Editing Super Mario Bros. Special

'''''Super Mario Bros. Special''''' (Japanese: スーパーマリオブラザーズ スペシャル, ''Sūpā Mario Burazāzu Supesharu'') is a platform game that was developed by [[Hudson Soft]] and released in 1986 for the {{wp|PC-8800 series|NEC PC-8801}} and {{wp|Sharp X1}} series of Japanese computers, and later for the Samsung SPC-1500,<ref name=Lost>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20200409192745/hg101.proboards.com/thread/6968/hudson-mario-trilogy?page=2&scrollTo=173288|title=Hudson Mario Trilogy|publisher=Hardcore Gaming 101|language=en|accessdate=June 29, 2024}}</ref> a South Korean clone of the X1. ''Super Mario Bros. Special'' was the second [[Nintendo]]-licensed follow-up to ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', released around two months after ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]''.<ref>[http://nintendoera.com/discussing-hudsons-mario-games-with-native-japanese-speaker-bando]{{dead link}}</ref> Two years prior, Hudson Soft had released ''[[Punch Ball Mario Bros.]]'' and ''[[Mario Bros. Special]]'', which were both based on the arcade game ''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]''

While superficially very similar to the original ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', the game features original new [[level]]s and has a screen-by-screen scrolling mechanism. The latter is implemented more smoothly in the X1 version, which features ''Zelda''-style scrolling, where the screen visually slides to the next lock point (with some overlap between screens), whereas the PC-8801 version simply turns black for a moment while loading the next screen.

[[Jump]]ing and [[dash]]ing physics also differ from the [[Family Computer]], providing a more challenging experience than ''Super Mario Bros.'' Adding difficulty is the fact that the [[Time Limit|stage time]] is slightly faster than in the original Famicom game. [[Mario]]'s [[hammer]] from ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'' makes a reappearance as a rare item, alongside a variety of past foes from earlier arcade ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' titles and new exclusive [[List of items|items]].

Hudson Soft's staff took enemies from ''Super Mario Bros.'' as well as earlier ''Super Mario'' games. All are referred to in-game by their Japanese names, with a typo in one case (or called by new names in the case of the earlier games' enemies), and ordered per their listing in the cast and credits:

|rowspan=4 align=center|[[File:SMBS World 3-2.png|300px]]<br>'''[[World 3 (Super Mario Bros. Special)|World 3]]'''

|rowspan=4 align=center|{{no image}}<br>'''[[World 4 (Super Mario Bros. Special)|World 4]]'''

|rowspan=4 align=center|{{no image}}<br>'''[[World 5 (Super Mario Bros. Special)|World 5]]'''

|rowspan=4 align=center|{{no image}}<br>'''[[World 6 (Super Mario Bros. Special)|World 6]]'''

|rowspan=4 align=center|{{no image}}<br>'''[[World 7 (Super Mario Bros. Special)|World 7]]'''

|rowspan=4 align=center|{{no image}}<br>'''[[World 8 (Super Mario Bros. Special)|World 8]]'''

Due to both the PC-88 and X1 technology being inferior compared to the NES/Famicom, some glitches and tricks that were previously not present in the original appear here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Compared to the original ''Super Mario Bros.'', the jumping board present in World 2-1 is much more difficult to perform a higher jump off of due to poor collision detection, sometimes being stuck in its animation frames when Mario jumps off. Sometimes holding the jump key while landing on the board guarantees success in jumping off, and in the event that a player would have trouble, the set of [[Hidden Block|invisible block]]s placed around the board allows players to bypass it.

===Disk error (PC-88)===  

[[File:SMBS9.png|thumb|Disk Error]]  

If the system encounters an error while trying to read and load data from the disk, the screen displays the message: "''DISK ERROR! PLEASE RESTART GAME PUSH IPL SWITCH''" (the IPL switch being a reset button present on PC-8801 family machines). The error is caused by corrupted data, which may be a result of a damaged disk or a improperly performed ROM dump, the most notable example being a ROM in which 8-4 is corrupted.<ref>{{cite|author=MrPodoboo|date=August 22, 2009|url=youtu.be/i8i3soQcUbU?si=50N8uESjA_Fn38Lm&t=290|title=Let's Play Super Mario Bros. Special - World 8|timestamp=04:50|publisher=YouTube|language=en|accessdate=June 29, 2024}}</ref> This error, being a disk read error, is likely to exist in other versions of the game, but it has not been confirmed, and it is extremely unlikely that the error is identical across all systems.

===Music stop error===

Due to bad pipe entering detection, if Mario gets too close to a horizontal pipe that can be entered and quickly turns around, the pipe-entering sound plays and the music stops until Mario actually enters the pipe. The player can do this multiple times in the same room which repeats the pipe-entering sound.