Discover Super Mario and the Rainbow Stars: 7 Chapters (www.retronews.com)
from Kain1@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 11:11
https://lemmy.world/post/19144676

This fan-created game, Super Mario and the Rainbow Stars, features 7 chapters and is currently available for download. The game merges elements from Paper Mario and the Mario and Luigi series into an engaging side-scrolling 2D platformer.

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Eiri@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 11:35 next collapse

Doesn’t look bad at all, but aren’t Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi series RPGs?

Feels weird to use them as examples for inspirations for a platformer.

Feels more like Yoshi’s Island elements thrown into a 2D version of Super Mario 3D World.

towamo7603@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 20:43 collapse

Super Paper Mario was more platformer than RPG.

Eiri@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 21:07 collapse

Are we both talking about the original game for Nintendo 64? Because that sounds like a bit of an overstatement to me if that’s the case.

Or am I remembering something wrong?

towamo7603@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 22:34 collapse

No, sorry, I’m referring to the 2007 Wii game. Instead of turn based battles it was a more traditional 2d-3d hybrid platformer with RPG elements.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Paper_Mario

M500@lemmy.ml on 28 Aug 12:00 next collapse

This kept crashing on steamdeck for me. Anyone else have this problem? The launcher opens, but trying to open the game causes it to crash.

PlasticExistence@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 13:05 next collapse

This was my experience too. I tried setting up a Bottles container for it as I’ve had success with that approach a few of the times that I can’t get a Proton version to work, but no dice.

I actually wasted a couple of hours trying to get it to work because it looks fun, but I gave up when I realized that I had spent all of that evening’s free time not having fun.

I couldn’t find anyone talking about getting it working on the Deck. If you happen to come across any working instructions, would you please ping me? I’ll do the same for you. Thanks in advance!

MisterMoo@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 16:42 next collapse

Bummer. This is how I’d try to play it since I lack a Windows environment. Thank you for reporting, intrepid explorer.

It says on the site you need WINE so it’s hard to understand why Proton wouldn’t work easily.

M500@lemmy.ml on 29 Aug 11:32 collapse

Thanks, but I’ve give. Up on it. There are a lot of other games to play.

PlasticExistence@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 12:29 collapse

That’s how I felt about it too

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 17:04 collapse

Same deal for me too. I think the software might need to be compiled for linux instead of pushing proton. I also tried wine but no dice.

M500@lemmy.ml on 30 Aug 01:18 collapse

It’s too bad their docs say they tested it with proton.

I don’t think it’s worth compiling for. Maybe when it’s out of beta it will work fine.

Glytch@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 21:41 next collapse

Get it now, before Nintendo finds out about it!

QuarterSwede@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 02:16 next collapse

This easily looks like the best original fan made game ever. Good grief what creativity!

Charadon@lemmy.sdf.org on 29 Aug 12:39 next collapse

Made in SMBX2’s engine

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a looooong time.

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 17:03 collapse

Anyone know how to get it setup on a SteamDeck?