Beta64 - WarioWare Inc. / Sound Bomber

Oh war, what a series, a crazy collection of fast-paced microgames that has enough replayability to last for years. For me, the first game in the Warrior series that we incorporated or joined in Japan. Wario is one of my favorite games. I never had it though, I just went to the video game section of our local department store and played the game that was there back when they used to put full games to play in the store instead of just demos and I played Minish Cap. Also, there were actually a lot of Game Boy Advance games there to play, but did you know that Warrior technically didn't start on the Gameboy Advance but on the Nintendo 64?

So in this episode of beta 64 I am going to explain the development of Wario Ware Incorporated now, before the cable existed where the Nintendo 64 disk drive was and the game mario artist polygon studio in this artistic game released exclusively in Japan In August 2000, you could create your own 3D models and even paint textures and animate them. And what's more, you can even use your models in various modes of the game, such as Sound Bomber, where you play various small games that become increasingly difficult and faster as the game progresses. It

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s awfully similar to Wario Air, isn't it exactly the same?

In fact, not only is the concept the same, but so is almost everything else in this mode - for example, the games in Sound Bomber are played on a boombox that looks almost identical to the one used in the first Warriors story in Wario Ware incorporated and also the games. They are almost identical to those of Sound Bomber. There are eight microgames. Roulette. Jump. Shoot. Baseball. both versions, but the maze was made to be more complex four or Berlin's extended time limit and features a dancer trying to reach her partner instead of an object trying to reach a hand;

However, there are a couple of differences between the Sound Bomber and the Warrior. three lives in Somme Bomber, instead of Foreign Warrior we are built in and also there are no boss stages in Sound Bomber, instead you simply get a rest every eight games with lives only awarded every three rests, other than that, although they are practically the same. Same thing, some time after the release of Polygon Studio for the Nintendo 64 disc drive, some of the developers who were working on the game began to secretly develop a new game, inspired by Sound Bomber, they created an extended version of the game using Wario as the main character, but why is Wario simple?

They just couldn't find anyone else that fit the theme of the game, so they simply chose to use Wario and create a new cast of characters whose concept art can be seen in this photo that you can compare with these final designs. After convincing themselves that they had a winning game, the team went to their manager and presented what they had done so far, and although the manager wasn't too surprised by the prototype, he still gave them the go-ahead to continue development. Why they joined in to get ideas for the microgames that would populate WarioWare, each member of the team created their own ideas and put them on sticky notes for the director to see, but the funny thing is that the project became so popular around the world. world. department that even people who weren't working on the game submitted their ideas hoping it would be included, and one more interesting thing about microgames that you should know if you played, why we are incorporated, that games come in all kinds of artistic styles. some go for a realistic look, some go for a cartoon style, and some use images of real people.

The reason for these very different styles is because the developers of each microgame were also in charge of the art during its creation and instead of returning. Later, conforming them all to the same style, they decided to keep the developers' art rather than add to the extravagant nature of the game. When January 2003 came, the game was first revealed to the public; However, concrete information about the game was not actually revealed until February, when the press received a private hands-on demo of Wario air, but it was still not until March 7 of the same year that the first screenshots were shown and gameplay videos and that was just a couple of weeks before the Japanese release, which is crazy, why would you do that?

One reason could have been that when the game was released, Nintendo didn't exactly expect WarioWare to sell one, so when it became a commercial success, Satoru Iwata requested that the game be remade for the Gamecube as soon as possible. they became mega party games that focused on multiplayer and came out only about seven months after the Game Boy Advance launched. Now, if you have Wario World or the Nintendo GameCube preview disc plus Game Boy Advance and, again, you've cubed a Game Boy Advance adapter, you've probably already played why we included the trial version, but did you know that This version is actually slightly different from the final game, especially if you include the special promotional microgames that show up when you reach 25 Nintendo Marketing Geniuses, but beyond those marketing changes?

There are some other minor differences in this version because, first of all, it is based on an early version of the game. If you compare this boom box to the final one, you will notice that the final version has more shadows compared to the test version that you can actually see. This change, if you look at the bars at the top here, in addition to the transition when entering a microgame, is much smoother in the final because it uses 8 frames instead of the 4 in test and also the final uses a more shading impressive on the nose.

