The Dood

博麗霊夢 | Reimu Hakurei

The recently released Nintendo Switch Online version of Donkey Kong 64 applies some emulator-level patches to the game to make it more playable than the famously glitched Wii U Virtual Console version, including adding carefully calibrated lag to make the emulation as accurate as possible to the Nintendo 64 hardware, and other enhancements.

One inexplicable enhancement, however, is "conditional grape darkening" introduced in Lanky's shooting minigame in Hideout Helm. This is the only place in the game where the graphic for Lanky's grapes has been darkened considerably through a patch included in the NSO version. Note that this place features a lot of grape-shooting, but Lanky can shoot a lot of grapes literally everywhere else in the game as well if the player wishes, so singling out this one spot is particularly bizarre

Top: how the grapes appear during regular gameplay. Middle: how they appear during that one minigame. Bottom: a side-by-side comparison.

In Super Mario 64, the Eyerok boss does not actually have to be defeated with punches or other attacks, and actually has a hitbox that can be reached just by jumping.

This allows for a particularly stylish way of defeating the boss seen in the footage, whereby it is hit exclusively with wall kicks.

prelog:

In Super Mario World, the Vanilla Dome 4 level contains many tall white plant-like platforms (identified in Japanese official material as daikon, a type of large white radish common in Japan) that sometimes have green bouncy platforms attached to their sides.

These bouncy platforms are slightly glitched in that if the camera is moved with L or R so that they are at the edge of the screen, the opposite edge will act like an invisible extension of the platform (or in other words, the platform's collision wraps around the screen).

The footage shows Mario bouncing around on the invisible platform before doing a large jump. Note the visible platform on the left side reacting to his bounces. This is easy to do during regular gameplay and merely requires careful camera positioning.

lets go prism rangers

The prototype version of Super Mario Kart features a glitch that has been fixed in the release version, whereby pausing the game just after the driver is hit by an obstacle and then restarting the race will cause the camera to view the driver from the side instead of from behind.

This makes the game extremely difficult to control since it is basically impossible to see more than a short distance ahead of the character, and the controls being rotated 90 degrees relative to the D-Pad directions.

Particularly entertaining is Yoshi's reaction to this glitch. All drivers in the game only have a single sprite per facing direction, and Yoshi's sprites have him stick out his tongue when going directly right or left. Since he is going left by default in this state, this causes him to always have his mouth open.

Extremely rare officially licensed 1988 towel depicting Mario and Luigi skateboarding.

When I was 14, my friends and I went to see Madagascar 3 - told our parents and then walked to and from the theater by ourselves. When I got home, my mom asked me all kinds of questions about the movie, and I told her about it, and I kept singing the stupid Afro Circus song