Ahead of the release of Mario Strikers: Battle League on the Nintendo Switch this June - dataminer, "Mario historian" and Twitter user 'Dogon McBanana' has been sifting through the back end of the original GameCube entry, Super Mario Strikers.
While "digging through the game's files" they've stumbled across an entire team of "generic Mario style humans" and various other unused assets in the final build of the game that they felt was worth sharing with Nintendo fans on social media.
https://twitter.com/Dogon_McBanana/status/1497029955888189441
Donkey Kong also has "Kong-like characters" and Luigi has a "dupe of himself", too. While these models weren't in the final game, it seems as if Next Level Games might have been considering original character designs to support the Mario cast.
https://twitter.com/Dogon_McBanana/status/1497029961261015042
Some other interesting models that weren't utilised were characters from Paper Mario and Super Mario Sunshine. First up we've got "Dull Bones" recreated in 3D and labelled "Medic" in the game's files, and some security Pianta (found in the E3 prototype of Mario Strikers).
https://twitter.com/Dogon_McBanana/status/1497029968705974272
Additional findings include unused banners, signage and a Goomba guard - which apparently has some ties to a cut stage.
https://twitter.com/Dogon_McBanana/status/1497055896093949961
In somewhat related news, the upcoming release Nintendo Switch Sports was recently datamined - with findings leading to theories that Nintendo might add some new sports in the future.
What do you think of the above character models? Are you looking forward to the return of the Mario Strikers series later this year? Leave a comment down below.
[source twitter.com, via gonintendo.com]
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Pianta, not pinata. The guy who posted the tweet mistook the name.
Teenage mario confirmed!
One forgotten character I would like to see make a return is Boshi.
@NerdyBoutKirby Either that, or we have another victim of autocorrect on our hands. 😔
I wouldn't mind if Bowsette made it into the new game.
200,000 Chris Pratts ready with a million more well on the way.
As I said somewhere else, that Mario-esque human looks like if Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 5 from KND: Kids Next Door had a baby.
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Never knew I needed that Security Pianta in my life.
I was just a little curious about this human 'character' - it even reminded me of a cartoon where there was a character very similar to this one
Was I the only one who at first thought they were talking about the NEW game?! I was so mad like where’d you even get a copy of it and now giving spoilers?! Haha
Also that security guy is awesome.
Security Pianta should be in the upcoming Mario Strikers: Battle League game.😄
A Dull Bones medic, you mean you can get bodily harmed in the game, boy this Mario sports game is going to get a teen or mature rating!
That first human looks like he'd be the mascot of a bubble gum or potato chip brand.
@HammerGalladeBro Yeah, I thought of KND as well, haha!
@HolyGeez03 Do I need to bonk you!
"Human" Mario Brothers? Have Mario and Luigi been secretly been Italian Plumber Gnomes/Dwarves all this time?
Wait... do these Goombas have telekinetic powers that enable them to hold spears and shields despite having no arms? That'd even the odds against Mario's boot all right...
Looks like stuff for testing and/or prototypes
That first human is literally just Andy Capp.
The Mario Bros. aren't already humans?
This is pretty awesome. I wish that Dry Bones medic in particular survived, would've been cool seeing them running onto the field after someone got electrocuted again. lol
@Rosalinho Haven't Goombas been able to 'hold' stuff in the past like that, like a baseball bat in Mario Baseball? Then there's the whole Goomba shtick in Paper Mario where they're able to hold things like hammers (Goompa) and books (Goombella). Seeing this, while a bit rare, is nothing new as far as I'm aware.
Human Mario! Looks like Nintendo have been thinking about Chris Pratt for a long time.
@Yosher I thought the Goombas held their baseball bats in their mouths, but Google Image Search has proven me wrong. I stand corrected before your expertise in Goombology.
@Rosalinho Hahah. Logic would probably tell you they'd hold it on their mouth but nah. The little buggers are actually psychic!
.... either that or they have really really really tiny arms that we just can't see.
@sleepinglion Thats what I thought when reading the title lmfao
I wonder if Strikers was originally to have a complimenting GBA game, like the Mario Tennis and Mario Golf games. I know Camelot didn't make Strikers, but the idea may have been in place to follow a similar path where the GBA version would have offered an RPG mode where you play as an original human like character in the Mario world, and that character could even then be transferred to the console counterpart.
Some fun stuff in there!
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Reminds me, have we seen Birdo yet in the upcoming game?
He/she/they have been curiously absent from quite many party/sports titles since the launch of the Wii U. :v
@Seanmyster6 They keep piling up...
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