On This Day, 20 Years Ago,Mario And Luigi Superstar Sagareleased On The Gameboy Advance.

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!

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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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 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 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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