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Concept art for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie, showing Rawk Hawk, King Bob-omb, the Whomp King, Wart and Mouser at Bowser and Peach’s wedding.
Out of these, only King Bob-omb actually appears in the movie; while Wart and Mouser would appear in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie instead. Rawk Hawk and the Whomp King did not appear in either of the movies; though given how Wart and Mouser were cut at first only to appear later, there may be a chance that they could return in a future movie in the series.
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The prototype version of Super Mario Kart features a glitch that has been fixed in the release version, whereby pausing the game just after the driver is hit by an obstacle and then restarting the race will cause the camera to view the driver from the side instead of from behind.
This makes the game extremely difficult to control since it is basically impossible to see more than a short distance ahead of the character, and the controls being rotated 90 degrees relative to the D-Pad directions.
Particularly entertaining is Yoshi’s reaction to this glitch. All drivers in the game only have a single sprite per facing direction, and Yoshi’s sprites have him stick out his tongue when going directly right or left. Since he is going left by default in this state, this causes him to always have his mouth open.
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In Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2, Luigi’s eyes do not respond well to his death.
If Luigi dies from being hit by an enemy attack, the stacking of his eye and eyelid textures will become glitched, causing one of his eyes to have a white pupil, while the other one will go blank and lose half an eyelid.
Due to Luigi looking down during this and the in-game camera showing him from above, this is relatively difficult to see during regular gameplay, which may explain why it was not caught during development. This was also not fixed in any subsequent release of these games.
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Unused title screen cutscene found in the SNES version of Yoshi’s Cookie. This is actually an adaptation of the title screen from the NES version of the game, remade with 16-bit graphics; while the final SNES version simply does not have a cutscene and all and merely displays Yoshi being surrounded by cookies.
Please note that the cutscene is rather lengthy; the loop starts with Mario walking in from the left with a cookie tin and ends with Mario and Yoshi performing a victory sign in the center of the screen.
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Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 contain a glitch known as “Launch Star Displacement” whereby entering a Launch Star while Mario is slipping will cause his launch trajectory to change.
As most targets for launches are small planetoids relatively far away, and most locations in the game are surrounded by empty space, even a small trajectory deviation statistically often results in Mario missing his target and flying into the void.
The footage shows this happening in Boo Moon Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2. Mario very briefly slips on the edge of the purple Snake Block while entering the Launch Star. While he is supposed to land on the crescent moon planetoid, he ends up missing it entirely and dying.
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Top: Paper Mario: The Origami King contains an unused setting for text to be displayed at a 90° angle, demonstrated here in-engine.
Bottom: the game often uses text gimmicks for characters who are in nonstandard states. As such, it is possible that this was intended to be a text gimmick for characters who for some reason or another, are arranged perpendicularly to Mario while speaking. This is a mock-up of what such a usage of this text effect could have looked like.
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In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, the anti-gravity section on the GBA Mario Circuit track is held up by giant blue car jacks that have extremely faint writing on them. Enhancing the contrast shows it reads “Ultra Arm”.
The name and design of the jacks is a reference to Ultra Hand, a toy produced by Nintendo in 1966 (designed by Gunpei Yokoi, later inventor of the Game & Watch and Game Boy among other achievements). The Ultra Hand has been referenced many times all across Nintendo media, recently famously through the “Ultrahand” ability in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
In addition to featuring the Ultra Hand in many WarioWare microgames, the man getting his wallet stolen on the packaging is also featured in the “Clawing for More” boss microgame in WarioWare Gold.
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Artwork of Mario dancing, seen in the 1985 instruction manual/programming guide for Family Basic V3 on the Famicom.
The illustration is to show that by using Mario’s jumping sprite without making him actually jump, he can be made to look like he is raising his hands in the manner reminiscent of the dance move featured in the 1977 move Saturday Night Fever (which has since become the default “disco” move in fiction), with the caption next to him translating to “Fever”.
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