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Upon starting up Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World, a group of characters are shown as silhouettes, moving while talking. When the lights are turned on, the characters immediately stop moving (left column). However, if the player waits long enough on the title screen, the lights will turn off again. This time, when they turn back on, the characters continue moving for a few seconds afterwards (right column). In addition, waiting until the logo finishes shining shows a final bit of animation. In the case of Super Mario All-Stars, Mario shifts his eyes to look at the viewer (top right). In Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World, Yoshi also licks his lips (bottom right).
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Officially licensed squishable New Super Mario Bros. Balloon Boo plush.
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In New Super Mario Bros. U/Deluxe, if a Baby Yoshi is taken to Level Frosted Glacier-Ghost House and then thrown off screen in the vertically shifting room in the manner depicted, the Baby Yoshi will get stuck in mid-air and move with the room, periodically coming back up (watch the bottom right corner of the screen).
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Left: in Super Mario World, 1-Up Mushrooms encountered during regular gameplay can be deflected with Mario’s cape spin attack.
Right: however, the 1-Up Mushrooms used during the bonus game are a completely different object that merely looks like the ordinary 1-Up Mushrooms, but does not have the same properties (e.g. they move at a slightly slower speed). As such, it is impossible to deflect them with the cape spin attack.
The data for New Super Mario Bros. contains two unused clothing color schemes for Mario: one completely white and one with a white shirt, black overalls and a red cap. These were likely intended for power-ups that were scrapped during development. Here, both of these are shown while using the Mega Mushroom, allowing a closer look.
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Top: In the trailer for Paper Mario: The Origami King, Mario wears a helmet modeled after Samus’s helmet from the Metroid series.
Bottom: however, this is not the first time the series have been cross-referenced. In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a Paper Mario sticker is unlockable by letting the game detect a save file for Super Paper Mario on the system.
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Cover of the Japanese version of the official Donkey Kong Country 2 soundtrack.
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In Super Mario Bros., only one power-up can be on screen at any time. If a power-up is spawned while another one is already present, the existing one will disappear. A side effect is that the new power-up may inherit some properties of the existing one. If a Super Mushroom is spawned when a Super Star bounces off the ground, the Super Mushroom will jump out of its block, inheriting the Super Star’s bouncing motion.
Set of officially licensed Super Mario Kart figurines from Japan.
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In Super Mario World, with extremely precise movement, Yoshi can stomp on a shell in mid-air, turn around, and eat the dust particles from the destruction of the shell on the first frame they appear. This causes the game to reset the state of the shell so that it is intact again within Yoshi’s mouth, allowing him to spit it out and repeat this indefinitely. If Yoshi does not touch the ground during this, doing it also causes each stomped shell to count as a new enemy, allowing unlimited 1-Ups to be obtained.
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