The Video Game Critic

[QUOTE=Alienblue]The SNES having a toggle to switch between update and non updated is a fine idea but way too expensive. The cart would've cost over $100!....also I think that playing SMB or whatever on an old NES is what most people really want, the "full" retro experiance...
you can never please everybody! Except with LASER BLAST! Obviously we ALL agree that was a great game [/QUOTE]

Wow, how do you you possibly misinterpret a post like that? I don't know where you got an actual toggle switch piece of hardware from. I meant load cartridge, go to options in the game and select between classic look and updated look. Namco museum 50th had an option where you could have jaggy classic graphics or an smoothed out version which looked like garbage.

The toggle switch still would have increased the cost of the game. We're talking about SNES here, not PS2. Alienblue is right; if you really want retro get the original. I prefer the originals as well, but I think more people would have been angry if they were straight ports.

[QUOTE=Alienblue]Man, and people accuse ME of looking through rose-colored glasses at the past!....I thought SMAS was perfect, it upgraded the graphics while leaving the gameplay pretty much intact (minus the bugs and glitches)... I would rather play the updated versions; the one exception being "lost levels", I had more fun playing the "original" SMB 2 on SUPER MARIO DELUXE, for some reason I was able to get farther on the GBC version than on SMAS.[/QUOTE]

Looks like a localized version of the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 will be coming to the Wii Virtual Console in its original NES graphics and sound.  It's been rated recently by the ESRB, which almost always means a release shortly.

[QUOTE=m0zart]

Looks like a localized version of the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 will be coming to the Wii Virtual Console in its original NES graphics and sound.  It's been rated recently by the ESRB, which almost always means a release shortly.

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That depends on your definition of shortly. There are quite a few old games rated by the ESRB and just sitting around while Nintendo pumps them out however they please. At any rate, that does mean we'll get it, so that's pretty cool. Thanks for the update m0zart.

[QUOTE=a]The toggle switch still would have increased the cost of the game. We're talking about SNES here, not PS2. Alienblue is right; if you really want retro get the original. I prefer the originals as well, but I think more people would have been angry if they were straight ports.[/QUOTE]

I have all the american releases but it's hard and expensive to snag a famicom smb 2 cart, then you have to buy either a clone system or make a bootleg mario 2 cart using an old excitebike or hogan's alley cart that have the famicom converter in them. I still don't believe the cost would have changed as switching graphics should be a minor feature. Besides if its cart room were talking about remember that allstars + mario world was released as a single cart. For the price you had to pay for these carts back then the feature should have been there.