Proto:Kirby & the Amazing Mirror/Pause Screen

This is a sub-page of Proto:Kirby & the Amazing Mirror.

Early sketches of the instructions and ability descriptions displayed on the pause screen exist in the Demo. These can only be accessed by editing your current ability at 02020DFF and then pausing. Despite some of these versions going unused in Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, finalized versions of these sketches had already been showcased in Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land.

To do: Some pause screens on this page show "Normal Kirby" instead of the proper ability icon, specifically the ones listed under "Prototype (Final) & Release". Perhaps they should be placed in the triple revision section to reflect that the ability icon was added between the prototype and the release?

Background

The background for the pause screen is different in the Demo. It seems to be based on the one found in Nightmare in Dream Land, as it has the same arrows near the button prompts indicating that the player should press the D-Pad to cycle through them.

Prototype	Final

The only button prompts to show up are also different, as they detail different instructions.

Prototype	Final

The early buttons can still be found in the final game, translated into other languages.

Normal Kirby Pause

This pause screen, while similar to Nightmare in Dream Land's, was updated for Amazing Mirror to include a reference to the Super Inhale mechanic.

Prototype (Early)	Prototype (Final) & Release	Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
Swallow an enemy, duck down, and you're able to copy their ability! Swallow different enemies and learn how to use all the different abilities!	Swallow an enemy, duck down, and you're able to copy their ability! If you do your best and keep inhaling, you can swallow big enemies!	Swallow an enemy, duck down, and you're able to copy their ability! Swallow different enemies and learn how to use all the different abilities!

Double Revision Screens

The pause screens documented below all went through 2 revisions. Cutter and Stone's early pause screens resembled the ones from Nightmare in Dream Land before being changed to the updated ones for Amazing Mirror, while Cook. Cupid. Magic. Smash. Mini. Missile, and Master have 2 completely different design between their early and finalized screens.

Prototype (Early)	Prototype (Final) & Release	Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
FIIIRE!! Hot! This is so hot.	FIIIRE!! Hot! This is so hot.	FIIIRE!! Hot! This is so hot.
Freeze enemies and fling them away! Ugh... it's so COLD.	Freeze enemies and fling them away! Ugh... it's so COLD.	Freeze enemies and fling them away! Ugh... it's so COLD.
A tackle wrapped in flames! Can't stop! Won't stop!	A tackle wrapped in flames! Can't stop! Won't stop!	A tackle wrapped in flames! Can't stop! Won't stop!
Ride like the wind out on the circuit. Fast. Way too fast!	Ride like the wind out on the circuit. Fast. Way too fast!	Ride like the wind out on the circuit. Fast. Way too fast!
The sun shines The parasol thrusts Go for a walk Protect from enemies Float as you fall (This sentence is structured as poetry, with the first three lines forming a haiku. The first two lines also play on さして being the verb for both sun rays beaming down and pointing or thrusting something.)	The sun shines The parasol thrusts Go for a walk Protect from enemies Float as you fall	The sun shines The parasol thrusts Go for a walk Protect from enemies Float as you fall
Cutter Boomerang!	(No text)	Cutter Boomerang!
The beam that bends like a whip! Anyway, beam! Beam! Beam! BEEEAM!	The beam that bends like a whip! Anyway, beam! Beam! Beam! BEEEAM!	The beam that bends like a whip! Anyway, beam! Beam! Beam! BEEEAM!
If you become a stone, hey! You're invincible! Push from above, hey! You're awesome!	Rolling Rolling Rolling Rolling Rolling on a slope. You can also smash the road.	If you become a stone, hey! You're invincible! Push from above, hey! You're awesome!
Try throwing the enemy immediately! Change the throwing direction!	Try throwing the enemy immediately! Change the throwing direction!	Try throwing the enemy immediately! Change the throwing direction!
Delicious! Surely delicious! Cook something good for you.	Meal→ Cook something good for you. ※Only once	N/A
Optical weapon loaded There's a rumor that if you hit a slope, the direction changes.	Optical weapon loaded There's a rumor that if you hit a slope, the direction changes.	Optical weapon loaded There's a rumor that if you hit a slope, the direction changes.
You are lucky to have been able to copy this! Learn to use four abilities that are based on how long you hold the button!	You are lucky to have been able to copy this! Learn to use four abilities that are based on how long you hold the button!	You are lucky to have been able to copy this! Learn to use four abilities that are based on how long you hold the button!
Oh, this! Sparkling Sparkling Sparkling (Onomatopoeia for electricity or sparks repeated over and over.)	Oh, this! Sparkling Sparkling Sparkling	Oh, this! Sparkling Sparkling Sparkling
Spin. Spin. Spin spin spin Uwaaa!	Spin. Spin. Spin spin spin Uwaaa!	Spin. Spin. Spin spin spin Uwaaa!
The fallen angel arrives!	Shoot arrows that hurt when hitting. Press and release and arrows fly. It's like a devilish angel.	N/A
Here it is. Hand Power. ...You can only do it once.	I don't understand it. Can only do it once.	N/A
EXPLOSION! SMASH BROS. FIST! (Kirby is a starter character in Super Smash Bros.)	DEADLY! SMASH BROS. FIST!	N/A
Oh that's strange. Become small and thin passages are no problem!	SMALL! TOO SMALL!	N/A
WARNING: FINAL WEAPON IN CONTROL!	WARNING: FINAL WEAPON IN CONTROL!	WARNING: FINAL WEAPON IN CONTROL!
Wherever you are I'll chase you down!! Kabooom!	Even in the fire or in the water, I'll chase you everywhere. Ah, but no way in the fire, maybe...	N/A
It's a BONUS.	UNIVERSAL SWORD Everything will be destroyed.	N/A

