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Development images of an unused underwater hotel originally planned for Hotel Mario, published in 2025. This was almost certainly the scrapped hotel meant for Iggy, who does not have a hotel in the finished game.

The publication of these disproves the "Iggy's Cheese Hotel Theory" that stated that Iggy may have originally been planned to have the scrapped Cheese Hotel mentioned in interviews with the game's development team. It appears that the Cheese Hotel was simply never considered for the final game, and was shot down at an earlier stage in the process.

Please note that everything mentioned under "The facts" in the theory image is still accurate information; merely the speculation has been proven incorrect via the surfacing of additional information.

Source: spooky-jumpropes, TCRF, Trici Venola

In Paper Mario, the Master has an unused, unfinished attack found in his code whereby he flies at Mario and then appears to be stuck in mid-air, doing nothing. This would at first seem to be simply completely broken and require the game to be restarted, but waiting 5 and a half minutes will actually make him complete the attack and do damage (most of the waiting time cut out in the footage). He will also remain in mid-air next to Mario on the next turn after this.

This is due to the fact that the attack takes 10,000 frames to complete, which is around 5 and a half minutes at the game's 30 frames per second framerate. While broken and unfinished moves are nothing out of the ordinary for RPGs, it is rare to find a move that appears to freeze the game but actually manages to complete in an unreasonably long amount of time.

Source: elDexterr