Moon: Remix RPG Adventure is a 1997 game for the PlayStation (later released for the Nintendo Switch in 2020), developed by Love-de-Lic, a studio made up of former Square employees, including those who worked on Super Mario RPG. As such, it includes an overt Super Mario RPG reference in the form of the character Noge, who is a wooden doll. Noge’s design and name are a reference to Geno from Super Mario RPG.

I have previously posted about a reference to Super Mario RPG hidden in Noge’s official art, being a drawing of Belome. However, there is another such reference in the game itself. A hidden Easter egg scene occurs if the player is inside Noge’s room in the early morning, at the moment Noge would wake up.

It turns out that the way he wakes up is by a series of toys creating a small Rube Goldberg machine to press the button on his alarm clock. During the chain reaction, a toy highly resembling Mario falls out of a car (left side of the screen in the footage), further referencing Super Mario RPG. Note that the toy is absent if the player is not in the room during that exact moment and walks in afterward.

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Officially licensed 1999 Italian Toad figurine.

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Unused “climactic transformation” animatronic from the production of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie. In a planned scene, Koopa was supposed to turn from humanoid into this creature for a final confrontation with Mario. While the animatronic was finished, the scene was never filmed.

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Gameplay music for the “underwater” level (the only surviving functional level) of “Super Yoshi”, a cancelled version of the puzzle game Yoshi (originally for the NES) that was developed for the SNES, recovered in 2024.

Unlike the original NES (and Game Boy) versions, this game was intended to change the falling enemies to suit the level theme. Another theme, “forest”, is known to exist and assets related to it are present in the data, but it is not functional.

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Unique artwork found on an officially licensed 1990 Super Mario Bros. mylar balloon.

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Unused “laugh at Mario’s misfortune” animation for Grodus, found in the files of the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

Normally, regular enemies have a unique laugh animation whenever a negative stage event happens to Mario, such as a bucket falling on him. While Grodus does not laugh when this happens in-game, this unused animation intended for this scenario is included with his files.

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In Level 2-1 of Yoshi’s Island, there is a lengthy autoscrolling section with falling rectangular rocks. If the player completes this section, then enters a bonus room after reaching the top and immediately exits the bonus room and goes back to the rocks, the scenario in the footage can be seen.

All the rocks from the autoscrolling segment spawn at once, leading to severe lag and both graphical and gameplay glitches, such as causing a piece of the wall to disappear, as seen at the end of the footage.

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Concept art for a Donkey Kong game called “Freedom”, pitched to Nintendo by Vicarious Visions (developer of Skylanders: SuperChargers, which contained Donkey Kong and Bowser) in 2015. The game was supposed to be an open-world Donkey Kong platformer.

Despite receiving interest from Nintendo, Vicarious Visions’ parent company Activision cancelled all work on the project in 2016.

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Set of officially licensed keychains of Kinopio-kun, the former green Toad mascot of Nintendo’s official Japanese LINE account.

In 2021, Nintendo announced that while the account would continue operation, Kinopio-kun would be retired. He has not been seen in any official material since.

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