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In Donkey Kong Bananza, signs appear that indicate that Tiny Kong owns a bank. The 1999 official German website for Donkey Kong 64 claimed she was a tax official and managed the savings of DK Island. Whether this is a deep cut reference or an astounding coincidence is unknown.
ALT Source: DK Vine, bsky.app/profile/dkvine.com/post/3mjfrrwkmyk2h, screenshot by Supper Mario Broth
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In a 2010 interview, Shigeru Miyamoto revealed that the reason so many Mario enemies have repetitive names in Japanese (and by extension in English, e.g. Koopa Troopa, Cheep Cheep) is in honor of Takashi Tezuka, who calls himself "Ten Ten".
ALT Source: ndw.jp/mario-220913-2, via Drew Mackie, thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/special/mario101-p3
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In Paper Mario: Color Splash, a Shy Guy is trapped in a water wheel after being bullied. The internal name for this pose is "crucify". This suggests that the original intent may have been for him to actually evoke a crucifixion before it was decided this may be in bad taste.
ALT Source: tcrf.net user "Scrooge200", Random Talking Bush, spriters-resource.com/wii_u/papermariocolorsplash/asset/84164
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In Donkey Kong 64, Diddy, Tiny, Lanky and Chunky are all unlocked by freeing them from cages. While DK appears to be unlocked by default, this is false: internally, the game only unlocks him by opening the door to exit DK Island. The entirety of DK Island is his personal cage.
ALT Source: tcrf.net user "Alley", tcrf.net/File:DK64_YellowQ_TagBarrel.png
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It turns out that idling on the final ending screen of Donkey Kong Country 2 for 18 minutes causes the cutscene to glitch and play again. This was only discovered 30 years after the game's release, presumably due to no one bothering to wait on that screen for that long.
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Super Mario Galaxy skyboxes use perspective tricks to reduce the number of polygons that would normally be needed. The Melty Molten Galaxy skybox appears to be two large spheres, but is actually an illusion painted onto the sides of a burger.
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When rumble is turned on in Luigi's Mansion 3, the controller will vibrate in the presence of a Boo. The vibration is actually in a rhythm that spells out "-... --- ---" in Morse code, which translates to "BOO".
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The Mosh-Pit Playroom minigame in Mario Party 8 contains generic books in the background. Unused textures for these books show they were originally meant to be a treasure trove of Easter egg references to other video games, including even some non-Mario ones like Mother.
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In Mario Party, minigame descriptions treat being eliminated merely as being out of the game, except for Bumper Balls, which shifts the tone by stating the winner is the last one left alive. This implies that while other minigames might be for fun, Bumper Balls is to the death.
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Addendum: please note that this wording is only present in the English version, and absent in both the Japanese original and other translations. As such, the implication is clearly not intentional and is merely a bizarre choice on part of the English translator!
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A 2004 internal Nintendo document featured a bizarre model that looks like a fusion of Super Mario 64 and Paper Mario. This is actually a model from the famous Super Mario 128 tech demo, and is the only known place where it was ever used again after that.
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Addendum: please note that while the shape, face, hands and shoes all match the demo so it is undoubtedly this specific Mario, the sideburns and ear textures are slightly different so it appears to be an early or alternate version of the model!
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The Berlin Wall has appeared a surprising amount of times in the Mario series, being featured in four games and one ad campaign.
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Originally, Super Mario Strikers was planned to give every captain their own unique sidekicks, instead of sharing generic ones. Donkey Kong's dedicated sidekicks still survive in the files, being a trio of anonymous Kongs.
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In Super Paper Mario, Bowser can accidentally break the game at the worst possible time purely due to how large he is. His size allows him to open two chests at once at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials, which will freeze the game and undo vast amounts of progress.
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In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, an unused room takes Mario and Luigi through a time portal into a white void. This inadvertently highly resembles the classic SpongeBob SquarePants episode "SB-129", where the same exact scenario happens to Squidward.
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Luigi's Mansion originally included a Pikmin movie, which was removed in the NSO Switch 2 version. This was to save space; with 63 MB, the Pikmin movie is half the size of Luigi's Mansion itself. The original disc had plenty of empty space so the movie was just thrown in.
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Addendum: please note that since Switch 2 software cannot yet be datamined, it is not actually known if the movie was deleted or access to it was simply removed, though it seems unlikely Nintendo would do the latter without the former. I hope the data can still be of interest!
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The English manual for WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames states that Dr. Crygor created Wario's car. However, the French manual changes this into Dr. Crygor claiming to have created Wario himself. This makes him either Wario's father or Wario some kind of "Crygor's Monster".
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It is possible that Mr. E, the eponymous mysterious book from Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, is inspired at least partially by the Voynich Manuscript, a famous medieval book that seems to describe unindentifiable wondrous flora in a completely incomprehensible language.
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