Also the most notable difference in this first version is that the

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sounds terrible, it is low quality and very limited, in fact it barely sounds like the final game thanks to the terrible sound quality. Here, listen to the final version of Yui incorporated. There are quite a few charts in use and by this I mean over 20 of them to start with. Let's start with the first thing you see when you start a new game. Mario's introductory microgames. In fact, why don't we stick with the weird? unused graphic out of the way from the beginning there's no easy way to say it so here you have emergency eyewash stations available in the back if needed something not so scary is this goblin this is the anata witch as you can guessing from the translation below means that in japanese this was meant to be shown in the rebellion microgame.

There is also another copy of the sprite that was not used in the game. UFO Assist, which is the exact opposite of rebellion, where you control the UFO after completing the introduction. received with the main menu of the game here is someone who uses graphics: first in the video ram or vram this unused graphic is loaded which was originally probably a placeholder for the loading bar. You should also note that the sprite says now painting instead of now painting pretty. Now, before we move on to Jimmy's microgames, Jimmy's main menu icon has a couple of unused sprites; the first one here looks almost exactly like the final one, but he's a little taller and has a darker wig.

There is also an initial folder that was probably for Jimmy as well. because since it's a white phone like Jimmy's, another thing to keep in mind is that this unused folder is not as wide as the final versions, so maybe originally the folders were going to be thinner than they ended up being. They became what finally became what was right, Jimmy is the first to do it. high hoops, there is an onion object that represents what is called a clear line. Now I'm not quite sure what that means, but the next object is actually even more confusing, it's from bash reference and it's just a strong speech bubble that says au or au, so I have. any idea what it could mean, I mean I guess it sounds like something that could have appeared if you missed the ball, but that's just speculation and a bit of a stretch, to be honest, the following Moani microgames first tilt and fall, which hmm, I didn't like that game at all, anyway, the ball in that game actually has a smaller counterpart that probably would have been used in the early levels to make it easier for the player, which would have been quite pleasant.

Mona's other microgame called french fries with that. has a sprite for the head of an unknown girl accessories designed for the background was successful condom putting a meal yes I know dementia is not a word just move on let's take a look at those unused graphics for dribble and spit microgames Now we saw the ufo u indicator that helps in the rebellion, so let's start with Bubble Trouble and her unused spinning ring. No, this wasn't meant to be the Sonic the Hedgehog microgame, although that would actually be cool, but it's not likely that the ring was simply meant to be collectible at first instead of the golden spheres, the upcoming space escape actually has quite a few unused sprites, all related to this unused enemy, this orb actually has 13 unused projectiles, which seems a bit excessive if they were all meant to be used by this one enemy, I don't think, but of course I can't say anything for sure, it just seems kinda right.

The dribble and spit boss stage has a couple of very cool unused sprites showing a fourth power-up for your ship in In case you didn't know, in the final game, every time you pick up a power-up, your ship gets more weapons in the top, except the third time, which actually gives you a shield, so apparently this fourth power-up would have given you even more weapons, according to For this sprite who also wants to use it, it may not have just fired projectiles, it seems which would have fired a huge laser, maybe it was considered too powerful so maybe it was removed but I'm not too sure.

An interesting little fact about this boss stage is that Just off the screen, there is actually a strip of colors that you normally can't see why it's there, we don't know, but it's even very well shaded, so maybe Maybe it was actually meant to be seen at the beginning. In fact, Micro 9 Volt games also have quite a few off-screen images that you normally can't see, the most interesting being the word home written just off-screen next to the house on the game hull, huh , this video starts to become a boundary breaking episode, now you know the YouTube series where this guy takes the game camera and moves it around to see things that were meant to be hidden, watch the videos, like, comment, subscribe to the channel, as in the description, click on the i-x century, etc., then dr.

Cry Gor. I love this guy, but his only unused sprites are for the Veg Out microgame, which are two versions of an ear of corn, honestly disappointing for someone as crazy as Dr. Crying Pumpkin, you'd think there'd be something crazier here, like the cat, known as microgames, where there are multiple versions of unused pink poop, these sprites were actually intended for the microgame, green leaves, a game where you are a snail trying. eat a leaf, so I assumed this was a jump obstacle that was eventually removed in the Vegemite game. There is an unused gem with the word job next to it.

