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A 1996 Super Mario 64 manga suggests that 1-Up Mushrooms grow from the bodies of dead Marios, perpetuating the cycle of life and death.
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With your incredible support, I am overjoyed to announce that not only will I be able to run Supper Mario Broth full time, but I will be able to also invest into material and equipment for more and better Mario content.
Thank you all so much. You have saved my life.
I love you.
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In Donkey Kong Bananza, DK follows objects of interest with his eyes. However, he has an incredibly short attention span. Whenever a new object enters his vision, his attention is drawn to it instead. If many objects are moving, he will be distracted by each new one.
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According to a 2017 study by a team of Canadian neuropsychologists, playing Super Mario 64 increases grey matter in the brains of older adults, potentially being able to combat dementia and other neurological disorders.
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An extremely detailed 2018 Waluigi render shows that the "Γ" emblem on his hat is a sticker, as a corner is peeling off. This suggests that unlike Mario, Luigi and Wario, who have tailored caps, Waluigi was only able to afford a cap with a blank emblem that he customized himself.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, kicking things is Mario's highest priority, overriding all other actions. If a kickable object, such as a football, is thrown at Mario while he is asleep, he will momentarily wake up just to kick it before instantly going back to sleep.
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Yoshi's Safari has an anti-piracy measure where it tricks the system into doing something the cartridge should not be able to do, and locks up if the action succeeds. The below image uses anthropomorphized versions of the game and system to explain the trick.
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In Super Mario 64, Bob-ombs will spontaneously explode if they approach signs. However, this only applies to signs with text on them; they are completely fine with arrow signs. This can be humorously interpreted as though Bob-ombs really hate reading.
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Super Mario Galaxy contains zones called "NoSleepAreas", placed wherever it would be inappropriate for Mario to fall asleep when idling, such as in boss battles. However, no such zone exists in front of Luigi's prison, allowing Mario to sleep while Luigi is pleading him for help.
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In 1994, Nintendo made a public event at a Dutch airport where 10,000 counterfeit Game Boy games they confiscated in the Netherlands were ran over by a steamroller, to send a message to counterfeiters. An actor in a Mario costume was overseeing the operation.
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My thank you message, and plans for the near future. I still cannot believe this. My gratitude is beyond words.
I welcome any suggestions on what new kinds of content you would like to see from Supper Mario Broth!
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This particular shot from the Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer may be a reference to a similar shot from the ending of Super Mario Galaxy.
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I have recently received inquiries about my personal collection of Mario merchandise. Below is a photo of all Mario merchandise I own. It is a single officially licensed 2011 keychain of a Wallop enemy from Super Mario 3D Land, which is of great sentimental value to me.
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Due to being a repackaging of a SNES game on a Wii disc, the 2010 Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition has a staggering amount of unused disc space. The game uses only ca. 12 megabytes of a 4.7 gigabyte disc, leaving 99.7% of it unused.
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A quiz from an officially licensed 2002 Burger King/Nintendo activity book reveals that Donkey Kong was born in the UK.
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A humorous note: as pointed out to me by many readers, the logo of Mario & Luigi: Brothership can be cropped to "Mario Broth". Interestingly, over the series's 43-year history, this is the first game that ever spells out the word "brother" in the name, instead of using "Bros."
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In light of the recent news that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are being postponed until 2021, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 now has the unique distinction of being based on an alternate version of a real-life event that will not happen in the form depicted in the game.
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To promote the launch of Donkey Kong Country Returns in 2010, Nintendo Australia set up a life-size recreation of Donkey Kong's Banana Hoard in a harbor in Sydney.
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There exists one piece of in-game evidence in favor of the widespread Internet joke that Yoshi does not pay his taxes: in Fortune Street, Yoshi is the only one out of 26 characters that requests to be exempt from paying taxes when the player builds a new tax office.
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Out of the recurring female human characters in the Mario series, only Daisy regularly has teeth. This affects both official art and in-game models; in the vast majority of cases, Peach, Rosalina and Pauline simply have no teeth modeled inside their mouths.
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Roy is the only Koopaling who can be defeated more than once in a single playthrough of Super Mario Bros. 3. In fact, players wishing to maximize their gameplay must take the Quadruple Roy Route.
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Human DNA has an information storage capacity that very neatly fits the size of a GameCube game. Thus, it would be possible with gene editing technology to store a copy of e.g. Super Mario Sunshine inside the human genome. Details in image.
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The Chinese version of New Super Mario Bros. Wii replaces the character icons with high-definition textures. For an unknown reason, the texture for Luigi's icon is squished and the game runs special unsquishing code at runtime to make it display properly on-screen.
