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Due to an error, it was at one point briefly possible to earn free money with a Yoshi game.
On January 8, 2020, an error in the pricing system at Target caused download codes for Yoshi’s Crafted World to be offered at a price of one dollar. In addition to getting the game, players were also able to claim 300 Gold Points, which could be redeemed for a 3-dollar discount on other purchases, essentially gaining 2 dollars worth of free money as a result of the transaction.
While thousands of users were able to get the game at this price, the error was noticed a few hours later and corrected, with any further codes being unable to be redeemed.
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Top: on the Mushroom Bridge track in Mario Kart: Double Dash, several whirlpools can be seen in the water, such as in the top right corner of the image.
Bottom left: as the water is out of bounds, the whirlpools are far away and seen at an angle, making it difficult to discern any details; in addition, they move rapidly. Looking at a still image of a whirlpool from directly above, we can see that the wave pattern actually includes many small stars, which is very difficult to see in-game.
Bottom right: extracting the textures used for the whirlpool from the files confirms this, showing the stars clearly.
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Top: in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the Wonder Effect in the “Upshroom Downshroom” level causes the background to darken, the foreground element to start glowing, and many elements to start moving around rhythmically to the music.
Bottom: however, an unused early version of this Wonder Effect can be found in the game’s files. Here, it was simply a variant of the silhouette Wonder Effect used e.g. in the “Muncher Fields” level, except with some of the level elements glowing in the dark.
This was likely unused due to the trees in the background completely obscuring the foreground in silhouette view, making navigation very difficult. Note how in the footage, the player uses Fire Toadette’s fireballs to light up the path; a player without any means of producing light would need to walk through these segments completely blindly.
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The international versions of WarioWare: Move It changed two of the forms (Joy-Con holding variations) from the original Japanese:
Top left: the form known internationally as “Knight”…
Top right: …was originally known as “ナルホド” (“I see!”) in Japanese, depicting a moment of epiphany.
Bottom left: the form known internationally as “Fashionista”…
Bottom right: …was originally known as “Ninja” in Japanese. This also explains why it is introduced at the beginning of Kat and Ana’s stage, as it was intended to fit those characters specifically by being ninja-themed.
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Unused Spike variant that would spawn Bullet Bills from its mouth instead of spiked balls, found in development files for Yoshi’s Island.
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Mario Kart DS contains an unused track called “luigi_course” in its files, which is an early version of Waluigi Pinball, seemingly meant to be Luigi-themed at that point in development.
A feature of this iteration of the track that has been removed completely is an alternate path to the finish line from the main pinball area. By driving over an obstacle, the racers would enter a long tunnel with several turns that goes underneath the main track, and joins up with the regular route at the exit from the pinball table.
As this detour is much longer than driving straight through the table, it is possible that the original vision for the table was to be much more dangerous and chaotic, so that racers would have an incentive to avoid the flippers and balls completely even at the cost of a much longer driving distance.
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In Super Mario 64, landing from a jump next to Koopa the Quick and then jumping again immediately on the next frame enters an extremely glitchy state known as the “time stop” state, whereby most objects will be frozen in time until Mario touches the ground again. This state is even more glitched in the Japanese version of the game.
Together with Mario’s Wing Cap, this can be used to cause several stars to appear all at once when the time stop ends, as seen in the footage. After performing the glitch and stopping time, Mario collects 100 coins, 8 red coins, touches the race finish flag pole, and ends by Ground Pounding a ! Block with another star in it. Then, Koopa the Quick’s dialogue appears, signifying the end of the time stop.
This results in the “Footrace with Koopa the Quick”, “Shoot to the Island in the Sky”, “Find the 8 Red Coins” and the 100 coin star being awarded all at once since Mario met all their requirements while time was stopped.
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Both Paper Mario: Color Splash and Paper Mario: The Origami King contain sets of three paintings each that reference the respective previous game in the series.
Top: three paintings are hanging in a hallway of the Dark Bloo Inn in Paper Mario: Color Splash. From left to right, they reference the following locations from Paper Mario: Sticker Star: the Yoshi Sphinx, Snow Rise, and Hither Thither Hill.
Bottom: three paintings are hanging in the lobby of Overlook Tower in Paper Mario: The Origami King. The bottom two are referencing the Violet Passage and the Emerald Circus from Paper Mario: Color Splash, while the top one depicts the Overlook Tower itself.
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In the WarioWare: Move It microgame “The Big Moment”, the aim is to propose to a woman with a ring, which is put into one of three ring boxes and needs to be opened with the correct timing.
Interestingly, the woman does not merely have “success” and “failure” expressions, but also unique humorous expressions for different types of failures, which are seen extracted from the files here.
Top row (regular expressions): waiting to be proposed; being proposed with a ring; being proposed with an empty box.
Bottom row (bonus expressions): being proposed with a jack-in-the-box; being proposed with a donut; being proposed with a bell pepper.
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