Mario & Luigi: Dream Team

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
Also known as: Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros. (EU/AU), Mario & Luigi RPG 4: Dream Adventure (JP) Developer: AlphaDream Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo 3DS Released in JP: July 18, 2013 Released in US: August 11, 2013 Released in EU: July 12, 2013 Released in AU: July 13, 2013 Released in KR: January 16, 2014 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material. This game has revisional differences.

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team is the fourth installment in the Mario & Luigi RPG series, featuring an evil dream vampire, a narcoleptic Luigi, and quite a few pillows.

To do: Regional differences. Title screens are the only ones that come to mind, but there may be more. There appears to be developer text in DAT/BAI files and https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/lighthouse_of_yoshi/hexadecimals-t618.html and https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/lighthouse_of_yoshi/sprite-research-t621.html seem interesting... A E3-Like demo was found, make a prototype page for it.

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Development Text This game has a LOT of developer text left in its files.

Internal Project Name

The game is internally refered to as REDSPARK, fitting with the other Mario games.

Unused Bros Attacks

A few Bros Attacks were planned to return from previous entries in the series, but were cut for unknown reasons.

Ice Flower

Very incomplete and likely scrapped early on. The item itself () is the only thing related to the Ice Flower, with the other Bros sprites on this sheet being unedited copies of other regular battle sprites, such as Mario and Luigi running toward and away from the camera. Oddly, most of these sprites are related to flying.

(Source: Ploaj, Teawater (The Spriters Resource))

Yoo Who Cannon

The sprites for the Yoo Who Cannon are noticeably more complete than the Ice Flower's, with it only really lacking the necessary sprites for the cannons, which are barely edited from the ones used in Bowser's Inside Story.

(Source: Ploaj, Teawater (The Spriters Resource))

Jump Helmet

The sprites for the Jump Helmet are largely complete, and the attack was even changed to make use of the new foreground-to-background battle mechanic. The reason this attack was removed is unclear, but it may have been because the attack relied on both the Top and Touch Screens, similar to Bros Attacks in the previous games, while Dream Team only uses the Top Screen in battles.

	Mario bouncing on the Jump Helmet with Good timing.
	Luigi waving after Mario successfully lands the attack.
	Luigi freaking out after Mario presumably misses the Jump Helmet.
	Luigi running to catch up with Mario after bouncing him forward.
	Same as above, except Luigi is adjusting his path to stay under Mario.
	Luigi bouncing Mario up into the air.

(Source: Ploaj, Teawater (The Spriters Resource))

Unused Sprites

Antasma

An unused animation for Antasma, which looks like the death animation used after defeating him at the end of the game, with the exception that he is in his humanoid form in said animation, and not his bat form as seen here.

(Source: Ploaj, Teawater (The Spriters Resource))

Dreamy Bowser

Early	Final

Dreamy Bowser has two unused identical sprites showing an early design for the boss. The most notable difference is that instead of the Dream Stone on his stomach and forehead, a spiral is present instead.

Orb

A crude drawing of an orb with a strange palette, presumably a placeholder or test graphic.

Jigsaw Puzzle

Two test images for the jigsaw puzzles. The first one is the official artwork from Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. The final jigsaw images all feature horizontal borders, as opposed to the test image's vertical borders.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Bowser's Inside Story Leftovers

Various sprites from the previous Mario & Luigi title are present in the files of Dream Team.

Shroobs

The Shroobs never make an appearance in Dream Team outside of a cameo on a photo in Kylie Koopa's office in Wakeport.

Blitties

While Broque Monsieur, Broque Madame, and Broggy reappear in Dream Team, the Blitties sadly don't (which is strange seeing how the Brock species was officially revealed in this game).

Goombule

May have been used as a reference during the creation of new enemy sprites.

Mario

May have been used as a reference during the creation of new Mario sprites.

Luigi

May have been used as a reference during the creation of new Luigi sprites.

Revisional Differences

Version 1.1

A downloadable update released on September 3, 2013. Along with adding a "Version 1.1" graphic to the top-left of the title screen, this update fixed several major bugs:

• In one segment of the first Mount Pajamaja tour, the Mario Bros. would have to spin jump into the Massif Bros. to clear fields of icicles obstructing their path. A major oversight in the original release was that if the player were to take certain actions during this point, they would inadvertently prevent themselves from progressing by leaving the required path obstructed.
• In the original release, the game had a tendency to freeze repeatedly at inconvenient times, especially in Somnom Woods and Neo Bowser Castle.
• In the original release, playtime on a file continued to be counted while the 3DS was closed or the game was suspended. v1.1 only counts playtime while the game is actively playing.
• In the original release, a bug was present that prevented Mario from defeating Antasma in Neo Bowser Castle. After his defeat, Antasma leaves behind a "rare drop" present; in v1.0, there was a chance that this present would never open, forcing the player to reset.
• In the original release, when fighting Antasma X in the Battle Ring, the game had a chance of freezing when Dreamy Luigi is freed from an Antasmunchie X.

Oddities

Battle Ring

When exiting the Battle Ring, shortly after Dreambert disappears, the bottom screen briefly flickers and Starlow's twinkle sound can be heard. It's likely just the game trying to play the cutscene which plays after defeating Grobot X for the first time in order to obtain the Zeekeeper's Feathers, before promptly stopping it after realizing that they already were collected and that there's no need to redo the cutscene, so the action stops midway, causing the screen flash and twinkle sound effect.

Glitched Frame

One of the frames used in Bowser Jr's Hammer attack is "glitched". The fact that it's an in-between frame may explain why it wasn't noticed during playtesting.

Debug Menu?

To do: Figure out how to load this, read https://pastebin.com/raw/ihppufKH for more info and strings.

The base game of the final US version of the game has a file called BootMenu.cro in the RO directory, there appears to be many debugging functions.