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The Adventures of Ice Mario
Version 0.8.1 Beta
06oct98
By Jay McGavren, Quor, and Dom
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This patch for Super Mario Bros. will replace all the 
traditional Fire Flowers with Ice Flowers! Collect one 
and Mario will transform into a frosty fiend with the 
ability to toss chilling ice crystals. Put those nasty
koopas on ice once and for all!

Features:
-A nifty bit of assembly editing by Quor that makes 
 Mario's projectiles behave differently. The ice 
 crystal is a fearsome weapon indeed thanks to his work.
-Graphic editing to turn the fireballs into crystals.
 (If you can put together a better-looking crystal, 
 though, I may use it in a future version! E-mail me
 at thespook@novia.net BEFORE sending any files.)
-Pallette editing to turn Fire Mario and his 
 projectiles blue. This turns some other objects to 
 "ice" as well. It doesn't look too bad, but I may 
 correct this in a future version.

Requirements:
-Super Mario Bros. ROM USA V1.0 (must have title screen
 and must not have Select button swim cheat)
 NOTE: ALL ROM REQUESTS WILL BE IGNORED.
-UCON or any other IPS patching utility.

How to Use:
-Make a backup of your SMB ROM. This is very important in 
 case something goes wrong during the patching!
-Place the MARIOICE.IPS file in the same directory as your ROM.
-Use your IPS utility to patch the ROM with the edit patch.
 (Ex: Type "ucon i mario1.nes marioice.ips" at the DOS prompt.)

That's it! Now just run the patched ROM with any emulator (or 
even on your console if you're lucky enough to have a backup
unit, I assume it'll work). 

I want feedback, dammit! If you liked this edit, then E-mail me 
at thespook@novia.net. If I get enough positive response I may 
do more edits like this one. I especially appreciate bug reports 
and will do everything in my power to address them. Remember, 
*ALL ROM REQUESTS WILL BE IGNORED*.  


Acknowledgements:
Assembly/debugging - Quor
Extra graphics editing - Dom
Pallette hacking info - Toma
Hexpose Text Editor - SnowBro

Version History:
V0.8.1 - Added Dom's explosion graphic edit
V0.8   - Initial release with color bugs

Shameless Plugs:
Go grab NEStra for Unix, the most powerful NES 
emulator/debugger on Earth!
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/altavista/601/
Visit Rage Games for many more hacks! 
http://www.classicgaming.com/ragegames/
Check out Dom's page here!
http://members.tripod.com/~decimalpoint/

The Adventures of Ice Mario IPS patch (marioice.ips)
and this text Copyright 1998 Jay McGavren. You may 
distribute the unaltered files freely, but they may 
not be sold or transmitted for profit.