United Mario Bros. 3 (Version 1.0) November 3rd, 2023 ---------------------------------- ROM Type: ---------------------------------- Works best with SMB3 (U) (PRG1) ROM ---------------------------------- About United Mario Bros. 3 ---------------------------------- It's Super Mario Bros. 3! This time, it has 8 brand new worlds for Mario and Luigi to explore. Jumping on goomba's, kicking turtle shells and some small surprises as well, this has everything you love about the original game but taken a step further. The difficulty is on par with the original game. With the help of many familiar people from the SMB3 Prime community, this will hopefully bring you back to a time when you first played the original game with all its wonder and challenges. To sum up, the goal of this project is to keep the original format and gameplay while creating 8 brand new worlds for Mario and Luigi to explore. Each world has its own theme with custom levels, music and graphics. Contributors include Mari 42, Bluecrush, JoeSmo, Bluefinch, KP, RussianmanSMWC, Zacmario, Quick Curly, Googie, Koopa, Evilelf, Anas, Actiongamer, Vincent Hernandez and AlanJacobs. Enjoy! ---------------------------------- About Making United Mario Bros. 3 ---------------------------------- A welcome invitation to AlanJacobs' SBM3 project turned into a collaboration of many skilled hackers and level designers, all of which brought together for the first time by Discord. All contributing level designers submitted their levels upon approval by AlanJacobs and, with permission, subject to small design tweaks to improve the difficulty curve (it's tough to be consistent with many designers in one project!) ------------------------------------------------------- Brief History Behind this Hack as told by AlanJacobs ------------------------------------------------------- In late 2017, I had an interest in possibly creating another project with the same '8 new worlds' premise as 'A New Journey' but make it much easier for the casual player. I worked together with Mari42 (who helped polished 'A New Journey' a year prior) and came up with many ideas on how to move the project forward. Mari42 created our own Discord Channel in April, 2018. It primarily focused on SMB3 hacking and our new project. The first person to join our server was Koopa who, little did we know at the time, is a skilled and valuable hacker who primarily focused on music for SMB3 and volunteered to do music for this project. Mari42 and myself split the level design responsibilities. As more people joined the server, our little community grew as well as interest in our project. To take advantage of the community and lighten our load a bit, I proposed to extend an invitation to those who are interested in helping our project. ActionGamer, Vincent Hernandez, ZacMario, Bluecrush, and Quick Curly designed levels for us. If memory serves me right, we had about 100 members in the one year our server was opened. In April, 2019, we officially combined our Discord community with another SMB3 hacking server led by Joe Smo (Known as SMB3 Prime later on...). The SMB3 hacking community grew substantially around this time. This was the first time we practically had everyone in the SMB3 hacking community together in one place! KP, Bluefinch, JoeSmo, Anas, Googie, RussianManSMWC and Evilelf made their contributions. We officially named the project 'United Mario Bros. 3' I'll be honest, I felt a bit over my head leading this project. This, along with personal life interfering with hacking created many huge voids in it's development, three years to be exact. I've always kept this unfinished project in the back of my mind and it bugged me that it wasn't done. In late 2022, I secretly