Super Mario Crossover

[AtomSmasher]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/534416

*edit* link updated

[opt2not]

*edit: alternate link removed.

Here's the original site:


Ad revenue help support indie developers make more games like these!

[AtomSmasher]

Here's the original site:
http://mariocrossover.com/

Ad revenue help support indie developers make more games like these!

Agreed.  Initial link updated to the one you gave.

[mh12]

actually, it's http://www.exploding-rabbit.com/
apparently some guy registered a domain and slapped the swf on it to make a few dollars.

someone started another thread and got it right.. the author himself links to newgrounds

[opt2not]

Oh man, that's so shady! 

[Blanka]

It keeps loading forever

[Benevolance]

That game is completely full of win.

[Howard_Casto]

It's expertly crafted, I'll give you that.  Character animations and movement is spot-on.  The problem is smb levels suck when using other characters.  The fact that the smb enemies come up to the knees of most of the characters kind of takes the bite out of them.    Also there's the odd decision to make the contra character's gun really weak and contra's gameplay is soo touchy the one-hit-one-kill gun is the ONLY benefit they ever had. 

[Ginsu Victim]

Funny thing is, using Mario is awkward because we know how he should control and he doesn't quite move right (particularly his jumps).

[Blanka]

AH, now I get it running. It needs a Retro Browser too! Firefox forget it, Safari, go Africa, but goo old Internet Explorer works like a charm on this. 

[Howard_Casto]

 

IE isn't a retro browser, it is the only one you should be using.  Extra features and m$ hating aside, IE is the only browser that is 100% (or as close as possible) compliant with all the cobbled together crap architecture that is the internet.  It's also got for more users than any other browser so a site is most likely to work in IE simply out of necessity. 

[Ginsu Victim]

Firefox forget it

Works fine in Firefox for me on two different computers.

[AtomSmasher]

Firefox forget it

Works fine in Firefox for me on two different computers.

It also works fine in Opera.

[MKFan4Life]

IE isn't a retro browser, it is the only one you should be using.  Extra features and m$ hating aside, IE is the only browser that is 100% (or as close as possible) compliant with all the cobbled together crap architecture that is the internet.  It's also got for more users than any other browser so a site is most likely to work in IE simply out of necessity. 

And it is usually 100% compatible with the latest hacks and viruses out there specifically created to target the largest audience of surfers.  Firefox usually fulfills my needs.

[Howard_Casto]

Absolutely..... that's because it's the best browser.  It's the same deal with how there aren't any mac viruses.  What would be the point of going to all that trouble just to keep 12 hippies from using photoshop. 

[Xiaou2]

i Disagree.  I hate IE.  Its bloated.. filled with useless crap, like most m$ software.
Its horribly configured controls, take up nearly 2.5" of real estate.

 Firefox can be completely tweaked by the user in seconds.  Move any button or
control.  Use an add on like "Tiny Menu", move the controls to the top level, disable the
navigation tab, and you can make the controls just an inch... giving you so much more
viewing space.

 Firefox is constantly updated... unlike IE, which is only released like every year.
IE also needs about a gig of patches every so often, cluttering and slowing your new
pc to a crawl with extra useless processes, useless features you never will use,
malware scanners which dont work, and much more.

[AtomSmasher]

Real men use Opera.     

[Howard_Casto]

i Disagree.  I hate IE.  Its bloated.. filled with useless crap, like most m$ software.
Its horribly configured controls, take up nearly 2.5" of real estate.

 Firefox can be completely tweaked by the user in seconds.  Move any button or
control.  Use an add on like "Tiny Menu", move the controls to the top level, disable the
navigation tab, and you can make the controls just an inch... giving you so much more
viewing space.

 Firefox is constantly updated... unlike IE, which is only released like every year.
IE also needs about a gig of patches every so often, cluttering and slowing your new
pc to a crawl with extra useless processes, useless features you never will use,
malware scanners which dont work, and much more.

ugh... I hate breaking it down...

First paragraph... all wrong... ie hasn't been like that since about 5.0... sounds like you haven't used ie in a while. 

Second paragraph.... you can do that in ie as well.... just takes a sec or two.

Third paragraph... you are contradicitng yourself.  If ie is never updated then how can it constantly be patched?  Oh you mean adding features that nobody wants.... well you have me there, other browsers do that a lot more often.  All I need is a favorites bar and maybe some tabs but that's just me.... and most of the free world.      The constant patching... btw is to keep your pc virus free.  They don't add ANY extra processes or features.  Now some of the optional ie updates add features, but those are ..... you know, optional.  There aren't any anti-malware or other usless programs installed either.... there's only inprivate filtering and smartscreen.  Both are an optional install and can easily be turned on and off.  The only thing they do is check code before it runs for attacks and check a url against a list of known websites on a location change.  So they don't slow down the browser or hog resources in any way.  As a matter of fact, for the upteenth year running ie is still the fastest browser on the pc.


