Editing List of Super Mario Sunshine pre-release and unused content

{{italic title|List of ''Super Mario Sunshine'' pre-release and unused content}}
[[File:SMS Preliminary Box NA.jpg|thumb|250px|Preliminary North American box art, shown at E3 2002]]
This is a list of pre-release and unused content for the game ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''.

==Early builds==
In ''Super Mario Sunshine'', [[Delfino Plaza]] is the main plaza of the game. However, in trailers before release, it showed that there was going to be a different plaza (or a possible early Delfino Plaza), with a giant [[Strollin' Stu]]-like creature called "Hinokuri2" walking around the place, spawning Strollin' Stus (themselves having a design that looks similar to Hinokuri, additionally more closely resembling [[Goomba]]s), with many other elements not seen in the final. The enemies were removed and the plaza was changed to one closer to the final by the next trailer. It also appears that in the E3 2002 trailer, the giant Strollin' Stu and [[Dango]] would chase [[Mario]] around like a normal Strollin' Stu.

The build also reveals that humans were intended to be citizens of the plaza. [[F.L.U.D.D.|FLUDD]] was going to be skinnier. [[Gooper Blooper]] was going to be dark blue and fought on top of the bridges of [[Ricco Harbor]] instead of in the market and helicopter area.

[[Shine Sprite]]s' design went through radical changes during the development.

Additionally, Mario's [[Health Meter|life meter]] would simply be a sun with a number in the middle indicating his health. The water meter was originally placed in the center of the "sun" life meter. The FLUDD pack was actually Nintendo's third favorite choice, with many other forms of water-pump functionality suggested. One other notable device that was a favorite was a water gun, but it was rejected due to controversy in the United States at the time.

Whenever [[Yoshi]] got hungry he would always be colored green, instead of flicking colors in the final version. There were some abandoned sprites as well, including Yoshi vomiting any water he may have swallowed.

There was also going to be a brown [[Pokey]] species, which was going to have white flowers, and black colored Piantas as well.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Z9MzMg9vM]</ref>

Where the [[Proto Piranha|Gatekeeper]] is encountered in [[Delfino Airstrip]], there would have floral-like pedestals surrounded by [[graffiti]]. Instead of the runway being sunk, it would have been "leveled". [[Toad (species)|Blue Toad]] and a [[Pianta]] would have been on the pedestals.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBwwKAd4pPI]{{dead link}}</ref>
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===Gallery===
====SpaceWorld 2001====
<gallery>
SMS Prerelease Tramplin Stu.jpg|Hinokuri2 with an onion-shaped mask, with an early similar-looking [[Strollin' Stu]] nearby. Also note that there is another early [[Health Meter|life meter]].
SMS Prelease FLUDD.jpg|[[F.L.U.D.D.|FLUDD]]'s old, thinner design.
SMS Prerelease Human Screenshot.jpg|A cut human citizen of [[Isle Delfino]].
SMS Prelease Plaza.jpg|A cut plaza on [[Isle Delfino]]. Some [[goop]] that does not appear in the final version is also seen.
</gallery>

