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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Top: Super Mario Maker includes many different cursors the player can choose to represent their hand moving objects on the screen; one of them is Mario’s hand. While only a small portion of the arm is seen in-game, extracting the texture reveals that the arm is actually much longer.
Bottom: In fact, the arm is too long. I have overlaid the Super Mario Maker arm onto official art from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe to show the discrepancy between Mario’s normal arm length and the length of the cursor.
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In 1984, a licensed version of the Donkey Kong 3 arcade game was published by Hudson Soft for the Japanese PC-8801 home computer. This version featured different backgrounds, among them famous Earth landmarks and scenes of space. One background, used in Stage 18, is the explosion of a nuclear weapon, known as a “mushroom cloud”. As the game is licensed, Nintendo representatives must have personally approved this decision.
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Print ad promoting the Nintendo 64. There are two notable things about this ad:
1. Games are being referred to by their prerelease titles instead of finalized names, such as “Yoshi’s Island 64″ for Yoshi’s Story and “Zelda 64″ for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
2. Looking at the list of games being promoted, as well as screenshots featured in the right column, we can see that Mario Kart 64 is not among either group. Thus, the ad uses a Mario Kart 64 background (Frappe Snowland) and a Mario Kart 64 render to advertise 13 other games, but not Mario Kart 64 itself.
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Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix contains a debug mode, accessible by modifying a few addresses in the system’s memory. One of the features of this mode is a panoramic showcase of all dancing animations of the game’s characters. This allows us to get a good look at animations normally partially obscured, such as this “excited” animation from the song “Rollercoasting”.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, DDR Mario Mix in GC emulator
Top left: one of the many Puni Orb pedestals seen throughout Chapter 2 of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
Top right: a fake Puni Orb pedestal used by Lord Crump to trick Mario into activating a trap. Note the childlike drawings and little pink hearts used to decorate the pedestal.
Bottom: after activating the trap, Lord Crump appears and informs Mario that he made the fake pedestal, implying that the childlike scribbles and pink hearts are Crump’s own drawing.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, PM:TTYD in GC emulator, bottom screenshot
In Super Mario Galaxy, whenever Mario touches an Ice Flower and transforms into Ice Mario, the animation includes five blinking frames of his model with a texture different from the one used by the actual power-up, resembling Metal Mario. Here is a close-up during one of those frames.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, Super Mario Galaxy in Wii emulator
