How a Graffiti Map Led to Restoring Mario Sunshine’s Lost Area
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2022
- Super Mario Sunshine's beta trailer at Spaceworld 2001 gave us a glimpse into a world we never would get to play. That is, until almost 2 decades later when a talented group of individuals took on the challenge of rebuilding this lost world from a single scrap left behind: A height map used to measure graffiti. This is the full story of this amazing Super Mario Sunshine beta recreation, so I hope you enjoy!
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Credits:
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Major props to Tempo and Yoshi2 for leading the charge with contributions by JoshuaMK, Inkstar, Just_Gio123, GamerSubZero, Epicwade, and Thomas.
A huge thanks to Tempo and JoshuaMK for providing documentation and assets for this video: @team_eclipse
Written by SwankyBox and Tempo.
Filmed by SwankyBox.
Music credits:
Songs from Super Mario Sunshine OST
"Delfino Plaza Remix" - Super Smash Bros Ultimate
"Sea and Sky" - Super Mario Sunshine - เกม
video game projects like this should count as legitimate art restoration, and be respected as much as any traditional art restoration. you can tell how much love and effort was put into this.
An honor to be a part of this! Thanks for spreading the word about Sunshine modding!
I find it interesting that the Beta was 60 fps and more realistic, no cell shading, realistic brick textures. And it had like human looking npcs not just Delphinoans.
They're called Piantas
Super Mario Adventure
It’s amazing the love this game is getting so many years after its release. Thanks for converting this stuff!
Covering?
@@bandawin18 Yeah I’m pretty sure they meant covering
U wont believe i took my xbox controller and pc to my school, wasted 3hours installing mario sunshine and mod with texure hd because i have a classmate who loves it, man begged me to bring it to class so i did, man was nostalgic af and crying and hugged me❤ he was so happy and also i was :)
@@eternal4056 you're a great person
Its weird to think that if that guy didn't record the trailer at space world, it's entirely plausible we'd never of seen anything in this video, nor would the history of this game be as fleshed out as it is
My childhood is brought to life, i always wondered what exploring this area would be like while watching old beta footage
Just imagine how just a few people put that much effort into something like that, not because they get paid for it, but because of the love to the game. That's dedication! Much respect!
And then Nintendo comes along and smacks it down.
@@camwyn256 Capitalism breeds innovation
@@TheCherryTrader no, it smacked it down. Just like with AM2R
@@camwyn256 am joking :p
Absolutely fantastic video dude!! Thank you so much for the opportunity and for helping to spread awareness about game development history 👍
I love beta re-creation projects! So awesome.
This is so cool seeing this beta location in Mario Sunshine being fleshed out to the point of being playable!! If anyone else really likes this sort of content, I would highly recommend the video Pikmin 3 Unearthed, where some people were able to fully recreate an unfinished beta level in that game that was only shown off in the reveal. And, like with Mario Sunshine, the level was completely removed from the game files. Whereas the Sunshine team was able to use the graffiti map to recreate the entire map, the Pikmin team only had the Pikmin carrying routes to make the entire level! It was truly incredible what they were able to do in that video as well.
I hope people can recreate the textures and npcs
Replace all the dolphin imagery with another sea creature and perhaps this could be a plaza for one of the surrounding islands instead. Maybe say the Granchio Archipelago? That's my fan name for the crab islands southwest of Isle Delfino.
I'm so happy that mods like this can be made for Sunshine! Forever my favourite Mario game. ❤
So proud of my brothers Tempo and JoshuaMK for their work on this!!!
Sunshine defined, like, 65% of my soul growing up.
That is dedication right there! I have always wanted to see people try and recreate Sunshine's beta elements.
So glad the mario vids are back! There used to be much more mario content on the channel and I miss it.
i really hope swankybox makes more of this kind of content
This is an awesome recreation! That old Isle Delfino sure was interesting.
GameCube betas are like the holy grail of lost content so this is awesome. GC gigaleak when? 🙏
I always wanted you to do this video idea! The beta elements of super mario sunshine spawn a lot of mysteries just waiting to be solved, so I like that you took a look at them! Keep it up!
YES ! I've always been fascinated by this Beta Delfino Plaza ! Glad to see something very close to the official beta build now ! :D:D:D:D Still a bit of differences there and there, but still amazing work !
