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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, some enemies like Magikoopas and Wizzerds are able to create copies of themselves that look identical to the originals. The usual way to find out which one is the original is to attack all enemies with an area attack, which will disperse the copies.
However, there is an obscure alternate way to find out which one is the original: Goombella is somehow magically able to sense the difference when using her Tattle ability.
Left: tattling a copy of a Magikoopa.
Right: tattling the original Magikoopa.
While this might seem useless due to any normal attack also dispersing the copy and providing essentially the same information, there is one difference: attacking a copy counts as failing the attack and gains no Star Power, while Tattling a copy is a successful attack that does gain Star Power. This can make the option to Tattle the enemies marginally more useful in certain circumstances.
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A well-known unused object found in the files of Super Mario 64 is the Yellow Switch. The footage above shows its functionality once it is restored into the game.
Just like the Wing Cap, Metal Cap and Vanish Cap Switches, the Yellow Switch turns blocks of a certain color from translucent and non-interactive into solid and interactive. However, the Yellow Switch’s function is to grant interactivity to regular ! Blocks, which are already solid to begin with in the finished game.
Interestingly, the functionality is broken by default in the finished game, so that regular ! Blocks do not respond to it without being modified. It uses entry number 4 in the list of unlockable blocks, which is only three entries long.
Remarkably, entry 4 on the list of all possible ! Block contents (which starts off the same as the unlockable list, but continues with yellow ! Block contents, and is stored elsewhere in the data) is rideable Koopa Shells, so it is theorized that this was what was originally intended to be unlocked with that switch.
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In Super Mario Maker 2, if a Yoshi is positioned on a Note Block above rising lava in the manner depicted in the footage, a glitch will occur whereby he will shoot up high into the air and then glide down very slowly upon contact with the lava.
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Top: when selecting a board in Mario Party 2, Toad appears to briefly leave the screen as the camera shows the pipe appearing, before walking back in and changing costumes.
Bottom: however, zooming out the camera during this reveals that these are actually two completely different Toads. The Toad from the main menu simply stays behind, while a new Toad spawns and pretends to be the same Toad from before.
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An internal system used by Nintendo of America in the late 1990s was the “Manufacturer’s Authorized Returns Information Online” system, or “MARIO system”.
No details about its operation are known, but it is notable that Nintendo made efforts to give whimsical names even to parts of their operation that had no relation to the public and would not be appreciated by an audience.
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Top row: both Raccoon Mario (left) and Tanooki Mario (right) have distinct ringed tails. In Japanese, Raccoon Mario is called しっぽマリオ (Tail Mario), while Tanooki Mario is called the same, referencing the tanuki, or Japanese raccoon dog (an animal visually similar yet unrelated to the raccoon).
Middle: a raccoon. Note the ringed tail.
Bottom: a tanuki. Note the lack of rings on the tail.
Curiously, it appears that despite the original Japanese name of Raccoon Mario not referencing raccoons at all, his tail was in fact based on a raccoon tail instead of a tanuki tail. In addition, this also means that Tanooki Mario is not entirely based on a tanuki, and instead mixes the traits of both animals.
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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 thorougly explore, provide obscure facts on, and analyze the meaning behind indie cult classic Yume Nikki!