Mario Golf (Game Boy Color)

Mario Golf
Also known as: Mario Golf GB (JP) Developer: Camelot Software Planning Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Game Boy Color Released in JP: August 10, 1999 Released in US: October 5, 1999 Released in EU: October 26, 1999 Released in AU: October 26, 1999 This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences. This game has a notes page This game has a Data Crystal page

It's a long drive between the Mushroom Kingdom and the Marion Golf Club. But it'll take more than that to drive a wedge between Mario and his golfing addiction.

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Notes

Unused Character Names

In the adventure mode, when you talk to an NPC who demonstrates a swing, a computer player is shown making the shot. The game loads one of two possible characters, either 0E (a woman named Munakata), or 0F (a man named Oka). These names are never shown to the player, but they are loaded into memory, and can be seen by hacking the game.

Development Room

Open Mario Golf (USA) in a memory editor, and change RAM address C450 to 01 in an area such as the character stats screen in story mode and resume gameplay, or use GameShark code 010150C4, or choose 1 in the scene menu described below. The player will be redirected to a room with two rows of seven characters on the top right of the map. Outside of this area, it is completely empty, with nothing but glitched star scrolling animations and a single solid mushroom that doesn't do anything.

Left Row:

• Mario - takes the player to an end-of-hole animation test. Pressing Left and Right switches between sets of characters, while Up and Down selects the character. There's no exit from this screen, other than restarting.
• Luigi - takes the player to some sort of screen filled with various graphics from the game, likely to see how characters appeared on the screen. The games allow the player to move around after pressing the A or B button. Restarting is the only way out.
• Yoshi - player goes to the locker room.
• Toad - player goes to the front of Marion Clubhouse.
• Peach - player goes to the lounge.
• Wario - player goes to the trophy room.
• D.K. - player goes to the Caddie Master's Office.

Right Row:

• Mario - takes the player to a VS. Results screen, then the end-of-hole animation test, but with an incorrect palette for the dialogue boxes.
• Luigi - the player is shown a different debug overlay.
• Yoshi - the player is shown how many stars they need to get for Toad Highlands. Leaving it goes to the menu for 1P play modes.
• Toad - shows the player the tournament total; leaving it goes straight to the main menu.
• Peach - shows rankings for tournament mode; leaving it goes outside the Marion Club.
• Wario - The sepia effect is turned on, followed by a series of beeps. Dialogue boxes retain the sepia effect.
• D.K. - the player is taken to a character animation test screen; touching Mario and Wario goes back and forth between different characters, while touching Peach and Toad cause the player to do his putting animation.

Debug Display

Open Mario Golf (USA) in a memory editor, and change RAM address FF9E to 02 (or use Gameshark code 01029EFF) during gameplay to see a HUD that flickers on the screen to simulate a transparency effect. Note that any time the player switches view, that the font gets overwritten.

(Source: Xkeeper, Raspberry)

Debug Menu

A debug menu exists in the game and can be accessed in story mode.

Access

1. Open Mario Golf in VBA.
2. Go to the Marion Clubhouse.
3. Change RAM address FF9E to 01 in VBA's memory editor.
4. Press A to open the debug menu.

Alternately, use Gameshark code 01019EFF.

Scene

Map Select. Choose a map with the D-Pad, then press A, B to go to the chosen map.

To do: Figure out what "- ENTER NO -" does.

