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Paper Mario contains an unused message reading simply "a". Here is what it looks like when loaded in-game.
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One of the 1996 officially licensed Mario quiz cards depicts Mario's father.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, when Luigi tells Mario the lengthy stories of his adventures, Mario and almost all of his partners fall asleep. The only partner who remains awake and actually listens to Luigi is Bobbery.
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An official render of Toadette for Super Mario Maker 2 contains the most realistic depiction of a piece of Nintendo hardware in artwork for a first-party Nintendo game to date: a Joy-Con that is modeled in such detail that it even includes all the legally mandated labeling.
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Due to the outfits available to Mario and Peach in Super Mario Odyssey, it is possible to take a glimpse of an alternate universe scenario where their roles would be swapped, by contrasting Mario's king outfit with Peach's work overalls.
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Officially licensed 2019 Japan-exclusive Yoshi oven mitts.
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Clay Luigi figurine submitted anonymously to Nintendo Power in 2008. The Nintendo Power staff dubbed it "Homunculuigi".
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Super Mario 64 contains unused eye textures for Mario depicting him looking down, up, and to the sides.
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The Piranha Plant fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has legs that appear briefly during certain animations (left). The legs are never completely extended out of the pot. On the right is the model extracted from the game's files, showing the full length of the legs.
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On higher difficulties in Mario Party Superstars, CPU players may cheat by using Custom Dice Blocks to land precisely on spaces with hidden blocks, despite this knowledge being supposedly secret from all players. Details in image.
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Image of an unused Yoshi skin for horses found in the data of the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack DLC for Minecraft: Wii U Edition.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, there are two NPCs sitting on a bench in Bowser's Kingdom. With a precise jump, Mario can land in a spot not covered by either of their collision, allowing him to forcibly insert himself between them on the bench.
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Nintendo of America's official soundtracks for Yoshi's Story and Diddy Kong Racing were released on CDs shaped like the characters' heads. The irregular shape made them impossible to play back on many players and CD drives, with some even becoming damaged by the CDs.
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In Super Mario RPG, Mario never closes other people's doors after himself. If he opens a door and walks away, the door will remain open. The only exception is the door to his own house, which Mario will immediately close after himself.
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Original CGI animation made for a 2006 Taiwanese TV news report about the release of the Nintendo Wii. Mario bursts into a room with children playing the GameCube and kicks it away while presenting them with a Wii Remote to illustrate Nintendo's focus on the new system.
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Many of the courses in Super Mario 64 have about the same polygonal complexity as Mario himself, with some even having fewer polygons than he does. In many places in the game, the console spends more computational power displaying Mario than the entirety of the rest of the scene.
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A 2000 Australian commercial for the Game Boy Color featured a scene where an explosion knocks the fur off Donkey Kong, revealing that his limbs are skinny underneath.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, the game does not handle Mario's legs being on two different slopes correctly, with him appearing to stand halfway in mid-air (left). In contrast, Super Mario Sunshine, released 15 years earlier, has code that handles each leg's incline separately (right).
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Today, Super Mario World turns exactly one billion seconds old.
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The 2006 British print ad campaign for Mario Kart DS attempted to appeal to people who dislike Australians.
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Instead of displaying the frame rate as a number in debug mode, Super Mario Strikers uses an "FPS Smiler" that dynamically adjusts its facial expression from green and smiling (high FPS) to red and frowning (low FPS). Below is footage of how it looks when the game undergoes lag.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, fruit is not reflected in mirrors.
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Unlicensed Mario statue sold by UK garden furniture shop Aston Garden Ornaments, named "ITALIAN MAN".
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It is well known that Daisy's trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee has an eye hidden at the back of her head. The eye texture is actually tiled across the entirety of her head, and the developers made the copies invisible, missing one in the back. Below, all eyes are made visible.
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Whenever Mario remains idle for long enough in Super Mario Odyssey, he will fall asleep, whereupon a bird native to the area may land on his nose. However, there is an extremely rare event where instead of the regional bird, a UFO will land on Mario's nose instead.
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