The game's enemies
Goombas, Koopas, Paratroopas, Hammer Bros, Lakitu, Spinies, Bloopers, Cheep Cheeps, Bullet Bills, Bowser's fire and Podoboos, plus Cheep Cheep, Bullet Bill or fire frenzies.
Getting started Runtime + your ROM Launched from the app
Super Mario Bros. Remastered
The classic NES Super Mario Bros., in widescreen and with your chat inside: they drop as many enemies as they like (Goombas, Koopas, Hammer Bros, Lakitu and even Boos or Thwomps from other Mario games), give you Mushrooms and Stars, or take away time and lives.
6Steps
5Effect types
6Answered questions
A GIFT'S JOURNEY
How a gift reaches the game
Four stops, in under a second.
A viewer sends a gift
From TikTok, Twitch, Kick, YouTube or Starvios: a gift, a follow, likes or a chat command.
OverInteractive
Receives the event, checks your active profile for the matching effect and sends it.
Runtime
The program the app uses to run Super Mario Bros. Remastered on your PC, plus the OverInteractive connection the app adds to it.
Super Mario Bros. Remastered · your ROM
The enemy walks in from the right like the level's own, or the effect hits Mario instantly.
STEP BY STEP
Getting started
Everything happens from the game's status bar, at the bottom of the app.
- 1
Download the runtime
In the bar below press «Download runtime». It downloads once and the app keeps it in its own folder, apart from any other copy of the game you have.
- 2
Choose your ROM
Press «Choose ROM» and pick your .nes file (if it's in a .zip or .7z, extract it first). The app checks it is the original Super Mario Bros.; if not, the step turns red and tells you why.
The exact list of versions that work and don't is behind the help icon in the bar below.
- 3
Enable the connection
Press «Enable connection» with the game closed: the app downloads what the game needs to receive effects and puts it in place.
- 4
Press «Launch game»
The first time, the game reads your ROM and builds its graphics in a few seconds: don't close the window meanwhile. After that it starts straight away. It opens in widescreen (16:9); you can change it in the game's own Settings.
Before that first launch the app shows you these steps in a window.
- 5
Start a game once «Connected»
When the bar below shows «Connected», pick Super Mario Bros. on the game selection and start with Z (A on a controller). Effects land while you control Mario.
- 6
Choose what each gift does
In «Profiles» create an example one in a click or build your own: each gift, follow or chat command fires the effect you pick, with as many enemies as you want.
EFFECTS
What your chat can do
Each effect is assigned to a gift, a follow, likes or a chat command.
Enemies from other Mario games
Boo, Dry Bones, Bob-omb, Pokey, Goombrat, Spike Top, Monty Mole, Thwomp, Homing Bullet Bill, Fighter Fly and Sidestepper.
Help
Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, a Starman for as long as you choose, Mushrooms, Stars and 1-UPs falling from the sky, lives, coins and extra time.
Sabotage
Damage, kill Mario, take lives or time away, Poison Mushroom, reversed controls, no jumping, running without stopping and hard mode.
Level
Restart the level or skip to the next one.
IMPORTANT
Before you go live
Only the original ROM
Unmodified NES Super Mario Bros. (any region works: it's the same game). Romhacks, other Mario games and combo cartridges can't be used. The app doesn't download or distribute ROMs.
With the game closed
Enabling the connection and uninstalling the runtime are done with the game closed.
Only while you control Mario
Effects that arrive on the title screen, in menus, while dying or between levels wait in a queue and fire as soon as you control Mario again (for up to 10 minutes).
Enemy cap your way
By default 100 chat enemies fit at once, which is what the game handles smoothly; the rest wait their turn. In the «Settings» tab you can raise it, lower it, remove it (0) or set a different cap per enemy.
KEYBOARD
Controls
ArrowsMove
ZJump and confirm in menus
XRun and throw fireballs
EscPause
ControllerWorks out of the box; every key can be changed in the game's Settings
FAQ
No. OverInteractive doesn't distribute ROMs: you bring your own copy. The game builds its graphics, music and levels from it.
Effects only apply while you control Mario. Anything that arrives earlier waits in a queue and fires as soon as the level starts.
100 by default. You can change it in the game's «Settings» tab: with many more piled on Mario the game slows down. A single gift can summon up to 50 at once.
Yes: in the game's own Settings, under video, pick the NES size. The app only sets widescreen the first time.
That version doesn't work, and the «Choose ROM» step turns red with the reason. It's almost always a romhack, another Mario game or a compressed file. Use the original, unmodified Super Mario Bros.
In the ⋯ menu of the bar below, «Uninstall runtime». Your saves and settings are kept unless you tick «Also delete saved games». Your ROM is not touched.
Ready for your chat to play with you?
Download OverInteractive for free: this same guide is waiting inside the app, in the game's «Start» tab.
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