Warp Zone
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- This article is about the secret area first featured in Super Mario Bros. For the secret world in Super Mario Bros. 3, see Warp Zone (Super Mario Bros. 3). For Round 2 of Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!, see Warp Zone (Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!).
The Warp Zone is a hidden area that acts as a kind of teleportation system, connecting many worlds to one place, and warping users between them. For the most part, they are sectioned-off areas containing Warp Pipes, although Super Mario Bros. 3 featured an entire island as its Warp Zone. Warp Zones were inspired by the arcade version of Excitebike in which the player can choose any track to begin playing from.[1]
History[edit]
Super Mario series[edit]
Super Mario Bros.[edit]
The Warp Zones of Super Mario Bros. are sectioned-off areas containing pipes to different levels. One Warp Zone is in World 1-2 and two are in World 4-2, for a total of three. The first Warp Zone gives the choice to warp to either World 2, World 3, or World 4,[2] and is located behind the pipe leading to the area with the flagpole. In World 4-2, the Warp Zone can lead to World 5 only,[3] and it is similarly located behind the final pipe. The other Warp Zone of World 4-2 can be reached by climbing a beanstalk earlier on, and leads to either World 6, World 7, or World 8,[4] though the latter two warps are not in VS. Super Mario Bros.. The Minus World glitch is doable from World 1-2's Warp Zone. The Warp Zones in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe were removed in Challenge Mode in favor of more level design.
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels[edit]
The Warp Zones of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels are similar to those in Super Mario Bros., but all of them have only a single destination. Two Warp Zones send the player character back, specifically World 3-1 and World 8-1 to to World 1-1 and World 5-1, respectively. The Warp Zone of World 3-1 has a pit that the player character can fall into if they decide to not use it. This time, to prevent glitching by jumping over the flagpole, some Warp Zones are located behind it. Using any Warp Zone excluding the backwards two voids access to World 9. In Super Mario All-Stars, saving after using a Warp Zone disables World 9 permanently, something that applies to neither All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. nor Super Mario Bros. Deluxe since World 9 does not appear in both versions. The following Warp Zones appear:
| Level | Destination | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| World 1-2 | World 2 | Forward | Past a staircase behind the exit pipe |
| World 3 | Forward | Via a beanstalk to the right of the second pipe underground | |
| World 4 | Forward | Past a hidden water-filled area (lava in the SNES remake) taken via a pipe behind the exit pipe | |
| World 3-1 | World 1 | Backward | Via either the underground bonus area or over the flagpole |
| World 5-1 | World 6 | Forward | Via either Coin Heaven or over the flagpole |
| World 5-2 | World 7 | Forward | Behind the exit pipe |
| World 8 | Forward | Via a beanstalk to the left of the elevators | |
| World 8-1 | World 5 | Backward | Via the underwater bonus area |
| World A-2 | World B | Forward | Behind the exit pipe |
| World A-3 | World C | Forward | Over the flagpole |
| World B-4 | World D | Forward | Via the last pipe before the fake Bowser |
Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]
- Main article: Warp Zone (Super Mario Bros. 3)
The Warp Zone, also labeled World 9,[5] is featured in Super Mario Bros. 3 as an island that can only be accessed through one of the three Magic Whistles.[5] Like other games' Warp Zones, it connects to the other kingdoms of the Mushroom World, but not every pipe is connected; to access the top row, the player must warp from World 1; to access the middle row, the player must warp from Worlds 2-6; and to access the last row, the player must warp from Worlds 7-9 (using a Magic Whistle while already in the Warp Zone will send the player directly to the last row to enter World 8). The text at the top of the Warp Zone in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 was shortened.[6]
Additionally, the World-e level Classic World 1-2 retains the Warp Zone from its analogue in Super Mario Bros. The only major difference is that the pipes lead to a room featuring a Fire Flower in a chest.[7]
Super Mario 3D Land / Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury[edit]
- Main article: World Warp Pipe
Warp Zones also appear in Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario 3D World, where the courses with them are analogs to the ones with them from the original Super Mario Bros. – World 1-2 and 4-2. Unlike in previous games, there is only one pipe in a Warp Zone, called a World Warp Pipe, and it only brings the player character to the immediate subsequent world.
Super Mario Bros. 35[edit]
The pipes in a Warp Zone of Super Mario Bros. 35 worked differently; from right to left, they would skip one, two, or three levels respectively in the randomized level order;[8] so players could loop through the same level or to an earlier level.[9]
Captain N: The Game Master[edit]
Characters in Captain N: The Game Master often used Warp Zones for means of rapid transit, with the show's first episode even referencing the Warp Zones of Super Mario Bros..
Super Mario-kun[edit]
- “ここは一 ワープゾーン。ちがうゲームにいっちゃうよ。(This is a Warp Zone. It will take you to a different game.)”
