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Promotional photo of Nintendo of America founder and former president Minoru Arakawa playing the Game Boy on a chair with a Mario decoration.
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One official Mario Kart DS render features characters driving around a globe. For an unknown reason, Yoshi's model in this render has a much smaller nose than in other artwork for the game.
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Near the lighthouse in Delfino Plaza in Super Mario Sunshine, there is an alcove blocked with goop that requires Yoshi to clear. Going into first-person view in the alcove reveals that due to a texture error, it is lined with many tiny doors and windows.
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In Super Mario 64 DS, getting crushed while holding a coin box while on low health will both kill the character and restore some health through the coins. This traps the character indefinitely in a state of simultaneously being dead and alive, requiring the game to be reset.
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The internal names used for the characters in the code of Mario Kart 64. Of particular interest is Luigi being called "Luizi"; this game is the only instance of him being referred to with this spelling.
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A pre-release screenshot of the Waluigi Stadium track in Mario Kart: Double Dash shows that in that version, the audience consisted of countless Marios, Luigis, Warios and Waluigis. This was removed in the finished game, likely due to these characters being supposedly unique.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the temporary follower characters are entirely interchangeable. When brought to an event, a wrong follower will simply act like the correct one without crashing the game. Here are the Yoshi Egg acting as Frankly and Punio acting as Flavio.
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Two of the Super Mario Odyssey bosses are supposed to be grotesque mechanical versions of regular enemies. This is obvious with the Mechawiggler; however, Torkdrift's Japanese name indicates it is a mechanical version of a Spindrift enemy from Super Mario 64.
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In the data of Yoshi's Island, there are two alternate unused versions of Yoshi with a full mouth (left: used in game, middle and right: unused). It is unknown if these were simply early graphics or remnants of a mechanic where Yoshi could eat much larger objects than usual.
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When Mario or Luigi get caught in a Tweester tornado in Super Mario Galaxy, they assume special models that simulate rapid arm rotation by using two extra arms. Here are the models extracted from the game's data.
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The Nintendo Switch version of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker contains an unused model called "Stalker", which depicts a simplistic cube-shaped creature holding a knife. This was likely a test version of an enemy that was planned to be added to the Nintendo Switch port.
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Below are the versions of Mario's and Luigi's signatures that are currently closest to being official. Mario's signature was shown in a trailer for Mario Tennis Aces. Luigi's signature was seen on an item in Paper Mario.
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In 2004, to promote the release of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo of America donated 1000 doors to nonprofit homebuilding organization Habitat for Humanity.
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In Super Mario 64, the middle Tiny-Huge Island painting is merely decorative. However, in Super Mario 64 DS, looking at it from the side reveals that it is covering a white square used internally by warp paintings, suggesting it was planned to be a warp painting at some point.
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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, if Mario or Luigi are riding Yoshi and enter first-person view, there will be a single frame after returning from first-person view where their hands and most of their faces are not rendered.
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In the code of Super Mario Sunshine, there is unused functionality for a "perpetually goop-covered Mario", where Mario is completely covered in goop and has narrowed eyes. No amount of water can wash off this goop. In areas without goop, Mario assumes a black and white texture.
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In Super Mario World, the controllable coin plays the P-Switch music when it is active. However, if Yoshi eats the coin while it is still active, the P-Switch music will continue playing indefinitely instead of running out as usual.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Goombella often has special tattle messages for NPCs in extraordinary circumstances. However, sometimes she does not; here, when Shellshock eats the poisoned cake in Chapter 3, Goombella says he "seems to be totally on top of his game".
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In Super Mario 64, if Mario destroys all bombs in a Bowser battle by jumping into them, Bowser will become essentially invincible as there will be no way left to harm him, requiring Mario to either die or exit the course. This was fixed in the DS version, where the bombs respawn.
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Donkey Kong Land uses a reference to the British rock band Pink Floyd as an integrity check. Four "PFLOYD" strings are found in the code. The game checks if all four are present when the game runs; if they are not, the save files are deleted.
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One of the inserts used by Nintendo Power to remind subscribers of their subscriptions expiring soon used a modified Super Mario 64 render depicting Mario torn in half.
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In Luigi's Mansion, if Luigi is interrupted while picking up an item by a call from E. Gadd, instead of turning around, he will morph between his picking-up animation (left) and the call answering animation (right) by turning inside-out.
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During a brief segment of the E3 2014 Nintendo Treehouse stream, prototype Yoshi designs for Yoshi's Woolly World were shown. Note that the sheep-like "Woolly Yoshi" (right) was supposed to not be a transformation, but a concept for the regular Yoshi design.
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The eye texture used for Mario and Luigi in Luigi's Mansion 3 provides the most detailed view of their eyes to date. The texture's resolution is higher than all previous depictions of their eyes both in games and in official artwork.
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With the upcoming release of Paper Mario: The Origami King, I am adopting a special spoiler policy for the game, where I will cover certain areas of the game progressively over time. I sincerely hope that I am able to avoid spoiling the game for as many of my readers as possible.
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