====E3 2002====
<gallery>
SMS Early Title Screen.png|An early title screen.
Early Delfino Airstrip.png|Early HUD
Early Bianco Hills SMS.png|[[Mario]] squirts water in an early version of [[Bianco Hills]].
Early Petey Piranha SMS.png|Mario fights Petey Piranha in an early Bianco Hills.
SMS Prerelease Blue Gooper Blooper.jpg|An early design of [[Gooper Blooper]], Mario's [[Health Meter|life meter]], and [[F.L.U.D.D.|FLUDD]].
SMSunshine Fence.jpg|Early [[Ricco Harbor]].
Early Polluted Piranha Battle SMS.png|Early [[Proto Piranha|Gatekeeper]] battle in Isle Delfino.
SMS Wall Jump Prerelease.png|Early Isle Delfino as Mario [[Wall Jump]]s.
Sirena Beach Early Entrance.png|[[Sirena Beach]]'s early [[Warp Pipe]] entrance. Also note the simpler-looking Shine Gate.
Early Pokeys SMS shot.png|Two brown [[Pokey]]s near two yellow ones on a roof. Note the white flowers.
Early Mario Yoshi SMS.png|Mario and [[Yoshi (species)|Green Yoshi]]. In the final version, Green Yoshi is never used, as he changes color before Mario can mount him, and disappears back into his Yoshi Egg from a lack of juice.
Early Mario Yoshi SMS 2.png|Mario and a Green Yoshi stomp on a [[Strollin' Stu]], which is not in Isle Delfino in the final release. The water meter is displayed instead of the juice meter. The effect for the crushed Stu is also different.
Mario Sunshine Prerelease Screenshot 135.jpg|Mario and green Yoshi walk on a bridge at [[Pianta Village]].
Beta_Boo.jpg|[[Mario]] stands with [[Boo]]s in the background, but their facial textures are different. The simplicity of the textures imply that this was intended to be a placeholder, however.
Early Petey Piranha Head SMS.png|A [[Piranhabon]] resembling [[Petey Piranha]]'s head rolling down the hill in Bianco Hills. The final version redesigns them to be covered in [[goop]] and removes the petals.
Early Petey Piranha Head SMS 2.png|Early Piranhabons, this time in the air, potentially replaced by the [[Glorpedo]]s that Petey drops.
SMS Prerelease Crates Delfino Plaza.png|Note the [[crate]]s; in the final game, there are only two in all of [[Delfino Plaza]]. Also, a black [[Pianta]] variant is present. A white Pianta variant, not pictured here, was also in an early build of the game.
Mario Sunshine Prerelease Screenshot 00.jpg|This type of palm tree is very thin, unlike the palm trees of the final version.
SMS Prerelease Shell Secret.jpg|[[Mario]] in [[The Shell's Secret]], in an early version.
Gelato Beach Poink.png|A [[Poink]] in [[Gelato Beach]].
SMS Early Dirty Lake Secret.png|The early version of [[The Secret of the Dirty Lake]]. 
SMS Prerelease Swoopin Stu Screenshot.png|An earlier design of a [[Gooble|Swoopin' Stu]].
</gallery>

====Files====
<gallery>
SMSe3logo.png|An early logo used in E3.
SMSkug.png|An odd [[Goomba]] creature named "Kug" according to its files. It is paper-thin, and exists in the data for [[Pinna Park]], and actually exists out of bounds in the 8th mission. Touching it shocks Mario.
SMSpollution.png|An odd image found with pollution textures.
SMScoronabanner.png|Unused [[Corona Mountain]] mission select text.
Tank HUD icon SMS.png|Early text for "WATER", located above an icon for FLUDD's water tank.
SMSEelyMouthstomach.png|[[Eely-Mouth]]'s stomach, which is unseen in the game.
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==Unused data==
===Camera behavior===
Within the game data is an unused camera behavior that suggests that the developers originally intended for a multiplayer mode to be in the game.<ref>yoshiller (September 1, 2015). [[tcrf:Super Mario Sunshine|Super Mario Sunshine - The Cutting Room Floor]]. The Cutting Room Floor. Retrieved October 20, 2015.</ref>

===Noki Bay book===
A book is found behind a door in some ruins-like structure in [[Red Coins in a Bottle|Episode 3]] of [[Noki Bay]]. The player can see it by turning the camera. There is [[List of Super Mario Sunshine glitches#Mysterious Book|a glitch]] in the game that allows Mario to reach the book, but there is no known way to get out of the structure afterward.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOZtaMhIILE TUTORIAL: How to get to the Noki Bay book! *Easter Egg + Glitch* - YouTube]</ref> The door does not work from any side and it looks different from the doors in the hotel in [[Sirena Beach]].

===100-coin Shine Sprite spawn spots===
Presumably for the sake of completeness and/or not crashing the game, every area in the game has data for a 100-coin Shine Sprite defined for where the Shine spawns if the 100th coin is collected there. However, for the following areas, it is impossible to get a 100-coin Shine due to a lack of coins either in the level itself or in the surrounding areas:<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEQ3CrZxycY]. Accessed September 7, 2021.</ref>
*The secret area for [[The Secret of the Dirty Lake]] (spawns on a yellow block at the halfway point)
*The secret areas for both of [[Sirena Beach]]'s secret Shines (spawns on the orange block after the sand blocks, at the corner of a melon block and brick for episode 2, and behind the regular Shine for episode 4)
*[[Red Coins in a Bottle]] (spawns on the structure at the bottom)

===Additive sun effect===
Early releases of the game had the sun window to shine brighter when the camera was staring at the sun, while retail copies have the lightening effect reduced.<ref>[[tcrf:Super Mario Sunshine#E3 Sun Shade|Super Mario Sunshine - The Cutting Room Floor]]. The Cutting Room Floor. Retrieved June 9, 2020.</ref>

===Unused goop effects===
More kinds of [[goop]] are available in the game than are actually used, including goop that acts like quicksand and goop that instantly kills Mario when he touches it.

