Removed the link to the defunct site BAR! Vana Asset Site.
Added the Updates Archive page.
This is the final update using the old system.January 22, 2022
Updated All MK7 locations:
Most of the text is now set to small (and resized).
Rewrote the text for region 1 of all countries.
January 19, 2022
Added flags from Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain as a bonus.
The Nintendo Zone flags are no longer considered unused, as there's no reliable proof to prove they're actually unused. May or may not be reverted in a future update.
Updated Nintendo Country Flags:
All flags properly uncropped as of this update.
Kosovo no longer has a note under SMM1, and instead has it below the games.
Myanmar/Burma is now called just Myanmar. A note for Burma was added instead.
Nepal no longer has a note under SMM1, and instead has it below the games.
Added Niue.
The third St. Kitts and Nevis flag is now correctly attributed to MK8U and not MK8DX.
Timor-Leste/East Timor is now called just Timor-Leste. A note for East Timor was added instead.
(Other flags) no longer quotes The Cutting Room Floor on how flag_blank_00 (MKW) may have been intended to be used.
Updated All MK7 locations:
The note for country 0 is now bold instead of italic.
Removed leftover commas from Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) and Västerbotten County (Sweden).
"SMM" in the update note for February 27, 2021 now has a 1 next to it.
The text for the bonuses was reformatted to have the name come first followed by where the flags are used.
The text for "Changes on Wii U" was slightly rewritten.
The size of the text on the country lists was changed to 9 to 12.
The note for "All MK7 locations" is now bold instead of italic.
Others is now Miscellaneous, and most independent pages are now sorted under the page.
Added "Nintendo Switch region list".
Added "Additions".
Added "Stats" (hidden from navigation for now).
The update was originally supposed to come out on January 17, but was delayed due to the amount of flags needed to be added, which allowed for more changes to be made to the site.January 11, 2022
Countries A to D plus St. Lucia and (Other flags) have been properly uncropped. This process will likely be finished when the next update is out.
Updated individual country pages:
Bermuda has the word "selectable" replaced with "available".
The MK7 notes for China, Hong Kong, Macao is now the same, acknowledging the other two sharing the flag.
The page for Eswatini now only has one name, and a note was added regarding the former name.
Added a note for Iceland's unique distinction in MK8DX prior to March 2019.
The notes for Indonesia and Monaco's flags are now the same, with a colon added as well.
The page for Netherlands Antilles now says it was removed from the Nintendo Account settings after August 2017.
The note for Taiwan is now bold.
Updates to flag guides:
(MK7 & MK8DX) Added all countries without flags with names shown in-game below the respective flag guides.
(MK8U) A note regarding countries without flags has been added.
January 7, 2022
Updated the MK7 location list:
Added country 0 and a note regarding it.
The text for Macao was slightly rewritten.
September 12, 2021
Continuing to celebrate the 1 year anniversary:
The notes for Netherlands Antilles were completely rewritten.
The time zone note on this page is now the same as on Vana's Palace.
An empty line below the American Wii country list has been removed.
(MK7) All flags have been properly uncropped (technically).
(MK7) Removed an extra space from the location list after the hex number for Argentina.
(MK7) The text for the location list has been slightly rewritten.
September 2, 2021
The site celebrated its 1 year anniversary yesterday. To celebrate this, the site has seen some updates:
The front page has been partly reorganized and some lines have been rewrtten slightly.
Added the "About/History" page.
The flag guides have seen some updates:
The text on the following pages have been centered: MK7, SMM1, MK8DX, SSBU and MP series.
(MK7) The flag guide is now centered.
(SMM1) Five missing Bookmark flags have been added to the flag guide.
The flag guide for the Mario Party series now has text identifying the game for each set. Additionally, the page title now identifies it as a flag guide.
August 17, 2021
Added flags used for the language selections in Mario Party 1 to 3 respectively as bonuses.
The message regarding updates not being listed has been updated to fit more with the rest of the page.