The whole thing about adding this lost area to the Super Mario Eclipse mod, and make it into a mission in which you travel in time was freaking awesome and a nice touch! You're indeed traveling through time by playing into this lost area: you're playing an area that was only available in that Spaceworld, 2001 trailer!
Lol, if only the people working on these games realized back then how massive all this beta / prototype stuff would be to fans. Really makes you wonder if anyone anywhere has any real prototype versions of the game on some old forgotten hard drive in Japan.
These videos are so interesting, love your content!
God I would love to see the entire beta version of the game recreated
unbelievably cool. awesome work to all involved. i love seeing shit like this. betas are such an important part of the history of all of our favorite games. getting a look into the past and seeing how things evolved is fascinating. now, if only there were more actual, original betas available, but, alas, i doubt many of them were preserved in any form, most of the time. finding one is like finding a game's holy grail. and then they have to actually be made available, which collectors generally hate doing, because they perceive it as driving down the value of their collectible. such a dickish way of looking at things.
This Amazing, outstanding job. A pure passion project. I could run around this place for over an hour. It looks great.
This is actually so cool. I've always wanted to explore the beta Delfino Plaza. (Isn't it called Dolpic Town in the beta?) This is literally a dream come true!
This was so sick and that fan integrated storyline part at the end 👌
I love these Mario Sunshine videos! Keep them coming :)
Such amazing work! Would've loved to see all of the original dull color schemes to give it more of a thrill-Like I'm truly experiencing a demo that was almost forgotten.
That's why following a hastily scrawled graffiti map and entering a magical land will always be one of my Pixel Portals.
Mario sunshine is the most underrated game ever made it was WAY ahead of its time it’s graphics where incredible game play was super smooth the NPCS where like botw level the mechanics where incredible and it had the best boss fights any Mario game ever had it’s still one of my favorite games ever
I love Fludd and the atmosphere of the game but I never had the incentive to complete it unlike Mario 64.
@@ricardocantoral7672 well 100% is kinda annoying cuz of the blue coins but it’s still doable
Awesome vid, what a great project!
This is absolutely incredible :D
Man I cant wait for eclipse, this sounds awesome. Thanks for showing it off!
Thats incredible. Great work
just wait until the original prototype gets leaked
What if the prototype gets released and reveals even more difference? 😁
Neat video! Thanks for uploading!
Sunshine is my all time favorite game thank you so very much for doing this! You made my child self so happy
I often have dreams about extra sunshine content so this is great
They really discover and do new and amazing things about past games regularly😌
This video needs a few million views. its incredible!
Honestly, he did an amazing job. If the unused NPC can be remade one day somehow, it'd be perfect
We are one step closer to that Beta gameplay
This is fantastic! Now i can see it myself
R.I.P Tramplin' Stu.
I'm so excited for Super Mario Eclipse, I've been tracking its progress for quite a while. Probably my most anticipated game behind Skate 4 and Palia.
This channel is dangerously addictive. My productivity levels dropping.
Sunshine has always Been the 3D Mario game that not a lot of people remember much of. But that’s not to say it wasn’t a pretty iconic game!
Nice man that’s awesome love it
good job josh and yoshi2
This game came out the same year I was born, I spent a huge chunk of my childhood playing this game with one of those "Mini" GameCube controllers. I can't believe its been 20 years.....
Awesome video
Now someone needs to bring back the betas for games like Mario Galaxy, Pikmin 3, Mario 3D World, Splatoon, and Mario Odyssey.
this probably isn’t the channel for it, but what you said about betas hits me. my favourite memories come from the Elder Scrolls Online stress test.
"Lost content"-type videos are my favorite things from you
Amazing! Missing some grass and the pole wire you jump on in that one shot! @5:36
The defined Plaza of SpaceWorld looks twice as big as the one they recreated, and the little that is seen in SpaceWorld shows that there are even more houses.
Wow, I love this passionate work. ❤️
I'm doing a similar thing with Spyro 2 and his prototypes, making a custom version of the second hub world Autumn Plains on a social game called VRChat.
yeah I’m gonna type a lot, but swankybox was an awesome TH-camr, it’s weird seeing how this much work was put in just to be scrapped. It would have been really different seeing an enemy so large in the main hub. As a person who played Mario 64 before sunshine.
