Super Mario Bros. X

redigit · Post by **redigit** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:41

Greetings CWF,

I just finished a freeware game called Super Mario Bros. X. It is obviously a clone of Super Mario Bros, but there is a lot more to this one. It has a two-player co-op mode with a dynamic screen that splits and combines as the players separate, over 60 levels to explore (must of them with secret exits), an easy to use level editor to create your own game and share it online, a host of new power-ups, and a soundtrack of over 30 songs.

If anyone is interested it can be found on my site Super Mario Brothers . org or you can go directly to it at: http://www.supermariobrothers.org/smbx/index.html or http://curlysworldoffreeware.com/game_i ... gameid=321

Here are a few screenshots:

Post by **Chroelle** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:44

Looks really interesting. Thanks for sggesting. We will dig into that one.

Drasir-Vel · Post by **Drasir-Vel** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 19:58

Wow, awesome! All the original music from the classic mario games. I believe that site is worth a bookmark. And after searching freeware for so long you thought you had seen it all

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 23:41

I can't play the game, because it crashes everytime I try. I get to the title screen, can choose 1-player or 2-player mode, then I choose a save slot and that's it...

redigit · Post by **redigit** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 0:10

Hmm, would you mind telling me if you are able to select 'The Invasion' after choosing the number of players, and what the error message says? You may be missing the levels in the \worlds folder.

Sorry mods, I didn't mean to turn this into a bug report thread.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 0:43

I havent experienced any trouble running Bros X except first run when it hanged for a while with "love wii" screen visible, but it was ok after a minute or so. You must really love wii, guys.

No need to sorry, were one of very few remaining webforums where people dont scream at each other, because artificial rules have been broken. We are friendly in old-fashioned way.

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 0:50

I'm not able to select anything besides the mode and the save slot. Between these two there's a screen where I'm supposed to choose something, but it's blank.

Error message says: "Laufzeitfehler 75. Fehler beim Zugriff auf Pfad/Datei" which means something like "Runtime error 75. Error when trying to find path/data".

When I look at the folder the invasion levels are there, but it seems the game can't find them.

And please don't mind to use this thread as a bug report. I'm a mod here too and we are happy if we can help the developers to improve there games (which also means to help them to find bugs) and other players that might have technical problems with the games as well.

redigit · Post by **redigit** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:04

That blank screen is the episode selection screen. It should give you the option of selecting "The Invasion" which is the default episode that the game comes with. For some reason it's not showing up for you and it's crashing because it's trying to load a blank world file.

I would check to see if \worlds\the invasion\world.wld is present, and maybe re-extracting the zip file.

I'm hoping that's the issue, if not I'm gonna have to recheck my code.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:13

Well, we both downloaded game from the same source (?). I wonder why I dont have trouble with errors?

Invasion is the only episode I can choose and it appears as default episode. No black screens or anything.

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:18

redigit wrote: I would check to see if \worlds\the invasion\world.wld is present, and maybe re-extracting the zip file.

I checked it and it's there. I downloaded and extracted the game again, but the problem still remains...

redigit · Post by **redigit** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:42

I think I've come up with a better way to detect what episodes are present in the worlds folder.
What version of windows/service pack are you using?

redigit · Post by **redigit** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:31

I got two more things for you to try if you wouldn't mind.

Download http://www.supermariobrothers.org/smbx/smbx-fix.zip and extract it over the original smbx.exe file.

And if that doesn't work, rename 'the invasion' to 'invasion' to get rid of the space and make the folder name under 8 characters.

Thanks for being a guinea pig.

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 20:26

I tried both and it didn't work. Seems that I'm a hard case.

BTW: Wasn't the fix file the same file than the original one? At least it had the exact same size.

And I'm using Windows XP with service pack 2.

redigit · Post by **redigit** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 23:38

When I was looking at the code I found a small oversight from when I was writing it. Basically it needed all the file extensions to be lowercase for it to detect them, so I changed it so that wouldn't matter in case your version of Windows was returning the names of the files in uppercase (Windows does strange things sometimes). I can't really do much else since I can't replicate the problem on my PC. Sorry Alf.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 16:32

Switching windows in editor works bad. If level window is open and tool window is on top, the level window always pops up if you move pointer to the area where it is hidden.

redigit · Post by **redigit** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 0:42

Pater Alf wrote:I can't play the game, because it crashes everytime I try. I get to the title screen, can choose 1-player or 2-player mode, then I choose a save slot and that's it...

There were quite a few people having this issue. It turns out the problem was with my code that detects directories. If a directory was flagged for archiving it wouldn't recognize it as a directory, so it wasn't able to find the main campaign. The problem has been fixed. If you are still interested in the game check it's page for a link to the new version.

eMTe wrote:Switching windows in editor works bad. If level window is open and tool window is on top, the level window always pops up if you move pointer to the area where it is hidden.

This has also been fixed in the new version.

Drasir-Vel · Post by **Drasir-Vel** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 13:22

On my laptop PC it works fine, but it won't even start in my stationary. I suspect it has something to do with my laptop having Service Pack 3 and the stationary Service Pack 2.

I'm trying to download the newest version (v1.0.2). The one i had is v1.0.

redigit · Post by **redigit** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 20:28

Let me know how it goes.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:46

Editor works ok now, however if you move tool window over level window it goes black. But it's ok when you release mouse button. Minor issue. The major is that I dont know how to create scrollable levels, there must be option somewhere, but I cant find it, I can do only one screen.

Another thing. Is it possible to transfer your progress from version 1 to version 1.02? I believe not, I put old config file to 1.02 folder, but my progress is not there, only keyboard settings. So I believe progress is stored in exe file and you might want to change it, especially if you plan frequent updates.

redigit · Post by **redigit** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 17:13

You can change the size of the level by going to the 'Level Settings' tab and selecting one of the cursor options that's under the label 'Level Boundary.' I'm still working on some form of a help system to make the editor easier to use. Also, it's better to just extract the newer version over the older version and just overwrite the files. You're game progression is located at '\worlds\the invasion\save1.sav'