Just a rectification about saving. No the original SMB3 did'nt have this feature, but if you are game over, you don't restart at the very beginning of the game, you will just come back at the start of the current world. When you complete a castle, you will destroy a gate that opens you a way to pass over a couple of stages before the castle when you are game over. As long as I remember, you lost your power-ups when you are game-over. Now, with the Wii, it's pretty sure that when you will quit the game, you will return at the last place you were when you'll come back, with the auto-save fonction that's for every Wii vc game except for the N64's ones. Now, I own the original for the Nes and it works fine, I've played the version of Mario all-star and the one of gba Mario advance 4, but you won't feel as nostalgia with one of these two versions as you will with the original version. For me and for a lot of people, SMB3 for Wii vc will be an absolute must-buy, one of the 5 best games of all time.