Editing List of New Super Mario Bros. U pre-release and unused content

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This is a list of pre-release and unused content for the game ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]''.

==Early ideas==
[[File:NSMBU Flying Squirrel Concept Art.jpg|thumb|Concept art of Nabbit and Flying Squirrel Mario.]]
Miis were originally going to be playable in all modes, but the idea was removed from the final game, so Story Mode does not support Miis.{{ref needed}}

Boost Mode was originally known as '''Assist Mode''' or '''Assist Play''', as seen in a perspective image below. In early builds, it worked similarly to the final version, except that Blue, Purple, Red, and Green Boost Blocks kept their symbols at all times, and they did not release coins. Instead, a separate Boost Block did that, a smaller one with a coin symbol. These types of Boost Blocks would appear only if the [[Wii U#Wii U GamePad|Wii U GamePad]] player tapped on the screen twice. Boost Mode also seemed to lack the [[Boost Star]] and special Boost Mode properties.

Boost Rush Mode has not changed a lot from the earlier builds, except the Coin Meter was below the Coin counter instead of the timer.

In the 2013 Nintendo Company Guide, there is concept art of early designs of [[Nabbit]] and the [[Flying Squirrel Mario|Flying Squirrel suit]]. Also, the page shows sketches of different Goomba designs and designs of the [[Acorn Mushroom]].

Artwork for the [[Deep Cheep]] enemy exists for this game, even though the enemy itself does not appear. They were later included in ''[[New Super Luigi U]]''.

==Early builds==
As shown by the screenshots below, the HUD of the game was originally more like ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''{{'}}s, with the white font for everything besides the [[Coin]] counter, which had orange instead. Later on, the HUD font was changed to a more opaque and metallic font.

[[File:New and Old NSMBU Pipes.png|thumb|The early pipe design (left) and the final pipe design (right).]]
[[File:FONT NSMBU.png|200px|thumb|The in-game font containing the numbers from an early version (top) and final versions (bottom).]]
In ''New Super Mario Bros. U'' first builds, [[Warp Pipe]]s had a darker and more metallic-like look, similar to its predecessors. In the final version, they are brighter and have a more plastic look. This look was used in ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]''.

In early builds of ''New Super Mario Bros. U'', the Acorn Plains map looked substantially different. The map was significantly less detailed, the Acorn Trees did not show the Super Acorns, the  mushrooms that lead to [[Mushroom Heights]] were just red, the map had two red Toad Houses, with the green Toad House in a different spot; there were two Enemy Courses instead of one, and the spot where the [[Balloon Baby Yoshi|Balloon Baby]] [[Yoshi]] was is gone, implying that Baby Yoshis could not be taken into any course or that the option was not programmed yet. A bridge also extended from the level which [[Yoshi Hill]] will later become, implying that Yoshi Hill (or the course that was there in the first place) would have had a secret exit that skipped [[Mushroom Heights]] and [[Rise of the Piranha Plants]].

===E3 2012===
====Trailer====
The version of [[Painted Swampland]] shown in the E3 2012 trailer had pipes that were primarily green, while the final version has pipes of varying colors. Another course presented in the trailer was shown an Acorn Plains course with [[Bubble Baby Yoshi]], tilting mushrooms, and [[Hammer Bro]]s. This course could had been an early version of the Rise of the Piranha Plants course, but otherwise, the course is absent in the final game.

====Demo====
[[Acorn Plains Way]], [[Mushroom Heights]], and [[Spinning-Star Sky]] were named Course 1, Course 2, and Course 3 respectively in early E3 builds, presumably to avoid spoiling the world/names.

Acorn Plains Way has gone through various changes since the original showing during June 2012's Nintendo Direct, mostly in the main grassy area. Most noticeably is that the pipe leading to the sky sub-level has been moved further back in the final build and the hidden area near the [[Checkpoint Flag]] was much more narrow and shorter in the E3 build. When the player receives a [[Super Acorn]], the sound effect was the normal Super Mushroom sound effect, but the final version's sound effect was varied.

