The Propeller Mushroom's sound effect was also different in one pre-release build. This was later replaced with different sound effects. Yellow Toad says "Yay!" and he jumps twice while punching his fists in the air, and it shows that there is no standing animation, so when he stands after his pose, he just freezes for a while.ĭuring the E3 2009 demo, coins had 8-bit sound effects, just as they did in the first New Super Mario Bros. This was shown in GameStop's E3 demo video. The snow, forest, lava, and Ghost House songs did not exist. The underground, desert, castle, and athletic themes and the level clear tunes were ported from New Super Mario Bros., most likely as a placeholder. U, once the game is beaten, players have access to a purple Records Toad House, containing the aforementioned information. In demos shown at Press Conferences, after finishing each level a results screen would pop up, showing the player how many enemies were stomped and how many coins were collected, which is only seen in the Free-For-All mode in the final game.
Later, "Level" was changed to " Course" in the final build for unknown reasons. In the E3 2009 demo, whenever a character completes a stage, the message "Level Clear!" was seen. When obtained, the key moves to the HUD, next to the lives and coins counters. Keys were originally going to appear in the game. Additionally, Blue Toad and Yellow Toad's icons were switched in the final release, with Yellow Toad being third and Blue Toad being fourth.Īlso, when a Yoshi is ridden, a music note was originally meant to appear on the upper-right side of the screen. Notably, the life box was sized down, while the score and timer stretched out slightly. Later screenshots and videos of the final build show that the HUD is now solid (only turning transparent if a player goes behind it), certain icons were updated and brightened up, along with the trademark Mario text.
Early builds HUD during gameplay Īn early version (top), and the final version (bottom).Īs seen in early screenshots of the game, the HUD originally appeared transparent during gameplay additionally, the text appeared very different, with only generic font possibly as a placeholder. Also, the Red Toad is wearing a black vest, while Blue Toad wears a red one. However, instead of Yellow Toad, the picture showed a Red Toad, meaning he may have once been intended to be the fourth playable character. Red Toad Īn early picture showed Mario, Luigi and Blue Toad in bubbles. However, this caused a problem in multiplayer: because the player who used it would be able to destroy everything while also taking up a big part of the screen, limiting other players, the Mega Mushroom was ultimately removed. It would have transformed the player into Mega Mario. The game was originally going to have the Mega Mushroom power up return from the previous game. 2, but eventually decided against it because of how difficult it would be to animate her dress.
Princess Peach Īt one stage during development, Shigeru Miyamoto considered making Princess Peach a playable character, like in Super Mario Bros.
Miyamoto's idea for the opening was to have ships with chains carry a cake on a plate as bait for Princess Peach. Early ideas Opening sequence ĭuring a Q&A session in 2009, Shigeru Miyamoto claimed that he fought with the development team over the tone of the opening sequence, with the team wanting to make it more dramatic.
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