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Extremely rare Mario Party 4 artwork of the “GOOOOOOOAL!!” minigame, found in a 2002 issue of the French official Nintendo magazine.
This is the only high-resolution version of this artwork that is currently known to exist, and not even this version is fully visible due to Wario being partially covered by a screenshot.
Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Source: MON (France), Issue 7, 2002
In Paper Mario, using a complex series of glitches to reset the game back to a Prologue state after having already unlocked Kooper as a partner will make Kooper act as Goompa during the cutscene of Mario and Goompa arriving back in Goomba Village.
All characters in the game use different animation indices for different expressions (e.g. one character’s “cheering” animation could be #3 while another’s could be #10), since the game expects that it would never refer to one character’s animations while another one is the one actually loaded.
Yet, since exactly this scenario occurs due to the glitch, Kooper is forced to assume animations based on Goompa’s animation indices, which result in him swapping between states clearly not meant to be used for this scene.
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All sprites of Bowser in his underwear, seen in the final scene of the PC version of Mario is Missing (when Luigi removes Bowser’s shell), extracted from the game’s files.
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Bizarre unused object found in the data of Super Mario Bros. 3. The graphical tiles that would have been used by it no longer remain in the files, so a representation of the tiles as their addresses is shown.
The object would have stood motionlessly until Mario touches it, whereupon it would “stick” to him, becoming attached to his sprite and following all his movements. Despite this, it would have had no gameplay effect, with the attachment being purely cosmetic.
Finally, it appears to have been some type of enemy as it is coded to be able to be killed with a Koopa shell or a hammer thrown by Hammer Mario, but no other attacks. What the purpose of this mysterious object could have been is unknown.
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In Super Mario World, whenever Mario and Yoshi take a hit while Yoshi is in the middle of eating an enemy, the enemy will free itself. This can be used with normally stationary enemies to move them in unnatural ways, such as the Pipe Lakitu in the footage.
By chaining the same glitch together, the Lakitu can be brought out of the pipe, whereupon its full body can be seen, which is not normally possible. In addition, it will float in mid-air as gravity does not affect it, since it was only even intended to appear inside a pipe.
Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: peasoroms
In Donkey Kong Country 3, secret honks can be heard while riding the Motor Boat, Hover Craft and Turbo Ski vehicles by holding X and pressing L and R on the same frame.
The honks are, in order, the theme to the 1968 Hawaii Five-O TV series, Gangplank Galleon, and La Cucaracha.
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Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers was a Donkey Kong puzzle game that was in development for the GBA from 2000 to 2002, but was cancelled due to Rare being purchased by Microsoft and losing its license to Donkey Kong, only being able to work on remakes of preexisting titles. The game was later released without the Donkey Kong IP as “It’s Mr. Pants” in 2004.
According to a 2010 Rare interview with the British Edge magazine, one of the early names for the game during development was “Splonge”. It is unknown for how long this name was used, and whether it was ever used in conjunction with the Donkey Kong theme, such as e.g. “Donkey Kong Splonge”.
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Top: Nintendo has been proven to use the fan website The Spriters Resource to access sprites from their own games, instead of taking the sprites from their own archives. A sprite in Super Mario Maker (later even reused in Super Mario Maker 2) contains a pixel underneath Mario’s mustache with a color that does not actually appear in Super Mario World. However, that exact color appeared in a sheet submitted to that site that was up in 2013-2015, at the time of the game’s development.
Since the only way we know Nintendo used fanmade rips of their content was because they forgot to remove the pixel in this instance, it stands to reason that many more instances exist that are unknowable due to Nintendo successfully scrubbing out any traces of the original sheets.
Bottom: for everyone who is interested in sprites or is already a fan or user of The Spriters Resource, you may find it interesting to tune in to a livestream that is currently occurring whereby a new design for the site is being showcased. All feedback from the viewers is appreciated and will be considered for changes and future updates!
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In Super Mario 64, the intended method to defeat the Mr. Blizzard snowman enemies is to run circles around them, similar to how the Mr. I enemies are defeated.
However, a more difficult alternative method exists to defeat them whereby they will also get dizzy if Mario performs precise jumps and mid-air kicks above them. Since this carries a high risk of landing on the Mr. Blizzard and getting hurt, this is only recommended for expert players.
Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: jeaze2288