In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, After Mario And Luigi Obtain Their First Pair Of Hammers, Sledge And

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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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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2009 promotional flyer for Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.

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