Super Mario World X Possible Cancelled Gamecube Game 2003

We've had one fake Mario thread and another questionable Nintendo thread both created by guest users in the span of a couple days so I remain skeptical with this thread as well.

However I love discovering old game rumors no matter how weird they might be and if Nintendo actually did put up a fake game on their site, that would be worth documenting lol

I did a decently thorough look on Nintendo's old website and IGN's old news section from 2003 but didn't find anything. I definitely could have missed it but if it was actually present on Nintendo's site then it must have been hidden pretty well. It might not have been listed in the usual places though cause I don't think the game ever existed and I don't think there's any chance of it being real

Something else to consider is how IGN has made up fake stories before so without a screenshot from Nintendo's website I wouldn't be convinced the game was actually listed. No matter how you look at it, Nintendo listing an intentionally fake game on their site is so out of character.

And like I said before I'm not convinced it was actually real so it had to be an April Fools Day joke

Edit: I did some more looking around on old Mario fansites that I knew posted rumors back in the day and found this- www.sm128c.com/april2003/

A fake rerelease of Mario 64 Ultimate Edition for GameCube, posted on April 1st 2003. Maybe IGN mistook something like this as fact and reported on it? Couldn't find any mention of a Super Mario World related game.

I'm only believing its fake because IGN sometimes writes off stuff as fake.

The first thing I thought of after reading the topic was how IGN created that fake GBA Yoshi screenshot and posted it on their forums for publicity. Not only does that make them somewhat unreliable in general but maybe it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say they tried faking another game too.

Though I'm starting to doubt the legitimacy of this topic and all the other one that were posted recently about canceled games with next to no information about them. There was one about a Genesis Energizer Bunny game that was apparently mentioned in the Sega Visions magazine, I searched the archive.org collection for any text mentions of the game and came up with nothing.

However if this topic is real, I'm much less interested in finding it on IGN's site and much more interested in finding it on Nintendo's but like I said before that seems pretty hard to believe after having looked there myself and considering the legitimacy of this thread.