Cameos on the Game Boy Advance

[Fryguy64]

This week I will be putting up the Game Boy and Nintendo 64 cameos, so the next step is the Game Boy Advance.

We're getting into the territory of games released after I stopped updating the site, so there's likely to be quite a few missing. Remember, throw 'em all at me! ;D

Game Boy Advance Cameos

Advance Wars / Advance Wars 2
1. One of the maps features the word "Nintendo" written in Japanese Kanji.

DK: King of Swing
1. Bubbles from Clu Clu Land can be unlocked as a playable character in the minigames.

Drill Dozer
1. Jill has a range of costumes that are based on other Nintendo properties, including Mario dungarees, female trainer from Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen, Frog Suit (SMB3) and costumes from Game Freak's Pulseman (Mega Drive / Genesis) and Click+Medic (Playstation).

F-Zero: GP Legend / F-Zero Climax
Mr. EAD and James McCloud cameos (originally from F-Zero X).

Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak
1. The shopkeeper hamster says "But Somethin' Will Ya!", which was also said by the shopkeepers in The Legend of Zelda.
2. A whole sequence at the end of the game where you must pull the Legendary Spoon is a spoof of the pulling of the Master Sword in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Kururin Paradise
1. The first bonus game resembles Balloon Fight.
2. Gamecubes appear in the background of some stages.

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
1. Dr. Left appears (again), based on Dr. Wright from Sim City.
2. Talon and Gorman appear, based on Mario and Luigi respectively.
3. Bob-ombs appear in some dungeons.
4. Lakitu appears as an enemy, shooting lightning bolts.

Legendary Starfy
Luigi's Hat is one of the items you can collect.

Legendary Starfy 3
In Chapter 8, you have to help Wario get through the temple (similar to Wario Land 4). You also receive Wario-themed treasures, including a copy of "Made in Wario" and the pile of treasure that appeared on the cover of Wario World.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
1. The Sledge Bros. Jumping game has an image of a flagpole and castle from Super Mario Bros. in the background.
2. In Mushroomtop Village's bar-tilting game, the instructions are read out by a little model of Geno from Super Mario RPG.
3. In the Yoshi Theatre you can find posters of other Nintendo games, including "Kirby Story", "Wario" (with artwork from WarioWare), "M&L" (Artwork from Japanese Mario & Luigi boxart) and "Legend of Stafy" from Legendary Starfy.
4. The Fighter Fly enemy is originally from Mario Bros.
5. Viruses from Dr. Mario appear as enemies in Yoohooniversity.
6. The enemy Sniper Bill is carrying a Super Scope.
7. Hermie III is actually based on another enemy from Alphadream's Tomato Adventure.

Wario Land 4
1. (unconvinced) The shadowy shopkeeper is based on Mr. Game & Watch (/unconvinced)
2. The scientist explorer who appears in the bonus areas originally appeared in For the Frog the Bell Tolls.

WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames
1. The first set of Wario's microgames include many games that appeared in the Mario Artist series.
2. 9-Volt's Nintendo themed games include Balloon Fight, Chiritorie, Donkey Kong, Dr. Mario, Duck Hunt, Family BASIC, F-Zero, Game Boy, Helmet, Hogan's Alley, Ice Climber, LazerBlazer (Super Scope 6), Laser Outlaw, The Legend of Zelda, Mario Clash, Fly Swatter (Mario Paint), Metroid, Racing 112, Sheriff, Stack-Up, Super Mario Bros., Ultra Hand, Urban Champion, Wild Gunman. The boss stage is the Ultra Machine.
3. In Wario's "Grow Wario Grow" microgame, graphics are used from Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Land and Wario Land.
4. In Wario's "Rock Paper Scissors" microgame, your opponent is Mario.
5. In Wario's "Unexcitebike" microgame, the graphics are taken from Excitebike.
6. Wario's "Vermin" microgame is based on the Game & Watch game of the same name.
7. Wario's "Mario Bros." microgame is based on the Mario Bros. arcade game.
8. The boss stage of Jimmy T's set is called Punch-Out!! and is loosely based on the boxing series.
9. In Dribble & Spitz's three "Classic Clash" microgames, souped-up versions of Mario and Bowser battle with each other.
10. In Mona's "Air Supplies" microgame, the helicopter is from Parachute and the truck is from Mario Bros. G&W.
11. In Mona's "I Came, I Saw" microgame, saw open the log (hardest level) and inside you will find the exercising acrobat from Mario Paint.
12. You can unlock a full (single player) version of NES Dr. Mario called "Dr. Wario" (with Wario in Mario's place).
13. You can unlock the full Fly Swatter minigame from Mario Paint.
14. You can unlock a multiplayer game called VS. Chiritorie, featuring Nintendo's remote controlled vacuum cleaner.
15. You can unlock a full edited version of the classic arcade game Sheriff (called Wario's Sheriff).
16. During the "rest scene" of Wario's first set of microgames after you beat the boss the third time, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata appears on the TV and says "Thanks for playing".
17. During the staff credits, you can change the stars in the background into Triforces and Gamecube logos.

