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 Level 7-1 of Donkey Kong Country Returns, Foggy Fumes, there is a window at the end of the level that shows an unusual environment. Zooming in, we can see a painted landscape that is not used anywhere else in the game.
An odd oversight in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Whenever you exit a house in Fahr Outpost, you can see a chimney disappear shortly after the door closes. The reason for this is that the fireplace inside the house and the chimney are the same object, and that object is only loaded when Mario is inside the house, and unloaded when he exits.
From the cover of Nintendo Official Magazine.
In Super Mario Galaxy, whenever you go into first-person view, Mario’s model undergoes a change for the few frames it takes for the camera to zoom in: he loses his shading and his eyes become blank. Normally this happens in a fraction of a second; here it is slowed down.
All Nintendo Badge Arcade badges from the “Mario & Friends” series.
Background details from the Order Up minigame in Mario Party 4.
By increasing the resolution of Nintendo DS emulation, we can clearly see which entities in New Super Mario Bros. are 3D models and which are sprites.
In Super Mario World, collecting a Fire Flower from storage as Cape Mario while having Yoshi touch a Berry at the same time causes Mario to lose the ability to move, and to start flashing.
Checking out the fireplace in Boo’s Mansion in Paper Mario.
All sounds from Super Mario 64. This includes the samples used for pitch-shifting to create the instruments in the music tracks.
