Mario's 8-bit adventures were compiled and enhanced for the Super Nintendo on a single cartridge. This was the international debut of "The Lost Levels", originally sold as Super Mario Bros. 2 only in Japan.
I just got it delivered in the mail today. The little booklet's actually pretty cool. Not a great deal of text, but it has some interesting images. The soundtrack is pretty nice, too.
I bought a copy and when i filled out my club nintendo survey I said that it should have been on virtual console and I hope more people do that as well.
I'm not saying it was a worthwhile purchase. But yeah I picked it up on release day. It helps that they sell it where I work, otherwise I probably wouldn't have made the effort.
@Emilio: No I agree. For example, when you jump underneath some blocks as big mario, crushing then, Mario doesn't bounce back down quite like he does in the NES version. He jumps through the blocks a little bit and looses momentum sometimes. It feels kind of annoying after playing the NES games and getting used to them.
I own the original SNES release of this game but I still bought the anniversary edition for around $20 when it came out. I have to say that the booklet and the soundtrack was a bit of a letdown, but I was prepared for it so I don't mind. The soundtrack especially. 20 tracks of which quite a few are 2 second sound effects? Looking at the surface of the disc you can see that it is not even filled to the half-point. They could've easily fitted 30+ tracks on it.
I would have if this were the version that included Mario World. But knowing that version exists, and they still put out this version and charged 30 dollars for a 16 year old SNES port kinda just grinded my gears a bit.
" Is it just me, or are the physics and hit detection in this slightly different than the NES games? Maybe I'm just used the very accurate blocky Super Mario Bros. Been doing some SMB3, and some of the new graphics are like optical illusions. I love that. "
Yep. The controls and things like the momentum are different than the NES versions. That's why even though I think the SNES remakes are better, I still prefer to PLAY the old versions because the controls are just perfect.
" I wonder if buying all the games on Virtual Console would be cheaper than buying this. "
Yes, I do believe so. Super Mario Bros 1 - 3 ( in US Nintendo Points) is 1500 Pts (500 Pts each). Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels is 600 Pts, as they sell it under the "imports" section. So in total it would be 2100 Pts., which is $21.00 with no tax.
The retail package is $30, and if they are to release All-Stars on the VC, it will most likely be sold for 800 Pts., or $8.
I want to say that the big draw for the retail package was the book and CD. And as you may have read, it came out to be severely disappointing for some of us.
@synt4x: Yeah, I'm bummed on the CD and booklet. I mean, there are some good tracks in there, but there could have been at least remixes or something. The inclusion of the sound effects is only good if you plan on ripping them out and using them for your own projects.
I, myself, do plan on using the SFX for a clone SMB 1-1 in C++ when I actually get around to learning how to program something like that.
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