I mean, you sure work in the game pulling vegetables. but I can't really think of a reason for it to be here, oh and it turns out that this unused graphic is also in the crazy jumping microgame and the boss stage, frog, but that's not all of the Nana cat microgame. The flower shower has some unused sprites, such as colorful remains of flowers and the main character of the microgame without his characteristic watering can. I mean, how are you supposed to water the flowers in the game without a watering can? I just can not. I even understand that moment for the final microgame compilation in Wire where the quote-unquote story results in the Wario Bros game, which is an obvious parody of Mario Bros.

There are quite a few unused sprites first. I would like to talk about what these are. I jumped on Mario and Wario now, at this point I'm actually assuming they're not unused because no matter how hard I try for the life of me, I can't get Wario to jump on Mario or vice versa to even check if they are. they are used in the final game, but the cutting room floor says yes, so I'm inclined to believe them. Some sprites that I know for sure are not used are the POW block and Mario and Wario die.

There are no enemies in this microgame, so there is no need for those death rights or a prisoner of war block that makes them unused. One last little thing I want to mention about the sprites is that in piatto's minigame there is actually an unused sprite of a bat or actually when I look closer it's a nun. from a little boy with bat wings and horns then a demon boy there is a demon boy that is not used in pol in case you ever wonder now that we are done with the unused sprites and I have exercised the demon we still have It turns out that there are few microgamesunused in Wario Ware, although most of them are actually designed for nine volts, like this unused microgame for Famicom's f1 race.

In this microgame you have to avoid the poles on the side of the road and cars that you will pass, if you can do it you will win now as you probably know that there are three difficulties in all the microgames in Wire War, so for the F1 race, the first level is a straight road with some cars, while levels two and three add a curve towards the road, level two adds the curve halfway, while the third level starts at the curve which finally ends just when time is running out. Next is the block breaker. Now I'm sure you know everything about this game, it's a classic, it actually was.

First created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak for Atari in 1972, but then Nintendo decided to create a clone of this game under the name block breaker and they weren't fooling anyone anyway. This Nintendo game, in quotes, was supposed to be another microgame. for nine volts, but it was scrapped just like the F1 race, also because of the difficulty levels in this microgame, it basically just made the gunpowder get smaller and smaller as the levels increased, which made the ball harder to hit. Lastly, a friend uses microgames. We've got the old pong that Nintendo also made a clone of back in the day and put into their color TV gaming system, but can you blame them all?

I made a clone of pong at the time, this unused microgame is exactly as you'd expect: you return the ball as long as the timer advances, while level 2 is exactly the same as level 1, only with smaller paddles, level 3 takes it. to a whole new level by adding two paddles in each oh and the bonus upon losing the game displays a score of 14 to 15 on the screen for a nice aesthetic link. Now, speaking of old pong, there is actually an unused counter game in WarioWare ping-pong. versus, it's like pong except players are given two paddles instead of one and you can control them directly, basically by pressing the L or R button, depending on which player you are, the paddles will go in the opposite direction and stop once hit the wall This game continues, the ball will move faster and faster up to a certain point where it slows down only to move faster next time, the first to score five times wins this game and everything runs smoothly which makes it amazing why it was removed.

First of all, before you go, we have one more thing that is unused when it comes to microgaming. Turns out that damn dodgeball game that I really hated for being too hard was actually going to be even harder as we already mentioned microgames and While we only have three difficulty levels, dodgeball actually has nine, in the final level you have ten different balls to dodge so good luck, this probably means it was originally clear that some games or maybe even all of them at any given time. They were supposed to have more than three difficulties, but I mean it would have been so complicated to implement in general.

I think it was a smart idea to narrow the scope and only create three difficulties for all the microgames, so that's where cable development came in. I'm very glad that the development team went ahead and started creating this game without prior approval since Nintendo didn't expect WarioWare to sell well to begin with. I doubt they would have let the game be created without the prototype. Congratulations guys, you took a little Mario Artists minigame and turned it into a very successful collection of minigames, so this has been

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with conscious development built in thanks for watching.