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In Super Paper Mario, the Dark Spania enemy has a unique oversight where it is coded to have a 5% chance to drop an item upon defeat, but its item drop list being empty. As such, it has a 95% chance of not dropping anything, and a 5% chance of dropping nothing.
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In Super Mario 64, whenever Mario touches Bowser's tail, this is stored until the next time the player presses B. If Mario is anywhere close to Bowser at that time (even in front of him), this will cause Bowser's tail to teleport into Mario's hands, making the battle easier.
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A Mexican billboard ad for Energizer batteries displayed all Wii Remote inputs needed to beat Super Mario Galaxy 2 from start to finish (each dot represents one input, zoomed-in version in top right) to show how all of this was accomplished using only one pair of batteries.
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Unlicensed Yoshi-branded apple-scented dish soap from Israel.
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Mario Kart: Super Circuit is chronologically the last time Toad has ever had legs in official media, instead of having his feet connect directly to his torso. However, the only evidence of this comes from extremely low-resolution artwork (legs circled).
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Although Toad has no knees due to his feet connecting directly to his torso, his 3D model includes fully functional knee bones that deform his torso when bent, as well as a non-functional tail bone.
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1982 officially licensed Donkey Kong plush, the earliest Donkey Kong arcade plush and thus by extension the first licensed plush toy in the Mario franchise.
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In Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Donkey Kong's face is not actually animated. Instead of moving the polygons in his face at runtime, the model simply has 18 pre-modeled "faceplates" loaded at all times, which it switches between to simulate animation.
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In Super Mario World, Mario has special tilted sprites that are visible for one frame when he is running up a Triangle Block.
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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.
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Mario Kart Tour's low-polygon models, used for racers far away from the camera, have the lowest-resolution facial textures of all 3D Mario games to date, at 10x10 pixels.
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The reason Frantic Factory in Donkey Kong 64 is difficult to navigate is because it is non-Euclidean. Although it is one giant room, it utilizes portals, masked as regular passages, to connect remote locations. E.g. climbing down from the red circle ends up at the green circle.
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Long-time readers of Supper Mario Broth may know about my search for "Big Yoshi", an extremely rare render of a Yoshi from Super Mario RPG. I have written an in-depth article about it here: patreon.com/posts/search-f… , which includes a new high-quality scan provided by @MDragmire.
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Touching the axe in the final level of the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. with 0 units on the timer makes it roll over to 999 units, which results in an awkward scene of Peach ignoring Mario for 18 seconds after saving her as the timer counts down.
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Officially licensed 2021 Boo ear headband in the style of the classic Mickey Mouse ear headband, available at the Super Nintendo World theme park in Japan.
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Due to a bug in Version 2.0 of Super Mario Maker 2, objects stacked on a Spike are weightless. A Spike weighs as much as a Fire Flower, and behaves correctly when stacked on other objects, but if it is on the bottom of the stack, the entire stack weighs as much as one Spike.
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Nintendo imposes very strict guidelines on licensees in terms of what Mario is allowed to do in artwork. However, a look at their own employee training manual reveals they do not adhere to these guidelines themselves.
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Bowser's Brother, also known as Blue Bowser, is a mysterious character that originated as a graphical glitch in Super Mario Bros. and was made into a distinct character in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. Below is the entirety of official information available regarding him.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, if Yoshi falls down while touching a wall and Mario rides on him while still next to the wall, their movement speeds will desync. Mario will bounce very quickly while Yoshi will move very slowly.
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In nearly all regions, the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate box art contains Yoshi. However, to comply with German ratings mark guidelines, he was removed completely from the German version. This is the only version that sacrificed a character instead of simply repositioning the cast.
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In Super Mario 64 DS, if Mario runs towards a certain tree outside Peach's Castle at a specific angle, he will clip through the floor. Sliding down will deposit Mario below the ground, from where he can swim out of bounds, and continue swimming in any direction forever.
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Super Mario Odyssey suggests that the Ground Pound symbol originates with the lost ancient civilization of the Lost Kingdom. As the symbol is most prominent in the Super Mario Galaxy games, this implies they moved to space. Speculation over which species it could be is included.
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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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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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The code of Mario Kart DS contains ASCII artwork of the Small Mario sprite from Super Mario Bros., constructed using four different byte values standing for different colors. The original sprite has been superimposed over the relevant part of the code for demonstration.
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