List of unofficial Mario media

Unlicensed developers and fans have created unofficial Mario media, especially video games, relating to the Mario franchise. These products include video games, ROM hacks, and animations. Due to the popularity of the franchise, some of these unlicensed products have received critical attention.

In September 2016, Nintendo of America issued over 500 DMCA takedown requests on diverse websites for various fan games based on Nintendo intellectual properties, resulting in the end of many games' development.[1]

Video games

Console games

Several unofficial Mario games have been released for video game consoles, including unlicensed games, ROM hacks, and game mods.

  • Super Mario World, an unlicensed Nintendo NES/Famicom demake of Super Mario World, developed by Hummer Team and published by J.Y. Company (both defunct Taiwanese companies based in Taipei) in 1995.
  • Kaizo Mario World, also known as Asshole Mario, is a series of three ROM hacks of the 1990 Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game Super Mario World, notable for deliberately breaking all normal rules of "accepted" level design and featuring extreme difficulty.[2][3] It became the namesake for Kaizo, a genre of Mario games modified for intense difficulty.[4]
  • Super Dram World is series of two Super Mario World ROM hacks created by PangaeaPanga and named after speedrunner Dram55, designed for high difficulty.[3]
  • Super Panga World is a ROM hack of Super Mario World created by Linkdeadx2 and dedicated to PangaeaPanga.[5]
  • Dian Shi Ma Li (Chinese: ; pinyin: Diànshì Mă Lì), released in English as Big TV Mary Bar and also known as Mario Lottery, TV Mario, is an unlicensed video game for the Family Computer made by Bit Corporation and released by Fiver Firm (五合企業有限公司), under their first name "Namco Corporation".[6][7] It is based on the Taiwanese slot machine game Xiǎo Mǎ Lì,[8] where features a character resembling Mario with an F on his cap, which has become known as "Fortran" based on hidden text discovered in the ROM. The game is a roulette wheel/slot machine different buttons control the betting, and each button produces a musical note. Landing on the coin produces a message in Chinglish: "PUSH START TO RICH". It became an internet meme when users created fad videos on YouTube.[9][10]
  • 7 Grand Dad, also known as Primitive Mario VII, is a bootleg ROM hack of The Flintstones: Rescue of Dino and Hoppy which is notorious for its nonsensical title and lack of effort in removing Flintstones elements such as the characters and theme song. In said ROM hack, Fred Flintstone's head is replaced with Mario's head. The game has become an internet meme due to Twitch streamer Joel "Vargskelethor" Johannson's shocked reaction to it and YouTuber SiIvaGunner's remixes of the game's soundtrack.
  • Kart Fighter is a 2D fighting game produced for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game features unauthorized appearances by Nintendo's mascot Mario and the rest of the cast of Super Mario Kart in a port of Street Fighter II.
  • Somari is a port of Sega's flagship video game Sonic the Hedgehog, produced for the Nintendo Entertainment System and sold primarily in Asia, Russia, and other regions where pirate Famicom cartridges were distributed, in 1994. The game features a character named "Somari" – Nintendo's mascot Mario wearing Miles "Tails" Prower's shoes.
  • Super Mario Bros. 2 (Mega Drive) is a pirated port of Super Mario Bros. for the Mega Drive, made by Gametec in 1998. The game uses sprites from Super Mario All Stars.
  • Sonic Jam 6 is a hack of the Super Mario Bros. 2 Mega Drive port, featuring Sonic in the role of Mario.
  • Project M is a modification of the 2008 fighting game Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii, created by the community to retool Brawl to play more like its two predecessors, Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee.
  • Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii is a modification of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which adds new, custom elements to the original game. It later received a follow-up on the Nintendo DS, a modification of New Super Mario Bros., Newer Super Mario Bros. DS, and a follow-up mod for New Super Mario Bros. U called Newer Super Mario Bros. U was started but later cancelled.[11][12] Currently, there is an updated version of Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii in the works called Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii Plus. It was originally going to be called Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii Deluxe but was renamed due to the official announcement of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, in order to avoid any confusion.
  • Kaizo Mario 64 is a ROM hack of Super Mario 64 where each level is redesigned to be extremely difficult.[13]
  • Modder Nils Giesenberg (known on the internet as Kaze Emanuar)[14] has produced multiple ROM hacks of Super Mario 64:
  • CTGP Revolution is a modification of the 2008 game Mario Kart Wii for the Wii created by the community on January 2014, that adds over 200 fan-made custom and retro tracks, new gamemodes, among other new features.[32]

Level editors

There exist several unofficial level editors created to allow gamers without programming skills to easily make their own ROM hacks or levels in Mario games.

