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The 1986 Japanese choose-your-own-adventure book "Another Romance of Super Mario Bros." is unique in that a license was obtained only for Mario himself, but not for any other elements of the franchise; leading to him starring in a story with original medieval fantasy characters.
877
Super Mario Galaxy contains an unused early model for a Luma, appearing similar to a red Power Star. Below is the model inserted into various official artwork to show what the series would have looked like if it had kept that design.
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Unused Yoshi colors found in the data of Super Mario Sunshine. While the greyish-blue and greyish-purple Yoshis spit water like the temporary green Yoshi state that all Yoshis turn into when they run out of juice, the grey Yoshi on the right spits a unique brown liquid.
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As discovered by Twitter user @kikaim, a Chain Chomp on the cover of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions only has teeth on one side of its mouth. I have created a mock-up of what this Chain Chomp would look like in 3D.
880
At the 1994 European Computer Trade Show, Silicon Graphics presented "Project Reality", hardware that would later be used inside the Nintendo 64. One of the demos shown was a first-person perspective walk through a realistic town populated with cutouts of Nintendo characters.
881
During battles in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, audience members sometimes throw items at Mario. Most of these are random, but one is very specific: if Mario fails a hammer attack, the Hammer Bros. in the audience will show their disdain by throwing their hammers at him.
882
A rare misprint of the North American version of Super Mario World exists where the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality on the label is mirrored, resulting in a "obnɘɈniИ" logo.
883
Normally, the items in the Present Room in Mario Party 4 have properly written descriptions. However, the Party Star trophy, obtained by 100%ing the game, has only uncapitalized placeholder text. This is likely due to it being so hard to obtain it was overlooked during testing.
884
In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, the in-battle playable Bowser is a heavy modified Luigi, still using some of Luigi's attributes. This can be seen if Bowser enters battle against Mario/Luigi-exclusive enemies by hacking; their attacks are green as though aiming at Luigi.
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Underside of a Nintendo Switch analog stick (extracted from a Joy-Con) received back from Nintendo of America after refurbishing. These are marked with a stamp of Mario wearing a bow tie after being repaired to distinguish them from units that have not been faulty in the past.
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Official artwork of Wario with and without his mustache from Nintendo of Japan's website for Wario Land 2. The Japanese release included mustache-shaped stickers; the website jokes that Wario does not actually have a mustache and is using the enclosed stickers to fake having one.
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Real-life recreations of the different types of cookies from Yoshi's Cookie, seen in the Japan-only "With Yoshi", a book about Yoshi games and merchandise.
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Artwork of Ashley asking "Why?" from the Japanese version of Nintendo Badge Arcade.
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2012 print ad for a now-defunct Tunisian copyright protection organization.
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Steamer is a talking locomotive that first appeared in Mario Party 2 and had a string of minor appearances lasting until Hudson Soft's final Mario Party game, Mario Party DS. With the dissolution of Hudson Soft, it is unlikely Steamer will ever be seen again.
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In Super Paper Mario, Nastasia has opaque glasses that hide her eyes. Removing the glasses reveals that she does not normally have eyes, except for a few brief cutscenes. By putting the cutscene eye texture back onto her model, we can restore her eyes and see her original design.
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In Paper Mario, if glitches are used to bring Bow, Watt, Sushie or Lakilester to meet Luigi in the first chapters of the game, then upon meeting Luigi, they will repeat his line "I wonder what my brother Mario is doing right now..." back to him, appearing to mock him.
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Last year, I attempted to get a closer look at the unique Snailicorn enemy from New Super Mario Bros. by increasing the game's internal resolution. Now, thanks to Models Resource member "lemurboy12", the model has been extracted, allowing us to finally see it from all sides.
894
In Super Mario World, normally a stomped Galoomba will recover and stand up after 8 seconds. However, if the Galoomba is taken through a pipe, its struggle animation will be much faster and it will never get up, no matter how much time passes.
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While this is almost certainly only a remarkable coincidence, when Mario enters Peach's Castle in Super Mario 64 from the rear courtyard, his cap is aligned pixel-perfectly with the hallway in a way that would be impossible if he or the camera were not in those precise positions.
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In Paper Mario: Color Splash, Mario restores color to colorless NPCs as part of the story. However, there is unused code for black paint, which drains their colors instead. As doing that is considered evil in that universe, this could hint at a scrapped "villainous Mario route".
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Due to sprites in character models in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door being layered with small amounts of empty space between them, with precise positioning Mario can hit NPCs and party members with his hammer in such a way that it passes between their individual layers.
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In the Mario Party 4 minigame Mushroom Medic, if Toad is poisoned and left untreated, he will collapse on the floor (upper left). However, moving the camera reveals that he is smiling after collapsing (right), despite looking panicked when he is poisoned (lower left).
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Despite being a 15-story building, the Last Resort hotel from Luigi's Mansion 3 can only accommodate 33 guests at once. The surprisingly small number is due to most floors containing no guest rooms; a detailed breakdown can be found in the image below.
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In Paper Mario, with frame-perfect movement, it is possible for Mario to activate a cutscene with Tubba Blubba slightly before he is supposed to, causing Tubba Blubba to appear to produce a snot bubble from the bottom part of his body. Details in image.
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