Paper Mario: The Origami King

Paper Mario: The Origami King
Developer: Intelligent Systems Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo Switch Released internationally: July 17, 2020 This game has unused animations. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused text. This game has a prerelease article

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Paper Mario: The Origami King is the sixth installment of the Paper Mario series, which follows Mario on his quest to stop his world from being folded into origami by the titular villain.

The game is seen as a big upgrade from the last two games by most fans, yet it still continues many of the hated design decisions from those.

To do: More unused NPC (maybe all the enemies that were in Color Splash?) and Mario graphics. Bowser Jr in a large clown car Interviews such as this one. Oddities and concept art differences (concept art rips). The hand that snatches Oliva has possibly-unused animations (PC_HND.bfres.zst). Environment maps (graphics\textures\ibl) may show early level design/unseen geometry. Musée Champignon oddity unused save file fields? Possibly unused Bowser Jr. behaviour/graphics when entering a house - walking instead of using Clown Car Oddities when attacking overworld enemies you can't normally reach Unused poison condition? Cut electric hammer effect, maybe other stuff Boss Sumo Bro POW Softlock Simple boss debug mode?

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Prerelease Info

Unused Animations

To do: Unused Vellumental animations

Origami Peach

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Is the animation actually broken? Test it out in-game.

Origami Peach's model (character/origami/O_PCH.bfres.zst) has unused geometry for a rope around her waist, lots of unused animations for different actions, and "origami transformation" models (O_PCH_Transform.bfres.zst, P_PCH_Transform.bfres.zst, P_PCH_Transform.Default.bntx.zst) with an associated, seemingly broken, animation. These all suggest she once had a more extensive role in the game.

Footage: https://youtu.be/I9-CyDXCEEU

Angry:

Transformation (Broken...)

Concept art a scrapped event involving Origami Peach, from the in-game gallery:

(initial discovery: Original TCRF research)

Unused Party Member

To do: Captain T. Ode can be added to the your party - is this unused?

Sombrero Guy from Autumn Mountain was apparently originally intended to become a (temporary) party member like his amigos Spike and Bone Goomba. However, him becoming a party member was cut from the final game leaving his party member code unused through normal means but, through save file hacking you can add him as a party member. Under party_infor, add P_HEISOM to the partyMemberName field and update the partyMemberNum field accordingly. He does appear in the pause menu, using an unused pause menu icon (see right, located in ui/menu/SheetStatus.bfres.zst), but doesn't appear in battle.

Unused Graphics

DummyTexture

Found in ui/menu/SheetStatus.bfres.zst is this image of a colorful gradient, resembling the kind of gradient you'd typically see on color-pickers in image editors.

(Source: CometMedal)

Unused Captain T. Ode Sprite

This sprite goes unused as Captain T. Ode has never walked with his angry expression in the game.

Color Splash Leftovers

Mario

Mario has graphics (character/pera/P_MAR_E.Default.bntx.zst) depicting him holding a hammer, which go unused because the hammer obtained in-game is never a sprite and is, in fact, a 3D model.

(Source: CometMedal)

Enemies

Species that appear as enemies in Paper Mario: Color Splash have many (if not all) of their attacking, taking damage, etc. graphics and animations left unused.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Red Koopa

To do: Add filename, get proper rip

The Red Koopa Troopa is present.

Paper Black Shy Guy

The Paper Black Shy Guy (P_HEI.Black.bntx.zst) is present.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Accessory-Selling Monty Mole

The accessory-selling Monty Mole (P_CRP_Shop.Default.bntx.zst) has graphics for walking.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

2D Thwomp

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Can this be seen if you force the camera to rotate around?

The 2D Thwomp (P_DSN.Default.bntx.zst) has corresponding back graphics for each front graphic, although they are all identical.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Obscured Graphics

The graphic used for the Toad's face as seen through the right-hand telescope on Overlook Tower has detail for the head and body too, but this is obscured by the telescope border.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Music

Early Red Streamer Area Battle

Two early, unused versions of Red Streamer Area Battle (Thinking) exist. The used one is called "BGM_BTL_Normal_Puzzle_W1_opus".

BGM_BTL_Normal_Puzzule_opus

BGM_BTL_Normal_Puzzule_W1_opus

Note that the word "puzzle" is misspelled in both files.

Unused Unsettling Area Enemy First Strike

BGM_BTL_Normal_Intro_Enemy_WU_opus

The enemy first strike intro for the unsettling area battle music goes unused as no enemy can first strike the player in any location where the unsettling area battle music plays.

Unused World 5 DJ Track

BGM_EVT_DJ_A_W5_opus and BGM_EVT_DJ_B_W5_opus

A music track that went unused. The file name implies that it was meant to play somewhere within the Green Streamer Area. This presumably went unused because the backing track sounds very, very, very similar to Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Unused King Olly Battle Thinking

Battle with King Olly (Thinking)

Unused Text

To do: Explain this better.

If the player somehow manages to bring Professor Toad to the Fire Vellumental Cave before defeating the Fire Vellumental itself, his textbox will display "?WG32_185?" if he is talked to. The text is actually the title of an entry in RomFS/msg/(language folder)/WG32.msbt/, and it probably shows up due to the game trying to load a non-existent message, similar to placeholder text in the previous Paper Mario titles.

(Source: SolidifiedGaming, mariomadproductions)

Unused EXP Variable

In the game's save data, there's an unused variable named "battle_win_exP". It's always set to 0 and changing the value seems to have no effect.

Oddity

Please elaborate. Having more detail is always a good thing.

• The Shiny Hurlhammer's filename (Item_HammerSuperThrow.bfres.zst) and in-game icon's look and file name (Hicon_SUPER_THROW_HAMMER.bftex) contradict with its in-game name by referring to it as a Flashy Hurlhammer - suggesting the Shiny Hurlhammer is actually a Flashy Hurlhammer.

Internal Project Name

The game is named RockG internally, according to strings in the executable. This is possibly a reference to the game "Rock Paper Scissors".