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Name: | Super Mario Bros. |
Console: | Gameboy Advance (GBA) |
Release Date: | 1985 |
Publisher: | Nintendo |
Genres: | Platform, Action, Adventure |
Super Mario Bros. is a 1985 platform video game internally developed by Nintendo R&D4 and published by Nintendo as a pseudo-sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros. It was originally released in Japan for the Family Computer on September 13, 1985, and later that year for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America, Europe on May 15, 1987 and Australia in 1987. It is the first of the Super Mario series of games. In Super Mario Bros., the player controls Mario and in a two-player game, a second player controls Mario's brother Luigi as he travels through the Mushroom Kingdom in order to rescue Princess Toadstool from the antagonist Bowser. In 2005, IGN's poll named the "pioneering" and "highly influential" title as The Greatest Game Of All Time, considering it to have aided in resurrecting the crashed American video game market of the 1980s. The game's mid-1980s release served to further popularize the side-scrolling subgenre of the already popular platform video game genre of the early 1980s. |
There are two components for playing a gba Super Mario Bros. rom on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the gba OS and software.
The second component is the Super Mario Bros. rom itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. We’d suggest VBA-M – it’s open source, fast and one of the most frequently updated.
Once you have finished downloading VBA-M, extract the downloaded .zip file to a location, for example your Desktop. After, double click the visualboyadvance-m.exe file in order to start the emulator.
Your emulator will now be ready to play Super Mario Bros. rom. But now you’ll need to find the correct ROMs online. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Step 2: return to Visualboyadvance-m and hit File > Open. Navigate to the downloaded .zip file and double click it to open it. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress.
Instead, you’ll need to click File > Save State and then choose an empty slot. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game.
When playing in the future and you want to continue from your saved state, you can use File > Load State to load up the game from exactly where you last saved it.
Emulator | Console | Platform | FileSize | Emulator |
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GameBoid 2.4.7 | Gameboy Advance (GBA) | Android | 0.4MB | Download |
gpSP 0.9 | Gameboy Advance (GBA) | PSP | 5.4MB | Download |
GBA.emu Free 1.5.13 | Gameboy Advance (GBA) | Android | 1MB | Download |
Boycott Advance 0.4 | Gameboy Advance (GBA) | Windows | 0.6MB | Download |
MyGBA 1.0.4 | Gameboy Advance (GBA) | Android | 3.3MB | Download |