Super Mario Advance 4’s e-Reader stages live on in Super Mario Maker

When a game’s online servers shut down (or the entire Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection) we lose some great content in games, not to mention any multiplayer action.

But what if Nintendo locked content away on cards, cards that needed to be scanned through a reader plugged into a Game Boy Advance? Well in the early 2000s that’s just what Nintendo did.

In Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 there were 30 brilliantly designed Super Mario levels locked behind physical ‘DLC’. This ‘World-E’ which contained the stages was only unlockable using the systems e-Reader accessory and by scanning Super Mario Advance 4 e-Reader cards. Many people who played Super Mario Advance 4 probably never even knew they were there.

Now, in a world where Super Mario Maker exist someone just went along and made them! You can play them right now, no cards to scan – just 16 digit codes to enter.

Not all of the stages are there, Super Mario Maker is missing three of the required items to replicate them and of course you can’t make vertical stages so they’re not there either.

• E-1 Wild Ride in the Sky: 2B4B 0000 007B 5343
• E-3 Bomb Volley: FE1E 0000 007B 53BC
• E-4 Pipes O’Plenty: F5F3 0000 007B 546E
• E-5 Bombarded by Bob-Ombs: 1209 0000 007B 559D
• E-6 Magical Note Blocks: 4388 0000 007B 5682
• E-7 The Ol’ Switcheroo: 8F1F 0000 007B C071
• E-8 Piped Full of Piranhas: 6078 0000 007B E3D8
• E-9 Swinging Bars of Doom: 7742 0000 007D F093
• E-10 Para Beetle Challenge: 656C 0000 007E 1CC9
• E-11 Magical Note Blocks 2: B3DB 0000 0080 4E1C
• E-12 Airship 1: 660E 0000 0081 0A27
• E-13 Chill Cavern: A8C9 0000 0081 33FA
• E-16 Castle a Go-Go: BC9E 0000 0082 FFF5
• E-17 Frappe Snowland: 3245 0000 0083 25D7
• E-18 Frozen Fortress: A403 0000 0084 0A35
• E-19 Brick Maze: 2967 0000 0085 E914
• E-21 60 Seconds: 3A6B 0000 0087 5003
• E-22 Ropeland: 81A6 0000 0087 E28E
• E-24 Clear Skies: B111 0000 0084 2101
• E-25 Koopahari Cavern: 637A 0000 008A CB63
• E-26 Aqua Bars of Doom: 3305 0000 008B 706A
• E-27 The Gauntlet: EF71 0000 008C BC39
• E-28 Hammer Bro. Ship: 240D 0000 008E C639
• E-29 Bowser’s Airship – Part 1: 1E56 0000 008F 0485
• E-30 Bowser’s Airship – Part 2: FFD8 0000 008F 9487

If you’re keen to see how these stages looked before there were Maker’d heres a reference video.

Source: Eurogamer