New Super Mario Bros. Wii

New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Wii Released in JP: December 3, 2009 Released in US: November 15, 2009 Released in EU: November 20, 2009 Released in AU: November 11, 2009 Released in KR: August 7, 2010 Released in CN: December 5, 2017 (NVIDIA Shield) Released in HK: July 3, 2010 Released in TW: July 3, 2010 This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused objects. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused items. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences. This game has a notes page This game has a prerelease article

New Super Mario Bros. Wii takes the revamped 2D side-scrolling action from the DS title and kicks it up a notch by what many fans would consider a dream come true: simultaneous cooperative multiplayer in the main game. It also marks the return of Yoshi, the Koopalings, and Kamek, and pretty much set the standard for the Mario universe in the years that followed.

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.

To do: Unused koopaling object that uses an early model and was seen in prerelease footage, may have other differences. Possibly unused things, including... More unused level features?. Unused world map stuff?. Empty 'openingTitle' file oddity. unused water_lift sprite that can be fixed with Newer asm hack. More unused actors (objects that you can't put in a level normally). Unused Dutch language setting unknown archive metadata changes in shield tv version

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Unused Objects New hits and old favorites.

Unused Level Features Things that just don't come into play.

Unused Graphics Quite a lot of graphics ended up getting scrapped.

Version Differences The US and European translators can't seem to agree with each other.

Unused Hint Movies

There are a total of 82 hint movies. While 62 of them are used, the rest of them go unused. They mostly contain Super Skills, and are broken due to the level layout being different from when the inputs were recorded.

1-3: Four unused Super Skills
2-2: Four unused Super Skills
2-5: Three unused Super Skills
3-2: One unused Infnite 1-Ups
3-5: Three unused Super Skills
6-Castle: One unused Super Skills
7-Tower: One unused Star Coin & one Super Skills
9-8: Two unused Super Skills

World 7-Tower

Star Coin

~ Player jumps on Bullet Bills to get 1-Ups
~ Collects the first star coin above Banzai Bill
~ Breaks the hidden block and jumps onto the roof
~ He goes into the pipe an collects the second star coin
~ Jumps onto the moving platform and kills himself

Super Skills

~ Player starts with a Propeller Suit
~ The player gets hurt two times
~ Shows the secret exit

Unused Animations

Big/Medium Goomba

The Big/Medium Goomba model has one unused animation in which it becomes flattened. It is different from the small Goombas' flattening animation.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Midway Flag

• swing_L
• swing_R

These both were likely used with early versions of the model, because they do not fit the current bone structure of the model and look wrong when these animations are used through hacking.

Yoshi

To do: Confirm this is an unused animation, and if so rip it and get its name

As seen in this video, if Yoshi is hacked into a tower/castle level, he has an unused animation at the beginning of the boss fight that is similar to the one Mario, Luigi, and the Toads use. This suggests that players were able to carry Yoshi across levels during development (similar to Super Mario World), but this feature was scrapped at some point.

Unused Behaviors

• Spike Tops and Chain Chomps can be bounced off with Yoshi. The former is also unused in New Super Mario Bros. U but the latter doesn't work in that game. Both are used in Super Mario Maker.
• Chain Chomps, Thwomps and Prickly Goombas have hitboxes that are impenetrable by Yoshi's tongue.
• Switches can be pressed by Yoshi, even when the player is not riding Yoshi.
• Dry Bones have the standard behaviour for overworld enemies being in water (splashing when entering and moving slowly when in).
• Yoshi detaches from Mario if they are in water.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Lighting Setting

There is an unused "dark" lighting setting which causes triangular light beams to be generated by each player. The beams face the same way as the players and each can be rotated between 0 and 180 degrees by tilting the relevant Wii Remote.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Text

You can play for 10 minutes. After 10
minutes, the session will automatically end.

From the E3 2009 demo. It was shown on the title screen.

EVENT VERSION

Same as above.

Thank you for playing!
You can continue
your adventure
in the retail version!

Also from the E3 2009 demo, obviously displayed when the session ended.

test1

First message in the file with obvious purpose. In the Japanese, USA Spanish text, it is the same, the meaning is the same, except there is no "1" on the end.

