Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan)

[nintendodork]

First thing to mod in SMB MarioMania...

THE WARP ZONES...take 'em out

[MarioMania]

I will try to do it good..

I just to pass World 4-4 without dying

[nintendodork]

On SMB or SMB2?

[MarioMania]

on SMB2

That's the threads name

[nintendodork]

That's why I pick SMB2j over the US version..of it challage

I might be modding a hard version of SMB

Lol I didn't know which one you were talking about, because you mentioned both in that post

[MarioMania]

I like both SMB & SMB2

But I keep on coming back & playing SMB2

[nintendodork]

Yeah, it's a nice challenge, which is what I like

[nintendodork]

BUMP for this awesome thread.  I just got this awesome game today, and I got an awesome surprise (in addition to it being CIB) and no, it's not Volleyball on Side B...
The person who owned this in Japan (unless Carl did it ) beat 8-4 a few times... You know what that means!

What (most of) yours look like


What mine looks like

That's right, the previous owner beat 8-4 an amazing 24 times!!

I mind you this is the official disk release

[nensondubois]

I didn't think anyone would have the motivation to pull that off.

[nintendodork]

I didn't either, I thought I was seeing in 24s lol

[Tupin]

It was probably a kid who literally had nothing to do all summer except play Super Mario Bros.

Oh, and Volleyball, apparently. 

[nintendodork]

I haven't played Volleyball yet, but it doesn't have a save feature anyway, so oh well
I never figured out why everyone put Volleyball on Side B...it's not that great of a game, and they could have SMB or something better (Disk SMB would be awesome on Side B of SMB2)

[ericj]

Is that how is calculates the stars? I would have thought you would have had to beat level 9 or World D. Why level 8-4? Is this common knowledge or something?

[nintendodork]

It is common knowledge..(sort of)
The game counts how many times you beat 8-4 because it is the last "official level" of the "story"  Once you beat it 8 times, you get access to Worlds A-D.  If you beat the game without warps (once?  I think) You get to move on to the congratulatory 9th world in addition to getting a star added to the title screen. PROTIP: The 9th World repeats itself until you DIE

Also, this game seems to be prone to more glitches than SMB, I was in A-1 ( ) as Luigi, and in the first brick formation, there are two red shelled koopas.  I jumped straight up, they both turned in to goombas and like..shot off the screen
And, I tried jumping over this tall line of bricks, I only made it up about half way, and then I slid right through the middle   This has happened to me a lot even on the Virtual Console version of it...

[Doc]

I haven't played Volleyball yet, but it doesn't have a save feature anyway, so oh well
I never figured out why everyone put Volleyball on Side B...it's not that great of a game, and they could have SMB or something better (Disk SMB would be awesome on Side B of SMB2)

I actually have that luck... Side A has SMB on my disk, while side B has SMB2j. It even came with both manuals when I bought it off of eBay. The manual for the second game actually has a letter from Nintendo, congratulating you for buying the game, and challenging you to beat it.