This is a sub-page of Development:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

1992

Originally, the rotating map of Yoshi's Island that appears on the title screen served as the world map from which Yoshi would access the game's levels. What's more, there was to be a small and big version of this map, the latter being a zoomed-in version of the former, presumably toggled between by using the lens. All maps categorized as "small" appear to be iterations on each other, as do all maps categorized as "big".

Early Super Mario World Map

This early Mushroom Kingdom map, which seems to have been created in 1989, was originally found in Super Mario World gigaleak files. However, the Yoshi's Island files have several unique versions of it. The file dates vary, making it difficult to classify.

SMW Small Map

map-small-bak.SCR 02 July 1992

SMW Big Map

map-big.SCR 26 May 1992

map-big-0-BAK.SCR 21 July 1992	map-big-1.SCR 26 May 1992

map-big-2.SCR 24 June 1992	map-big-3-bak.SCR 02 July 1992

1992-05

1992-05 Map Objects

Multiple animations of Yoshi traversing the overworld, including some animations of Yoshi eating something.

map-OBJ.OBJ 27 May 1992 18:23	map-OBJ-1.OBJ 27 May 1992 18:23

map-OBJ-bero-0.OBJ 27 May 1992 20:12	map-OBJ-bero-1.OBJ 27 May 1992 20:08

1992-06

Tilesets for a "small" overworld map, similar to Super Mario World's. They are very similar to the early overworld graphics found in Super Mario World's leaked source files.

1992-06-04 Small Map

map-BG-small-new.CGX 04 June 1992 15:14	map-new.MAP 04 June 1992

1992-06-09 Small Map

map-BG-small-mono.CGX 11 June 1992 10:55	map-mono.MAP 09 June 1992

1992-06 Map Objects

A cute bouncing egg.

map-OBJ-egg.OBJ 16 June 1992 14:46

1992-07

1992-07 Small Map

Assembled versions of the tileset seen in map-BG-small-pop, with and without reused tiles. The island design was used in the final game for the title screen.

map-BG-small-pop.CGX 02 July 1992 17:17	map-BG-small.CGX 17 July 1992 14:20

map-BG-small-pop-bara.CGX 02 July 1992 13:26	map-BG-small-pop-sanple.CGX 02 July 1992 17:17

The differences between the .SCR incarnation of the overworld and the .CGX incarnation are barely discernable, but they include having an extra cloud and fewer mushroom-shaped islands on the right.

map-BG-small-pop-sanple.CGX 02 July 1992 17:17	map-small.SCR 15 July 1992

1992-07 Big Map

map-zone-0.CGX 29 July 1992 15:03

map-zone-0.MAP 29 July 1992

A tileset for an even more zoomed-in version of the "big" map above.

map-BG-big-pop.CGX 02 July 1992 17:01

1992-07 Location Names

Early world map location names that align perfectly with the features seen in the July map. "Dragon" and "Mountains" are misspelled as "Dolagon" and "Mowntains".

map-obj-sanple.OBJ 13 July 1992 16:09

1992-07 Map Objects

A magnifying glass, likely used when switching between the big and small versions of the map. It seems that little code remains to indicate what it would have done. However, ツール\ctools\lens.c relates to it.

map-lens.OBJ 17 July 1992 18:06

Objects for the overworld map(s). Multiple sizes of Yoshi's sprites are present, possibly meant to be used depending on the size of the map. The medium-sized Yoshi sprites are used in the final game during the castle destruction scenes.

map-OBJ-teki.CGX 16 July 1992 13:25	map-OBJ-BAK.CGX 28 July 1992 14:15

map-obj-sanple-2.OBJ 13 July 1992 16:09

map-player-new.OBJ 30 July 1992

1992-08

1992-08 Big Map

The first iteration of this map is from very late in July, but it's included in this section due to its similarity to the August map, and because it represents a marked shift in style from the earlier July maps.

map-zone-0.CGX 29 July 1992 15:03	map-BG-big.CGX 06 August 1992 10:37

map-zone-0.MAP 29 July 1992	map-big-0.SCR 08 August 1992

1992-08 Map Objects

map-OBJ.CGX 03 August 1992 10:40

1992-11

1992-11 Map Background

NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_11\hino\yoshi\color-kumo-OBJ.CGX contains a palette test for the water and clouds. "Kumo" means "cloud".

color-kumo-OBJ.CGX 18 November 1992

This can be combined with an animation file.

