You would need to emulate it. I assume you mean the NES version since you say the original one? In that case you would need to find a NES emulator and a ROM of the game. If you don't dump the ROM yourself from a cartridge you own, you are in legally dubious territory. I am not sure about this community's stance on piracy, but there are several communities on here that are completely fine with that and can help you along.
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If your controller works in steam you can install RetroArch in steam and it should work there too.
Thanks. RetroArch is too much for such a small game. I’ll just go the browser route then I guess
Assuming Debian
sudo apt install nestopia
Find any ROM file for the NES game online for download (.nes extension). Load it into the program.
I have the ROM. Tried nestopia, and it’s the one that didn’t work with my controller no matter what I tried.
There are many others. Try fceux and mednafen
Ok, thank you. I’m going to check those two out and see. Much appreciated
I'm a bit "old school" and couldn't get into RetroArch. In the old days you just needed an emulator for a specific console, and the game's ROM file. This involves piracy, so check out !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com for more resources and help.
Thanks for the link. I already have the ROM.
That community is blocked on my instance. lol. Time to create a new account I guess.
You can still just use individual emulators
Maybe I wasn't clear, but that's what I meant by being "old school". I prefer having individual emulators.
I haven't used any of the nes emulators but surely one of them has a flatpak or appimage if it's not in your distro's repos already.
maybe mesen or fceux? I'm sure there's others but those are the names that came to mind. I don't like retroarch for its entirely shitty ui/ux and would take a standalone emu any day but emudeck will give a config ready to just drop roms in folders named after each console and play, if the setup was the only part bothering you about it
RetroArch is….. I don’t want to insult the developers for their hard work. I always appreciate FOSS, but man god damn it wtf is this thing? I’m going to look up the other two you’ve mentioned. Tried Nestopia and it’s the one that didn’t recognize my controller
I don't think there would be a pc port for any of the mario games. They've only ever been released on Nintendo consoles, so you would have to emulate it.
There’s always the online route -
https://playclassic.games/games/jump-and-run-nes-games-online/super-mario-bros/play/