Wario's Woods (NES)

Wario's Woods is a puzzle-platformer where Toad has to stop Wario from blowing up a forest. Notable for being the first game in the Mario series where Toad is the main character (followed by Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker decades later), the only NES game to receive a rating from the ESRB, and the last licensed NES game ever released in North America. A moment of silence, if you please...

Unused Music#

The last song in the game's NSF. Given that its arrangement is similar to the end credits song used in-game, it may be an earlier version.

A medley of songs in the game, possibly also intended to be end credits music.

Regional Differences#

Title Screen#

Japan	International

As a consequence of the international logo being larger vertically than the Japanese one, the top of the tree trunks end up using the logo's palette as opposed to the one used by the rest of the trunk, making them appear discolored. The sign to the woods was also altered to have a location-pointing shape, since it was too tiny to keep the arrow from the Japanese version.

The name and sign were translated in the international versions. Due to the fact that kanji looks bad and unrecognisable at small sizes (like 8x8 pixels), the sign spells out 'forest' as モリ, whereas the logo uses the kanji 森.

Gameplay#

In the Japanese version, you can only drop objects underneath you by pressing A and B at the same time. The international versions also allow you to press Up, making the game a bit easier.

Also in the Japanese version, bombs will sometimes randomly turn into monsters.

Audio#

To do: More music differences in the European version.

The European version, oddly enough, has completely new music. It was written by the same sound team who did the tracks for the SNES version, resulting in similar music between the two.

Title Screen

The title screen music's loop is much longer in the European version.

Menu

Lesson Mode

Round Game

Wario's Turn

The US and Japanese versions use song 1 and song 2 for Wario's turn in the Round Game and Time Race modes respectively. The European version swaps these two songs around, so song 2 is now used in the Round Game mode and song 1 is used in the Time Race mode.

Ranking

The European version has a track that plays on the rankings menu, which is similar to a tune that appears in the SNES version. The Japanese and US versions just keep playing the main menu music.

Staff Roll#

Japan/US	Europe

Due to the music changes, two more sound composers are credited in the European version: Hiroaki Suga and Tadashi Ikegami, who also made the SNES version's soundtrack.

References#