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Sadly, it was taken down by Nintendo according to this article.

Discovered from this video from Modern Vintage Gamer.

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[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] mercano@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yes Great Giana Sisters was heavily influenced by Super Mario Brothers, but someone has semi-recently ported SMB1 itself to the C64, using code from the original NES ROMs. Modern Vintage Gamer did a video on it yesterday, which may have inspired OP.

[–] who@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I once played the C64 version of regular Mario Bros. It was a surprisingly good port.

[–] RedIce25@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I remember trying the C64 port a couple years ago, pretty incredible stuff that they managed to do