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In Mario Kart DS, Rocky Wrenches appear as obstacles on the Airship Fortress track. As only their upper half is intended to be seen when they pop up from the ground, their lower half is simply a mirrored version of the upper half.
Clipping the camera into the ground reveals the two-headed nature of the Rocky Wrenches.
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In World D-4 of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, the Blue Bowser in the middle of the level (also known as “Bowser’s Brother” according to official Japanese character guides) acts in an extremely glitched way if Mario waits underneath his platform for a long enough time.
If he walks far enough to the right that he would fall off his platform, he will continue walking on air, but partially disappear instead. If he walks even further to the right, he will disappear fully and surprisingly walk in from offscreen to the left.
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In the Super Mario 3D World game style of Super Mario Maker 2, Builder Mario is able to “pseudo-walljump” off of spiky walls by using his hammer right as he would touch the wall. This imparts him with enough backward momentum that he can use a nearby wall to gain a very small amount of additional height.
As seen in the footage, this can be used to very slowly and tediously scale a shaft where one side is completely covered in spikes.
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In Super Paper Mario, Magikoopas have fully modeled heads despite their hats never being removed during gameplay. Here is what a hatless Magikoopa looks like, seen by removing the hat texture.
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A 1996 promotional booklet for Super Mario RPG from the Japanese VJump magazine contained a series of recaps of the game’s plot in “Western comic” form, whereby every speech bubble was written in English with both a pronunciation guide above the words and a translation underneath.
Some dialogue seen in the comic is not based on anything seen in the game, such as Mario saying “OH, MY GOD!”
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In Donkey Kong Country, whenever Diddy Kong loses a matching minigame, he will perform a special animation of taking off his hat, jumping in the air and throwing it onto the ground, whereupon he will continue angrily stomping on it until the screen fades out.
A rare glitch can occur during this if the jump button is pressed on a specific frame whereby a regular jump will become multiplied by the jump used during the animation, causing Diddy to perform an extremely high jump seemingly just to throw his hat with additional force.
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For a 2023 Super Mario Bros. Wonder tips feature in the Japanese Nintendo Dream magazine, the tips were provided by a “Talking Flowersona” of one of the editors, i.e. an original character of the Talking Flower species from that game, created to be a representation of that person.
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