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In Super Mario Maker, all of Costume Mario's forms in the Super Mario Bros. style have a special pose activated by pressing Up, called "appeal" internally. There is an unused "appeal" sprite in the code for Weird Mario as well, which makes a third button appear on his overalls.
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During the design process for Donkey Kong Country 2, Shigeru Miyamoto sent Rare sketches of ideas he had for a symbol to be displayed on Dixie Kong's beret. In the end, Rare decided to leave her beret plain, although the Rare logo can be seen on it in a few select renders.
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In 1989, a series of officially licensed sticker cards was released in the US, each containing a "Top Secret Tip" on the back. While the tips were in fact about hidden content for most games featured, the "tips" for Super Mario Bros. 2 were paraphrased excerpts from the manual.
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In Super Mario 64, the collision detection of the lava inside the volcano in Lethal Lava Land is not aligned properly with its visual position, being slightly below it. This allows Mario to stand, crawl, and even fall asleep in lava at the edges of some platforms.
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In Paper Mario: TTYD, entering a building and then clipping back out lets Mario walk around the area with most graphics unloaded, but the collision still present. Talking to NPCs will make the tail of the speech bubble point at Mario, making it appear as though he was speaking.
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The 1989 licensed Nintendo Sticker Activity Book included stickers of a variety of Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2 characters, some featuring original artwork. As part of a puzzle activity, the letters in the names of all characters on the stickers have been scrambled.
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The "Super Mario History 1985-2010" booklet bundled with Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition contains a photo of a model sheet of Mario's hands for use in 2D Mario artwork, at a highly oblique angle to the camera. Here is the sheet perspective-corrected for easier viewing.
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Super Mario Sunshine includes three types of reflective surfaces: the water in Bianco Hills and the mirrors in Gelato Beach and Hotel Delfino. FLUDD's nozzle does not have a reflection in any of them.
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The "Special Episode" DLC for the Nintendo Switch version of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker contains new, unique illustrations used in the book menu between levels, as in the base game. However, the data for the DLC also contains these two illustrations that are not used.
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The data for Super Mario Strikers contains prototype models of the characters used in an early build of the game. Unlike the finished models, the prototypes each have only one facial expression. While all other characters have a neutral expression, Luigi's model appears angry.
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Illustrations depicting phases of a hypothetical transformation between Mario and Wario, from a Japanese guide for Mario & Wario on the Super Famicom.
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Scene showing Shigeru Miyamoto's workstation at Nintendo of Japan decorated with a hanging Mario toy in 1993, seen in a French documentary about Japanese game companies.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, whenever Mario touches dark matter, he dissolves into dust. However, a few frames before the dissolving animation begins, Mario's model loses its hands and most of its face. This can actually be seen in-game, although only from afar. Here it is zoomed in.
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Ever since Waluigi's first appearance up to the present day, he has been extremely consistently depicted with exactly 12 teeth in all official artwork and all in-game models except one. Waluigi's Mario Kart DS model (bottom right) depicts him with 16 teeth instead.
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In 1984, Hudson Soft was licensed to create a version of the Donkey Kong 3 arcade for the Sharp X1 home computer system. This version includes an info screen detailing point values for defeating enemies that states that Donkey Kong is "impossible to kill".
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Unlicensed Yoshi-branded apple-scented dish soap from Israel.
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In a previous Tweet, I have claimed that Yoshi's Crafted World's soundtrack has only 20 tracks. This is merely the count given by the game itself; data miners have extracted a total of 70 tracks, including jingles. I apologize for making the post without more thorough research.
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Throughout all of his in-game appearances, Roy Koopa has never been seen without his sunglasses. A 1995 manga features a scene where they are taken off and reveals that Roy has prominent eyelashes.
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In the earliest Japanese version of Super Mario 64, there are four arrows floating around the top of a pole in Rainbow Ride. These resemble arrows displayed when positioning items in a level editor and may be a remnant of the level design process.
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In Mario Party 7, during the setup phase of the Volcano Peril minigame mode, the four chosen characters are all rendered at the same coordinates above the camera, resulting in them overlapping each other. Here are examples of this effect featuring all playable characters.
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In a 2007 interview, Seth Gordon, director of Donkey Kong documentary The King of Kong and producer of video game movie Pixels, expressed great interest in adapting Super Paper Mario into a movie. However, due to being unable to contact Nintendo, the idea was later dropped.
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Concept art of a "Yoshi Suit" power-up for Mario, showcased at the Nintendo World Store in New York in 2015. Unfortunately, due to the sheet being exhibited without additional commentary, it is unknown what exact game the power-up was envisioned for.
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Despite Mario games being officially localized into Russian since 2011, Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games contains the only instance of the "Mario" logotype being translated into Russian as well.
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Photo taken during the unveiling of the Mario wax figure at the Hollywood Wax Museum in 2003. A quote from the person in the Mario mascot suit, who held a brief interview during the event, is provided.
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In a previous tweet, I have claimed that it is unknown what the letter "I" on the standard Mario coin design would stand for. I overlooked the extremely simple explanation that it is the roman numeral 1, standing for "1 coin". I apologize deeply for misjudging the situation.
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