 As a hardware experiment, the team ported "Super Mario 3" to the SNES and it felt like the same game to them, despite the improved colours and sprites.After that, Miyamoto realised the team's goal would be to use the new hardware to create something "totally new".Miyamoto said he had wanted Mario to have a dinosaur companion ever since "Super Mario Bros.", but Nintendo engineers could not add such a character into the game due to the limitations of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).