Paper Mario Beta Archive

Paper Mario: Sticker Star Nintendo 365 video from Nintendo Today

It’s my favorite part of Sticker Star, it’s amazing new Characters! I can’t believe these guys are already 13 years old. In all seriousness, sticker star could have been great, and I’m so sad that we missed out on the game that could have been

Recently, alongside the other E3 2010 3DS demos that were found, it was discovered that there was another build of the Paper Mario Preview from May 28, 2010. However, this build is nearly identical to the June 7th version. We will share more information if there are any differences found.

Surprise! 25 3DS prototype builds are now available! Many come from E3 2010.

There's plenty to explore as I go in-depth with these previews in this special video.

The unused Star character, who resembles Eldstar from Paper Mario. It also resembles the Millennium Star from Mario Party 3.

Credit to @romulusofficial.bsky.social for recording this

Paper Mario: Color Splash Nintendo365 video from Nintendo Today

The Paper Mario TTYD Remake is the longest soundtrack on Nintendo Music to date at 13 hours 55 minutes long.

[Nintendo Music]

"Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)" and "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (GameCube)" have been added.

There is an unused “Star” status effect in Sticker Star that makes Mario invincible.

A few Paper Mario fans are making an INCREDIBLE mod for Sticker Star that is setting out to make the game significantly better. It looks amazing so far and I love the fact that the scrapped Chain Chomp partner and the S-Meter from the early builds are in this mod.

In Super Mario Strikers, there is an unused Dull Bones medic model based on the design from Paper Mario TTYD.

reconstruction of a potential skeletal mander head poking out of drybake stadium

so apparently someone on TCRF pointed out that a strange skeletal head possibly resembling king mander seems to be present in the luigi newspaper screenshot for drybake stadium, so i had to reconstruct based on what i am seeing, and it appears that person may be correct

In an early screenshot of Super Paper Mario, a pipe resembling the Return Pipe can be seen outside Bestovius's house. There is also a Brick Block in place of the final game's Save Block, and two rows of coins in the space behind the steps instead of just one.

new spm unused feature just dropped... 👀

apparently the func responsible for making dashell give you a pm64 spindash is... fully functional?! all i had to do was patch the dashell use function. here it is in its full glory~

spm could've been a good game but they took away our funny little spin :(

Characters that appear in the E3 2010 builds of Paper Mario: Sticker Star (including the trailer and screenshots). Many use their TTYD/SPM designs but there are a few new designs, mostly for species making their debut in the Paper Mario series.

The TTYD Remake actually has some remnants of Color Splash and Origami King's sprite style in the game. The characters in many pictures and posters in-game lack shading and have thinner black outlines; the only thing they are missing is the white outlines.

The TTYD Remake seemingly used several different art styles for characters throughout development, including CS/TOK-style sprites, CS/TOK-style sprites without the white outlines, shaded sprites with white outlines, and shaded sprites without the "paper-cutout" depth effect.

In the art gallery of the Paper Mario TTYD remake, there is a render of Koopie Koo's early design. This matches the Koopa Troopa design found in the original game's files, so this was likely from a similar point in development when it more closely resembled Paper Mario 64

In the Paper Mario TTYD Remake, interestingly, there are unused graphics of the unused badges from the original version of the game.

The Wanted Poster Boo's toy gun from thr TTYD Remake is a 2D version of the ones from the Western play from the Big Sho' Theater in Paper Mario: The Origami King.

Early concepts for Lord Crump, the X-Nauts, and Grodus from Paper Mario TTYD. Grodus's design looks drastically different from the final game, but he still has the staff.

In the January 2013 Wii U Nintendo Direct, Nintendo referenced Yoshi Kid from Paper Mario TTYD in an example post when showing details about Miiverse.

Interestingly, the mushrooms in the Paper Mario: Sticker Star E3 2010 trailer heavily resemble those in Super Mario Galaxy 2.

In the trailer and screenshots of the E3 2010 version of Paper Mario: Sticker Star, there is a ceiling on the fortress battle map meaning that some enemies, such as Swoops or Buzzy Beetles, may have been able to cling to the ceiling similar to Paper Mario 64 and TTYD.

There are a few subtle differences between the Paper Mario: Sticker Star E3 2010 screenshots and trailer such as the area with the Whomp and the back of the hammer sticker. It’s possible that the screenshots are from an earlier build than the trailer. (Left: Screenshots, Right: Trailer)

Happy New Year!
2024 has been an excellent year for Paper Mario beta discoveries including Nintendo officially releasing TTYD concept art via the remake and the E3 2010 trailer finally being found after nearly 15 years. Hopefully, we’ll continue to make some interesting discoveries this year.

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Finally finished it after a while.

Check it out here: youtu.be/s99_Nu2o0x8

You've become obscene. Original text: 猥に　なった Another possible translation would be "You've become indecent." Source: tcrf.net/Paper_Mario:_The_Thousand-Year_Door/Unused_Text

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door contains unused early status effect messages in its files. The message for losing all effects (i.e. going back to normal) translates to "You've become obscene".

Yes, but it used a different design.