In Donkey Kong Country 2, there are always No Animal Signs preventing Animal Buddies from being taken to the end of a level. However, if glitches are used to skip them, the Animal Buddy will become corrupted upon jumping onto the goal.

In the footage, Rambi is taken to the goal of the Barrel Bayou level, whereupon he turns into a copy of Diddy Kong, makes both the original Diddy and himself freeze, and starts very slowly sliding to the left. He will continue sliding to the left indefinitely, even over pits.

If he touches a barrel on the way, the glitch will end and control will be returned to the player, but the level goal will be “spent” and no longer able to be activated, forcing the level to be restarted.

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Top: the preview image for Cloudy Court Galaxy in the original Wii version of Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Middle: a re-rendered version of it used in the Nintendo Switch version. Note the different Paragoomba.

Bottom: the Paragoomba is actually not a part of the scene at all. It is instead an official art render of a Paragoomba from New Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo DS.

It is likely that during the capturing of the new render, the developers were unable to get the Paragoomba in the exact same spot as it was before, so they opted to simply superimpose a picture of it in the hopes that this would not be noticeable.

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Extremely detailed high-quality 3D scan of an officially licensed 1996 Whomp pewter metal figurine from Japan.

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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there is only one Double Pain badge that is normally obtainable, the effect of which is to double the damage Mario receives. Despite there being only one in the game, the code contains functionality for multiple being worn, multiplying the damage by (1+amount of Double Pain badges worn), so x3 for 2 badges, x4 for 3 badges etc.

Interestingly, this is even directly stated in-game in the Nintendo Switch version, which states “Wearing two or more of these badges further increases the damage taken.” in the menu despite only one being obtainable.

The footage shows 98 of these badges being worn by modifying the game, turning a Goomba’s 1-damage attack (and by extension every other damaging attack in the game) into a devastating attack dealing the maximum possible 99 damage (any attack that would deal 100 or more damage deals 99 damage instead).

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In Mario Kart World, half of the long part of the Crown Bridge’s model is mirrored from the other half (divided lengthwise into north and south), which would be completely unnoticeable if not for metal plates on the ground that also become mirrored due to this.

Top: on the south side of the bridge looking towards Koopa Troopa Beach, the text on the plates reads “Crown Bridge” normally.

Bottom: however, on the north side looking towards Peach’s Castle, the text is mirrored. It is curious that this has not been yet fixed in any of the game’s updates.

Note that in Mirror Mode, naturally, the south side’s text is mirrored while the north side’s text is correctly displayed.

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Character list from the manual for the officially licensed 1995 Mario quiz cards, containing a large number of oddities.

Note the mislabeled Paratroopa and Spiny Egg, being labeled as “Paragoomba” and “Bob-omb” respectively, the miscolored Cheep Cheep (which is humorously misspelled as “Cheap Cheap”) and a Hammer Bro with a Fire Bro palette. Toad is also called “Toady”.

In addition, the Goomba uses its original name from the Super Mario Bros. manual and the Galoomba uses its original name from the Super Mario World manual, which both are not the names they are currently known by and result in the “Little Goomba” actually being larger than the “Goomba”.

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Extremely rare officially licensed Mario writing teaching kit from Japan, featuring original illustrations of Mario, Luigi and Peach. The kit uses an electronic pen that detects correct and incorrect answers when touching specific sections of the book, and indicates them with light and sound cues.

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Unique “Pod Goomba Trio” enemy found in the files of the prototype version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Unfortunately, absolutely no further material for it exists outside of this one sprite, so that it is unknown what animations, moves or stats it would have had.

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The Supper Mario Broth analysis livestream for classic 1997 point-and-click adventure The Curse of Monkey Island continues at twitch.tv/suppermariobroth! Join me as I play through the game in detail, showing off secrets, glitches, Easter eggs and development content!

Top: a turnaround view of PlanetDisk, an unused planetoid found in the files of Super Mario Galaxy.

Bottom: it actually appears in concept art featured in the official Prima guide for the game as a small sketch in the background of the Starman Fort concept art (another area that exists in the files but isn’t used in the final game), suggesting PlanetDisk was also a very early location.

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