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An officially licensed 1989 coaster from Japan featured a unique illustration of Peach and Raccoon Mario holding each other’s pinky fingers. Here is a cleaned-up, isolated version of the image used on the coaster.
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Mario Kart 64 contains a fully operational, but completely unused, function to vertically scale the tracks by any factor in its code. The function correctly scales the collision and results in tracks that are playable as long as the track is still flat enough to drive on.
The footage shows Luigi Raceway being scaled by a factor of 10. The slight bump in the beginning of the track becomes a large ramp, and the tilted curved section becomes nearly vertical, making driving on it impossible.
It is likely that this was intended to be used as an additional challenge, similar to Mirror Mode, at some point during development.
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Mario Golf for the Nintendo 64 contains a hidden “Yoshi Kong” music track, which only plays when the following criteria are met:
-four players are playing
-every player is either Yoshi or Donkey Kong (all Yoshis, all DKs, 2 of each, etc.)
-a course that is not Luigi’s Garden or Peach’s Castle is played.
The music is actually an arrangement of the Palm Club theme from the Game Boy Color version of Mario Golf. Why it was made so complex to access is unknown.
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Top: the E3 2010 demo for Mario Kart 7 only showed Mario and Luigi, instead of the 8+ racers usually taking part in a race in a Mario Kart game. This raised questions among the audience about whether the amount of drivers had been reduced. Since the final game had eight drivers per race, this aspect of the demo was regarded as a mere quirk.
Bottom: however, in an interview with Tatsuya Takadera, a programmer who worked on this game, it was revealed that the game initially could only display two drivers at once, and regular eight-person races were only made possible via optimization. If that optimization were not made, it is possible that the final game could have had a drastically reduced amount of drivers in each race.
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It’s another Supper Mario Broth livestream for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door! Join me at the Supper Mario Broth Twitch channel as I break apart Chapter 7!
In New Super Mario Bros., no shells can normally be taken into the Mummipokey boss battle arena.
If glitches or cheats are used to throw a shell at Mummipokey, an interesting property is revealed whereby the shell will count every frame of touching the boss as defeating an enemy, resulting in an immense amount of extra lives being granted. Mummipokey itself remains unharmed by it, however.
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Official recipe for “Wario’s Mystery Appetizers” from a 2009 issue of the French Official Nintendo Magazine.
The idea is to present the dinner guests with a set of identical Wario-themed appetizers whereby some of them are filled with a regular savory filling, like tomato pesto, while others are hiding a surprise overly spicy filling, like wasabi.
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In the Bowser’s Fury mode of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, positioning Plessie on the boundary between dry land and shallow water may make it wobble in the manner shown in the footage.
Plessie will continue wobbling forever until it is moved from that spot or forced to spawn in a different location.
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