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Minor facts, images and discoveries from all around the world of Super Mario Bros., by Supper Mario Broth. Please note that the content presented within these posts is very specific and is likely to only be of interest to avid Mario enthusiasts.
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In 2016, Nintendo of Japan's official website published an article about sound design jobs at the company, which featured this photo of Kazumi Totaka, the voice actor for Yoshi, during a recording of Yoshi's voice for Yoshi's New Island.

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Super Mario World contains two types of P Switches. The regular blue P Switches act the same as they do in Super Mario Bros. 3, turning blocks into coins and coins into blocks. The much rarer grey P Switches do not turn coins into blocks, but instead turn enemies into special grey coins.

However, a glitch occurs if a grey P Switch is taken from the area where it appears into another area of the same level, e.g. through a pipe. The grey P Switch will lose its special property and will behave like a regular P Switch in the other area instead, as seen in the footage.

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Normally, when finishing a race in 5th to 8th place in Grand Prix mode in Mario Kart 64, the player does not continue to the next race, and is instead prompted to retry.

However, there is an extremely rare exception that occurs when the player finishes 5th by crossing the finish line alongside an opponent who finishes 4th. If both of them finish at the same time, the player will enter a glitchy "4th/5th place superposition" state where the player will be displayed as having placed 5th, and receive no points, but still be allowed to proceed to the next race as though finishing 4th.

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During the flood event in Delfino Plaza in Super Mario Sunshine (activated when all Shadow Mario missions are cleared and lasting until Mario enters Corona Mountain), there is a number of texture errors that are unique to this state of Delfino Plaza.

One of them is the alcove on the back of the tower on top of the police station building. While normally, the walls of that alcove are already glitched and display a scaled-down version of the wall texture that makes it seem like the alcove is lined with tiny doors and windows, the texture is normally overlaid with a darkness gradient, making it hard to see.

However, during the flood event, the gradient disappears from two of the walls of the alcove, making the texture error not only more apparent but also introducing a color mismatch between the walls.

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Promotional photo of Shigeru Miyamoto with a Donkey Kong plush, from a 2000 issue of the Japanese 64 Dream magazine.

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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy + for the Nintendo 3DS contained a variety of Nintendo-themed plane designs that could be unlocked either via amiibo or by finding hidden Question Blocks during the missions, as shown in the screenshot.

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The 1.0 version of WarioWare Gold accidentally swapped the X and Y buttons on the unlockable Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL models.

Top: how the models appear in that version of the game. Note the Y button being the topmost one while X is on the left.

Bottom: this was fixed starting with Version 1.1, where the X button was now correctly on the top and Y on the left.

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In New Super Mario Bros. 2, when starting the Coin Rush mode for the first time, the message that appears contains a grammatical error, where it reads "Your Mii character and name will be also be exchanged", repeating the word "be" twice.

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In the Bowser's Fury mode of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, a variety of glitches exist that allow for Mario to reach unintended speeds.

If Mario approaches Crisp Climb Castle while moving too quickly, the Propeller Blocks on that island will not load, but the snow that would normally be on top of them will. Note Mario standing on the snow while the block that snow would normally be covering is absent.

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Officially licensed 2003 T-shirt featuring various types of mushrooms. The shirt is extremely bizarre with its depiction of mushrooms:

-The first one, "Extra Life", depicts the obscure 1-Up Mushroom design from Super Mario Bros. 2 that was not shared with the rest of the series, but with the color scheme of a regular 1-Up Mushroom.

-The third one, "Block", is an object from Super Mario Bros. 2, a Mushroom Block, that is not consumable and instead can only be picked up and thrown. Its inclusion is questionable as it is, as pointed out by the game's manual, a mushroom-shaped block instead of a block-shaped mushroom.

-The fourth one, "Reverse", has the color scheme of the mushroom panel picture from the slots minigame of the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 3, but its name has only ever been used once in a Mario game, in Mario Party 3, where it is green with a red U-turn arrow on it. The mushroom as depicted here corresponds to nothing from any Mario media.

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