Unused Characters

This is a sub-page of Mario Super Sluggers.

There are a total of 6 unused characters within the data for the playable characters, being unused alternate colors of a few characters in the game. Much of the data for these unused characters is mostly unfinished, with the only remaining pieces include the character stats, IDs, and a set of graphics which mention the names of these unused characters.

By default, the unused characters have their character select values set to 0, disabling their appearance on the character select screen. Changing these values to 1 enables them to be selected on the character select screen, appearing as selectable colors on the color wheel of their base characters. However, the unused characters load in with Peach's model with animations from their base character, as their model appearance bytes have been set to 0. This can be fixed by changing these values back to 1 which loads the models in for the unused characters, all of them reusing their base character models. All the unused characters use Pink Yoshi's icons during gameplay, as there doesn't exist any icons for them on the character icon sprite sheet.

The following Gecko Code re-enables the unused characters on the character select screen:

Black Yoshi & White Yoshi#

The first two unused characters are Black Yoshi and White Yoshi, who are both unused alternate colors for Yoshi and reserved for IDs 0x47 and 0x48 respectively.

Both Black and White Yoshi share the exact same stats as Yoshi, with a few differences shown below. Like the rest of Yoshi’s alternate colors, both characters aren’t captains, so the unused Yoshis don’t have the Rainbow Ball and Egg Swing ability. Other than that, the rest of the stats were lowered with the exception of the hitbox width, which was slightly increased.

When enabled on the character select screen, Black and White Yoshi break the color wheel due to the limit being six colors for each character. And since Yoshi has the most alternate colors on the character wheel, the color wheel data for the unused Yoshis must be assigned to a different character in order to access them.

The following Gecko Code reassigns their color wheel data to be grouped with Mario on the character select screen: (Note: The unused Yoshis will use Mario's voice clips as a result of the code assigning them to Mario's color wheel.)

0062F068 0000000E
0662F2A0 00000010
0E000000 00010105
0E000000 00020109

00631550 0000000E
06631788 00000010
0E000000 00010105
0E000000 00020109

Black Toad#

ID 0x49 is reserved for Black Toad, who is an unused alternate color for Red Toad.

Unlike the rest of the unused characters who use their base character's model, Black Toad uses Purple Toad's model. Black Toad shares the same stats as Red Toad, with a few differences shown below. Compared to Red Toad, most of Black Toad's stats were raised for stamina, catch ranges, and hitboxes, while the batting stats were lowered. Black Toad also doesn't have a Star Pitch type.

Black Pianta#

ID 0x4A is reserved for Black Pianta, who is an unused alternate color for Blue Pianta.

Black Pianta shares the same stats as Blue Pianta with some slight differences shown below. Black Pianta has less stamina, medium hit trajectory, and no Star Pitch type, but a slight raise with pitching stats.

Black Kritter#

ID 0x4B is reserved for Black Kritter, who is an unused alternate color for Kritter.

Black Kritter shares the same stats as Kritter, with a few differences shown below. On the character select screen, Black Kritter is 0.1 unit taller than the rest of the Kritters. Most of Black Kritter's stats were lowered, such as stamina, batting, pitching, catch ranges, and hitboxes. Black Kritter also doesn't have a Star Pitch type.

While batting, Black Kritter's mace is held on his right hand even though Black Kritter is a left-handed batter.

The following Gecko Code fixes this visual bug so the mace is held in Black Kritter's left hand:

00695103 00000002

006B4C33 00000002

Black Koopa#

Finally, ID 0x4C is reserved for Black Koopa, who is an unused alternate color for Koopa.

Black Koopa shares the same stats as Koopa, with a few differences shown below. Most of Black Koopa's stats were lowered with pitching and catch ranges. Black Koopa has a medium hit trajectory unlike Koopa's low trajectory, and also lacks a Star Pitch type.