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Super Mario Advance 4: SMB 3 out on NA Wii U VC tomorrow, includes e-Reader levels

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Thores

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The Koopalings have been sent to wreak havoc in the Mushroom World. It's up to Mario to recover the royal magic wands and restore the kings to their true forms! Access extra levels by selecting Level Card on the file-selection screen. Or take a break from the journey, and get in on some classic Mario Bros. action!
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I thought this might be newsworthy to some folks. The bonus e-Reader content was considered to be more or less lost to time, but now anyone can play them without buying a weird peripheral and several packs of cards.

Edit: It's available now, and it does indeed include all 38 levels that were released as e-cards. This includes the ones that were previously Japan exclusive.
 
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Balb

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Really glad they're including the ereader stuff. I have most of the cards and they never seemed to work for me.
 
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NinjaCoachZ

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KingBroly said:
Zack and Wiki is as well
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Zack and Wiki!??! AND e-reader levels?? Holy shit, THAT'S a megaton!

VertPin said:
Why do people want the e-reader levels? I can hardly remember them.
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Most people didn't have an e-reader/all the cards and so they never got the chance to play those levels. I might double-dip even though I've played this rerelease to death just for the novelty of having the complete game...
 
bengraven

bengraven

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I wonder how you access the E-reader levels. Didn't they just pop up when you swiped the card on the GBA?

God it's been so long.

Also, seriously fuck you Nintendo for not putting GBA games on 3DS.
 
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JoeM86

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bengraven said:
I wonder how you access the E-reader levels. Didn't they just pop up when you swiped the card on the GBA?

God it's been so long.

Also, seriously fuck you Nintendo for not putting GBA games on 3DS.
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Go to the Card Menu in the main menu, takes you to World e. Then just select the level and a menu comes up :)
 
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atbigelow

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bengraven said:
I wonder how you access the E-reader levels. Didn't they just pop up when you swiped the card on the GBA?

God it's been so long.

Also, seriously fuck you Nintendo for not putting GBA games on 3DS.
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Their wasn't enough processing oomph to run them properly. At least before the n3DS. And I don't think they're gonna invest that much in them if they'd only run on a fragment of the 3DS market.

Sucks, but thems the breaks.
 
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Hylian7

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VertPin said:
Why do people want the e-reader levels? I can hardly remember them.
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That's precisely one of the reasons people want them. The e-Reader flopped pretty hard, and was discontinued after a year or two. There were a large amount of e-Reader levels, most of them being very unique from what was in SMB3. A lot of them had stuff that wasn't in SMB3 at all, such as SMUSA style vegetable stalks, poison mushrooms, and even the cape from Super Mario World.

Correct me if I'm wrong about this, but didn't the west never get the last series or 2 of SMA4 cards because of the e-Reader's status? That, and the scarcity of the other cards made these levels mostly lost to time for all these years.
 
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BiggNife

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Are the ereader levels actually good? I remember reading an article about them ages ago and I seem to recall the consensus being that they really weren't worth it.
 
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Balb

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Mechanized said:
What are you talking about? They had no problems at all porting a bunch of them to the OG 3DS for the Ambassador program.
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Yeah, but that was through a form of backwards compatibility. You can't make use of any of the 3DS' features while playing them.
 
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Hylian7

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JoeM86 said:
Go to the Card Menu in the main menu, takes you to World e. Then just select the level and a menu comes up :)
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If I remember correctly, weren't they stored on the cartridge after you scanned the cards? I bet they will all be there in the list with this version.
 
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Thores

Member
Mechanized said:
What are you talking about? They had no problems at all porting a bunch of them to the OG 3DS for the Ambassador program.
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Yes, by turning the 3DS into a GBA for the duration of play. You lose access to the Home menu and the system won't even go into sleep mode if you close it. Adding the actual Virtual Console features that the Wii U versions of the games benefit from was too much for the 3DS to handle.
 
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chaobreaker

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Zack and Wiki is really good. Real shame that it never got a sequel. Some of the puzzles were really fun to figure out.

I almost sure there were alternative solutions to some puzzles in the game but I never replayed it since I first beat it years ago.
 
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Otaku Coder

Neo Member
I was happy to see these recreated in Maker a while ago, though they weren't completely authentic due to limitations. Glad to see this.

Nice to see the US peeps cheering for once rather than thirsting for EU's VC selection (we got Drill Dozer the other week! First time it's ever come out here!) :p
 
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leroidys

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Hylian7 said:
That's precisely one of the reasons people want them. The e-Reader flopped pretty hard, and was discontinued after a year or two. There were a large amount of e-Reader levels, most of them being very unique from what was in SMB3. A lot of them had stuff that wasn't in SMB3 at all, such as SMUSA style vegetable stalks, poison mushrooms, and even the cape from Super Mario World.

Correct me if I'm wrong about this, but didn't the west never get the last series or 2 of SMA4 cards because of the e-Reader's status? That, and the scarcity of the other cards made these levels mostly lost to time for all these years.
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I believe the US didn't ever get all the levels, yeah.
 
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Lupin the Third

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Someone needs to compare the content on the Japan release and the US release and see if they have the same levels or not. Then I will consider picking it up. I've already played all the US levels from back when the cards were new, and am only interested in playing the Japan-exclusive ones. I worry they won't be in there because they never had (public) English titles, so when you DO get the Japanese cards working they have gibberish text titles, IIRC.
 
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atbigelow

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Mechanized said:
What are you talking about? They had no problems at all porting a bunch of them to the OG 3DS for the Ambassador program.
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Others already answered: it forces the 3DS into a GBA mode. No 3DS OS, wifi, sleep mode, etc. It's not operating as a "virtual console" at that point.

So yes, they did have problems.
 
Yoshi

Yoshi

Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
I wonder if they also included the Japan-only levels? I hope they'll bring it to Europe, too.
 
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Rodney McKay

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atbigelow said:
Others already answered: it forces the 3DS into a GBA mode. No 3DS OS, wifi, sleep mode, etc. It's not operating as a "virtual console" at that point.

So yes, they did have problems.
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Not that much of a problem IMO.
Besides, with the release of the New 3DS I'd bet that there's enough power to run them with the system features if they were to bother with it, but it's probably too close to a new handheld to put any effort into 3DS Virtual Console releases.

Hopefully if any portion of the NX is a handheld system then hopefully it'll have a unified eShop and I can get digital GBA games on a portable system
 
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