![]() ![]() Melee with a battle stage titled "Super Mario 128", where the player is assailed by a total of 128 tiny Mario figurines. Nintendo commemorated the height of Super Mario 128 hype in the 2001 GameCube game Super Smash Bros. He said, "obviously we were doing work on the Mario 128 demo that we were showing at Space World, and separately we were doing work on experiments that we made into Mario Sunshine." At Space World 2001, Super Mario Sunshine was unveiled as the next in the Mario series, released in 2002. There had always been distinctly separate development of Super Mario 128 and Super Mario Sunshine, which Miyamoto considered to be similar to Super Mario 64 anyway. To even be able to attempt that, would require tremendous technological expertise, motivation, and achievement from a dedicated team and would not be undertaken until 2003. Combining that demo's rounded surface with Mario's need to freely roam, Koizumi's next imagined groundbreaking objective was to demonstrate Mario walking upon a gravitational sphere. Koizumi said he spent much thought after the event about the "close to impossible" undertaking of productizing Super Mario 128 as demonstrated. Regarding Nintendo's secrecy and lack of elaborate demonstration of the camera system, GamePro assumed that "The precautions are warranted as developer after developer aped the exact camera mechanism from Mario 64 for their titles." GamePro declared Super Mario 128 to be one of the 15 most anticipated games of 2001. ![]() The terrain in the demo was manipulated, rotated, and spun like a floppy saucer to show the physics engine software. In the demo, a large 2D Mario spawned increasing numbers of smaller Mario figures, independently walking across a circular board, until the number of onscreen characters reached 128. Development of the demo was directed by Yoshiaki Koizumi, who would later become the director of Super Mario Galaxy. This software was controlled by staff to show new gameplay mechanics and the processing power of the upcoming GameCube game console. The name Super Mario 128 gained permanent fame when reused for a new technology demonstration at the Space World event on August 24-26, 2000. During the development of Doshin the Giant for Nintendo 64, he eagerly proposed that it could become the first sphere walking game but the staff rejected such an exceedingly massive development for the game which was released in December 1999. He learned greatly from the world's adaptation to the 3D gameplay of Super Mario 64 and he briefly experimented with rolling fields during the development of Paper Mario (2000) for Nintendo 64. He loved the novel idea of sphere walking, because it was totally unexplored in the game industry, and because focusing on a full sphere can eliminate camera movements and thus motion sickness. ![]() Miyamoto had considered the two next frontiers of the Super Mario series to be a gameplay mechanic of walking on a rotating sphere, and coincidentally a setting in space-but it took a long time to find a way to resonate these ideas with the production team. Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo Power Subscriber Special, December 1998 We'll tackle that once we've got the system ironed out-we've figured out the processing power issues, so we could do it if we tried. As of now, Luigi's also a full part of the game, but we haven't started thinking about 2-player gameplay with Mario and Luigi yet. I'd like to take advantage of the 64DD's ability to store information. We're in the middle of preparing Mario 64-2 for release on the 64DD. But we will decide more game elements when we finish everything about Zelda." We are currently working with a system where Mario and Luigi can co-exist, and they are both controllable by the player. At Nintendo's Space World 1997 trade show in November 1997, Miyamoto added "We haven't decided yet. Miyamoto mentioned at E3's August 1997 convention that he was "just getting started" on the project. This rumored expansion and sequel to Super Mario 64 was said to be developed for the 64DD, but was canceled due to the 64DD's commercial failure. The name Super Mario 64-2 was also used interchangeably with Super Mario 128. ![]() The name Super Mario 128 was first used as early as January 1997 by Shigeru Miyamoto, as a possible name for a Super Mario 64 sequel. ![]()
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