Topic: Place Yer Bets: Round 1: Super Mario All-Stars

[UncleBob]

Okay, here's the plan - For each round, anyone who jumps in will be awarded ten coins.  You can use these coins to bet toward any combination of bets offered.  After the round is over, you get to total up your coins (honor system) and will be allowed to use them (in addition to the additional ten coins) in the next round.

For Round One, the topic is Super Mario All-Stars.
Round one will last one month.

Odds - Outcome
3:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is not announced for a US release in the next month.
2:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced (in any form) for a US release in the next month.
3:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in disc form within the next month and will not include any extras.
4:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and will include the snazzy artbook but not the soundtrack.
5:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and will include the soundtrack but not the artbook.
6:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and will include both the soundtrack and artbook.
10:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and will include Super Mario World.
10:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and is released only as a normal Virtual Console title.
20:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and is a limited Club Nintendo item (either exclusive download or physical disc via mail-order).

Point of Clarification: When I say "announced for release", I mean an announcement is made within the next 30 days that the game is going to be released in the US - *NOT* that the game is going to come out within the next 30 days...

Any questions?

[nickmitch]

I'll put 5 for:
2:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced (in any form) for a US release in the next month.

And 2 for:
20:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and is a limited Club Nintendo item (either exclusive download or physical disc via mail-order).

[Mop it up]

Put it all on:

3:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is not announced for a US release in the next month.

[UncleBob]

Point of Clarification: When I say "announced for release", I mean an announcement is made within the next 30 days that the game is going to be released in the US - *NOT* that the game is going to come out within the next 30 days...

[MegaByte]

4 x Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is not announced for a US release in the next month.
6 x Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced (in any form) for a US release in the next month.
Guaranteed 22 coins next round

[Mop it up]

Does the month start from today's date or from the date of the Japanese announcement?

[UncleBob]

Today's date (i.e.: the date the odds were posted, in case someone looks at this thread a week from now).

[Shaymin]

Odds - Outcome
3:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is not announced for a US release in the next month.
3:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in disc form within the next month and will not include any extras.

5 coins each for these two.

[TJ Spyke]

6 on 6:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and will include both the soundtrack and artbook. (I think they will announce it at their fall retailer event)

3 on 4:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and will include the snazzy artbook but not the soundtrack.

1 on 3:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is not announced for a US release in the next month.

[that Baby guy]

No option for the game to actually be NSMBWii-styled remakes with four-player?

[NWR_insanolord]

I'm going to be a pessimist/realist and put all ten of my quatloos on "it's not coming."

[that Baby guy]

For this round, unless another option shows up, I'll put all ten on this:10:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and will include Super Mario World.

[UncleBob]

No option for the game to actually be NSMBWii-styled remakes with four-player?

100:1 - Super Mario All-Stars will be announced for a US release in the next month and will be NSMBWii styled with 4-player simultaneous support.

[broodwars]

5 coins on:
 
4:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and will include the snazzy artbook but not the soundtrack.
 
Though I think we'll get a somewhat-inferior version of the artbook because, you know, we're not Japanese and therefore (apparently) don't deserve things as cool as they get.
 
And 5 coins on:
 
20:1 - Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and is a limited Club Nintendo item (either exclusive download or physical disc via mail-order).
 
I'll go one further and say that it will be next year's Club Nintendo Platinum Award.

[that Baby guy]

No option for the game to actually be NSMBWii-styled remakes with four-player?

100:1 - Super Mario All-Stars will be announced for a US release in the next month and will be NSMBWii styled with 4-player simultaneous support.

I'll take that bet, please.  All ten coins on it.

[UncleBob]

No option for the game to actually be NSMBWii-styled remakes with four-player?

100:1 - Super Mario All-Stars will be announced for a US release in the next month and will be NSMBWii styled with 4-player simultaneous support.

I'll take that bet, please.  All ten coins on it.

Someone's gonna lose his coins.

I should make a 1,000:1 that it'll be NSMB-ized with four players and Super Mario World.  Because that just wouldn't work.

[that Baby guy]

I'd go half and half if you did that.

[UncleBob]

I'd go half and half if you did that.

I won't let you waste your coins like that.
Super Mario World wouldn't work with NSMBWii style four-player.  Imagine one guy gets a cape power up, makes for a running start and takes off flying.  The other three players wouldn't be able to stay on the screen and they'd die.

[NWR_insanolord]

I'd go half and half if you did that.

I won't let you waste your coins like that.
Super Mario World wouldn't work with NSMBWii style four-player.  Imagine one guy gets a cape power up, makes for a running start and takes off flying.  The other three players wouldn't be able to stay on the screen and they'd die.

By that logic they couldn't do regular AllStars that way either, because the same would be true of the raccoon tail/tanooki suit in Mario 3.

[UncleBob]

The tanooki suit doesn't move nearly as fast as the cape/feather.

[NWR_insanolord]

No, but it's fast enough to cause that same problem. Players without it wouldn't be able to keep up with someone who had it and was using it.

[TJ Spyke]

Not really, you don't move all that fast with the Raccoon Suit. A player running would be able to keep up (at least in most levels). I don't see them doing that though.

[that Baby guy]

I'd go half and half if you did that.

I won't let you waste your coins like that.
Super Mario World wouldn't work with NSMBWii style four-player.  Imagine one guy gets a cape power up, makes for a running start and takes off flying.  The other three players wouldn't be able to stay on the screen and they'd die.

Except Nintendo could redesign the cape and Tanooki abilities to make the game a little more functionable with four players.  Slow them down, make them more vertical, just about anything.  This wouldn't be a direct port with a new coat of paint, but rather a remake in a different engine.  Some stage editing and item editing would have to occur.

[NWR_insanolord]

There is exactly no chance Nintendo's putting that much effort into this.

[TheBlackCat]

When you say "Super Mario All-Stars for Wii is announced for a US release in the next month and is a limited Club Nintendo item (either exclusive download or physical disc via mail-order).", do you mean mail-order by anyone or only for club nintendo members?