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Due to Bowser Jr. appearing almost exclusively in pre-rendered cutscenes in Super Mario Sunshine, his high-quality model is not actually present in the game's files. The only Bowser Jr. model in the data is used in the final battle, and is so low-polygon that it has no mouth.
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The secret alcove in Whomp's Fortress containing a 1-Up Mushroom is one of the best-hidden secrets in Super Mario 64. Development files show that the alcove was meant to contain a Power Star at some point, which would have been extremely hard to find if it was kept in.
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In Super Paper Mario, Nastasia has opaque glasses that hide her eyes. Removing the glasses reveals that she does not normally have eyes, except for a few brief cutscenes. By putting the cutscene eye texture back onto her model, we can restore her eyes and see her original design.
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In Super Mario 64, if Mario surfs on a Koopa shell into this gap in Lethal Lava Land, he will be stuck underneath the platform. Despite touching lava, he will take no continuous damage. However, after a few seconds, a failsafe will activate and Mario will simply vanish, dying.
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In Super Mario World, normally a stomped Galoomba will recover and stand up after 8 seconds. However, if the Galoomba is taken through a pipe, its struggle animation will be much faster and it will never get up, no matter how much time passes.
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In a 2013 Super Mario 3D World interview, producer Yoshiaki Koizumi describes how in the prototype version, the characters would move like cats, but wear regular clothes. He describes Princess Peach running around like a cat in her dress as "like a scene from a horror movie".
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Ever since Waluigi's first appearance up to the present day, he has been extremely consistently depicted with exactly 12 teeth in all official artwork and all in-game models except one. Waluigi's Mario Kart DS model (bottom right) depicts him with 16 teeth instead.
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Mario could fully submerge in the New Donk City rooftop pool in the E3 2017 version of Super Mario Odyssey (left), prompting journalists to show Mario drowning in it (middle). Possibly in response, in the release version, the pool was made too shallow for Mario to drown (right).
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate includes new high-resolution versions of artwork of Mario franchise characters in its Spirits mode. The character benefiting the most from this is Don Bongo from Yoshi's Story, whose previous largest resolution was 114x118 and is now 566x578 pixels.
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Donkey Kong 5: The Journey of Over Time and Space was an unauthorized 2001 clone of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe that replaced Small Mario with Diddy Kong and Super Mario with Donkey Kong. A rare 2003 reprint of the game featured a new title screen reading "SUPER MARRIO SUNSHINE".
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Officially licensed Mario T-shirt from Japan depicting a swarm of Boos with the caption "HORRIBLE TIME".
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In Super Mario Bros., stomping a Bullet Bill in a precise position in Level 6-3 will cause it to become suspended in mid-air. Jumping on top of it will make it descend extremely slowly while Mario performs a dance-like motion.
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In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mr. Resetti has several speeches when summoned as an Assist Trophy. One of them includes a line where he does an impersonation of one of the fighters currently playing. Here are all his impersonations of the characters related to the Mario franchise.
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The Bowser and Bowser Jr. snow sculptures found in the background of the "Fliprus Floes" level in New Super Luigi U, extracted from the game's data.
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Despite being a 15-story building, the Last Resort hotel from Luigi's Mansion 3 can only accommodate 33 guests at once. The surprisingly small number is due to most floors containing no guest rooms; a detailed breakdown can be found in the image below.
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In WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames, there is a small chance for the third level of the "Right in the Eye" microgame to be unwinnable. The game can put the needle too low to be threaded. In the footage, Down is held the entire time; the hand will simply not go any lower.
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In Mario Kart Wii, the poles around the finish line in the N64 Sherbet Land track have a gradient coloring. In an inventive case of asset reuse, the poles do not have their own texture; instead, the letter "I" from the banner is mapped onto them, producing the gradient.
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The only three environmental textures that have been actually redrawn in the Super Mario 3D All-Stars version of Super Mario 64 are the Boo paintings and the Bowser sliding puzzle. All others, like the Hazy Maze Cave map on the right, use AI upscaling, making the texture blurry.
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In 2002, winners of a contest held by Nintendo Japan were able to meet Mario and various prominent Mario game staff (Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, Yoshiaki Koizumi) for a dinner party. Mario served the food.
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Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions contains an extremely tiny, barely visible Pikachu. Details in image.
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In Level 3-2 of Super Mario Land, there is a "doomed Koopa" that dies immediately upon spawning due to being accidentally placed above a bottomless pit. If the player is fast enough, a brief glimpse can be caught of the Koopa as it is dying.
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In Luigi's Mansion 3, there is a potted plant on a carpet on Floor 8 of the hotel. The plant is programmed to always return to its initial position, resulting in it performing various erratic motions if the carpet is moved underneath it, including flinging Luigi across the room.
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Extracting the graphics of the Punch-Out microgame from WarioWare: Smooth Moves reveals it is run in a window with some black pixels in the corner. These match up with the interface of an unofficial emulator, meaning the developers used it to emulate Punch-Out (details below).
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The Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country 3 uses the widely available Comic Sans MS typeface instead of trying to match the original typefaces when remaking both official art and in-game assets. Left: original SNES version, right: GBA remake.
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The prototype version of Donkey Kong 64 had highly exaggerated animations for Chunky Kong that were toned down in the final game. During his punching animation, his fist would briefly grow to roughly the size of his body.
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