List of Mario Party pre-release and unused content

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This is a list of pre-release and unused content for the game Mario Party.

Debug Mode

Debug Menu

The debug mode consists of minigames and a crude character select. It should be worth noting that the pages contain inaccessible entries, labeled in #00FF00. Accessible entries are in #00FFFF.

• - Select a minigame, confirm a character, etc.
• - On game list, ask to erase game data.
• - Navigate menus.
• - Start the mini-game ( doesn't do it)
• - Changes the game mode.
• - On the game list, opens the options menu to be more precise how the game handles input and such. seems to randomize elements, such as PAD0/PAD1/PAD2/PAD3 (represents P1/P2/P3/P4 controller ports respectively). PADN represents what corner is reading what controller port. GRP determines which team a player is on in certain Mini-Games.

Page 1

Index	Japanese Name	Minigame
#00FFFF	Shinkei Suijyaku	Memory Match
#00FFFF	Ichika Bachika	All or Nothing
#00FFFF	Slot Machine	Slot Machine
#00FFFF	Anahori Mario	Buried Treasure
#00FFFF	Sumogri Mario	Treasure Divers
#00FFFF	Nokonoko Tamatebako	Shell Game
#00FF00
#00FF00	Same Game	Same Game
#00FF00	Pakkunflower Wo Sukue	Save the Piranha Plant
#00FFFF	Bomhei Watashi	Hot Bob-omb

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Index	Japanese Name	Minigame
#00FF00	Yosi no shitaawase	Yoshi's Tongue Meet
#00FFFF	Amidakuji	Pipe Maze
#00FFFF	Leader Wa Dareda	Ghost Guess
#00FFFF	Isutori Game	Musical Mushroom
#00FFFF	Mario no Jikahatsuden	Pedal Power
#00FFFF	Digital Katanuki	Crazy Cutters
#00FFFF	Mario Hyakumensou	Face Lift
#00FFFF	Pakkunflower Tataki	Whack-a-Plant
#00FF00	Honoo no Kuribo Bokujyo	Fire Goomba Farm
#00FF00

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Index	Japanese Name	Minigame
#00FFFF	Koopa no Kimochi	Bash 'n' Cash
#00FFFF	Bowling Gogo	Bowl Over
#00FFFF	Hipdrop	Ground Pound
#00FFFF	Koopa Fusen	Balloon Burst
#00FFFF	Ten Count Coin	Coin Block Blitz
#00FFFF	Hammer Coin	Coin Block Bash
#00FFFF	Kuzureru Yuka wo Kakenukero	Skateboard Scamper
#00FF00	Boutakatobi de Jump	Pole Vault Jump
#00FFFF	Blockyamano Okatara Sagashi	Box Mountain Mayhem
#00FFFF	Plate Watari	Platform Peril

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Index	Japanese Name	Minigame
#00FFFF	Bouwatari	Teetering Towers
#00FFFF	Iroiro Kinoko	Mushroom Mix-Up
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#00FF00	Yougan Tanizoko Okkoti	Lava Chasm Drop
#00FFFF	Hammerbros Item no Tou	Hammer Drop
#00FFFF	Kosodoro Game	Grab Bag
#00FFFF	Slider Race	Bobsled Run
#00FFFF	Nokkare Ball	Bumper Balls
#00FFFF	Tsunawari de Dangerous	Tightrope Treachery
#00FFFF	Nokonoko Pole	Knock Block Tower

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Index	Japanese Name	Minigame
#00FFFF	Nokonoko Korokoro	Tipsy Tourney
#00FFFF	Pukapuka Island	Bombs Away (minigame)
#00FFFF	Crane Game	Crane Game
#00FF00	Bumgee Jump	Bungee Jump
#00FF00
#00FF00	Chie no Himo	String of Wisdom
#00FFFF	Happy Flower	Coin Shower Flower
#00FF00	Otakara Kibako	Treasure Crate
#00FF00	Huwahuwa Baloon	Buoyant Balloon
#00FFFF	Throttle Racing	Slot Car Derby

Page 6

Index	Japanese Name	Minigame
#00FFFF	Mario Orchestra	Mario Bandstand
#00FFFF	Mukade Gogo	Desert Dash
#00FFFF	Senchousan no Meireidesu	Shy Guy Says
#00FF00	PK Soccer	PK Soccer
#00FFFF	Limbo Dance	Limbo Dance
#00FFFF	Bomhei Basket	Bombsketball
#00FFFF	Item Fishing	Cast Aways
#00FFFF	Mini Soccer	Key-pa-Way
#00FFFF	Otakara Showdown	Running of the Bulb
#00FFFF	Nawanawa Pyonpyon	Hot Rope Jump

