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The Golden Diva, the final boss of Wario Land 4, is always partially obscured by at least one of the following: her masks, a transparency effect, and Shokora's jewelry (left). By extracting her sprite from the data, we can see what she looks like without them (right).
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In Super Mario Bros. 2, strategically placing Potions allows picking up more than 9 coins per level. This will cause the coin count at the roulette to roll over to using letters. Collecting even more coins with cheats causes the display to go through all graphics in the game.
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Virgo Yoshi and Leo Yoshi from a Yoshi-themed horoscope section in the German Club Nintendo magazine.
1729
In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Luigi can reach one of three sizes upon completing the Snack Basket special attack. At the smallest size, the "L" on his hat is missing, with the emblem being blank.
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In 2016, Nintendo published a gift coupon book in PDF format on their website (top). Decompiling the PDF shows that instead of raster images, it contains the original vector versions of Mario character artwork, which can be further separated into its constituent layers (bottom).
1731
In 2007, this set of Super Mario Bros. postal stamps was released in Japan. The stamp depicting Small Mario contains a small inaccuracy, as Mario's hat's brim is 1 pixel shorter than the in-game sprite. Another stamp depicts Small Fire Mario, which is impossible without glitches.
1732
The music track that plays during the Koopa Trace-Walking minigame in Super Mario Odyssey is called a variation of "challenge" in other languages, but "Climactic Duel!" in English despite being neither climactic nor involving a duel. Whether this is a joke or an error is unknown.
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Wario: Master of Disguise and Mario vs. Donkey Kong share a particular similarity: both begin with a character watching TV and then changing the channel away from something he would normally find interesting. Wario is bored with a show about himself, and DK is bored with bananas.
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The graphical data for the kings' chambers in Super Mario Bros. 3 contains an unused sprite of Toad with asymmetrical eyes. Here is a mock-up of the scene with Toad's regular sprite replaced with the unused one.
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The 2013 North American commercial for Super Mario 3D World used live-action cat suits created by costume company KCL Productions. Here is the concept art sketch for the suit (left) and a behind-the-scenes photo of the costume artist wearing the suit's head (right).
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The actor playing Mario in the North American commercial for Super Mario Sunshine during a break from filming, as well as his head and glove props.
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In Paper Mario, Mario normally has a shadow at all times, visible directly below him when he is jumping (left). However, after sleeping at the Star Haven inn, upon waking up, Mario's shadow will be missing (right). This effect lasts until Mario leaves the area.
1738
In almost all 3D games, Birdo's eyelids are always partially closed, with the eyes never opening wider than the example on the left. The only time Birdo's eyes were ever fully open in a 3D appearance is in a shocked animation used in Fortune Street (middle and right).
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In the Bowser in the Dark World course in Super Mario 64, whenever the Fire Spitter is active, two red pixels can be seen very far away, under the final part of the level. This is the location the fire actually spawns before being teleported to the Fire Spitter one frame later.
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Officially licensed Japanese Toad figurine from 1986. It is based on the Toad with a nose depicted on the Japanese box art for Super Mario Bros. (right).
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In 1984, Hudson Soft was licensed to create a version of the Donkey Kong 3 arcade for the Sharp X1 home computer system. This version includes an info screen detailing point values for defeating enemies that states that Donkey Kong is "impossible to kill".
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Concept art of unused expressions for several characters in Mario Strikers Charged.
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Mario Party 6 includes a debug mode, which can be accessed by modifying the game's files. Within it, a message check mode can be used to view all of the messages in the game. One message is unused; it is a short text box reading simply "k".
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Comparison of Mario's and Luigi's skulls from Super Mario Galaxy.
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In Paper Mario, Herringway is coded as a regular penguin with a custom sprite. By pausing the game before the mayor cutscene, Herringway will load in a "depersonalized" state, appearing as a regular penguin (left: normal, middle: depersonalized). This will crash the game (right).
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Comparison between Weird Mario's sprite in Super Mario Maker seen in the announcement trailer at E3 2014 (left) and the release version of the game (right).
1747
In Super Mario Sunshine, the sign on top of the hut in Gelato Beach appears differently between the Japanese and North American versions. Looking closely at the signs, the stylized runes spell out the respective name of the beach in both versions, "Mamma" and "Gelato".
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In Super Mario 64, when Mario performs his Z+B kick move (called "Trip" by the manual), one of the buttons on his overalls disappears for the duration of the move.
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The Dress for Success minigame in Mario Party DS consists of matching characters' heads with their bodies. For every character, an incorrect version of their body is also present, usually differing in some small detail. Here are the characters matched with their incorrect bodies.
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Left: Princess Peach's regular 3D model. Right: Princess Peach's model used in Mario Kart 7. To fit her body inside the relatively small karts, her legs were shortened considerably.
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