Creating the Evil Cartridge

After owning the game for several month, I have done it. I've completed the main story, I've completed every side quest, and done everything that constitutes 100 percent completion.

I was about to return the game back to the store I got it from, when I realized something. The first time I've held on to this cartridge, I was treated to the strangest files I can encounter. I want to replicate that, so that the next curious fool who brought the game gets treated to the exact same experience that I had when I first played the game.

So I proceed to go online and find tutorials on how to recreate the glitches that I encountered. Upon doing so, I discovered that Paper Mario is the most broken game in the series. There are loads of bugs, the game can crash for seemingly the most odd reasons, and one of my partners has a move that can potentially break the game. I didn't experience any of these problems at all during my play through.

But scratch that. I don't care about doing glitches. I'm more interested in finding out how to do the soft locks that have perplexed me the day I brought it. After a bit of digging around, I discovered a video that teaches me how to perform the soft locks. All of them seem quite familiar to me, so I repeated every single step my instructor took, even going so far as naming these files appropriately. "Don't choose these files"

After doing this, I then proceeded to take my cartridge of Paper Mario that contains all of the soft locks ready and returned them to the shop owner. He gladly accepts the returned game, not realizing that the files have been tampered with again. I walk out of the store, smiling at my attempts to soft lock every file.

Hopefully the next person who brought the cartridge is stupid and curious enough to investigate the files, or smart enough to wipe clean the cartridge of any preexisting files.

Probably...

From the Author

The fool who brought the softlocked game apparently now wants to troll new owners of the cartridge with the same thing that happened to him. What a jerk. Why is he doing this? To share his experience when he first brought it? I have no clue.

Well, I hope that cartridge will get so old and used so much that the data inside becomes unreadable. And that guy was probably the last straw.

Paper Mario was developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo