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In the Japanese versions of Paper Mario games, the female guiding partners all have common English female given names that happen to be puns in Japanese. This pattern is nearly nonexistent in the English versions, where all of them except Olivia were given made-up names instead.
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In the Japanese/North American version of Super Mario Bros., Mario is safe at the beginning of World 8-2, as the Koopa Paratroopa that spawns on that screen bounces over him if he doesn't move. In the European version, it was deliberately moved one tile over to kill him instead.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, Mario can clip through a corner in the Blooper race track in Ricco Harbor, whereupon it is revealed that the track is floating in space, like the secret courses. Once out of bounds, Mario can run around in space, but can never return to the track.
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In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, performing a High Jump on top of Mini-Mario and having Mario hit Luigi in mid-jump normally earns a coin. However, in the Fawful boss room in Bowser's Castle, it instantly annihilates Mario and Luigi instead, requiring the game to be reset.
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Using glitches to go out of bounds in the Seaside Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey reveals an endless ocean. Instead of the level's water taking up a finite area, the game generates an infinite expanse of water in all directions, which can be traversed forever.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there is a 1/40 chance on each playthrough of the game that Luigi's soul will be absorbed during the Chapter 5 boss battle. Details in image.
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Huey's model in Paper Mario: Color Splash is immensely smooth, resulting in an extremely high number of polygons. In fact, it takes more processing power to display Huey than it would take to render the entirety of Super Mario 64, all at once.
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In Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, passing between Fury Bowser's legs while riding Plessie will give Mario a free Super Bell.
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When playing with 2 or 3 human players in Mario Party DS, Player 1 has an unfair advantage as the CPU players will always steal items from the other players first before even considering stealing from Player 1. Details in image.
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The decorative butterflies in Super Mario Galaxy 2 will change their color to green if they land on Mario while he is sleeping. Details in image.
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Development data for Super Mario 64 contains an early version of MIPS the rabbit, which was colored pink. Unlike the finished game's MIPS, this version had the uncanny-looking ability to turn its head backwards 180 degrees, similar to an owl, to see Mario approaching from behind.
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As pointed out by reader @Ramenheim, the reason for this is likely that the kanji is pronounced "hato", which sounds like "heart", making this a Japanese-English pun!
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In the code of the Japanese version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the heart symbol is not a special character, but the font's representation of the kanji "鳩", meaning "pigeon" or "dove". Whenever characters use the heart symbol, they are actually saying "pigeon".
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Earlier this year, I posted about random vaguely ominous messages that may appear when Super Mario World crashes, such as "Illusion lies ahead". Since then, more examples of such messages have been discovered.
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Concept art sketch for a design for the Uproot enemy seen in the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book, whereby the enemy would have worn upside-down underwear on its head.
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The official Japanese guide for Super Mario RPG contains artwork of various clothing items, however, the artwork depicts just the clothing and not the character actually wearing it. I have created mock-ups of Mario wearing his various outfits by pasting his body onto the clothes.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, if Mario performs a mid-air dive and hits his head on a wall directly above a bench, he will fall down onto the bench and sit on it even if it is already occupied. Doing this results in him merging with the NPC sitting on the bench.
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On the main menu of Super Mario 64 DS, there is a button to switch between Mario's and Yoshi's head being displayed. Swapping from Mario to Yoshi, then back to Mario, then back to Yoshi, and finally back to Mario again will cause the game to trace Luigi over Mario's face.
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Officially licensed 2021 Boo ear headband in the style of the classic Mickey Mouse ear headband, available at the Super Nintendo World theme park in Japan.
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In Super Mario RPG, the mine cart minigame is perfectly capable of playing itself. If the player leaves once the game starts, it will complete itself in 3 minutes and 24 seconds.
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The Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels punishes the player for quitting the game and reloading it. If the player continues without quitting after 8-4, the enemies will move at normal speed. Quitting and reloading the save makes them move faster.
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An announcement: to expand on the Supper Mario Broth veracity policy, all posts that are deleted from this account due to inaccuracy will be posted on the new @CorrectedBroth account in a corrected form. Details below. Thank you to all readers who suggested this system!
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Mainline Mario platformers have a history of obstacles based on mines being designed for the games, but ultimately going unused.
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An easily missed bit of worldbuilding in Super Mario Odyssey: in the Mushroom Kingdom, a Toad says Peach brought back hats from the moon. If the Toads are viewed through binoculars before finishing the story, they have no hats because Peach is not yet back from the moon.
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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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