Now you can call office or visual studio bloated, but ie, especially ie8 is a lean, mean fighting machine.  As a matter of fact it's far less bloated than most other browsers.  Seriously.... uses less resources.  Also you need to keep in mind that firefox/opera/whatever users are generally kind of nerdy so they install 30 stupid plugins, slowing things down even more. 

I don't dislike other browsers at all, because that doesn't make sense.... they are all essentially the same, but disliking ie can't logically be justified. 

If anything ie has one thing going for it that the others don't that makes it superior....... it's already installed on your pc, so no time is wasted insallign software.  It auto-updates with win update, so no time is wasted upgrading, and starting with win vista when you buy a new pc you can automatically transfer ie settings via the settings transfer wizard, so you'll never have to setup a browser again. 

That, quite frankly is why myself and most of the world use ie.  Why download something to your computer when you already have an app pre-installed that does the same thing?

[Ginsu Victim]

Why download something to your computer when you already have an app pre-installed that does the same thing?

Because I still prefer Firefox.

[MKFan4Life]

If anything ie has one thing going for it that the others don't that makes it superior....... it's already installed on your pc, so no time is wasted insallign software.  It auto-updates with win update, so no time is wasted upgrading, and starting with win vista when you buy a new pc you can automatically transfer ie settings via the settings transfer wizard, so you'll never have to setup a browser again. 

That, quite frankly is why myself and most of the world use ie.  Why download something to your computer when you already have an app pre-installed that does the same thing?

Well, I first switched to Firefox for the tabbed browsing a long time ago when IE didn't have it.  When IE first had it, you had to have that MSN toolbar installed to use tabbed browsing.  (I HATE toolbars!)  I am sure now almost all browsers have this option (and Firefox wasn't the first, but it became popular partly because of this feature).  So, since I came to really like Firefox, I've continued using it although IE is on my pc.

But, to point out a contradiction of yours, auto-updating is still basically "downloading" data to your pc to patch your IE.  So having to download Firefox is no big negative.  And don't you have to sometimes either restart your pc after a MAJOR update was applied or doesn't the FOLLOWING startup take a little longer to apply the updates?  Given todays fast computers and internet connections, these things wouldn't take a LOT of time, but it's still something some people would bring up.  I, for one, NEVER turn on AUTO-UPDATE on ANY computer.  This is partly due to me being on a Verizon wireless account (less bandwidth than cable or DSL) and partly because I have found updates to many times cause as much harm as they claim to remedy, no matter WHAT they want to tell you.  Lots of times I have known people to have to restore back to a time BEFORE an update to fix a NEW problem that magically showed up AFTER installing recommended updates.

So, basically, it's whatever the user likes in the end.  Also, from the reviews I've read, any speed differences rendering pages is usually measured in milliseconds, so it's not that noticeable.

[Benevolance]

Mario weeps that this thread has broken down into an IE vs the World debate. All he wanted was to stomp on the local animated flora and fauna and occasionally set them on fire with his NES buddies. This should be a happy thread, joyously recounting 8 Worlds of rowdy carnage and mayhem in pursuit of Princess poonani. 

[solidteezme]

well i like safari, oh and real player has a good browser!

Only joking,

i use safari on my mac, ie on my desktop and firefox on my laptop. i think they all serve a purpose

[hypernova]

[shmokes]

Firefox is faster than IE (though still not as fast as Chrome).  But by far more importantly it simply has a much better interface.  It handles tabs better and has cool features, for example you can grab a tab and drag it off the toolbar and it will become it's own window.  It's location bar is way smarter.  When you start typing an address it doesn't just search through history to make suggestions, it searches through bookmarks and page titles.  Frankly the location bar alone, considering nothing else is reason enough to use Firefox or Chrome over IE.  Smart keywords are amazing too.  If there is a site on which you search frequently, say IMDB or Dictionary.com or Wikipedia, you can define any word as a smart keyword for a particular search bar on that site.  Then any time you want to search that site just plug the smart keyword into the location bar, followed by your search term.  For example, if I'm in the mood to order a Steven King book I can just hit alt+d (to get to the location bar) then type: a steven king ("a" is the smart keyword I defined for Amazon.com).  And the browser behaves the same as if I typed Amazon.com, hit enter, then typed the "steven king" into Amazon's search bar and hit enter.  I have smart keywords set up for like 15 different sites and I use them constantly.  And just little things like having to just hit the "/" key to open a search box (as opposed to ctrl+f) which pops up an unobtrusive search bar rather than a clunky separate window . . . there are so many little details that add up to a far superior user experience in Firefox.

