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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!

Sketches for Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga artwork, posted by the game’s illustrator, Masanori Sato, on his Instagram account.

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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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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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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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