New Super Mario Bros.

New Super Mario Bros.
Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo DS Released in JP: May 25, 2006 Released in US: May 15, 2006 Released in EU: June 30, 2006 Released in AU: June 8, 2006 Released in KR: March 8, 2007 Released in CN: July 2009 This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused modes / minigames. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences. This game has a notes page This game has a prerelease article

Not unlike its newer cousin, this game has a lot of unused stuff.

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64px	Unused Objects An unfinished page of unfinished unused objects. No, they're not unfinished...OR ARE THEY?

Unused Levels

To do: Revise unused level descriptions, make and add video of unused levels.

As well as the single player stage, in the stage folder there is something more interesting; some completely unused Mario VS Luigi stages.

Some of these are even leftover from the race mode featured in early interviews, videos and there's more evidence of it in the final game as well!

Levels 2, 3, 4 and 5 have multiple number 0 sprites in the top left corner of the map that crash the game when the level loads. They try to load the player actor. Level 2 contains four of them, Level 3 contains 9, Level 4 contains 11, and Level 5 contains 8. It is unknown why they are here, but the most likely theory is that they were put there by accident because the default position for sprites in Nintendo's level editor is the top left corner and the default value is sprite 0. They probably didn't cause the prototype versions to crash, unlike the final game.

Note: These (level descriptions below) describe the levels being played in single player mode, even though they are designed to be played in Mario vs Luigi mode (or some unused race mode). As soon as somebody has two DS systems, a Windows computer with the NSMB editor and DS homebrew toolchain installed, two flash cards which each work on there respective DS consoles, two micro SD cards then pigs will fly you might see them in action!

Unused Level 1

This was meant to be a Grassland Mario vs. Luigi Multiplayer Battle level. Includes lots of tilting mushrooms, Goombas, Koopa Paratroopas, and a line controlled platform. The level doesn't have sprite sets configured properly for any of the sprites (with the exception of Goombas and Koopas, since those are always loaded), which suggests that the sprite sets were rearranged during development.

Many of the sprites were not used in the Mario vs. Luigi levels at all, which is the case for all of these levels.

Some of the terrain in this level is jumbled, and some of the tiles were erased from the grassland set.

Unused Level 2

Another Multiplayer Battle Level, this time set to appear in a castle. Includes a really wide variety of objects (Thwomps, Buzzy Beetles, Podoboos, Coins, spinning four-way platforms, "bump-from-below" platforms, ropes and even the unused giant Springboards). As for the terrain, the level is shaped sort of like a giant donut. There's a few ice blocks at the top, and the early lava tiles at the bottom.

Many objects and sprites in this level are not used at all in the final game which is the case for most of these levels.

Unused Level 3

Yet another Multiplayer Battle Level, and the biggest of the three. This levels background uses an unused "Separate Background For Each View" mode but it seems to be broken in this level so the background appears corrupted.

It's a grassland area split into 3 zones. Players were supposed to use doors as a way of getting the stars before their opponents.

There's a wide variety of enemies and objects: Goombas, Koopa Troopas, Chain Chomps, scale platforms, moving mushrooms, Pipe Cannons, doors, seesaw platforms... The terrain is jumbled in a lot of places, lots of tiles were clearly deleted from the final tilesets (the second view (a bonus room with many coins) is almost barren, missing most of the proto objects). The third view uses climbable vines as a way of crossing a chasm. Just like with Level 1, most of sprite sets are configured wrong. The Chain Chomp has a broken setting enabled which causes the game to freeze when Mario/Luigi gets near it.

Unused Level 4

This level was in an early prototype from E3, and has two entrances at the start of the level.

The level terrain is unchanged, and it seems that the old desert tileset matches the final one perfectly. Almost every block in the level contains a power-up. Features Pokeys and Spinys. Again, sprite sets are configured wrong. At the end is a one-block-wide Flagpole with a used ? Block underneath. The flag is above the view and even if you move it down, the flag does not fit onto the unused pole correctly. For some reason the pipe cannons are no longer there.