  • Super Mario Bros. X is a fangame blending elements from Super Mario Bros, 2, 3 and World, and includes both a level editor, as well simultaneous split-screen multiplayer.[33][34][35]
  • Lunar Magic is a level editor for Super Mario World.
  • NSMB Editor is a level editor for New Super Mario Bros.[36][37]
  • Reggie! Level Editor is a level editor for New Super Mario Bros. Wii.[38]
  • Miyamoto! is a level editor for New Super Mario Bros. U.[39]
  • CoinKiller is a level editor for New Super Mario Bros. 2.[40][41]
  • Super Mario Bros Game & Builder is a fangame created to let players create their own levels in the style of Super Mario Bros.[42]
  • Super Mario ReMaker is a Windows-based level editor designed to replicate the Wii U title Super Mario Maker on computers.[43][44]
  • Toad's Tool 64 is a level editor for Super Mario 64 developed by Qubed Studios.[45]
  • Mario Multiverse is a level editor in the vein of Super Mario Maker, providing creators with over 20 pre-made game styles and allowing importing their own, each with optional gameplay settings and as seen in various represented titles. It is currently in its closed-beta stage.

Computer games

Unofficial Mario games playable on computers include mostly browser-based games, game parodies, and fangames sometimes inserting the character or world of Mario in the engine or style of other projects.

Videos

  • Super Hornio Brothers and Super Hornio Brothers II are two 1993 pornographic parodies of the Super Mario franchise, they were released at the same time as the official Super Mario Bros. film. Both films star Buck Adams, T. T. Boy, Ron Jeremy and Chelsea Lynx as the main characters. Nintendo bought the rights to the films to halt their distribution.[76]
  • Super Mario Clouds (2002), Totally Fucked (2003), and Super Mario Movie (2005), are videos created by post-conceptual artist Cory Arcangel by modifying Super Mario Brothers NES cartridges. These works have been presented in multiple museums.
  • Super Mario Bros. Z (2006-2012; 2016-present) - An online crossover sprite animated series created by Mark Haynes, which starred Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog characters in a plot based on Dragon Ball Z.[77][78] The series was later remade between 2015 and 2016, before Nintendo took down the series' Patreon account.[79]
  • Mario: Game Over (2007) - A short-film created by POYKPAC. The video depicts Mario's life after breaking up with Princess Peach. The video was nominated for "Best Comedy Video" in the 2008 YouTube Awards, but lost to Potter Puppet Pals.[80]
  • Mario Kart (2008) - A viral video by prankster Rémi Gaillard, which depicts him as Mario driving public streets inside of a go-cart. He later did a similar prank in 2011.[81]
  • Mario Kart: The Movie (2009) - A fan-made trailer created by DrCoolSex that was loosely based on the Mario Kart series.[82][83]
  • Real Life Mario Kart (2011) - A viral video by filmmaker Freddie Wong.[84]
  • Racist Mario (2014) - A flash-animated short on YouTube that was created by Flashgitz. The video depicts Mario violently eliminating his opponents in Mario Kart.[85][86][87]

Fandom

In the late 2000s, YouTube Poop meme videos arouse using cutscenes from various Mario-related sources, including the Philips CD-i game, Hotel Mario[88][89] and Super Mario World episode, "Mama Luigi".[90] "Mama Luigi" was later re-animated by 227 animators in 2017 in dedication to the deaths of two of the series' voice actors: Tony Rosato (Luigi) and Harvey Atkin (King Koopa).[90]

After the release of Mario Kart 8 in 2014, a short clip featuring "Luigi's Death Stare" went viral; the original clip featured Luigi passing other drivers with an uncharacteristically angry facial pose set to the music of Chamillionaire's 2006 hit song Ridin'.[91][92][93] The meme was referenced by Nintendo itself during their E3 2014 presentation.[94]

In September 2018, a fanmade character called Bowsette became popular and had hundreds of artists producing fanart. Bowsette is a depiction of Bowser using Toadette's Super Crown power-up from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe to transform himself into a Princess Peach lookalike.

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