Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 is pretty much exactly like Super Mario Bros. 3, except that now there are now four bars in your closet to store items. Its great because its for the Game Boy Advance.
Another cool feature is that if you have an E-Reader, you can scan Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 e-cards to get new suits, items, levels, and switches that modify the engine etc.
e-Reader features[ | ]
The Mario Advance 4-e cards were planned to come in 4 series, but 3 and 4 were canceled before ever being printed, due to the poor sales of 1 and 2. Cards could be scanned into an e-Reader that was linked up with Mario Advance 4 and download levels, power-ups, switches and demo movies. Levels could be played from a unique world and a certain number of them could be saved. There were trophies of Mario items that could be found in these worlds, as well as rare red coins that could be accumulated to unlock new content. However, due to the premature termination of the series, one could not unlock all the features even with every red coin from every available level. The power-up cards would put things like Tanooki Suits, Super Mushrooms and P-Wings in the player's inventory. Many levels contained unique gameplay devices; one even let Mario attack with a boomerang like Link! Switch cards could be swiped to alter the game engine (i.e. one puts radishes in regular stages). Demo cards contained movies that controlled Mario in certain levels. When swiped, they could be used to watch superplays or show how to access secret locations in the game.
Mario Advance 4-e Series 1[ | ]
- (Special) Orange Switch (Enemies turn into coins when hit with fireballs)
- (Demo) World 1-1 Speed Stage
- (Demo) World 1-2 Unlimited 1-Ups
- (Demo) World 2-2 Toad's Hidden House
- (Demo) World 5-5 Toad's Hidden House
- (Demo) World 7-2 Toad's Hidden House
- (Power-up) 04 Frog Suit
- (Power-up) 06 Hammer Suit
- (Power-up) 08 P-Wing
- (Power-up) 11 3 Super Leaves
- (Power-up) 12 5 Starmen
- (Power-up) 15 8-Item Set (Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, Super Leaf, Starman, P-Wing, Frog Suit, Hammer Suit and Tanooki Suit)
- (Power-up) 17 5-Up Mushroom
- (Level) M02 Slidin' the Slopes
- (Level) M04 Doors o' Plenty
- (Level) M06 Magical Note Blocks
- (Level) M08 Piped Full of Plants
- (Level) S01 Classic World 1-1
Mario Advance 4-e Series 2[ | ]
- (Special) Blue Green Switch (Adds vegetables from Super Mario Bros. 2 to all the worlds in Super Mario Bros. 3)
- (Demo) World 3-2 Star Power
- (Demo) World 3-4 Unlimited 1-Ups
- (Demo) World 3-8 Toad's Hidden House
- (Demo) World 4-2 Toad's Hidden House
- (Demo) World 6-7 Toad's Hidden House
- (Power-up) 05 Tanooki Suit
- (Power-up) 07 Starman
- (Power-up) 09 Cape
- (Power-up) 10 3 Fire Flowers
- (Power-up) 13 4-Item Set (Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, Super Leaf, and Starman)
- (Power-up) 14 3-Suit Set (Frog Suit, Tanooki Suit and Hammer Suit)
- (Power-up) 16 10-Up Mushroom
- (Level) M03 Vegetable Volley
- (Level) M05 Bombarded by Bob-ombs
- (Level) M07 The 'ol Switcheroo
- (Level) M09 Swinging Bars of Doom
- (Level) M10 Para Beetle Challenge
Mario Advance 4-e Promo[ | ]
These are promotional e-cards that came with the game. Cards marked with an asterisk only came in the Wal-Mart version of the game.
- (Demo) World 4-6 Unlimited 1-ups *
- (Power-up) 01 Super Mushroom *
- (Power-up) 02 Fire Flower *
- (Power-up) 03 Super Leaf
- (Power-up) 18 1-Up Mushroom *
- (Level) M01 Wild Ride in the Sky
- (Level) PR Airship's Revenge *