this game a music track that I can listen to cuz it sounds really good

Coming from 2024 The Phantom Menace has reached its 25th anniversary and is back in theaters.

This is the only video on KZfaq that has #SuperSpongeWorld tag on it

Just like usual, Vinny tries to show us something cool, and just fucks everything up in the process.

I like that tank level music!

Sponge is Mario's Soviet uncle

LETS GOOOO SUPER SPONGE WORLD

I'm so glad the SMW hacking scene is still alive and even improving in tools, I was kind of worried before that Mario Maker would kill it off. But nope, muh Mario hackies were here before it and aren't going anywhere. Glorious perfect SMW game mechanics live and will never die.

That secret of mana music brings back such great memories, a masterpiece of a game

Congrats to the makers of this hack. Really awesome!

The Mario Maker airship and ghost houses are used here BTW

This game starts on my birthday, I, don’t know how to feel about this

I love the Mario maker music

Sponge is the hero we need but don’t deserve. Cry on dear sponge, cry on. I salute you.

I'm already waiting for Super Sponge 64.

Sponge is the original Mario. He isn't a bro of Mario he is Mario from before the war and all that. He lived during war. A mushroom war. That's why when you play the NES Super sponge bros everything is dark and depressing. Sponge sucked up all the depressing crap from his original timeline to create his ideal "mushroom kingdom" to always be a reminder of the past. But in doing so he trapped himself in the alternative reality being sponge, because he soaked it all up and lives in the negative version of Mushroom kingdom. Forever having to relive his failure to save his princess while Mario the positive version gets to live on blissfully.... But how long can he keep it up? How long can he keep up the charade that he is okay and contempt being tormented to relive his past. Over and over. How much can this sponge really take? Before he's no longer soaking it up and instead smearing it. Will he forever be the hero. Or will he live long enough without being ringed out... to be the next villain.

Y'all really refuse to let Vin escape Undertale huh

All ROM hacks are fangames but not all fangames are ROM hacks

9:47 The best part of this.

I Must know about the Sponge Lore!

Hearing the Secret of Mana music makes me want Vinny to stream Seiken Densetsu 3.

Sponge and Pretzel be step brothers to Mario and Luigi

I wish people would stop trying to make bottomstory a thing, it's not gonna be a thing.

21:26 "Recently, historians found the skeleton of a Kraskatalian man under a tank used in the Stanistani war. Forensic analysis identified the individual as a Mr. Spondaj Maryush, who was declared missing in late 1984 by the Kraskatalian government."

I need the OST of this game

Spondage "Sponge" Mechrio, Mario's distant cousin, goes on a quest to save the princess of Kraskatalia and the land from the oppressive Koopa regime

More Sponge Hacks

When did Vinny do Larva Bros voice first? When did he react to the video?

I have a couple of problems with this ROM hack… but, I want to applaud 29:06. That's how you turn a vanilla game oversight into a fun reference!

Reharmonizing the Mario tracks into Locrian would have been just as good as they are in minor

i like how the song in the first level was a remix of the airship theme of super mario world from super mario maker

Sponge is Mario and Luigi’s inbreed cousin.

sponge:middle finger content aware:*laughs in sith lord

Sponge is a Cresketalian National

I do believe sponge and pretzel are related to Mario and Luigi They're just half brothers from mama Luigi wild collage days abroad

Pretzel came from a Pretzel factory before Sponge left Croskitalia.

31:37 hey, that piranha plant/fish combo is from corruptions.

@27:00 Sponge is dummy thicc

If you look closely at the rain on the tank level, you'll see it's actually going backwards.

Time to rewatch Tomodachi for the millionth time.

I recognize the lab music from something and it's driving me insane

hopeully there will be more of this and not just "eh 45 min vid on fan made mario world hack yeah that'll do i think we've seen everything" unless vinny stops then contunes at thanksgiving?

That frame by frame rewind tho