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As a technical novelty, it is interesting, but I personally don't like the spirit of such a project. I opened up a demo video of the gameplay, and started to 'see' things in the distance that wouldn't normally be seen - things that are meant to be hidden at first, and then 'stumbled' into as you advance a little bit, adding to the sense of mystery and adventure.

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I don’t mind it so much for Super Mario World. In the original, you could press the L or R shoulder buttons to scroll the view forward or back. This essentially brings both into view for wide screen.

Was thinking the same thing. The Nintendo designers were always so meticulous about the design of the levels, especially what’s visible to a player at any given point.

To get a sense for this, watch this video [1] (from 7 years ago) walking through the design of level 1-1 of SMB. It’s crazy what (likely) went into planning the design of each level of the various Mario platformer games.

But like OP, this is strictly looking at it from a gameplay perspective, ignoring the impressive technical feet that this is.

[1] https://youtu.be/ZH2wGpEZVgE

I agree. I love that we have the ability to use an emulator or mister to play the stock rom but I love people thinking what could have been with old tech in a new world. Personally it’s fascinating. I wish my retro wasn’t confined to a mister to try it. I may figure out a non work pc I could use to try it.

What video?

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