While playing Metroid Zero Mission, I came across some blocks that looked awfully familiar to the ones in Wario Land 4's Golden Passage

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The Big Cheese
You may have already known that Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission were built off of Wario Land 4's engine, and that there are even Wario Land 4 blocks in Fusion's debug room, but it looks like the connections don't stop there, because these blocks in Zero Mission seem to strike a resemblance to the ones from Wario Land 4's Golden Passage.

I took both a screenshot of Zero Mission here, and another one from WL4's Golden Passage while also on NSO (which I unfortunately no longer have, because I was cleaning up my computer, had the screenshots, but completely forgot to post about it!) and from there, I cropped the sprites out with exact matching dimensions.

Even though cropping them isn't as elegant as say, ripping them directly from the games files or something, just by looking you can tell how closely the pixels line up! I scaled the Metroid screenshot to be the original size so you can even see they're all exactly the same size even with my rough method. I even tried overlaying the blocks then toggling the opacity and they're pretty close!





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