Even if I manage to get all the stuff I still have to do done by Christmas, I wouldn’t feel comfortable to release it without extensive testing, so a Christmas release is out of the question. We’ll see about a New Year’s Eve release.
Here’s my very incomplete list of stuff to do to show you that it’s quite a lot left to do.

• Empty block image for underground and castle are sometimes different. figure that shit out
• Invisible blocks have different graphic underground and in castle.
• Make mario fall off ledges if 1 pixel on it
• small delay before coming out of pipes
• platform spawners
• flying fish
• Those koopa like bugs
• lakito
• spikeys
• spring
• bowser
• squids
• rotating fire something
• animations (grow, shrink, sorry mario..)
• seesaw platforms
• castle repeats
• plants
• underwater physics
• vines
• fix orange gel
• fix up ALL the levels
• fix up multiplayer
• fix up splitscreen
• everything.