We weren’t kidding when we called Super Mario RPG on Switch “one of the most faithful HD adaptations we’ve ever played” in our 9/10 review. Everything that made the original game so weird has been here for almost 30 years, including the sections that gave us nothing but a good laugh.
One such addition is a cheat code that previously only appeared in Japanese copies of the game, but is now available for anyone to collect their rewards. Exception, there aren’t that many rewards. It’s pretty much useless (thanks, Player).
At the menu screen, you enter a secret code of Down, Up, Right, Left, L, R, L, R, B (or if you’re feeling spicy, you can replace L and R with ZL and ZR). it doesn’t give you power-ups, unlocks, or bonuses. Leaves stats and XP as is. So what exactly does it do? This allows you to chat with Toad for a bit, that’s it.
The code itself is more of an easter egg than anything else, thrown in to refer to the practice of entering cheat codes rather than acting as itself. The Frog that appears on your screen congratulates you on finding the secret before checking all of your unchanged stats and confessing: “I’ll be even with you. No other codes. This will do the same thing every time.”
haha! In any other game, such a nod might seem a little out of place, but let’s not forget that Super Mario RPG is a title with singing, sleeping Nintendo characters, and a rampaging Bowser. Everything goes.
So there you are. If you’ve long wanted to see what the West has been missing out on when it comes to Mario RPG codes, now’s your chance to get in!