Installation

Here you will find (somewhat) detailed instructions in order to insert this patch into your ROM.

Requirements

To successfully install this patch into your ROM you require:

• A Super Mario Wold v1.0 US ROM with either FastROM enabled or enhanced with Vitor Vilela's SA-1 Pack v1.40 (or newer)
• Asar v1.81 or newer
• This patch

Steps

Installing the Player Graphics Kit patch into your ROM is quite simple, but you have to do a bit of preparations before inserting it with Asar.

1. Change the compression options to either LC_LZ2 (optimised for speed) or LC_LZ3 (better compression). These options can be found in Options -> Change compression options for this ROM...
2. Make sure you've saved your overworld at least once
3. Insert the included graphics files from the Graphics folder included in the .zip file of this patch
4. Open defs.asm included in this patch and search for a define named !i_read_the_readme and change its value to !yes
5. At this point you might want to configure the rest of the patch in the defs.asm file
6. Insert the patch via Asar

Any changes you wish to make in the future you can just go ahead and reapply this patch into your ROM via Asar.

Optional resources

• Fixed Color Data NMI Optimizer is a good addition since this patch can be a bit heavy for V-Blank, some extra scanlines there are always welcome to avoid overflows (black bar at the top of the screen)
• Status Bar NMI Optimizer v1.1 is a pretty good choice if you're using the original Status Bar.
• DMA Queue and Block Change Optimize v1.1 might help a bit whenever you change blocks.
• Lunar Magic's "VRAM Patch" Optimization might be a good addition to aid the patch above.
• If you're using SA-1 Pack 1.40 or newer and know ASM, you might enable IRQ-as-NMI from SA-1 Pack to give yourself some extra scanlines during V-Blank at the cost of vertical resolution.