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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Top: a page from the Japanese official guide for Super Mario All-Stars, introducing World 3 of Super Mario Bros. 3, Water Land. Below the map is a caption naming the world; it is called “海の国” (”Umi no Kuni”), meaning “Sea Country”.
Middle: a frame from a Japanese trailer for Super Mario Odyssey, showing the Seaside Kingdom. In the upper left corner, the location’s name is displayed, it is also called “海の国”.
Bottom: the two names for comparison. While the name “Sea Country” is simple enough that naming two unrelated locations this way could be a coincidence, Super Mario Odyssey does reference Super Mario Bros. 3 deliberately in other ways (the Slots minigame music, the Rocket Flower sound effect and the Jizo statue design), so that there is at least a possibility of the developers having intended Water Land and Seaside Kingdom to be the same location.
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Top: Super Mario Maker includes many different cursors the player can choose to represent their hand moving objects on the screen; one of them is Mario’s hand. While only a small portion of the arm is seen in-game, extracting the texture reveals that the arm is actually much longer.
Bottom: In fact, the arm is too long. I have overlaid the Super Mario Maker arm onto official art from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe to show the discrepancy between Mario’s normal arm length and the length of the cursor.
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In 1984, a licensed version of the Donkey Kong 3 arcade game was published by Hudson Soft for the Japanese PC-8801 home computer. This version featured different backgrounds, among them famous Earth landmarks and scenes of space. One background, used in Stage 18, is the explosion of a nuclear weapon, known as a “mushroom cloud”. As the game is licensed, Nintendo representatives must have personally approved this decision.
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Some readers of Supper Mario Broth may know that I have, since 2017, posted updates regarding my search for “Big Yoshi”, an extremely rare render of a Yoshi character from Super Mario RPG that has been lost in its original form and can only be found in select print publications.
The image above is the clearest scan of the Yoshi in question that currently exists, made by twitter.com user “MDragmire”. If you wish to find out more about my long search for “Big Yoshi”, you are welcome to read this in-depth article on it that I have published on the Supper Mario Broth Patreon:
Note that no subscription is required to read the article; it is publicly viewable.
I would like to thank all readers who have joined me in this investigation - and I hope that one day, the final goal of obtaining the original lossless .png file distributed by the development team will be reached.
Thank you very much for reading.
Print ad promoting the Nintendo 64. There are two notable things about this ad:
1. Games are being referred to by their prerelease titles instead of finalized names, such as “Yoshi’s Island 64″ for Yoshi’s Story and “Zelda 64″ for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
2. Looking at the list of games being promoted, as well as screenshots featured in the right column, we can see that Mario Kart 64 is not among either group. Thus, the ad uses a Mario Kart 64 background (Frappe Snowland) and a Mario Kart 64 render to advertise 13 other games, but not Mario Kart 64 itself.
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Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix contains a debug mode, accessible by modifying a few addresses in the system’s memory. One of the features of this mode is a panoramic showcase of all dancing animations of the game’s characters. This allows us to get a good look at animations normally partially obscured, such as this “excited” animation from the song “Rollercoasting”.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, DDR Mario Mix in GC emulator
