List of Super Mario Sunshine pre-release and unused content
This article pertains to the beta elements of Super Mario Sunshine.
Beta elements
In Super Mario Sunshine, Delfino Plaza is the main plaza of the game. However, in movies before release, it showed that there was going to be a different plaza (or possible prototype for Delfino Plaza), with a giant Strollin' Stu-like creature walking all over the place, and many more different things. The beta also reveals that Humans were intended to be citizens of the plaza. F.L.U.D.D was going to be skinnier and Gooper Blooper was going to be dark blue and fought on top of the bridges of Ricco Harbor instead of in the market and helicopter area.
Additionally, Mario's health bar would simply be a sun with a number in the middle indicating his health. The water meter was originally placed in the center of the "sun" life meter. The F.L.U.D.D. pack was actually Nintendo's 3rd favorite choice, with many other forms of water-pump functionality suggested. One other notable device in the top 2 was a water gun but was abandoned deciding that some players may render it too violent. There were some abandoned sprites as well, including Yoshi vomiting any water he may have swallowed. There was also going to be a brown Pokey species, which was going to have white flowers. [1]
A book is found behind a door in some ruins-like structure in Episode 3 of Noki Bay. The player can see it by turning the camera. There is a glitch in the game that allows you to reach the book, but there is no known way to get out of the structure. (The door does not work from any side and it looks different from the doors in the hotel in Sirena Beach.) This may be a beta element, easter egg, or just a detail that was never meant to be taken seriously. [2]
A test level is playable through an Action Replay. There the player can see Rock Blocks that were edited out, possibly in favor of Watermelons. [3].
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Mario squirting water in a beta version of Bianco Hills. - Gooperbeta.JPG
Gooper Blooper's prototype, Mario's health bar, as well as F.L.U.D.D, also looks different than in the final version of Super Mario Sunshine. - Tramplin' Stu.jpg
A giant Strollin' Stu-like creature, cut out of Super Mario Sunshine. Also note that there's another beta health bar. - Old FLUDD.jpg
F.L.U.D.D's old, thinner design. - Beta.jpg
An unused human citizen of Isle Delfino. - Old Plaza.jpg
An unused plaza on Isle Delfino. - Super mario sunshine 003.jpeg
Sirena Beach's beta Warp Pipe entrance - Ss ms pre07.jpeg
The Brown, unused Pokey. Note the white flowers. - Ss sms pre135.jpg
Mario and a green Yoshi on a bridge at Pianta Village. 
Mario stands with Boos in the background, but their models are completely different. - Mariosunshine betapic.jpg
Mario and a green Yoshi stomp on a Strollin' Stu that is never there in the final version, and the water meter has F.L.U.D.D's icon. - Super-mario-sunshine-7.jpg
Petey Piranha's head popped out of the Goop Generator. The final version has a different Piranha Plant head, and was covered in goop. - Super mario sunshine1b.jpg
Note the crates as there were no crates in Delfino Plaza and also a black Pianta species. - Ss ms pre00.jpg
This type of palm tree is very thin, unlike the palm trees of the final version. - ShellSecret photo.jpg
Mario in the Shell, in the beta game version.
