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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Paper Mario (N64) soundtrack is now available on Nintendo Music. The soundtrack contains 148 songs and is 4 hours 29 minutes long.

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Jamey 🏳️‍⚧️ @fawfulthegreat64.net · 26/07/2026

found a tiny bit of beta pm64 (mario rpg 2) footage from e3 1998 that i haven't seen posted anywhere 👀

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Super Paper Mario Nintendo 365 video from Nintendo Today

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Paper Mario: The Origami King is now on Nintendo Music The soundtrack contains 262 tracks and is 11 hours 10 minutes long, making it the 4th longest soundtrack on Nintendo Music.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

In Super Paper Mario, Mr. L is actually much smaller than Mario and Luigi, and gets scaled up at runtime. The game was originally developed for the GameCube before moving to Wii; Mario and Luigi received new Wii graphics while Mr. L was stuck with small GameCube textures.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

An unused model of a roll of toilet paper that was at one point going to be used in the bathroom of Merlee's Mansion in Super Paper Mario. It remains a hidden asset on the map.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A sweet and calm unused song from Super Paper Mario.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

An unused early version of "Flavio's Log" (Sailing to Rogueport) from Paper Mario TTYD (GCN) that was found in the files of the "Paper Mario 2" kiosk demo.

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Reecee 🎃 @reecee.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The stream highlights from my "Paper Mario 2" demo stream is out now, check it out! youtu.be/WMecnTPOk2g

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Paper Mario TTYD Has A WEIRD Prototype

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Photos of the Paper Mario TTYD (GCN) at Nintendo's E3 2004 demo booth. In the demo, Goombella had exclusive dialogue when using her overworld tattle. (Credit: Andrew Goldfarb)

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

E3 2004 footage of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (GCN) from a Famitsu Wave DVD. This is a higher-quality version of the footage that we have. Similar to other E3 2004 demo footage, this does not contain background music, so sound effects can clearly be heard.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Super Mario RPG features Jinx, a miniboss noted for his small size. The prototype version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga shows that he was planned to reappear in that game. Possibly to increase the comedic factor, he was made even smaller.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

SPM also contains equivalents for Luigi and even Mr. L.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

TTYD contains an unused graphic of Mario jumping while crouching. This carried over into SPM, where it's less compressed. Despite the latter game featuring the ability to jump while crouching, it utilizes the normal crouching pose, so this remains unused.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A photo of early demos of Super Paper Mario on GameCube from 2006. Thudley was originally meant to have a transparent body like other Pixls rather than being opaque.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Early pieces of concept art for the canceled Square-version of Super Mario RPG 2 by the original SMRPG's character designer, Kazuyuki Kurashima. This was before Square turned down the offer to develop it and before Intelligent Systems was chosen to develop a sequel in 1997.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

According to concept art from Paper Mario TTYD, Don Pianta was originally planned to be a Mega Mole with his underlings being Monty Moles.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Paper Mario: Sticker Star has an unused “Lucky” status effect.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Screenshots of the Space World 1997 build of Super Mario RPG 2 (Paper Mario 64). This is the earliest known build of the game and the character designs were significantly different from the final game. Scrapped characters like Poochy and Nep-Enut also appear.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Unused Origami Swoop with King Olly colors from Paper Mario: The Origami King.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

In the Paper Mario TTYD Remake, Bowser has a “receive item” animation different from the animation that plays when he receives the fake Garnet Star. This is not possible to see in the game without hacks.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

In the concept art for Paper Mario: Color Splash, one of the early designs for the Red Rescue Squad Toads resembles Andy from Advance Wars, which is another series developed by Intelligent Systems.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

In Paper Mario: Sticker Star, the Oasis Toad's drink appears similar to the Fresh Juice item from TTYD and Mango Juice item from SPM. The variant with the orange slice (reminiscent of the Fresh Juice) is unused in the final game.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Paper Mario TTYD GCN beta screenshots from the Japanese website (a thread)

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Information about Paper Mario 64 from the 2000 Nintendo Source Book (May 2000) which includes an early English logo and screenshot.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

It’s a couple days late but… Happy 1st Anniversary to the discovery of the Paper Mario E3 2010 trailer. This was one of the biggest lost media finds in Paper Mario history and was partially the reason why the Paper Mario Beta Archive was started.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Paper Mario: Sticker Star Nintendo 365 video from Nintendo Today

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Grant GM @grantgm.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

It’s my favorite part of Sticker Star, it’s amazing new Characters! I can’t believe these guys are already 13 years old. In all seriousness, sticker star could have been great, and I’m so sad that we missed out on the game that could have been

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Recently, alongside the other E3 2010 3DS demos that were found, it was discovered that there was another build of the Paper Mario Preview from May 28, 2010. However, this build is nearly identical to the June 7th version. We will share more information if there are any differences found.

