In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Golden Mushrooms (which Fully Restore HP And BP For Mario Or Luigi)

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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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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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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