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By unloading the barrel model in Donkey Kong Country Returns, we can see that in order to fit Donkey Kong's and Diddy Kong's models inside the limited space of the barrel, their bodies are made as compact as possible by having DK hold onto Diddy while in a fetal position.
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The first segment of the new Snow theme music in the Super Mario Bros. 3 game style of Super Mario Maker 2 is synced up with the Warp Pipe sound effect and the sub-area loading time. If Mario enters a Warp Pipe in time with the music, he will also exit it in time with the music.
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Unused yellow, blue and teal palettes of Frog Mario and Frog Luigi found in the data of the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 3. These are not used even within the palette cycle during the invincibility animation.
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A limited first edition of the cartridge case for the British version of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (known as Luigi's Mansion 2 in Europe) has a cover that glows in the dark (left: normal lighting, right: in darkness).
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In Super Mario World, entering Star World 3 with Yoshi and following any three moving objects to the goal (left) will result in the Lakitu suddenly vanishing (right) due to the game running out of sprite memory. While normally Lakitu respawns, it never returns in this scenario.
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In the Super Mario Maker games, a Boo attached to a ground tile becomes a Stretch. While they did not react to Mario in the first game, in Super Mario Maker 2, the Ground theme adds special behavior at night where they stop when Mario looks at them. New unique sprites were added.
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Version 3.0.4 of Super Mario Run, released 9 months after the game's launch, added Small Yoshi as Yoshi's form after taking damage, similar to Small Mario. This is to date the only appearance of Small Yoshi, as usually Baby Yoshi is used whenever a small form of Yoshi is needed.
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Multiple versions of very similar unlicensed Wario minifigures dual wielding different weapons exist made by different companies. The JLB version (left) features Wario with two scimitars, while the SLtoys "Super Maric Blocks" (right) features Wario with two daggers.
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Design concepts for Nabbit seen in the 2014 Nintendo company guide. Unfortunately, two of the sketches are obscured by official art for a Super Acorn.
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An addendum to the post about Small Yoshi: twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog… Super Mario Run is also the only appearance of Small Daisy. However, until now, her model has never been extracted. I was approached by Twitter user @El_Libre_, who has generously offered to extract the data.
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In Super Mario Maker 2, it is possible to permanently add more power-up options to the menu that is displayed when the playable character is tapped in the Course Maker mode, by dragging one of the wearable shells onto the character while still in the editor. Details below.
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In the VS. COM mode of the SNES version of Wario's Woods, every character has their name written normally, including both Toad and all opponents, with the exception of Wario, whose name is in all caps.
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BS Super Mario Collection is an enhanced port of Super Mario All-Stars for the Japan-exclusive Satellaview peripheral. In the Super Mario Bros. 3 section, the Toad Houses were redesigned from a playable screen into a dialogue window, using these unique Toad dialogue portraits.
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Official artwork depicting an unused scene from the "Nintendo Switch Parental Controls" video featuring Bowser and Bowser Jr. While the original video was published in January 2017, this image was uploaded to the official Nintendo of Japan website only in November 2018.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, Tostarenans are never seen without their ponchos that obscure the shape of their bodies. With a model editor, we can see what their bodies would look like without the ponchos. Note that they have no necks; the skull is simply floating above the torso.
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In almost all depictions of Bullet Bills they are shown to either be angry or grinning maliciously whenever they have visible mouths. The licensed 1989 coloring book "Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Sticker Fun" contains a rare instance of a Bullet Bill with a happy expression.
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Early 1985 promotional Super Mario Bros. sticker from Japan. Due to being released concurrently with the game, the drawings were made before the box art designs were finalized and thus use designs more closely based on the in-game sprites, like this Princess Peach design.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, Kamella's wand has a reflection not used by any other object in the game (left). Looking very closely at the orb, we can see it is actually reflecting the Nintendo GameCube logo (top right). Extracting the texture from the data confirms this (bottom right).
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The 1982 officially licensed Donkey Kong Coloring and Activity Book depicts Pauline as being a popular singer and performing on a stage, 35 years before this characterization is used in Super Mario Odyssey.
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In Super Mario Maker 2, the unlockable Super Hammer allows the characters to produce crates. If Luigi enters a Clear Pipe while holding his crate facing left, it will display correctly. However, facing right, one of the L emblems - but not the entire model - will be mirrored.
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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, if Yoshi stands very close to the large fruit in Yoshi Star Galaxy when eating it (top left), he can jump into the Launch Star that appears after with the fruit still in his mouth, resulting in him keeping his eating model for the Launch Star cutscene.
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A small detail in Mario Kart 8/Deluxe that is very hard to see in-game: while other tires are branded with "Mario Kart" or "Mario Motors", the Cushion Tires are branded with "Lemmy's", a reference to both the Lemmy's Tire Service signs on many tracks and to his circus aesthetic.
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The 1987 "Detective Mario" manga features a character called Fake Luigi, who wears a cap with the letter "L" rotated 45 degrees to the left, making it appear like a "V". This instance of the idea of the evil counterpart with the rotated emblem predates Wario's debut by 5 years.
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The Korean version of Super Paper Mario, released 2 years after the Japanese and US versions, contains unique unused rooms that include sprites of 5 cat characters of different art styles and sizes. Here are the graphics extracted in the respective highest available resolutions.
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If an online player in Mario Kart Wii is using a heavy male Mii wearing the Outfit A, while riding either the Wario Bike, Shooting Star or Phantom vehicles, the Mii will be displayed as stuck in a T-pose. No other character/outfit/vehicle combinations will result in this glitch.
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