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Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
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Highest-quality available pre-release Donkey Kong 64 footage of the “Junk-in-the-Box” boss from Frantic Factory, which took the form of a generic evil clown, before being reworked into the Kremling-themed Mad Jack boss as seen in the finished game.
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Officially licensed 1998 Super Mario 64 notebook. Interestingly, instead of simply using the official Metal Mario render for the game, the cover also adds a ghostly image of Bowser behind Mario that was not present in the original render and is edited from a different image.
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The set of official 2017 Super Mario Bros. stickers for the LINE messaging app mostly animates pre-existing sprites from the game and adds text and minor effects.
However, one sticker actually creates a completely new asset/character in the game’s style: the “GOOD MORNING” sticker features an original sun that appears to be alive, similar to the various other living suns seen in the Mario series.
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In Mario Kart World, using a Bullet Bill will cause it to follow a path calculated to most efficiently transport the racer along roughly the middle of the current track segment. However, the Bullet Bill pathfinding does not take into account moving obstacles despite being affected by them.
As such, if the racer using a Bullet Bill happens to fly into an impassable moving obstacle such as a Dragoneel as seen in the footage, the Bullet Bill may become stuck on it.
It is advised to try not to use Bullet Bills before track segments with large obstacles, such as Dragoneels or dinosaurs, to avoid this scenario.
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Yoshi’s Island splash artwork from a 1995 Japanese strategy guide.
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The Nintendo Switch Online emulation of Wario Land 3 is imperfect and may cause issues if the game is restarted from a suspend point too many times.
In the footage, Wario enters the Sea Turtle Rocks level after the player extensively used the load function, and is deposited in a completely glitched area with no floor instead of the actual level. As Wario is not programmed to be able to die in this game outside of very specific circumstances, he simply loops back around to the top of the screen after falling, indefinitely.
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