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  1. Mister Wu

    Mario pictures

    Thanks, it must be XenForo not supporting transparency in thumbnails - misleading at best, but I guess transparency isn’t widespread enough yet to mandate proper support.
  2. Mister Wu

    Mario pictures

    I was very fond of the black and white ones, these ones are even more amazing! Little aside, the Wii U ones had transparent backgrounds already at the texture level, these ones having a white background will be a little more of an issue for us if we want to add them to the wiki, I wonder if...
  3. Mister Wu

    Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

    Well, we now have the colored versions of the hand-drawn artwork of Giga Cat Mario and Fury Bowser! The Giga Bell can be spotted, too!
  4. Mister Wu

    Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

    It’s pretty catisfying in my opinion. After all, it’s paired with the game whose 100% reward was “replay the whole game until all the characters have touched all the goal poles to get shining stars in the file select screen”.
  5. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    With so many Marios in Team Peach, it’s pretty understandable.
  6. Mister Wu

    Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

    Well, My Nintendo notebook and keychain are decent enough? I think this is the first hand-drawn artwork of Giga Cat Mario and Fury Bowser, by the way.
  7. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    And now a burning question: Bowser Jr. is in Team Peach because Peach is his mama, but why are the Koopalings in Team Peach too and not with Bowser and the Koopa Troopas in Team Daisy?
  8. Mister Wu

    Mario pictures

    Well, Nintendo claimed copyright on the video to stop the leaks, so I’ll stay mum until release. Which is good, as that would be a wall of text incoming just for the soundtrack choice...
  9. Mister Wu

    Super Mario 3D All-Stars

    Thing is, Lost Levels was between 1 and 3, here the most recent is Galaxy, so they just stopped there. I agree that having Galaxy 2 and 3D Land would have made sense to prepare for 3D World - the transition would have been more gradual - but it looks like the collection was a bit rushed, so they...
  10. Mister Wu

    Super Mario 3D All-Stars

    Honestly, Galaxy 2 was even deemed by the developers to be a Galaxy 1.5 or, as we would say now, “DLC before they were a thing on the Wii”. Galaxy is the groundbreaking game that expanded the Mario universe, added Rosalina and all the gravity-based mechanics, saying that Galaxy is incomplete...
  11. Mister Wu

    Sono contento che ti piacciano! Effettivamente, i libri sono pubblicati da Shogakukan, e a...

    Sono contento che ti piacciano! Effettivamente, i libri sono pubblicati da Shogakukan, e a detta del colophon nella loro creazione ci fu una collaborazione con la Nintendo. L’illustratore, Masaya Shiosaki, ha solo lavorato su quei libri e non sembra quindi essere un dipendente della Nintendo...
  12. Mister Wu

    Benvenuto! Apprezzo molto l’immagine che hai scelto per il profilo! Appena intravidi il...

    Benvenuto! Apprezzo molto l’immagine che hai scelto per il profilo! Appena intravidi il contenuto di quel libretto cercai lungamente di ottenerlo, e tra Yoshi che cavalca Mario e Larry Cappuccetto Rosso (ma anche Larry con i capelli a caschetto!) fu un grande piacere quando arrivò a casa e...
  13. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Kinda hoped for Plessie but... Lol they even used pink drivers and karts to highlight Cat Peach (who is behind Roy, by the way).
  14. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Well, good news! Our mysterious illustrator at Nintendo continues making awesome artwork! It's the turn of Berlin Byways now! Winter 2020 Mario and Peach come back, and Toad is into photography? Oh, for :yoshi: fans, another good news: Black Yoshi is now a permanent driver in the pipes, he...
  15. Mister Wu

    I Haven't Posted Here In A While, so here's a throwback. What's your favorite Koopaling?

