{"id":111689,"date":"2020-04-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/random_paper_mario_sticker_stars_serial_key_mystery_remains_unsolved_7_years_later"},"modified":"2020-04-17T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T11:00:00","slug":"random-paper-mario-sticker-stars-serial-key-mystery-remains-unsolved-7-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/17\/random-paper-mario-sticker-stars-serial-key-mystery-remains-unsolved-7-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Paper Mario: Sticker Star’s Serial Key Mystery Remains Unsolved 7 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paper Mario: Sticker Star<\/strong><\/a> launched on the Nintendo 3DS back in late 2012, bringing the Paper Mario series to a handheld console for the very first time. It doesn’t tend to be remembered quite<\/em> as fondly as some other titles from the series, but still to this day it holds one of its greatest mysteries.<\/p>\n

If you played through the game yourself and have a pretty good memory, you might just about remember picking up what appears to be a serial code. In W5-1 Shy Guy Jungle, you can stumble across a piece of paper that reads, “XD3R-B8HH-9ZR2-FL16”. It’s particularly noteworthy thanks to the fact that other papers found within the game don’t feature codes like this, instead referring to other in-game characters and the like.<\/p>\n

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Strangely, scouring the internet for clues on what it could be used for brings up more confusion than anything; even now, no one seems to have any clue whether or not the serial key can actually be used on any service. 16-digit codes are often used on Nintendo stores – like when downloading games from the Switch’s eShop – but the code is never valid. So<\/em> what is it?<\/em><\/p>\n

You can see the code be obtained at around the 9-minute mark in the video below (thanks, MarioBrothBlog<\/a>):<\/p>\n