Did you enjoy all those differences that can be noticed in the Super Mario World beta screenshots? What if Nintendo had stuck with some of their original material while creating the Super Mario World we know and love today? Well, this SMW hack will let you play the game how it may have been in its beta version!
Yoshi Master (AKA Randy from the U64 Staff) has finally released his beta remake of Super Mario World. This hack is based and inspired by all of the pre-release screenshots, unused materials, ancient interviews, and some minor assumptions revolving around SMW, and it’s creation.



You can check more screens from the real beta in the Super Mario World Beta page.
Most of the GFX were made by Randy, as well as the levels themselves. The bosses also each have something “beta” about them. You can find the full credits in the file below.
Download the Super Mario World Beta Remake Hack (Lunar IPS File)
WE DONT HAVE ANY ROM IN HERE, JUST THE IPS FILE
How to patch the game to activate the Super Mario World Beta Remake? It’s easy:
1) Get SNESTooL
2) Select ‘Use IPS’ (Press Enter)
3) Select the Super Mario World Beta IPS file
4) Select the Super Mario World (USA) ROM (you’ll have to find this one by yourself)
5) Play it in your favourite SNES emu
Have fun! This is the best christmas gift for every Super Mario World Beta lover and it’s free. Play it, share it with friends.
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27 Responses to Merry Xmas: Super Mario World Beta Remake released!
pipe
November 30th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
FINALY
this is a dream come true XD i always want to play a beta game and now i can
thanks a lot guys
turntablist1210
December 1st, 2009 at 6:13 pm
couldnt get the patch to work tried snestool and lunar ips but they just make the rom unreadable, also in quadruples in size from 512kb to 2024kb, anyone else got this problem?
Chuckie Failure
December 1st, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Don’t know much about the beta, but it is great to see how everything was before the final game.
How many worlds were in the beta?
Were are the secerts?
monokoma
December 1st, 2009 at 9:48 pm
@turntablist1210: i’m not sure about that problem, i will ask to Randy, maybe he has a solution.
turntablist1210
December 1st, 2009 at 10:44 pm
correction: 2048kb my maths sucks!
Zeromusura
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:10 am
Re:turntablist1210
Use snestool just add a header to the rom then patch with ips.
I hope this help you.
pipe
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:40 am
also be sure that your rom is a .smc file
because i downloaded a .sfc rom and dont work with the patch
i complete the 4 worlds good game :D any secrets in this beta game ?
Randy 355
December 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 am
@ turntablist: Well, first off is it a,”Super Mario World (U).smc” ROM?
If so, I do not know the problem. It seems to work for everybody else…
There is one way to be absolutely SURE the Super Mario World ROM they have is a clean one.
[url=http://www.smwcentral.net/download.php?id=10&type=tools]SMW Clean ROM Verifier[/url]
Put this in the same folder as your ROM and type in it’s exact file name.
@ Pipe: There are no secret exits/worlds. At least not in this version! Maybe in a future release.
There are a few unused levels in the ROM. They can be accessed via Lunar Magic.
turntablist1210
December 2nd, 2009 at 3:39 am
Got it working now, added a header with snestool then patched with lunar, thanks for the help lads!
Bobby
December 2nd, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Thanks for the beta, and Happy Holidays!
ZM90
December 5th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Surely there would have been some sort of final boss had Nintendo completed SMW this way. Though I do like how in this remake you choose which areas to go to first and with no final boss it simulates the incompleteness of beta really well. Overall congratulations on the SMW beta remake. It’s definitely really good :).
Gawl
December 8th, 2009 at 9:08 am
It’s very intriguing to look at. I like the fact that Lugi actually has his own indiviual character sprite instead of just being Mario’s with a different color pallete.
Hiccup
December 21st, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Great finally gonna play a mario beta :DDD
Geli
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I download a gen file, i patched it, but the emulator wants a .zip file. What do i wrong??
Geli
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Nonsense. I downloaded bad rom.
mario
December 25th, 2009 at 4:59 am
dont worry you just keep trying till you get it right
Felipe Massuia
January 9th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
See the review of this hack here!
http://mariohacks.blogspot.com/2009/11/super-mario-world-beta.html
Angela/sky_queen3
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:42 am
Ooo, this looks sweet, I can’t wait to try it. Thank you for making it. :D
Tomspud5
June 12th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Awww man, i’m using Windows 7 and SnesTool dosen’t work on it, now I can’t play, I need a plain ROM file of this from somewhere?? anyone know?
thisisnotmyrealname
August 12th, 2010 at 8:18 am
I’ve tried everything suggested in the comments and more and I still only get a blank screen when I start the patched file.
The screen shots and movies look cool though, nice work.
I'mStupid?
September 18th, 2010 at 3:02 am
I’ve been trying to work this for minutes, but the tool keeps saying:
There is no correct IPS file
What does that mean? I’ve tried adding the header, but nothing is preventing the message from popping up.
BTW, I’m using Windows 7 32-bit.
monokoma
September 18th, 2010 at 10:22 am
It seems that the patch program has some problems on some OS, you could try to ask to someone else to patch the game for you.. sadly we cannot release the patched rom in here
MoneyBoy
October 11th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Hi folks can someone reupload the ips file? i cant download it from mediafire. nothing happens. it would be really awesome couldnt find the file elserwhere.
big thanks to unsen64 und all creators & contrubitors
monokoma
October 12th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Try this! http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HF5YDSI0
MoneyBoy
October 15th, 2010 at 12:54 am
thx monokoma. many many thanks for the fast answer + reupload. it works and is the best romhack i every played. the quality is so high that you could even sell it as a retail cartridge.
many thanks to all unseen64 supporters!
monokoma
October 15th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
No problem! Randy did an awesome work :)
Stephen The Video Gamer
February 22nd, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Is There a link to it in a smc file?.