Switch Online's Missions & Rewards Adds Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels Icons

Instead of purchasing the Lost Levels icons, I rather purchase this game on the Switch.

I'd fiddled with Lost Levels in the past but never had much of a taste for it. Last year was the first time I actually sat down and beat it.... still really don't at all have a taste for it. Feel like a lot of its difficulty feels more unfair than actually fun to overcome, especially stuff like the trick hidden blocks.

That cloud looks stupid. It'll be my icon for the next week

@Lizuka It wasn't designed to be fair. It expected players to have already finished the original Super Mario Bros. and be left wanting something harder, even the original instruction manual said it was "Super Mario Bros. for Super Players."

I've played a few levels & slapped a save state for when I want to return to the game, later. Snagged all icons, I wish there were some for Star Fox that isn't Zero (AKA 64 1.5) or 64... maybe I'll keep holding out some hope for one of the Star Fox GameCube titles to come to the Switch.

I do like the Aerial Blooper as an icon. I do have a soft spot for Lost Levels. I’ll consider replaying it (On Game & Watch with infinite lives), since I am finishing up on my 2nd run of Mario Wonder.

@KingMike Sure, but there's difficulty through expecting you to be good at the mechanics and there's difficulty through expecting you to memorize the levels. Lost Levels does the latter.

An icon of Bowser's Brother? Best Mario character.

YES! I love The Lost Levels, so I'm all over these.

In fact, I'm gonna get them for my Japanese account as well.

Brilliant!

@Nool
I’m curious - you’re subscribed to NSO not only with your main account, but also with your Japanese account? So you’re paying for 2 subscriptions every year?

Or do you have just one family NSO subscription for your main account, and added your Japanese account as a member? I never expected players from different regions could be in the same family plan, but never tried with my own Jpn account.

Nice, been thinking about going through Lost Levels again. I prefer the All-Stars version but it's been a while since I've touched this one so I'll give it a playthrough. Keep it short and sweet with just the letter worlds, I'm thinking.

@Teksetter:

It's on the Family membership, yeah. My partner and I already had a Family membership between us, but then I created a Japanese account and added it to the family group so I could download the Famicom games library. (Japanese Super Mario Bros. 3 is absolutely my favourite version of the game!)

So yeah, I'd like to grab those Lost Levels icons for my Japanese account, too.

They probably chose this game since the NES Championship thing is releasing this month and it isn’t on there

@YunoboCo
...It is in Nintendo World Championships, though

@PikaPhantom Oops, my bad, didn’t even realize lol. Guess this choice makes zero sense then, since the game is likely to get icons as well

@Nool
Oh that’s great to hear - thanks for sharing! I’ve had both US and Jpn Nintendo accounts for years now, but never tried to add my Jpn account to my US NSO family subscription. I didn’t think they’d allow that!

I‘ve just been playing Japanese NSO games with my American account, so I could get the Lost Level icons for my US account, but not for my Japan account (unless I add it to my NSO sub, I guess).

I love the lack of region locking, but it can be complicated sometimes! 😅

You couldn't even pay me $1000 to touch that game with a 39 1/2 foot pole. SMBTLL will forever remain my most hated Nintendo game.

I live this game. I always eat the purple mushroom.

@Teksetter:

It's great to have a Japanese account with access to NSO. I've got the Japanese game libraries (Famicom, Super Famicom, etc.) all downloaded. I hear what you're saying about complications, though: sometimes I kinda lose track of things like how primary versus non-primary console affects things as well. 😅

I think I must be missing something, though: how are you able to access the Japanese NSO libraries without a Japanese account being part of your NSO sub?

@Nool
You ask a great question, and it’s partially a mystery to me!
After subscribing to an NSO plan (and again later when I subscribed to the NSO expansion pack), I promptly went to the US eShop with my US player account to download the apps for NES, SNES, Gameboy, etc. I then jumped to the Japan eShop with my Japan player account to get the apps for Famicom, Super Famicom, Jpn Gameboy, etc. And it worked!

At no point did I add my Japan player account to my US NSO family plan, nor did I ever subscribe to a separate Japan NSO plan. I think the Japan eShop checked my console to see if it was eligible to download the apps, and it permitted it. It must’ve saw I had an active NSO subscription, even if the region was USA, and permitted me to get the Japanese apps?

So while I can, for instance, play Mother 3 on the Jpn GBA app if I felt like it, I’m not able to accrue platinum points or trade them for icons in the Japan NSO app - unless I link my Japan account to an NSO sub, I suppose.

I’m glad I only have a primary console to keep track of! I set up my kids as primary users of their own Switches.

@Teksetter:

Wow, that's really unexpected. I can only imagine your explanation must be right. I'd naturally assumed that the eShop would check the account for NSO validity, but surely it's got to be checking the individual console instead, as you say. 🤔
I can't think of any other explanation.

Weird that the NSO app is checking the individual account, though. That's something new I've learned.