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The text graphics for Super Mario World contain the word "ILLUSIYELLOW" among the alphabet tiles. This word is actually used for a clever trick that allows the game to bypass level name length limitations by squeezing in one extra character. Details in image.
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Normally, loading invalid Level IDs in Yoshi's Island either loads existing levels or crashes the game. However, some results are more unexpected. Loading ID 138 transports Yoshi to an empty level called "it ⬆️ with an egg", where he dies instantly.
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book contains large amounts of sketches for most characters in the game, with artwork for certain characters numbering in the hundreds. Despite this, the book contains only a single drawing of Toadette, which is shown below.
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In Paper Mario, there is a blue Toad at the Toad Town train station who tells Mario he "wants to tell him something" after Bowser is defeated. Reaching him and actually talking to him after Bowser is defeated crashes the game.
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In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, it is possible to have 100% completion on a save file retroactively and permanently revoked, turning a perfect save file into an imperfect one forever, simply by losing 8 lives in a level. Details in image.
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A 2015 commercial for McDonald's featured a variety of scenes of archenemies from popular culture getting along with each other. One of the scenes depicted Mario presenting Bowser with a Piranha Plant, which spits out fire in the shape of a heart.
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An officially licensed 2006 Buzzy Beetle keychain took liberties with its design where instead of making its beak a 3D shape, the beak was represented by a line drawn on its face, appearing similar to a smile and giving it a much more friendly appearance than usual.
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Due to being positioned in the bottom left corner of the Mario Party 10 box art, Luigi is covered up to varying degrees by rating labels in different regions. In one particular version of the game, he is covered up almost completely. Details in image.
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A batch of officially licensed 1997 Donkey Kong plushes was manufactured that erroneously labeled Donkey Kong as "Yoshi".
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A Game Boy test cartridge used internally at Nintendo to diagnose problems with the hardware contains a graphics test that consists of ten Raccoon Marios marching around a monolith in a manner resembling a ceremony or ritual.
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Super Mario 64 DS will become severely glitched if Yoshi throws an egg on the same frame as jumping on a Goomba. One possible effect is Yoshi becoming extremely fast. Note that the footage below has not been sped up or modified in any way.
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During the battle against Roy in Paper Mario: Color Splash, Mario enters six unique states whenever he is covered with paint. By extracting the sprites, we can see them without the paint cover, revealing normally unseen details such as Mario blushing when he feels self-conscious.
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In Super Paper Mario, the Dark Spania enemy has a unique oversight where it is coded to have a 5% chance to drop an item upon defeat, but its item drop list being empty. As such, it has a 95% chance of not dropping anything, and a 5% chance of dropping nothing.
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Super Mario 64 contains unused eye textures for Mario depicting him looking down, up, and to the sides.
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Super Princess Peach contains placeholder sprites to be used for Peach on the bottom screen that consist of crude scribbles with numbers for faces. Below is a mock-up animation of what the game's bottom screen could have looked like during early development.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, there is a specific spot in the underwater cave in Beach Bowl Galaxy where Mario will clip into his own reflection in the surface of the water, resulting in this amalgam of two Mario models superimposed onto each other.
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The data of Mario Party contains early low-resolution avatars for the player characters. While all other characters simply use preexisting official art, Mario's avatar is a unique render of him looking into the camera with dramatic lighting.
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In Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, Mario normally always reverts to his small form upon death. However, an unused death sprite for Fire Mario exists, depicting him as a squished Koopa. If Fire Mario could die, that is what he would look like.
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Promotional image for an officially licensed 2018 Mario foil helium balloon.
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The Chinese version of New Super Mario Bros. Wii has an anti-piracy feature where if an illegal copy is detected, the game will run normally, but all level graphics will be replaced with complete darkness, leaving only the HUD. It is still possible to beat the game in this state.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Vivian's body can stretch to an immense height, many screens tall. Below is Vivian's maximum height, visible only by using external tools to move the camera further away than normally possible.
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Behind-the-scenes photo from the production of the 2002 commercial for Super Mario Advance 3, showing the Yoshi mascot actor sitting between takes. Yoshi is never shown sitting in the commercial as this deforms the suit, causing him to appear more bloated than intended.
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The GameCube Service Disc, used by Nintendo representatives to test and diagnose problems with GameCube systems, contains two images of Mario in its files: a regular render called "mario", and an inverted one called "remario".
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Promotional image of an official Toad Mii in Miitomo, posted in 2016 on Nintendo's official Japanese LINE account.
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In the vast majority of games featuring them, the Koopalings all appear together. However, some games have included only subsets of the group so that, over the years, Larry and Ludwig have received the most exposure while Morton and Lemmy received the least.
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