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Title: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Eezer Goode on November 24, 2012, 11:51:17 AM
Hey, first post on here since 2009, but it's a doozy...


Here is a photo I captured of Super Mario Advance 2 on my GBA screen. It depicts, evidently, a White Yoshi. I can't remember what I did exactly to achieve it, but I was on a Red Yoshi in the 'Outrageous' course and got knocked off it. I went on to complete the level in that same session, but on the world map I was on a Yoshi again, this one was light blue in colour and when I moved sideways on the map, its head was missing.

I entered the 'Funky' level and this is what I saw...


(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg208.imageshack.us%2Fimg208%2F8690%2Fimgp1761.jpg&hash=b1fbe292382a78c960af6527c10fec31)


I did a Google search and found absolutely no results for a White Yoshi in this game ?? So is this a weird glitch or have I stumbled across a major secret ?
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: The Chef on November 24, 2012, 01:04:15 PM
Probably a graphical bug of some sort. Someone else here might be able to explain it.
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Bigluigifan1.0 on November 24, 2012, 01:35:05 PM
Action Replay? I've been able to get a White Yoshi from using the cheat codes before... but to my knowledge, there isn't another way.

Have you ever used a Game Shark/Action Replay?
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Eezer Goode on November 24, 2012, 06:01:24 PM
Action Replay? I've been able to get a White Yoshi from using the cheat codes before... but to my knowledge, there isn't another way.

Have you ever used a Game Shark/Action Replay?

Nope, never used any sort of cheating device and I've been playing the GBA for close to 10 years now. It really did just occur at random. I still have the file saved with the White Yoshi so may provide more pictures soon.

If this sort of thing is unheard of occuring *outside* of cheating codes, then this is made all the more monumental for me. When do I collect my medal ??
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Weegee on November 25, 2012, 07:02:06 PM
I vaguely recall another FF member pointing out a graphical glitch in SMA2's Special World a few years ago.
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Godot on November 26, 2012, 03:48:09 PM
Reminds me of how, eons ago, I found and caught a discolored Golbat in Pokémon Yellow. I was so excited because I thought I was super special. Then I forgot to save.

And then, even later, I discovered that there were no shiny pokémon until Gen 2. So now I'm convinced that I either encountered a glitch or fabricated the memory.
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Weegee on November 27, 2012, 05:00:45 PM
I haven't encountered a shiny since catching a Goldeen in Crystal.
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Ninjap00 on November 27, 2012, 11:49:26 PM
I haven't caught a shiny since my shiny Gyarados in Silver.

:C
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Kimimaru on November 27, 2012, 11:51:16 PM
What power does it have when it has a shell in its mouth?
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Toad on November 28, 2012, 12:29:03 PM
All of them. Simultaneously.
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Eezer Goode on November 29, 2012, 05:10:10 PM
What power does it have when it has a shell in its mouth?

''Stomp'' and ''Fire'' power.
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: CrossEyed7 on November 30, 2012, 12:34:07 AM
But no flying? Interesting.
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Eezer Goode on November 30, 2012, 02:25:07 PM
Maybe this glitch is the 'GBA' version of the Chargin Chuck glitch from the original ?

Both of these involved me getting knocked off an enemy when the screen was 'chaotic' and beating the level in the same sitting.  Just my theory anyway (and I'd be a liar if I said I wasn't chuffed to bits for discovering this !)
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Eezer Goode on December 01, 2012, 07:46:29 AM
I have uploaded some more pictures:


(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg641.imageshack.us%2Fimg641%2F7111%2Fimgp1784l.jpg&hash=4d78b7b570c9a1ad52fe25df686f55f7)

You can see the discoloured blue tint to the Yoshi sprite on the world map.


(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg211.imageshack.us%2Fimg211%2F9865%2Fimgp1785.jpg&hash=eda95b1f746e897c187095045c578023)

His head disappears when you move sideways.


(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg585.imageshack.us%2Fimg585%2F4220%2Fimgp1786g.jpg&hash=6b0c37dd865965afccaff6be224cf4b5)


(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg13.imageshack.us%2Fimg13%2F3551%2Fimgp1787q.jpg&hash=a279ee954c4dec74691dce4ff319a1df)
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: BP on December 01, 2012, 12:54:08 PM
If you still have it after a save & quit (or even after finishing the level), and it doesn't behave exactly like a normal Yoshi that's just discolored, it sounds to me like it was probably meant to be in there but was scrapped. But The Cutting Room Floor doesn't have anything about it (http://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_World:_Super_Mario_Advance_2).
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Fifth on December 01, 2012, 01:15:09 PM
It's also possible that the Yoshi data is stored as something like a 4-bit number, with each bit representing the powers it has: 1 for a normal green Yoshi, 2 for fire, 4 for stomp, and 8 for flying (So fire+stomp would give you 6).  Thus they could get a unique value for any combination of powers.  Which wouldn't come into play (you'd only get a Yoshi of value 1, 2, 4, or 8), unless you add into that the shell colors.  You treat shells the same way, and simply take the boolean OR result of the two (Yoshi color OR shell color) and you end up with whatever powers either had.  Thus a red Yoshi (2) holding a blue shell (8) would have the combined value of 10.

But that's all just a guess.
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Eezer Goode on December 01, 2012, 02:05:55 PM
If you still have it after a save & quit (or even after finishing the level), and it doesn't behave exactly like a normal Yoshi that's just discolored, it sounds to me like it was probably meant to be in there but was scrapped. But The Cutting Room Floor doesn't have anything about it (http://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_World:_Super_Mario_Advance_2).

I wouldn't have thought so, it's a good theory but it doesn't explain the glitchy graphic it has on the world map.

The only possible theory, I feel, is that it's just a test sprite of some sort that has appeared via a freak combination of gameplay events in a certain level, but the fact that it isn't logged on the Cutting Room Floor website is very interesting.
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: MEGAߥTE on December 01, 2012, 02:49:26 PM
Fifth is probably right.
Title: Re: White Yoshi in SMA2
Post by: Ym9iYnlzcTEzMzc equalsign on December 01, 2012, 03:32:02 PM
Try the same "freak combination of gameplay events" on an emulator.