Map List

No.	Japanese	English
0	モードセレクト	Mode Select
1	かいはつ	Development
2	フィールド	Field
3	マリオンクラブハウス	Marion Clubhouse
4	ラウンジ	Lounge
5	しはいにんしつ	Executive Suite
6	ロッカールーム	Locker Room
7	トロフィールーム	Trophy Room
8	マリオンクラブ - キャディマスターしつまえ	Marion Club - Outside Caddy Master's Room
9	パームクラブ - キャディマスターしつまえ	Palm Club - Outside Caddy Master's Room
10	デューンクラブ - キャディマスターしつまえ	Dune Club - Outside Caddy Master's Room
11	リンクスクラブ - キャディマスターしつまえ	Links Club - Outside Caddy Master's Room
12	マリオンクラブ - ショットれんしゅうじょう	Marion Club - Shot Practice Area
13	マリオンクラブ - アプローチれんしゅうじょう	Marion Club - Approach Practice Area
14	マリオンクラブ - パッティングれんしゅうじょう	Marion Club - Putting Practice Area
15	パームクラブ - ショットれんしゅうじょう	Palm Club - Shot Practice Area
16	パームクラブ - アプローチれんしゅうじょう	Palm Club - Approach Practice Area
17	パームクラブ - パッティングれんしゅうじょう	Palm Club - Putting Practice Area
18	デューンクラブ - ショットれんしゅうじょう	Dune Club - Shot Practice Area
19	デューンクラブ - アプローチれんしゅうじょう	Dune Club - Approach Practice Area
20	デューンクラブ - パッティングれんしゅうじょう	Dune Club - Putting Practice Area
21	リンクスクラブ - ショットれんしゅうじょう	Links Club - Shot Practice Area
22	リンクスクラブ - アプローチれんしゅうじょう	Links Club - Approach Practice Area
23	リンクスクラブ - パッティングれんしゅうじょう	Links Club - Putting Practice Area
24	ひょうしょう（マリオン）	Awards (Marion)
25	ひょうしょう（パーム）	Awards (Palm)
26	ひょうしょう（デューン）	Awards (Dune)
27	ひょうしょう（リンクス）	Awards (Links)
28	ピーチじょうへのみち	Path to Peach's Castle
29	ピーチじょう	Peach's Castle
30	ストーリースタート	Story Start
31	たいせんけっか	Competition Results
32	コースパラメータ	Course Parameters
33	のりおステータス！	Norio Status!
34	のりおサンプル	Norio Sample
35	せんたくがめん	Select Screen
36	ちびキャラテスト	Tiny-Tots Character Test
37	テロップ	Projector
38	かぜふきだに - スペシャルホール	Windy Valley - Special Hole
39	チビッコゴルフひろば	Tiny-Tots Golf Grounds
40	ミニミニ　レイクコース	Mini-Mini Lake Course
41	カラスのもりゴルフコース	Raven Woods Golf Course
42	オルタネートゲーム	Alternate Game
43	オルタネートゲームイベント	Alternate Game Event
44	ゴルフせんにんの - ショートコース	Golf Selection - Short Course
45	ゴルフしんだんじょ	Golf Diagnostic Area
46	クラブしょくにんのごや	Club Employee Hut
47	かぜふきだにのこや	Windy Valley Hut
48	マッチプレイイベント	Match Play Event
49	ENDしはいにんしつ	END: Executive Suite
50	ENDラウンジ	END: Lounge
51	ENDキャディマスターしつ	END: Caddy Master Room
52	ENDひょうしょう（マリオン）	END: Awards (Marion)
53	ENDちびっこゴルフ	END: Tiny-Tots Golf Grounds
54	ENDカラスのもり	END: Raven Woods
55	ENDオルタネイト1	END: Alternate 1
56	ENDマッチプレイイベント	END: Match Play Event
57	ENDフィールド	END: Field
58	ENDクモ	END: Clouds
59	ENDあぜりあ	END: Azalea
60	ENDピーチじょう	END: Peach's Castle
61	ENDマリオンクラブハウス	END: Marion Clubhouse
62	ENDフィールド	END: Field

Map

Seems to be a list of different areas of the Marion Clubhouse to warp to?

To do: Figure out what exactly this option does.

Palette

Edits the palette of the current room. Use the D-Pad to choose a color, A to display the chosen color's RGB values, and the D-Pad to edit them.

Flag

Flag editor. Use the D-Pad to select a flag and A to enable/disable it.

To do: Find out what each flag enables.

(Source: GlitterBerri - Translation)

Regional Differences

Title Screen

Japanese	International

Both regional versions have the title logo in a similar style to their respective Mario Tennis counterparts, which were respectively released one or two years later.

Dictionary

Japanese	International

In addition to the cover graphics change, the pages on the right side were made visible in the international version.

Other

• The Japanese and European versions use meters in putting instead of feet, changing 30 ft, 100 ft, and 200 ft to 10m, 30m, and 60m respectively. That change doesn't affect the distance, however.
• The Japanese and European versions show wind speed in meters per second rather than miles per hour.
• During the Alternate Game challenge, Lily and Lime's names are swapped in the Japanese version.

Unused Text

In both non-Japanese versions, a text string based on the default Emacs scratch buffer can be found at ROM address C885F:

This buffer is for notesyou don't want to save,and for Lisp evaluation.ABCDEFG