We've been privy to undocumented Wii features like the 192-Piece Picture Puzzle and the elusive Help Cat for a while now, but did you know that there's a secret Shopping Channel animation of Mario and Luigi swimming together while you're at the download screen?
During a recent roundtable, the developers behind the Wii Shopping Channel talked about how they overcame obstacles with the project, which elements they're proud of, and what they hope to see implemented in the future. One little touch that the developers were pleased to include was this Minus World-esque scene of the Super Mario Bros. paddling through and collecting coins while you download games. It doesn't show up very often, so don't be too upset if you've never come across anything besides the Fire Mario animation before.
We didn't even believe it at first, but Nintendo included a video with the interview transcript to prove its existence. It's a good thing they did too, or we would've gone through our life savings downloading Virtual Console titles, trying to get this alternate animation!
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4-05-2007 @ 11:23AM
Gain_Bijou said...
They mention six types of download screens, I have seen
Small Mario
Big Mario
Fire Mario
They mention
Swimming mario and luigi.
Thats 4, what are the other 2?
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4-05-2007 @ 12:06PM
Keine said...
I was surprised when I saw this while downloading Soldier Blade yesterday.
Also, I live in Europe so this isn't exclusive to certain territories.
Nice touch, Nintendo!
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4-05-2007 @ 1:25PM
UpIrons said...
I have only seen the fire mario in my, so far, 3 VC downloads.
But after reading a bit of that article I was even more excited about this quote from one of the developers...
"I also would like to play the old arcade versions of the games. Not the Famicom versions, but games like the arcade version of Donkey Kong. Miyamoto-san seems to have stronger feelings towards the arcade version, too."
So let's have the arcade versions already Nintendo!!!!
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4-05-2007 @ 1:48PM
hvnlysoldr said...
They probably have to write an emulator for each arcade game which is probably slowing them down. Besides saying the same company should be able to do their own arcade, remember that the arcade machines over the years became more powerful and each version of them would need its own emulator...
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4-05-2007 @ 3:56PM
JasonVA said...
Wierd cause I have downloaded 2 games and saw this screen both times. I have never even seen the fire Mario.
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4-05-2007 @ 6:07PM
otsego said...
because spending your life savings for an alternate animation is H4RD K0R3. dont get me wrong i enjoy my wii, but sometimes i gotta think.. damn, there are some truely sorry nintendo fanboys out there... and they're probably in their late 20s to mid 30s... *shudder*
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4-05-2007 @ 10:52PM
bryan1618 said...
When i went through the whole download process while pressing B i got small mario and then when i downloaded another game while pressing 1 through the whole process i got small fire luigi every other time its been big fire mario. Im not sure if it was the button presses or if it was a coincidence.
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4-16-2007 @ 2:29PM
Garreett said...
You don't need to spend your life savings - just delete and redownload the Everybody Votes Channel/Internet channel until you get it. ;)
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