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In Super Mario Advance 4, certain e-Reader cards exist that provide additional effects to gameplay, mostly to make the game easier by giving Mario or Luigi power-ups. However, there is also a number of effects that go unused since the corresponding cards were never printed. They can still be accessed by modifying the game’s code.
Here is one of them: a platform that saves Mario after falling into a bottomless pit. The first time Mario falls, he is rescued by a two-block platform. The second time, the platform is only one block wide. The third time, Mario is not rescued and dies as usual.
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In preparation for the 2003 release of Super Mario Advance 4, which was advertised with a commercial featuring people with Mario heads (bottom), Nintendo of America organized a campaign in New York that mimicked the commercial with actors wearing masks of Mario and other characters (top).
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Unused “Self-Replenishing Item Box” switch e-Card effect in Super Mario Advance 4. Scanning this unreleased e-Card would make a Super Mario World-style item box appear on the top of the screen. Whenever Mario and Luigi lose a power-up, the item box dispenses the power-up it currently displays and is automatically refilled with another power-up chosen at random; the power-ups include even the rare Frog Suit, Tanooki Suit and Hammer Suit.
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Obscure powers of the suits in Super Mario Bros. 3 (seen here in the Super Mario Advance 4 version): defeating Boos with the Hammer Suit and defeating Roto-Discs with the Tanooki Suit.
In all versions of Super Mario Bros. 3, you can perform a kind of “double jump” with Kuribo’s Shoe by simply walking off a ledge and pressing the jump button in midair.
A Hammer Bro. gets a taste of his own medicine in Super Mario Advance 4.
Dancing map elements from Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3.
From an e-reader exclusive level in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3.
