Ketchup (#1 Metal Mario fan)

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I draw and I like super Mario !!

The internal codenames for Mario games are sometimes quite creative. The codename for Paper Mario: Sticker Star, "554g", is an elaborate bilingual pun that requires deciphering it into Japanese and then translating the sentence into English to understand.

PAPER MARIO Sticker Star
Codename: 554g
Goroawase ("phonetic matching") is a type of Japanese wordplay whereby a series of numbers, letters and symbols encodes a phrase. Every number has a few different readings; by picking the correct ones and reading them out loud, they will sound like a sentence:
554G
go go shi ji
This sounds like the sentence
午後四時
Four o'clock in the afternoon
Translating that into English gives "4 PM", which is where the pun comes into play: Paper Mario: Sticker Star is the fourth Paper Mario game, hence "4 PM".
Source: tcrf.net users "Hiccup", "CounterDiving", tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor:Project_Names/Nintendo

In Donkey Kong Country Returns, a rare glitch can occur upon visiting Cranky Kong, where he will refuse to talk to Donkey Kong and instead sit in silence forever. The player will be unable to leave his shop, requiring the game to be reset.

I've hinted at it so much there's no point in keeping it under wraps any longer. For the longest time, I've been working on a way to port GB games to the GBA. What I ended up building is a modified GB to GBA emulator that targets a fantasy console instead - I call it the GB Bridge.

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Iván Delgado@toruzz.com · 4mo ago