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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.
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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.
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In the Mustard Café segment of Paper Mario: Color Splash, Huey falls down into quicksand and needs to be rescued. After being retrieved, he has difficulty speaking because he is full of sand, and takes a second to shake the sand out by opening his lid.
The sound effect that plays during this has a humorous internal name, whereby it is called SE_PKY_Sand_Barf (SE standing for Sound Effect and PKY for Huey’s Japanese name, Penki/Painky). This is yet another instance of an action that one would normally not interpret as vomiting being referred to as such internally, previously seen with the electricity-shooting Bowser statues in Super Mario Galaxy 2 being called “KoopaStatueVomit”.
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Minigame found in the prototype version of Yoshi’s Island that was cut from the finished version, whereby Helicopter Yoshi has to retrieve eggs from a Bandit’s cart via a magnet and deposit them in Baby Mario’s cart. This also implies that the developers may have considered Yoshi’s eggs to be magnetic/metallic at some point.
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In World 6-3 of New Super Mario Bros. 2, this Koopa Troopa will become glitched if the famous infinite 1-Up exploit (bouncing off its shell many times on the staircase to produce 1-Ups) is performed with it.
After this is accomplished, if the Koopa is allowed to walk on the bottom level of the area, it will teleport inside the staircase when it is stomped. Note how it does so both from the right and from the left side. This is the only Koopa in the game this happens to, for an unknown reason.
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Top: the regular ending of Donkey Kong Bananza features an illustration of Pauline performing on the streets of New Donk City.
Bottom: despite the street looking almost as though it was taken directly from Super Mario Odyssey, it does not actually correspond fully to any place seen in that game. The closest place to the one shown in the image is this view from the building east of the city hall, facing south.
Note how the left building (and the presence of a tree on the left), the narrow alley and the building at the end of the alley are nearly identical; however, the building on the right is different. Whether this was done merely for the purposes of image composition and it is in fact supposed to be the same location is unknown, though given how Pauline is connected to the city hall and the street is right next to it, it is likely to be a deliberate reference.
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