Some unused statues from ‘Super Mario World’ files. These would have appeared on the map. Here it looks like both Bowser and Larry.

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Via some early sprites of the out-of-shell Koopa Troopa.

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Yoshi can lick their lips in ‘Yoshi’s Island’. In this file we see an early version on the left. Perori is Japanese for “Eat Up”.

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An early sprite of an enemy in ‘Yoshi’s Island’, via the files. Almost looks like a Kirby, but a platform?

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An early rendition of sprites for an early art test for ‘Yoshi’s Island’, compared to a similar spot in the final game. Some very nice foreground flowers too, also unused.

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An early version of what appears to be the Arrghus boss from ‘Legend Of Zelda: Link To the Past’, from the files.

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I hacked into my Uncle from Nintendo and found this.

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In ‘Yoshi’s Cookie’ on the NES there are little cutscenes that play through the main mode. In the we find earlier iterations of these sprites, and they’re quite different to the final.

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Alphadream’s ‘Tomato Adventure’ on GBA was originally intended for GBC as ‘Gimmick Land’, whose ROM was found in the Here’s a comparison from the intro.

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This interesting sprite was found in this ‘Legend Of Zelda: Link To The Past’ file. Possibly a moblin? This was the closest palette I could find.

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From this ‘Yoshi’s Island’ file in the - a cookie?

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Some ‘Zelda: Link To The Past’ finds - this freaky fish!

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A magnet found in a file for ‘Yoshi’s Island’, via the This was used in an unused mini-game with the Helicopter https://t.co/Y49UyLblJi

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An early level artwork file for ‘Yoshi’s Island’, via the

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This file shows a very different Piranha Plant in ‘Yoshi’s Island’.

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An early test visual for the Raphael the Raven boss in ‘Yoshi’s Island’, via the

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Many Game Boy games are unreleased translations into other territories. This is Sunsoft’s ‘Speedy Gonzales: Aztec Adventure’, intended for a 2000 release in Japan, but was unreleased.

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An early sprite of the Melon Bug in ‘Yoshi’s Island’, via the files. This early version appears just like this sprite in the ‘Super Donkey’ prototype.

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Via the - the ‘Super Mario Kart’ mushroom. This file has sprites for it shrinking as if it was on the track, but the only one that exists in the final is Peach’s Poison Mushroom.

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