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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Print ad for Wario Land 4. A zoomed-in picture of the text portion is provided.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: GamePro (US), Issue 159, 2001
In Super Mario World, pressing Left and Right simultaneously while on Lakitu’s cloud allows Mario to pass through solid objects. Unfortunately, due to the design of the D-Pad on the official SNES controller, doing so is not possible without either breaking the D-Pad or using a third-party controller that replaces the D-Pad with four separate buttons.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, Super Mario World (NA, SNES) in SNES emulator
Brazilian print ad for Mario Golf: Advance Tour.
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In 2014, Nintendo announced that it would support Suica NFC cards to be used for payments on the Japanese Wii U eShop. Suica cards are used in Japan mainly to pay for public transport, which is why to promote the collaboration, trains in Tokyo were decorated with stickers of Mario and the Suica mascot, a penguin, interacting.
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In the data of Super Princess Peach, many unused test rooms can be found. These can be accessed by modifying the game’s code. One of these rooms changes how Princess Peach looks and sounds. When she is standing still, she is invisible; when moving, she becomes a collection of glitched graphics. All her sound effects are replaced with Toad and Mario voices. This was possibly a room that tested out a power-up that was removed from the finished game, with its graphics and sound effects later overwritten, resulting in the glitched appearance.
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Demo version of the Mario Party 8 title screen, found in the game’s files. Despite being only a work in progress, it is much more detailed than the finished game’s title screen, which features only Mario in 3D, replacing all other characters with small portraits.
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