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Concept art for a backpacking New Donker wearing traditional Toad clothing who would have appeared in the Mushroom Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey, seen in the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book. In the finished game, New Donkers never wear any clothing other than suits, although they do occasionally wear different regional hats.

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Moon: Remix RPG Adventure is a 1997 game for the PlayStation (later released for the Nintendo Switch in 2020), developed by Love-de-Lic, a studio made up of former Square employees, including those who worked on Super Mario RPG. As such, it includes an overt Super Mario RPG reference in the form of the character Noge, who is a wooden doll. Noge's design and name are a reference to Geno from Super Mario RPG.

I have previously posted about a reference to Super Mario RPG hidden in Noge's official art, being a drawing of Belome. However, there is another such reference in the game itself. A hidden Easter egg scene occurs if the player is inside Noge's room in the early morning, at the moment Noge would wake up.

It turns out that the way he wakes up is by a series of toys creating a small Rube Goldberg machine to press the button on his alarm clock. During the chain reaction, a toy highly resembling Mario falls out of a car (left side of the screen in the footage), further referencing Super Mario RPG. Note that the toy is absent if the player is not in the room during that exact moment and walks in afterward.

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patchouli knowledge :3

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Two kings! Black King Fuji and White King Killia! Art by indra_ad on Vgen!

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Officially licensed Super Mario Bros. stickers based on shape marks used in grading assignments in Japanese schools. The Goomba mark is "no good", the Bowser one is "almost", the Mario one is "good" and the Peach one is "excellent".

In addition to the cross and round marks being commonly used in Japanese games, including Mario games, for "wrong" and "right" answers respectively (e.g. in Paper Mario, emerging from Chuck Quizmo's hat), the "flower" mark for "excellent" appears in Yoshi's Island whenever the player gets the full 100 points in a level.

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Grubba from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door actually has a very close physical resemblance to Tubba Blubba from Paper Mario, which is masked by him wearing a variety of clothes and accessories. This is in addition to the obvious parallel of them being Clubba bosses of their respective games' third chapters.

Left: Grubba as he appears normally.

Middle: Grubba without his accessories, seen by modifying the game to unload specific textures. Note that his glasses are not removable.

Right: Tubba Blubba; note the extremely similar color scheme that is much more noticeable when Grubba is uncovered.

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Concept art for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze depicting an unused enemy called a "Peanut Eater", which would have been immune to Diddy Kong's Peanut Pop Gun by humorously eating the peanuts.

This was likely unused for two reasons: -In addition to Diddy, two equivalent projectiles shot by Dixie and Cranky also exist in the game, being gumballs and dentures. While it would be logical for the creature to also eat gumballs, it would be rather bizarre if it ate dentures; while if it didn't, it would not even be immune to every type of projectile and thus its gimmick would have been even more specific. -Peanuts and other such projectiles are extremely ineffective in the game to begin with, doing nothing except very slightly slow down the vast majority of enemies. As such, an enemy that is unaffected by them would not have an advantage interesting enough to theme an entire design around.

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Concept art for a Donkey Kong game called "Freedom", pitched to Nintendo by Vicarious Visions (developer of Skylanders: SuperChargers, which contained Donkey Kong and Bowser) in 2015. The game was supposed to be an open-world Donkey Kong platformer.

Despite receiving interest from Nintendo, Vicarious Visions' parent company Activision cancelled all work on the project in 2016.

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The original sky stock photo used for the cartridge art of Super Mario 64 has been found on a texture repository CD.

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Happy 22nd Anniversary Disgaea!

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Photo from a Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix article in a 2005 issue of Nintendo Power, depicting Mario using a bowl of spaghetti with mushrooms and meatballs to "carb up" for his dancing challenges in the game.

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Unique artwork found on an officially licensed 1990 Super Mario Bros. mylar balloon.

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Gameplay music for the "underwater" level (the only surviving functional level) of "Super Yoshi", a cancelled version of the puzzle game Yoshi (originally for the NES) that was developed for the SNES, recovered in 2024.

Unlike the original NES (and Game Boy) versions, this game was intended to change the falling enemies to suit the level theme. Another theme, "forest", is known to exist and assets related to it are present in the data, but it is not functional.

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Unused "laugh at Mario's misfortune" animation for Grodus, found in the files of the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

Normally, regular enemies have a unique laugh animation whenever a negative stage event happens to Mario, such as a bucket falling on him. While Grodus does not laugh when this happens in-game, this unused animation intended for this scenario is included with his files.

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