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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The game known internationally as Super Mario Bros. 2 is called Super Mario USA in Japan. Top left: the game’s cover as seen in the North American version of Super Mario All-Stars, top right: the cover in the Japanese version.
Bottom: Drawings of “American Mario” from the official Japanese guide for Super Mario All-Stars, based on the name “Super Mario USA”.
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Unused enemy found in the code of Super Paper Mario that appears as a circle of four rapidly rotating Marios. The Marios are in fact copies of the playable Mario - they mimic all of his animations, and attempting to Tattle them gives the same information as Tattling the playable Mario. Jumping onto the Marios hurts Mario - although whether this is due to the circle’s status as an enemy or due to Mario’s jumping hurting the rotating Marios, hurting him in turn since they are copies of him, is unclear.
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Top: footage from the reveal trailer for Paper Mario, shown at Nintendo Space World 1997 under the name “Super Mario RPG 2″. One part of the trailer showcases Mario walking through the main square of Toad Town, approaching the pond. Reflections of buildings on the square can be seen in the water.
Bottom: the same location in the finished game. The reflections have been removed from the water, making this an uncommon example of a Mario game receiving a graphical downgrade between its reveal and its release.
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All the different types of housing
Luigi can receive depending on amount of money collected at the end of Luigi’s Mansion for the Nintendo 3DS. In this version, an “S” rank has been added that was not present in the original, unlockable by collecting 130,000,000G in the Hidden Mansion. Compare the houses from the original version here.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it is possible to buy a large amount of Money Money badges, which increase the coins dropped by enemies after battle. With the maximum amount of Money Money badges equipped (19), any enemy that would normally drop 1 coin drops 20 coins instead, and any enemy that would normally drop 2 or more coins drops 32 coins instead (shown in the footage above); 32 being the limit of objects an enemy can drop at once. This results in Mario receiving 32 coins from the vast majority of encounters.
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On October 28th, 2017, the official Nintendo LINE account published an audio file titled “Jump Up, Super Star! Short Version Free Download”. The audio was a 47-second long sample of the background track of the “Jump Up, Super Star!” song from Super Mario Odyssey, with pitch-shifted Toad sound effects overlaid on top of it to resemble singing. The account then revealed that the song was supposed to be sung by Kinopio-kun, the green Toad mascot of the account, and posted a picture of Kinopio-kun dressed as Pauline (seen as the album art on this post). Note that the Nintendo LINE account is operated directly by Nintendo of Japan.
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