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In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a glitch can enable immense amounts of 1-Ups to be gained extremely quickly through the collaboration of two players.
If two players enter a level with Yoshis and Koopa Troopas, then have each Yoshi eat a Koopa Troopa and keep it in its mouth, and finally perform a simultaneous Ground Pound (an ability exclusive to multiplayer mode), the Koopa Troopas inside the Yoshi’s mouths will become glitched.
Retrieving their shells and then performing a downward spin attack in propeller form while holding them, as seen in the footage, will cause large amounts of 1-Ups to be gained.
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In Mario Party 8, whenever a solo player loses a Challenge Minigame, the character simply sulks and no text is displayed. The game’s files, however, contain a texture of text reading “Lose” that was intended to be displayed during this.
It is possible this was removed due to seeming like it was “rubbing in” the loss too much, as the player would already be aware of it just by the character’s reaction.
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A new and relatively simple glitch has been discovered in Super Mario World only in October 2024, 34 years after its release. As shown in the footage, if Yoshi eats a Cape Feather that is offscreen at the moment Mario touches the goal, Mario’s movement will be frozen during the celebration cutscene.
The footage demonstrates some properties of the state, such as enemies being frozen as well, through the usage of a custom level. Note that the state is identical in the unmodified game.
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Due to being created by the same development studio (GameFreak) and sharing a composer (Junichi Masuda), Pokémon Red and Blue appears to reference a musical theme from the Japan-only Mario & Wario for the Super Famicom, released 3 years prior.
From 0 to 11 seconds in the audio track, the Route 24/25 theme from Pokémon Red and Blue plays. After this, the Balloon Bridge (World 7) theme from Mario & Wario plays.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, if Mario hovers as close as possible to the ground as Flying Mario in the Comet Observatory, it is possible for the camera to clip into him and show the inside of his head, as seen in the footage.
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In Super Mario 64, the wind in Tiny-Huge Island can be used to position Mario against the bottom of an outcropping so that Mario is continuously being blown against the rock.
While visually, this appears to be a simple animation loop with nothing changing, internally, Mario keeps building up speed. After being stuck in that spot for a long time and gaining enough speed as shown on top of the screen, Mario will finally achieve a high enough speed to clip through the rock and end up on the other side of the island.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, a well-known trick called “rocket storage” allows Mario to store and stack Rocket Nozzle charges so that all the vertical momentum generated by them is released at once whenever he walks off a ledge. By storing a few dozen Rocket Nozzle charges, Mario can be made to shoot up so high into the sky that he will be above the sun and all of Isle Delfino will be so far below him that it will no longer even be rendered.
However, the question arises as to what would happen if Mario were to reach the maximum vertical momentum possible. Each instance of rocket storage adds 170 to a specific value in memory that represents that momentum. The value is a floating-point number (a type of memory that can represent very small and very large numbers), which have a special largest value defined internally as “infinity”.
Reaching infinity momentum has a very disappointing result of Mario simply becoming stuck in mid-air with his arms out, as seen in the screenshot. This is due to his next intended position being infinitely far away, and the game having a failsafe for not putting Mario at a position infinitely many units away (though evidently not for reaching that momentum in the first place), making him stuck in place forever instead.
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