Page 7

Index	Japanese Name	Minigame
#00FFFF	Hashire! Nokkare Ball	Bumper Ball Maze 1
#00FFFF	Isoge! Nokkare Ball	Bumper Ball Maze 2
#00FF00	Bomber Mario	Bomber Mario
#00FFFF	Truck Race	Handcar Havoc
#00FF00	Tour de Mario	Tour de Mario
#00FFFF	Mario Blue	Deep Sea Divers
#00FFFF	Jurassic Pakkun	Piranha's Pursuit
#00FFFF	Tsunahiki de Dangerous	Tug o' War
#00FFFF	Mario Boat	Paddle Battle
#00FFFF	Susume! Nokkare Ball	Bumper Ball Maze 3

Unused data

In addition to the 50 minigames that appear in the final product, Mario Party was also planned to feature a number of other games that ended up being discarded. The character mugshots for all characters initially looked different, bearing resemblance to the style of their mugshots on the character selection screen of Mario Kart 64. Donkey Kong's initial mugshot showed just a silhouette of the character with a question mark, presumably because Nintendo had yet to finish constructing his in-game model at this point. The early character mugshots can be seen in the game's debug menu.

Among the dropped minigames are:

• All or Nothing (いちかばちか Ichi ka Bachi ka), a game that depended largely on luck. It was probably an early version of Chance Time, albeit with only one player and employing three ? Blocks; one block would contain a "Mario Mark" that likely had to be received in order for the player to get the full coin prize, while a "Bowser Mark" would probably cause the player to forfeit their award.
• Tour de Mario (ツールドマリオ), possibly planned to be a cycling game.
• Bungee Jump (バンジージャンプ)
• SameGame (さめがめ), a Super Mario-themed take on the tile-matching puzzle game of the same name. The player must Ground Pound the tiles underneath their character to remove sections. If the character can clear all of the tiles, they can grab the treasure chest underneath; otherwise, they must go through one of the doors, which will only give them 1 coin.
• Yoshi's Tongue Meeting (ヨッシーのしたあわせ Yosshī no Shita Awase), in which characters sit atop a Yoshi on the left side of a river (except for Yoshi himself, who just stands in the same pose without a rider). The Yoshis have baby Wigglers on their tongues, which extend to the Wigglers' mothers, and they must reunite the children with their parents. The reunion can only happen if the A Button is pressed at the right moment; if it comes too late, the baby will kick its mother into the bush. If it comes too far, both the Wiggler and its baby will just cry.

The game was once planned to feature a "Random Play Mode", in which random minigames are played one after another. There would be no board, no explanation screens, and no results screen. The positions of characters were to be determined at random, displayed on the screen using "MAIN" and "SUB". It is possible this mode was merely a debug test of the minigame randomization feature used at the end of each turn.

At one point, there was planned to be another feature that is never used anywhere in the final game. The Player Panels were once planned to turn yellow under certain circumstances after the character's turn ended, which would imply that there were once going to be yellow spaces on the boards as well as red, blue, and green. If all characters' Player Panels turned yellow, a big sign would appear reading "NO GAME", and the game would move on to the next turn without playing a mini-game. If it was the final turn, a "GAME OVER" sign would appear, and then the board's usual ending would play. The only way to see the yellow panels in the normal game would have been through a "Bowser Revolution" from a Bowser Space, which would show an animation of all four panels quickly changing colors between blue, red, green and yellow.

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  "All or Nothing"

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  "Tour de Mario"

Unused graphics

Unused graphics existing in the game include:

• Another set of early character mugshots in low quality, which are rips of official artworks that had been created for Mario Kart 64. Donkey Kong's mugshot is a covered image with a question mark. They also remain unused in Mario Party 2 and Mario Party 3 and appear in the debug menu in all three games.
• An assortment of graphics grouped together, which may have been prototype versions of the HUD graphics that appear fancier than those in the final.
• "Too Bad...", "Nothing...", and "Nice Going!" banners, possibly planned for minigames.
• An alternate texture for the Shy Guy pirate from the Shy Guy Says minigame is present.
• Graphics from a star appear in a similar capacity. Although stars appear in Mario Party, these graphics do not.
• There are three unused mushroom graphics that exist in certain Mini-Game graphic banks and general graphic directories. The green one was for Treasure Divers, the purple one was for Coin Block Bash, and the red one was for Memory Match.
• The font from Super Mario 64 exists. The font appears, also unused, in Mario Party 2.

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  Treasure Divers mushroom.

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  Coin Block Bash mushroom.

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  Memory Match mushroom.

Unused models

• Models for the Bob-omb flags in Wario's Battle Canyon exist, but they are never seen in-game.
• In the same directory as the Mini-Game explanation graphics, there is a simple model of a Nintendo 64 controller.

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External links

• Mario Party on The Cutting Room Floor