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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Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix contains a debug mode, accessible by modifying a few addresses in the system’s memory. One of the features of this mode is a panoramic showcase of all dancing animations of the game’s characters. This allows us to get a good look at animations normally partially obscured, such as this “excited” animation from the song “Rollercoasting”.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, DDR Mario Mix in GC emulator
Top left: one of the many Puni Orb pedestals seen throughout Chapter 2 of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
Top right: a fake Puni Orb pedestal used by Lord Crump to trick Mario into activating a trap. Note the childlike drawings and little pink hearts used to decorate the pedestal.
Bottom: after activating the trap, Lord Crump appears and informs Mario that he made the fake pedestal, implying that the childlike scribbles and pink hearts are Crump’s own drawing.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, PM:TTYD in GC emulator, bottom screenshot
In Super Mario Galaxy, whenever Mario touches an Ice Flower and transforms into Ice Mario, the animation includes five blinking frames of his model with a texture different from the one used by the actual power-up, resembling Metal Mario. Here is a close-up during one of those frames.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, Super Mario Galaxy in Wii emulator
Super Mario Odyssey contains an unused speech synthesis function for some of the friendly species in the game. Bubblainians, Steam Gardeners, Volbonans and Tostarenans each have a list of 81 syllables - the ones most common in Japanese - that they can pronounce independently and string into words. In the finished game, this is not used - the species in question merely say random syllables from the list of available ones.
In this recording, I use the files to synthesize the characters saying “Supa Mario” (as “Super Mario” is pronounced in Japanese). In order, the voices are: male Bubblainian, female Bubblainian, Steam Gardener, large Volbonan, small Volbonan, and Tostarenan. You may notice the Tostarenan sounding completely unlike the ones in the game; this is due to the speech synthesis feature for that species being entirely unused and replaced with completely different, high-pitched sound files in the release version.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: sounds-resource.com user “Ziella”, second section
