Proto:WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!

This page details one or more prototype versions of WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!.

To do: Look at the demos in Gekkan Nintendo Tentou Demo 2003.3.1 and Gekkan Nintendo Tentou Demo 2003.5.1. The Spriters Resource has a sheet of the special "CM" sprites from what they list as the 2003.3.1 demo.

A number of microgame demos were released: eight as unlockables in Wario World, and one as part of the Nintendo GameCube Preview Disc. All of them are downloadable to a Game Boy Advance.

These trials have a number of differences from the final game, most likely due to needing to fit within the GBA's 256kb of RAM.

Download WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (Demos) File: WarioWare, Inc.-demos.7z (394KB) (info)

Microgame Lists

This is a list of all microgames featured across all roms.

Wario World Trial #1 GameCube Preview Disc Gekkan Nintendo Tentou Demo 2003.3.1 Gekkan Nintendo Tentou Demo 2003.5.1	Wario World Trial #2	Wario World Trial #3	Wario World Trial #4
Crazy Cars	Log Chop	Paper Plane	Space Fighter
Wario Whirled	Heads Up	Dry Eye	Hover for Cover
Saving Face	Boing!	Butterfingers	Manic Mechanic
Dodge Balls	Batter Up	Gold Digger	Space Escape
Repellion	Ski Jump	Chicken Pinch	Munch a Bunch
The Maze That Pays	Jumpin' Rope	Right in the Eye	Lickety-Split
Mug Shot	Snowboard Slalom	Tilt-n-Tumble	Veggie Might

(Bold & Italic = Has a special selected microgame version with difficulty levels going up to 8.)

General

• The screen is always dimmed whenever the game is paused. In the final, the screen is blacked out completely if the game is paused during a microgame.
• Dodge Balls, Repellion, and Munch a Bunch, when played via the standalone demos in Wario World, have extra difficulty levels not used in the final:
  • Dodge Balls can go as high as Level 6, where there are 7 balls to avoid.
  • Repellion can go as high as Level 10, where there are 10 UFOs to shoot.
  • Munch a Bunch can go as high as Level 7, where there are 24 shapes to eat.

Unused Levels

• The coding for Dodge Balls, Repellion and Munch a Bunch in their trial demos can also support the higher levels where they are unused.
• While Dodge Balls can go up to Level 6 in the Selected 1 demo, the microgame (in both the trial 1 and selected 1 demos) can actually handle levels 7, 8 and 9 where up to 10 balls can be spawned. Any higher levels will result in corrupt graphics, and then a crash.
  • Levels 4 to 9 are also accessible in the final game.
• The coding for Repellion and Munch a Bunch, on the other hand, do not support any higher levels.

Graphical Differences

Microgames

• Wario in Crazy Cars has no idle animation.
• The instruction in Crazy Cars does not become "Dodge?" in situations where the car either drives away from Wario or is tiny.
• The background in Wario Whirled is pure black instead of a very dark green.
• The ball won't "break" the screen if you don't catch it in Heads Up.

Boom Box

Demos	Final

A few areas have less shading, like the screen and bars at the top. The outline for the screen on the boombox is also a dark grey rather than a lighter color based/dependent on what color the screen itself is (cyan, yellow, red). This was not changed for the final's start-up sequence.

Transition

Demos	Final

The transitions into and out of microgames use four frames of animation (the final uses eight) and have no dissolve effect on Wario's nose.

"CM" Mode

After reaching a score of 21 in the GameCube Preview Disc trial, the screen on the boombox will say "CM" (likely standing for "commercial") and all of the available Introduction microgames will play, except the graphics and commands are changed to advertise the game.

Normal	"CM" Mode

Audio Differences

All of the audio uses a different soundfont, again likely due to the 256kb size restriction. Compared to the final, the audio used here ranges from identical to completely different.

The Preview Disc demo and Wario World demos have the exact same set of audio files.