- —Sign, Super Mario-kun
A Warp Zone appears as a lake in chapter 4 of Super Mario-kun volume 4 that connects various Super Famicom games.
While traversing the Valley of Bowser, Mario, Luigi and Yoshi find a natural spring. Mario and Yoshi decide to dive into it to rest, while Luigi checks a sign, which says that it is a Warp Zone to other games. He tries to warn his friends, but Mario and Yoshi have already dove deep into the pond and find themselves in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, with Mario armed with the Kinoko Sword and Yoshi in a shield form. Luigi is able to communicate to them, see them, and pass objects to them from the Super Mario World side. He tells them that they should be looking for another Warp Zone situated somewhere in Hyrule. After facing several enemies of The Legend of Zelda series, Mario and Yoshi find Hyrule's Warp Zone and dive into it, but they end up in F-Zero.
Super Paper Mario[edit]
A model of a Super Mario Bros.-style Warp Zone can be found in the underground section of Chapter 3-1 (itself a recreation of World 1-2 of Super Mario Bros.) in Super Paper Mario, though this Warp Zone takes the player to other parts of the current level rather than different worlds. It does not serve any real function other than to take the player back to the overworld. The Warp Zone is also referenced by the defeated Warping Pipe Sammer Guy,[10] whose name is a nod to Warp Pipes themselves.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie[edit]
The Warp Zone appears in The Super Mario Bros. Movie as the dimension Mario and Luigi cross when they enter the mysterious pipe.[11] The Warp Zone contains multiple clouds with Warp Pipes emerging from them. While most of the clouds are pink, the cloud with the pipe that takes Luigi to the Dark Lands is a stormy, black cloud.
The Warp Zone later reappears when Mario leads the Bomber Bill into the mysterious pipe. When the Bomber Bill enters the zone, it explodes, causing a shockwave of a massive interdimensional collapse that pulls objects from the Mushroom Kingdom into Brooklyn.
Gallery[edit]
Super Mario All-Stars version
All-Stars remake
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ワープゾーン[?] Wāpu Zōn |
Warp Zone | |
| Dutch | Warpzone[?] | Warp Zone | |
| French (NOA) | Zone de téléportation[?] | Teleportation Zone | |
| French (NOE) | Warp Zone[?] | - | |
| German | Warp-Zone[?] | Warp Zone | |
| Italian | Zona teletrasporto[?] | Teleport/Warp Zone | The Super Mario Bros. Movie - Monopoly and Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition |
| Portale saltamondo[12] | World-skip portal | Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia | |
| Zona Warp[?] | Warp Zone | Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia | |
| Curvatura spaziotempo[?] | Spacetime curvature | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! | |
| Portuguese | Área de teletransporte[13] | Teleportation Area | Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition |
| Zona de urdidura[?] | Warp Zone | The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 | |
| Romanian | Conductă interdimensională[?] | Interdimensional pipeline | The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3a |
| Russian | Зона телепортации[?] Zona teleportatsii |
Teleportation zone | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate |
| Spanish | Zona de teletransporte[?] | Teleportation Zone | |
| Zona Muelle[?] | Spring Zone | Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 |
a - Replaces an instance of "Warp Zone" in the episode "Oh, Brother!"
References[edit]
- ^ File:Mario Day 2023 NSO.jpg
- ^ "Skip ahead to World 2,3,ог[sic] 4!" – Tilden, Gail, et al. (1993). Super Mario All-Stars Player's Guide. Nintendo of America (English). Page 11.
- ^ "This room is the Warp Zone at Level Four-Two. From here you can warp directly to World Five." – 1987. The Official Nintendo Player's Guide. Page 31.
- ^ "If you climb the ivy, you'll find this room. You can warp here from underground Level Four-Two." – The Official Nintendo Player's Guide. Page 31.
- ^ a b "The three Magic Whistles take Mario to World 9, the Warp Zone" – Tilden, Gail, et al. (June 1990). Nintendo Power Volume 13. Nintendo of America (English). Page 5.
- ^ "World 9 Warp Zone!" – 2003. Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3. Nintendo (English).
- ^ VideoGamePhenom. Super Mario Advance 4 - World-e - Classic World 1-2 (01:42). YouTube (English).
- ^ Super Mario Bros. 35's tutorial is nonexistent, so here are some key tips & tricks you'll want to know! : NintendoSwitch. Reddit (English). Retrieved July 7, 2024.
- ^ XCageGame (September 30, 2020). Super Mario Bros. 35 Gameplay. YouTube (English). Retrieved July 7, 2024.
- ^ "True warriors must see all worlds before skipping among them." – Warping Pipe (2007). Super Paper Mario. Nintendo (English).
- ^ Monopoly The Super Mario Bros. Movie Edition board
- ^ November 15, 2018. Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 23.
- ^ Machuca, Thiago (August 8, 2024). Análise | Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition. Portallos. Retrieved October 22, 2024.
