You sound like Scott the woz if his ball’s dropped

Whoa, immediate response to the question at 0:00. It's the opposite of clickbait!

The Advanced games may be more polished, but I think the best way to play is each game’s original release. Each style fits the gameplay so well, and it feels a bit off to play these classics in the same style.

You actually missed a pretty big thing with Yoshi's Island that definitely gives the Advance version another point: much like how they added new levels to Mario 3 with the E-reader, Mario Advance 3 also adds 6 new bonus levels to Yoshi's Island that aren't in the SNES version. Some of these levels even use objects that were unused on SNES like the Red Bullet Bills, and while I haven't unlocked them myself yet, I've heard these levels are quite long so it's more content than 6 levels may sound like.

The reason for the release order was most likely that they thought that Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island would be better showcases for the GBA hardware than Mario 3, which was obviously originally only an NES game versus two SNES games, one of which being a Super FX game. Mario 2 was likely chosen first purely because they wanted to establish the Mario Advance series as the continuation of Super Mario Bros Deluxe, which might not have been as obvious had they started with a SNES game.

I personally like the advance remake of Mario 2 the most cause I just like all the little touches to make it feel more fun like the heart system being less cryptic

Given how much time you spent highlighting and defending the negatives, I'm not sure you've convinced me the GBA games are the definitive experience lol. But solid analysis and comparison regardless. Keep up the good work.

the mario advance series was my first exposure to the 2d classics as a kid! i hardly ever see anyone mention them in any capacity, so this video was really nice to see.

Great video and I always enjoy your chatty, affable style! Something the video skipped over was that Advance 3 also added 6 extra GBA-exclusive bonus levels. These are a bit of a dry run for the E-reader ones in Advance 4, with a few original (or original-seeming) assets, and similarly high difficulty. They're also unlocked by getting very high scores across every level in each world, so there's a bit more of a purpose to the scores now!

You deserves more subs, this video is high quality!

Thank you for spreading the good word of GBA versions. I prefer all of the GBA ports for their quality of life improvements, pretty much always. I also deeply appreciate how much more accessible all of them are with more in-depth save features, getting a game over not making you lose much progress, being able to play as Luigi with his different physics in SMA2, Spin Jump and Egg-Throwing being on the R Button naturally (without using button remapping from emulators or software), and more. Though I will take those color palette restoration hacks when playing on anything other than the original GBA with a non-backlit screen. I don't mind the music and in some cases prefer the compositions or instrument changes from GBA, or think they are a good alternate take on them that lends the GBA versions a different, but still fun feel that makes them a uniquely different experience. It's not something I noticed until I directly compared the two, but Yoshi's Island on GBA has a slower countdown for losing stars when you get hit and lose Baby Mario. It depletes at about one per second on GBA whereas on SNES it was about one per half-second. There's also of course the "Secret" levels which were not in the original--only "Extra" ones.

Loved it - keep em coming!

Can't believe I never knew about those "E-Reader" levels. Heck, I've never heard of an e-reader.

I’m glad to have found this channel before it blows up. Great stuff man!

There's a Mario World Snes hack called 30th Anniversary Edition, that adds all the QOL from the GBA. Aside from that, the Advance versions are great. The E-Reader levels from Advance 4 are GODLIKE, and the Extra levels from GBA Yoshi Island were wonderful to play.

This dude gives Scott the Woz vibes

You make great vids! The only reason I can think of for why you’re not bigger is the infrequency of uploads

I think it's worth bringing up that, according to the Nintendo 2020 Gigaleak, Super Mario Advance was originally called Super Mario Bros Deluxe 2, and it was meant to be a direct sequel to Super Mario Bros Deluxe. That's why Super Mario Bros 2 was the first Advance title.

Love the videos and dedication you put in! Would love to see more Mario/Nintendo content! Keep up the good work!

Awesome video. Well done! I am glad I subscribed to your channel after your 3D All-Stars Video.

It probably should have been mentioned that initially Super Mario Advance was named Super Mario Bros. 2 Deluxe/Super Mario USA Deluxe until very late in development, which is why it shares so much dna with SMB Deluxe since it was literally an actual sequel

Just found your channel and I'm binging your videos.. so we'll put together, nice and long and thoughtfully presented. Great job! Thanks for the effort in making them, you are great at this!

Great video!!!

This is super appreciated, as I’m looking to play Mario 2 proper, and replaying Mario 3.

The next video: A tribute to Mario's Time Machine.

You may not be able to buy things from the Virtual Console anymore, but you can still access those VC roms if you Homebrew your Wii or Wii U.

dope video man

I enjoy some of the differences of these versions for the occasional playthrough but my favorite way to experience them is still the Super Nintendo versions. I still pick up the GBA ones from time to time when I want to switch up the soundtrack since I've got a soft spot for the terrible audio of the GBA

really good video! Thought you had at least a couple hundred K subscribers, but you're severely underrated!

