Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

The time warping, Shroob-stomping entry in the M&L series; it's also the first one on the DS.

Debug Menu


Using the Action Replay code, you can access a debug menu. Hold Select + A while loading your save.

Functions
The menu will allow you to warp to some levels and cutscenes in the game.

KUBOTA
Refers to Hiroyuki Kubota, the Game Design Director and person in charge of scenarios. The options are meant to send you forward to different points in the game storyline. Specifically, the moment after a key event occurs.

Note that "warps you to Peach's Castle" will take you to the castle as it appears after the event described in the message (e.g., "YostaIsland Clear" warps you into a castle in which Yoshi Island, Bowser Castle, and Toadwood Forest are unlocked with E. Gadd waiting for you). However, it will not work if the selected event has already occurred (i.e., you can't view the opening sequence of Peach's Castle on a completed save).


 * 0 - No message, warps you to Toadwood Forest (Mario and Luigi).
 * 1 - "E3 KinopuMori" ("E3 Toadwood Forest"). Crashes the game (deleted level?)
 * 2 - "E3, Enerougi-Koujyou" ("E3, Vim Factory"). Crashes the game (deleted level?).
 * 3 - "E3, YastaIsland" ("E3, Yoshi's Island"). Crashes the game (deleted level?).
 * 4 - "Opening Event taoreru KINO-JI syuuryou ato" ("Opening Event after Toadsworth collapses"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 5 - "Refresh Kinoko nyuushu ato" ("After receiving the Refreshroom"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 6 - "Gedonko Monster toujou ato" ("After Gedonko Monster appears"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 7 - "nakaniwa TimeHole kara kako he itta ato" ("After going through the Time Hole in the courtyard to the past"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 8 - "1-kaime no Oyama tono kaowa Monster hannou event ato" ("After the first conversation with E. Gadd and the Monster reaction event"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 9 - "KINO-JI to YoungKINO-JI ga deau event ato" ("After the event where Toadsworth and Young Toadsworth happen to meet"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 10 - "KinopuMori clear ato" ("After clearing Toadwood Forest"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 11 - "2-Kaime no Oyama tono kaiwa shiro ni TimeHole ga shutsugen ato" ("After the second conversation with E. Gadd and a Time Hole appears in the castle"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 12 - "SpinJump tutorial ato" ("After the SpinJump tutorial") Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 13 - "YostaIsland clear" ("Yoshi's Island clear") Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 14 - "3-kaime no Oyama tono kaiwa Kinokkuru no e wo mita ato" ("After the third conversation with E. Gadd and seeing Toadbert's picture"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 15 - "BrotherBall tutorial ato" ("After the BrotherBall tutorial"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 16 - "Nokomity clear ato" ("After clearing the Koopaseum"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 17 - "Peach heya de Peach event kao ni Kinoko ga...ato" ("After the event in Peach's room where Peach's face is a mushroom..."). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 18 - "Petanko tutorial shuryo ato" ("After the conclusion of the Petanko tutorial"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 19 - "BabyPeach kyushutsu syuuryou ato" ("After rescuing Baby Peach"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 20 - "Koopa toujou shindou shuuryou ato" ("After finishing Koopa's introduction"). Warps you to the 2nd floor of Peach's Castle.
 * 21 - "Koopa toujou event subete shuuryou ato" ("After all of Koopa's introduction event"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 22 - "KinokoTown clear ato" ("After clearing Toad Town"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 23 - "StarShinden clear ato" ("After clearing Star Shrine"). Warps you to Peach's Castle.
 * 24 - "KoopaShiro clear ato nakaniwa kara" ("After clearing Koopa Castle from the courtyard"). Warps you to Peach's Castle, into the Bowser's Castle Time Hole room, crashes the game.
 * 25 - "Zarazara Sabaku start" ("Gritzy Desert start"; "zarazara" is onomatopoeia for the scratchy sound of sand). Warps you onto the Gritzy Desert.
 * 26 - "Zarazara Sabaku start" ("Gritzy Desert start"). Warps you onto the Star Shrine near the Star Gate. Moving out of the initial position will trigger a cutscene.
 * 27 - "Zarazara Sabaku start" ("Gritzy Desert start"). Warps you onto the Star Shrine after the Star Gate.
 * 28 - "KinokoTown clear ato" ("After clearing Toad Town"). Warps you into the Sewers with Toad Town unlocked.

Values past 28 make the "Incorrect!" sound.

KOBAYASHI
Refers to Field Designer Shunsuke Kobayashi. These options mainly involve the first two chapters.


