I think the original looks more clean but... meh. Hard to get details like shadows right at this scale. Everything is now in the gallery 
The idea is good but using it as a forum badge will be a serious legal issue unless you can get a copyright licence from Nintendo. A pacman-look-alike yellow thing can be a good replacement though.
(Doubt it, it's impossible to alter a yellow circle with a 45° slice
)Read this:
they must be copyright-free.