Oh wow, it has been 20 years since this game came out, hasn't it?

Nothing like something from your childhood becoming old enough to legally drink to make you feel old.

In the green star piece, from front to back, that's Jinx, Booster, and Johnny.

In the purple star piece, to the left of Yaridovich's head, are the Axem Rangers and the Blade's head is behind them. To the right of Yaridovich is Mack (below) and Boomer (above). (Note the balled tips of Mack's horns; Exor's horns are pointed.)

In the yellow star piece, I believe that person right of Belome is Punchinello. It looks like someone might be peeking out from behind Belome but it looks like all that can be seen are the person's eyes.

The fifth person in the blue star piece, peeking out over Toadofsky's head, is Boshi, I think.

Edit: I'm not tagging Boomer because I think our current boomer tag is not applied correctly.

Thanks for the tagging help. It's been too long and it's difficult to make out the small characters in the stars.

You know another kickass game that's got it's 20th anniversary this month?

Dragon Force on the sega saturn.

Had a wild impulse to play it again and while looking it up on the internet found out it was released the same month as SMRPG.

Nah, Blue is Culex. You can see his crystals.

I never played the original since I was and still am a Sony fan but I picked up a switch and this is the first Mario game I've purchased. Its great.