27th March 2004, 3:51 PM
Mario DX IS a lot better. It's the entire Super Mario Bros game completely unaltered, except the screen isn't fully shown to fit (this one is stretched instead, loosing detail in favor of a full size screen). It also has many MANY side quests, like a red coin hunt, a yoshi egg hunt, a high score challenge (per level and overall challenges), many little tasks to do to get stamps (can you kill every Bowser with fireballs alone? yes you can, if you can make it to each one with fire power), and several special levels designed for boo racing. They even put in Lost Levels. That IS the one gripe however, as they cheapened Lost Levels by removing 5 whole worlds and making the levels easier in various ways (no wind). Still, as far as SMB alone, it's the ultimate version. Oh yes, one other thing. You can still do alternating, as you can easily select Mario or Luigi (no effect on gameplay itself mind you, even in Lost Levels, another thing they removed), but it's not actually kept track of, and you would just have to manage who gets to play next on your own.
You seem to have the money, so I won't stop you. That SP does look sweet. It even has the two shades of gray. I can just barely make out that the bottom half of the controller part of the system is darker grey. I'd still like the Famicom one, just because well, I dunno, it's so cool looking and as I said before, I'd love to have that in my memories of the past. Still, considering that I have almost all those games, and portable at that, already, I just am not interested. Granted, Ice Climbers lacks the multiplayer simultaneous in the e-card form, something I'd really like as well. Also granted, portable Zelda 1 would be great fun (so long as they managed to give you the ability to save and quit without having to die just like in the original, just remapped to "controller 1" so it would work). Also granted, the Animal Crossing games will be gone the second I turn the system off, but considering nothing is saved in those anyway, I won't loose anything.
I guess I'd be a lot more interested if they just packed them all in one cart. Too expensive on their own.
You seem to have the money, so I won't stop you. That SP does look sweet. It even has the two shades of gray. I can just barely make out that the bottom half of the controller part of the system is darker grey. I'd still like the Famicom one, just because well, I dunno, it's so cool looking and as I said before, I'd love to have that in my memories of the past. Still, considering that I have almost all those games, and portable at that, already, I just am not interested. Granted, Ice Climbers lacks the multiplayer simultaneous in the e-card form, something I'd really like as well. Also granted, portable Zelda 1 would be great fun (so long as they managed to give you the ability to save and quit without having to die just like in the original, just remapped to "controller 1" so it would work). Also granted, the Animal Crossing games will be gone the second I turn the system off, but considering nothing is saved in those anyway, I won't loose anything.
I guess I'd be a lot more interested if they just packed them all in one cart. Too expensive on their own.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)