Summary
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake for Nintendo Switch gets its first update, fixing control issues, adding missing dialogue, and more.
- The 2024 version of the game features redone graphics, new music, fast travel system, enhanced inventory, and secret challenging bosses.
- Nintendo releases Version 1.0.1 to address game control, progression, and save issues, including fixes for tube mode trigger and combat malfunction.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was released for the Nintendo Switch back in May, and now, the remake has received its first official update. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was originally released for the GameCube in 2004, serving as the second game in the Paper Mario series. In the game's first update, Nintendo introduced fixes to some control issues, added in missing dialogue, and fixed a bug in the Twilight Trail level.
The 2024 version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door features redone graphics, new animations and music, and even more changes exclusive to the Nintendo Switch console. Further additions include an updated fast travel system, enhanced inventory storage, the option to enjoy the original GameCube soundtrack, a gallery showcasing the game's visually stunning art and music, and even secret bosses that are just as challenging as the Prince Mush boss fight. The remake received generally favorable reviews upon release, so fans will be delighted to hear that Nintendo has prioritized some important fixes to make it an even more enjoyable experience.
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Nintendo has released Version 1.0.1 for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, which fixes several issues pertaining to game controls, progression, and saves. As far as the game's first update, it addresses specific situations, such as when the game would be held hostage after passing the fallen tree on Twilight Trail, which connects Twilight Town to Creepy Steeple. The game is supposed to trigger Tube Mode in order for the player to progress, but on several occasions, this wasn't the case. If this error occurs, players now have the option to respawn either right before or right after the fallen tree in order to complete the area as intended. Nintendo also implemented other minor fixes to the English, French, German, Italian, and Korean text, several instances where controls would stop responding mid-game, and times when combat would malfunction.
Twitter user OatmealDome took the liberty of fleshing out all the changes made to the English text version, which corrects a song title and adds in words to make sentences more coherent, such as "a" or "in" as needed. For example, during a scene where Princess Peach is explaining what love is to TEC-XX, the original sentence read, "you will do anything to help when that person in trouble," but the version with correct grammar would be "you will do anything to help when that person is in trouble."
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door seems to be a successful remake for the most part, even if Nintendo has sought to perfect it with a few necessary tweaks. This update will no doubt be the first of many as the team at Nintendo works tirelessly to give fans the remake they deserve after 20 years.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Update Patch Notes
Fixed Issues
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Fixed an issue preventing game progression where you could get past the fallen tree on Twilight Trail without obtaining Tube Mode first.
- If this error has occurred and the game was saved on the map with the fallen tree, you’ll restart the game repositioned to a spot prior to passing the fallen tree.
- If the game was saved somewhere farther past the map with the fallen tree, after downloading this update data, please save at the save block on the map with the fallen tree, then return to the title screen. When you select the relevant data from the save data selection screen again, you’ll restart the game repositioned to a spot prior to passing the fallen tree.
- Fixed an issue where the controls would no longer respond properly sometimes after hitting an enemy with a hammer on the field.
- Fixed an issue where battles would sometimes no longer progress properly or status icons would no longer display during battles in cases where players played for a long period of time without closing the software.
- Fixed an issue where a battle against a Koopa Troopa hidden behind a clump of grass in Petal Meadows would rarely not end properly.
- Fixed an issue where the controls would rarely not respond properly after using Ms. Mowz ability on the field.
- Fixed an issue during battles where the player’s turn could sometimes be skipped entirely after using a Double Dip or Triple Dip.
- Fixed some text issues in English, French, German, Italian, and Korean.
- Fixed a number of other issues.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- Released
- May 23, 2024
WHERE TO PLAY
Join Mario and friends on an epic paper adventure: A classic story unfolds on the Nintendo Switch system.
Collect the Crystal Stars before the bad guys do: The X-Nauts are after the treasure behind the Thousand-Year Door! With a map from Princess Peach—and the help of a few locals—Mario must journey through a colorful world made of paper to find it first.
Surprises abound in this deep and engaging tale, where everyone’s got something to say and it’s often not what you’d expect! Here are just a few of the colorful characters you’ll encounter along the way.
Master your badges and timing-based attacks to impress the audience in a theatrical twist on turn-based RPG combat. Make use of all the abilities that come with being cursed—er, conveniently made of paper—like folding into a plane to cross big gaps or turning sideways to slip through narrow openings.
- ESRB
- E For Everyone Due To Mild Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- Franchise
- Paper Mario
- Platform(s)
- Nintendo Switch
- Genre(s)
- RPG
- How Long To Beat
- 30 Hours
