E-Coin Castle

The World-e Castle is an area found only in World-e of Super Mario Advance 4. The castle is of unknown origin, as it does not contain a Mushroom King or any Toads nor does it appear to have fallen into disarray.

When Mario and Luigi first visit the castle, it is devoid of any content. As levels are scanned through an e-Reader, those containing an e-Coin will have its frame indented and its level number in the white space below. As such, the castle appears to be a sort of "museum" or trophy gallery.

The castle has three floors of eight frames each, with the second and third floors opening to Mario and Luigi once the player scans a level containing a ninth and 17th e-Coin. The player can teleport between floors by pressing L and R.

But despite the game containing the code and sprites to allow this, the e-Reader's failure saw only the completion of 1F (Super Leaf, Starman, Toad, Mario, Princess Peach, Luigi, Mushroom, Fire Flower), with American players only able to collect three e-Coins (Super Leaf, Starman, Mushroom).

It is unknown if there was to be any reward for filling all of the castle's 24 frames.