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In Super Mario Advance 4, the World-e that features the e-Reader levels (accessible by default in the Wii U Virtual Console or Nintendo Switch versions) contains the e-Coin Castle, which showcases the e-Coins the player has collected.
In the e-Coin Castle, the Mario brother that the player is not currently playing as (Luigi in the footage) automatically follows the player (Mario in the footage) around. Interestingly, despite being an NPC, it is actually possible to kill the other brother using a glitch.
If Left and Right are pressed simultaneously (possible on an emulator or using third-party controllers), Mario is able to slide around at running speed, which makes Luigi unable to keep up as regular running is disabled in the castle. Since Luigi is normally supposed to stay on screen at all times, there is no failsafe for him going off screen, which actually results in him dying as though he went offscreen in an autoscrolling segment.
As such, Mario is able to kill Luigi just by running in a “no running” zone for 1 second.
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Early concept art for Valentina in Super Mario RPG, shared by the game’s visual effects artist Jiro Mifune.
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In Donkey Kong Bananza, Donkey Kong can parry enemy attacks by punching them with precise timing, which will activate a cinematic slowdown effect as seen in the footage.
This is never mentioned in-game; while the final boss battles of the game do expect the player to punch back projectiles, those have a more lenient timing and do not use the same kind of parrying as shown here.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, Spring Mario can normally never sleep, as he always keeps bouncing in that form even if no input is made, and he cannot enter a sleep state while moving.
A glitch exists that allows Spring Mario to stand still without bouncing, activated by touching both a wall and a Gearmo on the same frame. However, performing it reveals that even then he does not sleep, as the code for the Spring Mario state explicitly forbids it.
By combining the glitch with a small modification to the code to force Spring Mario to go to sleep, it becomes apparent that the code doesn’t merely never call the sleep function for Spring Mario, but doesn’t even define it in the first place.
This leads to a visual glitch when it tries to load undefined sleepy eye textures, causing his eyes to appear completely black instead.
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Top: cannons that fire the Kongs to bonus rooms are a recurring object in various levels of Donkey Kong Country 2. This footage shows a typical example of how one is activated; a cannonball must be found in the level and brought to the cannon, which will turn it green, showing that it will shoot them to the bonus level when entered.
Bottom: however, surprisingly, using a cannonball is not the only way to activate the cannon. Barrels shot by enemies will also turn it green, though that requires finding an enemy that shoots barrels and then escorting the barrel to the cannon so that it does not despawn.
Notably, this was only documented in 2025, 30 years after the game’s release, despite requiring no glitches and being relatively easy to perform - possibly simply because no one involved with analyzing and speedrunning the game expected this interaction to work.
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“Wario Busters” is a Mario & Wario-themed arcade game that presumably released in 1994 in Japan, where the aim was to throw balls at Wario.
Outside of a promotional image in a trade magazine, no evidence of the game’s existence has surfaced, and no actual physical units are known to exist.
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The person voicing Funky Kong in the Japanese dub of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series has both an extremely fitting appearance and name for the role, going by the stage name Banana Ice and being known for wearing sunglasses.
In addition to voicing Funky Kong, Banana Ice was also the composer for the Japanese opening theme for the cartoon.
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In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, if the player is using the Invisibility badge when meeting Bowser Jr., he will have unique dialogue for this in each of his encounters, mostly involving him not seeing the player and Prince Florian but still somehow feeling their presence. Here are all the special Bowser Jr. messages for this scenario.
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