Legitimately Modded by Nintendo

Nintendo needs to come to their senses regarding the existence of ROM Hacks because they used to design ROM Hacks of their own games specially made for certain games. In fact, the Western Super Mario Bros 2 was actually a re-skinned version of Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic. Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic never left Japan because Western audiences would be unfamiliar with the main playable characters, so they decided to replace them with Mario characters instead. It was also believed that the Japanese Super Mario Bros 2 a.k.a. Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels would be treated as an example of lazy game design, not to mention that it was harder than Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic as well as its Mario-themed re-skin, Super Mario USA because Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels was the game that introduced us to the Poison Mushroom, which would shrink Mario or Luigi, or make them lose a life when small.

To commemorate the 25th Anniversary of Super Mario Bros, Nintendo created a modified version of Super Mario Bros exclusive to Super Mario Bros 25th Anniversary Edition Wii consoles where the question marks on the Question Blocks are replaced with the number 25. Super Mario 3D World had a Mario Bros ROM Hack called Luigi Bros where both players 1 and 2 are Luigi, except the color scheme of the player 1 Luigi is based on modern Luigi. NES Remix 2 included a ROM Hack of Super Mario Bros called "Super Luigi Bros" where the side-scrolling goes from right to left instead of the familiar left to right. Ultimate NES Remix had Speed Mario Bros, which is basically a faster speed version of Super Mario Bros. Other ROM Hacks that are not included in this comic included a "Complete Edition" NES port of Donkey Kong, which included the cement tub level that was cut from the official NES version, making it look like what the NES version of the arcade original should have been, and Dr Wario, a Dr Mario ROM Hack included in WarioWare Inc.: Mega Microgame$! based on the NES version of Dr Mario but with Wario and redesigned viruses. This modified game and the Wii U game Dr Luigi paved the way for the mobile game Dr Mario World, where Dr Luigi and Dr Wario are playable characters.

But then again, Nintendo does not want so-called counterfeiters to create rip-offs of even their legitimate ROM Hacks, if the revelation about Super Mario Bros 35 undergoing beta testing at the time of the unofficial Super Mario Battle Royale's release was anything. Perhaps intellectual property protection regulations forbid the creation of rip-offs of legitimate ROM Hacks that the legal copyright owners designed in the first place.

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