    Well, Ludwig. even back in the SNES era I found it fun how they had sneaked in a classical music reference (but now that I know that the names came way later, I wonder who they based his design on, what employee at Nintendo might have hair like those?).
  16. Mister Wu

    Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

    Among the various good aspects of Bowser’s Fury, one that I really like is how it gives Plessie the spotlight it well deserved by making it the main mean of transport between the islands. Just look how awesome it is! Let’s hope it returns to stay with the main cast this time and doesn’t become...
  17. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    It’s so good! Starts as techno music (makes sense considering Germany is well known for that genre) and then the second part... man do I like its theme! They’re going experimental with city BGM, hopefully they’ll be able to carry something in their next games as what is coming out is pretty...
  18. Mister Wu

    Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

    Well, Jr. is somewhat playable. Somebody please remind him he had the same moveset of Mario in Sunshine though, the little fellow is now firmly in his Jr. Clown Car as if he couldn’t do anything without it. Still, open world Mario looks definitely good, it was a very good idea to use this port...
  19. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    A few details of ranked cups: * every player is paired with different opponents. Unless the players are very few you’re likely not in the ranked cup list of the players in your list * contrary to popular belief, there aren’t many bots in there. They are usually the last 3 in each list. You now...
  20. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Hey, a picture is worth a thousand word, we can directly embed it here! I absolutely didn’t expect Berlin, let alone a German Luigi alt...
  21. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    About time we got to play as the helper Lakitu (note the green shell), the new course as shown in the in-game news is basically RMX Rainbow Road 2 (no point in calling the first one RMX Rainbow Road 1 if there wasn’t going to be a 2, after all) but hey, let’s just let them have some “rest” with...
  22. Mister Wu

    Mario pictures

    That Yoshi on Standard Kart is a fake, the original had him on the Standard Bike! (it’s also in the new modern style while the MK8 stamp is in the classic modern style, in case you wanted to compare the two styles) Also yay, new Baby Yoshi artwork! One is a remake of the Yoshi artwork: (but...
  23. Mister Wu

    Mario pictures

    I think the most interesting is the Bowser Jr. one as I don’t remember having seen that artwork before (and the Magic Paintbrush is always a welcome reference, but why does this one not have the logo of E. Gadd?). Also lol only now I realize that the colored Yoshi artwork were already in the...
  24. Mister Wu

    Mario pictures

    Interesting, Bowser has ●瞳のまわりY90 + M90, if I’m reading it correctly, he was meant to have red eyes in this artwork, and that’s indeed the color of his eyes in the same artwork in the NA manual of SMW. I wonder why in the various illustrations of the Japanese Official Nintendo Guidebook Bowser...
  25. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Consider yourself lucky you don’t get a Coin in place of the Mega Mushroom because that item has already been obtained by someone else...
  26. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    No, it means that I hadn’t enough rubies to make a multi pull until I got 2nd place at the first ranked cup. The special pipes last until Thursday, so a day after the first ranked cup ends.
  27. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Heh, getting Black Yoshi from the Throwback Drivers Pipe was quite the conundrum - I literally had to get second place in a ranked cup to get him -, I’m not sure if I want another paywalled Yoshi, a Super eventually given in the Token Shop will do for me. Speaking of Yoshi, I was doing a...
  28. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Well, unless you’re saving for an alt you know they’re coming or you don’t have any ruby left and you’d need to pay real money, which is something I think you should not do on this game, never skip Coin Box drivers. Coin Box is by far the best special item in ranked cups, giving you almost...
  29. Mister Wu

    Paper Mario: The Origami King

    In my opinion, The Origami King didn’t really build on top of the strengths of Color Splash - I’d say that is more a narrative due to how few was Color Splash actually played. Color Splash had elements of the Wii U era - e.g. the Koopalings using weapons similar to the NSMBU weapons, Draggadon...
  30. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Honestly, can’t see Santa Bowser missing the chance of punishing the naughty kids. And if someone complains about the received coal... you don’t want to be on the receiving end of a fire breath when you’re holding coal, do you?
  31. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    He makes even more sense in Italy where Santa Claus is known as Daddy Christmas. How not to accept his gem-filled present? (also he’s a Coin Box driver so he’ll be the best in every one of his unique favorite courses, yay!)
  32. Mister Wu

