Yoshi's Island DS

Yoshi's Island DS is the direct sequel to Yoshi's Island. Instead of having to escort just one baby, Yoshi now has to bring five babies to Bowser's Castle to save the sixth baby and stop Bowser from stealing hundreds of other babies. Despite its cutesy appearance and mishmash of old, new, and MS Paint graphics, the game is unforgiving in difficulty.

Unused Character Coins


Baby Wario and Baby Bowser both have character coin graphics, though they are never used in-game. They lack animation.

Old Title Screens


Graphics for the title screen that use the game's early name, Yoshi's Island 2. The associated title screen background goes unused as well, and bears a striking resemblance to the one from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. It is also a static image and doesn't rotate, unlike the final title screen.



In addition, an even earlier title screen graphic exists in the game. It has no palette data, and reads "It's back: Yoshi's Island".

Build Date
Present in stamp.rc are build dates, in YYMMDD format.

File Select Menu
The Japanese and Korean version display descriptions of what option is highlighted on the file select menu. This isn't the case in all other versions, which display "Choose which file?" regardless of what options are highlighted.

End Boss Music
The final boss music in the English versions is incredibly short, and seems to be missing a second half.

The Japanese and Korean versions fixed this, adding the rest of the song. It feels very badly out of place though.

Extra Fanfare
The Japanese and Korean versions have an extra fanfare in the .sdat folder titled "J22". All other versions only go up to "J21".