Unused Level 5

A really long sand level also seen at E3 and in an early prototype "NSMB E3 - Mid-Development Prototype" video. Just like its cousin, it has wrong sprite sets. The prototype midpoint ring has been removed. The second part of the level includes tornadoes and a passage with coins over sandtraps. Otherwise, the level is intact from its E3 version. Could be scrapped just because of its length. Again the pipe cannons are gone and the flagpole is the same.

Unused Cannon

A cannon that was probably scrapped early on. It's a bit different than the other cannons in the game. The player starts off in a pipe next to a wood-block wall. The background, instead of a world-themed foreground and destination-themed background like the other cannons, just uses two mountain backgrounds. It would lead to World 8.

The music is set to 00 (Mario vs. Luigi), which isn't played in any of the used single-player levels. The reason for this is that 0x00 is probably the default value for the music in Nintendo's level editor.

Unused Backgrounds

• NSMB volcanos1.png

  (Foreground,no. 16+22,aka Volcanoes 3) A pair of volcanoes.

• NSMB volcanos2.png

  (Background,no. 16+22,aka Volcanoes 3) Would have accompanied the left image.

• NSMB undergroundbg.png

  (Background,no. 73, aka Underground cave (red)) An unused underground, red rocky background.

• NSMBstalagmitebg.png

  (Foreground,no. 36,aka Stalagmites) An unused stalagmite background.

• NSMBdesertsandbg.png

  (Foreground,no. 20,aka Desert sand) An unused desert sand background.

• NSMB NES Mario Luigi.png

  (Background,no. 21,aka Unused Bonus Room (NES Mario and Luigi))

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  (Background,no. 67,aka Unused bonus (NES sprites))

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  (Background,no. 68,aka Unused bonus (NES Mario + Bowser))

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  (Background,no. 69,aka Unused bonus (NES M/L Swimming))

• NSMB NES Mario Luigi Standing.png

  (Background,no. 70,aka Unused bonus (NES M/L))

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  Background,no. 71,aka Unused bonus (NES Mario on vine))

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  Background,no. 72,aka Unused bonus (NES Marios)

• NSMBglitchycavebg.png

  (Background,no. 36,aka Unknown) Would have accompanied the above image.

• NSMBglitchycave bg non map16 tiles.PNG

  This glitchy cave background's Map16 graphics (above) do not resemble anything but the raw graphics do resemble some corrupted blue rocks like in the used cave background no. 35.

The last two backgrounds are probably just corrupted graphics and they were not intended to be used in-game.

Unused Tilesets

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  An unused dark blue variation of the underground tileset Probably to be used with the unused glitchy underground bg.

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  Another variation, this time yellow, of the underground tileset. Probably to be used with the unused red underground bg.

• NSMB bonusroomMap16.PNG

  An unused bonus room tileset with diagonal stripes, similar to SMW's. The door can be entered by mini mario with an entrance placed on top in a level editor. Probably to be used with the unused bonus room tileset.

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  There are more graphics in the unused bonus room tilesets but they are not part of the Map16 graphics so in turn they are not set as objects either (Because they can't be).

Unused Object-Defined Tiles

To do: There are unused tiles and unused grapics in used tilesets which are not defined as objects (in Mario VS. Luigi mode as well) which are not documented

General Tileset/Tileset 0/Jyotyu

This tileset has unused tiles which are made up of "X" patterns which have no tile behavior set (so they have no collision). It also has a 1 tile wide flagpole tile (the flagpole tile which is used is 2 tiles wide) which is used in unused levels 4 and 5, ! switch enabled normal and red coin outlines (these have no collision and get filled in when a ! switch is activated) the former is not collectible and latter acts like a normal coin (the red coins are sprites and no tile behavior has been found which make tiles act like red coins). ? Blocks that when hit produce 5 coins which float out, ? Block containing unknown (todo), 2 unknown brick blocks (todo),? Blocks containing mushrooms only, ? Blocks containing mushrooms when the player is small and coins when the player is else, invisible blocks containing mushrooms only and ? Blocks which throw out a coin when hit (likely to have been used in ghost houses with the ? Blocks which throw out a power-up when hit). Tile water (the water used in game is a sprite) and coins which look like tile water and have part water tile behavior.

