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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In New Super Mario Bros., World 7-A contains the game’s only appearance of Squigglers, juvenile Wigglers (top). Squigglers are unique among the game’s enemies in that instead of being fully modeled or fully sprited, their heads are modeled while their body segments are sprites. Thus, the model for the Squiggler consists only of its head (bottom).
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: 1, 2: NSMB (NA, DS)
In Super Mario World, Yoshi is able to eat Bob-omb explosions. This is due to the fact that internally, the explosion is not a new object, but merely the Bob-omb assuming a new sprite with a different hitbox. The code that determines whether the Bob-omb can be eaten by Yoshi is unaffected, allowing the explosion to be eaten.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: SMW (NA, SNES)
Cover artwork from a Japanese Super Mario Bros 3 guide. Note Peach’s unique hairstyle.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: twitter.com user “NintendoMetro”
Concept art for a Super Mario Bros. Super Show PSA from the DIC Entertainment archives. This was created before the designs for the characters were finalized and ended up not being used.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: twitter.com user “max6464646464“
Top: unused status effect icon found in the data of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, depicting a sad face.
Bottom: functionality involving this icon is still present, although no items activate it. It was intended to be used for an attack-lowering status effect, shown here by modifying the code.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, some of the kingdoms contain Power Moons obtainable by throwing Cappy at glowing birds. Usually, if the bird is scared off, the way to attempt this again is to walk away from the location and come back later once the bird respawns. However, there is a very quick way to respawn the bird. Simply enter first-person view mode, then look away and then back to the bird’s spawning point; the bird should have reappeared.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: SMO (Switch)
Illustration from the British NGC magazine, depicting official art of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin with the character’s head replaced with Mario’s head and flowers inserted into the guns.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: NGC (UK), Issue 79, 2003
Officially licensed 2019 Donkey Kong T-shirt from Japan, featuring unique artwork.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: see bottom of image
Animations that play on the bottom screen in the Nintendo 3DS themes “Mario’s Mighty Mustache” and “Luigi’s Mighty Mustache”, extracted from the console’s operating system code.
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The music that plays in the Sunken Ship in Super Mario RPG has the creaking of the ship embedded into the music. The SNES sound format has 8 channels of samples that play simultaneously; one of the channels is dedicated to the creaking sounds. By modifying the code to only play the other 7 channels, we can remove the creaking from the music, resulting in this “clean” version.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: SMRPG (NA, SNES)
