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It's almost out (for most people), so I figured a news post would be good.

Let's try to get this game added fairly soon after release, so that we can start the competition while the game is still new.  We would need a list of levels (and secret exits), and we'd have to determine which ones are autoscrolling.  Then there's the rules on power-ups, which may work differently from NSMB DS.

In the meantime, feel free to post your thoughts, preliminary times, etc. about the game.  Since we could be revealing stuff like secret exits, read with caution if you don't like spoilers.


[EDIT] Miles has provided us a level list in post #2 of this topic.  Also, rules issues are detailed in post #3.  Please discuss!


[EDIT 2] The rankings have been added, have fun!

Charts for Wario Land are up.  However, please don't bother submitting Coin stats yet.  Just after adding the coin charts, I've remembered one point that may hamper competition: the randomness of getting coins from breakable blocks.  Sorry for the unprofessionalism, but even though I went and added them, we must decide whether the coin charts should be kept or not.

Also, certain courses are not up for Times because we need a ruling on courses that change as the game progresses.  At certain points, courses 1, 3, and 31 get water level changes, and course 10 becomes a different course, course 13.  To compete in the before-change version of the course, you would have to start a new file (separate from the completed file you would usually use) just for that course.

So here are my questions to all of you:

(1) What should we do about the coin charts?  (a) keep them and count them toward the overall ranking, (b) keep them and don't count them toward the overall ranking, or (c) delete them?

(2) What should we do about changing courses?  (a) have one chart per changing course, just for the after-change version, (b) have one chart per changing course, allowing both versions of the course, or (c) have two charts per changing course, one for the before-version and one for the after-version?


[EDIT] Please see Reply #2 in this topic for current decisions, which should take effect fairly soon.

First of all, rankings for Super Mario World PAL have been added, so Europeans and Australians don't have to play on emulator to compete.  Sorry for not adding this ranking earlier.

Second, Super Mario Advance 2, the Game Boy Advance version of Super Mario World, is no longer allowed for SMW times.  The reason is that the GBA version has some notable differences from the SNES versions, and we don't know of the full extent that the differences affect competition.  Once we have more collective experience with Super Mario World, we may or may not choose to re-allow the GBA version or create separate rankings for it.  But for now, disallowing the GBA version seems to be the safest plan.  The same reasoning goes for the GBA version of Super Mario Bros. 3 and the GBC version of Super Mario Bros. (although these versions were already disallowed for a while).

What if you already submitted SMW stats that you got with the GBA version?  If possible, please replace your GBA-played submissions with your best SNES times.  Though, the most important thing is that everyone uses SNES from here on.   Also, if we think you submitted GBA times and gained an advantage from it, we'll let you know.

So, summary of allowed versions for SMW: in the NTSC rankings, play on the US/Japan SNES versions only.  In the PAL rankings, play on the Europe/Australia SNES versions only.  Wii Virtual Console releases of these versions are allowed too.
To learn about the other rules for SMW (or rules for other games), read the rules here.


By the way, You vs. Boo time charts for Super Mario Bros. Deluxe were added several days ago.  And in case you didn't notice, Yoshi's Story and Mario vs. Donkey Kong were added a little while ago.  There are plenty of other games that can go up in the future, as well.  Keep in mind that we're only focusing on Mario platformers, though (not Kart, Party, Golf, Tennis, etc.).

Welcome to The Mario Center! In this subsite, you can compete in various games in the Super Mario Bros. series. Currently, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2 (aka "The Lost Levels"), and Super Mario World are available for competition. We will be adding more games later this week.

EDIT: Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES and SNES versions), Wario Land 3 and 4, and New Super Mario Bros. are open for business.