Can anyone confirm this odd Super Mario All-Stars quirk happens in Collection and All-Stars + World?

[andyanajonseph]

Now I'm not asking for a fix, I just want confirmation if it can happen in other versions...

There was an odd thing that happened with my standalone US copy where no matter what, the control type would always be B. I've seen other claims of this happening to other people, with one happening in All-Stars + World, but nothing about it happening in Collection.

 

[Gorse]

Just to be clear: Your copy was a legitimate, first-party cartridge playing on legitimate, first-party hardware, right? If so, it might just be damage to an actual part of the cartridge itself that's causing the issue.

All-Stars was kind of notorious for being buggy back in the day (just ask anyone on TMK! ) – apparently, the + World version even moreso, because they essentially didn't do any bug testing on it – so I wouldn't be surprised if this is a slight glitch that's present across multiple versions. Every version of the game I've ever played has let you choose between both Type A and Type B controls without issue.

 

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Super Mario All-Stars n Ninja Gaiden [OG] Trilogy n Mega Man: The Wily Wars... the 16-bit remaster-squad xD

 

[Raziya The Seeker]

All-Stars was kind of notorious for being buggy back in the day (just ask anyone on TMK! )

Dude, I'll say! I was validated one day browsing The Cutting Room Floor, and finding a glitch that my copy had in my childhood. Well, my mom's copy until I was old enough to play. Copy-pasting from TCRF...

And as for how a legit copy without a cheating device could do this by itself?

If I had to guess, Mom must've bought the Super NES with the free coupon for All-Stars, and thus had one of these earlier copies with the debug bug. To address OP's plight, it wouldn't surprise me if their copy of the game had a less-useful bug in it, and that Nintendo would've fixed it for the modern rerelease.

 

[andyanajonseph]

Dude, I'll say! I was validated one day browsing The Cutting Room Floor, and finding a glitch that my copy had in my childhood. Well, my mom's copy until I was old enough to play. Copy-pasting from TCRF...

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And as for how a legit copy without a cheating device could do this by itself?

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If I had to guess, Mom must've bought the Super NES with the free coupon for All-Stars, and thus had one of these earlier copies with the debug bug. To address OP's plight, it wouldn't surprise me if their copy of the game had a less-useful bug in it, and that Nintendo would've fixed it for the modern rerelease.

Huh interesting... I never knew about its debug mode. I assume that's what causes the locked type B controls?

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Just to be clear: Your copy was a legitimate, first-party cartridge playing on legitimate, first-party hardware, right? If so, it might just be damage to an actual part of the cartridge itself that's causing the issue.

All-Stars was kind of notorious for being buggy back in the day (just ask anyone on TMK! ) – apparently, the + World version even moreso, because they essentially didn't do any bug testing on it – so I wouldn't be surprised if this is a slight glitch that's present across multiple versions. Every version of the game I've ever played has let you choose between both Type A and Type B controls without issue.

Yes it's a legit copy on original hardware.

Also fr? Huh I'd be surprised if so since All-Stars + World came out after. ig I could ask TMK about it.

 

[Ikagura]

I knew about All-Star but I forgot that they made a + World version.

Is this an end of life game? Because it's literally the entire mainline Mario series predating 64 there.

 

[Gorse]

Is this an end of life game?

Not exactly end-of-life, but in the SNES’s waning years. The + World version came out in December 1994, so well before the last batch of first-party games, but all the big hitters had come and gone.

All Stars + World would have been a great game to have in the time before emulators, but past the year 2000 or so it really showed its age. You really want the original versions of SMB1 and Lost Levels, the GBA version of 3 with the e-reader levels unlocked, and the base version of World that’s less buggy.

The version of SMB2 USA on it is the definitive one, though, so if you can get the game cheap it’s definitely worth it for just that. It would have been nice to have a full version of the arcade Mario Bros. on it, too, but that’s what the GBA games are for.