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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Unused alternate title screen for Mario Party 7, accessible through a code.
(Footage recorded by me from an emulator, code provided by tcrf.net.)
Super Mario Land 2 map illustration
from
the French Nintendo Player magazine.
The book of Ezekiel in the Bible contains a reference to “dry bones” that come to life with a shake and a noise, not unlike the Dry Bones enemy from the Mario series that regenerates after being hit by shaking and making a clattering sound. It is possible that the Dry Bones enemy was in fact named by Nintendo’s English localization team as a reference to this passage.
Rare high-resolution version of the Mario vs. Bowser Balloon Battle artwork from Mario Kart: Super Circuit.
One of the sample comics found in WarioWare: D.I.Y.
Showcase.
In the main menu of Mario Power Tennis, Toad is present to explain the selection options. It appears as though Toad is close to the background and roughly the same size as the icons. However, moving the viewpoint reveals that Toad is actually extremely tiny and extremely close to the camera (note Toad near the left edge of the screen in the bottom image).
By removing the game’s ability to load certain textures, we can cause Mario’s mustache in Super Paper Mario to not be rendered, allowing us to get a clear view of Mario’s mouth.
Wario lifeforms and their frozen/desiccated versions from the Climate Control microgame in WarioWare: Smooth Moves.
In the prototype version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (found on multi-game demo discs), checking Goombella’s info reveals that her hero is “Goomelda, wisest of female Goombas”. This line and any other reference or mention of Goomelda are not present in the finished version of the game.
Top: the first level of the “Wario Wear” microgame in WarioWare: Mega Microgames. Wario starts the microgame wearing striped underwear and gains further clothes as it progresses, which makes it logical to assume that this is the most basic sprite that the rest of the clothes are superimposed on.
Middle: However, looking at the contents of the console’s graphical memory during the microgame, we see that there is actually an even more undressed state of Wario that is present in the scene, but not visible due to the underwear covering it.
Bottom: The assembled fully undressed Wario sprites.
