- This article is about Super Bros. 5. For games with a similar title, see Super Bros..
Super Bros. 5, originally known as Super Bros. 2 and often titled Super Wonderful Mario on cartridge labels, is a hack of the PAL version of Super Mario Bros. 2. The hack appears have been developed by Co Tung Enterprise (or "Chi Chi Toys"), a company who was affiliated with Whirlwind Manu.
Overview[]
The hack features several minor differences and oddities compared to the original Super Mario Bros. 2:
- The "Mario" text on the title logo is removed, with the "Bros." text being centered. In Super Bros. 5, the "2" is replaced with a crudely-drawn "5".
- Mario's name is also deliberately misspelled "Merio" in the story intro and the ending cutscene.
- In Super Bros. 2, the game's copyright notice is altered to read "1989 CTC"; CTC is a known codename of Co Tung. The notice reads "1991 ECE" in Super Bros. 5; it is unknown if "ECE" refers to an actual company.
As the hack is based on the PAL version of Super Mario Bros. 2, the game runs considerably faster than it is intended to on NTSC hardware. The game also plays with higher-pitched music on NTSC systems and the majority of PAL Famiclones.
Trivia[]
- Some later copies under the Super Wonderful Mario label instead feature an unhacked ROM of Super Mario USA, the official Japanese release of the game.
- The retitling of the game to "Super Bros. 5" was likely done to fit with a distributor's other pirated Mario releases numerically. However, the exact "set" the hack belongs to is unknown (as multiple pirated releases exist labeled as Mario 1, 2, and 4).
Gallery[]
Cartridge; where it says Super Wonderful Mario.
Alternate print with Snow White, Captain Crunch, a render of Mario from NES Open Tournament Golf, and some four unknown characters.