Interesting that even when it was Doki Doki Panic, there were still things that were strictly Mario in there. The coins, and the POW block in particular, both having appeared in the series since Mario Bros. Arcade, five years earlier.
It started as a Mario prototype before being reworked into a Yume Kojou tie-in, so I won't doubt most of these elements were already there when it was still a Mario game.
It's also in line with the concept art for the game. Mario had red overalls in all the art, but in game they were blue. The all stars remaster is really cool because it tries to match the concept art from every game
I just love the effort put into the GBA ports. Advance 4 will probably remain my favourite (it's SMB3, it's a great game, what else can I say lol), but Advance is the best version of SMB2. Mario Bros. minigame, extra features, new intro screen, voice lines, and more!
Advance 4 in the virtual console had a lot of extra levels with the elements of all the Mario Advance Series. Making it a brand new game. Seriously, the dude who made the levels is a hero.
My favorites are the original NES, then the SNES version, then Advance. I didn’t like how the characters looked in the remastered versions. The original music is the strongest in my opinion. As much as I like the GBA version, it did add quite a bit more of giant aspects that I felt took away from the game instead of adding something cool. Thanks for making this video because I didn’t know of those remastered versions. That’s interesting.
Glad to see my hack there at the end, but I should say the Demo is outdated at this point, I've updated a lot of character sprites, and the Demo doesn't have any color pallet work done yet. The final version will give Luigi a more vibrant green, give Peach her blue earrings and brooch, Triclyde will be red, and Wart's Jacket will be a darker blue.
The characters in it belonged to Fuji TV, so licensing rights is why we never got it in its original form. Though frankly, the refinements made in SMB2 make it a better experience overall. There is a romhack called "Super Doki Bros. 2" that reverts the characters back to their original forms, so you might be interested in it.
Wait... the thumbnail just made me realize that Mario was pointing his nose upwards while pulling a vegetable out, I ALWAYS THOUGHT HIS MUSTACHE WAS HIS EYES SQUINTING
Looks like all they changed in the remastered versions were the player and enemy sprites. I would've gone further by editing the background and foreground sprites too.
Maybe it's just because I'm used to the original game, but I really don't like the reworked sprites in the NES Remaster. They look way too disproportionate. The SNES Remaster, however, looks really nice, though I'm not sure I prefer it to the regular Super Mario All-Stars version.
I remember when it came out; I was super excited to get it... and the voice lines made me not want to play it and not buy it. After 5 min with the GBA SMB3 port, I tried to find an option to disable them in the menu, and then stopped playing after my friend confirmed there was no way to turn it off. I specifically asked my parents to NOT buy me a GBA SP or the game for Christmas; and I knew several others who returned it or didn't buy it. Having Mario screeeeech "HEHE JUST WHAT I NEEDED!!#@" for every mushroom in a tinny ear piercing shrill sample was just painful. Thank god I didn't get this version & have to listen to this version of Toad. I mean - why even have the sound effects if you're going to have a screech over them. I'm kinda surprised by all the comments saying they love the sound effects and terrible additions and worse graphics & music than the SNES... I guess I'm not too surprised; it's what you grew up with & have nostalgia for, I suppose. Good comparison video. No need to include those terrible rom hack "remasters", though.
Oh! I thought you were kidding. It works fine for me. 👉Make sure u are patching the correct rom mentioned. 👉use different emulators, SNES 9x for snes games and Nestopia or Mesen for nes 👉use IPS online patcher or download tool from the same romhacking site.
I don't understand why those remasters exist. They don't look better. The best version is the SNES version, and if I could combine the best parts of any of them, I would be the putting the color palette, screen size and audio of the SNES version into the GBA version. It also kinda baffles me why Nintendo hasn't tried to make a "New Super Mario Bros 2", and go back to this game as the inspiration. Super Mario 3D World has the right sentiment (being able to play the 4 characters with their SMB2 abilities) but that's about all it shares.
Color pallette fix patch is necessary on these older GBA titles, makes a world of difference. I personally use the voice removal patch as well, got way too sick of hearing them through the OG GBA speaker back in the day. Most annoying demo unit in any store, ever.
For which version was the best, i'd go for the SNES one. The remasters are too.... super show-looking and I don't quite like them. For Doki Doki Panic and NES, sure they are good, but Doki Doki panic has irritating noises and NES feels *way* too retro. GBA, you would say it's a good version, but the colors are just like putting the colors on 200% in your GBA emulator, putting it on an acid trip, and washing it with bleach in the washing machine. Aslo, the voices are too much, like every time you do something Mario goes "HAHA! JUST WHAT I NEEDED" and it's quite annoying.
