Bit of a newbie here... is there a way to show the ending message? (Without defeating Bowser within the game.) Where is it stored?
Show ending message?
Are you referring to the "Mario's Adventure is Over..." text? In which case unfortunately not really, not without some programming to recreate the effect. That text is generated as part of the Peach sprite's code, so it needs her sprite to manage it.
Depending on what you want to do, there may be a few alternative options available, though.
- The easiest option is to just use one of the original game's message boxes. If you don't want the player to need to hit a message block sprite, a simple alternative is to use this custom block to spawn the message when the player touches a certain position.
- If you're just looking to make some cutscene/credits text, a common approach is to just create a level with the text displayed on Layer 1/2 via Map16 tiles (something like this).
- You can get more-complex messages with the VWF Dialogues patch. This can be potentially used to recreate the style of the original "Mario's Adventure is Over..." text, by simply setting up the message to use an empty background.
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