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'''''Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars''''' is a [[Genre#Role-playing|role playing video game]] designed by [[Square Enix|Square]] (currently [[Square Enix]]) and released for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] in 1996. It was the first ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' role-playing game, with an action-command battle system. In this game, [[Mario]], with the help of [[Mallow]], [[Geno]], [[Bowser]], and [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], needs to stop a new enemy, the [[Smithy Gang]], while collecting seven [[Star Piece (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars)|Star Pieces]] so that peace may return and [[wish]]es may be granted once more.  
'''''Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars''''' (also called '''''Super Mario RPG: Secret of the Seven Stars'''''<ref>''Nintendo Power Magazine'' #83, page 8.</ref>) is a [[Genre#Role-playing|role playing video game]] designed by [[Square Enix|Square]] (currently [[Square Enix]]) and released for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] in 1996. It was the first ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' role-playing game, with an action-command battle system. In this game, [[Mario]], with the help of [[Mallow]], [[Geno]], [[Bowser]], and [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], needs to stop a new enemy, the [[Smithy Gang]], while collecting seven [[Star Piece (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars)|Star Pieces]] so that peace may return and [[wish]]es may be granted once more.  


''Super Mario RPG''{{'}}s success was limited due to the release of the [[Nintendo 64]] and ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' four months later that year. It was one of the last games in Square's original deal with Nintendo, and the final ''Mario'' game on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was re-released on the [[Wii]]'s [[Virtual Console#Wii|Virtual Console]] in Japan on June 24, 2008,<ref>[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/vc_smr/index.html Super Mario RPG's Virtual Console page], accessed 2008-06-02.</ref> in the PAL region on August 22, and in North America on September 1, 2008. The game was also re-released for the [[Wii U]]'s [[Virtual Console#Wii U|Virtual Console]] in Japan in August 2015, in Europe and Australia in December 2015, and in North America in June 2016. In Europe, the game is treated as an import game, meaning that only the 60Hz mode is supported, and there has been no further localization. The game costs 800 Wii Points in North America and Japan, and 900 points in other regions. ''Super Mario RPG'' is also one of the 21 titles included on the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System#Super NES Classic Edition|Super NES Classic Edition]].
''Super Mario RPG''{{'}}s success was limited due to the release of the [[Nintendo 64]] and ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' four months later that year. It was one of the last games in Square's original deal with Nintendo, and the final ''Mario'' game on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was re-released on the [[Wii]]'s [[Virtual Console#Wii|Virtual Console]] in Japan on June 24, 2008,<ref>[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/vc_smr/index.html Super Mario RPG's Virtual Console page], accessed 2008-06-02.</ref> in the PAL region on August 22, and in North America on September 1, 2008. The game was also re-released for the [[Wii U]]'s [[Virtual Console#Wii U|Virtual Console]] in Japan in August 2015, in Europe and Australia in December 2015, and in North America in June 2016. In Europe, the game is treated as an import game, meaning that only the 60Hz mode is supported, and there has been no further localization. The game costs 800 Wii Points in North America and Japan, and 900 points in other regions. ''Super Mario RPG'' is also one of the 21 titles included on the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System#Super NES Classic Edition|Super NES Classic Edition]].
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*The Save Block's letter S's appears in serif format in the official artwork, but in the game has the letter S's in sans-serif format.
*The Save Block's letter S's appears in serif format in the official artwork, but in the game has the letter S's in sans-serif format.
*This is the first ''Mario'' game with some Toads being identified as females prior to recurring ones like [[Toadette]] who was later introduced in ''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'' in 2003.
*This is the first ''Mario'' game with some Toads being identified as females prior to recurring ones like [[Toadette]] who was later introduced in ''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'' in 2003.
*In Issue #83 of Nintendo Power, the game's title is written as ''Super Mario RPG: Secret of the Seven Stars''.<ref>''Nintendo Power Magazine'' #83, page 8.</ref>


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