For many years, it has been known that the Super Smash Bros. Brawl trophy for the Super Paper Mario boss Fracktail contained unused palm tree textures, though it was unknown what their purpose was and whether they were tied to Fracktail itself or simply some oversight accidentally left in.

However, it was only in 2026 that the original model that used the textures was finally restored from the files. Fracktail was seemingly planned to have the palm tree on its head in place of the antenna.

It is possible that the original vision for the boss battle was that Mario would encounter a lone palm tree in the desert, which would then be revealed to be Fracktail’s antenna as it emerges from the ground, though that is merely speculation.

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In Super Mario Sunshine, there are a variety of glitches that allow Mario to fall down to the death plane below the area; however, most of them require some sort of deliberate series of atypical actions and are as such not likely to be accidentally activated.

However, there is a corner inside the Delfino Plaza sewers that sends Mario down to the death plane and kills him instantly merely for moving into it while holding L. This is a simple enough prerequisite that it may well be possible for some players to have activated accidentally.

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Officially licensed 1994 Donkey Kong Country wind-up minecart toy with a customizable jigsaw-style track.

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An interesting character design detail added to the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG absent from the original SNES version is that the Axem Rangers have each been given a unique axe shape. In the original game’s official art, their axes were all identical except for the colors. Even if such differences existed in the in-game models, they are nearly impossible to discern due to the small size of the sprites.

This is difficult to notice in-game due to the Axem Rangers only being seen close-up in a single scene, and each of them holding their axe at a different angle that makes them hard to compare.

Below are all the axe models, extracted from the game, aligned to make the differences easily visible.

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In Donkey Kong 64, by picking up a barrel in a specific manner, it can remain in mid-air indefinitely for as long as Donkey Kong never walks, and instead moves around solely by crouching and backflipping.

While this has no practical use, an interesting side effect is that the barrels all mimic Donkey Kong’s facing orientation. The footage uses a room in Crystal Caves with 6 barrels to create what appears to be a synchronized dance performed by Donkey Kong and the barrels.

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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle has a bizarre internal naming convention where plaintext files, which normally would have the .txt file extension (or other common extensions based on purpose), instead have the unique .fruit and .juice extensions. These are seemingly purely cosmetic and the files do not feature any functionality outside of containing human-readable text.

Whether there is some deeper meaning to these extensions or if the team was simply being whimsical due to the nature of the project is unknown.

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In Super Mario Odyssey, the Luncheon Kingdom features multiple large pots of stew simmering on stovetops. The pots fully cover the stovetops so that Mario cannot touch them directly.

However, it is relatively easy to clip inside a pot by performing a precise Ground Pound onto its edge. Then, Mario can actually walk around on the stovetop and discover that despite being lit and producing visible flames, it is not coded to actually hurt Mario (which is notable since other normally unreachable harmful surfaces do in fact hurt him).

This creates the humorous scenario seen in the screenshot where the only reaction Mario has to being on top of a lit stove is his usual “fanning himself” idle animation he has in hot areas.

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Due to an unexpected interaction in Super Mario World, eating green berries in his own home kills Yoshi.

Yoshi’s House is one of the two areas in the game with no time limit (the other being the Top Secret Area), displaying “0” under the timer. As such, Mario and Yoshi can stay there forever without losing a life. Green berries add 20 units to the timer whenever Yoshi eats them, and were never meant to be used in an area without a time limit.

If glitches or cheats are used to spawn a green berry at Yoshi’s House and Yoshi eats it, 20 units are added to the timer. When it reaches 0 again, Mario and Yoshi will die, since the “time up” function only checks for the moment the timer goes from 1 to 0 (which is why they’re safe due to the timer starting at 0 normally).

Note also the smoke from the chimney becoming glitched as a side effect of Mario and Yoshi dying in an area not meant to accommodate death.

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Unique graphic depicting Bowser’s Keep from Super Mario RPG before the events of the game, seemingly made to be used in promotional material but only appearing in a single pre-release article for the game in a Japanese magazine in 1995.

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In Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, Sticky Situation is a mission of Gloomy Manor, revolving around cleaning up spiderwebs, that features original music.

Interestingly, arrangements of Sticky Situation in the style of the other four mansions’ themes can be found unused in the files, suggesting that all mansions would have had a mission of that type.

This post plays the unused Old Clockworks version of the music.

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