Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 – Color Restoration: SMA2 Micro-hack: The Return to Dinosaurland

Super Mario Advance 2 is an amazing game. In the past, people only made modifications to the SNES version of the game while ignoring the GBA version, because the GBA does not have a sound chip as good as the one in the SNES. After 3 years of research, oquendo has come to the conclusion that SMA2 has a lot of potential, because it is better optimized than the original SMW.

If you want, you can see the SMA2 hacking notes here: https://www.romhacking.net/documents/856/

So this hack was made using smallhacker's transplant tool, Lunar Magic, a little bit of hex editing and a lot of time. It only modifies the first 6 levels of the game and the intro cutscene, and is compatible with Asaki’s ‘https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/470/‘ patch as well as Weario's ‘https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4411/‘ hack.

In the future, oquendo wishes to make more hacks like this. He is also very grateful to his friends in the Discord community for helping with creative ideas and research.

VERSIONS

1.1
-Corrections in graphics and improvement
-Oquendo's name instead Nintendo
-Graphical glitches in the intro solved

1.0 first public release

This hack is so special for me, because i have to investigate a lot about sma2 coding
(almost 3 years), so enjoy this little hack, in the future i wish make lots of sma2 hacks.
This hack was maked using the smallhacker's transplant tool, lunar magic, a little bit of hex coding
and a lot of time.

I am happy because I belive that this micro-hack is the first step to make a great project if you can help. I hope you have read this.

-oquendo.

Database match: Super Mario Advance 2 - Super Mario World (USA, Australia)
Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
File/ROM SHA-1: 5101DDF223D1D918928FE1F306B63A42ADA14A5E
File/ROM CRC32: 5206880A