Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
Also known as: Mario + Rabbids Galaxy Battle (JP) Developers: Ubisoft Paris, Ubisoft Milan Publishers: Ubisoft (INT), Nintendo (JP) Platform: Nintendo Switch Released internationally: October 20, 2022 Released in JP: December 2, 2022 This game has unused graphics.

To do: Add more screenshots. Load developer maps.

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope is the long-awaited sequel to Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, this time based off of Super Mario Galaxy. It's also notable for being one of the last original Mario games to feature the voice of Charles Martinet, prior to his retirement from voice acting Mario characters in 2023.

Developer Maps

Found in an asset folder called "launcher", Inside of the folder containing the assets of the Game Engine the game was made in. Filenames with "map" are cover arts of developer maps, "bbb" meaning it's a playable world and "dsr" meaning it's for the DLC. Assumed to be used in Ubisoft's level editor.

Dojo Maps

map_dojo_cover is a cover image for the developer maps prefixed with Dojo, which shows Mario in action on a Dojo test map.

Dojo Game-element Showcase

map_dojo_gameelement_showcase is a cover image for a new developer map titled Dojo Game Element Showcase, showing Mario animation-less and in his default pose on another test map.

Dojo Showroom Summer

map_dojo_showroom_summer appears to be a wide shot of an early untextured Beacon Beach.

map_ui_dojo shows an early version of Beacon Beach with some minor changes. The name still says it's part of a Dojo developer map, most likely the Dojo Showroom Summer due to being the only Dojo map with Beacon Beach.

Dojo Sparks

map_dojo_sparks is a screenshot of a green checkered floor found in Hero's Skill Tree, which instead shows a queue of Marios with every spark and some other things for testing, also showing a screenshot of the dev map named Gojo Sparks.

Audio Dojo

map_audio_dojo is an art of Rosalina playing the guitar with a Luma. This is actually fan-art by Twitter user @franmm127.

Dojo Combat

map_dojo_combat shows art of Mario firing some what appears to be a pair of Pyrostars out of his Dual Slingers. The name suggests that this is a combat testing map.

Dojo Cogload

map_dojo_cogload is a stock photo cover of a map named Dojo Cogload. Cog-load could be a term for Cognitive load (amount of working memory being used).

Layered

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: What is Layered?

map_layered seems to be the Layered logo.

Playground Fourseasons

map_playground_fourseasons shows a Wiggler train and appears to be the cover of a map named Playground. Most likely a developer testing map.

Playground Fourseasons FPP

map_playground_fourseasons_fpp is the same as the "map_playground_fourseasons" but with "FPP" written in big red letters on top of it, meaning first-person perspective. Perhaps it would've used the unused first-person perspective mode.

Test Switch World

map_test_switch_world shows a screenshot of a green tiled floor, similar to the one in the map shown in the general cover image for Dojo maps, with two switches on in the developer map Test Switch World. Mario appears once again in his default pose.

Blockout

Blockout Combat

map_blockout_combat is a cover image for the map named Blockout Combat.

Blockout Exploration

map_blockout_exploration is the cover image of a map named Blockout Exploration.

World Cover Images

To do: Possibly find the source of these images.

bbb_autumn is concept art of Palette Prime.

bbb_springs is concept art of Terra Flora.

bbb_summer is concept art of Beacon Beach.

bbb_winter is concept art of Pristine Peaks.

dsr_outlawdesert is concept art of Barrendale Mesa. The name suggests that the world would have been DLC.

dsr_galaxytheater is concept art of the Tower of Doom DLC's main world.

dsr_melodicgarden is concept art of the "The Last Spark Hunter" DLC's main world.

dsr_painteddesert is concept art of a world titled "Painted Desert", seemingly created for the "Rayman in the Phantom Show" DLC.