Koopa the Quick
Goomba
In case anyone was wondering, no, I did not flip-flop the words in the title. This thread is about the text in some of the graphics used in Super Mario 64.
First, there's the one we all know about: "Eternal Star", or, as some used to think it was in the days of the "Luigi in Super Mario 64" hoax's popularity, "L is real 2401". I'm pretty sure it's "Eternal Star", there's not much evidence against. What I'd like to know is what the text below it is. Some in the "Eternal Star" camp think it's "We hope for" or something along those lines. The "L is real 2401" camp, on the other hand, seems to universally believe it's "In Paper M", which, as hardcore Mario history buffs know, was actually called "Super Mario RPG 2" at that point in development, when Nintendo was still on relatively good terms with Square, which had co-developed the original Super Mario RPG for the SNES. I just want to know what that bottom text on that plaque really is.
And then, of course, there's the sign and noticeboard graphics. For the former, I could only make out three words: "I" (the first), "am" (the second), and "Mario" (the fourth), all on the first of three lines. For the latter, it's also a three-line affair, except there's some blue text above them all which I have reason to believe says "Notice", and there also appears to be a signature at the very bottom. Apart from that, I'm pretty much stumped.
I'm going to need some good, hard clues, as I'm hoping to make a texture pack of my own and make it look like both a decent scale-up from the original 240p (or, more accurately, 224p) graphics mode the game employed and an accurate hi-res rendition of certain graphics.
First, there's the one we all know about: "Eternal Star", or, as some used to think it was in the days of the "Luigi in Super Mario 64" hoax's popularity, "L is real 2401". I'm pretty sure it's "Eternal Star", there's not much evidence against. What I'd like to know is what the text below it is. Some in the "Eternal Star" camp think it's "We hope for" or something along those lines. The "L is real 2401" camp, on the other hand, seems to universally believe it's "In Paper M", which, as hardcore Mario history buffs know, was actually called "Super Mario RPG 2" at that point in development, when Nintendo was still on relatively good terms with Square, which had co-developed the original Super Mario RPG for the SNES. I just want to know what that bottom text on that plaque really is.
And then, of course, there's the sign and noticeboard graphics. For the former, I could only make out three words: "I" (the first), "am" (the second), and "Mario" (the fourth), all on the first of three lines. For the latter, it's also a three-line affair, except there's some blue text above them all which I have reason to believe says "Notice", and there also appears to be a signature at the very bottom. Apart from that, I'm pretty much stumped.
I'm going to need some good, hard clues, as I'm hoping to make a texture pack of my own and make it look like both a decent scale-up from the original 240p (or, more accurately, 224p) graphics mode the game employed and an accurate hi-res rendition of certain graphics.
