Unused Tilesets And Backgrounds

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To do: Add animated rips, where relevant. The desert clouds background has an unused tileset paired with it, which is a yellow-tinted version of the normal sky tileset. The only level that uses the desert clouds background (W2-6 Area 2) uses the normal desert tileset instead, rendering this tileset unused. Double check which ones are unused.

Mushrooms/Athletic#

To do: Add comparisons with the other mentioned backgrounds

ID 13, 14 - "kinoko" (mushroom). This is paired with the standard mushrooms/athletic tileset, but levels with that tileset never use this background. It most closely resembles the background used for W4-Cannon in the final game, and also resembles both the final field backgrounds, and early field backgrounds seen in pre-release footage (although the latter may have been used for athletic levels too).

Volcano Cliffs#

To do: This is possibly broken by default?

ID 16, 22 - "kazangake" (volcano cliffs). A variation of the "outside volcano" tileset - ID 15 - "kazan" (volcano). It appears to be a volcanic mountain area set during the day. A similar background and tileset appear in pre-release material, but the background contained a red sky. If this is just an alternate variation of said background is unknown. Note that the early World 4 icon both has volcanoes and a similar palette.

Mini Bonus Room#

ID 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72 - "mame" (mini). The one used in the final is called "mame_bonus" - its not known if there's any meaning behind "bonus" being used there, or its just there to distinguish it from the unused one. This tileset is paired with these backgrounds:

NES Sprites - Lakitu#

Mario in his death animation, alongside Lakitu.

NES Sprites - Bowser#

Fire Mario running towards Bowser.

NES Sprites - Swimming#

Mario and Luigi swimming.

NES Sprites - Vine#

Fire Mario climbing a vine through the clouds and a pink sky.

NES Sprites - Mario & Luigi#

Mario and Luigi running and jumping.

Underground 2#

ID 36 - "chika2" (underground 2). An underground cave background and tileset.

This background's bottom layer looks broken when loaded in-game because the game loads the wrong tileset file: /BG_ncg/d_2d_I_M_back_chika3_ncg.bin (bottom layer tileset for background ID 35) instead of /BG_ncg/d_2d_I_M_back_chika2_ncg.bin.

Here is the bottom layer as seen in the game (left) and the way it was intended to appear (right):

Underground 3#

ID 73 - "chika3" (underground 3). Red rocky underground. Paired with the similar tileset.