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In Level 4-Ghost House of New Super Mario Bros., the large Balloon Boo enemies appear. One area contains two of them, one in a lower room and one in an upper room. The upper room can be reached from the lower one via a pipe, and the lower one from the upper one via a door.
With extremely unfortunate timing, it is possible to leave the lower room while a Balloon Boo is directly overlapping the door leading back to that room. The game will save its position, so that when Mario takes the door back, he will walk directly into the Boo and die instantly, as seen in the footage.
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Yoshi growing animations extracted from “Super Yoshi”, a cancelled version of the puzzle game Yoshi (originally for the NES) that was developed for the SNES, recovered in 2024.
Instead of using in-engine deformation functionality to make Yoshi grow, each frame in the sequences is a custom drawing.
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On the CD of the official Japanese soundtrack release for Donkey Kong Country 2, “Original Sound Version” is misspelled as “Originarl Sound Version” with an extra “r”. This error is not present on the cover or anywhere else on the packaging.
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According to a card from an officially licensed set of 1996 Super Mario quiz cards, Peach’s blood type is O positive, which is generally the most common blood type in the world, narrowly beating out A positive.
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Normally, whenever Lakitu rescues a racer in a Mario Kart game, he is supposed to drop that racer off in a safe location to continue the race from.
However, in Mario Kart 64, going out of bounds in Frappe Snowland in a specific spot will cause Lakitu to drop the racers into the river after rescuing them.
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In Super Mario 64 DS, the different animations and camera movements that occur after a Power Star is collected are determined by a value attached to the individual star. One normally unused value produces a result that is valid (as in, does not crash the game), but looks exceedingly bizarre, as seen in the footage. The camera moves erratically while the character rotates in place to always face the camera.
Whether this is merely an unintended value that by chance happens to produce a result that the game is able to display, or whether this is the corrupted or unfinished remnant of a real animation that was scrapped at some point in development, is unknown.
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Officially licensed Super Mario Bros. stickers based on shape marks used in grading assignments in Japanese schools. The Goomba mark is “no good”, the Bowser one is “almost”, the Mario one is “good” and the Peach one is “excellent”.
In addition to the cross and round marks being commonly used in Japanese games, including Mario games, for “wrong” and “right” answers respectively (e.g. in Paper Mario, emerging from Chuck Quizmo’s hat), the “flower” mark for “excellent” appears in Yoshi’s Island whenever the player gets the full 100 points in a level.
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