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Mario Club

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For the Famicom Network System Tsuushin Cartridge, see Super Mario Club (Famicom Network System). For Super Mario Club Taikai You, see Nintendo Campus Challenge 1992 cartridge.

Mario Club Co., Ltd. (Japanese: マリオクラブ株式会社), also known as Super Mario Club (Japanese: スーパーマリオクラブ) (pre 2009) is a company and division of Nintendo which play tests and debugs games. It also has links with the company Sarugakucho.

Mario Club build games

The Mario Club builds of Nintendo games seem to have been used by Mario Club for debugging purposes, as evident by unused text that specifically refers to a "Mario Club version" (or similar). It is assumed due to internal non-disclosure agreements, specifics regarding these builds are not meant to be public knowledge.

Regardless, efforts in data-mining have revealed evidence of their existence in games.

Games with evidence of Mario Club builds

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1st & 2nd Party / Owned
Internal divisions
Subsidiaries
Owned / Affiliated Seattle Mariners* • The Pokémon Company • Warpstar Inc.
* – Former / Defunct
3rd Parties / Partners
8-4 • AlphaDream* • Ambrella* • Argonaut Games* • Arika • Artoon* • Arzest • AS Tokyo Studios • Bandai Namco • Capcom • Camelot • Cing* • Creatures Inc. • DeNA • DigiNin* • DigitalScape • Eighting • Flagship* • Fuse Games* • Game Freak • Ganbarion • Genius Sonority • Good-Feel • Grezzo • HAL Laboratory • Hatena • Hudson Soft* • indieszero • iNiS • Intelligent Systems • Jamsworks • Jupiter • Koei Tecmo • Kuju • Left Field Productions* • Level-5 • Mistwalker • Monster Games • Noise • Paon • PlatinumGames • Q-Games • Rare* • Red Entertainment • Sega (Atlus) • Sora Ltd. • skip • Softnica • Spike Chunsoft • Square Enix • St.GIGA* • Syn Sophia • TOSE • Treasure • Vanpool* • Vitei
* – Former / Defunct
Key employees
Presidents
Managers, etc. Internal
Subsidiaries
  • NNSD: Yusuke Beppu
  • Monolith Soft: Hirohide Sugiura, Tetsuya Takahashi
  • 1-Up Studio: Gen Kadoi
  • ND Cube: Hidetoshi Endo
  • Retro: Michael Kelbaugh
  • NERD: Alexandre Delattre
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