Map

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“As long as you have a map, you'll feel safer in foreign lands, right?”

—Border Bros., Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door's map.

A map is an item used in all of the Mario role playing games. It shows Mario's current position in a certain area, and is usually received near the start of the game. In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the player could get the Beanbean Map by defeating the Border Bros. in a game of Border Jump. A map is also received at the start of the game in Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

Starlow giving a tutorial on Map reading in Bowser's Inside Story.

In some games, such as Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, the map is more of a feature rather than an item; these maps (which are sometimes called map screens) are mere portals to the other places in the game. Map screens have even appeared in side-scrolling games such as Super Mario Bros. 3 (which was the first Mario game any type of map appeared in) and Super Mario World, which had a fully connected (or seamless) world map. New Super Mario Bros. U also features a seamless world map, much like Super Mario World.

The Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars map is notable for being both a feature and an item, as it is used as a feature but given to Mario (by the Chancellor) as if it were an item. The Super Mario Sunshine, the map was similarly "given" to Mario towards the beginning of the game (this time by a Pianta known to play for the Doot Doot Sisters), although this Map is not literally given as Mario could use it before it was "received" from the Pianta. Luigi also used a map to find his mansion in Luigi's Mansion.

In Super Paper Mario, the player can purchase maps from Flamm. These maps will lead Mario and the heroes to hidden treasures throughout the game. All maps are purchased with coins. Once the heroes find the area with the hidden treasure, they must use the Pixl Fleep, move him over the treasure spot on the screen and press to flip and find the treasure. Many of the treasures are Catch Cards, and sometimes a character's Catch Card can even be found using a map before the character themself appears in the game, such as King Sammer V, Welderberg, and Brobot L-Type, to name a few.

Notable maps

• Beanbean Map
• Magical Map

List of maps in Super Paper Mario

Number	Image	Location	Cost	Treasure	Description
1		Flipside 3rd-Floor	20	Gold Bar	This map shows a familiar spot.
2		Mirror Hall	60	Welderberg Catch Card	The map shows colorful objects in a row.
3		Flipside Basement 1st Floor	30	Ultra Shroom Shake	The map shows an underground area.
4		Flipside Arcade	110	King Sammer Catch Card	The map shows a door with an unusual design.
5		Flopside 3rd Floor	80	O'Chunks Catch Card	The map shows something solid black.
6		Chapter 1-1	20	Bestovius Catch Card	The map shows a house.
7		Chapter 1-2	50	Golden Leaf	The map shows a vertically climbing set of hills.
8		Green the Bridgemaster's House	70	Brobot L-Type Catch Card	The map shows a room decked out in pretty colors.
9		Chapter 1-3	40	Gold Bar x3	The map shows a rock somewhere.
10		Chapter 1-3	40	Fracktail Catch Card	The map shows a desert somewhere.
11		Chapter 1-4	70	Merlumina Catch Card	The map shows a mysterious locale.
12		Chapter 2-1	20	Shooting Star	The map shows a suspicious building.
13		Chapter 2-2	50	Catch Card SP	The map shows a building somewhere.
14		Chapter 2-2	50	Gnip Catch Card	The map shows the inside of a building.
15		Chapter 2-3	100	Mimi Card	The map shows a place where you exchange money.
16		Chapter 2-4	30	Gold Bar x3	The map shows a staircase.
17		Chapter 2-4	50	Dried Mushroom	The map shows a fragrant locale.
18		Chapter 3-1	10	Back Cursya Catch Card	The map shows a place decked out in three colors.
19		Chapter 3-1	90	Ultra Shroom Shake	The map shows a spot filled with memories.
20		Chapter 3-2	80	Big Blooper Catch Card	The map shows a hidden treasure underwater.
21		Chapter 3-2	180	Power Plus	The map shows a place where treasure abounds.
22		Chapter 3-3	130	Dimentio Catch Card	The map shows a section of a big tree.
23		Chapter 3-4	230	Tiptron Catch Card	The map shows a large room that's been oddly decorated.
24		Chapter 3-4	40	Francis Catch Card	The map shows a place that may have too much treasure.
25		Chapter 4-2	30	Squirps Catch Card	The map shows a smelly spot in an unexpected place.
26		Chapter 4-2	70	Hooligon Catch Card	The map shows the location of a person's hidden treasure.
27		Chapter 4-3	80	Mr. L Catch Card	The map shows a shop somewhere.
28		Chapter 4-4	90	Brobot Catch Card	The map shows a treasure in a forbidden place.
29		Chapter 4-4	80	HP Plus	The map shows a love transmitter to the future.
30		Chapter 5-1	120	Muth Catch Card	CRAGLEY HO! The map shows a treasure on a rock tower.
31		Chapter 5-1	10	Flint Cragley Catch Card	The map shows a hard to find spot.
32		Chapter 5-2	20	Fire Burst	The map shows a large volcano.
33		Chapter 5-2	110	Ultra Shroom Shake	The map shows a treasure-filled place in a volcano.
34		Chapter 5-3	70	Shooting Star	The map shows the inside of a cave.
35		Chapter 5-3	60	Hornfels & Monzo Catch Card	The map shows tracks like those used by a small train.
36		Chapter 5-4	140	Poison Mushroom	The map shows a pipe and a door in a cave somewhere.
37		Chapter 5-4	60	King Croacus Catch Card	The map shows a treasure among treasures, so to speak.
38		Chapter 7-1	70	Jaydes Catch Card	The map shows something that defies gravity.
39		Chapter 7-1	80	Underhand Catch Card	The map shows a river flowing with the tears of evildoers.
40		Chapter 7-2	80	Trial Stew	The map shows a treasure in an unopened box.
41		Chapter 7-2	70	Underchomp Catch Card	The map shows a place between sky and earth.
42		Chapter 7-3	150	Gold Bar x3	The map shows an oddly colored tree.
43		Chapter 7-4	90	Grambi Catch Card	The map shows several similar objects in a row.
44		Chapter 7-4	100	Luvbi Catch Card	The map shows a white platform in a blue sky.
45		Chapter 7-4	190	Bonechill Catch Card	The map shows a white staircase.
46		Chapter 8-1	160	Nastasia Catch Card	The map shows light that dispels the darkness.
47		Chapter 8-3	200	Super Dimentio Catch Card	The map shows devices floating in the darkness.
48		Chapter 8-4	90	Count Bleck Catch Card	Where is this place? There are so many black walls...