Grassland Tileset/Jyotyu

This tileset has unused tiles which are made up of "X" patterns which have no tile behavior set (so they have no collision). The tileset also has line guide tiles (which are followed by some sprites) which have the line guide tile behavior set (this enables sprites to follow it).

The X pattern tiles seem to be a method used by Nintendo to mark unused tiles.

Castle Tileset/Yakata

This tileset has lava tiles in it. The lava used in-game is a sprite, so this goes unused.

Unused Textures

New Super Mario Bros. Logo

This old version of the game's logo is contained in the file /ARCHIVE/menu_title.narc/menu/title/UE_title_ncg.bin.

Nintendo released high resolution versions of the old logo at some point to the press (but they do not seem to be hosted on http://press.nintendo.com anymore).

It is hosted on various sites (Game-review type sites and Unseen64 among others).

World Icons

To do: Lots of unused textures and graphics and something you can do to replace the red ring with unused blue ring without replacing files?

There are eight flat 3D models at the end of the map directory, where the world map 3D models are located - the similar world icons which you touch to navigate between worlds are in the uiStudio directory.

Notice that the filenames for Worlds 4 and 6's map models are "ancient" and "machine", while the models don't depict the forest and mountains of those worlds. This probably means that the themes for Worlds 4 and 6 changed at some point in development.

World 4's map model depicts an island with a volcano, likely that world's original theme.

World 6's map model seems to be a placeholder compared to the others, but judging from the filename its theme might have been the inside of a machine or factory.

The only other notably different icon is for World 5 for which the unused file depicts as an iceberg as opposed to the snowy plain depicted by the world map and used icon. But it could simply be a placeholder.

Mario & Luigi Start

To do: there may be more unused files in the obj directory

In the obj directory there are two unused files: A_text_mariostart_ncg.bin and A_text_luigistart_ncg.bin. These are graphic files which depict the text "MARIO START" and "LUIGI START." These files are in the directory beside similar used graphics which depict things like "MARIO CLEAR" which is used when Mario/Luigi finishes a level (A_text_marioclear_ncg.bin).

Here, A_text_marioclear_ncg.bin and A_text_luigiclear_ncg.bin have been replaced with A_text_mariostart_ncg.bin and A_text_luigistart_ncg.bin, respectively:

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This text would of appeared at the beginning of a level, like in Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World.

You can see it used in early footage here: [1] and here: [2]

(Source: commanderliamthx from youtube)

Pendulum Pivot

The pendulum platforms in the World 4 castle are swinging from something, but that object isn't normally visible in gameplay.

Unused Header "options"

To do: There are different ways to say the SOMETHING values (e.g. hex, dec, re-ordered for the editor). Hint hint: this todo is not for me.

Start As Mini Mario

Setting byte SOMETHING to SOMETHING in a level's header causes Mario to start as Mini Mario, this could have been used for testing and less likely could have been used for the entrances to mini Mario areas to make sure that Mario did not enter as any other Mario (even though this is impossible without modifying the game) or at some point there was a pipe which which apparently turned Mario mini for the sake of a secret bonus area.

Floating Mario

Setting byte SOMETHING to SOMETHING in a level's header, seems to cause Mario to use Mini Mario's physics (e.g. floating, leg kicking) in that level. But there seems to be some side-effects to this: Mario also takes long strides when walking or running and cannot wall jump (which does not apply to Mini Mario or any other Mario).

Unused Inventory Items

To do: You can add items to the inventory which you cannot normally with action replay codes, but they might not be unused; it might just be how the game works, but it might be worth recording maybe on a notes page.

Unused Mario Powerups

There seems to be at least two unused player states (which power-up the player has) in the games code. It's unclear if these are actually intended to be new powerups, or they are just glitches resulting from modifying the powerup state in RAM, although it's probably the latter. This needs investigation.

