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Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
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A localization oddity in Paper Mario: Color Splash: the washing machine on Vortex Island in the North American version is top-loading (top picture) while it is changed to a front-loading one in the European version (bottom picture). In order to justify the vortex still pointing upwards, the front-loading washing machine needed to be propped up against something. So the localization team decided to redesign the laundry room into a cave in order to include a rock for the washing machine to lean onto.
Mario Kart 64 employs a trick to reduce the number of polygons required to be rendered onscreen by replacing objects with 2D sprites of them when they are far away. Once the player drives closer to the object, the 3D model is loaded.
Funky’s Rentals in Donkey Kong Country 3 on the SNES on the left and in Donkey Kong Country 3 on the Game Boy Advance on the right.
Every sprite of a character in a Mario Party game on the Nintendo 64 is rendered from a model, but high-resolution images of these models are usually not released as official art. Here we can see a sprite of Peach from Mario Party 2 on the left and the source image on the right, found in a “behind the scenes” section of a Japanese guide.
From Super Mario-Kun.
From the Super Mario Bros. 2 Inside Out guide.
At San Diego Comic Con 2012, Charles Martinet talked to visitors as Mario. Here, Mario divulges his last name and the names of his family members.
From Super Mario History 1985-2010, a booklet bundled with Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition.
This Yoshi in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the only adult Yoshi character in the game outside the ones that briefly run across the screen during the Yoshi Kid’s Stampede attack, and is the only Yoshi besides the Yoshi Kid that talks. There is roughly a 1/16 chance of encountering him when taking the Excess Express after the completion of Chapter 6, resulting in only a small fraction of players seeing him.
In Super Mario 64, rooms in Peach’s Castle load into memory when Mario approaches the door. However, the entrance to Hazy Maze Cave only starts its rippling animation when Mario enters the room it is in. By moving the camera to be able to see inside the room before Mario enters it, it’s possible to see that the entrance is blue before its animation starts.
