If they release this in America I will be getting it. I got an e-reader just for this game.

Ugh, those voice clips were the worst as a kid playing this game.  I can still hear it in my head "Woo hoo, just what I needed!" each time you pick up a stupid powerup.


The e-reader levels would be the primary reason i'd pick this up, never got the chance to play those.

How many e-Reader levels are there in total? Is this game worth buying just for them? I'm not interested in having yet another form of SMB3, but I'm certainly interested in what would be new levels to me.

There's 38 levels in total (including one thought to be unavailable even for emulation for years.

Yeah, something of interest, the original GBA release only allowed 32 levels to be saved at once and the level could only be saved to the cart once it had been completed.

This has all 38 levels (with official US Translated names - a first!) loaded and uncompleted.

Basically, Nintendo modified the original release to give us this bonus.  Thanks, Nintendo!

FUCK YEAH!!!

Super Mario Bros 3 is still my favorite 2D Mario so to finally be able to play it along with all 38 of the e-Reader levels will be incredible.  99.9% percent of the population had no way to play all these levels in the original release considering how many were region exclusive and some were very rare even to the Japanese audience since certain stores had exclusive ones as well.  Hell, 38 new levels is almost half a Mario game so to get it on the Virtual Console for the price of a normal GBA game is an amazing deal. 

People can complain about the Virtual Console all they want but stuff like this is what makes the service easily worth it.

In theory, I agree - except that we rarely get stuff like this.

Perfect example - the GameBoy version of Pac-Man has an *amazing* multi-player version of Pac-man locked behind hardware restrictions (2 GameBoys, link cable, and two copies of Pac-Man.  Seriously, try to find someone else who bought a copy of Pac-Man for the GameBoy...)  Meanwhile, multi-player is completely inaccessible on GameBoy VC titles.  Boo-urns, Nintendo.  Boo-Urns.

Or better yet: any Gameboy game with SGB support.. Or not being able to get into that GBA only shop in the Oracle games.

The Advance shop for the Oracle games is a great example.

Nintendo games have so many neat little hidden (and not so hidden) treasures, that when something like this (or Pokemon Snap on the Wii Virtual Console with the photo export option) comes along, it's freaking amazing that Nintendo has taken the extra time to give us access to it - but it really irks me that they don't do this more often.

Even in SMA4 - we got the levels, but we have no way to access the extra Power Ups (Feather, Boomerang, etc.) or the switches (the Veggie switch was a personal favorite... but I'd really love to have access to the Red Switch that never got released in the US).  Come on, Nintendo - don't hold back. :D

Like you're already doing individual emulators for each game for no reason, you literally just had to trick the game into thinking it's being played on a GBA with the Oracle games. There's literally no excuse for that one.

Even better yet: why can't original Game Boy games use the GBC colour schemes? The system even already has a GBC emulator so I don't see why it wouldn't be possible...

13 years ago, I was trying to complete my Animal Crossing Card collection and playing Super Mario Advance 4 with e-Reader levels.

Today, I'm trying to complete my Animal Crossing Card collection and playing Super Mario Advance 4 with e-Reader levels.

Man, Nintendo, don't you get sick of reusing the same old ideas?