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In Paper Mario: Color Splash, the theme for Port Prisma smoothly transitions into the shop theme or the post office theme when those buildings are entered. This is due to the game playing all three themes simultaneously and muting the ones not currently needed, as well as cross-fading them into each other. Here are the themes playing simultaneously, as the music would sound without the engine muting the tracks.
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Top: In Paper Mario: Color Splash, the top of Daffodil Peak contains a cardboard cutout of a yellow Toad with his face replaced with a circular hole.
Bottom: In Paper Mario: The Origami King, the plot of the yellow streamer area revolves around the villainous Hole Punch removing the faces of yellow Toads. The Toads with the removed faces look identical to the cardboard cutout from Paper Mario: Color Splash, which, considering Paper Mario: The Origami King contains other references to it, is likely a deliberate reference.
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In Paper Mario: Color Splash, the Toad Café on Ruddy Road plays a variation of the regular Ruddy Road theme when approached, smoothly changing between the tracks. Here are both the Ruddy Road and the Toad Café themes played simultaneously (left ear: Ruddy Road, right ear: Toad Café), which is impossible to hear in-game.
A glitch in Paper Mario: Color Splash can cause Mario to become temporarily tilted, affecting all his animations. After Plum Park is cleared of poison, position a floating bucket near a bridge in the manner depicted, hit it with the hammer several times so it shakes, then quickly hop in and out of the bucket. As long as Mario is moving, he will be tilted proportionally to how much the bucket was shaking when he jumped out. If Mario stops moving, he will return to normal.
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In the first half of the 1990′s, Nintendo’s tech support service has used special cartridges to test SNES systems’ various functions to determine if the console was fully operational. One such cartridge, the 1992 SNES Burn-in Test Cartridge, contains a unique sprite of the Mario enemy known as Podoboo or Lava Bubble (top image). Although the sprite’s lines are identical to the Super Mario World Lava Bubble, the coloring is completely different. While this is almost certainly a coincidence, this coloring has shown up in Paper Mario: Color Splash in 2016, 24 years later (bottom image).
The short operatic track that plays when using the Battery Thing Card in Paper Mario: Color Splash. Many interpretations of the German lyrics exist on the Internet, however, I believe that as a native speaker of German, I am at least somewhat qualified to give my own. I believe the lyrics are “Höret, ihr Narren, das aufgeladene Wort”, which translates to “Hear, you fools, the charged-up word”. “Charged-up” in this context refers to electrical charge, the source word being the same word one would use for a fully-charged battery.
Several sprites from Paper Mario: Color Splash suggest Mario is balding.
Mario and Huey applauding the Mountain Sage at Daffodil Peak in Paper Mario: Color Splash. (Source)
When the Cat-o-Luck is used in Paper Mario: Color Splash, a brief animation of doors opening plays before the main attack. During that animation, a blinking eye can be seen watching through a hole in the bottom right of the screen.
Pictures of the Toad Professor and his pet Chain Chomp, Princess, found in Château Chanterelle in Paper Mario: Color Splash.
