Early concept art for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie, showing young Mario and Luigi in the process of growing their mustaches.

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In Super Mario 64, the “Stand Tall on the Four Pillars” star in Shifting Sand Land requires Mario to touch the top of each of the four pillars surrounding the pyramid. After he touches the fourth pillar, the top of the pyramid levitates while spinning rapidly and then explodes.

Normally, this happens too quickly for the player to be able to interact with the top of the pyramid before it explodes. However, if the player uses a Koopa Shell for this task, Mario can in fact quickly jump towards the pyramid to surf towards the top.

This reveals that surprisingly, the top still has collision while spinning, despite this object clearly not being intended to be interacted with in this state. This can lead to the humorous scenario shown in the footage: Mario becomes caught on a corner of the spinning top and finally thrown directly onto the “Shining Atop the Pyramid” star, collecting it and exiting the level despite the player’s actual aim being to enter the hole left behind by the top exploding.

As such, caution must be exercised to not approach the top before it explodes.

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Supper Mario Broth: A Primer

If somebody ever asks you: “What is Supper Mario Broth?”, just show them this video.

Thank you all, for everything. With your incredible support, Supper Mario Broth will continue bigger and better than ever before. I hope I can make you proud for believing in me. Now, I will get to work.

My thank you message and plans for the near future. I welcome any suggestions on what new kinds of content you would like to see from Supper Mario Broth!

Thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart. Tumblr is a special place to me since this is where Supper Mario Broth started, and although I was not the one running it in the beginning, Supper Mario Broth quickly became my identity and Tumblr became my home. I will continue posting here for as long as this site exists.

Top: a page from the 2020 “Gamer’s Edition” of the Guinness World Records. Note the column of various Luigi designs in the middle.

Bottom: zooming in on the “Super Mario 64 DS” Luigi, it becomes apparent that this Luigi is not from Super Mario 64 DS at all. Instead, it is a fan-made model of Luigi to be imported into Super Mario 64, where he does not appear.

While a legitimate unused model of Luigi made for Super Mario 64 was found in development files for the game shortly after this book was published, this fan-made model (made by a modder named CJes) has existed for years and was known for being used in hacks and fan animations, which is likely how the writers of the book found it and confused it for an official model.

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Illustration of Peach from a 1988 Super Mario manga.

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Promotional Japanese 2005 T-shirt of Sonic saying “20th HAPPY MARIO!” for the Super Mario Bros. 20th anniversary, distributed by Sega.

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Top: whenever the hour changes in the clock mode of Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros., various Yoshis appear and break the blocks forming the numbers to be replaced.

Bottom: an illustration of this from the original patent document for the device. Here, the Yoshis are represented by what appears to be simplistic llamas on wheels.

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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the default message that appears when activating an event that includes a speech bubble, but does not have associated text specified is “No messages.[English]”.

However, there is exactly one such message that is different from the others in that it consists half of a regular message and half of an error message. If glitches are used to get into the champion’s room in the Glitz Pit while still in the minor league and reserve a match, the description for the match will be “The promoter asks that you [No messages.[English]].”

Mario will then be trapped in that room forever as no one will ever come to escort him to the match.

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Mario Super Sluggers contains unused skating animations for every playable character. Here are some of the animations. It is possible that these were supposed to be used for some sort of special ice skating state for the Peach Ice Garden field.

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