In Super Mario World, Mario can use lava to create life from nothing. Throwing an empty Koopa shell upward on the frame it would sink into lava will make it turn into a living Koopa. It can then be extracted from the shell and the process repeated indefinitely for infinite life.
January 29, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In Super Mario World, Mario can use lava to create life from nothing. Throwing an empty Koopa shell upward on the frame it would sink into lava will make it turn into a living Koopa. It can then be extracted from the shell and the process repeated indefinitely for infinite life.
In the dialogue script for the Faded Rudinn in Castle Town in Chapter 4, its speaker is "no_name" for most of its dialogue, which is normal for NPC dialogues. However on the dialogue about their color being faded, the game uses the speaker "your" which isn't used anywhere else in the game.
January 30, 2026 at 1:36 PM
In the dialogue script for the Faded Rudinn in Castle Town in Chapter 4, its speaker is "no_name" for most of its dialogue, which is normal for NPC dialogues. However on the dialogue about their color being faded, the game uses the speaker "your" which isn't used anywhere else in the game.
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Starlow bizarrely claims herself to be "an eight-headed beauty". This is actually a mistranslation. She actually refers to eight-head body proportions, used traditionally for fashion illustrations, instead of literally claiming to have 8 heads.
January 30, 2026 at 4:41 PM
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Starlow bizarrely claims herself to be "an eight-headed beauty". This is actually a mistranslation. She actually refers to eight-head body proportions, used traditionally for fashion illustrations, instead of literally claiming to have 8 heads.
In Paper Mario, Mario normally jumps onto Lakilester's cloud to use the Cloud Nine move. However, a small cute detail occurs if Mario is asleep or otherwise unable to jump onto the cloud, which causes Lakilester to gingerly pick him up from the ground himself instead.
January 31, 2026 at 6:10 PM
In Paper Mario, Mario normally jumps onto Lakilester's cloud to use the Cloud Nine move. However, a small cute detail occurs if Mario is asleep or otherwise unable to jump onto the cloud, which causes Lakilester to gingerly pick him up from the ground himself instead.
There is also an essay on Wikipedia about the Toby Fox foam picture incident, it's used as an example of photos of people not allowed to be used on Wikipedia since it can't be used to identify Toby Fox since you can't clearly see how he looks.
February 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM
There is also an essay on Wikipedia about the Toby Fox foam picture incident, it's used as an example of photos of people not allowed to be used on Wikipedia since it can't be used to identify Toby Fox since you can't clearly see how he looks.
According to Motoi Okamoto, Mini-Game Director for Super Mario 64 DS, Shigeru Miyamoto would start midnight crunch sessions for the game's development by walking into the office and announcing "It's Mario time."
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
According to Motoi Okamoto, Mini-Game Director for Super Mario 64 DS, Shigeru Miyamoto would start midnight crunch sessions for the game's development by walking into the office and announcing "It's Mario time."
The ending to the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels will become corrupted simply by Mario being too close to the right edge of the screen. While Mario will remain normal, Peach will become an uncanny jumble of corrupted graphics.
February 2, 2026 at 6:17 PM
The ending to the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels will become corrupted simply by Mario being too close to the right edge of the screen. While Mario will remain normal, Peach will become an uncanny jumble of corrupted graphics.
In 2023, I posted about a bizarre Dolce & Gabbana shirt featuring Mario standing in a beam of light alongside text praising him. I have tracked down the source of the image, which was a splash page in the E3 2000 brochure. Now the venerated Mario can be seen in high quality.
February 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
In 2023, I posted about a bizarre Dolce & Gabbana shirt featuring Mario standing in a beam of light alongside text praising him. I have tracked down the source of the image, which was a splash page in the E3 2000 brochure. Now the venerated Mario can be seen in high quality.
Toby once had a livestream dot com account that is now lost media, one of his streams was making a song live about Sephiroth shitting on Kyoto, but the link to the stream never got archived.
January 28, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Toby once had a livestream dot com account that is now lost media, one of his streams was making a song live about Sephiroth shitting on Kyoto, but the link to the stream never got archived.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership contains a rare "Long Legs Luigi" glitch whereby in the final boss battle, Luigi may become frozen in a jumping animation with his legs elongated.
January 28, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Mario & Luigi: Brothership contains a rare "Long Legs Luigi" glitch whereby in the final boss battle, Luigi may become frozen in a jumping animation with his legs elongated.
Official 2017 legally binding Mario/Peach-themed marriage certificate from Japan. Filling out this form and submitting it at the municipal office of residence immediately results in a recognized marriage once processed.
January 26, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Official 2017 legally binding Mario/Peach-themed marriage certificate from Japan. Filling out this form and submitting it at the municipal office of residence immediately results in a recognized marriage once processed.
In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, the Dragon Driftway takes place on a giant dragon based on Gobblegut from Super Mario Galaxy 2. The full dragon is never seen in-game all at once. Here is the track model with everything but the dragon removed.
January 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM
In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, the Dragon Driftway takes place on a giant dragon based on Gobblegut from Super Mario Galaxy 2. The full dragon is never seen in-game all at once. Here is the track model with everything but the dragon removed.
Several years ago a company that makes sticker sets you can get in gumball machines put out a "Krypto Villains" sticker set with unlicensed art of slasher villains, which includes Chara for some reason.
January 25, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Several years ago a company that makes sticker sets you can get in gumball machines put out a "Krypto Villains" sticker set with unlicensed art of slasher villains, which includes Chara for some reason.
In Mario's Early Years: Fun with Numbers for the SNES, there is an Easter egg where three photorealistic developer heads will appear on Mario's windowsill and chant "Hello, hello, hello" if one very specific pixel of the screen is clicked.
January 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
In Mario's Early Years: Fun with Numbers for the SNES, there is an Easter egg where three photorealistic developer heads will appear on Mario's windowsill and chant "Hello, hello, hello" if one very specific pixel of the screen is clicked.
In Paper Mario, Mario has 8 partners. However, there are enough unused and scrapped partners referenced in the game's files to make another full party. Here is a glimpse of an alternate reality with all of Mario's potential partners.
January 23, 2026 at 5:04 PM
In Paper Mario, Mario has 8 partners. However, there are enough unused and scrapped partners referenced in the game's files to make another full party. Here is a glimpse of an alternate reality with all of Mario's potential partners.