Some of their lyrics are used in the game in message boxes. You’ve got the main characters replaced by members of the band. Named Super Spice World, the hack starts out pretending to be your bog standard, celebrity focused fan game. Because as the title suggests, a new Super Mario World ROM hack is actually part of an ARG (alternate reality game) about the Spice Girls! Like Brutal Mario, Super Mario LD and the Scarlet Devil Mario series.īut one thing we’ve never seen is an ARG based around a mod of the game. There was Xkas Shack, which promised a gimmick heavy mod written in pure machine code and provided something else entirely (we’ll let you experience that one for yourself).Īs well as various attempts at gimmicky ASM showcases and crossovers from unknown Japanese ROM hackers. There was that creepypasta game called MARIO, which tried to tell the story of a messed-up video game ROM hack with an actual ROM hack that readers could download and play. Over the years we’ve been playing Super Mario World mods, we’ve seen some interesting stuff.