That NES "remaster" is just all kinds of weird. I legit have no idea what they were even going for with it. Like... just doing the game again, but uglier?
I think none of these ones are the version I played a lot of time ago, the version I played had a window up and left that shows diferent game characters with diferent expressions , if it was happy, probably nothing happens, but if it was angry, the character would throw you something big like a Bomb or something else, this happens as least at the ice world, does anyone know the version?
nothing is ever "definitive" There is no "form of the Mario 2" to match perfectly It is art and it can always find more improvement. or "form of the youtube analysis of Mario 2" -- what if newer ROM hacks come out? This is a great approximation of the ideal however. Good game good video.
I like what the GBA version did but the zoomed in screen and washed out colors make it difficult to choose over the SNES version. A hybrid of those 2 would be the ultimate version.
I didn't find the screen crunch to be a problem, and the paler colors actually match the boxart better than the SNES sprites, where everything looks like it's been given a tan.
All these versions are great. I first played the GBA version via emulator in the early 2000’s and my younger sister was watching me play. At one point she asked,”why do they have to make so much noise?” My response was,”what’s wrong? It’s just character voices.” While turning up the volume a little more. 🤣
Love the SNES remaster hack, the characters look like their official original SMB2 artwork. Not fond of the shy guys and Toad seems to be missing a red dot on top of his hat when climbing, else everything seems to look great!
I prefer the original Super Mario Bros 2 or the Super Nintendo remake where the character never talked. In later installment, they never shut up. Sorry... Oh, and of course the remastered one. The new character sprites looks amazing!! Some reason, it heavily reminds me of "Super Mario Bros: Super Show".
Something that annoyed me back in the day was that in the NES and SNES version is that Mario's Overall is not Red and his sweater not blue and Luigi's overall is not Green and his sweater not blue/Purple(personally I prefer purple😉) like in the SMB2-artworks😅 the version at 21:29 is perfection in my eyes😃👍
Those just used to be their actual colour schemes. Mario's profile in one of the Smash games straight up points out that the colours swapped at some point in time.
Oh my god I love that updated SNES Birdo sprite, the way she's movin' her arms looks like she's puttin' up her dukes, like _c'mon, come get some, you wanna piece of this_
@alvallac21 ▪️ Yea technically you're right, but I personally like spelling it "alittle" instead - bc it makes more sense to me personally. So for something like a youtube comment - I will spell stuff RONG. ⬛️
@@2NDFLB Just so you know though, "alittle" isn't even a common misspelling. People commonly misspell "a lot" as "alot" but I literally never see anyone misspell "a little" as "alittle." So if you do it, just know it looks very obviously incorrect in a way that stands out to all readers.
@@mrgoat86 ▪️ Yea I know. I wouldn't do that on something like a job application. I'm not super worried about it on YT comments thou. Imo it SHOULD be spelled "alittle" just because no one in real life SAYS "a little". People say it fast. Kinda like "letter". I would say change that word's spelling to "LEDDER" . ⬛️
Geez! In all these years of the "Did you know Mario 2 was Doki Doki Panic" fatigue, I never once looked into what Doki Doki panic was actually like. I didn't realise it was literally just a frigging sprite swap!
That's because it's not. There are a lot of differences beyond that. The waterfall speed is different, enemy sprites are different, there is no run button, the character sprites are different, the levels have differences in their design, there are additional cutscenes before and after that are different, with a completly different story, the grass animations are different, the powerups have different sprites, and the game is required to be beaten four times with every character completing every level, the RNG on the slots are different, the score value of the end is different, and the continue system is different.
@@the-NightStar your examples included at least 5 instances of sprite swaps, lol. There are a few differences like you mentioned for SMB2, like the added ability to run, no battery backup, and no requirement to beat the game with all characters. Other than that, it’s 99% the same game.
It's a demo. I made a video on it already Super Mario Bros.2 Redrawn|SMB All-Stars|Fan-made|#Mario ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HY-RntHvIHI.html
Wow, I've never seen the GBA version of this game before, it actually looks like it's a lot of fun with all the changes they made. I want to play it now. Has anybody ported it to SNES or another console? I think the only thing that needs changed is the resolution/screen space.
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