 * 0 - "KurisMura sonchou no ie" (OTONA) ("House of the head of Hollijolli Village" (ADULT)). Warps you into the Hollijolli Village inside Major's house.
 * 1 - "KameJet deai mae (BABY)" ("Before encountering the Koopa Cruiser"(BABY)). Warps you onto the Koopa Cruiser.
 * 2 - "KameJet chakuchi (BABY)" ("Koopa Cruiser landing" (BABY)). Warps you into the Hollijolli Village Koopa Cruiser landing site.
 * 3 - "KameJet deai ato (ONBU)" ("After encountering the Koopa Cruiser" (CARRIED)). Warps you right into the adults rescued cutscene on the Koopa Cruiser.
 * 4 - "Gessy nomikomare toki (ONBU)" ("When Yoob gulps you down" (CARRIED)). Warps you onto Yoshi Island Mountain top.
 * 5 - "Gessy no onaka WanWanIwa touka ato (BABY)" ("In Yoob's stomach after passing over(?) the Pocket Chomp" (BABY)). Warps you into Yoob Insides.
 * 6 - "Gessy clear ato mata tainai ni hairu event" ("Event after clearing Yoob already having gone inside"). Warps you into the Yoshi Island Mountain top battle room
 * 7 - "Gessy clear ato Yoshi no mura" ("Yoshi Village after clearing Yoob"). Warps you to Yoshi Village.
 * 8 - "Gessy clear ato Yoshi no mura" ("Yoshi Village after clearing Yoob"). Warps you to the Yoshi Village. The Toadbert-memory-recover cutscene plays. After it finishes, you're sent to Toad Town.
 * 9 - "Gessy clear ato Yoshi no mura" ("Yoshi Village after clearing Yoob"). Warps you into the cutscene after you beat the final boss. Then the game crashes.
 * 10 - "Gessy clear ato Yoshi no mura" ("Yoshi Village after clearing Yoob"). Warps you into the cutscene where Bowser gets possessed.

Values past 10 make the "Incorrect!" sound.

FUJIOKA
Refers to Chihiro Fujioka, another Field Designer. Room names are given in the format "XX Y-Z", where XX is the place name, Y is the area number (single map screen is one area), and Z is the room number. So, Yosta 2-3 will bring you to Yoshi Island, Area 2, Room 3.


 * 0 - No message, warps you to the debug room (see the debug room section).
 * 1 - "Yosta 2-3" ("Yoshi Island 2-3").
 * 2 - "Yosta 1-2" ("Yoshi Island 1-2").
 * 3 - "Yosta 2-2" ("Yoshi Island 2-2").
 * 4 - "Koujou 1-1" ("Factory 1-1"). Warps you to Vim Factory.
 * 5 - "TestMAP Test 1". A hammer sound is played, you're brought into the test map between two NPC Toads (see Debug Map section).
 * 6 - No message, warps you into the test room, right into the battle (see the Debug Map section).
 * 7 - "DossunSoto 2-5" ("Thwomp exterior 2-5"). Warps you to Thwomp Volcano.
 * 8/9 - "incorrect!" sound.
 * 10 - "Shop, Menu Test". Warps you into the Test Map with a NPC Toad in the top. See the Debug Map section for more details.

Everything higher plays the "Incorrect!" sound.

MAKEAWA
Refers to Production Manager Yoshihiko Maekawa. It is unknown what this menu may have been for.


 * 0/1 - Gives you no message and brings you into a frozen tutorial screen in Bowser's Castle (where Stuffwell teaches you how to move in a group of 4).
 * 2 onward - Begins to send you somewhere, then plays an "Incorrect!" sound. You can still select an option, but the screen is black.

GOTOU
Refers to the third Field Designer, Daisuke Goto.


 * 0 - "Incorrect!" sound (also 3 onward).
 * 1 - "Yosta 2-3".
 * 2 - "Yosta 1-2".

Coin Edit
Pressing X or Y will increase your coin total by 1. If you hold B and then press X/Y, it will increase by 10.

Debug Room
To access the Debug Room, select 0 in the Fuijoka section of the Debug Menu.

The debug map is a small room with Yoshi Island tiles. You start in the upper corner of the room as Mario and Luigi. Right next to you is a Dark Boo. Touching it makes you go into a battle with two Shrooblets. Down below are two slopes and a staircase (probably for testing these types of terrain). On the left, there's an NPC Toad with graphics taken from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Next to him is a round 4-player platform. Next to it is a red elevator platform with a heart symbol over it. To the right, there's a Pipe Block. A bit down, there's a baby trampoline.

Talking to the Toad crashes the game. Stepping on the blue 4-platform brings you into the upper section where you can explore a bit with the babies. This room is much smaller and consists entirely of two pushed-in switches, a MLSS Toad (crashes), and a Dark Boo fight (two Shrooblets again).

Hitting the Pipe Block will make the babies come over to the bros. Jumping with the babies on the 2-player trampoline will crash the game. Pressing X/Y and then A/B will take you back to the save spot.

TestMAP Test 1 (Fujioka Value 5)
A hammer sound is played, and you're warped to the debug room as Mario and Luigi. You're standing between two Toads from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.

If you talk to the upper Toad, the screen will scroll and an arrow made out of Yoshi Eggs will spawn on the right. The Yoshi egg graphics are used, but the behaviour is not: if you touch them, they will make a little hop and a hammer sound. The second toad does nothing. The 4-bro platform is gone, as is the trampoline.

Shop, Menu Test (Fujioka Value 10)
You appear in the debug room as Mario and Luigi next to a Toad. Talking to him reveals a menu. (Note that in the localized versions, everything is a "_" due to missing Japanese characters.)

