Super Mario Advance

Super Mario Advance is an enhanced remake of Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Game Boy Advance, released as a launch title in 2001. The game was developed by Nintendo R&D2, and is based on the Super Nintendo remake of Super Mario Bros. 2 included in the Super Nintendo compilation game, Super Mario All-Stars.

Super Mario Advance introduces several new features, such as:

Multiplayer mode available when up to four Game Boy Advances are connected with a Link Cable.
The addition of Robirdo, a robotic Birdo acting as the boss of World 3.
The addition of the Yoshi's Challenge (in which players may revisit stages to search for Yoshi eggs).
A point-scoring system
Graphical and audio enhancements were added in the form of enlarged sprites, multiple hit combos, digital voice acting, and such minor stylistic and aesthetic changes as an altered default health-meter level, boss-order, backgrounds, the size of hearts, Princess Toadstool being renamed to the now-standard "Princess Peach," and the inclusion of a chime to announce starmen, were also added.

Super Mario Advance also includes an enhanced remake of Mario Bros., which has updated audiovisuals and Mushroom Kingdom-based enemies replacing the generic creatures of the original (Spinys taking the place of Shellcreepers, for example); this game would be included in all three subsequent Super Mario Advance titles and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.

Super Mario Advance was a best-seller, and it became one of the Game Boy Advance's first three Player's Choice games (along with Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3).

See the New features page for differences between Super Mario Advance and earlier versions of Super Mario Bros. 2.