I really hope we get a remake/rerelease of these games that includes unlimited lives and auto saves at checkpoints, no fiddling with save states or obsoleting a collectible. That’s all they would need to be on par with any modern mario game

I hate the All-Stars version of lost levels because they made it look exactly like the All-Stars version of SMB1, when the original lost levels looked unique.

Super mario land 2 and the six secret coins is my favorite 2D mario out of em all, if i had to go back itd always be that.

Very comprehensive video! SMB3 on GBA looks great

Great video 👍

Everything said in this video made me go,”This guy gets it”

I actually think there is some games that feel like they have screen crunch on the Game boy advance even though they're actually Game boy advance games and aren't ported from a Super Nintendo or something.

It would be so amazing if they remade Mario 1-World plus Yoshi’s Island with all the extra features added in Deluxe and the Advance series. Hell, throw in a remake of New Super Mario Bros with extra stuff and you’d have a good package.

Speaking personally, I'll happily play the Advance games on my trusty-rusty Gameboy Micro, but on any other platform, I'd rather play the originals for their better colors, sound and screen size. The arguable exception for me is Mario 3 because of all those fun extra levels you get on GBA

Id love another video on the dkc gba versions (plus the gbc remake and returns 3d and funky mode)

Those gba rom hacks are awesome i dont understand why nintendo didn't put them on the NSO

I just realized that Yoshi's Island isn't one of those Game boy games that has a tilt sensor in it so throwing eggs sounds like it'd be super annoying versus how it is on the 3DS and the Wii U (ypu hqve to use a wii mote sadly)

I remember as a kid, i would always play Super Mario World, Leaf Green, and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. Those were my most played games. I made it pretty far into the world. I never beat bowser because i didnt know you could grab a koopa shell and toss it up. I was able to get a few special missions done too. Eventually, my mom took my gba away( I still have found them. I'm missing world and leaf green still), but thankfully, I have 2 other brothers, so i stole their gba. As a kid i had no idea the games i played were snes ports. They were fun and i was a kid. Eventually, later in life i found a SNES in my grandma's house that was my aunt. I put in her copy of World, and she found secrets i didn't even find. Also, for some reason, i can't play world on SNES, only GBA. I dont know why but i just fail so bad on SNES. The GBA versions are fine. Gba sound chip is fine, the grpahics are fine, and contorls work great. Gba mario may not have been original, but having those games be re-released gave a new generation those games to play

SMA was the first time i beat SMB2, even tho i had Allstars on SNES for years. A kid i was sitting had the game on GBA and couldn't beat it, so i ended up unlocking all the levels for him. (i find it funny bc he spent most of his time in the other room on his PS2 playing a COD game, platformers were just not his thing and he wanted the save/exit/level select to get to levels he couldn't reach on his own).

You should probably do a Lost Levels review given how much youve dissed it lol

I'm glad theres someone else who is as OCD about video games as me.

Cool video I grew up with the Mario Advance versions, but when I got to play All-stars + SMW later on I preferred the SNES versions. Better colors and sound and larger resolution without crusty voice clips. The extra levels from Super Mario Advance 4 are great though and I go back to that Mario 3 just for them.

19:13 lol nice cutoff

this was a fascinating video essay! i have a gba and switch, and played through a lot of mario bros 3 on the wii but was never able to beat it. i think i will primarily stick to the gba versions

Thanks for the confirmation 👍

When I was a kid the ONLY way I played OG Marios was through Deluxe and the Advance collection. Good times.

Mario Advance 2 also changed Yoshi spawns. The colour of the Yoshi that spawns, changes depending on what power up you have. Feather = blue Yoshi, Flower = red Yoshi etc.

great vid

ive been playing through mario 3 on the NES classic recently with my non gaming partner and having to redo whole worlds when she runs out of continues really sucks. ive recently got into retroarch and emulation more so ill give the patched GBA versions a try!

Modded 3ds hands down the best Mario machine

Dude, you complain a lot. About the _right stuff._ And your comments about maybe just stop giving a shit? _Perfection!_ Mario’s great, and the Advance versions are easily the most approachable ones! Good stuff ❤️

Thanks for your Amazing videos but you forgot smb special and the super mario land series

Lol question answered in first three seconds, thanks

I wonder if the updated switch roms would work on original hardware with a flash cart, and if anyone has ripped them yet.

I was never a fan of the Mario Advance games myself but I mostly only played Advance 1 as a kid and couldn't deal with Mario's voice. Same with Link's voice in the Link to the Past port on GBA. It just comes off as an awkward change to me.

