Fans Have Created a 'Newer' Super Mario Bros. DS

Looks great.

"Over 10 years after the original"

...Time sure flies huh.

Very dedicated fan !

Looks cool. Wish it worked on Nintendo hardware.

More 2D Mario please!!! I'm loving it!

wow that looks incredibly good !

Download it quick before it is blocked

@Expa0 I'd like to cage it and beat it to death myself, sigh.

'Despite the game obviously being based on New Super Mario Bros. for DS, this patch cannot be played on Nintendo's hardware.'

WRONG!!! Playing on my New 3DS XL right now.

Mine cart and hammer bros suit are awesome

It almost seems like there's an appetite for creating 2D Mario levels. If only Nintendo had a product that could quickly be released on the Switch to satisfy this want...

Very cool. I'm downloading it now--before Nintendo has any say in the matter whatsoever.

PS. This is one of those times, just like Sega did with Sonic Mania, where I think Nintendo should be getting these guys to put together official releases for its platforms at a fraction of the price it would probably cost otherwise. With a tiny bit of overseeing from Nintendo, I think these kinds of fan-made games could be more than worthy additions to the eShop libraries of the systems they are made for.

I’m still incredulous that it has been nearly twelve years since the original New Super Mario Bros. The “New” in the title sounds ridiculous now, as I predicted it would. Poor choice of nomenclature.

@thesilverbrick that’s nintendo for you

@Henbush Yup. I can’t wait to see how even more ridiculous the name “New Nintendo 2DS XL” will sound in ten years, especially when someone enters a used game store asking to buy a “used New Nintendo 2DS XL.” You’d think after the naming debacle that was the Wii U they’d hire some better talent to name their consoles.

@Bunkerneath it's a mod and doesn't include any assets. Nintendo usually leaves mods alone. They go after stand-alone projects that use their assets. With this, you need to have the game in order to use it. Yes, you can get it illegally but the people who made this mod intended it so you have to own the game.

I’m sure it’s REALLY good.

Having played and beaten the Wii mod i'm confident this will be excellent. Newer on the Wii was so good and professional i consider it pretty much an official game in my heart.

Ah, this requires me to own and patch some version of the original game. I thought it was a self-contained .exe I could play on PC as is. Guess I won't be playing this one after all.

So it's finally finished?
Props to Skawo for making the unimaginable on NSMB DS.

Was fun following the progress of the mod.

@BigJoeCool It does.
You can play it on a real DS or 3DS. (And maybe on wii u by injecting the file into a DS VC)

I betcha if Nintendo was the one that made this, these same people above and below me would be ranting that it's just another New Super Mario Bros. rehash but if a fan made it then has to be praise.

@impurekind If Nintendo do hired people like these guys to make new Super Mario games then they won't be able to use these same old engine for the new games. They will have to re-learn all the new stuff Nintendo had for them and meet deadline (something that fans can't stand cause deadline are what botch down creativity). This game is only possible cause fans had too much free times to make it.

Also, this can be played on any DS or any Wii U.

So this is the same team behind Newer Super Mario Bros Wii?

I might try this.

I've played a lot of fan made New Super Mario Bros DS games, but they were rom hacks that I played on my actual DS using a cartridge. I don't really think I'll enjoy it on PC, so it looks like I'm gonna have to pass on this one.

@retro_player_22 Tell that to Sega and the guys that made Sonic Mania. . . .

@impurekind You know what would be cool? If Nintendo set up something where they received fanmade projects and published them if they were deemed good enough.

@Danny429 Yeah, even having some kind of "Fan-made Games" section on the eShop could be a very cool and novel idea. Especially if Nintendo put a little bit of its resources behind each of them just to make sure they were properly polished to a min "Nintendo quality" and fit for digital release on its systems. Christ, many of them are already as good as a bunch of the throwaway, cash-grab, spin-off titles the like of Nintendo and Pokemon Company have released over the years.

It's for LINUX too or did you intentionally forget to put that. Even us LINUX uses can play

@impurekind Everything I seen in Sonic Mania are basically everything I seen in Sonic 1, 2, 3, Knuckles, CD, and Chaotix. Nothing wrong with the game cause it is a good game, the problem is that it's not made by Sega.

Not bad.

@retro_player_22 Regardless, almost everything I've seen, from actual gameplay footage to all the reviews out there, suggests it is one of the best Sonic game ever made--and surely that's the metric we should be measuring it by. It not being made by Sega's in-house developers in this case turned out to be a very good thing indeed, if we go by how much the hardcore fans and reviewers seem to love it. And also, there's actually plenty of stuff in it that hasn't been seen in any of the other Sonic games--a lot of the level art, the intro animations, most of the bosses, most of the music, etc--I don't think you're giving it enough credit to be honest.

@Basilgarrad You've probably already realized this but the article is wrong, this, just like the Wii version, is playable on real hardware.

But I do agree and wonder how anyone could enjoy this on a PC.

@AlienX Awesome thanks for letting me know, I just checked out the site, you're right it looks like I actually can play it on my DS!

Can't wait to listen to this in the car https://www.play-asia.com/super-mario-odyssey-game-original-soundtrack/13/70bt25?tagid=1415491

@BigJoeCool Not really sure why they say it does not work on official hardware. You have to apply the patch via PC but once that's done your looking at a regular DS rom that works fine on flash carts.

@brownc8579 yup thx it's working great on twloader.

@Gridatttack yup got it going on my 3DS via twloader. For some reason my old ds flashcard isn't readable anymore.