===message.szs===
The Japanese version of the game contains an extra ARC that was removed from later releases, named '''message.szs'''. Its only contents are two message files, named '''station.bmg''' and '''system.bmg'''. One contains a list of stations and harbors for the levels, while the other contains dialogue for buying tickets and getting them stamped. As a number of the locations listed are landlocked, it must be concluded that these files belong to a scrapped train system for the island. Given the locations listed, this would have been the primary means of accessing levels in the game. Pinna Park is among the listed locations, as are several other presumably island locations. This implies that either there was a bridge to Pinna Park, the train is a subway, or that Pinna Park was not always on the tail island.
====station.bmg====
There are text leftovers for some sort of train system that was used to move from area to area instead of or in addition to [[Goop#Rainbow M|Rainbow M]]s. This appears to be a list of stations on the railway. The actual list is in Japanese, so the translated names are listed below. Notice that this list is very similar to the list of levels given in the unused title screen menu, except that ''Lighthouse Island'' is new. In the final game, the only lighthouse on the island is in Delfino Plaza.
*Dolphic Town Station 
*Rico Harbor Station 
*Bianco Hills Entrance 
*Mamma Beach Station 
*Sirena Beach Station 
*In front of Hotel Delfino 
*Pinna Parco Station
*In front of Hotel Lacrima 
*Mare Village Harbor 
*Monte Village Station 
*Erto Rock Station 
*Battleship Island (TEMPORARY) Harbor 
*In front of Flame Temple (TEMPORARY) 
*Lighthouse Island (TEMPORARY) Harbor 
*Corona Mountain Entrance

====system.bmg====
These snippets belong to what would be dialogue trees.
{|class="wikitable"
!Japanese!!Translation
|-
|ご乗車　いたしま～すか？<br>はい<br>いいえ||Will you be riding with us today?<br>Yes<br>No
|-
|乗車券を　拝見いたしま～す！||Please let me see your ticket!
|-
|まで<br>シュッパ～ツ進行！！||Now departing for [...]!!
|-
|～！||
|-
|～！||
|-
|またのご利用お待ちしておりま～す。||See you next time!
|-
|ただいま<br>にて<br>行きスタンプ絶賛発売中で～す！！||Right now,<br>highly acclaimed travel stamps<br>to [...] are on sale!!
|-
|ただ今　当駅にて<br>行きスタンプ<br>発売中で～す！||Right now,<br>highly acclaimed travel stamps<br>to this station are on sale!
|-
|行きスタンプ <br>ご購入され～ますか？<br>はい<br>いいえ||Will you be purchasing<br>a travel stamp?<br>Yes<br>No
|-
|ご利用　ありがとうご～ざいます！||Thank you for travelling with us!
|-
|行き||Bound for [...]
|-
|にて販売中で～す！||[...] bound for [...] on sale now!
|-
|価格は<br>ソルコインで～す！||The price comes to<br>[...] Sol Coins!
|-
|やめる||Cancel
|-
|やめる||Cancel
|}

===Test level===
A test level is playable through an Action Replay. The level texture is mainly numbered checkered tiles in different colors. The player can see Rock Blocks that were edited out, possibly in favor of Watermelons.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l4nXCxJHws]</ref> The giant [[Strollin' Stu]] appeared but did not have a two-eyed onion-like mask. It is difficult to see it since it falls through a wall in a pit when the level starts. Near the back of the level, there is a snow cone stand. Mario can bounce on the top as if it were an umbrella or other bouncy object. There is also a [[Noki]] that was covered with [[goop]] in the level. When Mario finishes cleaning him, Mario can see he does not have a shell.

