1876
Level 5-Airship in New Super Luigi U features a wooden Luigi figurehead on the first ship. Removing that texture reveals that hidden beneath it is another, very slightly darker wooden Luigi figurehead.
1877
Thanks to Twitter user @GelGelada, a source for the rare Cape Mario artwork was found, being the box art for a European Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World SNES bundle. The original Tweet has been deleted in accordance with my veracity policy.
1878
The Power Bee is an insect-like creature that can be eaten to restore Yoshi's health in Yoshi's Story (left). However, the enemy information section in a Yoshi's Story manga depicts the Power Bee as a more fairy-like character (right). This was possibly a scrapped earlier design.
1879
Hidden message found in the code of Super Mario Land 2. Note that no version of the game released around Christmas. Also, the game is one of the few Mario titles where Mario does not save any character, meaning there is no one who could plausibly say "Thank you Mario!" to him.
1880
Concept art of Giant Mario and Koop-zilla for the "Mario Meets Koop-zilla" episode of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, from the DiC Entertainment archives.
1881
Unused early Bomp models from Super Mario Galaxy. In the data, these have a different name from Bomps - their name is "ツキダシくん", which translates to "Bomp-kun"; "kun" being a Japanese honorific used to address young males.
1882
Textures used for the Thwomps' facial expressions in Mario Kart 64. Note that the caged, seemingly green Thwomp in the Bowser's Castle course actually uses the same blue textures as the other Thwomps, and is merely lit with stark yellow lighting to appear green.
1883
"Super Mario Bros. Vol. 3: Mario Corps Sortie", an army-themed 1985 Mario manga/adventure book. The book features military outfits for Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach.
1884
By unloading the spring model from Spring Mario in Super Mario Galaxy, we can see how his body deforms under the spring. Note that his hands are removed from his model while wearing the spring, as they take up too much space and would interfere with the animations.
1885
Long-time readers of Supper Mario Broth may know about my search for "Big Yoshi", an extremely rare render of a Yoshi from Super Mario RPG. I have written an in-depth article about it here: patreon.com/posts/search-f… , which includes a new high-quality scan provided by @MDragmire.
1886
The only instance of the same character being selectable by multiple competitors in the Mario Party series is in Mario Party 10. Using only one amiibo (say, Mario) during "amiibo Party", the human player plays as a plastic Mario toy while the CPU plays as cardboard Mario cutouts.
1887
Normally, Mario and Luigi's irises are exactly the same size (top). However, in Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure, Dr. Mario's irises are much smaller than Dr. Luigi's. In addition, Dr. Luigi has specular highlights (shines) in his eyes, while Dr. Mario's eyes do not reflect light.
1888
Geriatric Mario, Luigi and Yoshi seen in a manga about Mario in the year 2059, released by Enix Corporation (later part of Square Enix).
1889
The SNES version of Yoshi's Cookie contains a sprite of a Boo with a smug expression that is always partially obscured. I have attempted to create a clear version of the sprite using all available references; however, part of the sprite had to be left to speculation.
1890
The texture used for the "Mario Kart" banner at the starting lines of tracks in Mario Kart 64 contains chromatic aberration, an optical effect present in some photographs that manifests as fringes of color along boundaries. It is the only texture in the game with that effect.
1891
The title screen of Super Paper Mario is the only time the game depicts Luigi's hair that is normally covered by his cap (left). During normal gameplay, Luigi has no hair under his cap, which can be seen by unloading the cap sprite (right).
1892
1993 print ad for the Church of England. Unfortunately this low-resolution scan from Electronic Gaming Monthly appears to be the only available image of it.
1893
In Yoshi's Island, it is impossible to see the sprite of Yoshi entering a door without Baby Mario obscuring his back unless severe glitches that may corrupt the cartridge are used. I have taken rare existing footage and recreated it with Green Yoshi using extracted sprite parts.
1894
Left: Bowser's hurt sprite from Super Mario World. Right: the same sprite from the game's Game Boy Advance remake, Super Mario Advance 2. As you can see, Bowser's arms have been recolored, he has been given extra fingers, and his mouth was made to open slightly more.
1895
Whenever the playable Luigi looks at a point of interest in Super Mario Galaxy, his shoulder becomes dislocated. Modifying the game to view Luigi's skeleton, we can see this irregularity affects the skeleton model, as well.
1896
Every mismatched sprite from the "Connect the Characters" minigame in Super Mario 64 DS.
1897
Earlier today, I have made a Tweet that due to a technical issue, did not contain an image and had to be deleted. Below is an explanation of the situation along with the Tweet as it was intended to be presented.
1898
Frames of a Big Tail Goomba attacking in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. Note that while sprites are regularly distorted for "smear frames" in this manner, the multiple eyes are an uncommon stylistic choice for the series.
1899
Cartridge art for "Super Wonderful Mario", an unauthorized hack of Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Famicom. The game is mostly identical with the biggest change being that all occurrences of the word "Mario" in text are replaced with "Merio".
1900
Yoshi's unobscured overworld sprites from Super Mario World/Super Mario Advance 2. These can normally never be seen in-game as Mario or Luigi are always riding Yoshi and partially covering him, but are actually saved separately from Mario and Luigi's sprites in the data.
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