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Top: the Star List menu in Super Mario Galaxy 2.
Bottom: the internal layout files for the game contain placeholder text for many elements that have no associated text in-game whatsoever, with some text being very bizarre. The placeholder text for the star icons in the Star List is “77eOOO777nnn7e7nnn7e7OOn 7eOO 77OO KeOO” in all languages.
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In Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, a rare glitch may occur during a battle against a group of Paper Spear Guys whereby they will encircle the plumbers, but then proceed to not attack and simply wait forever. As the player has no options to perform any input outside of making the plumbers jump, the game must be reset to continue playing.
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Box art for an officially licensed Super Mario Kart board game from Japan, featuring rare official artwork of the cast celebrating. This artwork can only be found on one other piece of merchandise, being a sliding puzzle, and this instance is the only one where the artwork is not broken up by the dividing lines of the puzzle pieces.
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A particular controller input widely used for a glitch in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (and other 3D Zelda game) speedrunning surprisingly also results in glitched behavior in Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury.
The input is known as the “ESS position”, named after the Extended Superslide, the glitch it is most commonly used for. It requires holding the analog stick precisely just outside the dead zone (the zone near the middle of the joystick where input is not registered as movement) tilted in the direction opposite the one Link is facing. The top image shows the input as detected by the software.
If this input is performed in the exact same way in Bowser’s Fury while Mario is swimming, he will swim backwards for as long as the stick is tilted in the ESS position.
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An extremely bizarre glitch that was possible at launch in Super Mario Maker 2, but has been since patched, is the “Extremely Wide Thwomp” glitch.
For that, Mario needed to perform a Ground Pound with a Big Goomba’s Shoe into the Moon, with a Big Thwomp loading in at the same time Mario touched the Moon. If performed correctly, the Big Thwomp would be stretched so wide that it would appear as a nearly unrecognizable collection of rectangular pixels.
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In Diddy Kong Racing, a rare “anti-gravity tree” glitch may occur in the Tricky Challenge boss track whereby they imbue the player character with extreme upwards momentum upon collision.
As seen in the footage, Conker acts like he is being slowly lifted into the air for several seconds before regular gravity resumes.
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Development files for Yoshi’s Island contain an early bonus minigame, which appears to be an early version of the “Drawing Lots” minigame with lives as reward instead of items.
However, the minigame is highly unfair and has only a 1/6 chance of a positive outcome (doubling the player’s lives), 1/3 chance of a neutral outcome (no lives lost or gained) and ½ chance of losing lives.
Most notably, one of the options will take away all of the player’s extra lives, leaving 0 on the counter (translating to a single life left and the next death being a Game Over). Note all the lives disappearing from the counter in the top right corner. This was almost certainly removed due to being excessively punishing.
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