Key Door
Key Door | |
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![]() A New Super Mario Bros. U-styled Key Door from Super Mario Maker | |
First appearance | Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987, overall) Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988, Super Mario franchise) |
Latest appearance | Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023) |
Key Doors, also known as Locked Doors (or locked doors), are doors in Super Mario platformers that the player cannot enter unless they have collected a key. Key Doors usually have the appearance of a regular Warp Door with a keyhole.
History
Super Mario series
Super Mario Bros. 2
Key Doors make their debut in Super Mario Bros. 2, first appearing in World 1-2. They can be opened only by keys. If the player picks up a key for a Key Door, a Phanto will chase the player. Once a Key Door is unlocked, it disappears, though in remakes, only the keyhole disappears by transforming them into normal swing-open Warp Doors.
Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DS
Keys in Super Mario 64 are used to open Key Doors that lead to new courses and, in the DS remake, Key Doors that hold Mario, Luigi, Wario, and a secret Power Star.
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
While Key Doors do not appear in Super Mario Bros. 3, one can be found in the Game Boy Advance remake Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, in the World-e-exclusive level Doors o' Plenty.
Super Mario Galaxy
Key Doors appear in the Ghostly Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy, where they automatically open as soon as Mario or Luigi obtains a key. In the case of the mission Matter Splatter Mansion, multiple Key Doors can be unlocked at once with one key.
Super Mario Maker series
Key Doors were introduced in Super Mario Maker in the version 1.40 update, and available at the start in Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS. They can be produced by shaking a Warp Door again after being shaken into a P Warp Door. They also appear in Super Mario Maker 2, with the same function as in the previous game. As of version 3.0.0 of Super Mario Maker 2, Cursed Keys can also be used to unlock Key Doors.
Super Mario Run
Key Doors appear in Super Mario Run in the level Boohind Lock and Key, where they can be opened only with keys. Once entered, Key Doors cannot be entered again. Key Doors resemble Ghost House doors from New Super Mario Bros. U but with keyholes in the center.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Key Doors return in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, where only two appear in Color-Switch Dungeon: one requiring a red heart-shaped key, then another later on requiring a blue spade-shaped key, each indicated by the shape of the doorframe and the emblem on the door. They behave the same as in the Super Mario Maker games.
Yoshi's Story
In Yoshi's Story, locked doors are found in the Lift Castle, Ghost Castle, and Magma Castle.
Mario vs. Donkey Kong
In Mario vs. Donkey Kong and its Nintendo Switch remake, locked doors appear in all levels excluding the Mini-Mario levels and boss battles, and are designated with a giant keyhole on them. In the original game, they were referred to generically as doors[1]. The player (or Key Mini Mario in the Plus levels) must carry a Key towards the door to reach the next area of the level. In all Plus and Expert levels, doors act as the goal instead, with no new areas preceding it.
In the remake, doors are redesigned, with an additional red frame featuring a gold star symbol on top. Doors continue to retain their usual purpose, but the music does not stop and no victory fanfare is played when a player enters one. In multiplayer sessions, a player who is not close to the door at the time of its unlocking will be instantly warped inside of it with similar mechanics to Super Mario 3D World. Additionally, the door will be chained with a silver lock, bearing a resemblance to locked doors in Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem!. This requires obtaining a silver flying key in the level to unlock the door before the main key can be used on it.
Doors are succeeded by similarly functioning Goal Doors throughout the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series, however most appearances do not always require the use of a key to go through them.
Sprite of a door in Mario vs. Donkey Kong
A chained door in a multiplayer session in the Nintendo Switch remake of Mario vs. Donkey Kong
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Key Doors appear again in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, behaving like in previous Super Mario games.
Minecraft
In the Super Mario Mash-up in Minecraft, there is a painting of Key Doors from Super Mario 64.
Gallery
Super Mario Maker (Super Mario Bros. style) (locked)
Super Mario Maker (Super Mario Bros. 3 style) (locked)
Super Mario Maker (Super Mario World style) (locked)
Super Mario Maker (New Super Mario Bros. U style) (locked)
Super Mario Maker 2 (Super Mario 3D World style) (locked)
Additional names
Internal names
Game | File | Name | Meaning
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Super Mario Galaxy | ObjectData/DarknessRoomDoorA.arc | DarknessRoomDoorA | Darkness Room Door A |
StageData/ObjNameTable.arc/ObjNameTable.tbl | 暗闇部屋の扉A (Kurayami Heya no Tobira A) | ||
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker | content/ObjectData/DoorKey.szs | DoorKey | Door Key |
Names in other languages
Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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Chinese (simplified) | 上锁门[?] Shàngsuǒ Mén |
Locked Door | |
Chinese (traditional) | 上鎖門[?] Shàngsuǒ Mén |
Locked Door | |
Dutch | Gesloten deur[2] | Closed door | |
French | Porte verrouillée[?] | Locked Door | |
German | Schlüsseltür[?] | Key door | |
Italian | Porta chiusa[3][4] | Locked/Closed door | |
Porta con serratura[5] | Door with keyhole | ||
Porta chiusa a chiave[?] | Locked door | ||
Portuguese (NOE) | Porta fechada à chave[6] | Locked door | |
Russian | Запертая дверь[?] Zapertaya dver' |
Closed door | |
Spanish (NOA) | Puerta cerrada con llave[?] | Locked door |
See also
References
- ^ Mario vs. Donkey Kong North American Virtual Console digital manual. Page 9.
- ^ Nintendo Nederland (March 9, 2016). Super Mario Maker - Gesloten deuren! Spijkerzuilen! Roze munten! (Wii U). YouTube (Dutch). Retrieved May 19, 2019.
- ^ Nintendo. Super Mario Bros. 2 Italian manual. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 17.
- ^ 2010. Super Mario All-Stars Italian manual. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 20.
- ^ November 15, 2018. Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 70.
- ^ Nintendo Portugal (March 9, 2016). Super Mario Maker - Portas fechadas à chave! Postes com espinhos! Moedas rosa! (Wii U). YouTube (European Portuguese). Retrieved January 11, 2021.
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