New Super Luigi U

New Super Luigi U
Developer: Nintendo EAD Tokyo Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Wii U Released in JP: July 13, 2013 Released in US: August 25, 2013 Released in EU: July 26, 2013 Released in AU: July 27, 2013 This game has unused areas. This game has unused objects. This game has unused graphics.

This game/console's online features are no longer supported. While this game/console's online features were once accessible, they are (as of November 7, 2017) no longer officially supported and online-exclusive features may be documented as now-unseen content.

New Super Luigi Bros. U is the fourth-and-a-halfth installment in the New Super Mario Bros. series, released as DLC for New Super Mario Bros. U since, obviously, Nintendo didn't make enough money on this series yet. It was later released as a standalone game, still later bundled with NSMBU, and still later bundled with NSMBU again, but on Nintendo Switch as New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe.

At least Nintendo is self-aware about their recycling of content this time around.

To do: Some levels have blank tiles that show positions of the sprite platforms. These may show early platform locations and may also exist in NSMBU. Unused location 0 in 5-1? Prototype Placeholder levels (in the DLC version only, not standalone or combo): 2-13, 3-13, 5-13, 8-23 (source: baronstijn) "Judging from the code, NSLU was going to add Nabbit-based Mii overalls but it was never done in the end. Mii overalls are based on the other player characters, always in this order: Mario, Luigi, Yellow Toad, Blue Toad. Nabbit was going to be added as a 5th option" (source: AboodXD)

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Unused Objects

Unused Graphics

Unused Graphics in Jyotyu Tilesets

New Super Luigi U uses the same jyotyu tilesets as New Super Mario Bros. U, therefore it has the same exact unused features hidden in them.

Normal	Yougan

Early Luigi Figurehead

Early	Final

Hidden behind the Luigi figurehead at the beginning of 5-Airship ("All Aboard!") is a version rendered with different lighting. The early version includes much more pronounced shadows from the white boards, and has less light cast on Luigi's face overall.

Unused Level Features

Extra Columns

Right behind the flagpole zone in Layer-Cake Desert-2 are two impossible-to-see columns.

Invisible Tiles

Left of the starting point in Layer-Cake Desert-5 is a row of solid, invisible tiles, which you cannot touch.

Cabana Hut

Behind the flagpole of Sparkling Waters-1 is an extra cabana hut which you, once again, cannot possibly see.

Blank Tile

Soda Jungle-6 Area 2 has an Object 0, Tileset 0 tile far off the level zone (how far you can see on the screenshot). This tile... does nothing and is in fact only ever used to make blank tiles.

Blank Positioning Tiles

Soda Jungle-Castle has four instances of Object 0, Tileset 0 that the level designers apparently used to keep track of the size of each giant moving platform.

Another Row of Tiles

Similarly to Layer-Cake Desert-6, there's a row of solid invisible tiles left of the starting point in Meringue Clouds-2.

Platform Edge

Peach Castle-4, Area 2 has a couple tiles far off the zone.

Internal Project Name

The internal project name is RDash, as seen in the game's files. "R" is the first part of NSMBU's internal project name, and "Dash" may refer to the fact that the game is a derivative of the original (much like the Japanese title of Street Fighter II: Champion Edition) and/or the fact that you have to move through the levels quickly.