How to get Super Mario Bros. on Animal crossing (GC)? Please help

[4kboromir]

Hello everyone, I made an account on this forum just to ask this as im dying to play it.. long story short, i had to sell my ps3 and im trying to get as much enjoyment out of my gamecube as i can. i love animal crossing but i cant figure out how to get the super mario bros game. i saw a reference to AR (action replay) and if thats what it takes ill buy it. i just want a solid confirmation before i splurge for a $20 acccessory.

thanks in advance if anyone can help, love the cube!!

[BetaWolf47]

Besides that, you need a certain e-Reader card from a booster pack that was only available on Nintendo's website for a certain period of time.

[Leo_A]

At one time at the very least, you could easily buy a small memory card wth an Animal Crossing save with every NES game unlocked on Ebay for $10 or so. I remember considering it a few times but ultimately never bothered to buy one or Animal Crossing.

Wouldn't do you much good getting the games unlocked on your own save, but it would allow you to access to all the NES games included on it just by swapping memory cards. Some of which it's my understanding were inaccessible by any legitimate means (Zelda I believe was at least one such example).

[4kboromir]

Besides that, you need a certain e-Reader card from a booster pack that was only available on Nintendo's website for a certain period of time.

are you SURE about the e-reader? ive never read about that being necessary but id be really bummed if i cant get this game

[Leo_A]

Just look it up in a search engine. There's tons of list out there telling you the methods of getting each of the games.

For Super Mario Brothers, there was never an official way of getting it. So you either buy and use an Action Replay or Game Shark to unlock it, acquire a memory card with a save with it already unlocked on it, or transfer a save with it unlocked to a memory card yourself.

[kupomogli]

The method I used was starting a new game with a specific name. With this name you could input a code to get each game, then visit that town and trade the games to your character or gift them or whatever. I don't remember exactly. But yeah. Look it up but that's the only way you can do it with the rare games.

[Leo_A]

You couldn't of gotten Super Mario Brothers in that manner.

[4kboromir]

Just look it up in a search engine. There's tons of list out there telling you the methods of getting each of the games.

For Super Mario Brothers, there was never an official way of getting it. So you either buy and use an Action Replay or Game Shark to unlock it, acquire a memory card with a save with it already unlocked on it, or transfer a save with it unlocked to a memory card yourself.

well ive tried the generic search engine results, and as expected results are all varying. ive asked here on this forum and on one other (no response there yet) and i just want to make sure and verify that I can in fact get the super mario bros with just an Action Replay. If you can guarentee me thats all I need ill hop to it, as ive already scoped out a few on amazon.

and btw, thanks a lot for taking time out to answer me, its a huge help! cheers

[Querjek]

I used to fill towns with golden trees with my action replay. The eBay market was pretty good for NES game saves. I had a lot of the cards at one point but none of them gave me SMB. Have you found a master item code list by any chance?

[Ryudo]

Gameshark

Seriously it works

[BetaWolf47]

Just look it up in a search engine. There's tons of list out there telling you the methods of getting each of the games.

For Super Mario Brothers, there was never an official way of getting it. So you either buy and use an Action Replay or Game Shark to unlock it, acquire a memory card with a save with it already unlocked on it, or transfer a save with it unlocked to a memory card yourself.
I was mistaken, it seems. It was Punch-Out! that was accessible. For the longest time, there were 5 games that the community called the "Forbidden Five", which included Mario Bros., Ice Climber, Punch-Out!, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend of Zelda. Ice Climber and Mario Bros. were eventually obtainable through e-reader, and Punch-Out! was accessible from a giveaway. Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda are still inaccessible legitimately.

[kupomogli]

Looks like Mario and Zelda are unobtainable unless you use an Action Replay or code disc.

http://www.animalcrossingcommunity.com/Topic/4294811/1/


You couldn't of gotten Super Mario Brothers in that manner.

I was just pointing out the games that I got and thought it was as simple as doing what I did to do the same. When you realize that the game isn't any good except for NES games you can play on a console you already own or emulation, you quit playing, eventually forget all about it, and play other better and more deserving games.

[4kboromir]

Looks like Mario and Zelda are unobtainable unless you use an Action Replay or code disc.

http://www.animalcrossingcommunity.com/Topic/4294811/1/

wow good find! thats what i figured, but as u can see here everyone has heard different stories. lol thanks everyone for the input, looks like i gotta hunt down an Action Replay now!!

[Jorpho]

I could have sworn we had a thread about this once. I found these:
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?17359-Animal-Crossing-CODE-FOR-PUNCH-OUT-FOUND
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?39193-Animal-Crossing-Legend-of-Zelda-cheat-code-and-more!

At least the Action Replay is still readily available:
http://us.codejunkies.com/Departments/gcn.aspx

If I'm not mistaken, the SD Media Launcher also functions as an AR.

[4kboromir]

I could have sworn we had a thread about this once. I found these:
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?17359-Animal-Crossing-CODE-FOR-PUNCH-OUT-FOUND
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?39193-Animal-Crossing-Legend-of-Zelda-cheat-code-and-more!

