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Comparison of the early design for the Yo Bro enemy found in the prototype version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (left) and the final version's design (right).
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Map of the Beanbean Kingdom in higher resolution than can be seen in-game in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions, found on the Japanese official site for the game.
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In the beginning of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Peach is cursed to have her voice turn into bombs whenever she speaks*. The bombs cause explosions and shake the ground upon falling.
The prototype version of the game also adds Toads falling from the ceiling when Peach's voice bombs explode, which was removed from the finished version of the game.
*this situation is more complex than it appears at that point in the game, but a more detailed explanation of the events is omitted to reduce spoilers for those who have not yet played it.
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Out of the five (non-remake) games in the Mario & Luigi series, only Mario & Luigi: Dream Team does not feature the inside of Peach's Castle, with only the outside of the castle being seen in the intro.
However, the game's files contain an unused battle background depicting the inside of the castle, suggesting that some type of tutorial battle could have taken place inside (similar to Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga's tutorial battle against Bowser).
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Game Over screen from the prototype version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, featuring a unique graphic of Mario and Luigi being defeated that is absent from the finished game.
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In 2003, Nintendo of Europe's official site for Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga offered a Macromedia Flash program for the game to download. The program simply contained a variety of low-resolution videos explaining various moves from the game, within an original frame graphic depicting Cackletta and Lady Lima. Above is a screenshot of the program.
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On this day, 20 years ago, Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga released on the Gameboy Advance.
In celebration of such an important milestone, I would like to introduce you all to beanbeankingdom.net!
I wanted a place where fans could easily find information on these games... This website is dedicated to the past 7 years I have spent compiling and researching merchandise and media from this series.
I hope you all enjoy!
X-ray artwork of Bowser found on the official Japanese site for Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey in 2018. Zooming in on the artwork reveals silhouettes of Mario and Luigi inside Bowser’s chest (directly underneath his chin in the image).
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2009 promotional flyer for Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.
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Unique background from Nintendo of America's official 2005 site for Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, depicting E. Gadd's time machine.
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Image posted by the developers of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team during a 2013 Miiverse interview about the game, showing how the game's sprites were drawn by combining individual basic parts and then editing them to match the pose.
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In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Golden Mushrooms (which fully restore HP and BP for Mario or Luigi) are highly limited items, with only five of them being normally obtainable during a playthrough. However, there is an exploit which allows an unlimited amount of them to be obtained.
During the final battles against Fawful or Popple, performing an advanced Swing Bros. attack on them results in stealing a Golden Mushroom from them. As this can only be done once per battle, this normally results in obtaining only one Golden Mushroom.
However, if the player then lets Fawful/Popple defeat Mario and Luigi, and then restarts the game from Beanbean Castle, the stolen Golden Mushroom will remain in the inventory, but the battle will not be marked as completed. As such, upon battling them again, another Golden Mushroom can be stolen. This can then be repeated arbitrarily many times.
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In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, after Mario and Luigi obtain their first pair of hammers, Sledge and Mallet (also known as the Hammerhead Bros.) explain how to use them in battle with a tutorial. The tutorial is completely scripted and it is not possible to defeat the Hammerhead Bros.; however, in the game’s code, this is not accomplished by designating them as special tutorial opponents, but rather by giving them an extremely high amount of HP.
Sledge and Mallet each have 5000 HP. This is several times higher than the final boss, who only has 1200 HP, making them the most powerful entities battled in the entire game. If the game is hacked to give Mario and Luigi enough attack power to defeat them, the game crashes.
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Sketches for Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga artwork, posted by the game’s illustrator, Masanori Sato, on his Instagram account.
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2013 print ad for Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.
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An extremely versatile glitch in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga involves Luigi hiding in a barrel and the barrel then being taken to places in the overworld where it was never intended to be. One side effect of this is that during cutscenes, if Luigi enters a scene while hiding inside a barrel and the script calls for his sprite to change into a cutscene-specific sprite, the sprite will be displayed with an incorrect palette.
An example of this can be seen in the provided screenshot. Before the rematch against Popple in the Winkle section of Chucklehuck Woods, Mario and Luigi run around the area, preventing Popple from trying to leave. If Luigi enters the scene while inside a barrel (not normally possible without the glitch), then his clothes will turn brown and his skin will turn blue when he blocks Popple’s path.
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