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In Yoshi’s Story, a hidden button combination exists that instantly kills Yoshi. Pressing L, Z, A and B simultaneously causes Yoshi to spin and lose all his health, killing him. This was likely a debug feature that was not taken out in the release version of the game.
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Original illustration from Nintendo of America’s official site for Yoshi’s Story in 1998. Note the “Yoshi, the Web Pet” option on the left; unfortunately, this was never preserved and can be considered lost media. The only information available on that functionality is anecdotes from people who used it in 1998, who report that it was a Tamagotchi-like Yoshi pet that needed to be fed fruit, and appeared as a collection of GIF animations made out of Yoshi’s Story official artwork. Below are the few surviving GIFs from the functionality.
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Scans of the booklet of the 1998 Japanese official Yoshi’s Story soundtrack CD (zoom in to view details).
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Top: in Yoshi’s Story, it is possible to achieve an arbitrarily high score in a level by shooting an enemy with an egg and then warping away within the first few frames after it is hit. This awards points for defeating an enemy, but makes it respawn upon reentering the area, making this repeatable indefinitely. The maximum score for a level is capped at 10,000 for the Japanese and North American version, making the maximum Story Mode score (consisting of 6 levels) 60,000.
Bottom: However, in the European version, the score is instead capped at 9,999 per level, making the final maximum score only 59,994. Thus, even if the game is played perfectly on the European version, the player will always be 6 points behind a North American or Japanese player.
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1998 print ad for Yoshi’s Story.
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The Japanese official soundtrack CD for Yoshi’s Story contained an extra track called “The Voice of Yoshi’s Staff”, a long downtempo remix of the game’s title theme interspersed with dialogue from the developers.
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“Yoshi’s Story Breakbeat Inferno”, an exclusive music track on the 1998 German “Nintendo Sound Adventures” soundtrack CD, given out as a reward to Club Nintendo magazine subscribers. The track is a remix of the Yoshi’s Story title screen theme in the Euro House genre of dancefloor music.
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1997 Japanese print ad for Yoshi’s Story.
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Yoshi’s Story wallpapers that were offered on Nintendo of America’s official website for the game, depicting the first four worlds of the game.
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Unique Yoshi’s Story render containing a variety of objects from the game, seen only in an exclusive sticker sheet in a 1998 issue of the Japanese 64Dream magazine.
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