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Doki Doki Panic -> Super Mario Bros. 2 -> Super Mario All-Stars version -> Super Mario Advance

But seriously the Super Mario Advance series was good. I miss when they did enhanced ports of things

That is pretty interesting actually.

Would be better without the voices.

JoeDangIt posted...

Would be better without the voices.

Yeah....

i remember super mario advance 2 (super mario world) had a change where taking damage with a fire flower or cape feather would only downgrade you to super mario instead of regular little mario

i hated that change. that game didnt need to be any easier >_>

KhlavicLanguage posted...

i remember super mario advance 2 (super mario world) had a change where taking damage with a fire flower or cape feather would only downgrade you to super mario instead of regular little mario

i hated that change. that game didnt need to be any easier >_>

Fun fact: that's how it was in the Japanese version

NeonOctopus posted...

Fun fact: that's how it was in the Japanese version

weird, i thought the trend back then was american versions of games were made easier if there was a difference

And in SMB3 it was the opposite: getting hit in the US version only downgraded you to the last state. But getting hit in the Japanese version dropped you back to small Mario

I grew up in the beginning age of 3D platformers so I suck at the 2D ones. I do like them though regardless of how many Game Overs I get.

I always thought it was weird that they remade all the games separately, when we have Super Mario All-Stars which combined them all together

KhlavicLanguage posted...

weird, i thought the trend back then was american versions of games were made easier if there was a difference

It was the opposite: They usually made them harder to counteract people beating the game within a rental period.

Look at Ninja Gaiden 3: in the US version, you take double damage, and you had 3 continues instead of having unlimited continues. And the US version of DMC3 original secretly had the normal mode as hard mode >_>

I am the great Wart. Ha-ha-ha!

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JoeDangIt posted...

Would be better without the voices.

IM TOO HOT TO TOUCH

THlS IS AS FAR AS YOU GO!

KhlavicLanguage posted...

i remember super mario advance 2 (super mario world) had a change where taking damage with a fire flower or cape feather would only downgrade you to super mario instead of regular little mario

i hated that change. that game didnt need to be any easier >_>

And here I thought I was good at super mario world all this time...

I still have my copy god bless it. That and yoshi's island, so the greatest game of all time and second greatest game of all time.

Super Mario Advance was my first gba game and I loved it to death and I'm sad that I never found my copy of the game. Should have bought another one ages ago, I really want to replay it. It's also the game that I can trace back to luigi being my favorite character who I would always choose if given the option, which I still do to this day.

Super mario advance 4 (which is apparently smb 3) is the only one I didn't own so I never played smb 3. I tried it once and immediately disliked it, going from super mario world to that was a considerable downgrade

JoeDangIt posted...

Would be better without the voices.

"I AM THE GREAT WART. HA HA HA!"

PHEW! JUST WHAT l NEEDED!

never had 1, but I had 2 and 3 and they were great ports/remasters.

pojr posted...

I always thought it was weird that they remade all the games separately, when we have Super Mario All-Stars which combined them all together

There's a reason why Nintendo never resold All-Stars for a very long time, except for one special occasion (the Wii rerelease, which was literally just a ROM on a disk, and not even the All-Stars + World version), until finally putting it on SNES Online on Switch.

That All Stars disc on the Wii is so laughable. How lazy can you get

My only complaint with the GBA titles was the names they were given along with the # each were assigned

I dislike the GBA version replacing TryClyde 2 with a robot.

<_<

FortuneCookie posted...

I dislike the GBA version replacing TryClyde 2 with a robot.

<_<

Didn't one the OG versions of SMB2 literally have 3 Mousers fights? It was either Doki Doki Panic or NES Super Mario Bros 2. I forget which.

NeonOctopus posted...

Didn't one the OG versions of SMB2 literally have 3 Mousers fights? It was either Doki Doki Panic or NES Super Mario Bros 2. I forget which.

Yeah. Doki Doki Panic had a white Mouser. Super Mario Bros. 2 introduced Clawgrip (or "Clawglip") as a replacement.

