Image: Nintendo/DisclosureĪnyway, rereleases of classics usually bring little improvement to current devices, something that part of the emulation community has been dedicated to solve. 'Super Mario 3D All Stars' compilation brought out old games with virtually no tweaks for modern hardware. In other words: currently it is quite difficult to legally acquire the game, since the title was removed from the console's virtual store and there are few copies of the physical version in store stocks. This game, by the way, was recently re-released in a compilation for Nintendo Switch which has been marketed for a limited time. Last year, a fan recreated 'Super Mario 64' for PC. Initiatives like the widescreen version of 'Super Mario World' are relatively common in the emulation community, as a way to make these games accessible even outside their home consoles. “Then I see their complexity and feasibility and start to reverse engineer them,” he explains. “I think 'Gradius III' is the best example. He adds, however, that he ends up receiving suggestions from other people to make adjustments to certain games, which ends up being an opportunity to learn about other titles as well. “The choice of projects has an affective part, there are games that I end up having a greater interest in than others,” explains Vilela. Thanks to that I gained so much knowledge”. “I was a kid, right? I went to school, and when I got home, I just spent my time on the computer trying to learn things. I corrupted everything, but that was how, out of curiosity, I learned,” he guarantees. Work to adapt 'Super Mario World' to widescreen format involved more than five thousand lines of code. Vilela says he learned from trial and error from Windows executable (.exe) files. “I was always very curious to understand how things worked, especially computers,” he adds. “When I got my first PC, in 2008, I ended up learning how to make SNES ROM hacks out of curiosity and a desire to learn how to edit games,” he says. The path between video game and emulation was not that long. But I was very happy with my SNES”, he recalls. “I remember very well that the PS2 was at its peak and that was what everyone was talking about. The option for projects with Super Nintendo games has to do with the fact that this was the developer's first video game, when he was around seven or eight years old. “But I believe that it is still far from being possible, even more than the cost of living in São Paulo, where I live, is very high”, he laments. “It would be nice if I could fully support myself with the support that some give to my projects”, says Vilela, who would like to dedicate himself full-time to the games.

To make projects like this possible, Vitor Vilela has the support of other emulation enthusiasts on his page.

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