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In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, after Peach pulls out Toad during her neutral special move, Toad will shrink to an extremely small size before unloading. Here is a closer view at Toad at the end of the attack, visible in Peach's palm.
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Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels uses a "brother byte" to determine the current brother. There are two valid brothers: Mario and Luigi, and 254 invalid ones. Out of them, only three have names that are not glitched: Iolui, Uigiy and Ariol.
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This month's experimental post:
I frequently receive questions about certain aspects of my personal life, my Mario game preferences, and my history with Mario and the blog. The document below compiles my answers to some of your most common inquiries!
ALT This document can be found in text form under https://pastebin.com/myLWx4Sw
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Huey's model in Paper Mario: Color Splash is immensely smooth, resulting in an extremely high number of polygons. In fact, it takes more processing power to display Huey than it would take to render the entirety of Super Mario 64, all at once.
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Despite looking much more detailed, the model for the coins in Super Mario Odyssey is actually 65% simpler than the one used in Super Mario Galaxy, due to taking advantage of modern rendering techniques. Details in image.
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Extremely rare "Forklift Certified Mario" pin, awarded to Nintendo of America warehouse employees in the late 1980s for passing certification to operate Class 1 forklifts.
ALT Source: ebay.com user "ukcpremo77", ebay.com/itm/146297184673
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In Super Mario 64, there is a specific spot near the top of Tall, Tall Mountain where failing to grab a ledge will result in Mario comically falling down the entirety of the mountain while hitting every ledge on the way down.
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Photo of an incident during the 2002 recording of the North American commercial for Mario Party 4, where the actor playing Yoshi fell into the pool and needed to be rescued while still inside the mascot suit. Accoring to the costume company, the performer had almost drowned.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Piranha Plants in the audience sometimes eat people seated next to them. On particularly unfortunate occasions, this can even happen to Luigi.
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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, Peach periodically sends letters to Mario. Each of these has its own text, but that text actually overwrites preexisting nonsense text included in the letter's internal layout file. Here is what the letters look like if the placeholder text is left in.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, a Pokio can destroy a metal crate by stabbing it with its beak 200 times in a row.
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In New Super Mario Bros., Mario cannot use a Mega Mushroom in Toad Houses. Assuming the Mega Mario form in these locations reveals that the special Question Blocks cannot be destroyed by it, and instead create a very peculiar infinite particle effect.
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Out of all mainline Mario games, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy rely most heavily on pre-rendered cutscenes, to the point that the data of both games is comprised mostly out of movie files. The data for all of the actual gameplay takes up a fraction of that space.
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By performing an absurdly lengthy and precise series of actions in Super Mario 64 (detailed in the video), Mario will be able to reach an incredibly narrow seam that allows him to stand underwater in Jolly Roger Bay. This has no known practical purpose.
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The Mario & Luigi series is known for its use of squash and stretch in 2D animation. Mario & Luigi: Brothership appears to continue this tradition in 3D by dynamically deforming the brothers' models during certain animations.
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Due to the outfits available to Mario and Peach in Super Mario Odyssey, it is possible to take a glimpse of an alternate universe scenario where their roles would be swapped, by contrasting Mario's king outfit with Peach's work overalls.
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Normally, hitting characters with Star Bits in Super Mario Galaxy will briefly disorient them, after which they quickly return to normal. However, hitting Banktoad in the purple coin mission of Dusty Dune Galaxy will instead make him sad indefinitely, never recovering.
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Paper Mario contains an unused message reading simply "a". Here is what it looks like when loaded in-game.
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In Super Mario 64/DS, drowning overrides other death animations. As such, if the player character dies from fall damage while about to swim, he will appear to be so bad at swimming that he drowns immediately upon touching water.
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Extremely rare officially licensed 1996 Donkey Kong squeaky hammer plush from Japan. The hammer is embedded in Donkey Kong's body, so that he must be held by the handle and struck downward against a surface to produce the squeaking sound.
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An official render of Toadette for Super Mario Maker 2 contains the most realistic depiction of a piece of Nintendo hardware in artwork for a first-party Nintendo game to date: a Joy-Con that is modeled in such detail that it even includes all the legally mandated labeling.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, when Luigi tells Mario the lengthy stories of his adventures, Mario and almost all of his partners fall asleep. The only partner who remains awake and actually listens to Luigi is Bobbery.
