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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Artwork used for an officially licensed 1995 Yoshi’s Island jigsaw puzzle from Japan.
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Commemorative 1991 phone card (as an insert in an egg-shaped greeting card) depicting a cross-promotion between the Japanese Kirin Lemon soft drink and Super Mario World.
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The Luigi Ladder is a technique used in Super Smash Bros. Melee (though possible to perform to varying degrees in most games in the series) whereby two Luigis perform their Super Jump Punch on each other with precise timing. Crucially, they must be positioned in such a way that the attacks do not land with their sweetspot, and instead barely connect.
Performing it correctly in this manner results in the Luigis being able to rise up indefinitely, revealing some uncommonly seen inner workings of the game’s engine. While it may normally be assumed that rising up too far above the stage would result in a KO since that is what usually happens in regular gameplay (with characters being launched upward), the reality is that a KO above the upper blast line only occurs when an attack causes knockback.
Since the non-sweetspot Super Jump Punch does not actually cause knockback, the Luigis are able to pass the upper blast line and continue rising indefinitely. The technique is banned in tournament play since a team of two Luigis with friendly fire turned on could potentially use it to rise above the stage and become utterly impossible to hit for the rest of the match, giving them an unfair advantage.
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In Super Mario 64, causing a star to spawn while dying will cause the game to become unplayable, locking the view in the irregularly swaying “death camera” mode while never returning control back to the player or advancing to the next scene.
While this is unlikely to happen with regular mission stars, it is relatively easy to cause this to occur by complete accident when collecting the final coin for a 100-coin star, as seen in the footage.
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The Mario Kart games make extensive use of low-quality models that replace racers when they are far away from the camera to be able to render many objects at once without framerate drops. However, normally, whenever a model is simplified, the textures being applied to it do not change outside of being replaced with a lower-resolution version.
In Mario Kart: Double Dash, an exception to this occurs with Daisy’s crown. In her low-quality version, the crown texture disappears entirely and her crown uses her hair texture, appearing to be a tiny brown hat.
Note that this applies only to Daisy; Peach’s crown is still intact even in her low-quality model.
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Mario Factory was a program available for the Game Processor, a Super Famicom development kit, in 1994. It was used to simplify the process of creating games using a unified graphical interface, similar to later programs like GameMaker.
Due to only being available to Super Famicom developers and subject to non-disclosure agreements, material about Mario Factory is extremely scarce and consists mostly of patent documents and a few images that were published. One of these is featured in this post, showing the capabilities of the program.
Zooming in on the third “graphics” screenshot reveals that the designer is in the middle of giving Mario a wide, flat yellow hat.
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A variety of very glitched behaviors can be observed with Buzzy Beetles walking on Brick Blocks in the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros.
Left: by jumping into blocks in World 4-2 (on the second playthrough so the Goombas turn into Buzzy Beetles) at a precise angle, Mario can clip into the blocks and destroy one of them to make a small pit. Trapping a Buzzy Beetle in it, stomping it a few times, and then hitting it from below again will make it assume a glitched state.
Right: the glitched state will cause the shell to move slowly while upside-down, but stop at ledges. Note that the property of stopping at ledges doesn’t actually exist in any of the game’s regular entities; all of them either walk off ledges or turn around and walk in the other direction, so the glitch manages to create a completely new behavior by chance. In addition, the shell can be hit infinitely many times from below for points.
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