Nintendo straight up copy-pasted a SNES ROM into a Wii disc. And charged 30 bucks for the fanciness. 3 stars only because the content is still of 3/4 legendary platforms and the fanciness is indeed nice.
I always thought the argument that this was a bad/lazy release was pretty short-sighted. When I got this as a kid it was one of my first exposures to the original NES 2D Mario games, and I loved looking through the booklet that came with it. Just because there's not a ton of crazy behind the scenes stuff or extra content doesn't make this a bad collection. Maybe it's just a way to introduce a younger audience to these classic games--or rather, this classic compilation.
Yeah yeah I know the NES games were available individually on the Wii Shop Channel for less, but some of you ancient Nintendo nerds who were adults at the time of the Wii forget that some people (me) didn't have access to Wifi at the time. So getting this $30 Wii game version with a small bonus crash course in Mario history was perfect for me as a kid.
Sometimes you gotta remember that a simple collection like this can be the gateway into spawning new fans. Sure, more content isn't a bad thing, but this amount is just fine too.
Happy belated 25th Anniversary Mario.
Yeah yeah I know the NES games were available individually on the Wii Shop Channel for less, but some of you ancient Nintendo nerds who were adults at the time of the Wii forget that some people (me) didn't have access to Wifi at the time. So getting this $30 Wii game version with a small bonus crash course in Mario history was perfect for me as a kid.
Sometimes you gotta remember that a simple collection like this can be the gateway into spawning new fans. Sure, more content isn't a bad thing, but this amount is just fine too.
Happy belated 25th Anniversary Mario.
Maybe it was foolish to expect more from a game celebrating 25 years of Mario as a kid, but a simple rom of some old SNES games was not enough to make me play for more than maybe an hour.
This is just the original SNES release of Super Mario All Stars on a Wii disc. Nothing is changed. It does not include Super Mario World. It is still the first 4 Super Mario games though.
Just a SNES game on a Wii disc. Not worth seeking out unless you're a huge Mario fan or want the art book and soundtrack CD too.
greatest scam of the century, 20 song cd with half sound effects
a book of (actually) never before seen behind the scenes stuff
and a snes rom on a disc
a book of (actually) never before seen behind the scenes stuff
and a snes rom on a disc
i bought this game for the box. nothing else
Absolute joke of a game. This port was full price and not only that but it didn't even include the newest version of the games that the SNES version did. This is a ROM of the original release version on SNES that is 5 megabytes on a disc that could fit several hundred copies of this game and then still have room left over for the entire SNES and NES library. And it was priced $60 for a 20 year old game.
The game itself is stellar - a collection of the Super Mario games including Super Mario World, Mario 2 etc. But if you thought Super Mario 3D All Stars was shameless profiteering, this was way worse.
The game itself is stellar - a collection of the Super Mario games including Super Mario World, Mario 2 etc. But if you thought Super Mario 3D All Stars was shameless profiteering, this was way worse.
This is the gaming equivalent of bread
It's a great port of the original Super Mario All Stars, but it's ultimately a weak port and doesn't have any additional features. I'm glad it has a physical version, at least.
This game isn't bad but it is extremely lazy. It is just a SNES emulator playing Super Mario All-Stars and not even the version with Super Mario World apart of it. The menus aren't even edited to show Wii controls, it still shows SNES controls. The entire package just screams lazy.
Honestly speaking though, I am not really fussed by this game all too much. I just find it fascinating that Nintendo would release a physical game disc with the only thing on it being one SNES ROM. This thing is just a fun little oddity to own. If you want to play Super Mario All-Stars then this does the job. There are better and more convenient ways of playing Super Mario All-Stars, so I don't see why anyone would ever use this as more than just a decoration on the shelf.
Honestly speaking though, I am not really fussed by this game all too much. I just find it fascinating that Nintendo would release a physical game disc with the only thing on it being one SNES ROM. This thing is just a fun little oddity to own. If you want to play Super Mario All-Stars then this does the job. There are better and more convenient ways of playing Super Mario All-Stars, so I don't see why anyone would ever use this as more than just a decoration on the shelf.
Never logged this because...I guess I forgot or something? Or because I reviewed the original version of the game and thought that included the Wii version?
Either way, a lot of the extra stuff included in this "Limited Edition" was great, but the base game was just the original version of Super Mario All-Stars without a whole lot to distinguish it. Very much could've just been a Virtual Console release.
Either way, a lot of the extra stuff included in this "Limited Edition" was great, but the base game was just the original version of Super Mario All-Stars without a whole lot to distinguish it. Very much could've just been a Virtual Console release.
I've already reviewed Super Mario All-Stars as well as the original games upon which it is based, so this is a review that's already running with two layers of redundancy. If you want a quick summary: All-Stars is a pretty good collection of remakes and historically valuable for bringing The Lost Levels to other territories, but my preference lies with the NES originals.
Not to brag but uh, I own a CRT, you know. Maybe you wanna come over, play a little Hyperstone Heist sometime? Unfortunately, I don't have a Super Nintendo, which means we can't play Super Mario All-Stars the way Miyamoto intended. I do have a little work around, though: Playing it on the Wii instead.
