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: in the Super Mario Maker series, the lava in the Super Mario Bros. style is animated, compared to the original game where it is a static image. However, the animation is relatively simplistic; the top layer of waves moves left while the bottom one moves right.
Bottom: there exists a more elaborate animation of the lava in that style, which can be seen in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. Here, the waves change shape on each frame. Why this animation, which predates Super Mario Maker by 16 years, was not used in favor of introducing a new, lower-quality animation is unknown.
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The Japanese version of Paper Mario has a different music track that plays during the “new partner” sequences that was replaced in all other versions. Here is the Japanese track, playing for one loop until 29 seconds in, where the international track plays for comparison.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, Mario will briefly gain extreme speed if he runs on ice while being burned. There are few places where fire is located close enough to ice for this to be possible; the midway platform in the Underground Temple in the Sand Kingdom is the most easily accessible, as seen in the footage.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, Super Mario Odyssey (Switch) on original hardware
By performing a certain series of actions in Supermassive Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2, it is possible to cause a Giant Piranha Plant to be invisible, leading to unique interactions.
If Mario loses a life after reaching the first checkpoint, then uses a Long Jump from the top of a Thwomp to reach the starting area again, the Piranha Plant in the pipe will not load correctly. It will be able to hurt Mario while invisible, and using a Spin Attack on it will cause bubbles to emerge from mid-air (top image).
Waiting near the invisible Piranha Plant will also eventually cause a fountain of dirt to come out of the pipe (bottom image). This will last indefinitely.
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Top: the bonus room with the two Lumas offering a chance to win 1-Ups in exchange for Star Bits and coins, accessed by taking a pipe on Starship Mario in Super Mario Galaxy 2. Note that the Lumas, as well as the cubes they are holding, have glow/sparkle effects.
Middle: if the bonus room is entered, then exited, it is possible to see an extremely faint speck of light on Starship Mario by entering first-person view mode while on the deck and looking to the right of the tree (circled red). This is best seen when Starship Mario is parked in World S, as the skyboxes of the other worlds contain too much detail for the lights to be discernible.
Bottom: zooming in on the light, it is revealed to be the glow effects from the cubes the Lumas in the bonus rooms are holding. This spot is actually the location of the bonus room, but it unloads almost entirely when it is exited. The only objects left are the glow particles, which can be seen from far away.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, Mario will say random words while asleep. Unlike previous Mario games, where the number of possible phrases was less than 10, Super Mario Odyssey has 95 different sound files that are randomly chosen from. Here are all the phrases in sequence.
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