Super Mario 3D All-Stars, the collection of classic 3D Mario titles announced for his 35th anniversary, leaked online.
The news comes via well-known Nintendo Switch dataminer OatmealDome, who claims that the game has been dumped on the internet, just a few days before its official launch of September 18th.
Emulated
Although there aren’t that many spoilers to be shared, Oatmealdome did apparently manage to decipher a few interesting details about how the port was handled:
Galaxy in particular is really interesting. It appears they recompiled the original code to run natively on the Switch CPU, but everything else (GPU/Audio) is running in the emulator.
Interesting trick!
— OatmealDome (@OatmealDome) September 15, 2020
Other minor tidbits…
The project codename might be "Stardust". There also might be a sub-codename for Galaxy – "Shigeru".
The menu that lets you choose games is made with LunchPack (engine used by Splatoon / Mario Maker / Animal Crossing).
— OatmealDome (@OatmealDome) September 15, 2020
Still I am looking forward to this release regardless.
But emulators … does this mean these in house emulators are going to offer something for Nintendo Switch Online?