Story Mode

Seems to a label for the main mode on the menu.

VS Mode

As you make progress in Story mode,
you'll unlock more courses to play
in VS mode.

Seems to be text for an early/scrapped multiplayer mode.

Select a Mode

Another piece of unused text for the main menu.

SCORE

COINS

ENEMIES

These aren't capitalised in the final Free for All, but they are in the early multiplayer mode that was seen in the E3 2009 demo. "SCORE" is "トータル" ("total") in the Japanese text.

LIVES LEFT

A leftover from the early multiplayer mode that was seen in the E3 2009 demo.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Jingle

There exists a single unused track in the game, named cheepfanfare_lr.ry.32

Unused Sounds

Many, if not all, the sound waves that were in NSMB are also present here with their original filenames. These will not be listed.

Sound Sequences

566 - SE_OBJ_GET_COIN_OLD
The NSMB coin sound. This can be heard in prerelease footage.

1681 - SE_SYS_NINTENDO_LOGO

There is no Nintendo logo screen in this game.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Early Features

In prerelease screenshots, we see that the game originally had a Red and a Blue Yoshi. They were changed to Pink and Light Blue in the final version. The filenames for the Yoshi models, though, still follow the old colouring: Y_tex_red.arc, Y_tex_blue.arc.

The game was originally going to have Mega Mario, but it seems to have been canned very early on - EN_ITEM (the actor which manages the various powerup items) has an empty value which loads a mushroom model from I_big_kinoko.arc, but it crashes the game when used, and it does not have any other code which uses the value. There is no way to enable it without ASM hacking.

The file I_big_kinoko.arc does not exist, and it is not referenced by the game otherwise. Also, as other evidence of Mega Mario having been planned, the "flying pipe" objects were ported over from New Super Mario Bros. but are not used in the final game.

Oddities

Pipe Joint

Early	Final

The pipe joint texture used in the World 6 Map and the World 6 Map icon depicts an earlier pipe joint. It can also be seen in the E3 2009 demo version.

World 7 Cliff

Early	Final

The cliff model used in the World 7 Map depicts an earlier athletic tileset design. It can also be seen in the E3 2009 demo version.

Credits Behavior

Most of the brick blocks in the credits scene have contents chosen randomly at runtime (between "empty," "one coin" and "15 coins," weighted unequally). However, two names are overridden to always have the same contents. Executive producer Satoru Iwata's name is spelled out using 15-coin bricks. More unexpectedly, though, coordinator Rina Yamauchi's bricks are always empty. Since most of the random bricks are selected to be empty anyway, it's unlikely that anyone would ever notice this without hacking.

(Source: RoadrunnerWMC)

Exception Handler

The exception handler is still in the game's code, but can't be seen normally without hacking or causing an exceptionally heinous glitch. When it does crash, press HOME, -, +, -, +, 1, 2, 1, 2, A on Player 1's WiiMote. The player will then see the processor state at the time of the crash, as well as some trace info.

(Source: Skawo)

Development Text

Internal Project Name

The project's internal name is "wiimj2d" or just "mj2d" (mario journey 2d?), according to multiple filenames

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Build Date and Number

Four empty files exist in the main folder with filenames listing build dates and some kind of build number.

Japan Revision 1	USA Revision 1	Europe Revision 1
COPYDATE_CODE_2009-10-03_231655 COPYDATE_DATA_2009-10-03_231209 COPYDATE_LAST_2009-10-03_231655 REV_INFO_r37675	COPYDATE_CODE_2009-10-03_232303 COPYDATE_DATA_2009-10-03_231822 COPYDATE_LAST_2009-10-03_232303 REV_INFO_r37675	COPYDATE_CODE_2009-10-03_232911 COPYDATE_DATA_2009-10-03_232433 COPYDATE_LAST_2009-10-03_232911 REV_INFO_r37675
USA Revision 2	Europe Revision 2	Japan Revision 2
COPYDATE_CODE_2010-01-05_143554 COPYDATE_DATA_2010-01-05_141949 COPYDATE_LAST_2010-01-05_143554 REV_INFO_r37821	COPYDATE_CODE_2010-01-05_152101 COPYDATE_DATA_2010-01-05_150453 COPYDATE_LAST_2010-01-05_152101 REV_INFO_r37821	COPYDATE_CODE_2010-01-05_160530 COPYDATE_DATA_2010-01-05_154947 COPYDATE_LAST_2010-01-05_160530 REV_INFO_r37821
Korea	Hong Kong/Taiwan	China (NVIDIA Shield TV)
COPYDATE_CODE_2010-03-12_153510 COPYDATE_DATA_2010-03-12_153506 COPYDATE_LAST_2010-03-12_153510 REV_INFO_r38018	COPYDATE_CODE_2010-03-15_160349 COPYDATE_DATA_2010-03-15_160345 COPYDATE_LAST_2010-03-15_160349 REV_INFO_r38019	COPYDATE_CODE_2016-05-03_111248 COPYDATE_LAST_2016-05-03_111248 COPYDATE_DATA_2016-05-03_111228

