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Characters in Super Mario Galaxy have low, middle and high-quality models, arranged here from left to right. Luigi's middle-quality model has multiple versions of parts of his body loaded simultaneously, resulting in his hands and mouth appearing deformed (middle).
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Huey's model in Paper Mario: Color Splash is immensely smooth, resulting in an extremely high number of polygons. In fact, it takes more processing power to display Huey than it would take to render the entirety of Super Mario 64, all at once.
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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.
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Due to being a repackaging of a SNES game on a Wii disc, the 2010 Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition has a staggering amount of unused disc space. The game uses only ca. 12 megabytes of a 4.7 gigabyte disc, leaving 99.7% of it unused.
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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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Photo of "Toad bread" posted in 2018 on Nintendo's official Japanese LINE account.
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Group photo of the actors and costume designers of the North American commercial for Super Smash Bros., taken immediately after finishing filming.
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Today, Super Mario World turns exactly one billion seconds old.
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Despite containing both a Princess Peach and a Princess Daisy piece, the licensed Super Mario Chess set does not designate either of them as a Queen piece, making them both Bishops. Instead, Luigi is chosen to be the Queen piece.
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The red coin mission of Ricco Harbor in Super Mario Sunshine is notorious for not letting Mario dismount the Blooper, making it unnecessarily hard to collect the Shine Sprite. However, there is a secret way to dismount the Blooper: by ramming it into the pool float Pianta.
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Paper Mario contains an unused message reading simply "a". Here is what it looks like when loaded in-game.
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Nintendo of America's official soundtracks for Yoshi's Story and Diddy Kong Racing were released on CDs shaped like the characters' heads. The irregular shape made them impossible to play back on many players and CD drives, with some even becoming damaged by the CDs.
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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.
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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.
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To promote the launch of Donkey Kong Country Returns in 2010, Nintendo Australia set up a life-size recreation of Donkey Kong's Banana Hoard in a harbor in Sydney.
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In Mario Party Advance, Bowser describes himself as a gamer with an IQ of 9,800.
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On higher difficulties in Mario Party Superstars, CPU players may cheat by using Custom Dice Blocks to land precisely on spaces with hidden blocks, despite this knowledge being supposedly secret from all players. Details in image.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, Princess Peach is seen in every kingdom after the end of the game, going on a trip with Tiara. The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book reveals there was a concept for Bowser to take such a trip as well, to ease his heartbreak after being rejected by Peach.
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Due to the plot of WarioWare: Get It Together involving multiple nested games within games, it is possible at one point during its story mode to play a game within a game within a game within a game within a game. Details in image.
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A 1998 issue of the German Club Nintendo magazine included a Yoshi horoscope section that depicted the twelve signs of the zodiac using edited Yoshi's Story artwork. Here are all the illustrations in isolated form.
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Original CGI animation made for a 2006 Taiwanese TV news report about the release of the Nintendo Wii. Mario bursts into a room with children playing the GameCube and kicks it away while presenting them with a Wii Remote to illustrate Nintendo's focus on the new system.
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A 1995 Yoshi's Island manga explains that the reason Yoshi cannot swallow Bumpties in-game, unlike most other enemies, is because his mother used to feed him Bumpties as a child and he never liked the taste, leading to an aversion to eating them in adulthood.
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In 2017, the German official Mario Kart Facebook account posted this image of SNES Rainbow Road from Mario Kart 8, which translates to "IN HELL THERE IS NO FIRE, ONLY COLORFUL ROADS WITHOUT RAILINGS". This marks a rare instance of official Mario material using the word "hell".
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Officially licensed 2019 Japan-exclusive Yoshi oven mitts.
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In Super Mario RPG, Mario never closes other people's doors after himself. If he opens a door and walks away, the door will remain open. The only exception is the door to his own house, which Mario will immediately close after himself.
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