SNES

This is part 1 of my capture of me and a friend playing through Super Mario World on the SNES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Super Mario World cartridge. I'm player one (Mario) and Drew is player two (Luigi). I felt like redoing Super Mario World in higher quality, so here it is in 60 fps. This time Drew helped me out, and he did a great job. I had forgotten that Drew used to play this game all the time as a kid (he had a Super Nintendo as well in the '90s), and that he's pretty skilled at it. In fact, he has probably played the game more times than me. My brother and I received our Super Nintendo for Christmas of 1992, and since Nintendo hadn't changed the system bundle from its launch the prior year, it still included Super Mario World as the pack-in game. We also received The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Street Fighter II, so we were able to play all three games that holiday. That was one hell of a Christmas. Even though my family had owned an NES since around 1988, I actually did not become aware of the Super Nintendo until after it was released in 1991. I may have seen TV commercials for the system in late 1991, but I only saw the SNES in person at a friend-of-a-friend's house sometime in 1992 (I think). While I was there I managed to play Super Mario World and instantly got addicted to the game (Yoshi was awesome). This is an excellent game to say the least, and I never get tired of it, but my all-time favorite Mario game is still Super Mario Bros. 3. However, you can never go wrong with Super Mario World. This is basically the launch version of Super Mario World, so Mario and Luigi use the same sprite, but with different color schemes. I only found out a few years ago that Nintendo changed Luigi's sprite with the later releases of this game. That was quite surprising. If you want to see a couple of old school gamers once again playing through this game on the actual hardware, you've come to the right place! In this first part Drew and I completed Yoshi's Island. Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. We're using standard SNES controllers.

This is part 2 of my capture of me and a friend playing through Super Mario World on the SNES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Super Mario World cartridge. I'm player one (Mario) and Drew is player two (Luigi). In this second part Drew and I completed Donut Plains. Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. We're using standard SNES controllers.

This is part 3 of my capture of me and a friend playing through Super Mario World on the SNES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Super Mario World cartridge. I'm player one (Mario) and Drew is player two (Luigi). In this third part Drew and I completed Vanilla Dome. Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. We're using standard SNES controllers.

This is part 4 of my capture of me and a friend playing through Super Mario World on the SNES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Super Mario World cartridge. I'm player one (Mario) and Drew is player two (Luigi). In this fourth part Drew and I completed the Cheese Bridge and Butter Bridge areas. Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. We're using standard SNES controllers.

This is part 5 of my capture of me and a friend playing through Super Mario World on the SNES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Super Mario World cartridge. I'm player one (Mario) and Drew is player two (Luigi). In this fifth part Drew and I completed the Forest of Illusion. Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. We're using standard SNES controllers.

This is part 6 of my capture of me and a friend playing through Super Mario World on the SNES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Super Mario World cartridge. I'm player one (Mario) and Drew is player two (Luigi). In this sixth part Drew and I completed the Chocolate Island and Star World areas. Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. We're using standard SNES controllers.

This is part 7 of my capture of me and a friend playing through Super Mario World on the SNES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Super Mario World cartridge. I'm player one (Mario) and Drew is player two (Luigi). In this final part Drew and I completed the Valley of Bowser and Special World areas. Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. We're using standard SNES controllers.

[Note: This video and description were originally posted on Youtube in June of 2015.] This is part 1 of my 100% playthrough of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the SNES. This is not an emulator. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Yoshi's Island cartridge. I couldn't redo Super Mario World in 60 fps without also redoing Yoshi's Island. For some odd reason (perhaps due to Super FX chip issues), Nintendo has never offered the original SNES version of this game through the Virtual Console. At best you can only get the Game Boy Advance version. So high-quality recordings of the full game running on actual hardware are hard to come by, but I can fix that. Although I was aware of this game before its release thanks to my Nintendo Power subscription, I didn't obtain my own copy until much later. In fact, I first played the game at my cousin's house around late 1995 or 1996, but I think that I only got to try one level. I later rented the game from my local video rental store and instantly got hooked. The game was so good that I purchased a brand new copy only a few months after beating the rental copy. The original Yoshi's Island is my favorite Yoshi game by far. Although I own Yoshi's Story and Yoshi's Island DS, none of the sequels have lived up to the original game. In fact, I've found every sequel to be disappointingly bland, so for a while I stopped buying Yoshi games after Yoshi's Island DS. In this playthrough I'm getting 100% on every level, including the extra levels. You can treat this as a 100% walkthrough if you like. I have the Nintendo Power Player's Guide for this game, so that makes it a little easier for me to find all the coins and flowers in each level. Each video in this playthrough covers an entire world (6 in all), but for convenience, I'll list the individual levels by their time stamps so you can skip to specific stages whenever you like. These stages were not completed back-to-back in a single session. I simply edited the successful runs together for a single video. World 1 Playthrough: Level 1-1: Make Eggs, Throw Eggs - 2:12 Level 1-2: Watch Out Below! - 7:14 Level 1-3: The Cave Of Chomp Rock - 11:02 Level 1-4: Burt The Bashful's Fort - 18:20 Level 1-5: Hop! Hop! Donut Lifts - 24:06 Level 1-6: Shy-Guys On Stilts - 27:49 Level 1-7: Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy - 32:30 Level 1-8: Salvo The Slime's Castle - 37:10 Extra 1: Poochy Ain't Stupid - 41:55 Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. I'm using a standard SNES controller.

This is part 2 of my 100% playthrough of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the SNES. This is not an emulator. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Yoshi's Island cartridge. These stages were not completed back-to-back in a single session. I simply edited the successful runs together for a single video. World 2 Playthrough: Level 2-1: Visit Koopa And Para-Koopa - 0:00 Level 2-2: The Baseball Boys - 6:18 Level 2-3: What's Gusty Taste Like? - 14:36 Level 2-4: Bigger Boo's Fort - 22:30 Level 2-5: Watch Out For Lakitu - 29:26 Level 2-6: The Cave Of The Mystery Maze - 35:55 Level 2-7: Lakitu's Wall - 41:35 Level 2-8: The Potted Ghost's Castle - 48:24 Extra 2: Hit That Switch!! - 58:21 Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. I'm using a standard SNES controller.

This is part 3 of my 100% playthrough of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the SNES. This is not an emulator. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Yoshi's Island cartridge. These stages were not completed back-to-back in a single session. I simply edited the successful runs together for a single video. World 3 Playthrough: Level 3-1: Welcome To Monkey World! - 0:00 Level 3-2: Jungle Rhythm... - 6:07 Level 3-3: Nep-Enuts' Domain - 12:38 Level 3-4: Prince Froggy's Fort - 19:51 Level 3-5: Jammin' Through The Trees - 28:25 Level 3-6: The Cave Of Harry Hedgehog - 36:03 Level 3-7: Monkeys' Favorite Lake - 41:14 Level 3-8: Naval Piranha's Castle - 48:59 Extra 3: More Monkey Madness - 57:41 Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. I'm using a standard SNES controller.