In Super Mario Bros. 2, the underground music track features a woodblock instrument as the percussion. Interestingly, the game’s data contains a full DPCM sample of the woodblock that includes reverb at the end; however, in-game the sample is cropped so that no reverb is audible.

The track in this post restores the full sample to provide a slightly richer sound due to the reverb in the percussion. It is unknown why the sample is cut off in-game, as doing it provides no benefit to performance. In addition, the full sample also fits the underground feel more due to simulating naturally occurring reverb in caves.

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It is the first in a new series of Supper Mario Broth streams!

Join me on the Supper Mario Broth Twitch channel as I analyze and provide obscure information about Super Mario Odyssey!

In the original SNES version of Super Mario RPG, a glitch allows Mario to walk on water as though it were land.

In this room of the Sunken Ship, if Mario jumps on a Mr. Kipper enemy while it is on top of the barrels and in a specific frame of its animation, Mario will be walking on water when the battle ends.

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Promotional Mario display used at select Best Buy stores in the mid-1990s.

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In the Bowser’s Tower mode of Mario Party: Island Tour, the player is challenged by “bubble clones” of other playable characters. These are completely silent in-game.

However, unused sound files for Bubble Mario exist in the game’s files, which are regular Mario’s voice clips with a heavy distortion effect. It is likely that the developers tested bubble clones having voices using Bubble Mario before deciding against the idea.

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In the “Bound of Music” minigame in Mario Party 5, if one of the players hits a block on the very last possible frame under specific circumstances, the block will not count for that character’s score despite appearing in the tally at the end of the game.

Top: here, Wario hits the block and the game is declared a draw despite him being shown to have 1 block while Waluigi has 0.

Bottom: here, Waluigi hits the block and the game declares Wario the winner despite showing that they both have 1 block.

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Captioned image with a type of “bad luck” joke that would be typically posted as an image macro with Impact font, but presented in a more stylized manner instead, posted on Nintendo’s official Australian Facebook account in 2017 to promote Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

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Extremely smooth Goomba model leaked from the internal files of the Super Nintendo World theme park displays.

Based on the extremely high quality of the model, it is possible that this is in fact the base model for official art renders of Goombas (which receive different textures and post-processing effects depending on the game in question).

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While the vast majority of GameCube and Wii games use generic screens without any particular effort put into their presentation for their “disk read error” messages (due to only very few players ever encountering them), Donkey Konga inserts a humorous reference to the original Donkey Kong arcade into its disk read error.

The bottom of the screen includes Donkey Kong’s defeated sprite from the victory animation of the 100m level of the arcade.

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WarioWare: D.I.Y. contains some sample comics that were completely replaced in non-Japanese versions of the game, instead of being translated. One of them is this comic about a ghost exchange student, which was replaced with an unrelated comic about a smooth cactus.

Note that the English translation here is created by a dataminer; the original comic is only available in Japanese. It is possible that the comic was not used for Western audiences due to depicting a ghost with a triangle headband and surrounded by hitodama (ghost flames), both specific to Japanese cultural depictions of spirits. However, the substance of the joke itself (a ghost being upset due to receiving a warm welcome instead of people being scared) is still understandable to worldwide audiences.

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