Over the past couple of weeks, Nintendo has been publishing new interviews about some of its classic games in celebration of the NES Classic Edition. A couple of these have started to receive official English translations, but one is still untouched: Super Mario Bros. 3. Since it was incredibly fascinating and arguably the most interesting interview out of the bunch thus far, we went ahead and produced our own translation.

Directors Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka participated in the interview, along with composer Koji Kondo. During the conversation, they opened up about how the game was originally planned with an overhead perspective, spoke about the different power-ups including Tanooki Suit’s origins, and touched on the music. Miyamoto also cleared up where the idea for Small Mario came from in the first Super Mario Bros.

Continue on below to read our translation in full.

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A new month is here! We’ve just entered November, so that means we want to know what you’ve been playing. Have you started up something entirely new for the month? Or maybe you’re continuing something you started a little while back? Whatever the case, let us know in the comments below!

Highlights from last week’s topic: Pokemon Sun, Pokemon Moon, or both

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The development of Sonic Heroes took its toll on director Takashi Iizuka, who is also the head of Sonic Team. Iizuka spoke to Game Informer this month about how difficult it was to create, even labeling it as the most stressful project of his career.

Iizuka was located in the United States as Sonic Heroes was being created. Meanwhile, the rest of the team was based in Japan. Mismanagement was also a major issue.

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Earlier today, Emily Rogers tweeted out some unconfirmed tidbits about the new Mario title for Switch. Nintendo showed a few seconds from the game during its announcement of the system last month.

According to Rogers, the project is “practically finished.” With that in mind, she believes it could be a launch title as opposed to Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The latter game could still make Switch’s launch window, though Mario “was much further along in development than anyone thinks.”

Here’s a roundup of Rogers’ tweets:

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On Thursday, Mario’s Super Picross made it out on the European 3DS eShop as a New 3DS Virtual Console title. Take a look at some gameplay below.

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Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers is out now in Europe, and it’s coming early next week in North America. 15 minutes of footage can be watched below.

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Earlier today, Nintendo of America hosted a special 3DS Girls Gaming event at Lightbox in New York. Actress Laura Marano was on hand, and games including Mario Party: Star Rush, Super Mario Maker for 3DS, and Pokemon Sun/Moon were promoted. Find some photos and their relevant descriptions below.

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In this photo provided by Nintendo of America, fans gather at Lightbox in New York to see Laura Marano, actress and recording artist, to celebrate girls in gaming. Fans played games such as Mario Party: Star Rush on Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo inspires girls to play the way they want, whether they consider themselves adventurers, creators, heroes or athletes.

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Nintendo has said relatively little about what’s powering Switch. We know that NVIDIA is packing in a custom Tegra processor, but other than that, the big N has kept quiet. We only have rumors to go on such as the possibility of 4 GB of RAM being included.

At least one third-party developer appears to be pleased with what Nintendo is bringing to the table. Image & Form, developer of the SteamWorld series, told one fan on Twitter that Nintendo isn’t “skimping on power”. When asked further, the studio said that’s compared to previous home consoles.

Image & Form wrote:

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One of the usual live streams for the Fire Emblem 0 trading card game was held earlier today. Cards from series 7 and 8 were shown, but in addition, series 9 was announced.

Not much is known about Fire Emblem 0 series 9 thus far. We know that the Hasha no Tsurugi manga will be featured on the cards cards, along with two unspecified games from the series. It’s planned for release sometime in 2017.

Hit up the source link below for a look at some previews of series 7 and 8.

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Natsume has shared another official Harvest Moon: Skytree Village video, this time showing the terraforming feature. View it below.

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