1026
In Super Mario World, the controllable coin plays the P-Switch music when it is active. However, if Yoshi eats the coin while it is still active, the P-Switch music will continue playing indefinitely instead of running out as usual.
1027
In Super Paper Mario, Count Bleck never removes his top hat (left). However, by unloading the texture for the hat, we can see what he would look like without it (right). Removing the hat also makes it clearer that his visible eye and monocle are slightly misaligned.
1028
One of the clearest available images of the pre-release version of Mario's sprite from Super Mario RPG, found in the British Edge magazine (left), compared to the sprite from the finished game (right).
1029
The Super Smash Bros. series contains weight values for all fighters. By examining the changes to those values throughout the games, we can see which characters have lost or gained weight over time. Below is the weight history of all Mario-related fighters.
1030
The WarioWare series was created out of the development team's low opinion of Wario's intelligence. According to Yoshio Sakamoto, producer of most WarioWare games, the reason the games feature Wario is because he "is always doing stupid things and is really idiotic".
1031
Underside of a Nintendo Switch analog stick (extracted from a Joy-Con) received back from Nintendo of America after refurbishing. These are marked with a stamp of Mario wearing a bow tie after being repaired to distinguish them from units that have not been faulty in the past.
1032
For unknown reasons, if some minigames in Mario Party 4 are accessed without selecting a character, the game loads them with glitched instances of Daisy instead of Mario, as expected. Below are some examples of Daisy's unusual behavior.
1033
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Zess T.'s house contains several unique kitchen-related items in the background. Zooming in on them reveals that they are actually stock photos of real objects.
1034
In Level 6-Fortress 1 in Super Mario Bros. 3, if a Star is collected on the specific frame when Mario hits a coin block, Boom Boom (who is encountered in the next room) will die immediately upon seeing Mario, without even needing to be touched.
1035
2000 print ad for Nintendo's official Brazilian website, featuring original artwork of Mario, Pikachu and Donkey Kong.
1036
Development data for Yoshi's Island includes a graphics file that contains four Yoshi heads, the first, second and fourth being identical and the third being miscolored. This was likely an attempt to create a palette-shifting animation that was abandoned partway through.
1037
In Mario Party 3, computer-controlled opponents can be "baited" into stealing relatively low-value items to prevent them from stealing valuable items. All characters have a "favorite item" they cannot resist stealing, forcing them to waste their stealing items. Details in image.
1038
Designs from a 2017 series of officially licensed workout-themed Mario T-shirts.
1039
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it is possible to use glitches to have Flavio follow Mario throughout the entire game. In the cutscene after the final boss battle, Flavio and Mario's partner will occupy the same coordinates, creating one of the amalgams seen below.
1040
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the background of the Battleship Halberd Interior stage of Subspace Emissary contains panels with extremely small labels. Although the textures are very blurry, extracting them shows there are two labels reading "Mario", one "Peach" and one "Luigi".
1041
The Japan-only Nintendo 64 game Tamagotchi 64: Minna de Tamagotchi World includes the Mario-themed Mariotchi (left) and the Wario-themed Waruotokotchi (roughly "Bad-Man-tchi", right). Here are their designs and special unlockable scrapbook images.
1042
In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga+Bowser's Minions, a portrait of Fawful was added to Woohoo Hooniversity that was absent in the original. This adds to Fawful's backstory by suggesting he went to, and was a notable graduate of, the Hooniversity to have his portrait in the halls.
1043
The Binoculars in Super Mario Odyssey do not visibly gain Mario's eyes when captured; however, the eyes are actually present under the opaque lenses, just not visible. The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book also shows the eyes, meaning they were covered up during development.
1044
Last September, I posted about the leg count difference between the official art of Wiggler from Super Mario RPG (top left) and his sprite (bottom left). As it turns out, the sprite is instead based on rare scrapped pre-release art, seen in the British Superplay magazine (right).
1045
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door contains an early graphic for the rock thrown by the audience, where it was a brick instead. This was likely changed due to the brick being more realistic than a cartoon rock, appearing more violent. Below is the brick reinserted into the game.
1046
On the first floor of Peach's Castle in Paper Mario, there is a conspicuous lack of a door on the left of the stairs (circled in red). A door is actually present there, but painted over with a wall texture and its loading zone deactivated. Where it would have led to is unknown.
1047
Takashi Tezuka, director and designer of Super Mario Bros. 3, drawing concept art for what would eventually become Super Mario's standing sprite in the game, in 1987. A zoomed-in version of the drawing and the sprite are provided for comparison.
1048
To this day, any meaning or etymology of the name "Lakitu" is completely unknown. It seems to have been made up without explanation for the US manual for Super Mario Bros. Below is a chart of the history of Lakitu's name across different languages.
1049
Photo of a 1995 promotional campaign by Nintendo UK for Donkey Kong Country. Certain bus stops in London were fitted with speakers that played ambient jungle noises, and an actor in a Donkey Kong mascot costume would randomly appear and interact with people waiting for the bus.
1050
The first production run of the licensed World of Nintendo Mario series figurines had quality issues such as typos on the packaging and miscategorized figurines; seen here with an Ice Luigi figurine sold as "Fire Mario". These issues were fixed in later runs starting with 2015.
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