Triple Revision Screens

The pause screens documented below all went through three revisions between the early sketch, the Demo's screen, and the finalized game.

Prototype (Early)	Prototype (Final)	Release	Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
BOOM! oom...oom... hyururururu.... (Onomatopoeia for a bomb ticking down and then exploding, with the smaller text below being the echo effect.)	Take it! THROW!! BOOM!!	Take it! THROW!! BOOM!! (While not noticeable at first glance, the top left icon was slighltly redrawn to be rounder.)	N/A
Power Shot! Moonsault Rising Upper!! Kick Mega Power Shot!!	(タメる indicites holding the button to charge a Power Shot.)	(Charge) (In the final release, the images for the →→ + B and → + B moves were altered. The first one had a blur effect added on Kirby's foot, while the second one's motion effects were redrawn and his foot was made bigger.)	N/A
Go with a bam-bam! You can hit stakes too, and areas you can't destroy except with a hammer.	DEADLY! Of course, you can hit stakes.	DEADLY! Of course, you can hit stakes. (The kana were refined and simplified and the 打 kanji was replaced with う in the final game.)	Go with a bam-bam! You can hit stakes too, and areas you can't destroy except with a hammer.
I won't be defeated with this sword. I will slash with it. (I will slash even without it.)	I won't be defeated with this sword. I will slash with it. (I will slash even without it.)	SLASH	I won't be defeated with this sword. I will slash with it. (I will slash even without it.)
-DO NOT DISTURB- Please do not wake me up.	-DO NOT DISTURB- Please do not wake me up. (The final Demo version had a graphical glitch with the "DO NOT DISTURB" text.)	-DO NOT DISTURB- Please do not wake me up. (The glitch was fixed in the release version, and the color of the "DO NOT DISTURB" text was changed to red.)	-DO NOT DISTURB- Please do not wake me up.

Placeholder

The following pause screen belongs to an unused "WAIT" state, previously used in Nightmare in Dream Land when Kirby was KOd in multiplayer.

Escaped (dead) I knew it was impossible.. Something came out (げだつ means to have one's soul liberated from worldly regrets and desires. ポア (Phowa) is a Buddhist concept of transferring consciousness that can be associated with death, used especially in connection with the Aleph (formerly Aum Shinrikyo) doomsday cult.