WIIMJ2DNP.str

A file called WIIMJ2DNP.str is present in the root folder and lists the locations of some partially-linked code. "WIIMJ2D" may be the game's internal project name - it is used for the save file's filename too. This file is actually used for something as the game crashes if it is deleted or overwritten.

Japan Revision 1	USA Revision 1
d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\JP\PRD\RVL\bin\d_profileNP.plf d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\JP\PRD\RVL\bin\d_basesNP.plf d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\JP\PRD\RVL\bin\d_enemiesNP.plf d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\JP\PRD\RVL\bin\d_en_bossNP.plf	d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\US\PRD\RVL\bin\d_profileNP.plf d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\US\PRD\RVL\bin\d_basesNP.plf d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\US\PRD\RVL\bin\d_enemiesNP.plf d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\US\PRD\RVL\bin\d_en_bossNP.plf
Europe Revision 1	USA Revision 2
d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\EU\PRD\RVL\bin\d_profileNP.plf d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\EU\PRD\RVL\bin\d_basesNP.plf d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\EU\PRD\RVL\bin\d_enemiesNP.plf d:\home\Project\WIIMJ2D\EU\PRD\RVL\bin\d_en_bossNP.plf	D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\US\PRD\RVL\bin\d_profileNP.plf D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\US\PRD\RVL\bin\d_basesNP.plf D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\US\PRD\RVL\bin\d_enemiesNP.plf D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\US\PRD\RVL\bin\d_en_bossNP.plf
Europe Revision 2	Japan Revision 2
D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\EU\PRD\RVL\bin\d_profileNP.plf D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\EU\PRD\RVL\bin\d_basesNP.plf D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\EU\PRD\RVL\bin\d_enemiesNP.plf D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\EU\PRD\RVL\bin\d_en_bossNP.plf	D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\JP\PRD\RVL\bin\d_profileNP.plf D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\JP\PRD\RVL\bin\d_basesNP.plf D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\JP\PRD\RVL\bin\d_enemiesNP.plf D:\home\hayakawa\PROJECT\wii-mj2d_ver2\JP\PRD\RVL\bin\d_en_bossNP.plf
Korea	Taiwan	China (NVIDIA Shield TV)
d:\Project\wii-mj2d\KR\PRD\RVL\bin\d_profileNP.plf d:\Project\wii-mj2d\KR\PRD\RVL\bin\d_basesNP.plf d:\Project\wii-mj2d\KR\PRD\RVL\bin\d_enemiesNP.plf d:\Project\wii-mj2d\KR\PRD\RVL\bin\d_en_bossNP.plf	d:\Project\wii-mj2d\TW\PRD\RVL\bin\d_profileNP.plf d:\Project\wii-mj2d\TW\PRD\RVL\bin\d_basesNP.plf d:\Project\wii-mj2d\TW\PRD\RVL\bin\d_enemiesNP.plf d:\Project\wii-mj2d\TW\PRD\RVL\bin\d_en_bossNP.plf	d:\Project\wii-mj2d\CN\PRD\RVL\bin\d_profileNP.plf d:\Project\wii-mj2d\CN\PRD\RVL\bin\d_basesNP.plf d:\Project\wii-mj2d\CN\PRD\RVL\bin\d_enemiesNP.plf d:\Project\wii-mj2d\CN\PRD\RVL\bin\d_en_bossNP.plf