Super Mario World 64 Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Pirate

Super Mario World 64 is a pirated port of the SNES Super Mario World, made for the Mega Drive/Genesis by an unknown developer.

It was undumped for quite some time, as it needed to be reverse engineered to preserve it as a playable copy. It was dumped though, and originally would only work in the Nintendo Wii Sega Mega Drive emulator Genesis Plus GX due to the complex code within. I believe it has been patched for other emulators since then.

The in game music is mostly from the two Genesis titles Tale Spin and Jeopardy!. However, the music for the title screen and first level are remade from Super Mario World, and the song used for the third level (Iggy’s Castle) uses the theme from the Sega Genesis version of Garry Kitchen’s Super Battletank.

The game has six levels, with a boss battle half way though and at the end. The end of each act tallies up the amount of enemies you defeat, though this doesn’t seem to serve any purpose as the game doesn’t keep score. Only the first four levels have a layout based on their corresponding original levels, but they do vary quite a bit. The final two stages seem to be completely original level designs. The first two levels resemble the first two levels of the original, with the third being Iggy’s Castle which leads to the Iggy boss. After the next three levels you meet the final boss, which resembles a gigantic cue ball. After beating this boss, a screen appears (taken from the SNES Super Mario World) which has a picture of Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach with the words “The End” above them while the Jeopardy! theme plays.