There are six Red Coins in the level, along with one gold coin. There is also a shine sprite, that if players were to get it, save, and turn the game off, they would then not have to play the beginning part of the game. The game will continue normally, with no extra shine sprites or any signs that the test level has been accessed.
There is also green plain gloop all over the level that does not harm Mario.

The giant Strollin' Stu is actually a yellow figure with an eye at the top. In the SpaceWorld trailer, it is wearing an onion-like mask that has two eyes on it. If one were to hack the game, one of its sprites would show it wearing a skull-like mask.

====Test level gallery====
<gallery>
SMS Test Level.png|A view from one of the highest points of the test level.
SMS Test Level 2.png|Another view of the test level.
SMS Test Level No Shell Noki.png|A [[Noki]] in the corner of the test level that has no shell.
SMS Error.png|A message that is displayed whenever the player reads a sign or talks to somebody. (applies to this level only)
Random Can.png|The unused oil can-like object that [[Mario]] can run into.
Snowcone Stand.png|A snow cone stand near the edge of the test level.
Floating Log.png|A log floating in the ground of the test level. It makes the ground around it wavy as if it were water.
</gallery>

===Hinokuri2===
''Hinokuri2'' is an unused giant [[Strollin' Stu]]-like enemy. Hinokuri2 has yellow legs and red-orange color blending with yellow. If its shell breaks, the inside is just yellow. If brought into a game, Hinokuri2 would drop [[Gooble|Swoopin' Stu]]s or Strollin' Stus from a nozzle on its back. Players must spray water into Hinokuri2 until its outer shell pops, and then stomp on its eye, dropping one coin. In the SpaceWorld demo, the Strollin' Stus it spawns have a design more similar to it, including the large orange top piece.
<gallery>
SuperMarioSunshine-HinoKuri.png|Unused HinoKuri enemy.
SMS Prerelease Tramplin Stu.jpg|The large Hinokuri from the SpaceWorld version of ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''. An early Strollin' Stu can be seen a short distance in front of it.
Stu front.png|Hinokuri in the test level.
Stu top.png|Its eye is visible here.
</gallery>

===Yoshi soundtracks===
Six area themes have Yoshi drum variants available for them despite Yoshi being unavailable in those areas:
*[[Noki Bay]]: Yoshi cannot be found anywhere in Noki Bay at all, presumably because it is a water-centric level and the large amounts of water in the level would make the level difficult to navigate with Yoshi.
*The secret levels: While Yoshi is needed to access two secret levels ([[The Yoshi-Go-Round's Secret]] and [[Secret of the Village Underside]]), Yoshi does not go with Mario into them.
*[[Sirena Beach]] and [[Casino Delfino]]: Yoshi is available in [[Mysterious Hotel Delfino]], but he cannot be taken outside nor can he go into the casino. None of the outdoor or casino-based episodes have a Yoshi available.
*The [[Pianta Hot Spring]]: In the aforementioned Secret of the Village Underside, it's possible to bring Yoshi to an area where this music plays, but the Yoshi drum variant cannot be heard. This is presumably because it is music being played by the Piantas, and having a Yoshi drum variant would make no sense.
*[[Delfino Airstrip]]: Yoshi cannot be found anywhere in the Airstrip. This Yoshi theme is unique for its more toned-down drums. Also, some hacking has to be done to restore the drums, as a fresh copy of ''Super Mario Sunshine'' can't access them normally.

===Demo music===
A music file for the track heard in the original SpaceWorld showing of the game and in the demo movie seen by waiting on the title screen can be found in the game's files. While the track is heard in-game, the music and sounds heard in the demo video are all part of the video file, meaning that this file goes unused.
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==Miscellaneous==
The internal names for many of the "secret" levels indicate they were originally planned to be accessed in different areas than the final; for example, [[Turbo Track]] is named for [[Bianco Hills]] and [[The Shell's Secret]] is named for [[Ricco Harbor]]. A large amount are named for [[Corona Mountain]]; of them, only the lava-filled cavern is relevant to it in the final.

==References==
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==External links==
{{TCRF}}
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arvnhNPUrl0 E3 2002 trailer]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAoQAkxhivc Test level footage]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdDdYl-HOM4 Unused Pianta colors]
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