I just tried Super Mario All Stars for the first time in probably 18 years
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I recall playing around with the game at a Toys R Us demo kiosk back during its release, but I never owned the game nor played it for any length of time outside of the store. Today, I decided to give it a try.
What did they do to the music? Super Mario 2 in particular sounds awful! The sound effects in that game are also extremely poor. I thought Super Mario Advance had mangled the game a bit, but that GBA port is significantly better than this monstrosity.
Super Mario 1 has some ill-fitting title screen music and totally changed "secret pipe" music. They also added a clumsy "kick" frame of animation when you hit things while invincible. Again, the quality of the music is painful to the ears. I love SNES music in general, but the quality of the arrangement and the MIDI instrument choice seems like it was made by an intern at the company on his last week of contract.
I can't believe people are buying the re-release of this instead of downloading the originals via virtual console.
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They changed the actually gameplay and made it easier to beat.
All Mario All Stars did was change cosmetic stuff, they didn't alter the gameplay.
The only reason I played Super Mario All-Stars was for the Lost Levels. And for that purpose, I felt that it was a great experience.
Could not agree more with this statement.
As for the enhancements, I love them and think it's a great compilation. Both NES and SNES All Stars versions are great.
I always loved this for the SNES but I have never payed enough attention to these details you talk of. Ill have to go and play it. Maybe its different for the Wii version?
The Wii version is literally the SNES ROM on a disc, run by an emulator.
I thought they did a great job with Super Mario 3, the music and enhanced graphics were pretty good!
It was a decent port largely because it was relatively unchanged. They added SNES MIDI music and left almost all the sounds untouched. Increase the color palette, add decorative backgrounds and there you have it. I wonder why they made Mario more "floaty", though.
I thought they did a great job with Super Mario 3, the music and enhanced graphics were pretty good!
It was a decent port largely because it was relatively unchanged. They added SNES MIDI music and left almost all the sounds untouched. Increase the color palette, add decorative backgrounds and there you have it. I wonder why they made Mario more "floaty", though.
You keep mentioning the snes as having midi music...it does not.
I never said the GBA ports were BETTER, just that I enjoyed them. It was great to have Mario 3 on the go in portable form.
The OP was the one who said they were better, not you Happy birthday though!
There was no reason we had to suffer through hearing Mario say "just what I needed" and "lucky" a billion times. Ugh.
I've never played All Stars, but from some of what I'm reading here it reminds me of how I felt that they botched up Ninja Gaiden Trilogy.
youve seriously never played all stars???? hows that even possible....... it was the staple of my childhood haha.
thats like a sports fan saying they've never seen an NFL game
the controls are way more stiff than the nes titles. I refuse to play all stars for anything other than lost levels.
go buy a famicom and a FDS! then play it the real way peretty much the only reason i got an FDS but now i kinda wanna get metroid and zelda,.... maybe kid icarus too
I've never played All Stars, but from some of what I'm reading here it reminds me of how I felt that they botched up Ninja Gaiden Trilogy.
youve seriously never played all stars???? hows that even possible....... it was the staple of my childhood haha.
thats like a sports fan saying they've never seen an NFL game
Your childhood must have been quite a few years after mine. As I said in my OP, I just barely played All Stars. In 1993, everyone my age still had their NES hooked up and was enjoying the original versions of the games. Any older Nintendo gamer in late 1993 already owned a SNES, so we didn't acquire All Stars through the pack-in.