On the first screen the menu options are:
 * 1) Full Party
 * 2) Mario only
 * 3) Adults only
 * 4) Babies only
 * 5) Quit

Selecting any of the options besides Quit reveals a second screen:
 * 1) Suitcase (brings you to the suitcase screen with the party you selected on the first screen)
 * 2) Item Shop
 * 3) Badge Shop
 * 4) Back

Selecting either shop brings you to the Shop Select Screen:
 * 1) Peach Castle Shop
 * 2) Monty Mole Shop
 * 3) Toad Town Shop
 * 4) Back

Selecting anything besides Back brings you to another screen:
 * 1) Select items you want to buy screen
 * 2) Standard items buy/Badges buy screen
 * 3) Back

Superstar Saga Music
One of the music tracks in the game is the ending sequence from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, under the name MUS_SEQ_OLD_END. It even has an entire separate instrument bank dedicated to it, named WAVE_MUS_ML.

Scoot Bloop
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One of the 15 screenshots released by Nintendo during E3 2005 shows the quartet battling two Bloopers in Vim Factory. The would-be land-dwelling Blooper did appear in the final version, but the name "Scoot Bloop" appears in the ROM grouped with enemies in Yoshi's Island.

The enemy actually exists in the final game, with graphics and an incomplete battle script. It has similar stats to enemies inside Yoob, and has two attacks: one where it bashes into one of the Bros. and moves to the top left corner of the screen, and one where it approaches one of the Bros. and just stops, requiring you to restart the game. Both attacks are supposed to be countered by jumping.

Shrowser
While not technically unused, the fight with the final boss is done in a way which renders its listed name unused. In addition, it was translated for the French, German, Italian and Spanish versions, and also exists in the Japanese version.

Whomp
A Whomp NPC of some kind. It has sprites for walking in all four directions, but they are pretty awkward. The apparent size and thickness of its body fluctuate between frames in an attempt to keep them reasonably sized. The best place it would have fit would be Thwomp Volcano.

Shopping
Both 1-Up Mushrooms cost 20 more Coins in the U.S. version. The price before Stache discount for the 1-Up Mushroom is 40 Coins in the Japanese version and 60 Coins in the U.S. version.

The 1-Up Super's price before Stache discount is 100 Coins in the Japanese version and 120 Coins in the U.S. version.

"Fawful's Bean 'n' Badge" is known as "Gerakowitz Salon" ("Fawful Salon") in the Japanese version.

Dialog
One not-so-subtle change is seen when meeting the Hammer Bros. in Vim Factory. To help show that they are not their normal selves, their Japanese text is entirely in katakana. In the U.S. version, the Hammer Bros. talk in L33tspeak.

Bowser and Baby Bowser Battle
Baby Bowser will sometimes use mushrooms to heal himself or Bowser. In the Japanese version, they restore 60 HP. In the U.S. version, they restore 100 HP.

Elder Shrooboid Battle
In his second phase, Elder Shrooboid brings out a UFO that deals instant death when its countdown timer reaches zero. You may recall in the U.S. version that the UFO starts on the right side of the top screen and switches sides every turn. To reset the UFO's timer, the babies must hammer the spiked balls thrown by Elder Shrooboid into the UFO. It's a little tricky, because Baby Mario hammers the ball up and to the right, whereas Baby Luigi sends it straight up. Hitting the UFO is a little easier in the Japanese version, where the UFO stays in the upper-right corner, and both babies hammer the spiked ball up and to the right.

Shroobsworth
One of Shroobsworth's attacks consists of him and Intern Shroob throwing a purple meteor. The meteor flies through the air faster in the U.S. version.

Princess Shroob Victory
In the U.S. version, when the player defeats the first Princess Shroob, the victory screen appears showing that no experience points or Coins are awarded. In the Japanese version, the battle screen immediately fades out to the field after the death animation.

Automatic Attacks
Bowser, Elder Shrooboid, and the elder Princess Shroob have "automatic attacks" in the Japanese version. When the player attacks the enemy, a "!" appears over the enemy's head, who will then attack back despite whose turn it is. Bowser's automatic attack is his fire breath, Elder Shrooboid's is his rotating spiked ball, and Princess Shroob's attack is her body ram.

Audio Changes

 * In the U.S. version, when the Shroob Missile impacts the Koopa Cruiser, the transmission screen on board shows Princess Shroob laughing before it goes to snow, but with no audible laughter. In the Japanese version, we hear her laughter.


 * The scene where E. Gadd's memory changes has different background music in each version.


 * The Japanese game plays the "Piggyback" sound effect when the baby gets back on the adult after a successful piggyback jump attack in battle.


 * Ominous background music plays during the scene with elder Princess Shroob. The Japanese game starts the music when the elder Princess Shroob appears, but in the U.S. version, the music starts right before the battle begins (after Stuffwell's lines).


 * After the staff roll, the Japanese version plays a slow music box tune, but the U.S. version goes silent. The sound data for this music is not even present in the U.S. ROM, so it was probably added in the time between the U.S. release and Japanese release.


 * The "Got Key Item" theme plays when Baby Luigi picks up the Princess Shroob mushroom in the Japanese version, and after the Babies retrieve Baby Princess Peach.