------------------------------------------------ Super Mario Advance - Boss Intro Restoration v1.0 by Mister Man ------------------------------------------------ Introduction ------------------------------------------------ In Super Mario Advance, Fryguy and Clawgrip have new introductions. These intros show what the bosses looked like before being transformed to fight the player. Interestingly enough, Mouser and Tryclyde also have fully programmed introductions that go unused. Readding them back to the game, however, reveals that these intros are in a slightly unpolished state (for example, there doesn't seem to be code to display the second animation frame). This patch not only restores these unused boss intros, but also touches them up as much as possible to look more in-line with Fryguy and Clawgrip's boss intros. ------------------------------------------------ Changelog ------------------------------------------------ v1.0 ------------------------------------------------ * Replaced Mouser (World 1-3) and Tryclyde (World 2-3)'s object IDs with their unused boss intros. * Fixed Mouser's pre-transformation sprites using the wrong graphics. * Increased the activation radius for Mouser and Tryclyde's boss intros. * This was done to fix a softlock in World 1-3's boss room: If the player ran out of bombs to break the wall of cracked blocks, then they would be unable to get close enough to Mouser to start the boss intro animation. * Fixed the four giant bubbles not covering Tryclyde's body during his boss intro animation. ------------------------------------------------ Patching ------------------------------------------------ To apply these patches, any program that supports the IPS patch format (like LunarIPS) is required. Please note that the abbreviations in the end of each filename indicates which version of the game is the patch compatible with: * "_JPN.ips" * Super Mario Advance - Super Mario USA + Mario Brothers (Japan). * Super Mario Advance - Super Mario USA + Mario Brothers (Japan) (Virtual Console). * "_USA_KIOSK.ips" * Super Mario Advance (USA) (Demo) (Kiosk). * "_USA.ips" * Super Mario Advance (USA, Europe). * Super Mario Advance (USA, Europe) (Virtual Console). * "_CHN.ips" * Chaoji Maliou 2 (China). ------------------------------------------------ Tools used ------------------------------------------------ * Hex Workshop * LunarIPS * mGBA