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[smallmariofindings]

For an unknown reason, Mario does not have a death animation when drowning while wearing a diving helmet in Super Mario Sunshine.

While normally, Mario would be swimming and seen from behind when his air runs out, so that him simply dropping to the floor might appear to be a death animation, the lack of a dedicated animation is apparent when Mario is positioned on the seafloor and turned towards the camera. Note Mario having seemingly no reaction to having died.

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[suppermariobroth]

Drawings of Bowser based on his Super Mario 64 renders, commissioned by Nintendo of America from video game advertisement illustrator Ken Rosenberg, but not used in any known projects.

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[anton--rayne]

[ylwkirby]

do yall still love me

[smallmariofindings]

Officially licensed 1995 Yoshi's Island stickers from Japan.

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[suppermariobroth]

Full collection of officially licensed 1996 Yoshi's Island cards from Japan.

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[suppermariobroth]

Top: in a 1995 developer interview for Yoshi's Island, Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that during development, Baby Mario would transform into a full-grown Mario when collecting the Super Star. In the finished version, he transforms into "Powerful Mario", a form of Baby Mario with a cape, instead.

Bottom: internal files which surfaced in 2020 revealed the actual unused graphics of the full-grown Mario form that Miyamoto was talking about in the interview.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Source: shmuplations, sprites

[suppermariobroth]

Top: in a 1995 developer interview for Yoshi's Island, Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that during development, Baby Mario would transform into a full-grown Mario when collecting the Super Star. In the finished version, he transforms into "Powerful Mario", a form of Baby Mario with a cape, instead.

Bottom: internal files which surfaced in 2020 revealed the actual unused graphics of the full-grown Mario form that Miyamoto was talking about in the interview.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Source: shmuplations, sprites

[suppermariobroth]

Development files for Yoshi's Island contain this bizarre text that appears to be someone's personal account of buying a TV (translated from Japanese in the image).

What this is doing inside the files, and whether it was ever meant to be used as part of development itself (such as e.g. as a test message) or whether it was completely unrelated and simply ended up there as a mistake, is unknown.

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[suppermariobroth]

In multiplayer mode in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, all players are able to enter a bubble by pressing a specific button. If only one player who is not in a bubble is left, and that player enters a bubble on the same frame as touching a Goal Pole, that player's character will be erased from existence.

Note how Mario disappears in the footage and Player 1 is left controlling a seemingly empty bubble. Since there is now nothing left that can pop either of the bubbles, and the game does not proceed with the end-of-level sequence, the game becomes unplayable and needs to be reset to continue.

Humorously, the bubbles even float offscreen, which they normally cannot do since they are supposed to bounce off the edges of the screen, and leave the field of view completely empty.

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

[suppermariobroth]

In multiplayer mode in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, all players are able to enter a bubble by pressing a specific button. If only one player who is not in a bubble is left, and that player enters a bubble on the same frame as touching a Goal Pole, that player's character will be erased from existence.

Note how Mario disappears in the footage and Player 1 is left controlling a seemingly empty bubble. Since there is now nothing left that can pop either of the bubbles, and the game does not proceed with the end-of-level sequence, the game becomes unplayable and needs to be reset to continue.

Humorously, the bubbles even float offscreen, which they normally cannot do since they are supposed to bounce off the edges of the screen, and leave the field of view completely empty.

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

[smallmariofindings]

Unused "sad Mario running with an empty tin of cookies" sprite, found in the data of the NES version of Yoshi's Cookie.

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[specternabbermaiori]

[akiiame-blog]

Decided to do something a bit different. A local blue-collar worker finds a little feisty blue hedgehog and adopts him :)

[ddumbass]

i just got finished blocking all the spambots that recently followed me but this one is probably the craziest of them all

[drmagikarpus]

@ylwkirby

[suppermariobroth]

Unused, extremely quickly-moving tiny Yoshi sprites found in the development files for Yoshi's Island. These were intended to be used during world map cutscenes, like similar small Yoshi sprites are in the finished game.

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