Super Mario Bros. Crossover Released

Holy Shit! I am finally done with this game. I’ve been working on it forever. So far I have only uploaded it to one site, but it’s very popular. I uploaded it to Newgrounds only 6 hours ago, and it already has over 12,000 views and a 4.5/5 rating. And amazingly, it has two awards already: The Weekly User’s Choice and the Daily Feature. I could not be happier. In fact, I’m kind of freaking out because I’ve created so many things, but none of them has ever become popular. Perhaps this is a gateway to getting people to experience my work. I am very excited.

I have a lot of work to do now that people are coming to my website and also playing my game. I’ll start adding some of my previous projects to my website so that there is more to see here. If you are reading this and you like Super Mario Bros Crossover, then consider subscribing. If you like the game, there’s a very big chance you’ll like my other stuff too. I plan on doing a lot of things related to classic video games. In fact, I have a big new project set for this summer that relates to a video game. Consider Super Mario Bros Crossover a taste of things to come. Thank you for visiting my site, and if you haven’t played the game yet, check it out.

Super Mario Bros. Crossover

Super Mario Bros. Crossover is a fan game that recreates the original Super Mario Bros. and allows you to play it as characters from other games. It’s a throwback to classic video games and is a nice reminder that games don’t have to be complicated to be fun. Play it here.

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How to Play Flash Games with a Gamepad

Super Mario Bros. Crossover was designed to be played with a gamepad. Yes, it can still be played with a keyboard, but I highly recommend using a gamepad of some sort. It is difficult to relive the classic Nintendo experience without one.

The platform that the game runs on, Adobe Flash, does not support gamepads directly. However, you can bypass this limitation by emulating keyboard input through the gamepad. In other words, whenever you press a button on the gamepad, the game will think you are pressing a key on the keyboard. If you have a PC, there is some great free software called JoyToKey that does this for you. If you’re on a Mac, you can use the demo version of ControllerMate. If ControllerMate isn’t your thing and you have a Wii remote, there is a program called Darwiin Remote that allows you to use your Wiimote as a controller on a Mac. On Linux, you can use qjoypad. You can set your buttons in the game, so it doesn’t matter what keys you match the buttons to. If you don’t have a gamepad for your PC, I highly recommend using an Xbox 360 controller. I believe there is a way to use a PS3 controller as well.

Full Screen Mode

Another limitation of Flash is that it doesn’t allow keyboard input while in full screen mode. So if you want to play in full screen, you need some kind of workaround. On a mac, you can set up the “Universal Access” options in “System Preferences” to zoom the screen. That’s very easy to use. I’m sure there’s something similar on a PC. Or you can always just change your display resolution to something like 800×600 or 640×480 while you’re playing and change it back when you’re done.

See, with a few workarounds you can pretend you’re playing Nintendo.

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