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Just your average video game and meme loving geek who has a love for MST3K too

[rozzroid]

WARIO WORLD MANUAL ART

Wario World (2003) for GameCube.

[wolfgabe]

Kirby Air Riders no context

[suppermariobroth]

In Super Mario Galaxy, Spring Mario can normally never sleep, as he always keeps bouncing in that form even if no input is made, and he cannot enter a sleep state while moving.

A glitch exists that allows Spring Mario to stand still without bouncing, activated by touching both a wall and a Gearmo on the same frame. However, performing it reveals that even then he does not sleep, as the code for the Spring Mario state explicitly forbids it.

By combining the glitch with a small modification to the code to force Spring Mario to go to sleep, it becomes apparent that the code doesn't merely never call the sleep function for Spring Mario, but doesn't even define it in the first place.

This leads to a visual glitch when it tries to load undefined sleepy eye textures, causing his eyes to appear completely black instead.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Source: SMG (NA, Wii), additional info: cometmedal

[wolfgabe]

Kirby Air Riders Character Wish List/Predictions

Daroach/The Squeaks

Taranza

The Animal Friends

Adeline

Ribbon

The Meta Knights

Marx, I mean come on he has to be in there somewhere

Clawroline

Elflin

Bonkers

The Three Mage Sisters

Mr Frosty

Broom Hatter

Poppy Bros Jr/Sr

Phan Phan

Buggzy

Bronto Burt

[afklancelot]

great opening to the direct

[wolfgabe]

So this must be where Tenna began his acting career

[suppermariobroth]

Logos used for various sections of Nintendo of America's official 1999 Donkey Kong 64 site, referencing various multimedia properties.

Top: "The DK Gorilla Project", referencing the 1999 horror film The Blair Witch Project.

Bottom left: "National Kongagraphic", referencing the National Geographic magazine.

Bottom right: "DK Island's Most Wanted", referencing the long-running TV show "America's Most Wanted".

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source

[wolfgabe]

Donkey Kong Bananza Spoilers without context

[wolfgabe]

The Hard Truth About Video Game Preservation.

Reality bites

Lately I have taken to writing assorted articles on Substack. Here I discuss my own thoughts on the numerous challenges video game preservation efforts face.

[suppermariobroth]

Top: in Donkey Kong Bananza, the font used for the UI and dialogue is called "Ad Lib". Interestingly, the choice of this specific typeface appears to be an extremely deep reference to the history of the series.

Middle: this typeface was used in the 1990s in various promotional material for Donkey Kong Country games, such as the big captions in the official Nintendo Power guide for Donkey Kong Country.

Bottom: in addition, it even made its way to material included with the games themselves, such as the Donkey Kong 64 manual.

If this is an intentional reference, it demonstrates the lengths to which the development team has gone to research the history of the series. If it is not intentional, it is a remarkable coincidence.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: Cameron Reigle

[suppermariobroth]

Bizarre pin promoting a 1992 French video game competition benefiting lung health, depicting Raccoon Mario as a loose collection of body parts with visible lungs.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source

[wolfgabe]

Donkey Kong Bananza Direct spoilers without context

[wolfgabe]

DOOM The Dark Ages Spoilers without context

[suppermariobroth]

Visit Original Link

Full recording of the "Wario Press Conference" sound file available for download from Nintendo of America's official site in 2003, featuring over 6 minutes of Charles Martinet speaking full sentences as Wario to promote WarioWare: Mega Microgames and Wario World.

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Officially licensed Yoshi mask on display at the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas at their "Off-Model Mario" exhibit. Note the placement of the eyeholes and nostril holes.

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[videogameads]

SONiC MEGA COLLECTiON Sega GameCube 2002

[vgprintads]

'Super Bubsy'

[PC] [SOUTH KOREA] [MAGAZINE] [1997]

Nothing much to say here. It's a port of the first Bubsy game with a bonus copy of the unaired cartoon series.

What I find most interesting is that if you throw the Korean here into Google Translate, the game is named "Super Law City" and stars a character named "Lawshi"... and that "all Earthlings are naked."

Have fun with this information.

Source: Game Champ, July 1997 || RetroCDN; Asagoth