I LOVE the idea of playing beta versions of levels, I remember watching footage for Halo 2 and always wanting to play the earth level it showed but never made it into the game. Same with several mario games, including Sunshine, and of course Valve games like HL2 beta maps, I always wanted to find the strider battle and zombie docks.
I've played Super Mario Eclipse and it's one of the best fan mods I've played. It wasn't easy to get though because it required you to have the "perfect copy of the game." My friend Mako had to help me get it, but when he got it working it was over. I had so much fun playing Eclipse, the custom maps and being able to play as Piantissimo was awesome. I can't wait for the full release. SwankyBox, there's this mod for Melee called Beyond Melee and I think you try it.
i know it probably never will happen specially now with the hd remake or w/e it was
but man it would be breathtaking to see what isle delphino wouldve became as it grew/moved forward in time, or just a modern full on remake of the game (so small things like the heatwaves arent lost just for instance)
Wonderful!
I was expecting more gameplay but this is neat too
I'd like to see someone recreate more of the original textures
Incredible work though!!!
Looks like something I’d see in my dreams
Seriously, Sunshine has the most intriguing beta stuff than any other Mario game. If Iwata didn’t reduce development time for most games on the GameCube, who knows what many games would’ve looked like.
When I was a kid pre TH-cam I used to stay up around the clock to see if the Sunshine trailer would show on G4s Cinematech.
I wonder if any of the beta assets are in that big leak that happened a while back?
Sadly there have been no assets found so far. I'm never giving up hope that an early build will be unearthed one day.
@@DJ_CARCINOGEN oh ok thx. Just wishful thinking.
Here’s a question, are you going back to your Swankyzone Channel? I really loved it
In a future video, do you think you could check out the unreachable water and lava planets in Bowser's Galaxy Reactor in Super Mario Galaxy? One is just a featureless ball of water, and the other is a massive fall of lava with fireballs surrounding it I believe. You can see them easily from the tower in the beginning of the level.
How I would love to see the beta version of Sunshine. I love the final game, but I want to know more about Tramplin’ Stu, the Delphino express, Nico and the rest of the human NPCs, cut levels such as Battleship Island and the cut objects.
Cool beans!
The Boo poster inside Hotel Delfino shows an early Island Delfino that appears to be inner connected!
Nice!
Weirdly enough I had a dream once where I was in a location that looked very similar to this version of the Plaza. Not sure where I knew the location from because I don't think I had seen any of the spaceworld footage before then.
Broo, I'm pretty sure I've seen this In my dreams.
Honestly the Beta Map looks way more *alive* and thought out ironically makes the Final Dalfino Plaza’s level design look and feels like a Beta map. I can’t be the only one who thinks like that?
oh its for mario eclipse? neat I haven't heard anything since the time I had helped with the intro voice
Whoa! That is amazing! Now if only someone remade the Halo 2 E3 demo and made it playable...
This reminds of a dream I had where I was playing Super Mario Sunshine and I was battling that Mecha Bowser except I wasn't in that roller-coaster or heck even at the park. It was also walking around the area. This lost area was also where the battle took place... Which is weird to me since back then I had no idea about this.
Every copy of Super Mario Sunshine is personalized.
Please do more mario sunshine videos
I like (extremely hate) how game devs lie to the public in e3s and release a different game when finished and everyone is fine with it
Excuse me but what that's insane. First they find dialogue for the beta girl and now... Would love to play Sunshine before they had to scrap and rush so much.
So basicaly the Lost content of spaceworld 2001 was Always been there from the begining but the entire assets where of course deleted not all of them. Just like SfA had e3 build that can be recreated inside in the kioks. I Hope It can be done.
4:08 Pen Island huh?
This will be in Eclipse??
fucking legends 🔥
We need a remake of Sunshine.
awesome, where can it be played?
ok, Super Mario Eclipse, I was wanting to play that one
While finalized Isle Delfino is very likely better gameplay wise than what they had originally planned; I still think prototype Isle Delfino looks visually cooler with both the beta textures and the current textures.
I thought the NPCs in sunshine were pretty visually unappealing. I had no idea it got worse with Stu. That thing is very unpleasant to look at.
its great to see Sunshine modding start to take off, i love SM64 hacks as much as the next guy but Sunshines Levels are so much more lively.
I think a few years ago someone managed to fix the colors and lighting on strolling stew to make it look correct and brown
4:11 - Pen Island
Between the city model and stomping Stu why is this attack on titan…
Super Mario, beta shine