Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Playthrough (Actual SNES Capture) - World 1

[Note: This video and description were originally posted on Youtube in June of 2015.]

This is part 1 of my 100% playthrough of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the SNES. This is not an emulator. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Yoshi's Island cartridge.

I couldn't redo Super Mario World in 60 fps without also redoing Yoshi's Island. For some odd reason (perhaps due to Super FX chip issues), Nintendo has never offered the original SNES version of this game through the Virtual Console. At best you can only get the Game Boy Advance version. So high-quality recordings of the full game running on actual hardware are hard to come by, but I can fix that.

Although I was aware of this game before its release thanks to my Nintendo Power subscription, I didn't obtain my own copy until much later. In fact, I first played the game at my cousin's house around late 1995 or 1996, but I think that I only got to try one level. I later rented the game from my local video rental store and instantly got hooked. The game was so good that I purchased a brand new copy only a few months after beating the rental copy.

The original Yoshi's Island is my favorite Yoshi game by far. Although I own Yoshi's Story and Yoshi's Island DS, none of the sequels have lived up to the original game. In fact, I've found every sequel to be disappointingly bland, so for a while I stopped buying Yoshi games after Yoshi's Island DS.

In this playthrough I'm getting 100% on every level, including the extra levels. You can treat this as a 100% walkthrough if you like. I have the Nintendo Power Player's Guide for this game, so that makes it a little easier for me to find all the coins and flowers in each level.

Each video in this playthrough covers an entire world (6 in all), but for convenience, I'll list the individual levels by their time stamps so you can skip to specific stages whenever you like.

These stages were not completed back-to-back in a single session. I simply edited the successful runs together for a single video.

World 1 Playthrough:

Level 1-1: Make Eggs, Throw Eggs - 2:12
Level 1-2: Watch Out Below! - 7:14
Level 1-3: The Cave Of Chomp Rock - 11:02
Level 1-4: Burt The Bashful's Fort - 18:20
Level 1-5: Hop! Hop! Donut Lifts - 24:06
Level 1-6: Shy-Guys On Stilts - 27:49
Level 1-7: Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy - 32:30
Level 1-8: Salvo The Slime's Castle - 37:10
Extra 1: Poochy Ain't Stupid - 41:55

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

I'm using a standard SNES controller.