[TAS] FDS Tonkachi Mario "warpless" by Αsumeh in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/...
TAS originally published on 2023-09-23
Tonkachi Mario is a ROM hack of the FDS version of Super Mario Bros. that came bundled with an unlicensed game editing software for the FDS called Tonkachi Editor, which was released in 1987. It is the earliest known ROM hack of this game and features some pretty difficult platforming and strings of balls that Mario can climb to get to other places. While it can be completed without resorting to glitches, the ROM hack is still difficult even by today's standards.
For this run, Αsumeh ( tasvideos.org/... ) forgoes the use of warps and competes every level in the romhack as fast as possible.

[@The_Wandering_Nerd]

It's a little weird, but Tonkachi Mario is pretty good for someone who in 1987 would have had to reverse engineer the game's level code format with only an unlicensed 6502 hex editor and absolutely none of the wealth of knowledge and tools we have today

[@letcreate123]

Pretty sure this was made with a tool called Tonkachi Editor, but this game was bundled with the editor so it leads me to believe that the creator of this hack made the editor themselves in order to create this.

[@johnsimon8457]

Reverse engineering is pretty neat, but a for a lot of early developers who wanted to get into NES/FC (and other console) development reverse engineering is the only thing they could turn to. It’s not like Nintendo would provide a sprite and music editor

[@bamboobridge-of8yd]

​@@johnsimon8457 pretty sure the game was made in hex more or less

[@ggkproductions1632]

This looks like something that someone would create in Super Mario Maker while drunk

[@Ironicicle1990]

I believe that the katakana near the end of 8-4 reads, "suruna" or "do not do it".

[@TakuikaNinja]

No, it's "入ルナ" meaning "don't enter"

[@RADish-official]

Please tell me you have any idea on what’s going on

[@xStormyyy]

how does one kill platforms

[@Lady_Lilith666]

Defeating Bowser would erase all sprites on the screen, including platforms

[@xStormyyy]

@@Lady_Lilith666 no, I meant in 1:27

[@murphmariotwopointoh7714]

@@xStormyyy Those are pulley platforms. They're never arranged like that in the original game.

[@SweetlandFamily]

16:28 how did mario kill bowser

[@estebanisaacpp]

Oh sSs+ Yes =D 👍

[@michaelalameda2002]

To call the Lost Levels a rom hack is now laughable to this video.

[@rainlion10]

True

[@SweetlandFamily]

is this Kaizo

[@UnnamedFeralKitten]

4-4 and 7-1 weren't changed all that much... Repetitive sections in the same world like in world D of All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.