**Done** REQ:Mario Bros Classic PAL-A (NES)

[ShoothimNow]

https://www.classicgames.me/mario-bros.html

[ShoothimNow]

Taking a break for the night, thanks again for all the help man.

[tylerbgood]

Looking good! I've got the rest of the cover finished. I'll look it over again with fresh eyes in the morning, but I think I'm done tweaking it. It looks like you've got the screenshots covered, so I'll leave that part up to you.

And I'm glad to help ShoothimNow. I don't have much disposable income to spend on boxes to scan for TCP, so if there's an opportunity to contribute some other way I'm happy to take it!

[marioxb]

yup that looks right to me! Was it Kaettekita Mario Bros.?

Tyler, I think that's the game you were playing. Kaettekita Mario Bros. from the FDS was released on cartridge in 1993 in Germany only in PAL 50htz format, with the "Classic Serie" banner on the front. It has only the normal mode, with the Ramen and other ads replaced with the arcade cut scenes. So the only NTSC version of the game is the FDS version, but of course without the cut scenes.

The original Mario Bros. released in 1983-1986 (depending on country), is one of those "universal" roms  (UJE), where it's exactly the same across all regions, which should be the same as the version smooth linked above. It has no cut scenes describing the enemy patterns.

Speaking of the Classic Series/ Kaettekita, it would be great if someone recreated the German cover in the same super high quality. An alternate English version with Serie changed to Series would be excellent as well. Someone did do this partially (as linked below), but a nice crispy clean version would be awesome!

http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=22418.0

[PX0]

I could do the german version.

EDIT:

I am using the scan from NintAndBox as source.

A lot more work then I thought, but the frontcover is like 80% done.

Does anyone have a clean version of the "Classic Series" logo?

[ShoothimNow]

I've never seen the "classic series" pin before, that one is completely new to me =( so I have no idea where to begin looking for one for you.  At first I thought it was like the one on the Super Mario All-Stars for the Wii (http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?game_id=9438), but its not the same.

[PX0]

Yeah, I think it might be PAL exclusive.
It seems to be the equivalent to the "Players Choice" series, that you got in the US.

They used the same icon for a series of classic SNES games as well here in Europe.

Anyway, if nobody made a vector image of that icon already, then I will have to do it myself.  

[tylerbgood]

Hey Shoot, would you prefer for me to post my WIP cover or would you rather I wait and add the screenshots you're working on?

[ShoothimNow]

Hey Shoot, would you prefer for me to post my WIP cover or would you rather I wait and add the screenshots you're working on?

Just got home.  I am done, just need to re-create the scores and ill post very very soon

[ShoothimNow]

Finishing up now

[ShoothimNow]

Here you are =)  It's a PNG, so save it and the background will stay transparent.  Should just be copy and paste =)

[tylerbgood]

Those look awesome, Shoot! As you said, adding them to my cover was quick and painless.

The only thing left from Shenske's CGC adaptation of Lumberjack42's original cover are the stars in the background. Everything else has been recreated from scratch. I've done two versions, one with a custom TCP spine to match Shenske's CGC cover project and one with a retail spine to match e_brugal's NES CGC conversion project. I'll leave them up here for a couple days for public scrutiny before submitting them to the main site.

Mario Bros. (EU) (PAL-A)





EDIT: Modified the borders around the screenshots.

[ShoothimNow]

Looks amazing!  Thank you!

[tylerbgood]

Thanks shoot!

Upon closer inspection, I decided to redo the white borders around the screenshots to make them a little smoother. I've updated the links above with the modified covers.

[PX0]

Speaking of the Classic Series/ Kaettekita, it would be great if someone recreated the German cover in the same super high quality. An alternate English version with Serie changed to Series would be excellent as well. Someone did do this partially (as linked below), but a nice crispy clean version would be awesome!

http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=22418.0

It took quite a while, but it is done now!
This was a lot more work, then I had anticipated... 

Frontcover:
- Made a vector image of the Mario Bros. logo.
- Made a (partial) vector image of the "Classic Serie" Logo.
- Cleaned up and color corrected the artwork A LOT! >.<
- Exchanged all the company logos with vector images from my Gameboy template.

Backcover:
- The backcover was completly rebuild with vector logos from the template and the Mario Bros. / Classic Series logo I made for the frontcover.
- Cleaned up the artwork.
- Retyped all the text.
- Rebuild the screenshots from sprites provided by the spriters-resource.com.

Mario Bros. - Classic Series Edition (NES)
PAL - Retail - 1993 - German



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As requested, I also made a custom english version based on the retail german cover.

- All the german logos were replaced with english (UK) logos.
- I translated the "Classic Serie" logo by adding an "s" at the end.
- On the backside I used the text from the US cover, wich is actualy quite similar to a direct translation of the german text.

Mario Bros. - Classic Series Edition (NES)
PAL - Custom - English