Nintendo E-Reader Unlocks Ultimate Mario Levels

[Tom Phoenix]

As someone who purchased a Game Boy Micro relatively recently, I find this bit of news to be awesome. Nevertheless, I have to wonder...why bring up the subject now? What relevance does it have to the present day?

Anyway, putting the issue of obtaining cards aside, you will be lucky if you can obtain an e-Reader in the first place. Nowadays, Game Boy accessories are really hard to come by and you can preety much consider yourself lucky if you do somehow manage to find someone still selling any of it. Not along ago, I was looking if there was anyone selling GBA flash cards (before you get any ideas, I need one in order to be able to apply translation patches) and it's nearly impossible to find anyone still selling them.

 

[starwarsgeek]

Nintendo...please, please re-release this. Just call it Mario Lost Levels 2 and slap it on the virtual console!

 

[Cadapalo]

Dang I wish I had known about this, then I would have bought more of those cards. Honestly I can't remember why I bought an e-reader in the first place. Luckily I still have the e-reader and some of the cards but none of the those gave me anything like the video.

 

[jamesj223]

+1 to nintendo releasing these levels somewhere else..

 

[Space Jawa]

The Shoe! They actually brought back the shoe and we missed it! :-(

 

[DrummerM]

This makes me remember I have a couple of these cards (One level, one power-up) that are still lying around the house somewhere.

I knew if I left them they'd accumulate in value.

 

[blankedboy]

Why didn't we figure this shit out years ago?

You just made me realise something.....
People have been through the SMB3 ROM and gotten all the possible content and cheats, if people had known about it they would've mentioned it ages ago.

I call fake.

This makes me remember I have a couple of these cards (One level, one power-up) that are still lying around the house somewhere.

I knew if I left them they'd accumulate in value.

So only 12 were released in the US, and you have 2 of them?

 

[MetaKnight19]

I have an e-reader knocking about somewhere, but haven't used it for what seems like an eternity. I think thats about to change.

 

[Rack]

12 different not 12 total surely?

Anyway for all DLC is a nasty consumer unfriendly measure the e-reader was a thousand times worse, even if there's stuff people might have hunted for I'm really glad it never took off.

 

[blank_64]

Yeah, I remember having an ad for these cards that I think came with my GBA. They didn't sell the packs where I lived though (and I never had SMBA4).

I did collect some of the scannable pokemon cards though, got 2 games that way.

The e-reader was terrible though... One NES game required you to scan 10 cards (lose one and your boned) and you could only save one game on the cartridge itself.

 

[DekuTree180]

12 level cards? Looks like I have 11 level cards. Hmm... I also have a bunch of "Demo" cards and "Power Up" cards.

EDIT: Turns out I have the whole series released in North America, minus 4 "Wal-Mart exclusive" cards. And I thought I had the whole set :_(

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Christ, I actually had one of these. I think I even had some secret level cards. The thing was a piece of shit and I could never figure out how to use it.

 

[cartographer54]

I remember that! I got it for Pokemanz, when i was just a wee little boy.

 

[shadowstriker86]

emulator + gameshark = unlocked lol