WarioWare: Twisted!
1. 9-Volt's Nintendo microgames are: Tennis, Metroid - Morph Ball, Super Mario Bros. 3 - Lift, Wrecking Crew, Pinball, Golf, Mario Bros., Excitebike, Clu Clu Land, Donkey Kong Jr., Baseball, Ice Climber, Balloon Fight, Mach Rider, Kid Icarus, Duck Hunt, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong 3, NES Open Tournament Golf, Ice Hockey, Metroid - Samus, Super Mario Bros. 3. The Boss stage is based on Super Mario Bros.
2. 9-Volt's intro also features a ROB and Famicom/NES (depending on region). The segments between the microgames are set inside the NES with 8-bit graphics.
3. During Wario's intro you can see a treasure chest, the Music Box from Wario Land 3 and a picture of the Golden Pyramid from Wario Land 4.
4. Many of the menus are illustrated with a Game & Watch character. Spindex is based on Judge and Options is based on Ball.
5. Mona's "Red Delicious" microgame requires you to cut open an apple. One of the contents you can see is the acrobat from Mario Paint.
6. Mona's boss stage "Skyway Highway" is loosely based on Balloon Fight, but with a flying car.
7. In Kat & Ana's "Mysterious Science" microgame, you have press A to launch the swinging Blue Virus from Dr. Mario into a vat.
8. In Kat & Ana's () microgame, you have to pop the bubble of a sleeping boy. His t-shirt shows a Super Mushroom, Fire Flower or Starman depending on the difficulty level.
9. In Kat & Ana's "Contact Lens Solution" microgame, the Super Mario Bros. theme is hummed in the background.
10. In Kat & Ana's "Survival of the Quickest" microgame, press A to make the monkey evolve into a man, with the Super Mario Bros. Super Mushroom sound effect.
11. In Kat & Ana's "Stalled Out" microgame, when the man goes into an empty cubicle, the Coin sound effect from Super Mario Bros. plays.
12. In Crygor's "Shake Down" microgame, emptying the bin on the hardest difficulty will reward you with the 1-Up sound effect from Super Mario Bros.
13. In Orbulon's "Boomerang!" microgame, you are throwing the acrobat from Mario Paint.
14. In Wario-Man's "Burying the Hatchet" microgame, you have to help Wario and Mario high-five.
15. Wario-Man's "Super Wario" microgame is based on Super Mario Bros., and you have to help Wario jump on the Goomba and Koopa Troopa.
16. One of the unlockable souvenirs is the Love Tester, a classic Nintendo toy.
17. One of the unlockable souvenir minigames is called "Wario Bike", which combines Excitebike and Super Mario Bros. and features remodelled enemies from SMB.
18. One of the unlockable souvenir minigames is called "Mewtroid" (Nekotroid in Japan), with a rolling cat with a gun for an arm. The game doesn't resemble Metroid, but the Metroid theme plays in the background.
19. The souvenir record collection includes music from various Nintendo games, including: Super Mario Bros., Metroid, Balloon Fight, Wrecking Crew and Kid Icarus.

[nocturnal YL]

The Sledge Bros. Jumping game has an image of a flagpole and castle from Super Mario Bros. in the background.
And then the hospital from Little Fungitown gets unmentioned.

Mushroomtop Village
Any US/EU name difference? My names are from the EU version.

Yoohooniversity
Where's my Woohoo Hooniversity? US/EU thing again?

(unconvinced) The shadowy shopkeeper is based on Mr. Game & Watch (/unconvinced)
I'm with you, Fry. It's just a shadow-like character.

[Fryguy64]

Haha, in the case of cameos that weren't on the old site, I was running those off the top of my head just to get them down on screen. I will fact-check later.

The Wario Land 4 creature is particularly annoying, as loads of people have pointed it out, and yet it's so clearly NOT a Game & Watch character I want to start unleashing the slaps. I'm going to put it up with a disclaimer: "NinDB does not think this is a cameo, but enough idiots have sent it in that it needed adding. Side note: If you refer to any random Game & Watch-style character as 'Mr. Game & Watch' one more time, I'm going to kick your ass!"

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Aug 24, 2009 9:19:16 GMT -5 nocturnal YL said:

The Sledge Bros. Jumping game has an image of a flagpole and castle from Super Mario Bros. in the background.
And then the hospital from Little Fungitown gets unmentioned.

Mushroomtop Village
Any US/EU name difference? My names are from the EU version.

Yoohooniversity
Where's my Woohoo Hooniversity? US/EU thing again?

(unconvinced) The shadowy shopkeeper is based on Mr. Game & Watch (/unconvinced)
I'm with you, Fry. It's just a shadow-like character.

It's Woohoo Hooniversity in the US version as well.

[MEGAߥTE]

Every single Famicom Mini release of FDS games include the FDS BIOS, and therefore Mario and Luigi.

Rhythm Tengoku: The stick figure guy from Play-yan (original version, not Micro) is found in Stage 4-2: Night Walk (and later remix stages). He climbs stairs on a stage with a starry background similar to the Play-yan interface.

