A Super Mario variety blog.
Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
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Scene from a commercial for the New Nintendo 3DS XL showing the functionality of the C-Stick to move the camera, featuring Mario and Luigi. Of interest here is the blackboard, which depicts the musical staff for the Song of Time from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, particularly the version of it used in the remake, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, where the lowest two notes (A and C-Down in the original, L and R in the remake) are represented by squares instead of by circles.
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In the Yoshi’s Crafted World demo, it is possible for Yoshi to quickly bounce off eggs shot directly downward to gain enough height to leave the screen, potentially bypassing obstacles in an unintended manner. Whether this exploit will remain in the finished game remains to be seen.
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Top: before the final battle in Super Mario Odyssey, a wedding cake with cake toppers depicting Bowser and Peach can be seen in the background. However, approaching it activates the cutscene leading to the battle, after which the cake disappears. Thus, it is not possible to get close to the cake to see the toppers.
Middle and bottom: Extracting the model for the cake from the game’s files allows us to take a closer look at the figurines.
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In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, saving during different points in the story displays various scenes of the player characters interacting with each other in the respective locations on the save screen. Here are all of the scenes in order of story progression.
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In Paper Mario, it is possible to lock the game into a cutscene indefinitely by boarding the train in Toad Town after entering the area with Sushie and repeatedly pressing C-Down on the way to the train. With every press of C-Down, Sushie falls behind Mario slightly. If Sushie is far enough from Mario when he boards the train, the game will wait for her to board but be unable to calculate a path for her to take towards the train. This results in Mario waiting for Sushie at the train forever. The only way to exit this locked state is to reset the game.
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Footage from the commercial for the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, known internationally as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. The game’s high difficulty was a focus of the marketing campaign, leading to the commercial showing Mario in pain from falling down a pit.
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Super Mario Bros. cushion in the shape of the Small Mario sprite offered as a reward for Platinum members of the Japanese Club Nintendo in 2011. The box the cushion was shipped in contained the message “Thank you very much for your love!”
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