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Leo_A
08-26-2015, 07:30 PM
Am I missing any here?

Clu Clu Land: Welcome to New Clu Clu Land (FDS/GCN/Wii/3DS/Wii U) - The last release for the disk system is a home conversion of Vs. Clu Clu Land from the arcades. It includes additional levels, new level themes, and at least one new enemy. Is an unlockable in Animal Crossing for the GameCube, labeled as Clu Clu Land D. Has yet to see a Virtual Console rerelease in North America or PAL regions.

Donkey Kong: Original Edition (Wii & 3DS) - This is a modern modification of the original NES version, which reinstates the missing cement factory stage and some intermission animations that were originally absent. Has been available digitally in various ways on the 3DS and the Wii. In North America, a download code for the 3DS Virtual Console was sent to users who purchased one of five select 3DS titles on the Nintendo eShop and registered it on Club Nintendo from October 1, 2012 to January 6, 2013. So far, that's its only appearance in North America.

Ice Climber (FDS) - A 1988 conversion of Vs. Ice Climber for the Famicom Disk System. Vs. Ice Climber includes a number of changes such as expanding the number of levels, extra music, the addition of some new mechanics like strong gusts of wind, the inclusion of a new enemy, and level select functionality . The FDS conversion removes the difficulty settings and changes some graphical details to be closer to the original Famicom release.

Kaettekita Mario Bros. (FDS) - This 1988 title was released in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System. It improves upon the Famicom original in various ways, adds a new mode, and incorporates advertisements between levels for various Mario games and the game's sponsor, Japanese food company Nagatanien.

Mario Bros. Classic (NES) - This 1993 PAL release enhanced the original NES title along the lines of the changes that happened to the original game mode in Kaettekita Mario Bros., such as adding intermissions to bring the game closer to the arcade original. No advertisements though and the additional Nagatanien World game mode isn't present.

Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES/Wii/3DS/Wii U) - This 1988 NES release was based on the Japanese Famicom title, Doki Doki Panic. Many graphical changes were undertaken in its conversion into Super Mario Bros. 2 for Western regions. Major changes beyond the graphical makeover include the elimination of the requirement that each level must be completed by each of the four playable characters and the addition of Mario's traditional running ability.

Vs. Excitebike (FDS & Wii U) - A 1988 FDS conversion of the arcade title of the same time, which will be releasing to the Wii U Virtual Console in North America soon. It included additional tracks, adds new music, features a new versus mode, and thanks to the rewritable disk format, player created tracks could be saved.

Sadly, much of Nintendo's Vs. lineup from the arcade has never been brought home to the NES/Famicom despite it usually not only being different, but arguably, also enhanced over the original NES/Famicom releases. And since Nintendo ignores their arcade lineup for the Virtual Console, the Vs. exclusives continue to be absent despite running on what's essentially NES hardware.

Also, I'm not including variations here that aren't enhanced beyond some cosmetic modifications (The 25th anniversary version of SMB that PAL Wii's came with for a while thus doesn't count, for instance). I'm also not including titles like Super Luigi Bros. from NES Remix 2 or Super Mario All-Stars, since it's not NES code and can't be played on this hardware.

bb_hood
08-26-2015, 07:39 PM
There is a hack for the nes DK which includes the pie factory stage.

SparTonberry
08-26-2015, 09:16 PM
Clu Clu Land D was released on 3DS VC in Japan. I've got it.

Gamevet
08-26-2015, 10:39 PM
Metroid - Metroid: Zero Mission on the GBA is an enhanced version of the game, with improved visuals, added cut-scenes and improved sound.

FieryReign
08-27-2015, 12:24 AM
Kid Icarus on 3ds. Added background graphics and 3d effects but was pretty much the same game from what I could tell.

Emperor Megas
08-27-2015, 01:00 AM
There is a hack for the nes DK which includes the pie factory stage.

I guess we weren't the only ones who called it 'the pie factory' after all. Is that the 'official' name for the stage, or is it just something a lot of people call it? I mean, I always assumed the 'pies' were actually bins full of cement.

bb_hood
08-27-2015, 01:12 AM
I guess we weren't the only ones who called it 'the pie factory' after all. Is that the 'official' name for the stage, or is it just something a lot of people call it? I mean, I always assumed the 'pies' were actually bins full of cement.

The pie factory stage is also in the commodore 64 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoM0vGVqtDc

I dont know if thats the name Nintendo gave it, but I always thought they looked like pies. Now that you mention it, pies dont make sense at all. Pie factory just sounds better than 'cement bin stage' or 'industrial building compound stage'

Leo_A
08-27-2015, 01:37 AM
If anyone is curious what led to this question, Vs. Excitebike coming to the Wii U got me to wondering what other similar possibilities there are that could follow in its footsteps.


There is a hack for the nes DK which includes the pie factory stage.

Already have this one covered. :)


Clu Clu Land D was released on 3DS VC in Japan. I've got it.

Thanks, I'll add it to my list.

Edit: Looks like all three Virtual Console platforms in Japan have this. Hopefully it joins Vs. Excitebike in coming West.


