that might be a good idea. It would also make an improvement over the old NES/SNES marios I guess

when using tiles, his hit detection would most likely pickup that there's a tile there and stop him. Just letting him go through walls is not a good thing, it could lead to a lot of issues in the future. So for ease of programming I would say just kick mario back out which ever way he came from you could have him slide until he hits a tile and then bounce him back. That would allow you to do some cool stuff with putting coins under the blocks and allowing mario to get them.

Okay, sliding to the right and perhaps bouncing back it is?

Actually, I really like this solution. Sounds great

Yes, I just made a bunch of progress tonight. It now supports external levelsets! To be more accurate, it only reads from a certain program (must be archived). But it can actually reload the level now, and now dying actually decreases your lives and does just that. I also made a special tile that advances you to the next level when you touch it (this is only a temporary implementation, I'll have something more permanent later). I still need to deal with the fact that Mario always appears small in the next level, even if he got power-ups in the previous level. But still, this is a good start!

I made a new Youtube video (actually my first one ever) just to see how people will react.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJZj2XCnrXs

Edit:
Interestingly enough, the Omnimaga revival video is the first one on the list in Related Videos.

looks really awesome and cool music used. I hope this gets finished, I'll probably spend a lot of time on it, especially when there will be also a level editor

Thats super awesome, this is nearing completion rapidly! .

Aaaaawesome!

I think it's gonna be OTBP+Omni but it could be solo as well I think. Only thing is that OTBP has load of downtimes and I'M unsure if he still maintains the site