v0.2.2

NSMBWCompiled v0.2.2

New Super Mario Bros. Wii, statically recompiled to run natively on Windows. This is an early release.

This download contains no game data. You need your own copy of the game.

v0.2.2 Changes

New Features

• Skip the opening cutscene and hint movies: press - (Back on a controller) once to show the prompt, then again to skip. The prompt shows your own button.
• The options menu now pauses the whole game, including sound and hint-movie playback.
• The prebuilt shader list is about four times larger (398 → 1,532), so fewer stutters the first time you visit a level.

Fixes

• Hint movies no longer go out of sync after opening and closing the options menu during one.
• The hint movie menu now uses your menu buttons (confirm / back) instead of the in-level ones.
• Animated tiles (coins, ? blocks) no longer freeze after changing the resolution inside a level.
• Volcano smoke in World 8-1 is visible again.
• No more stutter on the title screen with an HD texture pack: textures are loaded while the screen is black.
• Button icons have a dark outline, so white icons are readable on bright backgrounds.
• The "shake" bubble over a player now shows your Spin button instead of a shaking Wii Remote.
• HD texture packs whose copy of a texture is compressed no longer break the button icons drawn on it.

Goals for Next Release (v0.3.0)

• Character select for Player 1 (Not locked to Mario).
• Toggleable option for Item Pick Up/Damage Flashing Lag

Known issues

• Players 2-4 set to Keyboard start with no keys bound. Bind their keys (including World map → Enter course) before using Add/Drop Players.
• The prebuilt shader list does not yet cover every level past World 1.
• Performance will be optimized more in the future.

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
• A CPU with AVX2 (Intel Haswell / 2013 or newer, any AMD Ryzen)
• A GPU with Direct3D 12 or Vulkan
• Your own dump of the PAL disc (SMNP01), revision 1: .rvz, .iso or .wbfs. The US disc will not work.

How to play

1. Extract the zip to a folder with about 1 GB free.
2. Run NSMBWCompiled.exe.
3. Pick your disc image when asked. It is extracted once, next to the game.
4. Optionally, pick a Dolphin HD texture pack folder.
5. In game, press F10 (or Back + Start on a controller) for settings: graphics, audio, controls. It opens automatically on first launch.

Features

• Native PC version: higher internal resolution, widescreen, and frame interpolation up to 180 fps
• One-time setup with no config files to edit
• Keyboard and gamepad support, with rebindable controls (including button combinations) and matching button prompts
• Dolphin HD texture packs work unchanged
• Full save from the world map at any time; Exit works in uncleared courses
• Skippable opening cutscene and hint movies
• Multiplayer: up to 4 players, each on their own gamepad or sharing the keyboard

Credits

• Built on WiiCompiled, with reference from the NSMBW decompilation project.
• Disc extraction uses DolphinTool.exe from the Dolphin emulator (GPLv2+). Licenses are in licenses\.
• Button prompt art by Kenney (CC0).

Developed with AI assistance.