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Top: illustration in a 2003 issue of the Japanese Nintendo Dream magazine, reimagining one of the murals from the intro to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with Mario characters instead, swapping Link for Mario, Epona for Yoshi, Ganon for Bowser and the Hylians for Toads as well as Hyrule Castle for Peach’s Castle and the Triforce of Courage for a Power Star.
Bottom: the original mural as extracted from the game’s files, for reference.
Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Source: ND (Japan), Issue 85, 2003
In the “Chain Chomp’s Bath” mission of Pianta Village in Super Mario Sunshine, the aim is to get a giant Chain Chomp into the hot spring by pulling on its chain.
However, with extremely unfortunate positioning and timing, it is possible for the last motion of the Chain Chomp before the cutscene of it landing in the hot spring to move Mario closer to itself and then cause him to clip underground by landing on him. Since this happens in a cutscene, the player cannot actually control Mario and free him from this situation as it is occurring.
After the cutscene concludes, the camera will show Mario’s silhouette out of bounds before declaring him dead, as shown in the footage.
Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: Krisuh11
Mario-themed area at the 2026 Taiwan Lantern Festival, called “Star Festival” in honor of the Star Festival from Super Mario Galaxy to promote the Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: GoNintendo
Reader-submitted comic from a 1993 issue of the Japanese Famitsu magazine, showing Mario talking to a Nipper Plant or Muncher. Mario is asking “What are you doing here, Pac-Man?” while the Nipper Plant, which has turned out to be Pac-Man on a stick, replies “It’s a part-time job.”
Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Source: Famitsu (Japan), Issue 224, 1993
It is well-known that Luigi and Peach can skip the cave segment in World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. 2 by simply jumping to the upper ledge at the end of the first area due to their special jumping abilities.
However, Super Mario Advance adds a more difficult/stylish way to reach that ledge that is also available to Mario and Toad. Due to the addition of Giant Turnips, it is possible to throw one of them at the enemies in front of the waterfall, causing it to slow down slightly. If running at full speed, this will allow the character to jump onto the turnip, and reach the ledge from there, as seen in the footage.
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The prototype version of Donkey Kong 64 has a bizarre quirk for Lanky Kong whereby he will always automatically do a backflip after performing a long jump. In the footage, only the long jumps are initiated by the player; the backflips are entirely Lanky Kong’s own doing.
This was likely removed in the finished version both to equalize the feel of the controls between the different Kongs and because the backflip serves no gameplay purpose outside of slowing the player down and potentially expose Lanky Kong to danger as he cannot be controlled during it.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, an extremely bizarre glitch may occur when clipping out of bounds during the Spewart battle in the Luncheon Kingdom, whereby Mario will oscillate while falling and finally come to a resting state in mid-air, as seen in the footage.
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