I was at the Thrift Store a few days ago, and I found another NES. I have like 8 of them now. Not all of them are still in one piece though. For $8.50 it was a good deal, especially since it had a copy of SMB3 in it.

So today I did what I do with every copy of SMB3 that I have ever had. I played it until I beat the World 2 Koopaling and got the letter from Peach. The picture above is what I was greeted with. This is the first copy of SMB3 that I have gotten that has "Kuribo's Shoe" instead of "Goomba's Shoe" in the letter. The reason why there is this difference is because when Nintendo was localizing the game for NA, they mis-translated Goomba into the English spelling of the Japanese word Kuribo, wich is what Goombas are called in Japan. Later versions corrected this.

I have been on a hunt for this version for some time, and am glad that I finally found it.

On a side note, I have always been convinced that the letter that Peach gives you at the end of World 2 should have been given after World 4 instead, as Kuribo's Shoe appears in Level 5-3 (it's only appearance in the entire game), and if I remember correctly the one after World 4 seems like it should have been given after World 2.

Oh well. I'll stop rambling now...