The first game in the Paper Mario franchise. Bowser stole the Star Rod to finally take over the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario treks all over the kingdom to free the Star Sprites to gain their powers. Mario finds allies to help him along the way.

Paper Mario: Master Quest is a mod made for "Paper Mario" on the N64. It revamps old content and adds plenty of new as well.
Often considered "The Dark Souls of Paper Mario", the mod is incredibly difficult. It was designed with elite challenge runners in mind, and unless you have extensive knowledge of Paper Mario, you may struggle with much of the content.

For those players there is **Paper Mario: Master Quest Jr** which has all of the content the original has, with a much more reasonable difficulty curve. If you want to stream the mod, starting with Jr. is recommended.

Some of the new content includes:
- 50+ new maps, including a brand new dungeon!
- A fully functional Pit of 100 Trials.
- Boss refights for all major bosses.
- 60+ new enemies, ranging from recolors to fully custom bosses.
- Heavy changes to enemy AI, and new battle mechanics not found in the vanilla game.
- A number of map changes to keep some areas feeling fresh, and keep the player on their toes.
- Item and Badge rebalancing, some more obscure tools are now viable.
- New badges and partner attacks.

Database match: Paper Mario (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo 64 (v. 20210220-053642)
File/ROM SHA-1: 3837F44CDA784B466C9A2D99DF70D77C322B97A0
File/ROM CRC32: A7F5CD7E

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