Metroid - Metroid: Zero Mission on the GBA is an enhanced version of the game, with improved visuals, added cut-scenes and improved sound.

Kid Icarus on 3ds. Added background graphics and 3d effects but was pretty much the same game from what I could tell.

Not NES code any longer.

My post could've been clearer, but I'm looking for stuff that was subsequently rereleased again with improvements on Nintendo's 8 bit platform or emulated on a modern console (And thus could be extracted and ran on the genuine deal).


Also not including titles like Super Luigi Bros. from NES Remix 2 or Super Mario All-Stars, since it's not NES code and can't be played on this hardware.

I'm also not including graphical hacks that are for all intents and purposes, unchanged in any meaningful way. So no deals like this one below.

http://www.vooks.net/images/mario25thspec.jpg

Tanooki
08-27-2015, 10:25 AM
I guess then Super Mario Bros Deluxe on GBC wouldn't apply as that was reconstructed and not emulating the old game.

The GBA NES Classics though, all of them are emulated games and they have that L+R button pop up menu which allows to save scores, sleep the game, and link up for 2P when applies.

SparTonberry
08-27-2015, 11:48 AM
Kid Icarus on 3ds. Added background graphics and 3d effects but was pretty much the same game from what I could tell.

The other difference is that the port was based on the FDS version, so it includes the saving and extra sound channel (as I soon as I first saw the game and I hear the title music I recognized it was definitely the FDS' FM chip music).

What I don't know, is if it's been confirmed if the Nintendo 3D Classics are emulation-based or not. I know Sega had revealed that, at least their Genesis remakes, are emulation-based with the 3D stuff added on top (extra IO ports to the hardware memory map?). Though I guess that wouldn't mean the OP's definition if adding that 3D resulted in changes to the original game's coding and thus the base ROM for the program would no function on an original Genesis.

celerystalker
08-27-2015, 12:50 PM
All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. for FDS wasn't released anywhere else as far as I know. It was another promotional version of the game with character sprites replaced with personalities from a popular comedy radio act.

SparTonberry
08-27-2015, 01:11 PM
I'd say that fits with SMB 25th Anniversary as "graphics hack without meaningful improvement".

Leo_A
08-27-2015, 01:19 PM
The GBA NES Classics though, all of them are emulated games and they have that L+R button pop up menu which allows to save scores, sleep the game, and link up for 2P when applies.

No NES code is modified though. These are all functions of the emulator.

Guntz
08-27-2015, 03:36 PM
You guys do know Super Mario All-Stars (SNES) is directly based on the NES code of each game, right? The final game may for the most part be SNES code, the SNES's 65816 CPU has backwards compatibility for the NES's 2A03 (aka 6502) CPU and early SNES games were often written in 6502 code due to how the SNES hardware changed so much during development.

Leo_A
08-27-2015, 07:18 PM
Yeah, it's interesting what various hobbyists have discovered with Super Mario All-Stars through the years.

Surprised nobody has mentioned Super Luigi Bros. Edit: Perhaps because I already said that it doesn't qualify, lol.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J88x08QZTGo

As best as I can tell though, this is a recreation built from the ground up using the NES Remix engine.

While there's still some flicker, I believe it to only be simulated. All slowdown, such as when Bowser gains the ability to throw hammers, seems to be eradicated. And there's no evidence of it running in the standard Wii U NES emulator, like Luigi Bros. clearly does in Super Mario 3D World for an example (Not included here since it's purely a cosmetic modification).

I don't own Ultimate NES Remix, but suspect that this also applies to the double speed version of Super Mario Brothers which is that version's extra. Even if it's not, it's obviously then just the emulator running it at twice the speed rather than any noteworthy editing to the original NES code going on.

Brianvgplayer
09-04-2015, 06:41 PM
Ice Climber on FDS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpC0V_G-mc4) is also based on the Vs. version, which I heard has some extra levels. The odd thing is that it has the Yeti like the US version instead of the seals.

Leo_A
09-04-2015, 07:26 PM
Thanks, I added it. :)

Hopefully it too follows Vs. Excitebike by heading to the Virtual Console one of these days.

And I suppose that we should include the Western release of Super Mario Bros. 2.

Brianvgplayer
09-04-2015, 07:35 PM
Actually, I'm not completely sure if the Vs. version has extra levels, but the FDS one definitely has the title screen, extra music, and level select from the Vs. version.

Edit: I found a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjMhgu4tPQo) with a list of differences.

Leo_A
09-04-2015, 07:40 PM
The number of mountains was increased, according to Wikipedia.

I've added that it has extra music and a level select feature.

Brianvgplayer
09-28-2015, 03:10 PM
While it doesn't count since it only has one NES version, Wrecking Crew was one of the few Vs. titles that came before the NES version and was updated for the NES version. The Vs. version is a more simplistic single screen game, while the levels on NES scroll vertically and are more puzzle oriented. The NES version also adds music.

Niku-Sama
09-28-2015, 06:54 PM
All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. for FDS wasn't released anywhere else as far as I know. It was another promotional version of the game with character sprites replaced with personalities from a popular comedy radio act.

^^^ this! ^^^

Falls under the same category as Kaettekita Mario