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 Super Mario RPG, there is a minor Easter egg that can be seen when riding Yoshi. If Yoshi is made to jump next to the small houses with berries on their roofs on Yo’ster Isle, he will stick out his tongue as though attempting to eat the berries. Note that this works only if he is facing the roof diagonally; he will not stick out his tongue if aligned with the horizontal or vertical axes.
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Extremely rare 1995 Super Mario RPG Yoshi and Boshi plushies from Japan. These had a very limited run and are some of the rarest Mario franchise plushies ever released.
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The music that plays in the Sunken Ship in Super Mario RPG has the creaking of the ship embedded into the music. The SNES sound format has 8 channels of samples that play simultaneously; one of the channels is dedicated to the creaking sounds. By modifying the code to only play the other 7 channels, we can remove the creaking from the music, resulting in this “clean” version.
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Early version of Mario’s model for Super Mario RPG, seen in the British Superplay magazine (left) compared to the model from the finished game (right).
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: Superplay (UK), Issue 39, 1996
Top: a segment of footage from an early version of Super Mario RPG shown in a 1996 promotional Square VHS, featuring the scene from the game’s intro where Exor lands in Bowser’s Keep. This version has a more colorful and detailed sky compared to the finished game’s stylized blue lines.
Bottom: the same scene from the finished game, for comparison.
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Concept art for enemy designs for Super Mario RPG, most of them unused, shared by the game’s Monster Character Design Supervisor, Kazuyuki Kurashima. In the upper left are early designs for Belome and Punchinello.
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In the Japanese version of Super Mario RPG, if Mario opens the Treasure Box containing the Rare Scarf and the player then very quickly dismisses the text prompt that appears, Mario will slide down the hole next to the Treasure Box while still in the victory pose.
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