color-kumo-OBJ.OBJ 20 November 1992

1993

1993-05

1993-05 Map Objects

NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_11\hino\yoshi\map-kaiten-test.CGX contains graphics for the mountains seen on the world map.

map-kaiten-test.CGX 11 May 1993

1993-05 Location Names

日本_Ver0\sfc\back_up\ys_rpro.asm.BAK1 contains two placeholder course names:

NMDT000		EQU	$
		WORD	KZ_1,00000H,KZ_4,00000H
		WORD	H_MU,H_KO,H_UU,H_NO,H_HO,H_UU,H_NO,H_MO,H_RI
;
NMDT001		EQU	$
		WORD	KZ_3,00000H,KZ_2,00000H
		WORD	H_II,H_WA,H_WA,H_KI,H_SA,H_NN,H_TA,DKTN,H_YO

These become the following:

Japanese	Translation
1 4 むこうのほうのもり	1 4 The Forest Over There
3 2 いわわきさんだよ	3 2 It's Mr. Iwawaki

(Toshio Iwawaki is credited as a programmer on the game.)

These were meant to be displayed on a scroll on the world map. Code for the scroll can be found in the same file under the label MKMNDT. Hino's art files have some graphics and an animation for the first course name, though the world and stage characters are a little messed up. This may be because the CGX (1994-06-08, though this date seems to have replaced the file's original last-modified-by date, as it appears on quite a number of assets) and OBJ (1993-05-21) aren't from exactly the same point in development.

MAP-moji-test.OBJ 21 May 1993

1993-06

1993-06 Map Objects

NEWS\テープリストア\NEWS_11\hino\yoshi\map-kaiten-parts-new.CGX contains early versions of the title screen objects.

map-kaiten-parts-new.CGX 07 June 1993

1993-08

1993-08 Logos

The file below contains some early ideas and designs for the game's title. It uses the same type of lettering as the Japanese Super Mario World logo and predates both the Super Mario Bros. 5 prefix seen in the December 1994 prototypes and the Super Mario World 2 prefix the final game uses.

ROGO.CGX 19 August, 1993

A second file, which shares the same date, contains still more logo ideas:

To do:
There's also Japanese text reading ヨッシーズ・アイランド　仮 (Yoshi's Island - Temporary), which differs from the final Japanese title (Yoshi Island) in this file. Upload it too.

ROGO-2.CGX 19 August, 1993

The first one could be a Jurassic Park reference, as the movie came out in June 1993.

As for the second, third, and fourth, "Yossy" is an alternate romanization of Yoshi's Japanese name, ヨッシー, which could also be written "Yosshii" or "Yossii". (All of these variations are pronounced the same.) This spelling is closer to the Kunrei-shiki system, which was the official Japanese system of romanization, instead of the Hepburn system most commonly used by foreigners.

The second, thicker Yossy's Island logo was used several months later in an undumped prototype dated November 18, 1994.

1993-09

1993-09 Location Names

Judging by the date on the .SCR file below, the concept of displaying names of levels, first evidenced in May 1993, was still alive and well in September.

As before, the world and stage characters are a little messed up. This is likely because the CGX (1994-06-08, though this date seems to have replaced the file's original last-modified-by date, as it appears on quite a number of assets) and SCR (1993-09-30) aren't from exactly the same point in development.

MAP-bg3-moji.SCR 30 September 1993

1993-11

1993-11 Map Objects

A top view of the title screen objects. The "中" on one mountain means "medium", and the "小" on the mountain means "small". These were used by the editor for the main overworld Mode 7 map.

MAP-kaiten-parts.cgx 1 November 1993

1994

1994-05

1994-05-13 Map

MAP-m7.CGX 13 May 1994	MAP-M7-test.SCR 13 May 1994
File:Yoshi's Island Dev-MAP-m7 CGX.png

MAP-m7.CGX 13 May 1994	MAP-M7-BAK.SCR 13 May 1994
File:Yoshi's Island Dev-MAP-m7 CGX.png

Map Object Comparison

This article is a work in progress.
...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

map-kaiten-test.CGX 11 May 1993	MAP-kaiten-parts.cgx 1 November 1993	MAP-ebit-parts.CGX	map-kaiten-parts-new.CGX 07 June 1993	map-kaiten-parts-new.CGX	ystool.hex Proto December (?), 1993	BAK-chr/90-97.CGX

Development:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/World Map

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