Super Mario 3D Land

Super Mario 3D Land is like a high-speed 3D collision between New Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Galaxy, featuring a reference to The Legend of Zelda. It marks the return of the Super Leaf from Super Mario Bros. 3, but instead of turning Mario into Raccoon Mario it turns him into Tanooki Mario, which behaves like the Carrot Power-Up from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. The Statue Leaf from the Special Worlds behaves similar, plus the feature of turning the player into Stone Mario. There's also the White Tanooki suit which makes Mario invincible, seen after the player fails a course several times, and the P-Wing (also from Super Mario Bros. 3) which sends the player straight to the flagpole if they fail several more times. Oh, and players can accumulate 1,110 lives.

Prototype Info Prerelease Info Notes Unused Textures Unused AudioMore like Super Mario 3D Galaxy. Kiosk Demo English Translation Differences

Unused Areas#

To do: There are more unused things, such as unused rails and a huge number of start positions.

Unreachable Coins#

The stage Special 6-3 contains an unreachable area filled with coins that spell out 3D. It's a leftover from World 2-2.

Cutscene Leftover#

The stage Special 8-6 contains leftover objects from the World 8-Bowser cutscene. There's a wooden Peach, some wood shards, and an invisible barrier.

Removed Levels#

Multiple byml files and the code file contain references to levels that do not exist in the final game.

Development Text#

Removed Debug Font#

ResourceCategoryTable.byml in ObjectData\ResourceSystem.szs refers to two removed things; archive DebugFont and its parent folder DebugData.

Internal Project Name#

Super Mario 3D Land is named RedPepper internally, according to the SoundData/RedPepperSound.bcsar filename, the EffectData/EffectData.szs/EffectData.ptcl's project name and other assets. This is also reflected in the game's two-letter product code "RE" (i.e. Red Pepper or Red Pepper).

Oddities#

Layer Structure#

To do: I'm pretty sure this is used for some Special world levels? List the unused remnants such as countdown and PreLoad lists and compare them with the used ones from the actual levels

Similar to the Galaxy games, objects in level data are divided into layers, and it also includes information on scenarios, which define which object should be loaded for which scenario.
This was used in the Galaxy games to load the same zones and galaxies with different objects depending on the scenario/mission. However, this layer system is not used in 3D Land at all, as all layers are simply loaded permanently, although most levels have their objects divided into different layers.
However, the layer division is quite arbitrary, so it could simply be leftovers from level designers for different purposes.

Even if 3D Land contains variations of the same levels (which are mostly found in Special worlds), these variations are simply modified duplicates of other levels, which are loaded with a different “scenario” system that simply loads the duplicate levels using prefixes and does not take scenario and layer systems into account, which makes the scenario settings and layer system completely useless.
Interestingly, some levels contain unused remnants from the scenario system, such as countdown settings for each scenario, which not only differ from the actual duplicate levels with the settings actually used, but also indicate some remote variations.

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