Super Mario 3 Gets All Portable

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Gamers.com article showcasing new screenshots and details from Super Mario Advance 4 for GameBoy Advance. This title, which is a portable revival of the classic NES title Super Mario Brothers 3 with the higher quality visuals of the SNES Super Mario All-Stars version, will also have e-Reader connectivity, and a recent IGN Pocket preview claims "players can transfer the data from e-Reader to the game... to upload brand new levels and challenges", though, logically enough, "you'll need two GBAs (or a Game Boy Player [for Gamecube] and a GBA) to take advantage of this feature."

Comments

Cha-ching.

[Jeffool]

I'm sure there's some porting involved in things like this, but you have to wonder why Nintendo doesn't do a "Mario Anthology" containing the 'Mario Allstars' and 'Mario 64' on the same disc for the Game Cube. They could do the same with Zelda or Metroid games. Put them out for $20 or so. Chaaaaa-ching.

Jeffool.
Wasn't too off-topic, was I?

How does that work?

[Shishio]

After reading the IGN Pocket review, I still don't understand why the bonus levels uploaded through eReader would "logically" need more than one GBA to play. Is it because the bonus levels are only the head-to-head levels?

If that is the case, why can't the eReader be used to upload normal levels or entire worlds to the Super Mario game? There's plenty of crafty Unreal modders, but I'm sure there could be a strong Mario modding community if we could figure out how to use the eReader system.