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During a sad moment in the ending of Super Mario Sunshine, Bowser appears to have a tear in his eye. However, this is actually a hole in his eye through which the sky is visible. As such, it is merely a serendipitous error that coincidentally fits the mood of the scene.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, there is a single Luigi who is somehow too much for the Nintendo Switch to handle. Bringing the camera close to this 8-bit Luigi in Metro Kingdom at night will cause the game to stutter and slow down to 5 FPS. This is the only Luigi who has this effect.
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The Piranha Plant fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has legs that appear briefly during certain animations (left). The legs are never completely extended out of the pot. On the right is the model extracted from the game's files, showing the full length of the legs.
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Image of an unused Yoshi skin for horses found in the data of the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack DLC for Minecraft: Wii U Edition.
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After deliberating on the situation, I have decided that I do not wish to stop posting. Instead, I will implement the following NEW RULES that should address most issues with the blog and drastically reduce any stress it has been causing me. Thank you very much for your support.
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Clay Luigi figurine submitted anonymously to Nintendo Power in 2008. The Nintendo Power staff dubbed it "Homunculuigi".
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In the source code of Super Mario Bros., the goal pole is referred to by a variety of misspelled names, including "gorl pole", "goul flag", "gole pole", or simply "girl". In addition, Bowser's axe, another smaller object that marks a goal, is referred to as a "smorl girl".
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Super Mario 64 contains unused eye textures for Mario depicting him looking down, up, and to the sides.
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In Super Mario 3D World, the unique properties of Double Cherries allow two characters to swap bodies permanently. The diagram below outlines the steps necessary to make the entities formerly known as Mario and Luigi switch their identities.
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On higher difficulties in Mario Party Superstars, CPU players may cheat by using Custom Dice Blocks to land precisely on spaces with hidden blocks, despite this knowledge being supposedly secret from all players. Details in image.
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In Super Mario RPG, Mario never closes other people's doors after himself. If he opens a door and walks away, the door will remain open. The only exception is the door to his own house, which Mario will immediately close after himself.
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Nintendo of America's official soundtracks for Yoshi's Story and Diddy Kong Racing were released on CDs shaped like the characters' heads. The irregular shape made them impossible to play back on many players and CD drives, with some even becoming damaged by the CDs.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, there are two NPCs sitting on a bench in Bowser's Kingdom. With a precise jump, Mario can land in a spot not covered by either of their collision, allowing him to forcibly insert himself between them on the bench.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, the game does not handle Mario's legs being on two different slopes correctly, with him appearing to stand halfway in mid-air (left). In contrast, Super Mario Sunshine, released 15 years earlier, has code that handles each leg's incline separately (right).
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Original CGI animation made for a 2006 Taiwanese TV news report about the release of the Nintendo Wii. Mario bursts into a room with children playing the GameCube and kicks it away while presenting them with a Wii Remote to illustrate Nintendo's focus on the new system.
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The 1995 Japanese guide for Mario's Super Picross contains a short comic built on the same premise as the American Mario cartoons - that Mario and Luigi have a plumbing business in Brooklyn - with the difference that Princess Peach is also an employee at their company.
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Instead of displaying the frame rate as a number in debug mode, Super Mario Strikers uses an "FPS Smiler" that dynamically adjusts its facial expression from green and smiling (high FPS) to red and frowning (low FPS). Below is footage of how it looks when the game undergoes lag.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, the sun is the most important element, being featured prominently in the title, plot and gameplay of the game. However, despite this, in Episode 6 of Bianco Hills, the developers literally forgot to put the sun in the sky, so that it is simply missing.
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In Mario Kart World, NPCs will park their cars, exit them, and walk around. However, the game does not actually keep track who each car belongs to. As such, a different NPC than the owner may drive away with a car, seemingly stealing it.
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It is well known that Daisy's trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee has an eye hidden at the back of her head. The eye texture is actually tiled across the entirety of her head, and the developers made the copies invisible, missing one in the back. Below, all eyes are made visible.
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Many of the courses in Super Mario 64 have about the same polygonal complexity as Mario himself, with some even having fewer polygons than he does. In many places in the game, the console spends more computational power displaying Mario than the entirety of the rest of the scene.
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In WarioWare: Get It Together, Dr. Crygor's posterior is fully modeled in a dubiously detailed fashion despite never being seen in-game.
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The 2006 British print ad campaign for Mario Kart DS attempted to appeal to people who dislike Australians.
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A 2000 Australian commercial for the Game Boy Color featured a scene where an explosion knocks the fur off Donkey Kong, revealing that his limbs are skinny underneath.
