Super Mario RPG’s recently released Switch remake is a lovely thing, freshening up a much-loved classic for a new generation, while ensuring its core remains faithful enough that it can deliver a wonderful blast of nostalgia for long-time fans. And it turns out that faithfulness runs deep, with players having discovered it restores a fun little easter egg that was cut from the original version during the localisation process for release outside of Japan.
More specifically, the 1996 Japanese version of Super Mario RPG contained a cute – if ultimately fairly pointless – sequence that would trigger if players entered the cheat code ‘Down, Up, Right, Left, L, R, L, R, B’ on the pause screen.
Rather than showering players with treats to make the experience a little easier or give everyone a massive head, as cheat codes tended to do at the time, entering Super Mario RPG’s sequence of button presses would instead cause Toad to materialise and ponder what the secret code you just entered could possibly have done.
