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Mario Kart World does not have any measures in place to prevent the camera from clipping into other racers’ models during races.

As such, moments like the one shown in the footage may occur, whereby an opponent Piranha Plant racer is briefly positioned perfectly to cause the camera to show the inside of its mouth.

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Splash page from a 2006 Mario Kart DS manga, featuring Mario and Bowser.

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Sunday, July 6, 2025
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In both Paper Mario: Sticker Star (top) and Paper Mario: Color Splash (bottom), entering a battle while on quicksand and then not issuing any commands to Mario will cause him to slowly sink into the quicksand, and finally get an automatic Game Over if the player does not press any buttons during that time.

The time it takes to get a Game Over is 1 minute in Paper Mario: Sticker Star and 1 minute and 15 seconds in Paper Mario: Color Splash. While it is unlikely that a player would idle that long while actually playing, especially without noticing that Mario is sinking, this can lead to an unwelcome surprise if the player enters a battle and then steps away from the game (since in a turn-based game like these, normally there is no penalty for waiting indefinitely on one’s own turn).

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A common trick used in speedruns of Super Mario 64 is obtaining the “Behind Chain Chomp’s Gate” star by using what is known as a “Bob-omb clip”. For this, a Bob-omb is thrown and then grabbed again on a specific frame before exploding, which gives it the ability to push Mario backwards, including through walls. Normally, Mario is simply pushed through the gate itself using this method.

Whenever Mario is pushed out of bounds, he dies. However, there is still a short window of time whenever Mario is already dead when he can still interact with objects.

In the footage, the Bob-omb is used to push Mario through an out of bounds area into the star. This causes him to first die and then collect the star while the death fade-out is already active; note the star counter in the top right of the screen actually increasing since the collection is in fact still counted even in this state.

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Photo of custom-made Question Block toast, posted in 2018 on Nintendo’s official Japanese LINE account.

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Saturday, July 5, 2025
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Arranged version of the Super Mario RPG song “Beware of Forest Mushrooms” from the composer Yoko Shimomura’s 2014 “memória!” album.

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Top: in the Darker Side post-game area in Super Mario Odyssey, one challenge consists of capturing Glydon and flying as him over an extremely large gap filled with obstacles. If Assist Mode is used to not land on the platform on the end and instead kill Glydon and fall down, Mario will be put into a safety bubble and returned to the starting platform, where Glydon will respawn.

Bottom: however, Glydon will be glitched. Talking to him will make him ascend in the manner shown in the footage. He will not come back down.

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Officially licensed 1990 “Yoshi Tongue Whip” toy from Japan, including a custom illustration of its usage in the instructions on the back.

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Friday, July 4, 2025

Various suggestions for Diddy Kong’s and Dixie Kong’s hat logos sent to Rare by Shigeru Miyamoto and other Nintendo artists during the development process of Donkey Kong Country 2 in 1994.

In the end, Rare ended up using none of Nintendo’s suggestions, instead deciding to put a Nintendo logo on Diddy’s hat and a Rare logo on Dixie’s. With the new redesigns of the two seen in Donkey Kong Bananza, they have been given small pins on their hats that, while not directly using any of these designs, are much more in line with this vision originally proposed by Nintendo.

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In Luigi’s Mansion 3, Luigi needs to rescue various Toads trapped in paintings by King Boo by shining his Dark-Light Device on them. This results in the Toad emerging from the painting. After this, the painting remains part of the scenery and can no longer be interacted with.

A rare “Phantom Toad” glitch that can occur after rescuing a Toad, whereby reentering a room with a painting that should be empty will show a Toad inside. Shining the Dark-Light Device on it will start the emergence sequence and for a second, make it look like the Toad is actually coming out; however, there is no Toad and the sequence ends abruptly, leaving the painting empty.

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