picked it back up and in February, 2023, I released the trailer and announced interest in testing. It was released on November 3, 2023! World Level Themes: World 1: Autumn Forest World 2: Ancient Ruins World 3: Violet Slopes World 4: Retrowave World 5: Twilight Tundra World 6: Sugar Land World 7: Rainbow Road World 8: ? ---------------------------------- Patch v1.1 Fixes ---------------------------------- 2-Temple 1: Fixed pipe bug 2-3: Moved Lakitu back a couple screens to make easier 5-Fortress 2: Fixed one tile gap so Frog Mario can pass 6-2: Fixed cloud overlapping vine 6-Fortress 3: Secret Door eliminates cheep cheeps 7-1: Fixed Movable wooden blocks with non-movable wooden blocks. 7-Fortress 1: Deleted top donut block and straightened ledge to a door. 7-6: Fixed cloud graphics placement 7-8: Mushroom House reward for those who pass the level 7-Fortess 2: Fixed Thwomp softlock / forced hit 8- S2: Changed Venus to Piranha Plant 8-? Bottom Right Corner: Fixed Music 8-S4: More time 8-Bowser's Castle: More time & fixed Bonus area softlock ---------------------------------- CREDITS ---------------------------------- Main Title Screen- KP Muncher Fix- RussianManSMWC Sledge Bro- RussianManSMWC Underwater Attack- Bluefinch Shooting Cheep Cheep- Bluefinch Overworld Bridges- JoeSmo Mushroom House Timer- AlanJacobs Ending- AlanJacobs Patch Compilation- Bluefinch All music composed by Koopa *except for Plains, Athletic and Overworlds 3,4,5,6 and 7 composed by AlanJacobs Autoscrolling by Mari42 and AlanJacobs All graphics drawn by AlanJacobs *except title screen by KP and Hilly Theme from an unused hack provided by Googie Programs used with credits... FCEUXD- bbitmaster SMB3 Map Editor- Beneficii SMB3 Foundry- Michael Workshop- hukka Object TSA Editor- DahrkDaiz YYCHR- Yy Level Design Credits: World 1 1- ZacMario 2- *Based off a Level from AlanJacobs' abandoned Super Mario World Hack 3- ZacMario 4- *Based off a Level from AlanJacobs' abandoned Super Mario World Hack F- ZacMario 5- AlanJacobs 6- AlanJacobs S- Mari42 World 2 1- Mari42 T1- Mari42 2- AlanJacobs 3- ZacMario F1- Mari42 4- ActionGamer 5- ZacMario 6- Mari42 F2- Bluecrush T2- Mari42 S- Mari42 World 3 1- Mari42 2- Mari42 3- ZacMario F1- Quick Curly 4- Mari42 5- Mari42 6- Mari42 7- Mari42 8- Mari42 F2- Mari42 9- Mari42 S- Mari42 World 4 1- AlanJacobs 2- AlanJacobs 3- AlanJacobs F1- AlanJacobs 4- *Based off a Level from abandoned SMB3 hack 'DM Mario 3' provided by Googie 5- Bluecrush 6- *Based off an unused level from SMB3 hack 'A New Journey' F2- Mari42 7- AlanJacobs S- Mari42 World 5 1- Bluecrush 2- Bluecrush 3- AlanJacobs F1- AlanJacobs 4- AlanJacobs 5- AlanJacobs F2- AlanJacobs 6- AlanJacobs 7- Bluecrush 8- AlanJacobs S- Mari42 World 6 1- AlanJacobs 2- AlanJacobs 3- AlanJacobs F1- Bluecrush 4- AlanJacobs 5- Vincent Hernandez 6- Anas 7- Bluecrush F2- AlanJacobs 8- AlanJacobs 9- RussianManSMWC 10- Bluecrush F3- AlanJacobs S- AlanJacobs World 7 1- AlanJacobs 2- Evilelf 3- *Based off a Level from abandoned SMB3 hack 'DM Mario 3' provided by Googie F1- *Based off a Level from AlanJacobs' abandoned Super Mario World Hack 4- Googie 5- AlanJacobs 6- AlanJacobs 7- RussianManSMWC 8- AlanJacobs F2- *Based off an unused level from SMB3 hack 'A New Journey' 9- AlanJacobs S- AlanJacobs World 8 All Levels designed by AlanJacobs except the following... F1- Mari42 2- Googie I wish to thank the following for their consideration and support... Insectual TDW (The Dark Warrior) jiandao Testers: Mari42 Bluefinch ZacMario RetroHax Joe Smo If you wish to contact me for anything, especially if you have questions or want to report bugs, please do so at alanjakubs@gmail.com (notice that 'Jacobs' is spelled differently). Thank you! -Alan Jacobs