dulsi I decided to try out the open source remake of the Great Giana Sisters. I didn't really like it. I understand it was created for the C64 era computers. It was probably the closest SMB like experience you could get at the time. It had more differences from SMB than I expected based on the fact that it was removed from sale.
dulsi I should probably mention that cmake failed for me. The files in cmake directory had the wrong case. I change FindSDL2_image.cmake and FindSDL2_mixer.cmake to FindSDL2_Image.cmake and FindSDL2_Mixer.cmake respectively.