By rotating the daisy wheel, different characters are selected for printing.

The international characters are selected by a shift procedure.

Mario is always in the player's party, but the other two characters can be selected before battles.

In some cases, however, other characters than the first can be selected.

The 2006 characters were selected in an online poll.

Two characters may be selected in co-operative mode to complete the game.

The other two main characters are not selected for the title.

In the first three minigames, up to 5 characters may be selected.

Every time a minigame is completed, a different character may be selected.

Once the character has been selected, the actual design process begins with sketches of the proposed figure.