When Tremendous Mario Bros. Marvel first launched on the finish of final 12 months, we requested you pretty lot what your controller of selection was to tackle the most recent 2D platformer. We listed the likes of the Pleasure-Con, Professional Controller and the SNES pad — heck, we even pushed the boat out and included the CRKD Nitro Deck! Principally, we thought that we had coated all bases. Certainly we would not want to incorporate any novelty NES controllers in there too, proper?
Incorrect.
Consumer napabar has as soon as once more put his technical wizardry expertise to the take a look at and has proven us that it’s in truth doable to play Tremendous Mario Bros. Marvel with none apart from the NES Energy Pad controller. Yep, the dance mat-looking one.
You would possibly bear in mind a equally obscure feat being tried a few years again, the place somebody received Mario Kart Dwell: Residence Circuit working with the enduring NES Energy Glove. That was additionally napabar — who runs the YouTube channel Will It Work?. Hey, after you have conquered Nintendo’s least sensible controller, the place do you go subsequent?
Happily, getting the Energy Pad to attach as much as the Change required an identical course of to the earlier Energy Glove try — particularly, the usage of Retro USB’s NES adaptor and the Titan One USB adaptor. Then it was a case of remapping the Professional Controller’s buttons to the stompable ones on the Energy Pad.
There have been some issues alongside the best way (as defined within the following video), however napabar ultimately received sufficient buttons working to permit for left, proper and ‘A’ inputs. That is put to the take a look at first in a recreation of pinball, however the primary occasion is Tremendous Mario Bros. Marvel, which actually is spectacular to see in motion, even when it would not seem like one of the simplest ways to attain 100% completion.
You may take a look at napabar’s full video the place he explains the connection course of and supplies a management demonstration beneath.