How are you handling the e-Reader cards? Animal Crossing has a number of cameos.

[nocturnal YL]

Aug 24, 2009 22:22:12 GMT -5 MEGAߥTE said:

Every single Famicom Mini release of FDS games include the FDS BIOS, and therefore Mario and Luigi.

I think remakes of games with cameos in will only have its original count, thus this cameo should be mentioned as hardware cameo of Famicom DS.

Aug 24, 2009 22:22:12 GMT -5 MEGAߥTE said:

Rhythm Tengoku: The stick figure guy from Play-yan (original version, not Micro) is found in Stage 4-2: Night Walk (and later remix stages). He climbs stairs on a stage with a starry background similar to the Play-yan interface.

That guy's name IS Play-yan. Check the game's Japanese site.

[Fryguy64]

Most of the e-Reader cards were tied to a game, so that game's page will hold the cameos (in this case, the Animal Crossing page, which I will work on when I get to Gamecube). I had many of the e-Reader patterns/shirts listed on the old site, and I now know that one or more of the cards had Totaka's Song on them.

I'm also aware that Super Mario Advance 4 had a bunch of e-Reader cards that added in Super Mario World and Super Mario Bros. 2 features. I need to add those to the SMB3 cameos...

[nocturnal YL]

Yeah, I think cards connected to games should be counted as cameos of the respective games (AC and SMA4, and those NES remakes). Can't think of anything reader-exclusive to contain cameo though.

[Fryguy64]

The Pokemon TCG cards aren't tied to any game, but some had games you could load. Remember one of them had an Imakuni version of Game & Watch Ball... so that would be a cameo.

Other than that, the only other e-Reader exclusive I can think of is that Air Hockey-e game.

[Grandy02]

In Rhythm Heaven (GBA), the Alien Bunnies (a.k.a. Space Hares) from WarioWare appear (topic). YoungLink posted a screenshot in this topic, but sadly, the link is broken. There's even artwork of the Bunnies for this game. By the way, they also cameo in Rhythm Heaven for DS (get a Superb rating for Remix 9 and they'll congratulate you).

Aug 24, 2009 8:55:12 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

Legendary Starfy 3

Wario's theme is based on the recurring melody of Wario Land 3 (there used for title theme and many levels) (topic).

In the minigame select screen, a Gamecube with two controllers is seen.

Aug 24, 2009 8:55:12 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

Wario Land 4
1. (unconvinced) The shadowy shopkeeper is based on Mr. Game & Watch (/unconvinced)
2. The scientist explorer who appears in the bonus areas originally appeared in For the Frog the Bell Tolls.

When the character (the cursed Shokora) is seen from side, she looks more like a Game & Watch figure, with a bulbous nose (won't call it "Mr. Game & Watch", Melee was not even released).

The scientist (Dr. Arewo Shitain) is also sometimes seen playing a white GBA.

Two Gamecubes are seen in Spoiled Rotten's room (Wario Land 4 was released earlier than the Gamecube) (topic).

Aug 24, 2009 8:55:12 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

WarioWare: Twisted!

In Dribble and Spitz's "Wheel of Whack", the "Bald Guys" are dressed as Mario on the third level (topic).

If you still need screenshots of Wario Land 4, please tell.

[Leon]

Since you're using Nester cameos, I suppose other comic references would be ok.

In Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade there are three weapons that reference the Hasha no Tsurugi manga release alongside the game.

Al's Sword
Gant's Lance
Tiena's Staff

All named after the main charcters from the manga.

i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/COGrit/0378-FireEmblem-FuuinnoTsurugiJ-1.png

There's Roy with all three weapons.

[nocturnal YL]

...Any chance you get a screenshot without the game's save data edited?

[Fryguy64]

Aug 25, 2009 23:22:27 GMT -5 Leon said:

Since you're using Nester cameos, I suppose other comic references would be ok.

In Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade there are three weapons that reference the Hasha no Tsurugi manga release alongside the game.

Al's Sword
Gant's Lance
Tiena's Staff

All named after the main charcters from the manga.

i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/COGrit/0378-FireEmblem-FuuinnoTsurugiJ-1.png

There's Roy with all three weapons.

That's great, but can you go into a bit more detail on the manga? I'm sure most people have never heard of it before, and I'd quite like to describe this cameo in detail.

[Leon]

The manga is an alternate version of the Bern War, starring a young man named Al, from the Lycia/Bern border. He leaves home looking for adventure using his father's sword, and fights against the injustices of Bern along the way. He meets Gant a knight of Tania forced to work for Bern. The two join forces and rescue Princess Tiena of Tania and then the trio journey into Lycia. They meet characters from the game including Lance and Chad, and later join forces with Roy's main army in the Western Isle campaign. From there it becomes similar to the plot of the game, but with a focus on Al.

It's entertaining, but Al is a real Gary Stu, so that might turn off a few people.

serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8572

That's the manga if you're interested in reading it.

[Fryguy64]

Groovy! Thanks ;D