i got the coin ship last time i played smb3 a couple years ago and it was the first time in my whole life of replaying this game i first had when i was 6. i was so excited
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I havenāt had the time to try and actually finish Mario 3 on my NES so now in bed Iām playing the confusingly titled Advance 4. I always really liked the funny voice clips they added to the Advance games. Iām also intending to do every level instead of trying to jump a lot of them like I am on the NES.
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You know that one Sonic romhack where it switches between Sonic 1, 2, and 3 every time you get a ring? Someone should do that for Mario every time you get a coin.
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Mario 2 best game soundtrack all times
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Yeah I think the only reason to consider All-Stars is for āLost Levelsā. Of course itās not like theyāre literally unavailable outside Japan anymore, you can simply download the SMB2J ROM. But when I did exactly that, I found that unless I used save states, I got hard stuck near the beginning of the game.
SMB2J is an intriguingly awkward game design thatās like, easier than most kaizo hacks but way harder than most Nintendo first-party games. Zelda II is maybe equally difficult but that game has savefiles, whereas SMB2J starts you from the beginning with limited lives every time, exactly like SMB1.
I found All-Starsās checkpointing every level made the other punishing parts of the game design a lot easier to enjoy. And I feel like even if I wanted to appreciate the challenge of beating SMB2J on NES, Iād start with All-Stars (or save states) for practice, just like how you learn to 1CC an arcade game by feeding in a few more credits at first.
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Anyway, an SMB3 thing I think about a lot is that when I was a kid, even my friends who didnāt have a NES at home knew all about the secret fortress flute (probably because that Nintendo-sponsored 1989 movie seeded the knowledge broadly enough), but literally nobody knew about the 1-3 āhold down for 5 seconds on the white blockā flute. I only learned about that one in the early 2000s.
If only I could travel back in time with my Internet knowledge and be my primary schoolās coolest secrets knower
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Hereās a good question to pose that I think about often.
Would you call the Donkey Kong games Mario spin-offs?
Donkey Kong has such a strong identity away from Mario that it feels weird to say DKC for example is a Mario spin-off, but at the same time Yoshi has really distinct games from Mario proper yet Iād absolutely call those Mario spin-offs.
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I mean.... Thatās like asking whether the Cronus mythos is a spin-off of Zeusās
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honestly I should have charged those fuckers 1.99 a minute
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mario is a donkey kong spin off
I rememeber shortly after I met veronica I said I didnāt like mario games that much, just a few and she asked me to list every mario game that Iāve played and made me stop when I got into the 20s
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I would strongly argue that in spite of the first game being called Donkey Kong that since Mario is the protagonist it is his series
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Nintendo should bring jumpman back.
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ooo I love the greedy upper path of 2-4ā¦ so many delicious coins
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I knew about the first two flutes in Mario 3 as a kid but it was the early 2000s before I learned about the third flute near the end in world 2. I was a little mind blown but mainly thought it was somewhat redundant since by that point it seemed trivial to get far enough into the game that two flutes could get you to world 8.
I never used the flutes much or the warp pipes in 1/2 because I liked mastering the individual levels enough to run through the games that way. Thatās mainly for 1 and 3. I donāt think Iāve managed to finish 2us non-warp. Maybe once, but in that I usually break down by world 4 and warp to world 6.
I have never been hard core enough to get through 2j.
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I knew all this shit so it must have been in one of those nintendo power guides
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yeah there was a really thorough guide that had all the levels laid out in pictures with every secret and coin and one up trick and stuff my brother had it was how I knew everything I dont figure out shit for myself
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True select button postersā spirit: Tell me when to stop complaining, Iām having a good time.
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??? no one was complaining, she was just pointing out I like mario way more than I thought. I was happily listing games I enjoyed
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yes exactly I didnāt need daphny to keep going because I had made my point. it wasnāt a humiliation ritual. letās all love Mario
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it was a very positive convo. my least selectbutton trait is playing games I love and talking about how much I love them. Iām going to keep going because Iām very philosophically against hate playing and complaining for fun, whenever I catch myself doing it I feel like shit, so it feels like I have to over compensate so I never get misunderstood on this level again
I donāt believe things I donāt like deserve my attention or time.
I donāt believe in so bad itās good. I beleive things are good if I like them
I donāt mind that people hate play in fact itās funny. itās just the opposite of how I engage with media. Iām not moralizing on anyone elseās behavior
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