Development:Mario's Early Years: Fun With Letters (SNES)

This page details development materials of Mario's Early Years: Fun With Letters (SNES).

This page or section details content from the July 2020 Nintendo Leak. Check the July 2020 Nintendo Leak category for more pages also sourced from this material.

To do: There's a few sprites with Peach, but her palette is unknown.

Various sprites were present among the 2020 leaks, and can be found in NEWS_09\home\nogami\renshu\mario.cgx. Most are attributed to the Complete the Sentence game.

What makes these particularly interesting is that the game was developed in the United States, suggesting that the sprites were created by Nintendo and sent to The Software Toolworks for reference.

Early Sprites

Complete the Sentence

Early	Final

Luigi in the background of the first room was recolored.

Early	Final

Mario in the background of the second room was recolored, and his hand was cut out for him to hold a magnifying glass.

Early	Final

Mario running was recolored. A version with an alternate face was made but not used.

Early	Final

Yoshi feeding the cat was recolored, and for some reason the bowl was emptied. And Yoshi's mouth is colored blue instead of red for some reason.

Early	Final

Yoshi sitting on a stool was replaced with Bowser sitting on a bug.

Early	Final

Luigi grabbing Bowser by the tail was recolored and Luigi's hat was slightly redrawn.

Luigi wearing a hat, based on a sprite from the PC version.

The PC version has two different hat-related sprites used for two different sections in Complete the Sentence. The final SNES version uses a single hat sprite for both sections, probably for consistency.

Alphabet Room

Early	Final

Mario with the wrench was recolored and used in the illustration for the letter M.

Unknown

Luigi getting stung by a bee.