I grew up on the Mario Advance series and though they were perfectly fine. Later on I went and collected the originals to replay them and yea it's basically the same experience with minute differences. Mario World darker colors are also weird to be, despite that being the original

Man I wish the wii U had more indie games so I could download them

What about Game & Watch Super Mario Bros. released in 2020?

Just found your channel - I’m subscribing because your Nintendo takes aren’t dripping with performative anger but also not blindly praising everything they do. You’d be surprised how hard it is to find balanced, pragmatic, and down to earth opinions about this stuff. I hit the sub button immediately after “the solution that’s been most effective for me and one I’d propose more people to try, is to *not give a shit.*” You’re doing great work!

Can you say how Super Mario Bros. from the Classic NES Series for GBA slots into this? Does it have screen crunch or quality of life features added?

i found super mario land 2 extremely charming

1:00 Nusplii would like a word heheheh 🐴

It’s gotta be Mario 3/ world or Wonder

Great video, but these small QoL changes are not enough to compensate for the advantages of SNES All-Stars.

I dont like how much easier they made platforming especially in SMB3 (1-4 for example) but other than that i think the gba versions in terms of content is the best but i still prefer the SNES versions as i like the difficulty with 16-bit graphics

of the gba color issues, I only have it with super mario world, the other 3 look good. and it's mostly mario looking a little too off for me.

Is there anyway we can donate to support this?

Very nice review, enjoyed it a lot! I do agree with a lot of what you said (I think SMB2 on the GBA is the best way to play it, I had SO MUCH fun with it), but not with everything. What you said about Super Mario World I can't agree on whatsoever. The graphics look horrible, the sound sounds horrible and the gameplay is... not as good as it was on the SNES. The screen crunch especially is terrible, since there's a lot of levels in the game where you just can't see what's ahead. That one scrolling cave level with the moving floor and ceiling? That was already difficult on the SNES, but downright impossible here. If I didn't know the game so well, I would have never been able to know that I had to jump NOW YOU NEED TO JUMP NOW OH MY GOD THE CEILING IS CAVING IN YOU MISSED YOUR CHANCE!!!! Really didn't enjoy my time with that game, to be honest. As for a lot of the other things you said: quality of life improvements like being able to save whenever or better control layouts really don't matter these days. Like you said, you can remap controls on an emulator as well as the Switch online service (I think), and of course both allow you to save LITERALLY whenever. Admittedly, the bad graphics and sounds also matter a lot less because you can download patches for them, but at that point... just go with the SNES versions. At least in regards to SMW and Yoshi's Island. There's nothing these games have to offer that make them the DEFINITIVE version. At least SMB2 had different levels and more enemies, and SMB3 had those exclusive levels. So unless you're some sort of insane purist who plays on original hardware (like me), I'd recommend the originals. I mean, even if you really wanna play them on the go, then the Switch or using a Raspberry Pi or something is the better option anyway. Still, nice analysis of these games! Always interesting to hear what other people think about these games.

But I only play Xbox. What should I do????

Wait there wasnt a mario advance game for super mario bros 1???

Snes all stars is the way to go

man.

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Even if you don't count the lost levels, super mario bros is no longer a trilogy because of super mario bros wonder

The multi-player Is only in mario bros

Joycon boys forever

24:57 Is someone a ZoomZike fan?

The screen crunch ruins the game for me. I can't deal. Not being able to see all the beautiful set design (especially on Yoshi's Island) and having your character so large on the screen... yuck. SMB3 on Advance is worth it, and I can deal with SMB2 because of the enhancements but the others are not worth the loss.

The best way to play all these games by far is emulation. Remember that piracy is a victimless "crime."

Hello

they made blue toad red so it's a no sell unfortunately

yeah we get the point you're ok w/ the original experience when it comes to literally everything you talk about on your channel lol, you're basically a purist at this point

The snes version of world is vastly better than the advance version, the controls are worse, the sound is worse, it looks worse, it feels worse to play, if you have the option, don't play the gba version.

cmon dont shit on lost levels

I'm a savior for that one guy to say FIRST

Can you do some research on why handheld consoles did not have lit screens instead of acting like a spoiled Zoomer? Maybe it wasn't possible??

Oh, it's another modern gamer who can't handle the masterful challenge and design of For Super Players. Stopped watching and unsubscribed.

No the advance series is not the definitive way to play why becaus is on the gba play the nes and snes version instand

Advocating for the devil is not a fucking game, I wish people would stop "playing" devil's advocate it's not cool

vey cool video :)

Hey! I love your videos, is there any way I could contact you in private? Thanks