Super Mario Bros. 2: Pony Poki Panic is a fan-made ROM hack for the Nintendo Entertainment System that reimagines the classic Super Mario Bros. 2. Players control characters from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, including Twilight Sparkle and Princess Luna, to confront Nightmare Moon, who has plunged the Dream World into nightmares. The game features updated graphics and gameplay mechanics, enhancing the original experience while maintaining its charm.
Relive the classic “Super Mario 2″ NES game with the colourful ponies from “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”!
The dark spirit of Nightmare Moon has invaded the Dream World. She has caused everypony to start having nightmares, preventing nopony from sleeping. It is up to Twilight Sparkle, Lyra Heartstrings, Trixie Lulamoon (a.k.a. The Great and Powerful Trixie) and Princess Luna to defeat the dark spirit so everypony can sleep again.
Name: Pony Poki Panic
Version: 1.1
Console: NES
File Name: Super Mario Bros 2 (PRG 1) (U).nes
MD5: D769D73689EA4684DBB0BD7CF3A24B2F
SHA-1: D9F36F09B863ACC8DE374EA886ABB146959078B3
Relive the classic "Super Mario 2" NES game
with the colourful ponies from "My Little Pony:
Friendship is Magic".
The dark spirit of Nightmare Moon has invaded
the Dream World. She has caused everypony to
start having nightmares, preventing nopony from
sleeping. It is up to Twilight Sparkle, Lyra
Heartstrings, Trixie Lulamoon (a.k.a. The Great
and Powerful Trixie) and Princess Luna to defeat
the dark spirit so everypony can sleep again.
Version 1.1:
- New title screen.
- Updated the boarders on Title Screen and
Bonus Screen.
- Added credits to title screen.
- Added version to title screen.
- Rewritten the story to flow better.
- Player select message says
"PLEASE SELECT PONY".
- On player select the pony that isn't selected
is green instead of blue.
- Trixie now has 4 colours for her sprite instead
of 3 colours.
- The palettes for the four playable ponies has
been updated so they match their appearance from
the cartoon.
- The palettes for the bosses have been updated
so they match their appearance from the cartoon.
- The height for when an item is picked has been
adjusted for each pony.
- The "BOMB" graphic has been changed to "BOOM".
- "EXTRA LIFE" has been changed to "EXTRA LIVES:".
- The "Bonus Screen" text changes "NO BONUS" to
"NO BITS COLLECTED".
- The bonus screen text changes "PLAYER 1UP" to
"YOU WON 1UP".
- The Cognites (Subcons) now carry Nightmare Moon
at the end of the game.
- Fixed a bug where the Cognite sprites were not
displaying correctly near the end.
- The pony's names have been centred at the end
of the game.
- The end game text "CONTRIBUTOR" has been changed
to "BEST PONY:".
- During the cast, the names and sprites have been
centred.
- During the cast, changed the following names:
- P.SPRITE to PARASPRITE
- BOM OMB to BOM-OMB
- BIRDO TO OSTRO
- S.MAGNET to STEVEN
- SUBCON to COGNITE
- N. MOO.N to NIGHTMARE MOON
- The Game Over screen has a x after continue. So
it says: CONTINUE x ?
- The Game Over screen changes "RETRY" to "QUIT".
- You can hold the run button while holding an item
and jump without throwing it.
- The "death sound effect" has been restored.
- The "0" sprite has been updated to look like a 0.
- Fixed an alignment issue in the POW sprites.
- The animated items, enemies and backgrounds now
use 8 frames instead of 7.
Known Issues:
- The Hydra boss is using the wrong palette, so he
is red instead of orange. Just need to tell the
game to use the correct palette set.
- The height values when the ponies carry an item
or enemy need adjusting. They look strange when
they are ducking.
Future Improvements:
- Change the Mario music (3 tracks) to the ones used
Doki Doki Panic.
- Have the shells bounce off the walls (there is a
hack that has done this).
Credits:
- Herooftime1000
- Created the original 1.0 patch.
- Modified all the graphics.
- RadioShadow
- Made all the modifications in the
1.1 patch.
- Mattrizzle
- Created the title screen.
- SpiderDave
- Fixed the death animation sound effect.
- Fixed the bug so you can hold the run
button without throwing the item/enemy.
- Helped find the height values when
holding an item/enemy.
- Asaki
- Pointed out the alignment issue in the
POW Block.
- vince94
- Used some of the text changes from his
"Mario 2 De-Engrish Rewrite" patch.
- Nintendo
- For making "Super Mario Bros. 2" and
other awesome games.
- Hasbro
- For making "My Little Pony: Friendship
is Magic" an awesome cartoon. This hack
would not exist without the cartoon.
- Special thanks to everypony who worked
on the cartoon.
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