In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, A Failsafe Exists If One Brother Somehow Enters A New Area Without

In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, a failsafe exists if one brother somehow enters a new area without the game having registered the brothers being officially separated from the other (either through the use of split-up moves or during specific story segments).

If this happens, the front brother (Mario in the footage) will wait at the entrance to the area and the other brother will join up with him by walking in from off-screen. This can be seen in some specific spots where the rear brother can get stuck on a ledge close to an exit, as shown in the footage.

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Top: near the beginning of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Toad is very briefly playable inside Mario’s house. The cutscene where Toad runs into the house ends without any indication that Toad is now playable, and it may take some time for the player to realize that nothing is happening and to try pressing random buttons, leading to Toad moving in response to the input.

Bottom: in the Japanese version of the game, which unusually for the time was released slightly later in Japan than in North America, a special D-pad icon was added in the bottom left to indicate that Toad can now be controlled, to prevent any potential confusion.

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In Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey, walking into the back wall of this underground passage outside of Toad Town will teleport Mario and Luigi above ground. This glitch is not present in the original Nintendo DS version of the game.

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High-resolution version of the background used for the map of Bowser’s body in Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey, found on the official Japanese site for the game.

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2010 New Year’s card from the staff of Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story.

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