Mario & Wario

Mario & Wario
Also known as: Mario to Wario Developer: Game Freak Publisher: Nintendo Platform: SNES Released in JP: August 27, 1993 This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has a hidden level select.

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Mario & Wario is that game with Mario and a bucket. It was planned to be released outside of Japan, getting box art and a Nintendo Power preview, but was probably cancelled due to the poor sales of the SNES Mouse games that weren't Mario Paint.

The bucket (which also appeared in Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3) later made a cameo in Kirby Super Star as a Great Cave Offensive treasure, while Game Freak included a reference to the game in Pokémon Red and Blue (which likely went over most English-speaking players' heads).

Unused Title Screen

Graphics and a tilemap exist for a Japanese-language title screen (which matches the one seen on the game's box art) that goes unused. To see this in-game, change the bytes at B9A8 to 76 AE 10 00 96 AB 10 00 and the bytes at BA24 to D2 AF 12 00 C2 A1 12 00.

(Source: vervalkon)

Debug Mode

Pro Action Replay (PAR) code 7E1C0305 enables a few debugging buttons on Controller 2. Press any of these during gameplay:

• X - Go to the "Hit Wario" bonus game.
• Select - View the ending and credits.
• Start - Access a level select and sound test.

Pressing X or Select at the title screen will stop the music, but nothing else. Pressing Start at the title screen will still pull up the level select and sound test, but only the latter will work correctly.

(Source: Original TCRF research)