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The Super Mario World Boo sprite has a distinctive 6-pixel wavy mouth. An obscure sprite from the SNES version of Yoshi's Cookie removes one pixel from the mouth, making it resemble a W-shaped cat-like mouth instead.
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Characters in Super Mario Galaxy have low, middle and high-quality models, arranged here from left to right. Luigi's middle-quality model has multiple versions of parts of his body loaded simultaneously, resulting in his hands and mouth appearing deformed (middle).
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In Super Mario 64, the collision of the crystals in the Bowser in the Dark World stage has a tiny opening at the top. If Mario performs a precise Ground Pound above the crystal when he is exactly aligned with the tip, he will be encased by the crystal in the manner depicted.
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In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Goombas actually look at invisible blocks to provide a subtle hint to the player. Please observe the Goomba in the footage closely.
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In NES Remix for the Wii U, the graphic used to preview Super Mario Bros. is actually cropped in-game. Extracting it from the files to view the full image reveals that the screenshot is placed in the top left corner of the Mona Lisa.
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The Japanese-only Mario's Super Picross contains a rare instance of dry humor from Mario when he pretends to formally apologize to the player when the Wario puzzles are unlocked.
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Unlicensed Mario statue sold by UK garden furniture shop Aston Garden Ornaments, named "ITALIAN MAN".
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Whenever Mario remains idle for long enough in Super Mario Odyssey, he will fall asleep, whereupon a bird native to the area may land on his nose. However, there is an extremely rare event where instead of the regional bird, a UFO will land on Mario's nose instead.
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In the character selection screen of Mario Kart Wii, the princesses have tiny biker versions of themselves hidden inside their bodies. This is due to the game loading both the dress and biker models at the same time for efficiency, and simply shrinking the currently unused one.
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In Mario Kart Wii, the eye hidden behind Rosalina's hair always mirrors the visible eye. As such, whenever she looks to the side, the eye mirrors the outward motion and causes her to be wall-eyed. By cutting her hair, this can be made visible.
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Today, the first ever photograph of a black hole was released to the astrophysical community (right). While the depiction of a black hole made in Super Mario Galaxy (left) 12 years ago does not entirely match up with the real black hole, the similarity is nevertheless remarkable.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, Mario is able to fall asleep off edges of platforms, appearing to float. However, in Super Mario 64, code exists that checks whether there is ground behind Mario first. Thus, in a game 21 years older, sleeping is implemented in a more sophisticated manner.
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In Super Mario Maker 2, while one might expect there to be some events that could wake up a Koopa sleeping at the wheel of a Koopa Troopa Car, absolutely nothing except Mario approaching it will wake it up. Below is a montage of the Koopa sleeping through various events.
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Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope contains fan art in its files. An unused image depicts Rosalina playing the guitar, which is taken from 2018 fan art by @franmm127 (based on Super Mario Odyssey concept art), linked below.
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Group photo of the actors and costume designers of the North American commercial for Super Smash Bros., taken immediately after finishing filming.
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Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 contains unused functionality to display low-polygon versions of drivers if they are far away from the camera. If it is enabled, drivers turn into low-quality versions of themselves, except for Waluigi, who turns into a low-quality Mario instead.
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In 2017, the German official Mario Kart Facebook account posted this image of SNES Rainbow Road from Mario Kart 8, which translates to "IN HELL THERE IS NO FIRE, ONLY COLORFUL ROADS WITHOUT RAILINGS". This marks a rare instance of official Mario material using the word "hell".
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Artwork used internally at DIC Entertainment during the production of the Super Mario World cartoon, replacing Marge Simpson with Mario. According to a former DIC employee, this was made due to an inside joke at the studio, though the exact nature of the joke has been lost.
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The Baby Yoshi model used in New Super Mario Bros. U is not optimized for being seen from the front. The game attempts to mask this by only showing Baby Yoshis from the front very briefly when turning around, and from far away on the overworld map.
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A Game Boy test cartridge used internally at Nintendo to diagnose problems with the hardware contains a graphics test that consists of ten Raccoon Marios marching around a monolith in a manner resembling a ceremony or ritual.
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In the intro to Super Mario 3D World, Bowser appears while halfway inside a clear pipe. The inside of the pipe is obscured with smoke, but extracting the model shows that Bowser's lower body was simply made into a tube to make animating him easier.
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In Mario Party 4, if debug functionality is used to access the final Bowser minigame without selecting a character, the player will be assigned Mario stuck in a default pose. Bizarrely, Mario's default pose is not a T-pose, but a stance with his hands folded instead.
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