Mario Golf (Game Boy Color)

It's a long drive between the Mushroom Kingdom and the Marion Golf Club. But it'll take more than that to drive a wedge between Mario and his golfing addiction.

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Notes

Unused Character Names#

In the adventure mode, when you talk to an NPC who demonstrates a swing, a computer player is shown making the shot. The game loads one of two possible characters, either 0E (a woman named Munakata), or 0F (a man named Oka). These names are never shown to the player, but they are loaded into memory, and can be seen by hacking the game.

Development Room#

Open Mario Golf (USA) in a memory editor, and change RAM address C450 to 01 in an area such as the character stats screen in story mode and resume gameplay, or use GameShark code 010150C4, or choose 1 in the scene menu described below. The player will be redirected to a room with two rows of seven characters on the top right of the map. Outside of this area, it is completely empty, with nothing but glitched star scrolling animations and a single solid mushroom that doesn't do anything.

Left Row:

• Mario - takes the player to an end-of-hole animation test. Pressing Left and Right switches between sets of characters, while Up and Down selects the character. There's no exit from this screen, other than restarting.
• Luigi - takes the player to some sort of screen filled with various graphics from the game, likely to see how characters appeared on the screen. The games allow the player to move around after pressing the A or B button. Restarting is the only way out.
• Yoshi - player goes to the locker room.
• Toad - player goes to the front of Marion Clubhouse.
• Peach - player goes to the lounge.
• Wario - player goes to the trophy room.
• D.K. - player goes to the Caddie Master's Office.

Right Row:

• Mario - takes the player to a VS. Results screen, then the end-of-hole animation test, but with an incorrect palette for the dialogue boxes.
• Luigi - the player is shown a different debug overlay.
• Yoshi - the player is shown how many stars they need to get for Toad Highlands. Leaving it goes to the menu for 1P play modes.
• Toad - shows the player the tournament total; leaving it goes straight to the main menu.
• Peach - shows rankings for tournament mode; leaving it goes outside the Marion Club.
• Wario - The sepia effect is turned on, followed by a series of beeps. Dialogue boxes retain the sepia effect.
• D.K. - the player is taken to a character animation test screen; touching Mario and Wario goes back and forth between different characters, while touching Peach and Toad cause the player to do his putting animation.

Debug Display#

Open Mario Golf (USA) in a memory editor, and change RAM address FF9E to 02 (or use Gameshark code 01029EFF) during gameplay to see a HUD that flickers on the screen to simulate a transparency effect. Note that any time the player switches view, that the font gets overwritten.

Debug Menu#

A debug menu exists in the game and can be accessed in story mode.

Access#

1. Open Mario Golf in VBA.
2. Go to the Marion Clubhouse.
3. Change RAM address FF9E to 01 in VBA's memory editor.
4. Press A to open the debug menu.

Alternately, use Gameshark code 01019EFF.

Scene#

Map Select. Choose a map with the D-Pad, then press A, B to go to the chosen map.

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Figure out what "- ENTER NO -" does.

Map List#

Map#

Seems to be a list of different areas of the Marion Clubhouse to warp to?

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Figure out what exactly this option does.

Palette#

Edits the palette of the current room. Use the D-Pad to choose a color, A to display the chosen color's RGB values, and the D-Pad to edit them.

Flag#

Flag editor. Use the D-Pad to select a flag and A to enable/disable it.

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Find out what each flag enables.

Regional Differences#

Title Screen#

Japanese	International

Both regional versions have the title logo in a similar style to their respective Mario Tennis counterparts, which were respectively released one or two years later.

Dictionary#

Japanese	International

In addition to the cover graphics change, the pages on the right side were made visible in the international version.

Other#

• The Japanese and European versions use meters in putting instead of feet, changing 30 ft, 100 ft, and 200 ft to 10m, 30m, and 60m respectively. That change doesn't affect the distance, however.
• The Japanese and European versions show wind speed in meters per second rather than miles per hour.
• During the Alternate Game challenge, Lily and Lime's names are swapped in the Japanese version.

Unused Text#

In both non-Japanese versions, a text string based on the default Emacs scratch buffer can be found at ROM address C885F:

This buffer is for notesyou don't want to save,and for Lisp evaluation.ABCDEFG