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Europe waits half a year to get Super Paper Mario, and it's got a glitch? photo

Oh this is rich. This is rich like fruit cake and marzipan. I have already ranted in the past about how disgraceful it is that Europeans had to wait half a year to play one of the few decent Wii games on the market, but the fact that after all this time there's a glitch of any description in Super Paper Mario is a bit rubbish. The glitch won't affect very many players at all, but those that trigger it will be treated to a game breaking freeze that will require the unfortunate player to reset his or her Wii and start from the last save point. You'd think that with such a ridiculous waiting time between releases, the game would be improved rather than having glitches added in.

From Nintendo Europe's official Web site:

At the start of Chapter 2-2, you will come across a character called Mimi. She will tell you to go to the farthest room on the first floor to meet a character called Merlee. Enter that room and press the green switch. A trap will be triggered, and a spiked ceiling will descend upon Mario. Before the ceiling reaches him, flip into 3D and jump on it to find a key.

If you pick up the key, you won't run into any problems. Use it to open the locked door to Mimi's right. However, if you talk to Mimi without picking up the key, the game will freeze. You will then have to turn off your Wii console and start again from your last save point. 

It really doesn't pay to be a gamer in Europe, I tell you. Getting Mario Strikers first is no tonic for farcical garbage like this. At least Nintendo is offering unglitched copies to anybody with a problem, but after spending all this time waiting for the thing, one would expect perfection. Well, one would if one didn't live in Europe and expect this kind of treatment.

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digiwalsh's Avatar
digiwalsh at 09/19/2007 09:24
Mario Galaxy confirmed for 2070 Europe Release?
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 09/19/2007 09:28
Japan is getting revenge on Europe for WWII. They know better than to fuck with the US, because we still have some nukes lying around just in case they get cheeky.
bhive01's Avatar
bhive01 at 09/19/2007 09:28
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bhive01 at 09/19/2007 09:29
Sorry, that was a bit big. Resizing...
JACK of No Trades's Avatar
JACK of No Trades at 09/19/2007 09:31
The Nintendo Seal of Quality my ass!
Alanar's Avatar
Alanar at 09/19/2007 09:34
Luckily, this glitch is easy to avoid. Unlike "Avatar: The Last Airbender"...
B-Radicate's Avatar
B-Radicate at 09/19/2007 09:41
That sounds like a Super Paper Mario Cut to me.
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Reallynotnick at 09/19/2007 09:43
I think this should be implemented in all games, if you lose you should have to get off your ass, restart your system, and go through all the start up screens. Hell on the 360 they could make it so you got the RRoD, that would sure make you think twice about being such a bad gamer.
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Snaileb at 09/19/2007 09:44
Sorry Jim. That really sucks. When do you guys get Metroid?

And don't "you people" get SSB before us?
ShawnKelfonne's Avatar
ShawnKelfonne at 09/19/2007 09:46
@Snaileb: I was under the impression that they were getting Mario Kart first.
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Plibble at 09/19/2007 09:48
The question is...
WHO IN THE FUCK would want Mario Strikers, let alone have it 1st...
Bad whoring off of a character mixing it with a dodgy sport game...

Then, one of the few... umm.. The Only wii game out yet I want has an EU ONRY glitch after the wait... Fan-bloody tastic lol...

Next i'll need to wait 8 more months for Nights and No more heros and find out that the eu nights has forced wii-mote eww and Eu no more heroes will cause me wii to explode lol...
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BS3 Owner at 09/19/2007 09:58
EU Super Paper Mario?

or

EU Super Paper Tiger?
Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 09/19/2007 10:04
hmmm... thats unfortunate.
zardoz's Avatar
zardoz at 09/19/2007 10:07
Jim, you're following in the footsteps of your game journalist ancestors, I remember reading an article almost identical to the one you've just written, and the sad thing is, this was back in the Super Famicom days.

I'm sure Nintendo thinks that Europe is Middle Earth or something, that we're not really into games or technology, we just fight dragons and orks and get pissed in medieval pubs to pass the time...actually, they have a point.
h3lios's Avatar
h3lios at 09/19/2007 10:22
And yet another reason for Nintendo to region-free. Or just get an NTSC U/C Wii.
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CBunn at 09/19/2007 10:24
I don't get why the euro people just don't import the damn console from US. Sure, you can't buy instantly, but the postage time is still a LOT LESS than waiting for a localized release. In some cases, the games get to be even cheaper.
Living in Brazil, I can't even give myself the luxury of waiting for a release here, and I import all my gaming stuff from the US.

