Mario Club

This article is a short summary of Mario Club. Super Mario Wiki features a more in-depth article.

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

• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest (leaked prototype version)
• Pikmin 2
• Wii Sports

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