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Update and New Side Blog
You may have noticed that despite announcing that Transparency Reports will be released weekly in September, no new reports have been published in the last few weeks. This is due to a decision I have made after discussing the matter with Supper Mario Broth Patreon subscribers, who have expressed a preference to reduce the frequency of reports in favor of allowing me to take more time to publish content. To comply with the request, the Transparency Reports will now be published monthly instead of weekly, on the 1st of each month. I hope this does not create any inconvenience; if it does, please feel free to contact me over Tumblr’s messaging service and I will answer any questions you may have that the weekly Transparency Report would otherwise have covered.
Since it is currently still over a week until the next report, I would like to take this opportunity to update you on current projects, as well as introduce a new blog. As you may know, I have been able to obtain a Nintendo Switch with Super Mario Odyssey due to the incredible support of my Patreon subscribers; I have already published multiple new discoveries like the distorted Mario mirage and the single-frame Mario reduplication event. I hope that you will enjoy the further discoveries I will publish for Super Mario Odyssey.
For a long time, I have put off publishing content that is too specific to be engaging to a wide audience on my main blog and Twitter. However, I believe that to not publish findings simply because they are minor and obscure is a disservice to those readers who would prefer to see that kind of content. Therefore, I have created a new side blog for this purpose:
Small Mario Findings by Supper Mario Broth
Small Mario Findings is a blog that will contain discoveries that are of interest largely only to avid Mario enthusiasts, such as lesser glitches and errors, singular pieces of rare art or scans of points of minor interest in magazines. If this type of content does not interest you, please do not worry that the operation of this blog will take away from the other projects, as the update frequency for the main blog and Twitter will remain the same.
The blog already has 120 posts, so please do not forget to click “Next Page” on the bottom if you wish to see more. The posting on Small Mario Findings is automated through a queue that publishes 10 posts a day; due to the enormous amount of material I have collected, this pace is expected to continue indefinitely.
In addition, I am working on an archive of old Twitter posts that are no longer easily accessible through scrolling on my Twitter profile; the archive will also add sources to all previously unsourced material (as the older Tweets were made before the introduction of my attribution policy). Details will be announced after the first month of posts is compiled and sourced.
I would like to thank all readers for your continued support. I endeavor to keep growing and improving Supper Mario Broth content in every way I can, and I hope you will find the projects to be satisfactory.
Thank you very much for reading.
Top: footage from the reveal trailer for Paper Mario, shown at Nintendo Space World 1997 under the name “Super Mario RPG 2″. One part of the trailer showcases Mario walking through the main square of Toad Town, approaching the pond. Reflections of buildings on the square can be seen in the water.
Bottom: the same location in the finished game. The reflections have been removed from the water, making this an uncommon example of a Mario game receiving a graphical downgrade between its reveal and its release.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source 1, Source 2: myself, Paper Mario (NA, VC) in Wii emulator
All the different types of housing
Luigi can receive depending on amount of money collected at the end of Luigi’s Mansion for the Nintendo 3DS. In this version, an “S” rank has been added that was not present in the original, unlockable by collecting 130,000,000G in the Hidden Mansion. Compare the houses from the original version here.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it is possible to buy a large amount of Money Money badges, which increase the coins dropped by enemies after battle. With the maximum amount of Money Money badges equipped (19), any enemy that would normally drop 1 coin drops 20 coins instead, and any enemy that would normally drop 2 or more coins drops 32 coins instead (shown in the footage above); 32 being the limit of objects an enemy can drop at once. This results in Mario receiving 32 coins from the vast majority of encounters.
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On October 28th, 2017, the official Nintendo LINE account published an audio file titled “Jump Up, Super Star! Short Version Free Download”. The audio was a 47-second long sample of the background track of the “Jump Up, Super Star!” song from Super Mario Odyssey, with pitch-shifted Toad sound effects overlaid on top of it to resemble singing. The account then revealed that the song was supposed to be sung by Kinopio-kun, the green Toad mascot of the account, and posted a picture of Kinopio-kun dressed as Pauline (seen as the album art on this post). Note that the Nintendo LINE account is operated directly by Nintendo of Japan.
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