List of Hotel Mario pre-release and unused content

These are beta elements pertaining to Hotel Mario.

Unused Audio
There is some unused sound effects stored in the game, most notably dialog of two unknown voices saying:

"Y'a know, I think that maybe that Roy is a pretty good sport after all."

"What do you mean?"

"See? He's waving goodbye."

"All-a-right!"

This is stored in the data for the final level, oddly enough. There is also an audio file of an placeholder voice actor explaining how to play the game, suggesting that the game would have contained a tutorial like the Zelda CD-i games. In the final game, this is reduced to a snide remark by Mario about checking out the enclosed instruction book.

Unused Animations
There are at least two unused optional animations in the game, similar to the one in which Bowser's Sourpuss Bread fixes Roy's HardBrick Hotel and the Warp Pipe from Larry's Chillton Hotel to Wendy's Blitz Snarlton Hotel. Bowser's Ghost Cologne would have been cleared the spookiness of Ludwig's Thump Castle Hotel, and finding Wendy's giant piggy bank would have stopped all of the Evil Coins (hence his pre-level declaration of "pinching Wendy's pennies"). Neither event can be triggered in the final game.

The Lost Level
Each hotel has an internal music, graphics and enemy data file, labeled from L1 to L8 (with L0 as two demo files). However, L7 is missing entirely from the list. This suggests that Iggy might have originally had his own hotel at one point. Interestingly, a cheat code circulated about unlocking the true final hotel by beating the game in under an hour. Given the relative obscurity of the game before the Internet highlighted Philips' Zelda games, this went unchallenged for a long time. While it turned out to be a hoax, it may have stemmed from the mysterious L7 hotel...or it could just be a coincidence.

Miscellaneous


An article annoucing the game in the UK Cd-i magazine implies that Yoshi was originally the character kidnapped by Bowser instead of Princess Peach and did not mention Luigi being present. However, this could be an error on the magazine's end. Interestingly, this was also the description provided with pre-release copies of the game, though they were largely identical to the final game.