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Top: In Super Mario Galaxy 2, there is a room inside Starship Mario that contains pedestals that display power-ups Mario has obtained during the game. However, the Spin Drill is slightly too large to fit into the display case, so it is resized to be smaller. During the brief iris-in screen transition when Mario enters the room, the Spin Drill is its usual size, and can be seen overlapping the display case.
Bottom: Moving the camera allows us to see this happening up close. The drill shrinks on the frame the screen transition ends.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: SMG2 in Wii emulator, special thanks to twitter user “HEYimHeroic”
Mario Kart: Double Dash contains a hidden functionality that provides a code after a Time Trial race that includes information about the track, the characters and kart used, as well as the total time and the fastest lap time.
If, after completing a race, the buttons L, R, L, R, X, Y, X, Y, Z are pressed in that order on the retry menu screen, the unique code will appear (top right). A player-made decoder is available online here (bottom); inputting the combination will correctly decode information about the race (compare with the times displayed at the end of the race, top left).
Unfortunately, this functionality was never used outside of a single contest by Nintendo exclusive to Japan, although it is available in all versions of the game.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, Mario Kart:Double Dash (NA, GC) in GC emulator
Illustration of Mario waking up and putting on his clothes, from the Japanese “Super Mario Story Quiz Picture Book 3: Mario’s Picnic”.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: see bottom of image
Mario Kart 8/Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, like the vast majority of 3D games, displays high-polygon models of nearby objects and swaps them for low-polygon models once they are far enough away from the camera.
However, the decision is dependent on the distance of that model’s closest polygon to the camera - which can cross the boundary repeatedly back and forth as part of an animation.
Here, we can see a group of Toads at a precise distance from the camera so that the green Toad’s head crosses the low-polygon/high-polygon boundary every time he bobs his head. This results in the unintended behavior of the Toads changing from low-polygon to high-polygon and back repeatedly.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: special thanks to tumblr.com user “smb3″
The track “Super Brothers” from the 2000 Sega Dreamcast game Jet Set Radio (also known as Jet Grind Radio in some territories) contains oblique references to the Super Mario franchise. According to the game’s composer, Hideki Naganuma, the lyrics are as following:
“Come go the rescue Peach
The super boy
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
He like mushroom
He’s a playin’ in another dimension
Love love love baby
Who are you? What’s your name? Super Brother”
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source 1, 2
In a piece of official artwork for New Super Mario Bros. Wii, the lowest spine on the back of Yoshi’s head is missing. It is most likely removed so it does not clip into the Yoshi’s back. The spine is not merely hidden by the Yoshi’s body; the bottom image is an animation of a different Yoshi render being overlaid over the artwork, showing that the lowest spine should have been visible in the gap between the head and the body if it was present.
This is not the only time New Super Mario Bros. Wii adjusts Yoshi’s model for aesthetic reasons; some artwork also shifts his saddle around on his body, as shown here.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source 1, 2
