Mario Royale (Remake)

***"Mario Royale (Remake)"** is a commonly attributed name, as it is not InfernoPlus' original version of the game that has since been taken down. Not to be confounded with **Mario Royale Legacy,** recently rebranded to Mario Royale Deluxe.*

**Mario Royale Remake** is a free battle royale game where players race through various worlds, be it usual Super Mario Bros. worlds or more diverse ones, such as Virtual World, Neon World (whose first level is present in the main menu as a scrolling background with Neon - 1's music) or Xexyz World (which reuses levels from the game Xexyz). However, there are two other modes: "Invade", which plays like the regular "Race!" mode, and "Fight!", which consists of pure PvP taking place on a few maps.

## Game modes

### 0. In-game modes (distinct from Game modes)

In Race! and Invade! modes, modes may apply on matches- **Rush Mode** frequently applies, and one of **Lightning Mode**, **Moon Mode** and **Mirror Mode** may stack (you can however activate these modes as you wish in Offline Play):

* **Rush Mode**: You start with 3 extra lives instead of two. As well, you respawn on the last solid tile you landed on after dying, assuming you have an extra live in stock.
* **Lightning Mode**: You move way faster and with more amplitude. It is however not adapted to most worlds and can easily cause glitches.
* **Moon Mode**: You move slower, but still with more horizontal amplitude. You do not jump any higher. It is neither adapted to most worlds, but mainly allows bypasses, hardly causing glitches.
* **Mirror Mode**: Physics remain unchanged, but the entire level is flipped to the left, and so does the chat which moves to the right of the screen, equally mirrored. This however has no real impact on gameplay itself.

### 1. Race!

The Race! mode plays like regular Mario Royale. In Mario Royale Remake, you start with 2 extra lives (except in **Rush Mode** with which you start with 3). The first player to reach the end of the world wins the match. You cannot directly attack other players, except with a magic star, and you can still use shells to kill them.

### 1b. Offline Play

Like Race!, but you don't play against anyone. You can however pick the map you want, import your own and activate **Modes**.

### 2. Invade!

Similar to Race!, but you respawn as a Boo after dying. While you can't damage anyone as a Boo, you can freely move with the directional controls (up/down/left/right) and you can spend coins to transform into an enemy among the following:

* **Goomba** (costs 2 coins), only walking sideways;
* **Green Koopa** (costs 5 coins), walking sideways and able to start instantly sliding with the crouching key (you however cannot regularly get out of your shell, more under the list);
* **Hammer Bro** (costs 15 coins), walking sideways, able to throw hammers with the firing key and able to jump with the up key;
* **Bowser** (costs 30 coins), walking sideways, similar to the **Hammer Bro** but has a bigger hitbox, cannot be jumped on and can breathe fire by crouching.

You can turn back into a Boo by pressing the jumping key. However, because of this technical choice, one should be careful to not leave their **Hammer Bro**/**Bowser** form when trying to jump with the jumping key, to which jumping is strangely not assigned.

### 3. Fight!

Everyone starts with only one extra life and you can now directly attack opponents with fireballs (as Fire Mario). You can also place blocks near your player by using your cursor, but they disappear after a few seconds. Each block you place costs a coin, but every coin you collect in the map counts as 5. You can use these blocks to reach places that are too far, but you can also counter enemies and their attacks. The last player alive wins the match.

## Skins

Before jumping into the aforementioned lobby, you must pick a skin (Super Mario Bros.' Mario being selected by default) from a plethora of community-made skins from Cyuubi's version of Mario Royale. Including video game character such as Samus (from the Metroid franchise) and Frisk (from UNDERTALE), but also far less serious characters like a red H with limbs, the game gives the player a plethora of occasionally questionable skins.

These skins are however purely visual changes and do not affect gameplay, except in rare cases, such as the transparent white Mario outline skin, shooting fireballs that are equally hard to distinguish. Skins are neither guaranteed to reflect their forms (Regular, Super, Fire) properly.

## The game's lack of updates

Despite maintaining a decent daily amount of players, Mario Royale Remake very rarely gets updated at the moment from its owner, GoNow, the only person who has access to the game's source-code. Several times, the game went months without receiving updates, which made some community members question, seriously or not, whether the owner cares about his Mario Royale rehost. As of December 2022, the game has not received any updates since May 31, 2022.

## Trivia

* There are some secrets in the game, but most are found in the lobby, the place you wait in before any online game starts.
* Due to Mario Royale Remake's occasionally empty lobbies, some people think the players count displayed in the main menu is falsified/inflated in order to be more appealing to the public (although no one has been able to prove or disprove this claim).
* A common running gag in the community consists of saying "GoNow online" whenever the named owned appears as "online" on his Discord server. This comes from the very weak communication GoNow has with his server, giving some rarity to the owner's words whatsoever.