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In Super Mario Sunshine, the way the silhouette appearance of Phantamanta is achieved is by making its model an extremely tall manta-shaped pillar and simply coloring the ground wherever it intersects with the environment. Details in image.
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Development files for Super Mario World contain graphics for a scrapped, extremely small creature that appears to have been called "One-Character-kun", or "Mr. One Character", referring to it being the size of a single character of text (8x8 pixel tile).
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In Donkey Kong Country, Diddy Kong's "minigame loss" animation is him stomping on his hat. In the Tanked Up Trouble level, it is possible to cause it to play while next to a ledge, resulting in Diddy throwing his hat into the abyss and jumping in after it, dying in the process.
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The Japanese version of Super Smash Bros. contains a debug screen with no known purpose, consisting only of several instances of Mario's name being mirrored and one instance of Samus's name, appearing as "MARЯAM MSAMUSM MARЯAM MARЯAM MAR".
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In Super Mario 64, it is possible to be blown off the bridge in Snowman's Land in such a way that Mario's hat lands under the star in the ice structure. This will make the hat irretrievable without restarting the game as Mario will always touch the star before putting it back on.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, if A is pressed on a specific frame while climbing this ledge in the Cap Kingdom, Mario will be stuck walking in place forever and not accept any further input, forcing the game to be reset.
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Extremely rare officially licensed 2002 Bowser plush from Spain, notable for its frizzy hair giving it a particularly disheveled appearance.
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Photo of "Toad bread" posted in 2018 on Nintendo's official Japanese LINE account.
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Addendum: thanks to preservation efforts by @forestillusion, @Render_Archive and @Nintoid, high-resolution screenshots of this area were finally discovered, seen below! twitter.com/forestillusion…
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In Donkey Kong Country 2, if Dixie lands on Rambi while performing a helicopter spin and B is pressed on the next frame while Y continues being held, the properties of the helicopter spin will be transferred onto Rambi, allowing him to float through the air.
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When Bowser attacks Peach's Castle in the beginning of Super Mario Galaxy, the Toads start panicking. However, some Toads remain loaded outside the playable area who continue their cheerful festival animations. Note the sounds of destruction and screaming Toads in the background.
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In Super Mario 64, if Z is pressed on the frame Mario touches a Koopa shell, he will not ride it, and instead the background music will restart from the beginning. Note the Bob-omb Battlefield music intro replaying whenever Mario crouches in the footage.
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Between the releases of the original Japanese version of Super Smash Bros. and the international versions, Mario and Luigi have been made slightly taller, while Kirby has been made slightly shorter. These are the only characters whose sizes are location-dependent.
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A Mario reference was made in episode 270 of the Doctor Who TV series, where the Doctor describes a situation with "it's like Super Mario figuring out what's going on, deleting himself from the game because he's sick of dying."
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In a 1996 interview, Mario Kart 64 director Hideki Konno stated that the game was originally intended to have a "serious mode" without items, to appeal to hardcore racing fans. However, nearly all playtesters chose to play with items instead, leading to the mode being scrapped.
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On the title screen of Mario Paint, clicking the "R" plays a sound. That sound is actually a voice saying "Odnetnin", or "Nintendo" backwards. The footage below first plays the clip normally, then reverses it, and finally slows it down to hear the original "Nintendo" voice.
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Previously, I have posted about an extremely rare officially licensed 2016 T-shirt from Japan depicting a swarm of Boos with the caption "HORRIBLE TIME". That was only one of a set of limited edition "HORRIBLE TIME" shirts; the designs of the other two are shown below.
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Only known screenshot of an area of an early version of Big Boo's Haunt from the 1995 pre-release build of Super Mario 64, which exists only in immensely low quality. This is the only known area not present in the finished game for which no higher-quality imagery is available.
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The US version of Diddy Kong Racing contains an inaccessible Japanese language setting in the files. If the code is modified to activate it, it is revealed that all it does is replace text with the word "Japanese" in English.
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In Super Mario 64, if Mario is eaten by a Bubba fish enemy while surfing on a Koopa shell, the Bubba will eat only Mario and leave the shell floating on the surface of the water.
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The Chinese version of New Super Mario Bros. Wii replaces the character icons with high-definition textures. For an unknown reason, the texture for Luigi's icon is squished and the game runs special unsquishing code at runtime to make it display properly on-screen.
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In the Bowser's Fury mode of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, positioning Plessie on specific spots on slopes will cause him to continuously oscillate between two angles, appearing to shake rapidly.
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Clay Luigi figurine submitted anonymously to Nintendo Power in 2008. The Nintendo Power staff dubbed it "Homunculuigi".
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In the vast majority of his appearances, the default pose of Petey Piranha's model has a slightly open mouth, similar to how his appears when idling. However, for unknown reasons, in Mario Kart: Double Dash his default pose has him open his mouth extremely wide.
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Donkey Kong 5: The Journey of Over Time and Space was an unauthorized 2001 clone of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe that replaced Small Mario with Diddy Kong and Super Mario with Donkey Kong. A rare 2003 reprint of the game featured a new title screen reading "SUPER MARRIO SUNSHINE".
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