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

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Super Mario World-Style 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.

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

map-small-bak.SCR 02 July 1992

May 1992

May 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

June 1992

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.

June 4 Map

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

June 9 Map

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

June Map Objects

A cute bouncing egg.

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

July 1992

Mid-July 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

Tilesets for a "big" overworld. There seemingly would have been a "big" and "small" overworld.

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

July Map Objects

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.OBJ 13 July 1992 16:09

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-2.OBJ 13 July 1992 16:09

A magnifying glass, possibly used when switching between the small map and big map.

map-lens.OBJ 17 July 1992 18:06

August 1992

August 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

August Map Objects

map-OBJ.CGX 03 August 1992 10:40

May 1994

May 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

Unsorted

MAP-kaiten-parts.cgx

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.

color-kumo-OBJ.CGX

A palette test animation for the water and clouds.

map-kaiten-test.CGX

A test graphic for the mountains seen on the world map.

kaiten-parts-new.CGX

Early versions of the title screen objects.