Sweet baby Ray, this is right up my alley! And I don’t mean some run-down crack den back alley. Rather, an upscale rich neighborhood alley that is paved, free of trash, and well maintained. I always thought that Super Mario Bros. 3 especially, as long as it is and as far along in the NES’s lifespan as it was, should have had a way to save progress. Even a password system would have been nice. I found an SRAM patch for SMB3 a while back and, while it was ok, didn’t have multiple slots so if you started a new game you’d lose your progress from before. This patch has 4 (four!) save slots for each of its four (4!) games. That’s 16 save slots in total! Are you excited yet? I AM! Sure, in this day and age you can just save state in your emulator and pick up later… but different emulators use different state formats, so this patch let’s you keep a good old fashioned save file compatible with whatever you decide to play it on. The overall presentation is great. The title screen looks snazzy and the parade of characters was a nice touch. Once you’re playing one of the games, just press start to pause the game and it will bring up the save menu. So if, like me, you like the idea of Super Mario All Stars but generally prefer to play games in their original form, give this a whirl!