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James-Money @jamesmoney.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Surprise! 25 3DS prototype builds are now available! Many come from E3 2010. There's plenty to explore as I go in-depth with these previews in this special video.

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Comet Observatory @cometobservatory.bsky.social · 09/03/2020

The unused Star character, who resembles Eldstar from Paper Mario. It also resembles the Millennium Star from Mario Party 3.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Paper Mario: Color Splash Nintendo365 video from Nintendo Today

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The Paper Mario TTYD Remake is the longest soundtrack on Nintendo Music to date at 13 hours 55 minutes long.

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OatmealDome 🏳️‍🌈 @oatmealdome.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

[Nintendo Music] "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)" and "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (GameCube)" have been added.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

There is an unused “Star” status effect in Sticker Star that makes Mario invincible.

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Reecee 🎃 @reecee.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

A few Paper Mario fans are making an INCREDIBLE mod for Sticker Star that is setting out to make the game significantly better. It looks amazing so far and I love the fact that the scrapped Chain Chomp partner and the S-Meter from the early builds are in this mod.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

In Super Mario Strikers, there is an unused Dull Bones medic model based on the design from Paper Mario TTYD.

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Icedland(Developing Project Noonflower) @icyneenz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

so apparently someone on TCRF pointed out that a strange skeletal head possibly resembling king mander seems to be present in the luigi newspaper screenshot for drybake stadium, so i had to reconstruct based on what i am seeing, and it appears that person may be correct

reconstruction of a potential skeletal mander head poking out of drybake stadium

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

In an early screenshot of Super Paper Mario, a pipe resembling the Return Pipe can be seen outside Bestovius's house. There is also a Brick Block in place of the final game's Save Block, and two rows of coins in the space behind the steps instead of just one.

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Yme 🐇 @whoaz.one · 01/06/2025

new spm unused feature just dropped... 👀 apparently the func responsible for making dashell give you a pm64 spindash is... fully functional?! all i had to do was patch the dashell use function. here it is in its full glory~ spm could've been a good game but they took away our funny little spin :(

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Characters that appear in the E3 2010 builds of Paper Mario: Sticker Star (including the trailer and screenshots). Many use their TTYD/SPM designs but there are a few new designs, mostly for species making their debut in the Paper Mario series.

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Reecee 🎃 @reecee.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The TTYD Remake actually has some remnants of Color Splash and Origami King's sprite style in the game. The characters in many pictures and posters in-game lack shading and have thinner black outlines; the only thing they are missing is the white outlines.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The TTYD Remake seemingly used several different art styles for characters throughout development, including CS/TOK-style sprites, CS/TOK-style sprites without the white outlines, shaded sprites with white outlines, and shaded sprites without the "paper-cutout" depth effect.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In the art gallery of the Paper Mario TTYD remake, there is a render of Koopie Koo's early design. This matches the Koopa Troopa design found in the original game's files, so this was likely from a similar point in development when it more closely resembled Paper Mario 64

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In the Paper Mario TTYD Remake, interestingly, there are unused graphics of the unused badges from the original version of the game.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The Wanted Poster Boo's toy gun from thr TTYD Remake is a 2D version of the ones from the Western play from the Big Sho' Theater in Paper Mario: The Origami King.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Early concepts for Lord Crump, the X-Nauts, and Grodus from Paper Mario TTYD. Grodus's design looks drastically different from the final game, but he still has the staff.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In the January 2013 Wii U Nintendo Direct, Nintendo referenced Yoshi Kid from Paper Mario TTYD in an example post when showing details about Miiverse.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Interestingly, the mushrooms in the Paper Mario: Sticker Star E3 2010 trailer heavily resemble those in Super Mario Galaxy 2.

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Paper Mario Beta Archive @papermariobeta.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In the trailer and screenshots of the E3 2010 version of Paper Mario: Sticker Star, there is a ceiling on the fortress battle map meaning that some enemies, such as Swoops or Buzzy Beetles, may have been able to cling to the ceiling similar to Paper Mario 64 and TTYD.

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