I remember hearing about this and thought it was funny seeing jokes about that one ni being absurdly higher quality for no apparent reason (And I thought so too, what possible reason why would they do that?). But each ni is different, and after...
Huh, I don't think I've ever noticed a lack of ni~ when I play the game. Though I guess the "original hardware" comment means it is possible to play back on emulation, so that may explain it.
I can think of a few knights who may have demanded...
Saw this post on Supper Mario Broth and thought it was kinda interesting:
Apparently, exactly one sample used in Wario Land 4 is stored at a higher quality level than the rest. That's fascinating to me.
Bonus points for @Weario and @ShyGuyXXL...
The game is apparently 95% decompiled, which means soon it should be way easier to modify the game or port it to other systems:
https://decomp.dev/TsilaAllaoui/warioland4
So, anyone else excited for this? I'm now picturing how crazy Wario Land...
I think it might be an early sprite, but downscaled slightly so it would fit the tile. They probably didn't feel like replacing it, or just kind of didn't notice, so it remained. That would be my guess.
I thought maybe this was an earlier version of Wario's sprite because they look close enough at a glance, but it didn't match any of the beta stuff. But upon closer inspection, I still think it's a pretty impressive lower resolution version of...