NeonOctopus posted...

It was the opposite: They usually made them harder to counteract people beating the game within a rental period.

Look at Ninja Gaiden 3: in the US version, you take double damage, and you had 3 continues instead of having unlimited continues. And the US version of DMC3 original secretly had the normal mode as hard mode >_>

It's both. The original SMB2 Lost Levels didn't make it over due to being thought to be too difficult and inaccessible for oversea audiences. Fire Emblem 9 also bumped the difficulty lower (ie NTSC Normal was JPN Easy) and removed the JPN Maniac mode to include an easier than JPN version's easiest difficulty. Also some mechanic changes like units would automatically promote if they level up at level 20 whereas the original needed a special item (Personally I consider that a better decision since you could only promote a handful of units in the JPN version and that's just weirdly organized.)

I do wish there was a new Mario game made for the GBA. At least the Sonic Advance games were pretty cool (with some major flaws, admittedly).

Only Sonic Advance 1 was good. 2 and 3 were bad

3 was decent. 2 might be better if they zoom out/ increase the resolution. I think a remaster for these titles would improve all three games a lot just by zooming out.

Toad: "YEE-HEY!"

Solar_Crimson posted...

"I AM THE GREAT WART. HA HA HA!"

I don't know why, but that line disappointed me. I was hoping to catch a glimpse of what Wart's personality was like. That seemed like a filler line. It might as well have been, "My name is Bob," or "I like orange slices."

Yeah, I kind of saw that coming...

NeonOctopus posted...

But seriously the Super Mario Advance series was good. I miss when they did enhanced ports of things

Eh, as a huge Mario fan myself, I thought the Super Mario Advance series was "decent". Each game had some ups and downs.

Super Mario Advance was pretty decent, but the lack of any real "reward" for collecting all of the Ace coins (and Yoshi Eggs) was a downer and the bosses' voices were fairly cheesy.

Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 did good in making Luigi unique from Mario, but the major lack of any other changes to the game was a missed opportunity. Also, making Yoshi colors annoyingly match Mario/Luigi's power ups from Yoshi Blocks is annoying, especially when trying to get Green Yoshi.

Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 is pretty much my favorite in the series for implementing its R button as the Egg Throw button for easier comfort on my hand and "Secret" levels, all while having very little flaws, in my opinion.

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3...is a bit of a coin flip. If you have the e-Reader cards for it, it's great. Otherwise, it's...okay, at best.

...but the main problem with the entire series is their small screen resolutions.

Ah, the e-Reader

I love Nintendo, but I tell ya they are the masters of releasing peripherals and then failing to support them

Only a few cards left Japan, and even there not everything was unlocked

TCRF has a fascinating article on SMA4 that covers the tons of unused e-Reader content

HylianFox posted...

Ah, the e-Reader

I love Nintendo, but I tell ya they are the masters of releasing peripherals and then failing to support them

Only a few cards left Japan, and even there not everything was unlocked

TCRF has a fascinating article on SMA4 that covers the tons of unused e-Reader content

If you bought Super Mario Advance 4 on the Wii U, they have every single e-reader level unlocked. It was pretty neat >_>

The Mario Advance games were my introduction to classic Mario as a kid so I look back on them very fondly and play them all the time.

Definitely haven't aged well though. The annoying voices, cramped resolution, dismal music compression. There's a ton of better ways to experience these games.

Luigi: "PEECE OF DE CAKE-AH!"

HylianFox posted...

Luigi: "PEECE OF DE CAKE-AH!"

HERE. HAVE SOME BOMBS!

DoctorPiranha3 posted...

HERE. HAVE SOME BOMBS!

Arr! You'll make a tasty treat!

DoctorPiranha3 posted...

HERE. HAVE SOME BOMBS!

Meowth, is that you?

Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Nintendo developer offices:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/0/5/AABJX0AADTjJ.jpg

HylianFox posted...

Arr! You'll make a tasty treat!

I'M TOO HAWT TO TOUCH!

I'm ready for you THIS TIME!