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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the Starshroom appears near Starship Mario after reaching Spin-Dig Galaxy. However, even before that, one of the Toad Brigade members is already present: Banktoad can be seen floating in mid-air above Starship Mario from the beginning of the game.
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Mario Golf: Advance Tour contains eight unused "chicken rooms" which appear as eight identical dark voids, each of which contains a single chicken.
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Development files for Super Mario World contain sprites for Mario moving towards and away from the camera. He does so by assuming a unique transitional state between Small Mario and Super Mario, which is shown here in the middle alongside the two standard forms.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, the model for Peach's Castle's reflection in the lake is an edited model of the castle with dark, dramatic shading and pillars of light emanating from the windows. Here is how the scene would look if the actual castle was replaced by the reflection model.
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The data for Super Mario Strikers includes a text file called flushfile.txt, which contains nothing but the word "flush".
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For the British commercial for Super Mario Sunshine, 22 seconds of live-action footage of people with Mario mustaches were prepared, but only 5 seconds were actually used in the finished version. Below is the unreleased full commercial, including the 17 seconds of deleted scenes.
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The code of Mario Kart DS contains ASCII artwork of the Small Mario sprite from Super Mario Bros., constructed using four different byte values standing for different colors. The original sprite has been superimposed over the relevant part of the code for demonstration.
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In Super Mario 64, collecting a star above an updraft will cause Mario to float in the wind indefinitely as control is taken away from the player, preventing Mario from escaping the updraft. The only actions the player can perform are moving the camera and turning off the game.
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Design from an extremely rare officially licensed 1991 Mario T-shirt.
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Development files for Super Mario Advance contain voice samples of Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad laughing in unusual, possibly intentionally odd-sounding ways. It is unknown what these clips would have been used for.
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The reason Donut Blocks appear donut-shaped in 2D Mario games, but log-shaped in 3D Mario games is that they are not actually based on donuts, but tube-shaped Japanese fishcakes called chikuwa instead. Details in image.
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In Super Mario 64, the floating boxes above the elevator in Hazy Maze Cave are at a precise height where, if the edges of the elevator are aligned with them, Mario can bypass them by briefly getting squished into the gap.
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Limited edition officially licensed 2021 Super Mario designer kimono from Japan.
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In Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash, the textures for Peach, Daisy and Rosalina's faces contain unused simplistic eyes in a style reminiscent of Paper Mario. Below is what their models would look like if these eye textures were used.
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In Super Mario Bros. 2, the animation of launching in a rocket ship usually takes a few seconds. By dropping a POW Block immediately after launching, the rocket's speed will increase drastically.
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There exists an official depiction of Christianity in the Mario universe. The 1987 officially licensed Super Mario Bros. sticker called "Prayer Power" features Peach using a cross to ward off a Hammer Bro.
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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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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, glitches can be used to let Flavio follow Mario for the entirety of the game. Scenes not originally intended to have Flavio then exhibit "Flavio omnipresence" whereby instead of physically entering the scene, he is already always there.
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Ending screen exclusive to the 1994 rerelease of Mario Teaches Typing (absent from the original 1992 release).
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Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon contains a debug feature that displays an "FPS Smiler" in the corner of the bottom screen, used by the developers to monitor the game's frame rate. Whenever the FPS dips too low, the Smiler becomes red and upset.
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Extremely rare officially licensed 2002 "Bowser sitting on a chair with an apple" figurine from Japan. It is actually based on the Fruits of Doom minigame from Mario Party 4, but the lack of context provided by the figurine makes it seemingly depict Bowser having a peaceful meal.
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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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Super Mario 64 contains unused code for throwing MIPS the rabbit, including a unique animation of him falling onto the floor and getting back up. In the finished version of the game, this was replaced by Mario carefully setting MIPS down instead of throwing him.
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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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One of the winning entries from a 2014 drawing contest held by Nintendo for the Year of Luigi celebration, depicting a Luigi mask and Link's painful transformation into Luigi as a hypothetical scenario in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
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