    Paper Mario: The Origami King

    Remember Marza Animation Planet, the SEGA CG studio that did the CG openings of the first three Mario & Sonic games, but also the 3D models for the artwork of Mario Kart 8? Well, they worked on the lighting of this game too! https://www.marza.com/en/works/article/2327/ Main page dedicated to...
  33. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Well, that’s interesting, so far the New folder only contained city courses. The layout goes the extra mile too imo, with those three settings (village, industrial/mining area, gift box mountain) and that downhill slope with a half-pipe at the top. Also Reindeer Yoshi💚 and a mysterious green...
  34. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Yeah, but as I said before, two High-End drivers were recently given away for free: Metal Mario was in the Event Shop of the 1st Anniversary Tour, which was based on tokens you can’t buy, only collect on the courses Ice Mario was in last week’s Tier Shop, he costed 12000 Coins but every player...
  35. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Thing is, last week Ice Mario was being sold in the "for everyone" row of the Tier Shop for 12000 Coins, with 15000 Coins being gifted at the beginning of the Tour. Did you miss him?
  36. Mister Wu

    Mister Wu is now an administrator!

    Ich erinnere mich nicht. Vielleicht.
  37. Mister Wu

    Ray Trace / Baby Luigi / Dark Light received a promotion.

    I was joking at one of BLoF nicknames being Ray Trace but yeah, rendering of models is a very delicate matter and I too wonder if we should publish guidelines on renders for the wiki since details such as normal maps or the light source used for rendering or even the rendering method can easily...
  38. Mister Wu

    Ray Trace / Baby Luigi / Dark Light received a promotion.

    The wiki needed a better rendering method for its models anyway Congratulations Baby Luigi! Definitely well deserved! Now just get in touch with E. Gadd who will give you the ultimate cleaning... I mean patrolling tools!
  39. Mister Wu

    Waluigi Time is now a patroller!

    Too bad! Now the Waluigi Time has come for the wiki! They even have the patrolling bus ready!
  40. Mister Wu

    Mister Wu is now an administrator!

    Thanks a lot to all!
  41. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    So, huh, This is not something we have seen before, plus all these presents and the factories on the left make me think of a Santa’s presents factory... highly imaginative recreation of a real life location? The first non-city new course? What is this even.. P.S.: well, there is something new...
  42. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    For some reason, a pink version of the P-Wing, of the Flame Flyer and even of the Bumble V were gradually added overtime. No idea why. Well, the main point of the $20 and $40 packs - where their price originates - is selling rubies at a lower cost than what you find in the Ruby section of the...
  43. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Little aside, the pictures taken on my phone in auto mode are rendered at 1920 X 1080, interesting to see a Mario Kart game internally rendering at a higher resolution than the phone. Also, funnily enough when saving on a folder the images come attached with hastags, these ones came with...
  44. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Yes, most of these evaluations are based on Sgt. Spike’s tiering that takes into account the other possible options. If a courses doesn’t feature any Normal drivers and just one Super driver in the top shelf, said driver gets more points in the coverage-based tiering. Plus, R/T courses give less...
  45. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    I’m not even that much of a Waluigi fan, but still he looks so good in that attire that I consider him in the Double-Decker one of the best looking combinations of the game.
  46. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    If trash was always that elegant almost everyone would want to live in dumps, to be honest.
  47. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    Actually, the amount of Coin Box drivers is the same in both teams: Mario has Hakama Mario, Vacation Peach, Pink Gold Peach and Party Time Pauline. Luigi has Gold Freerunning Koopa, Gold Dry Bones, Gold King Boo and Swimwear Rosalina.
  48. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    By the way, in case you were wondering, the character vs character tour is not Coin Battle Mode, said mode has its own speed (0.4, less than the 0.5 of 50cc) and its own Steering and Drifting parameters (the same of 200cc), whereas this is just coin collecting in normal races. By the way...
  49. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    If Wii tracks are an indication, we’ll see initial support for Anti-Gravity in Spring and then at the end of the 2nd Anniversary Tour they’ll announce the first MK8 track. Thing is, Coin Battle Mode was datamined with the 2.6.0 update, so they’re currently working on that and it might require...
  50. Mister Wu

    Mario Kart Tour

    I was thinking, did we ever have dragged enemies in the 3D Mario Karts? I just can’t remember one case which behaved like the Monty Mole of SMK and the Native American Shy Guys of MKSC, which would also explain why that section was changed - the original mechanics just couldn’t be implemented.
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