Topic: Super Mario Collection discussion thread

Certainly disc space is not / was not an issue with this collection.

I do have a theory for the exclusion of Super Mario World, apart from the Virtual Console sales: it would require the Classic Controller to play, and one great virtue of this collection is that it will work with just the sideways Wii remote, unusual for an SNES title.

It's perfect. <3

What the heck. Maybe I don't remember it right, or I've been spoiled with New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but Mario doesn't feel like he controls right in Super Mario Bros. and The Lost Levels. It's like I can't get him to stop and when you jump you can't really change your momentum. (Like I'm playing Ghost's n Gobblins.)

And also on the lost levels, on one of the levels there is literally a jump that is too long for mario to cross. I don't get it. A full speed run and jumping off the lip doesn't clear it. If anyone has come across this, what did you do? I don't remember mario being a puzzler

Has anyone ever exploited the save function and for the fun of it, in SMB3 filled their entire inventory with Whistles?

You can do that?

Yup.

1) start a new game
2) collect whistle in 1-3 and 1-fortress
3) hit start and select save and quit.
4) load game and select World 1 again
5) continue at step 2

The game save your inventory, extra life count and last world you have been too. you can also choose any world so if you spent enough time at it you could technically fill your inventory with any item. including hammer or tanooki suits.

There are some hidden coin blocks nearby to get on the ledge above that gap.

I got this for Christmas, and I finally beat Super Mario Bros.

Now it's time to get my butt handed to me in The Lost Levels.

Any tips?

No, it's one SNES game. And it doesn't even run properly in PAL regions. I actually got the Mega Drive collection when I got my PS3 a week ago. It was on sale for $28, and the Mario collection retails here for $40. So it's either 1 SNES game that plays at the wrong speed plus a 26 minute CD and little booklet or for $12 less, 40 Genesis games that run at the right speed, and in HD, plus 9 bonus arcade and Master System games, and interviews with developers. Looks like SEGA still does what Nintendon't.
I'm really disappointed, love you Nintendo, but this is the final straw. All you had to do was program a selection screen and dump some ROMs, it’s not that hard.

I’m pretty much boycotting the PAL VC for now (I’ll still buy imports).

I give it a 3. -4 for laziness, -3 for being in 50hz, -3 for price, and +3 becuase it's still Mario.

Can't wait until my NTSC SNES gets here from America. Sure, it'll cost a little more for each game vs VC, but at least I'm getting the real deal and not crippled 50hz ports. And, I’ll get to own a copy of Earthbound that I can actually read!

I beat it the other day. You can save after every level, so just keep replaying the level and don't be afraid of seeing the game over screen again and again. Unlike the NES version, saving on each level effectively means you have infinite lives to complete each level.

A lot of it is trial and error, so just a case of keep going, but some is just down to skill. Quite a lot is just being fearless, you can quite often just run towards and jump over hammer bros. and despite terrifying apparatus around Bowser you can quite often just run underneath him. You can also do the level enough times to the point where you are big Mario when you face Bowser, and therefore run right through him.

If you are trapped, and the only way out is a warp to a previous world, just let the time run out.

Whilst you can save regularly, if you are big or have fire flower always attempt the level then, because after you save and quit and come back, you'll be small again.

Right, can't think of anything else off the top of my head, hope that helps.

I always made that jump with Luigi. Could never do it with Mario.

There are rumors that they might print more. So much for Limited Edition.

Yes, this is really aggravating. Not that they're printing more but that they assumed they wouldn't.

Since when was the re-printing of a good game bad?

Since people paid too much money for it thinking that they had no other hope of getting it, and since Nintendo lied to or at least misled its customers.

Perhaps this reprinting will not contain the art book or soundtrack?

I don't believe in these Rumors unless they come from Nintendo or store saying they have some coming in. The guy at Gamestop told me it was a one time deal though and weren't getting anymore. However if they do release more I can switch my shipping damaged copy for a new one.

I think I know the jump you're talking about. As I recall, there's a way around it. A few hidden blocks you have to hit, or a hidden pipe or something. Which world is it in?

“We are gratified by the consumer response to this limited-edition product, which we created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original Super Mario Bros. game on NES,” Nintendo public relations director Marc Franklin told Wired.com via email on Friday. “Because of the strong response, we are exploring the option of bringing this item back at a later date.”
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/01/mario-all-stars-wii/

Nintendo doesn't know what Limited Edition means. Look at the Limited Edition Platinum Gamecube. The device was limited by the discontinuation of that generation. I believe Nintendo will do what ever $ will tell them to do.

Why does everything need to be like that. They are a company and they make money, but people make it sound like they only do things for money power hungry reasons. If Nintendo would do whatever $ will tell them to do they would have brought Mother 3 as well as other stuff.

Besides it says they are exploring an options, so who knows what they are cooking up (or not).