As for 100% compatibility, that must be a rather new development because Firefox has historically had far better compliance with web standards.  I find it doubtful that this situation has changed substantially, but even if MS has caught up with Firefox on compatibility it doesn't take away from the fact that Firefox is already compatible.

Beyond that, MS is always playing catchup.  Tabs, inline spell check, integrated download manager, session restore, integrated pop-up blocking.  And in any case, even if MS manages to innovate rather than imitate you can be sure that Mozilla's phenomenal open source community will have an equivalent extension available for Firefox more or less immediately.  Speaking of which, talk about bloat all you want, but it's insane to not acknowledge that while there are plenty of extensions that are nothing more than bloat, there are some that add phenomenal functionality.

MS has never EVER been good for consumers with regards to web browsers.  From the very beginning it used illegal business practices to crush the far superior Netscape (and then settled the antitrust lawsuit for . . . I ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- you not . . . $750 million plus a bunch of other perks).  After cheating to kill the competition in the market MS just sat there on Internet Explorer 6 for more than five years.  Not a single new version of the software.  And then the garbage that was Internet Explorer 7 was hastily developed only as an "oh-crap!" response to the unexpected appearance of Firefox on the scene.

Howard, you are generally a pretty cynical guy, but you've always been a gigantic MS fanboy.  Your unflinching support for them borders on the delusional sometimes.   

[RayB]

I used to prefer Firefox but went back to IE after moving up to Windows 7 (which has IE . Firefox does not show tab previews when you hover the taskbar. That got annoying enough to stick with IE. nuff said. (And the newest Firefox went and moved the main buttons around that I was already used do. Talk about a dumb decision, changing the primary UI for the worse).

[AtomSmasher]

Opera is "The fastest browser on Earth" (according to their advertising at least), but the main reason I use it is for the mouse gestures.  I've tried the firefox and IE plugins, but they've never come close to the usability and accuracy of Opera's mouse gestures.  But I'm not posting here to share my love of Opera, I'm here to post this picture.

[RayB]

... but the main reason I use it is for the mouse gestures.  

What kind of gestures? If you don't like a particular website, you can give it the one-fingered salute?

[AtomSmasher]

... but the main reason I use it is for the mouse gestures.  

What kind of gestures? If you don't like a particular website, you can give it the one-fingered salute?

Heh, thats hand gestures, which are not browser specific. 
But the mouse gestures are you hold the right mouse button, then move the mouse in a way that causes an action to occur.
-Move Left - page back
-Move Right - page forward
-Move Down - open new window
-Move down while cursor starts on a link - opens link in new window
-Down Right - closes page
-Down Up - creates a duplicate of the page
-Up Down - reloads the page

Theres a few others, but I don't use them very often.  The ones I listed above I use daily.  You can also remap any of the gestures any way you want, but I'm used to the default settings, so I've never bothered to do so.
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/gestures/

[Xiaou2]

If you dont like the way Firefox's buttons are placed... Right click on the navigation bar,
and choose customize.  Then Drag and drop things where you want.

[RayB]

If you dont like the way Firefox's buttons are placed... Right click on the navigation bar,
and choose customize.  Then Drag and drop things where you want.

Done! thanks.

[jfunk]

If nothing else, the fact that JavaScript is such a pain to debug in IE (as opposed to Firefox with or WITHOUT the Firebug extension) keeps me away for all but compatibility tests and Sharepoint access... 

[shmokes]

I watch a lot of internet porn, so the only hand gestures I'm typically making are up and down, and Firefox seems to work fine with them.   

[Ginsu Victim]

You need a DDR pad under your desk and Xpadder for the ultimate in hands-free web surfing.

[Franco B]

I like  

Maybe we should have game competitions using only DDR pads or other alternative controls.  

Anyone fancy digging up the Donky Kong DDR video?

Edit, here it is:

[shmokes]

Nice hair.  And why the eff does he have to play hunched over with his hand glued to the machine?

[Ginsu Victim]

Nice hair.  And why the eff does he have to play hunched over with his hand glued to the machine?

To hit the jump button is my guess.

[Hoopz]

Is that the same guy from the video where the 2 or 3 guys are moving the box with the "new pinball machine" inside it?  The video where they drop the box, you hear breaking glass, etc?

[RayB]

THat's Level42's buddy.

[Franco B]

Yes it is. I remember that from before.

Just FY(general)I I didn't post the video to poke fun. I think it could be pretty fun to play games with alternative controls and thought that was a good example:)

[Ginsu Victim]

Ryu Hayabusa!!!