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During the development of Yoshi’s Island, the Hookbill the Koopa boss was originally envisioned as a unique Koopa/Birdo hybrid creature that would shoot projectiles from its mouth like a Birdo, but also had a big shell like a Koopa.
The game’s prototype version contains behavior for this boss, but not the correct graphics; however, development files provide the graphical assets for it as well. By inserting the files into the prototype, the boss can be largely restored, as seen in the footage.
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In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Stompoid enemies attack by jumping, briefly freezing in mid-air while preparing an attack to give the player an opportunity to dodge, and finally coming down with a stomp.
If a Stompoid is hit with a chunk of concrete in a precise manner during the stomp preparation part of its attack, a glitch will occur whereby it will shoot upward and keep going up indefinitely, eventually despawning.
This has the humorous appearance of the Stompoid preparing a jump but simply never coming down, as seen in the footage.
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Storyboard for Donkey Kong Country’s intro from an early point in the game’s development process, showing the Kremlings stealing the Banana Hoard.
Due to time constraints, the finished game contains no intro whatsoever, and the explanation of the story was delegated entirely to the game’s manual. Later, a cutscene loosely based on this was finally added to the Game Boy Advance version of the game.
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In Paper Mario: The Origami King, internal filenames reveal that the attack whereby Mario hits things in the overworld with his 1,000-Fold Arms has a surprising internal name, being called GodHand_Strike.
This is a Japanese pun, whereby 紙 (paper) and 神 (god) are pronounced the same (“kami”), however, writing it out in English like in the filename strips it of the actual underlying pun and merely makes it appear dramatic.
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One of Yoshi’s transformations in Yoshi’s Woolly World is Mega Yoshi, whereby he simply becomes very large, similarly to Mega Mario in New Super Mario Bros. He does not change his design and continues to use his regular model, merely scaled to a larger size.
However, in the game’s files, an early design for Mega Yoshi can be found that is actually different from regular Yoshi, making him stand less upright and thus giving him more of a Super Mario World-inspired appearance.
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Single-panel gag from a 1994 Mario manga, in which Mario suddenly turns into his form seen in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie, portrayed by Bob Hoskins, to the shock of Luigi and Peach.
A translation of the speech bubbles was provided by Tumblr user MiloScat.
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In Super Mario Land 2, the most efficient way for Mario to move is to duck on every eighth frame while running, which provides marginally higher speed than running normally.
The footage shows Mario moving through Wario’s castle with maximum efficiency.
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