In Spinning Star Sky, [[Note Block]]s had a different sound, different than [[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]'s in the E3 demo. The E3 demo version's sound effect was a very fast ascending B Major scale. Also the spinning stars were not making a mallet-like sound when spinning.

[[Baby Yoshi]]s in E3 builds did not have animations for singing, though the vocals could still be heard. [[Glowing Baby Yoshi]] in the E3 2012 trailer had the ability to glow brighter when the player shakes the [[Wii#Wii Remote|Wii Remote]], though a sound effect did not accompany it. [[Balloon Baby Yoshi|Balloon]] and [[Bubble Baby Yoshi]]s do not come out of eggs in [[? Block]]s, unlike in the E3 demo, and are found only in the main map.

In Course 2 and 3, when the player touches the [[Green Ring]], it makes the same ticking sound as the [[Red Ring]]s, because the final Green Ring ticking sound was different, but it ticks as the same time as the final version's ticking.

When the player clears the course, the part that said "Course Clear" in the demo was all capital letters as "COURSE CLEAR!" but in the final version it appears as "Course Clear!"

[[Peach's Castle#New Super Mario Bros. U|Peach's Castle]] seen in [[Acorn Plains Way]] had its colors more faded out in early E3 builds.
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==Unused data==
[[File:NSMBU Sample challenge image.png|thumb|The challenge sample image.]]
The first image in the ''ChallengeImage'' folder, which contains all of the challenge previews in [[Challenge Mode (New Super Mario Bros. U)|Challenge Mode]], is a sample image of an early version of Acorn Plains. The ground tiles resemble the grassland tiles from ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', and the background is less detailed with lower resolution. The shadowed structure in the background is an early version of [[Peach's Castle (world)|Peach's Castle]] sitting atop a large cliff. Unlike the final version, the castle can be seen from the beginning of the stage.<ref>[[tcrf:New Super Mario Bros. U|New Super Mario Bros. U - The Cutting Room Floor]]. Added to article by Skawo on November 2, 2014. Retrieved on November 2, 2014.</ref>

Yoshi drums for jungle overworld theme can also be found in the game's files, but goes unused since Yoshis do not appear in any forest levels in the game.<ref>[https://youtu.be/LvgCj7wRKUE New Super Mario Bros U. Jungle Yoshi Drum Version] Uploaded to YouTube by dany1994us on Feb 21, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2019.</ref> This music is later used in ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'', where Yoshis can be placed in Forest-themed levels.

[[Ice Snake Block]]s, along with ice variants of large [[Snake Block]]s, are unused in the game. Frozen [[Muncher]]s from ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' are also unused.<ref>https://tcrf.net/New_Super_Mario_Bros._U/Unused_objects</ref>

There is also a pepper and a star in the game's code. While unknown what they were planned to be used for, they look like a level icon.

Also in the game's code, there is an unused variant of the [[Bill Blaster]] that can stretch up and down.<ref> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAr7S85SsqU Glitches, Skips, and Broken Stuff in New Super Mario Bros. U] </ref>

==Gallery==
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NSMBU Mario Looking at the Player.png|Early [[Acorn Plains Way]]
Boost Rush Grasslands NSMBU.png|Early Boost Rush Mode
NSMBU Boost Mode Game Pad Demonstration.png|In this perspective picture, Boost Mode is named "Assist Play"
MarioWIIUgrassmap.jpg|The early World Map of Acorn Plains, displaying Miiverse in the game
NSMBU SnakeBlock Ice S.png|Unused [[Ice Snake Block]] sprite
NSMBU SnakeBlock Ice L.png|Unused large Ice Snake Block sprite
NSMBU Muncher frozen.png|Unused frozen [[Muncher]] sprite
NSMBU World Map Placeholder.png|World map placeholder graphic
NSMBU Unused Map 1.png|Unused level
NSMBU Unused Map 2.png|Unused level
NSMBU Unused Map 3.png|Unused level
NSMBU Unused Map 4.png|Unused level
NSMBU Unused Map 5.jpg|Unused level
NSMBU Unused Map 6.png|Unused level
NSMBU Unused Pepper Level Icon.png|Unused pepper icon
NSMBU Unused Star Level Icon.png|Unused star icon
</gallery>

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