Un-Fire Mario

The player looks like Super Mario but when hit he becomes Super Mario instead of Small Mario and when Un-Fire Mario hits a Mushroom if Small or Mini, Fire Flower if big block. A mushroom comes out (like with Small or Mini Mario) but the mushroom just passes through him with no apparent effect.

Too Huge Mario

Apparently Mario is so big in this state that the game slows down, collisions are messed up. And he's invisible most of time but occasionally a textured face (a flat surface in terms of a 3D model) covers the screen.

There seems to be a "Too Huge" version for every power-up. Each Too Huge power-up seems to have different effects depending on which normal power-up it is associated with. Some do not slow the game down, on some the textured faces show up at different intervals (obviously because the 3D models of each normal power-up is different.

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Ask Dirbaio and Treeki about this.

Unused Music

To do: There is more unused music, use VGM Trans to listen to most (maybe not NARC compressed music or some which just does not work in vgm trans) of the music, download link below

http://nsmbhd.net/get.php?id=159

BGM_CHIJO.sseq

Name explanation:

BGM - Background music

CHIJO - Misspelling of chijou which means above ground

sseq - Special(maybe) sequence

BGM_CHIJO.sseq us an unused track that sounds similar to the Mario vs. Luigi music, very similar to the one used in the game's E3 2005 trailer (right). It features a slower tempo and different instruments. It can be heard by setting a level's music value to 0x63.

The unused music features wobble and ground-pound sound effects, which the enemies dance to (much like the "wah" sound in other tracks). These sounds are not present in either the final track or the trailer.

BGM_AMB_CHIKA.sseq

Name explanation:

BGM - Background music

CHIKA - Means basement or underground in Japanese

sseq - Special(maybe) sequence

Dripping sound effect loop. It might have been used in underground caves or used instead of the watery sound loop used in Cheepskipper's boss room in World 3 and Petey Piranha's boss room in World 5.

Unused Sounds

To do: There are programs to view/extract sound effects, list them with filenames, upload+embed them and describe them

Nes Jump Sounds

SWAV 24

These Sound Files where found by looking in sound_data.sdat first opening the SDAT folder then opening the SWAR folder and finally opening the WAVE_VS_COMMON_PLAYER_BASE_SE file. There are 2 Nes styled jump sounds these sounds where obviously used for being a place holder.

Name explanation:

SWAV - Sound W‌‌a‌v‌e

Debug Screen

To do: Make AR code which loads the debug screen/crashes the game

To access the crash dump screen, first crash the game; then, hold L, R, A, and Left, let go, hold Down and B, let go, and finally hold Start and Select. This button combination seems to be disabled/broken in the U version. It can be bypassed so that the debug screen triggers without having to enter the combination with this asm hack: Dirbaio's ASM Hack.

Build Date

A plain text file in the root, BUILDTIME, contains the following:

In US versions	In European versions	In Japanese versions
UROM2006-03-29 09:48:19nitro-mj	EROM2006-04-26 14:20:08nitro-mj	JROM2006-04-04 19:07:45nitro-mj
In US demo versions	In European demo versions	In Korean versions
UROM2006-04-07 11:29:13matoba_t	EROM2006-04-27 11:13:34matoba_t	KROM2006-12-27 14:32:43matoba_t

matoba_t probably refers to the game's Assistant Director, Taku Matoba.

Many Nintendo DS games contain this file, probably games developed by Nintendo.

Super Mario 64 DS Assets

Many assets from Super Mario 64 DS were shared with this game.

Graphics

• The Whomp enemy from Super Mario 64 got redesigned for the remake and this design got carried over to NSMB

• SM64DS' Mario and Luigi models were re-used in NSMB and some of their animations were too.
• The Thwomp enemy from Super Mario 64 got redesigned for the remake and this design got carried over to NSMB, all though just the texture was carried across

  To do: was it?

Audio

Unused palettes (tilesets, 4 palette tilesets, animated palettes)

{todo|yep}

Filename oddities

Internally the minigame Coincentration is called wrecking_crew. Which is a reference to the NES game Wrecking Crew which naturally involves destroying bricks simmilar to in Coincentration.

To do: what's it called in the japanese version?