subdirectory_arrow_right Waluigi's Foot Fault (Game)
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At the time of the Nintendo Power issue's release, www.waluigi.com was identical to the official website for Mario Tennis, www.mariotennis.com. One of the files hosted on the Mario Tennis website was the Adobe Flash file "toenails_coming.swf", which is an advertisement for the game instead titled "Waluigi's Foot Fault" depicting him showing his bare feet and unkempt toenails (he also occasionally blinks). Another file hosted on the website was "toenails.swf", which was supposedly the game itself. Catalogued alongside this file are two additional .swf files named "paint_the_lines" and "deface_painting", which could be evidence of other Flash games hosted on the Mario Tennis website.
However, the waluigi.com domain has since been turned into a redirect to the official Nintendo website. The toenails.swf file was not preserved, and as of 2023 has not resurfaced.
MarioWiki article on Waluigi's Foot Fault
https://www.mariowiki.com/Waluigi%27s_Foot_Fault
Nintendo Power Issue #136:
https://archive.org/details/nintendo-power-issue-136-september-2000/page/n13/mode/2up
Lost Media Wiki forum thread confirming the game's existence.
https://forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/8796/waluigi-toenail-clipping-flash-game
Video on the history of Waluigi's Foot Fault:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbUyHJBrRnQ?t=344
toenails_coming.swf archived link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001017121340/mariotennis.com/toenails_coming.swf
toenails.swf archived link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120807191228/http://mariotennis.com/toenails.swf
Trace Results for waluigi.com:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230117202902/https://wheregoes.com/trace/2023251039/
https://www.mariowiki.com/Waluigi%27s_Foot_Fault
Nintendo Power Issue #136:
https://archive.org/details/nintendo-power-issue-136-september-2000/page/n13/mode/2up
Lost Media Wiki forum thread confirming the game's existence.
https://forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/8796/waluigi-toenail-clipping-flash-game
Video on the history of Waluigi's Foot Fault:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbUyHJBrRnQ?t=344
toenails_coming.swf archived link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001017121340/mariotennis.com/toenails_coming.swf
toenails.swf archived link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120807191228/http://mariotennis.com/toenails.swf
Trace Results for waluigi.com:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230117202902/https://wheregoes.com/trace/2023251039/
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario Power Tennis (Game)
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Original DidYouKnowGaming blog post:
https://didyouknowgaming.com/post/30812672774/mario-tennis-source
2000 Camelot interview revealing the existence of Warupichi:
https://www.camelot.co.jp/gimon/gimon13.html
Warupichi character design first Instagram post (now deleted):
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0TpKyDSfOy/?img_index=1
Archived Warupichi concept art and 3D model images:
https://archive.org/details/wapeach
Archived Fumihide Aoki Instagram comment collages (all other comments in the attachment not featured in these two images were captured on desktop directly from Fumihide Aoki's Instagram posts prior to the account being locked down):
https://twitter.com/GenesisJam_/status/1730803149915472217
Warupichi design articles (second link submitted by NintendOtaku):
https://www.polygon.com/23984146/nintendo-wapeach-design-waluigi-creator-mario-tennis
https://www.thegamer.com/waluigi-creator-reveals-wapeach-designs/
Warupichi designs taken down article:
https://www.eurogamer.net/waluigi-creator-shares-then-removes-designs-of-wario-style-peach
https://didyouknowgaming.com/post/30812672774/mario-tennis-source
2000 Camelot interview revealing the existence of Warupichi:
https://www.camelot.co.jp/gimon/gimon13.html
Warupichi character design first Instagram post (now deleted):
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0TpKyDSfOy/?img_index=1
Archived Warupichi concept art and 3D model images:
https://archive.org/details/wapeach
Archived Fumihide Aoki Instagram comment collages (all other comments in the attachment not featured in these two images were captured on desktop directly from Fumihide Aoki's Instagram posts prior to the account being locked down):
https://twitter.com/GenesisJam_/status/1730803149915472217
Warupichi design articles (second link submitted by NintendOtaku):
https://www.polygon.com/23984146/nintendo-wapeach-design-waluigi-creator-mario-tennis
https://www.thegamer.com/waluigi-creator-reveals-wapeach-designs/
Warupichi designs taken down article:
https://www.eurogamer.net/waluigi-creator-shares-then-removes-designs-of-wario-style-peach
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Alex, Nina, Harry, and Kate are no longer playable in the Virtual Console version of the game. None of the character's personalized courts (excluding Donkey Kong's) can be unlocked either. This due to the game needing to be connected to the Game Boy Color version of Mario Tennis to unlock this content, which the Wii cannot do.
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The Ring Tournament mode was removed from the Wii Virtual Console version of the game due to the online leaderboard being shut down. Its icon is still there, but it is skipped over in the menu. It was implemented again in the Wii U Virtual Console release.
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