Music

Demos	Final
m_BGM_BOMB_READY_Turn_1_JC	m_BGM_BOMB_READY_Turn_1
m_BGM_BOMB_GOOD_0_JC	m_BGM_BOMB_GOOD_0
m_BGM_BOMB_BAD_0_JC	m_BGM_BOMB_BAD_0
m_BGM_Tutorial_READY_1_JC	m_BGM_Tutorial_READY_1
m_BGM_Tutorial_END_01_JC	m_BGM_Tutorial_END_01
m_BGM_BOMB_Demo_11_JC	m_BGM_BOMB_Demo_11
m_BGM_BOMB_01_JC	m_BGM_BOMB_01_AGB
m_BGM_BOMB_03_JC	m_BGM_BOMB_03_AGB
m_BGM_BOMB_17_JC	m_BGM_BOMB_17
m_BGM_BOMB_08_JC	m_BGM_BOMB_08
m_BGM_BOMB_12_JC	m_BGM_BOMB_12
m_BGM_BOMB_10_JC	m_BGM_BOMB_10
m_BGM_BOMB_07_JC	m_BGM_BOMB_07_AGB

Sounds

Demos	Final
s_BASIC_BUTTON_A1_vg3	s_BASIC_BUTTON_A1_vg3
s_BASIC_BUTTON_B	s_BASIC_BUTTON_B
s_BASIC_PAUSE_ON	s_BASIC_PAUSE_ON
s_BASIC_PAUSE_OFF	s_BASIC_PAUSE_OFF
s_BOMB_Bomb_04_JC	s_BOMB_Bomb_04
s_BOMB_Bomb_05	s_BOMB_Bomb_05
s_BOMB_CAR_02	s_BOMB_CAR_02
s_BOMB_Catch_BAD_02	s_BOMB_Catch_BAD_02
s_BOMB_Catch_OK_01_JC	s_BOMB_Catch_OK_01
s_BOM_Fail_01_JC	s_BOM_Fail_01
s_BOM_Fail_02	s_BOM_Fail_02
s_BOM_Fail_03_JC	s_BOM_Fail_03
s_BOMB_Fall_01	s_BOMB_Fall_01
s_BOMB_Hit_08_JC	s_BOMB_Hit_08
s_BOSS_Bear_Bump_LOW_JC	s_BOSS_Bear_Bump_LOW
s_BOMB_KALI_02_JC	s_BOMB_KALI_02
s_BOMB_KALI_06_JC	s_BOMB_KALI_06
s_BOMB_PI_21	s_BOMB_PI_21
s_BOMB_PO_01	s_BOMB_PO_01
s_BOM_Shot_01_JC	s_BOM_Shot_01
s_BOMB_Success_01_JC	s_BOMB_Success_01
s_BOMB_Voice_Child_02_JC	s_BOMB_Voice_Child_02
s_wario_TURN_JC	s_wario_TURN

Wario Noises

Demos	Final
s_v_wario_OK_01	s_v_wario_Yahoo_1
s_v_wario_OK_02	s_v_wario_Yahoo_2
s_v_wario_OK_03	s_v_wario_Yahoo_3
s_v_wario_OK_04	s_v_wario_Yahoo_4
s_v_wario_OK_05	s_v_wario_Laugh_HI_1
s_v_wario_OK_06	Corresponding file "s_v_wario_Laugh_HI_2" does not exist, nor is there anything similar.
s_v_wario_OK_07	s_v_wario_HA_1
s_v_wario_OK_08	s_v_wario_Laugh_HA2_1
s_v_wario_NG_01	s_v_wario_No_1
s_v_wario_NG_02	s_v_wario_No_2
s_v_wario_NG_03	s_v_wario_No_3
s_v_wario_NG_04	s_v_wario_Ahh_1
s_v_wario_NG_05	s_v_wario_Ahh_2
s_v_wario_NG_06	s_v_wario_Ahh_3
s_v_wario_NG_07	s_v_wario_Ahh_eyeah_1
s_v_wario_NG_08	s_v_wario_Ahh_eyeah_2