At least the Action Replay is still readily available:
http://us.codejunkies.com/Departments/gcn.aspx

If I'm not mistaken, the SD Media Launcher also functions as an AR.

thanks,yeah i read those too and nothing set in stone about SUPER mario bros. anyways, one last time so im sure, buying action replay will get me the game?

and thanks a lot jorph and everyone else, ill give +1 rep or w/e here for all the help ive been really impressed with the response for an old game and console

[Nz17]

Just a crazy question here, but why not buy an NES with Super Mario Bros.? It would be so much simpler. Even more-so, if you don't want to hook up an NES to your TV, get a GBA with the NES Classic re-release of SMB and play that way.

[treismac]

Just a crazy question here, but why not buy an NES with Super Mario Bros.?

I get the appeal of having a newer generation Nintendo game that contains within its world classic NES games, and I own several Nintendo Entertainment Systems in my world with damn near all of the first-party games. It's a shame, though, that Animal Crossing doesn't hold enough appeal for me to consider entering its world.

[Jorpho]

get a GBA with the NES Classic re-release of SMB and play that way.Seems a lot of people don't care for that one. Isn't the resolution a bit mussed?

[4kboromir]

hey does it matter which AR i get? i know everyone says the "for wii version sucks" but honestly im probably just gonna be using it for animal crossing not really tinkering too hard with other games, so it should work correct?

[InsaneDavid]

The best solution was an Animal Crossing code disc that was more or less a stripped down Action Replay "Action Replay Ultimate Codes: Animal Crossing" that was only designed for Animal Crossing. We had one of those and it unlocked everything, including all the NES games.

[4kboromir]

The best solution was an Animal Crossing code disc that was more or less a stripped down Action Replay "Action Replay Ultimate Codes: Animal Crossing" that was only designed for Animal Crossing. We had one of those and it unlocked everything, including all the NES games.

ohh! i saw one of those but i had no idea what it was used for, but that makes perfect sense actually.. ill have to see if i can get my hands on one

[JSoup]

The best solution was an Animal Crossing code disc that was more or less a stripped down Action Replay "Action Replay Ultimate Codes: Animal Crossing" that was only designed for Animal Crossing. We had one of those and it unlocked everything, including all the NES games.

Came in to say exactly that. I picked the disk up for $5 at a Target when the game was active. Used to be a guy floating around the net who would generate a bunch of the items with the disk, then hand them out to people via the trading system.

[Jorpho]

hey does it matter which AR i get? i know everyone says the "for wii version sucks" but honestly im probably just gonna be using it for animal crossing not really tinkering too hard with other games, so it should work correct?Y'know, the SD Media Launcher lets you run GC games from other regions and GC bootlegs with no modding required (provided you can find mini DVD-Rs). Might be a handy thing to have.

[4kboromir]

Came in to say exactly that. I picked the disk up for $5 at a Target when the game was active. Used to be a guy floating around the net who would generate a bunch of the items with the disk, then hand them out to people via the trading system.

did some research on this, heard some complaints about it messing up a memory card. but i only plan on using the codes to get all the NES games not unlimited bells, all that other crazy s*** so i should be ok right? you guys had no problems?

[InsaneDavid]

did some research on this, heard some complaints about it messing up a memory card. but i only plan on using the codes to get all the NES games not unlimited bells, all that other crazy s*** so i should be ok right? you guys had no problems?

Since I was pretty far along with the game when I got the disc, I used the small memory card that came with Animal Crossing to make a transfer town. (Hyrule with Link as the player, so it would play nice with the Project Hyrule code system) I would use the disc with that town, create the items I wanted and then drop them outside. Then I would take the train from my "regular" town, pick up the items, and take the train back. I never ran into any problems but again, I only used the disc to create items in a dummy town and then went and retrieved them from my real game.

[4kboromir]

Since I was pretty far along with the game when I got the disc, I used the small memory card that came with Animal Crossing to make a transfer town. (Hyrule with Link as the player, so it would play nice with the Project Hyrule code system) I would use the disc with that town, create the items I wanted and then drop them outside. Then I would take the train from my "regular" town, pick up the items, and take the train back. I never ran into any problems but again, I only used the disc to create items in a dummy town and then went and retrieved them from my real game.

gotcha, thats smart i think im gonna do that. everyone heres been really helpful, thanks a ton guys. wish me luck!!

[JSoup]

did some research on this, heard some complaints about it messing up a memory card. but i only plan on using the codes to get all the NES games not unlimited bells, all that other crazy s*** so i should be ok right? you guys had no problems?

Really? I don't think I ever had a problem with the memory card. Granted, I only used the disk once and loaded in all the items I wanted then and there.

[4kboromir]

Really? I don't think I ever had a problem with the memory card. Granted, I only used the disk once and loaded in all the items I wanted then and there.

yea those were what some people said on amazon, but im sure they were tinkering extremely with the disk and ill try and be much safer lol