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Pipe Room location Paper Mario Thousand Year Door

The new remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on Switch includes a brand new pipe room that lets you travel between major areas as you unlock them, and we’re letting you know how to unlock it. The original game on GameCube was beloved by fans, but one major complaint was all the backtracking you have to do. On Switch, this has now been addressed. You can access the pipe room as soon as you clear the first chapter, and you can go back after clearing every subsequent chapter to unlock a new shortcut pipe to that chapter’s corresponding area.

For those playing Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, we’ve got a guide for those wondering how to get to Glitzville.

Glitzville (and by extension, the Glitz Pit) is the third area in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. After you finish up with business at the Great Tree, you’ll need to find a way to get to Glitzville in the first place. To do that, Mario needs to find a ticket that lets him ride the blimp. Normally, you’d have to ask around town and even pay certain characters to learn how to find and ask Don Pianta for a ticket. We’ve put together a list of instructions on how to get to Glitzville, including a way to get there without paying Coins to anyone.

Paper Mario Thousand-Year Door Nostalgic Tunes badge change music

Hot off the heels of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’s launch on Switch, we’re telling how to change music in the game with the Nostalgic Tunes badge.

Although this new version of the RPG is generally rather light on new content, there are a few new additions here and there. One such addition is the option to change the game’s music. The Switch remake has its own remixed soundtrack that plays by default, but by following a few steps you can opt to switch back to the original game’s unaltered music. This comes in the form of the Nostalgic Tunes Badge, which can be equipped or unequipped anytime and doesn’t cost any Badge Points to use.

Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door frame rate resolution

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is just about to make its return on Switch, and Digital Foundry has now provided some technical details, including frame rate and resolution. We have information about the graphical updates as well.

Here’s the full roundup of tidbits:

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door ROM leak

Not long before it’s official launch, there’s been a ROM leak for the new Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

It’s never a good thing for Nintendo when this happens, but it’s perhaps not quite as significant as previous leaks. After all, we’re talking about a game that has technically been around for twenty years. Remember that Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door originally launched for the GameCube in 2004. It’s still a spoiler-heavy game though, so keep that in mind while being online.

Nintendo typically shares launch trailers on release date, but we’ve got a bit of an early one for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. The video comes ahead of the remake’s debut later in the week.

If you need a refresher on what to expect, check out the following overview:

Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door reviews

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door still has a couple of days to go until its Switch launch, but reviews are now starting to come in. Nintendo lifted the embargo a few minutes ago.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door brings back the classic GameCube RPG. Aside from fresh visuals, the title features an updated soundtrack plus gameplay additions like updated quick-travel pipes and a Partner Ring to quickly swap characters.

Here’s the roundup of reviews for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door:

Fire Emblem Heroes update 8.5.0

The next update for Fire Emblem Heroes, version 8.5.0, is now available.

There are new skills for some Legendary Heroes, new Memento Events, and quite a bit more. Also, worth noting that revival summoning events will be held three times per week.

Here’s the full rundown of the update:

Fire Emblem Heroes New Heroes & Rearmed Lumera

Fire Emblem Heroes has unveiled its latest summoning event, which is New Heroes & Rearmed Lumera.

Four new Heroes who are enveloped in a dark aura, including Rearmed Hero Lumera: Corrupted Dragon, will be appearing. Additionally, the next Grand Hero Battle with Lloyd: Vengeful Wolf starts later in the week.

Paper Mario Thousand-Year Door Goomba cat-calling

Some fans have noticed that in the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Switch remake, Nintendo adjusted the dialogue for a scene involving cat-calling Goombas.

This happens early on in the game with allies Goombella and Professor Frankly who run into a few Goombas while navigating through the ruins found underneath the city of Rogueport. The Goombas cat-call Goombella, who tells them to bug off.

Here’s the original dialogue (which you can see here) in the GameCube release:


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