That throught process is what led me to replaying this again, and as far as what All-Stars is, there's not a whole lot to say. I think there's some added input lag, but it was really only perceptible to me in the original Super Mario Bros. and The Lost Levels, whereas USA and Super Mario Bros. 3 feel totally fine. I'm not sure if I'm imagining it or what. Otherwise, it's still the same collection of games, arguably to a fault. Just the SNES ROM on a disc, and Nintendo couldn't even be bothered to use the one that contained Super Mario World.
Selling a Super Nintendo ROM at full price seems like a bad deal, even if you do some pretty spectacular mental gymnastics to sell this as four full games rather than one rerelease. Nintendo did try to sweeten the deal by adding some supplementary material in the form of a soundtrack and booklet covering the history of Super Mario. These pack-ins are of questionable quality, with the soundtrack containing a whopping ten songs followed by ten sound effects. On top of this, Nintendo released All-Stars for a limited time, hoping that the fear of missing out would further drive sales. This is a tactic that apparently works for them considering they gleefully indulged in it again for 3D All-Stars and Super Mario 99. As a consumer, the only worth such practices have for me is in buying a copy to resell later at a greater value than what I played. You won't see me with a fresh lobotomy listening to a one second clip of the coin sound effect, I am not nearly enough of a Nintendo Faithful.
Oh, and it didn't even remain a limited release. Nintendo eventually put out another version of All-Stars that gutted the bonus material. Just an extra "fuck you" to the peoplefoolish devoted enough to buy the Limited Edition. All of this makes All-Stars a quintessential Nintendo product, one that so perfectly highlights the company's greed and the anti-consumer practices that drive them.
Not to brag but uh, I own a CRT, you know. Maybe you wanna come over, play a little Hyperstone Heist sometime? Unfortunately, I don't have a Super Nintendo, which means we can't play Super Mario All-Stars the way Miyamoto intended. I do have a little work around, though: Playing it on the Wii instead.
That throught process is what led me to replaying this again, and as far as what All-Stars is, there's not a whole lot to say. I think there's some added input lag, but it was really only perceptible to me in the original Super Mario Bros. and The Lost Levels, whereas USA and Super Mario Bros. 3 feel totally fine. I'm not sure if I'm imagining it or what. Otherwise, it's still the same collection of games, arguably to a fault. Just the SNES ROM on a disc, and Nintendo couldn't even be bothered to use the one that contained Super Mario World.
Selling a Super Nintendo ROM at full price seems like a bad deal, even if you do some pretty spectacular mental gymnastics to sell this as four full games rather than one rerelease. Nintendo did try to sweeten the deal by adding some supplementary material in the form of a soundtrack and booklet covering the history of Super Mario. These pack-ins are of questionable quality, with the soundtrack containing a whopping ten songs followed by ten sound effects. On top of this, Nintendo released All-Stars for a limited time, hoping that the fear of missing out would further drive sales. This is a tactic that apparently works for them considering they gleefully indulged in it again for 3D All-Stars and Super Mario 99. As a consumer, the only worth such practices have for me is in buying a copy to resell later at a greater value than what I played. You won't see me with a fresh lobotomy listening to a one second clip of the coin sound effect, I am not nearly enough of a Nintendo Faithful.
Oh, and it didn't even remain a limited release. Nintendo eventually put out another version of All-Stars that gutted the bonus material. Just an extra "fuck you" to the people
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Enjoy your $30 limited edition SNES ROM that doesn't even include Super Mario World like the later version.
It was a dick move not to put this on the virtual console.
It was a dick move not to put this on the virtual console.
When it comes to ports, it doesn't get much funnier than this.
In truth, I only ever asked for this game so that I could enjoy the booklet and music CD, not so much for Super Mario All-Stars itself. While I have played All-Stars to completion, I did not do so on this release, and have since sold the game (but kept the bonus goodies for myself).
People really called 3D All-Stars lazy when this game literally exists
All-Stars itself is a 5/5, no questions asked, but as a $30 Wii game? Nah. The physical extras are neat in theory, but the CD is pretty lame, since a big chunk of it is 1-second sound effects, and the art booklet feels like a tease more than anything else. Wii Remote compatibility is nice, I guess, but c'mon.
Mario all stars is a good game, but the fact that is was repackaged as a full Wii game when its literately just a ROM you could emulate in 5 minutes on your PC is pretty bad
Good game collection, I feel like they really could've "remastered" it instead of just a direct port
great games ofc and has a ton of cool things with it but it’s literally just an snes rom. like JUST and snes rom. In the controls screen it shows an snes controller. their asses did NOT care
Good stuff
This is a really good collection. I loved how it used the remade version from the SNES version. I liked these versions but they did feel different from the NES versions. I also loved the different tertiary material in the collection.
Mario
1 (one) SNES rom
What happened to shame?
What happened to shame?
terrible way to honor mario's 25th anniversary, with a rerelease of an snes game with no new content. they didn't even bother to change the snes controller graphic in the controls screen
I have good memories with this game, playing it with my family and such. Solid game that makes it a lot easier and accessible to play the older and iconic mario games which I really like.
i got this game for my birthday with galaxy 2 but i wanted new super mario bros wii