Super Mario World Localization Prototype FOUND! | Forest of Illusion 

Oh, 4:46 The buttons were changed back to Red, Blue, Green and Yellow for PAL regions. Only the US and Canada had the purple design :)

With every video game prototype that is found, my hope for the cartridge of Earthbound 64 being found increases day by day.

born too late to explore earth born too early to explore the galaxy born just in time to see the localization prototype for Super Mario World get preserved

What a fantastic find!!! I loved how The Gaming Historian narrated this too!! Cannot wait to see what more prototype builds and assets will get found in the future! :)

3:12 I think that "stray pixel" is supposed to a nail holding up the sign.

a stray pixel on the sign of yoshi's house? actually unplayable. (pretty cool find!)

It’s like a secret Gaming Historian episode. Good job to all involved! ^^

This is actually amazing, THANK YOH ALL FOR HELPING FINDING THIS! Even though it's just an localization prototype it's really cool to get an prototype.

There's a minor graphical bug that can be seen on the bottom left of the screen @3:27 when you rescue princess Toadstool. Hopefully Nintendo can patch that out before release.

0:14 has a clip of another prototype. The giveaway is the title screen using the Super Mario Bros 4 logo, but this time without the 4. Nice!

super fucking mario!

The European button-colours were red, yellow, blue and green. At least my Super Nintendo purchased in Norway had those colour buttons on its controls.

Stray pixel on the Yoshi sign is likely supposed to be a nail holding the sign up.

Awesome! And it has a debug mode!

Great find. Will play it asap. Merry Christmas to all of you guys. Thanks for the video.

This is an awesome early Christmas gift

Woah what!?

I bet the stray pixel on Yoshi’s sign was actually meant to be a nail

Awesome. Thanks for making this video and all the work you guys do!

Excellent video. Thanks for making it!

Personally, I would have changed it to, “Also, your progress will be saved.”

Love this video style, I hope you guys do more like this! Having The Gaming Historian narrate is 👌

Man, what a find indeed! It's always great to see more and more pieces of video game history get preserved, and this is no exception. Great work to everyone involved in securing and preserving this prototype!

4:50 *for North American SNES controllers great job though!

This is an early Christmas miracle for Mario fans.

Almost completely overlooked this video because I thought the red border on the bottom was my watch time and it was one I already watched lmao

this is huge

Great video, excellent storytelling!

That voice is recognizable everywhere, thanks for the video!

Awesome find and thanks for sharing this with us. :)

Truly a fantastic video! I don't even want to know how long it took to look for all this information

The Gaming Historian narrating fits SO well, cause the history is his style, and talking about prototypes just makes so much sense.

Fantastic. I love finds like this!

Lovely find!

Always cool seeing stuff like this come to light. The font used in the prototype's text was re-used in the final game for the message that appears after you defeat Bowser!

I can't believe it finally happened. Here's hoping that more Mario prototypes get discovered in the upcoming year 😇😇

Great video and awesome content!

what a pleasant surprise to randomly click on this and hear the voice of Norm Caruso!

Love the video. I was upset you forgot to add the detail that Yoshi could eat Dolphins in the Japanese version but that feature was removed in the US release.

Merry Christmas I guess, wasn't expecting this today

Excellent music choices!

finally we got a prototype of super mario world

Yo, this is cool! I love it when stuff like this surfaces!

Found this in circulation. Now i know what they were using in the commercials that aired when i was a kid.

Wow a perfect Christmas gift, a beta rom of SMW ❤ :D If only we can found a more early beta rom with the gigaleak content but im still really happy that this rom is found, im always curious about the SMW beta, this game is my all time favorite videogame :) .

You can beat some of those unused TEST levels with glitches to get beyond 96 exits on the Japanese version of the game. On the US version, you can still do it, but the title screen displays "96🌟" for all exit counts above 96. I wonder if that was implemented yet at the time of this prototype?

Woah I didnt know about the L+R thing to return back to a cleared castle. Thanks for the info!

Boo Jackson should've been kept

People will have fun speedrunning this prototype

What a great early Christmas present!

Crazy find!!

I'm excited to see this new discovery prototype

Cool video! I found this out because of StutteringCraigs reaction video.

Redhotsonic be like: 'But Dose it work, on real hardware?'

still hoping that someday someone will release the story copy build that i seen back in the day at then Kmart for the holidays, i still remember that for some reason someone had game overed on the game and it was totally different then the normal retail version, you could see the game map and it was different too, real hard to explain but it was kinda like mario 3 but it wasnt... someday im sure

A perfect time for Christmas.

