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In Luigi’s Mansion, if Luigi finishes capturing a Boo while he steps on one of the tiles that switch gravity, E. Gadd will call him while he is in the middle of flipping upside-down.
This will interrupt the flipping and Luigi will stay in an angled position in mid-air for the duration of the conversation, as seen in the footage.
Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Source: Unmeltable Moth, Glitch Doctor
Illustration from an officially licensed 1987 Nintendo wall calendar from Japan, based on the 1986 Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission To Rescue Princess Peach anime movie (please zoom in to view details).
Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: History of Hyrule
In Super Mario Odyssey, objects and NPCs do not react to crates being missing from underneath them, even though they should fall down. This can be seen e.g. in the Snow Kingdom by uncapturing a Shiverian atop a stack of crates and then destroying them, causing the Shiverian to float in mid-air. (Note that the Power Moon is not related to this; the Shiverian will float the same way on other crate stacks without moons.)
While this is merely conjectural, this may be related to crates being a very strange object in this game in general, such as existing outside of time, as seen in this earlier post.
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Extremely rare full version of the “Diddy Kong pushing Mario in a minecart” render used in various magazines to promote Donkey Kong Country 2 in 1995, but almost never seen without being cropped or having text overlaid.
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Top: bizarrely inaccurate official artwork of the forms of Mario in New Super Mario Bros., used on Nintendo UK’s official website. The forms from left to right are Mini Mario, Small Mario, Super Mario and Mega Mario.
The reason the artwork is bizarre is that Mini Mario and Small Mario do not actually look like that. Instead, they use the short and stout Mini Mario model whereby his head takes up roughly half of his body.
Bottom: artist’s rendition of what it would be like to perform the same sort of model substitution in Super Mario Bros., whereby instead of Small Mario’s actual sprite, Super Mario is simply resized to Small Mario’s size.
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A glitch with the potential to cause extreme frustration exists exclusively in the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario Galaxy 2, and not in the original Wii version.
When using a Launch Star while riding Yoshi in the Grandmaster Galaxy at the very end of the game, there is a random chance of Mario and Yoshi bouncing off of the target platform instead of landing, dying in the process.
To reduce the danger of this occurring, it may be advisable to dismount Yoshi before using the Launch Stars in this galaxy whenever his presence is not considered crucial by the player.
Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: Jorsplungus
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, all Fuzzies have a tiny red, white and black cube inside them. The only other character who has a similar cube on the inside is Lubba. The purpose of the cubes is unknown.
Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: SMG2 (NA, Wii)
