Proto:Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga/Early Sprites

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Mario & Luigi

Some otherwise finalized sprites of the Bros. include an extra bright shade of blue for their overalls, which was overwritten and replaced to make room for additional Hammer palettes. The Bros.' overalls were universally simplified to only using two blue colors as a result.

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Mario's Idle sprites in battle had an open mouth in addition to having extra glow on his nose. While the glow on his nose is consistent with most other front-facing sprites of Mario, it was removed as it would constantly be switching sides considering the animation flips.

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These sprites can be found in the Minecart minigame, after accepting to try the challenge again. They seem to be based on an earlier design of the brothers, with blue eyes, smaller shoes, and a darker color palette.

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This sprite is very different from the final version, Luigi, in addition to having blue eyes (leftovers from a previous, older version) he doesn't have his mouth open and he is also in a different position with his legs stretched out instead of crouched, in addition of having a slightly bigger head and brighter pants with much lighter buttons.

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Luigi's eyes are still and his hat has a different shade, in addition to not having his mouth open and his legs not crouched, having a similar sprite to the previous one.

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Luigi's eyes are still blue and his shoe is in a slightly different position than the final version, in addition to the handle appearing much more.

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Luigi's eyes are still blue and a little bigger than his final version, the soles of his shoes are black in addition to being much smaller, the strap of his backpack is more to the right, showing the buttons on his pants better and his pants are very brighter.

Characters

Princess Peach

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Peach has blue eyes, her hair is a little lighter and her jewelry is dark green.

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Peach's eyebrows were cut from the final version.

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Her palette now looks like the final version but still has blue eyes.

Toad Guard

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The Toad Guards have a bigger head, and a different icon on their costume, which appears to more resemble a more realistic mushroom rather than the Super Mushroom. This icon is also drawn on their back sprite, which was removed in the final game. Their costume was also slightly re-shaded.

Toad Normal

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Just like the Toad Guards, Toad's head is different, being much larger than his final version. and interestingly the shape of his head being very similar to his fainted sprite.

Bowletta

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Bowletta has a radically different design, with very little resemblance to Cackletta and more resemblance to an exaggerated bulldog-like Bowser. Some of her early sprites notably depict her hands as having five fingers, whereas the final sprites depict her with only four fingers, to keep consistent with Bowser's regular appearance.

Enemies

Goomba

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Goomba's shoes were gray in the prototype, instead of brown.

Yo Bro

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Yo Bros looked drastically different, wearing completely different attire and having skinnier limbs.

Chuck Guy & Elite Chuck Guy

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Chuck Guys were originally not Shy Guys at all. The stronger variant that appeared in Guffawha Ruins was yellow instead of light blue, and wielded a shield.

Hammer Bro

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Originally, the Hammer Bros. were to have a beanified appearance.

Mecha-Chomp

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Originally, Mecha-Chomps would be completely different from their final version, being just a normal Chain Chomp instead of a robotic version.

Piranha Plant

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Originally, Piranha Plants were placed inside what seems to be flower pots. They also had a smaller amount of teeth visible as well as bigger white spots. In general, the early sprite seems to resemble the Piranha Plant's modern design much more than the final sprite.

Boss

Lemmy Koopa

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Lemmy was posed differently, balancing atop a ball. The ball was omitted from the final game entirely.

Minigames

Bink

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Evidently, Bink is alive! Well, more alive than being a sentient skeleton, at least. He bears a resemblance to Donkey Kong, complete with his tie. It's currently unknown why Bink was changed to be just a skeleton, but it was possibly to fit in with the other skeletal sailors.

Miscellaneous

Suitcase

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The suitcase is completely different, being silver as shown in File Select and Menu.

Battle Hud

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Hud is much more rounded than the final version. Furthermore, there is a shading on the two icons that does not exist in the final.

Numbers

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The numbers are very different and much brighter.