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Yoshi's Island: Yoshi Color Fix

Original game : Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island

Platform : SNES

Author : Mattrizzle

Release date : 05 July 2007

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : G

Downloads : 3330

ROM Information

Yoshi's Island (V1.0) (U).smc
CRC32: 3F098E29
MD5: 3815313483E125CD52193489B120A3C4
SHA-1: D73BA761E2D9C7FB93ADAF3F5AEBC0D5522CBEA6
SHA-256: 6E86358EB601926D7B1666E39A28529BDE6A52FF073A0FB25CAF2CE8C11B961C

Hack description

This simple hack gives the Yoshis the colors they had in the introduction and official artwork, namely the different boot colors and darker brown Yoshi.

Also, the order that the red and pink Yoshis appear in levels has been switched so that it matches the map screen order.

Screenshots

Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
MattrizzleOriginal WorkHacking, graphics editing, and palette editing

Reviews

Just what I needed!Stifu2020-08-23Version 1.0

While rediscovering Yoshi's island with my daughter, we noticed something was wrong with the colors of the Yoshis, as the map colors didn't match the colors in the levels... and my daughter is very serious about her Yoshi's colors. This led me to find this hack, which fixes that and more! Thanks, Mattrizzle.

By the way, this hack is apparently made to work with the "Yoshi's Island (V1.0) (U)" ROM. From what I understand, this ROM is not a good dump as it's not in the No-Intro database, but is from the older and less accurate GoodSet / GoodSNES. From my experience, GoodSet ROMs also get harder to find with times, as they seem to be slowly disappearing. Thankfully, the patch seems to work fine on the No-Intro ROMs as long as you make sure to first add a 512 byte header. Tested with "Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island (USA)" and "Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island (USA, Asia) (Rev 1)".

Note that in this hack, the Yoshi's colors were fixed by following the Yoshi's colors on the maps, which is the opposite of what the GBA version did. Then again, thinking about it, I believe it makes more sense the way it's done in this hack, to go through the classic Yoshi's colors first (green, red, blue and yellow, which were all of the Yoshi's colors in Super Mario World), leaving the new colors for later.