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Romhacks never cease to amaze and breath new life into old and beloved retro classics. When it comes to quality romhacks, the great colourization projects made popular by renowned developers like toruzz (Iván Delgado) and @marc_max (Marc Robledo), and this time Marc has brought forth yet another colourization project, with "Dr. Mario" getting the DX treatment by him.

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"Dr. Mario DX" is a romhack originally released on July, 2020, which revamps the GameBoy's original classic with fully coloured graphics akin to a GameBoy Color title, as well as adding new and modified sprites to closely resemble the NES version of the game but with the better colour palette of the GameBoy Color. However, as of November 7th, 2023, Marc has released a new update to the romhack that adds new content, implementing a number of Quality of Life changes into the game's original code, and not only that, but he has added 3 new additional playable characters to the title, with the full cast being Dr. Mario, Dr. Luigi, Dr. Wario and Dr. Daisy to choose from!

You can download the patch for Dr. Mario DX from Romhacking.net's webpage for the hack.
As usual with romhacks, you're required to bring your own ROM of Dr. Mario (Rev 1 / Rev A) for the original GameBoy to be able to patch and play the romhack. Enjoy this beloved classic in its most definitive iteration yet, courtesy of the expertise of Marc Robledo!

Dr. Mario DX RHDN page
Marc Robledo's website

 

[_Snow_]

Thank you for this bit of news. I really appreciate the hard work these romhackers do. There is always a special place for the original games, but it is nice to have colorized versions as well. GBC has always been that marriage of NES and Gameboy, so the more DX games the merrier.

 

[Ligeia]

Looks really neat !

 

[HarveyHouston]

Interesting!

 

[Jayro]

Quoting from the readme.txt:

CHANGELOG

v1.0 (2020-07-20)

• first version

v2.0 (2023-11-08)

• full code rewrite
• added character selection
• new title screen
• added winning pose to single player
• added stage palette changing every five stages (up to stage 25)
• allow to return to title screen during game setup by pressing B button
• fixed a timer interruption issue that could cause extremely rare freezes
• graphics and palettes tweaks
• restored DMG compatibility

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So basically, the original one was a plain color hack, whereas the 2.0 version is a complete rewrite with new characters, graphics, convenience features and even support for the original Game Boy.

Oh wow, okay. That is definitely something worth updating.l!

 

[urbanman2004]

If this is anything like Marc's previous colorization hack renditions then I'm sold

 

[urbanman2004]

For whatever reason, it's currently unavailable for download, smh. Wish I hadn't waited so late to download this...

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Was finally able to download it this morning.

 

[DaFixer]

Good news, I like those colourization rom hacks!