FODA, you can download the 1.5 RC2 here:
http://smw.72dpiarmy.com/smw-bin-1.5b-beta.zip It has fireflower, star and 1up powerups. Making mario grow into big mario has some complicated collision detection things that I still need to work out. Maybe next version... BTW, mario jumps just as high as you hold the jump button in 1.5 (the physics still need to worked out with this, though. How much further should mario climb after the jump button is released?)
Thanks guys for taking the time to discuss this. That mario jump graph BoltR made is awesome. I took a close look at it and it looks like mario moves pretty irregularly. He it at the apex of his jump for 6 frames then falls 1 pxl, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4. Which I think means his terminal velocity is 4.2 pixels/frame and non-constant gravity but somewhere around 0.5 pxl/frame/frame.
I'm wondering if most of mario physics is like this... Maybe it would just be better if you guys played RC2 and let me know if you think the physics should be tweeked of if it is just good enough.
That should end the arguement.
However, just asking people is an extremely inefficient way of doing this. As if you want to emulate the movement as close as possible your going to need to get people to take make similar pictures for each length of a jump that the A button is held. Up until you come up with an acceleration algorithm which is close enough to correct.
It would be way WAY faster to just download the emulator and test for yourself. Getting it to work isn't very complicated, and i'm sure people would be willing to explain how.
Holding jump while running full speed:
Pressing jump for 1 frame (minimum jump height):
Pressing jump for 1 frame while running full speed:
