List of Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam pre-release and unused content

This is a list of pre-release and unused content for the game Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam.

Early ideas

Paper Luigi was also once planned to be playable but was scrapped due to the team believing having four buttons to press would make the game too difficult.

Unused graphics

This section needs Mario & Luigi improvement. Specifically:

• Due to reusing most of its assets for Paper characters from Paper Mario: Sticker Star, there are a large number of leftover sprites in the files. Such as:
  • Mario's Sticker album. Which does not appear in this game.
  • Unused sprites for the Royal Stickers in the files for Petey Piranha, and Paper Bowser.
  • Sprites for the Fire Balls thrown by Paper Fire Bros which appear to be leftover unused content from PMSS.
  • Parts and pieces of Paper Princess Peach's model, which may go unused for the same reasons as her previous appearance.
  • Leftover sprites for Mario wielding the Sandal sticker.
  • Early version of the racquet used by Paper Mario in the Trio Racquet move.
  • Seemingly unused sprites for a paper variant of Stingby. (Although they look suspiciously unofficial, so some verification for their legitimacy would be welcome)
  • Placeholder model of a Papercraft Goomba from the Kiosk Demo.

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The unused Peepa sprites hidden in the Boos graphics

There are graphics in the files for Boos depicting Peepas, suggesting that they were originally planned to appear in the game. However, in the final release, they do not appear in any capacity.

There are some unused overworld graphics of Urchins and Chain Chomps, but they only appear in battles. However, some of the Urchins' overworld graphics are used in the know-it-all Toad's quiz in Sunbeam Plains.

There is an unused 3D Green Shell Bros. Attack for Luigi, but this Bros. Attack was removed for unknown reasons. However, the 3D Green Shell graphics still remain grouped with the 3D Red Shell graphics.

There are unused early versions of the graphics for Paper Red Toad, alongside early versions of the Balloon used by him during the Toad Trail Bros. Attack. These unused graphics still remain grouped with the Toad Trail graphics.

Early builds

Nintendo Direct

The brothers fighting Petey Piranha in the E3 2015 build. Note how Battle Cards are present.

In the Nintendo Direct, the Kamek boss fight took place in Sunbeam Plains instead of Neo Bowser Castle. Screenshots also showed Koopa Troopas and Paper Koopa Troopas being fought in Sunbeam Plains. In the final version, they are not encountered until Twinsy Tropics. In both the 52nd and 53rd episodes of The Cat Mario Show, Hammer Bros, Paper Hammer Bros, Fire Bros and Paper Fire Bros can be seen being fought in Twinsy Tropics instead of Twinsy Tropics Dungeon.

E3 2015

At E3, Battle Cards could seemingly be used as early as the Petey Piranha boss fight, where in the final game they are first used against Wendy and Roy. Also, the number over the cards (which shows the number of Star Points needed to use it) is written in a different color than in the final game (orange as opposed to yellow) and is about twice as small. Also in the demo, Paper Mario is able to create copies and perform another action in a single turn: this is normally only possible with a Star Rank-Up Bonus.

In addition to the Petey Piranha boss fight, the playable missions were Desert Rescue Party, Fly Guy Patrol, and Paper Toad Rescue. The Rock Blocks in the first mission resembled Brick Blocks like in Super Mario 3D World, but were changed to stone blocks in the final game.

A pre-release version of Desert Rescue Party (left) compared to the final version (right).