Missing dotes were updated to the following update notes:
November 11, 2020
November 28, 2020
February 27, 2021
June 20, 2021
June 21, 2021
June 21, 2021
The original idea was to separate the list into four pages, countries, regions for countries 1-52, page 2 countries 64-112, page 3 countries 113-186. However, it was eventually decided to just have everything on one page. All four pages are now hidden from navigation.
The name of the page has been shortened to just All MK7 locations.
Macau is now spelt as Macao to match up with how its spelt in the Nintendo Account settings.
Added header text to the Others directory.
Some corrections to the list:
An extra dot was added to U.A.E (as it's actually referred to as U.A.E. on the system).
June 20, 2021
Added the "Others" directory, at the time of addition including Non-flags and All MK7 locations with hex numbers (see below).
(MK7) A page with hex numbers for all locations (countries and regions) has been added.
These are for region codes that let the player set a country (and/or region) of their choice.
Skipped region numbers (and the region believed to have occupied the spot prior to deletion) are also included.
Due to the huge size of the list, countries and regions are listed on two separate pages.
As of this update, only Japan, Anguilla and Antigua and Barbuda are finished.
April 29, 2021
Some flag guides have been updated:
(MK7) The Chinese and Taiwanese are now grouped along with the rest, while the Cayman Islands flag is listed under Venezuela.
(MK8DX) A note has been added on the page regarding the unused MK8U flags.
(SMM1) Indonesia is now grouped along with the rest.
(SMM1) Added a missing space before "Vatican City".
(SMM1) The Bookmark flags are now in the same style as the rest of the flags.
(SSBU) A note regarding the existence of the big versions has been added.
(MK8DX) All countries already not having a note saying the MK8U equivalent exists in the files unused now has a such note.
Paraguay has a note instead due to having a differently compressed version in place of the MK8U equivalent.
Fixes to Other flags:
A space before "Mario Kart Wii" was removed.
File names are now listed like on the page Non-flags.
February 28, 2021
(undocumented 02-27 change) The dates on this page now stand out.
Removed a dot from the time zone note on the top of this page.
Added a file names page (currently under construction and is hidden from navigation).
Added a non-flags page for any graphics included in flag sets, either by mistake or deliberately.
A Wii U country list has been added but is hidden from navigation. It'll likely take a while before any work will be put into it, though.
February 27, 2021
The MK7 flags for China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are now the actual graphics. The flag guide has been updated as well.
The notes have been updated as a result, and China no longer has a note.
Notes have been updated in general as well:
Notes are now marked in bold (save for the note itself), with the exception for notes below the flags.
Countries with their MK8U flags present in Deluxe but not having an updated flag are now noted as such.
Notes have been added for Chad, Estonia and Romania.
The page for Montenegro has been updated to be consistent with all other pages (one SMM1 flag instead of two, one for the game and one for Bookmark).
The page explaining what happened to the classic Vana's Palace is now hidden from navigation but is still accessible.
December 18, 2020
It appears the November 28 update wasn't noted on this page due to Vana forgetting to update it.
The flag guide for Mario Kart 7 was updated:
The section covering flags not datamined and the unused Cayman Islands flag were merged into one section, Miscellaneous, with notes.
The temporary notice for the future replacement of the Chinese flags was removed.
The flags now originate from Vana's screenshots in the flag guide as well.
The pages for China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan had the word "rip" being replaced with "datamine".
Additionally, the note regarding the Taiwanese flag being absent in the Mainland Chinese version now has a source attached to it.
November 28, 2020
Updated one of the images of the flag guide for Super Mario Maker to include the Indonesian flag.
November 11, 2020
This page was created to keep track of both old and future updates.
Flags for China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan now use a different source (screenshots taken by Vana).
Still no rips from the game files but now these flags should be of the same quality as the rest. Note that the flag for Macau is used in the reference screenshot.
Updates were made between September 1, 2020 and November 11, 2020 before the update page existed.September 1, 2020
Vana's Flag Repository opened its doors to the public.