Syobon action (しょぼんのアクション) for Wii released!

Syobon action (original title しょぼんのアクション) is a 2D Japanese freeware video game notoriously known as a parody of the Nintendo classic game Super Mario Bros. but with extremely difficult levels (Wikipedia).

The game is available for Windows with source code too, so I wanted to port it over the Wii since New Super Mario Bros was too easy to play for me 😉

What I  noticed once opened the big main.cpp is that the sources were even more difficult to understand than playing the game itself, so I tried to modify it as less as I can did!

Accepted this challenge, these are briefely the steps I followed:

convince me that is was not possilbe.......................................[failed]
trying to understand how that code works...................................[failed]
trying to indent the code..................................................[failed]
convert the used dxlib functions to call Wii's GX (GRRLib) ones............[ done ]
realize that a proper port can't be done without spending more time I have.[ done ]
add some 'porkaround' in the source code for speeding up coding............[ done ]
boring debugs..............................................................[ done ]
boring tests...............................................................[ done ]

I’m not a master coder but I suggest to everyone to not use this code for educational purpouse! I spent time and time to trying to understand it, there are other projects you can use to start coding with 😉

Mandatory screenshots!

Input and tricks

The game is played with Wiimote used in NES position, with button 2 used for jump and button Minus for suicide (yes sometimes it is needed :)).

The original game let you select the starting level just pressing a keyboard key from 1 to 9 at main screen; mine has also a level select, find it out (main screen too)!

Many thanks to…

..in order of “appearance”:

• Author of the game (if you read it please tell me your name, I don’t know)
• PoiSoN for let me know this game
• Njoe,  Sumiguchi, his wife and other people for translation
• GRRLib (my first game using this lib!) and NoNameNo’s suggestions
• LibOGC/devkitPro/asndlib

Important notes

As I said, the game is very very difficult,  so I debugged/tested the game until level 5 or 6, don’t guarrantee for other levels 😉 (please test if you are kinda brave).

The original Syobon Action had 4 levels, but I found the sources of (unofficial?) “version 2” so I used them and ported it:  5 levels more!

Downloads

The game is available here.