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In Yoshi’s Island, pressing Down and A on the same frame when entering a pipe will cause Yoshi to jump, but the next room still to load as though Yoshi had entered the pipe. Interestingly, this saves time over entering the pipe the regular way, as it skips the animation of Yoshi going down the pipe.
Here, two recordings of equal length are played side by side, each 150 frames long (300 in-game frames, or 5 seconds). On the ninth frame of each recording, Down is pressed. In the left one, A is also pressed on the same frame. As you can see, Yoshi emerges in the next room half a second faster using this method.
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Recording of the “Mario in Real-Time” system from the Consumer Electronics Show 1992 in Las Vegas, showing Mario’s head transform into a model of the SNES Mouse.
While this system was popularized by Charles Martinet using it to communicate with visitors in the years after 1994, the first few times it was shown off to the public, a variety of other operators spoke as Mario.
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Būbū Mario is an extremely rare 1993 Japanese arcade game built into a children’s car ride. This is one of the only Mario games of which no direct video recordings exist, as the machine does not allow conventional recording devices to be connected to it.
This is one of the few known offscreen camera recordings of the game’s intro, depicting Mario and Yoshi exiting a car modeled after the machine with angry expressions.
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Top: the “EASY” stamp from Super Mario Maker 2, featuring original artwork of Bowser Jr., in all twelve languages the game is available in. Note that in all of them except the German one in the bottom right, some part of the text is covering up Bowser Jr. partially.
Bottom: using the German translation of the stamp, we are able to cleanly edit out the text and produce a completely unobscured version of this Bowser Jr. artwork in the highest available quality.
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