If a large portion started doing it, the industry would stop fucking up like this.
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BenHaskett at 09/19/2007 10:27
That sucks. Well, at least you know how to avoid it.

How the hell did that make it into the game?

3.59M Japan
4.69M America
3.36M Others

I don't live in Europe, so I wouldn't know, but why the fuck does it take so long for games to be released there? Are they released in multiple languages at once?
AgentMOO's Avatar
AgentMOO at 09/19/2007 10:32
It's-a me, Mario! You a bend over for me now!
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SpiderChrist at 09/19/2007 10:33
Lets just do the European thing and shrug our shoulders and take it like a Frenchie, You know you love the dissapointment Jim! Its what we crave in Europe, we need reasons to complain!
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ruiner9 at 09/19/2007 10:34
Well, serves ya right for not picking up a key when it's laying there in front of your face.

Secondly, you failed to mention Nintendo's aware of the issue and replacing the discs for free.
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Phist at 09/19/2007 10:42
I smell anti-British racism.

Nintendo is gonna ship a ton of Paper Marios no matter how much of a protest gamers organize. Football mums are mindlessly buying this for their kids who are asking for the new Marios. Monopolies suck, don't they?
h3lios's Avatar
h3lios at 09/19/2007 10:44
@ruiner9:

Who cares about the free disc replacement? The game's 6 months late, why the hell should it be there to begin with? It isn't there on the NTSC U/C version, why should PAL users have to suffer anymore than they should?

Sure Nintendo's done this oh-so-awesome-thing of making it known and offering replacements, but they're doing what they're SUPPOSED to do- if there is a problem, rectify it anyway possible with as little public backlash as possible.
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zardoz at 09/19/2007 10:50
@ruiner9

Yeah, perhaps a pissed off programmer at Nintendo just sneaked something in the final build to expose idiot gamers, "Oh look a key, I think I'll just leave it there."

That programmer is now laughing with delight every time they hear of someone's game freezing, it's kind of like a non violent version of SE7EN, gamers who are annoyingly stupid are punished in an annoyingly stupid way.
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Snoopbob2006 at 09/19/2007 10:50
We got Shenmue II on DC you never got it till the xbox port which was shit anyway
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BahamutZero at 09/19/2007 11:02
A+ Jim. Really, sterling work.
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BahamutZero at 09/19/2007 11:03
also, marzipan
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BETRAYAL at 09/19/2007 11:12
OMG another secret message on a Nintendo title: U RAPE MARIO!!!
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David Houghton at 09/19/2007 11:21
Does the design of that butterfly keep giving anyone else the impression that Mario is being chased by the Decepticons?
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AngelsDontBurn at 09/19/2007 11:31
Lol!
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Necros at 09/19/2007 13:44
No worries, they can patch...oh wait, nevermind.
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Im OK at 09/19/2007 18:05
Wait... is this glitch in the US and/or Japanese versions? If so, it definitely should have been fixed by now for the EU release. If not, that's even more retarded.
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Velt at 09/19/2007 18:06
You know what is worst than europe?

Latin America, its listed in red because of piracy, but they dont send not even one single original copy of a game... and why? Because they dont care, theres no market there, but they complain of the piracy... oh yes, they do that pretty fucking well. First you ignore the market, then just blame piracy when they are no original games for purchase in the first place. Trust me, is not the other way around.
If you want a nintendo Wii they charge you 400 usd.
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RJG at 09/19/2007 19:14
This is exactly why I modded my Wii. I've already played and gotten bored of this game. It just wasn't as fun as other Paper Mario titles. The writing was still top notch, but without the crazy ass turn based combat, it just plays like a second rate platformer.
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Natural 20 at 09/19/2007 19:57
After 19 years, I'm really past caring.

Gaming hates Europe. I personally blame all the non-English speaking countries for wanting regional translations.
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Wargasmic at 09/19/2007 23:05
They've had it coming for 400 years.
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Spectral at 09/20/2007 09:09
Is Mario Strikers Charged really that bad? I'm thinking about buying it...
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4knuckleshuffle at 06/06/2008 16:10
Suckers...
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