Top: Near The Beginning Of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Toad Is Very Briefly Playable Inside Marios

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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2005 Japanese print ad for Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.

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Rare UK-exclusive pin available to customers who preordered Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions in 2017.

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In the data of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, sprites and animations for various Nintendo characters exist that would have been used inside the Starbeans Café, depicting the characters tasting the coffee. In the finished version of the game, all of these have been removed and replaced with scenes featuring Professor E. Gadd. One of these characters is Samus Aran from the Metroid series. Note Samus drinking a coffee in the bottom left.

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