2051
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…
2052
Photo of "Toad bread" posted in 2018 on Nintendo's official Japanese LINE account.
2053
Extremely rare officially licensed 2002 Bowser plush from Spain, notable for its frizzy hair giving it a particularly disheveled appearance.
2054
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.
2055
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.
2056
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".
2057
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.
2058
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).
2059
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.
2060
Unused, corrupted animation for Bowser found in the data of Super Mario 64.
2061
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2062
In Super Mario Odyssey, the Glasses Bridge is so named due to looking like the top of a pair of glasses. However, the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book reveals that it originated when the kingdom was supposed to be filled with water, making the reflection complete the glasses.
2063
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, after Peach pulls out Toad during her neutral special move, Toad will shrink to an extremely small size before unloading. Here is a closer view at Toad at the end of the attack, visible in Peach's palm.
2064
The highest file completion percentage that can be achieved in Donkey Kong 64 is negative 124%. This is the result of the completion value becoming so large that it wraps back around to a negative value due to integer overflow. Details in image.
2065
Development files for Super Mario World contain two early Fuzzy designs that appear to have been merged to create the Fuzzy seen in the finished game.
2066
Super Smash Bros. Brawl contains an unused model of Luigi in his blue costume that is covered in unusual white segments. The unique appearance of the model is actually due to Luigi being fused with his own shadow. Details in image.
2067
This particular shot from the Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer may be a reference to a similar shot from the ending of Super Mario Galaxy.
2068
In Super Mario 64, if Mario lands precisely on the edge of the floating island in Cool, Cool Mountain, he will teleport down to the level's death barrier. As Mario is immune to death while in his "recovering from snow" animation, he will first finish it before instantly dying.
2069
In the ending of Luigi's Mansion, Mario shoots out of the vent of a machine after being restored from being trapped in a painting. To prevent his head from clipping through the vent ahead of time, it is shrunk to a fraction of its size while he is inside the machine.
2070
The Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. has unused debug functionality to replace Mario's sprite with a blue rectangle reading "PLAYER". The rectangle also becomes red when Mario turns into Fire Mario.
2071
The Mario Party 4 version of the Chance Time event, Reversal of Fortune, does not normally have an explanation screen. However, one still exists in the game's data. The preview reads "NOW PRINTING" and the rules of the game are simply "Mario".
2072
In Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Cat Fuzzlers are normally fuzzy creatures (left). However, during one Cat Shine cutscene, the game briefly shows an uninitialized model for a Cat Fuzzler, which appears fuzzless (right).
2073
A 2000 Australian commercial for the Game Boy Color featured a scene where an explosion knocks the fur off Donkey Kong, revealing that his limbs are skinny underneath.
2074
In the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros., the "Bowser defeated" scene can be played at any time by setting a single byte of memory. However, manually playing it outside of castle levels only prints half of the message, reading
"THANK YO
BUT OUR PRI
ANOTHER CAS".
2075
Upon losing the Road Wario microgame in WarioWare Gold, a 3D model of Wario with realistic proportions is shown from behind, standing next to his car. By extracting the model from the game's files, we can view this Wario from the front.
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