Releases

The two versions compared on this page are the following:

Title screen

The Doki Doki Panic title screen has three balloons that pop and show the title logo. The Super Mario Bros. 2 title screen is devoid of animation.

Intro

Doki Doki Panic's intro sequence starts out with two kids reading a book. After a few seconds, a big green hand pops out and pulls the kids inside the book as their pet monkey runs off to find help. Then, the four main characters appear out of nowhere and jump into the book, one at a time.

In Super Mario Bros. 2, the intro is just a story about how Mario dreamt about some weird land. Not too exciting.

Character Select screen

In Doki Doki Panic, you choose your character at the start of the game and play all the way through with him or her, saving after you defeat a boss. So, there are four save files, one for each character. SMB2 has no save feature, but you can pick your character before every level.

Bonus Chance

DDP's Bonus Chance screen is incredibly bland. SMB2 merely used its title screen as the background, but anything's an improvement over DDP's design. The cool thing about DDP's bonus chance is that the vegetables change depending on what level you're in. This would've been neat to see in SMB2, but, oh well.

Mariofied

These are all the items and characters that were changed from DDP to SMB2. The enemies were not changed, except for boss of 5-3.

The Lost Mouser

Doki Doki Panic originally had three Mousers, the third one appearing at the end of World 5-3. The white Mouser was replaced by Clawgrip, a rock-throwing crab.

Above is a map of the third Mouser's chamber, which was completely replaced by Clawgrip and his stockpile of rocks (below). The four clumps of grass to the left of Mouser were bombs.

World 4-1

A power-up was added near the beginning of World 4-1.

Thanks: Sam L.

World 7-1

In the second part of World 7-1, the highest cloud platform was removed, and the gray Snifit was moved to the left. The tall column-and-ladder combo were moved to the right.

Wart's room

Wart's room has redesigned red blocks in SMB2.

Character names

The following names come from the DDP and SMB2 manuals.

Item names

The following names come from the DDP and SMB2 manuals.

Comatose sprites

In Doki Doki Panic, not many items were animated. For example, there are no animation frames for Cherries, POW Blocks, vines, grass, Crystal Balls, Bomb fuses, water, cloud platforms, and spikes; these were all animated for SMB2.

The Albatoss enemy also has fewer animation frames than its SMB2 counterpart. Phanto does not move when you pick up a key; instead, he magically appears later to chase you around.

In a somewhat related note, if you get down to one dot on the power meter in DDP, you don't shrink to half your size. This and the "B-Button run" are Mario trademarks, and were duly added to SMB2.

Audible changes

• DDP has shorter character select and aboveground background music
• 1-Ups make "finish level reward fanfare" noise
• Enemies make different noises when picked up or thrown
• Birdo makes different noises
• Rockets makes different noises
• POW Blocks make different noises
• Cherry collection makes different noise
• Doors and potions make different noises
• Mask gates make different noises
• Your character makes different noises when hit
• Starman and Sub-space background music is different
• Whale's waterspouts make new gushing noises
• The Stopwatch's noise is slightly different