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At certain points during the story of Super Mario Sunshine, two Piantas can be found talking underneath an awning near the Noki Bay entrance in Delfino Plaza. Jumping onto the head of one of them will cause Mario to become stuck between him and the awning in the manner shown in the footage.
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2002 Japanese print ad for Super Mario Sunshine. The ad presents a censored Mario with a caption reading, (roughly translated) “Everyone knows him”.
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Photos from a 2002 Super Mario Sunshine promotional event by Nintendo of Japan, where Mario, Luigi and Peach were shown operating a fire hose in public to demonstrate the FLUDD water spraying mechanics of the game.
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In the fifth mission of Bianco Hills in Super Mario Sunshine, “Petey Piranha Strikes Back”, Petey Piranha must be battled by spraying him with water as he flies around the village, making him fall down, which is then followed by a battle on the ground before he resumes flying.
When Petey Piranha is moving while flying, spraying him does nothing; he is only able to fall down in specific spots where he stops in mid-air. One of these stops is the one depicted in the footage, situated between the village and the cliff. If he is made to fall down in that spot, and Mario runs at him from a certain angle, Mario will fall through the ground and die in the manner depicted.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, when falling down while on the underside of the level in Pianta Village, it is possible for Mario to hit the giant palm tree that is holding up the village at a specific location that will cause him to slide alongside the edge of the tree while rapidly vibrating in the manner depicted.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, Mario can open locked doors in Hotel Delfino using a glitch that involves pressing Y and hovering at the same time, then diving into the door. If this is done on the first mission of Sirena Beach, it is revealed that none of the hotel rooms are present behind the doors, so that Mario simply falls through the floor when entering a door in this manner.
A side effect of this is that whenever Mario reaches the floor where the glitch was performed after falling off, the door he went through will open and then close before he can enter it, whereupon it will be locked again. The effect, although unintentional, appears thematically appropriate to the haunted theme of the level, since it appears as though the door is being manipulated by a ghost to scare or confuse Mario.
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Top: in the intro to the first mission of Bianco Hills in Super Mario Sunshine, Shadow Mario can be seen standing next to the Proto Piranha miniboss. He only appears in the intro; when Mario reaches the spot he is shown standing at, he is nowhere to be found.
The entity seen in that intro is actually not Shadow Mario, but a Boo disguised as Shadow Mario. During gameplay, Boos disguised as Shadow Mario only appear in the seventh episode of Sirena Beach, however, here one of them is used as a stand-in for the real Shadow Mario during a cutscene. This can be verified by comparing the textures.
Bottom left: the real Shadow Mario’s textures are darker and a more uniform color, with rounded areas of shading.
Bottom right: when a Boo is disguised as Shadow Mario, it appears lighter, has more contrast, and shows characteristic thin lines on its texture.
By comparing the two, the Shadow Mario from the intro in Bianco Hills is revealed to be a Boo. This is also verified by checking the internal files.
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Activity section from a 2002 Burger King/Nintendo cross-promotion, featuring a puzzle with “OPEN SALAMI” as a solution. The phrase is a reference to a voice clip Mario says when entering levels in Super Mario Sunshine, although it is much more audible in the Japanese version of the game and has been made quieter in the international versions.
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Extremely rare officially licensed 2002 Pianta plushes from Japan. Note that while the male Pianta is supposed to be holding a durian fruit, which appear in Super Mario Sunshine, the simplified depiction of the durian actually makes it highly resemble a Star Bit from Super Mario Galaxy instead, which was released 5 years after the plushes. This also constitutes a coincidental prediction of the future as in 2010, both blue Piantas that look exactly like the plush and Star Bits would appear together in the Starshine Beach Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2.
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During the cutscene of meeting FLUDD at the start of Super Mario Sunshine, a brief shot from FLUDD’s point of view appears, filled with various writing on the sides of the screen. Due to the low resolution of the movie file that contains the cutscene, it is not possible to see the Japanese characters clearly; however, experts who have analyzed the low-quality text came to the conclusion that the block of text in the center of the left side the screen is a Mario character profile, and most likely reads (translated from Japanese):
Mario of the Mushroom Kingdom
Nemesis: Bowser
Occupation: Plumber
Favorite food: Spaghetti
Loves which person: Secret
Dislikes: Poison Mushroom
Body weight: Secret
Height: Unknown
Chromosome number: Unknown
Father’s name: Unknown
Mother’s name: Unknown
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