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Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

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.

Super Mario Run Paper Mario Thousand-Year Door event

To tie in with the launch of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on Switch, Super Mario Run just kicked off a special event.

Paper Mario missions will now appear in the mobile title. Statues have been added to Paper Mario, Goombella, and Koops. If you complete three missions, the Paper Mario statue will unlock. Goombella requires six finished missions. Koops needs a total of nine.

My Nintendo Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door character notepad

A new physical reward is up on My Nintendo in celebration of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door heading to Switch. Members can now spend their points on a character notepad.

The notepad features characters from the game. Each notepad contains 20 different designs on 60 total pages. Additionally, it comes with a paper airplane and folding instructions.

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:

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:

Paper Mario Thousand-Year Door Switch improvements Nostalgic Tunes badge

New details have come to light about improvements planned for the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Switch remake, including additions like the Nostalgic Tunes badge that lets players experience the music from the GameCube original.

Nintendo previously teased new features for the upcoming release, but didn’t go into detail. Thanks to hands-on previews that went live today, we have a better idea as to what’s planned.

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door overview trailer

April 24: A new overview trailer just dropped for Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. As often tends to be the case, Nintendo has thus far only put out a Japanese version – an English equivalent will likely follow later.


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