

Luigi was going to be playable in multiplayer, but due to hardware limitations, the developers had to choose between more elaborate levels, or Luigi.Some of Super Mario 64's creators playing the beta game. This unused flower was found in the data for Lethal Lava Land Other Notable Changes

The early coin was far more golden and realistic, and also resembled the classic Super Mario Bros. Coins used a colored RGBA sprite, as opposed to the IA black and white sprite that appeared in the final, which would have its color changed manually for the Red, Yellow, and Blue coins.When collected, they would leave off a puff of smoke. Technically an item, the Power Stars were originally 2D cartoony sprites, which would rotate like the power stars in the final game.Speaking of Koopa Shells, a red variant appears unused in the game files, It may have been throwable, as opposed to the ridable green variant.A yellow switch appeared in the files, which may have been meant for the Koopa shell (which can be obtained from !-Point Blocks), the Super Star, which was nowhere to be seen in any seen build of the game, but is still possible, or just the !-Point blocks in general, which would be pretty ridiculous.Keys went unused but remained in the files, however they can be seen held by Big Boo's in the Pre-E3 builds.The following are unused items that appeared in prerelease versions of the game. Tall, Tall Mountain's slide dead end actually was another way to the finish, apparently, and also was originally in the Cool, Cool Mountain stage. It was supposed to hold keys.ĭire, Dire Docks was slightly changed, with different textures on the submarine, and different instruments on the background music.īowser in the Dark World seemed to lag fog, as well as having a different skybox. This level was completely overhauled, and not much of the early version is seen in footage, so it's hard to knowīig Boo's Haunt had a different feature in the game. The penguins had larger heads and smaller bodies. Inside Peach's Castle, it was darker in color, with blue walls, and a set of platforms instead of stairs in the center. It also had much simpler textures and slight model changes. Peach's Castle lacked the image of Princess Peach holding the flowers, instead, it had a clock or a compass. Dylan Cuthbert, who was a contributor to the development of the FX chip and helped Miyamoto with developing Star Fox, stated that "Super Mario FX" wasn't a real thing, but it was actually the codename for the FX chip itself.Ĭhanges in the game (Shoshinkai 1995 Prototype) Beta This led to a rumor that there was a prototype for a 3D Mario game called Super Mario FX for the SNES, using the Super FX chip. 2 Changes in the game (Shoshinkai 1995 Prototype)ĭuring an interview by Nintendo Power magazine, Shigeru Miyamoto stated that he had the idea for a Mario 3D game during Star Fox's development.
