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Players of Super Mario Advance may recall that one of the major changes in that game compared to the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 2 (on which it is mostly based) is the inclusion of two new boss intros for Fryguy and Clawgrip, respectively.

In both cases, the action stops and a cutscene shows four bubbles (identical to Wart's bubble attack) float up from the bottom of the screen and surround an entity before transforming it into the boss (a mask for Fryguy and a small Sidestepper crab for Clawgrip).

The game actually contains two unused scenes for the same intro happening with two more bosses: Mouser and Tryclyde, shown restored in the footage. Mouser is created from a unique small mouse sprite, while Tryclyde is created from a Cobrat.

This implies that during the game's development the idea of Wart's magic being responsible for most of the game's bosses was more prevalent, before these scenes were scrapped for an unknown reason.

Source: AkiraTheGamer

OP: "Decarbonized formaldehyde is great. Just wash daikons with decarbonized formaldehyde and they turn white."

"Decarbonized formaldehyde" (脫碳甲醛) is an online phrase used to make fun of people that blindly avoid chemicals. Formaldehyde (H2CO) decarbonized is water (H2O).

In Super Mario Sunshine, a commonly known glitch is the Dune Bud high jump, whereby a Dune Bud on Gelato Beach is sprayed and then Mario performs a Ground Pound in such a way that he is in mid-air when the Dune Bud activates. This results in Mario being launched so high up into the air that he takes several minutes to fall back down.

However, an interesting interaction of this glitch that actually reveals some of the inner workings of this game can be seen when it is performed directly after defeating the Wiggler boss, immediately before the Shine Sprite spawns. This is shown in the footage; note the unusual black sky during the cutscene.

The reason for this is that the skyboxes in this game (as in many other Mario games like Super Mario Galaxy) actually follow Mario instead of remaining fixed in space. When Mario is launched into the sky, the skybox follows him, so when the camera switches to showing the Shine Sprite, the sky is no longer visible from the ground, having been pulled upwards by Mario.

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Top: the snowy ground texture in Cool, Cool Mountain in Super Mario 64 is blurry and yellowish, not recognizable as anything specific.

Bottom: it turns out that it is actually a stock proto of a blanket from a commercial texture CD, made more blurry and recolored. Interestingly, the original blanket's color would also have fit for the purpose of making snowy ground, but the color was likely introduced to give some visual variety to the environment and to keep all ground in the course from being some shade of light blue.

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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.

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I don't have any experience with the weirder corners of university campuses – my work in that particular job just never happened to take me there. I did, however, once have to do a cable trace in the basement of a former Christian elementary school. It had haphazardly been subdivided into numerous tiny rooms, some as little as ten feet across, with no central hallways or apparent floor plan. Every single room was, for reasons that were and remain unclear to me, full of broken kitchen appliances. One room in particular contained an enormous industrial freezer unit that was larger in its smallest dimension than any of the doors leading to it. Was it delivered in pieces and assembled on site? Did they build the room around it? That one still bothers me a little bit.