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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The wall texture for Cool, Cool Mountain in Super Mario 64 is actually a very blurry image of ripples on the surface of water, taken from a texture library CD.
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In the “Just My Type” microgame in WarioWare: Move It!, the player needs to spell a word in order to enter it into a browser search bar. When the word is spelled correctly, a brief victory scene plays where the “search results” are shown, which are a column of heavily blurred video thumbnails.
However, to the side of the thumbnails is one clearly visible ad graphic. There are nine different banners, of which one is chosen randomly, depicting characters from other microgames accompanied by gibberish text. Here are all the ad banners, extracted from the game’s files.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, dialogue exists for Luigi during the “save Luigi” missions that is extremely unlikely to encounter by chance.
If Mario somehow manages to save Luigi but then falls into a black hole before collecting the Power Star, Luigi will mention that he heard a scream after Mario restarts the level and saves him again. Since the star spawns directly next to Luigi, the player would need to actively ignore it and do something else for this scenario to occur.
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In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, a rare but severe glitch may occur whereby Luigi will enter a state where he looks like he is carrying something, by raising his arms over his head, but is not actually holding an object.
In this state, Luigi will not let Mario go into certain areas, by refusing to walk and instead calling for Mario to return as seen in the footage. As Luigi cannot “drop” the object or “pass it on” to Mario since he is not actually carrying anything, the only way to fix this state is to reset the game.
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There have been two occasions on which Bowser’s airship has been shown to possess a large mechanical hand attached to a series of articulated pipes: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (top) and New Super Mario Bros. U/Luigi U/Deluxe (bottom).
Curiously, in both of these instances, the ship is left-handed. Whether this is a coincidence, or if the later example is a reference to the former, or if both of them are left-handed on purpose for some specific other reason, is unknown.
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In the first Super Mario Maker, the physics of Super Mushrooms and Cape Feathers change if they emerge out of a vertical pipe, fall down onto a trampoline, and finally are eaten and spat out by Yoshi. The Cape Feather will behave like a Super Mushroom and slide along the ground, while the Super Mushroom will simply stay in place.
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In Starshine Beach Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2, there is an invisible “produce a splash effect” field between the starting planet and the main planet. It is only meant to be accessed via a Launch Star to create a few splashes as Mario flies through.
If glitches are used to access the field without the Launch Star, such as by performing an infinite Yoshi flutter jump, it is revealed that it creates a new splash effect every frame that it is touched. As long as Mario and Yoshi are inside the field, they will be completely surrounded by bubbles as shown in the screenshot.
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An official 2024 Japanese art book for the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG featured two groups of renders of the playable characters: a standing one on the front cover and a posing one on the inside cover.
The animation above flips between scans of the two pages.
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