A Super Mario variety blog.
Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
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Officially licensed finger puppet of the Rip Van Fish enemy from Super Mario World, from Japan.
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In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the Wonder Effect in Rolling-Ball Hall tilts the screen while spiked balls roll after the player characters. Internally, the effect has a freely adjustable angle parameter that allow for the screen to be tilted to much higher degrees than done in the finished game, as seen in the footage.
While it can be used to tilt the screen even more than 90 degrees, the game cannot properly handle the scenario where a character moving by pressing Right would move them to the left on the screen and vice versa, and prevents the character from moving entirely.
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In Super Mario World, various glitches exist that write values to unintended parts of memory, allowing extreme degrees of manipulation of the game.
While chaining many of them together can expand this ability even further and allow full control of the game so that it can be rewritten on the fly (called Arbitrary Code Manipulation, or ACE), even a single such glitch is enough to warp Mario directly to the credits and as such skip the entire game, as seen in the footage.
In the footage, Yoshi spits out an item while in a glitched state on a spinning platform, which has the effect of immediately loading the credits. As a humorous side effect, some parts of the credits, such as Mario’s walking animation, are loaded incorrectly, causing him to spin onto the scene instead of walking.
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Super Mario RPG concept art of Mario using aerosol spray cans to attack enemies.
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Ticket holder available at Super Nintendo World in Japan, showing off the different activities in the theme park.
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Unused animation of Luigi either struggling or throwing a tantrum, found in the files of Luigi’s Mansion.
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In most languages, the Colored Pencils boss in Paper Mario: The Origami King has a somewhat lengthy name he introduces himself with. In the English version, it is “Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th”.
The French translation, however, goes one step beyond the other versions and gives him an absurdly lengthy name that also forms an acronym if the individual names are taken as initials. The name is “Côme Raoul Aimé Yves Oscar Nicolas Siméon de Couleur”, where the first seven names spell out “C. R. A. Y. O. N. S. de Couleur”, French for “colored pencils”.
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Level 5-4 of Yoshi’s Island, Sluggy the Unshaven’s Fort, contains a lengthy section that is supposed to be “autoscroll-like” as it contains no floor and Yoshi is intended to use a Support Ghost, a moving platform with a specific pattern of moving and stopping, to get across.
However, Yoshi’s maneuverability in this game is actually high enough that by using frame-perfect Flutter Jumps and bouncing off some of the flying enemies, it is possible to cross the entire section without using the Support Ghost and skip having to wait for its movement.
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Officially licensed 1997 Mario and Yoshi plushes.
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