Woah, amazing.

This is history for gaming

I know we’ll never get the story behind the rom … likely an unreturned reviewer’s prototype. ❤❤❤ the detail and comparison to gigaleak data

Thank you!

Very good!

8:26 - ...so what does accessing the seventh unlockable Star Road (the post-Funky one in the Special Area) do? Bit odd that you'd try the first six to see what happens but not the seventh, especially given what that last Star Road normally does.

Hmm pretty cool.

I’d like to see the flying platform stage from World 5 (Forest of Illusion). “Forest Secret Area.” I recall an in-depth preview of the game from the early ‘90s showed that stage with the wrong background and I never forgot about it. I recall it was an unofficial guide book for several NES games that also included a Super Mario World preview. Because it was a guide and not a magazine it stayed on the shelf at my local K-Mart for years after the game was released. Well, I guess this explains why the manual says you can’t re-enter castle stages when you clearly can using L + R. That’s bugged me since 1993! Now I see the manual was just localized first. ;)

5:23 nobody: ok english teachers:dies

this makes me wonder if nintendo was originally going to release the super nintendo & it’s launch games globally on the same day but they delayed it until 1991.

i love you forest of illusion

finally we even have a prototype of this This reminds me of that Sonic 1 prototype

very small correction, very very small: The international controllers were not changed to purple and lavender - that was just the NTSC ones. The international PAL consoles had the colourful buttons too.

Hell yeah!

Epic 👍

Seeing before great N triggers their Intellectual property jealousy

This is incredible, now imagine finding Mario 128

5:10 Having 'also' at the end of the sentence like that isn't incorrect grammar. People can and do write/talk like that, and it is correct. It's just just more old-fashioned.

5:21 this does make sense though

Prototype ROM Mario really said /gamemode creative

And to think I was just watching the Gaming Historian video on SMW yesterday. I did a bit of a double take on who's video this was when I clicked on it. lol

I always remembered in the final US build if you managed to get to the 1st star world via the Boo Boss battle and cleared the 1st star world stage staying to the far left and spinning with a mushroom or more to get to the key and opening the door then making small blue Yoshi eat the star and clearing that stage with the key at the end then keeping the Blue Yoshi and going back to the main game and not revisiting the star world until you cleared the Valley of Bowser the game would remove the key in the box in the Latiku cloud floating part making the whole 96 stages impossible to clear... I wonder if the prototype left this in as it seems to have altered this stage near the end of the game?

*GASP* Do I hear Norman The Gaming Historian?

Preservation! Something I wish we all favored.

Wow!

Everyone: *dies of excitement*

I thought I was watching Norm the Gaming Historian's channel at first!!

Actually, I think the stray pixel on the Yoshi sign might be a nail?

The purple buttons were used exclusively in NTSC regions

I was searching for Hit Entertainment prototypes and somehow I found this

Does anyone happen to know where the image of Mario and company cleaning the PCB board at the end comes from?

7:35 -- yeah I've known about that for yeeeeeears

Hopefully we can find the prototype with the mushroom island and that looked more like SMB3.

Nintendo (of America) is wrong for not adding the Super Mario Bros. 4 subtitle to the official title and promotion! Matter of fact, if they just released the Super Famicom, christened it 2:52 the SNES (like Europe) and not change the design or color of the cartridges and controllers, they could have released the system by May or June around the same time as Sonic the Hedgehog’s release but instead, ended up in a dog fight with Sega for the 6 years.

Dang after all those powerful codes I thought you were going to say "and then press L R and Start to instantly save Princess Peach and acquire infinite lives and coins and fill every colored block and engage post-Star-World graphics like the construction worker koopas " and stuff. But yea that's a cool cart though, neat find

i hope the beta with the beta yoshi sprite that looks more like a dino gets leaked someday. also one with the smb3 racoon tail instead of cape...

It's a weird treat to hear your voice here; but on such a low-sub count channel

I know this voice! Amazing!!!

How did I not know about this? :O

Yo Gaming Historian.

03:17 the mailbox is a prototype for the Tesla car logo

Thanks @craigtalksnews for shedding light on this! New subscriber for sure!

Fun Fact: SMB3 and SMW (JP) logos are actually the same.

Yo who made that background music, it's so nice