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.
In the Donkey Kong arcade, Pauline’s lost hat, purse and parasol are found as items that give Mario bonus points. However, despite this, no artwork exists that actually shows Pauline receiving the items back, including wearing the hat. In Super Mario Odyssey, the items reappear, this time as 3D models. Even though Pauline again never wears her lost hat (having a new red hat as part of her…
A glitch may occur in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam if Paper Mario is swinging his hammer while Mario obtains an item, whereby Paper Mario’s head and hands will be missing entirely during the “item obtained” pop-up. Source: super_a_a_a Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings
Officially licensed 2024 keychain of the Poltergust 5000 from Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD from Japan. The vacuum nozzle contains a light that can be activated via a button on the opposite side of the nozzle (not visible in the photo). Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source
Cover of a 1992 Argentinian VHS release of the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon series, confusingly named “Super Mario Bros. 2” instead. In addition, every instance of Luigi’s name on the cover is spelled “Luiggi”. Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source
Internally in Super Mario 64, the Fwoosh enemy (the cloud that blows off Mario’s hat in Tall, Tall Mountain) and Lakitu’s cloud are actually the same object, merely with one parameter changed from true to false. Setting it to true gives the cloud a face, which also activates its Fwoosh programming and makes it stay in a spot. Setting it to false does not spawn the face, which makes the…
The code of Paper Mario contains Goombario’s sister Goombaria as an unused party member. She will appear correctly on the overworld as seen in the footage, but has no special ability that is activated with C-Down like other partners. Entering a battle with her crashes the game. Interestingly, after modifying the game to activate her, Mario is locked into having her until the game is reset,…
Set of ten officially licensed 2026 Super Mario Galaxy Movie keychains from Japan. Source: 1468z Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings
Peach panna cotta served at Tower Records restaurants in Japan in 2015 for a Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary collaboration event. Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source
In the credits of Donkey Kong Land 3, a Knocka enemy (Kremling hiding in a barrel) is incorrectly identified as a Krusha enemy (the muscular blue Kremlings from Donkey Kong Country). This would be rather unremarkable if not for the fact that Krushas do not actually appear in Donkey Kong Land 3 , making this not an issue of the enemy names inside the game being mistakenly switched around but of one…
Unused parameters in the files of Paper Mario: Sticker Star show that 5-Coins were originally meant to be red before being made the same golden color as all other coin denominations. Note that in Super Mario 64, the most prominent game where different coin denominations used different colors, red coins were worth 2 coins instead, while blue coins were worth 5. Source: HunterXuman Main Blog |…
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, there is a planetoid in the Supermassive Galaxy that is populated by three Giant Koopas (the only instance of these enemies in the game), which have to be defeated via a Spin Drill to hit them from below. The internal name for the planetoid is “SmallBigMetboZone”, with “Metbo” being the Japanese name for the Goombeetle enemy. This suggests that the…
Top: in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the Boomerang Bros. were given unique designs to match the Beanbean Kingdom location (left) that differentiated them so much from the regular Boomerang Bros. that they were given a new species name in the Nintendo 3DS version: “Beanerang Bros.” (right). Bottom: however, the opposite happened to the Hammer Bros. during development. The earliest…
In Super Mario Maker 2, sideways trampolines are a type of object from which Roy will not emerge, while POW Blocks are an object from which he will. As such, if all ground on the screen is covered with sideways trampolines and there is a single POW Block, he will be forced to emerge from the latter. Since a POW Block is portable, this means that Mario can wait until Roy hides into the POW Block,…
In World 3-6 of Yoshi’s New Island, there are Tree Guys (tree-carrying Shy Guys) that pick up trees and try to carry them off-screen. If one of them is eaten with proper timing so that the tree is exactly the same distance from the edge of the screen as in the footage, a minor graphical glitch will occur whereby getting onto the tree and touching the edge of the screen will make Yoshi…
Officially licensed 2015 Super Mario Bros. pixel art figurines included with toppers on cans of specific brands of coffee in Japan. Source: tinycartridge Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings