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According to a 2021 interview with former Retro Studios developer Bryan Walker, who served as Senior Development Director on Donkey Kong Country Returns, Shigeru Miyamoto spent his initial meeting with Retro Studios to discuss the vision for the game talking in Japanese as usual.
However, at the end, he said one line in English: “Please take care of DK. He is my friend.”
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Officially licensed 2019 Super Mario boys’ suit.
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Artwork used for a 1991 officially licensed French Super Mario Bros. 3 poster. While based on official art for the game by Yoichi Kotabe, it has been redrawn and the Koopalings for an unknown reason made green.
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In Mario Kart 64, the Thwomps in Bowser’s Castle do not merely squash players when they are caught under them on the ground, but also, surprisingly, in mid-air.
In the footage, Wario violently rams into Yoshi and send him flying into a Thwomp, which manages to flatten him in mid-air. This causes Yoshi to lose a large amount of time drifting down in his flattened state, making this scenario even more unfortunate than simply being caught underneath the Thwomp normally.
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The prototype of the game that would eventually become Dr. Mario was called “Virus” and featured this music in the files. What it would have been used for is unknown, though it might have been a loss theme, a cutscene theme, or even particularly low-energy gameplay music.
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Players of Super Mario Sunshine may have tried to perform the “Blooper Surfing Safari” mission of Ricco Harbor without actually surfing on any Bloopers. Doing this by simply getting Mario on top of the wall, running around the starting line, and entering from the other side reveals that this does not count as finishing the race.
However, that does not mean that it is not possible to finish the race this way; only that there are precautions in place to prevent the simplest way of attempting to cheat it. The game sets up two “control zones” that Mario has to touch in order for the act of touching the finish line to count as completing the race (bottom image, highlighted).
As long as the player knows where those zones are, and makes sure to touch them, it is entirely possible to complete the race without riding any Bloopers. The footage shows where Mario must go. This can save up to 20 seconds over doing the race the “intended” way.
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The Japanese version of Super Princess Peach contains unused unsetting-looking 3D models of three different ninjas in its files, with two of them having a facial texture with the word “1skin” written on their foreheads.
The models are found together with leftovers for Densetsu no Starfy 4, a Japanese-only game in the Legendary Starfy series, which was developed by the same studio. However, despite also appearing in the files of that game, they are unused even there, so their true ultimate purpose is unknown.
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