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FOR THE DATE OF
September 19, 2007
Who's the finder, or head honcho, of SMBHQ? Thought it was Sean Kelly, but have no idea. And if I accidently send more than one of the same message, sorry.
Steve Peterson
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While I do most of the actually updates, Kyle Orland created the site. There is hardly anything I do for the site that I don't run by Kyle first.
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Finder?
I'm nominally the head webmaster of SMBHQ, but these days Sean Kelly is in charge of most of the day-to-day updates. I still handle much of the behind-the-scenes business and staffing issues that come up, but mostly my attention is spent on other projects.
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Who is the finder of SMBHQ? Ah, now there is a philosophical question. Perhaps you are the finder. For you, in fact, found it? Or maybe the finder is also the findee? Whatever that means. Or perhaps the finder is the finder within all of our hearts. Or maybe the finder was Bob. That crazy Bob. What will he find next?-jay
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I'm not supposed to tell you this, but hopefully
it'll slip past Sean. The person who is behind the
curtain is K***ERROR: UNEXPECTED END OF MESSAGE***
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Finder? What? This isn't a gold mine, sir. It's Super Mario Brothers HQ! And... it is definitely not Sean Kelly... it is Kyle Orland.
The guy with Darth Vader's head, and... uhh... a stick figure body. And he kills people with the Worse.
Yeah. Definitely him.
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Well, I know one thing for sure- I'm definitely not the head honcho, at least around here anyway.
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The finder of SMBHQ is the keeper of SMBHQ. He found it, so now
it's his. -CSM
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What happened to the Mushroom King?
Peter Schiller
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That's a good question. It was usually Jay, who recieved and posted the Mushroom King's answers. We'll look into reviving the section somehow.
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He was deposed in a bloodless coup?
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Beats me. The question should be, do you really care?-jay
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He got turned into pizza topping. And it was quite
delicious I must say.
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He traded places with the Pumpkin King, but during the transaction the Pumpkin King was hit by a truck. You read that right. Now he is condemned to forever scare children on halloween instead of obnoxiously pretend he knows everything.
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I dunno, but if he's really gone, can I be the Mushroom Princess? :D
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He got overthrown and deposed by a revolution of the masses and is
now replaced with a dictator who is just as brutal. -CSM
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Which of Mario's accents do you guys prefer, the "New York" accent he uses in his cartoons, or the stereotypical Italian accent he uses in today's video games? (I prefer his "New York" accent, as he sounds more realistic talking with that accent and the other one sounds just plain ridiculous on him, but feel free to argue if you don't agree with my choice)
Myouknowwho
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The New York accent all the way. Being part Italian myself, I know for the fact that they don't really talk the way it's shown in the Mario games.
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Good question! I'm not a huge fan of Charles Martinet's over-Italianified voice acting. Way too high pitched and stereotypical for me. That said, I didn't really like the cartoons' Brooklyn plumber accent either. I'd probably prefer Mario stay silent, like Link, and let the playeruse his imagination a bit.
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They both bother me. Although the italian one probably more, because, really, who speaks by saying "-a" all of the time. "It's-a me! Mario!" I mean, seriously. What gives.-jay
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In the grand scheme of things, does it really
matter? I answer with an emphatic maybe.
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I'd prefer if he had a Russian accent. Think of it, man. Russian Mario, taking down the flags of Capitalism and raising the flag of Communism. Plus if you make the Goombas stock brokers, you could have yourself a very patriotic game... :p
Plus, he could say 'Da.' after his sentences. "It's a vee, Mario! Da!"
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I think the Italian accent is more amusing, although if he truly is a plumber from Brooklyn, the New York accent is more appropriate. I don't really have a preference either way, though.
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AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH! VOLDEMORT'S COME TO SMBHQ! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
LEVICORPUS!!!! SECTUMSEMPRA!!!! CRUCIO!!!!!
Anyway, I prefer the Brooklyn one because I lived in Brooklyn for nine
years and it sounds less corny and I loved the Super Show. -CSM
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Kind of a question for the people behind neglected characters- how do you guys (and girls) get the comics to be vertical like that? I am making a few comics for fun with friends and I loved the nc, so I was wondering how I could do a layout like that.
from an nc fan
alex
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It's not rocket science. You just put each image on a separate line (yes, they are separate images -- sometimes over 100).
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Not sure exactly what this question is asking. You can make a comic in any layout you want wit ha decent paint program. Most also offer the option to rotate the entire image once you're done. Jay?
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Crap. A question for me. Why must you people haunt me so! Anyway, to get the frams vertical like that is very difficult and requires very complex HTML. You can only find this complex HTML by climbing to the top of Mount Fiji and seek the All Powerful HTMLer. Only He can grant you this special HTML. Go now! The force depends on it!-jay
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You need to turn your computer monitor sideways. I
can't BELIEVE people still ask that question.
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I love the letters N and C a lot, too. However, making a comic vertical is rather easy. See, you link one frame after another as separate images, and indent them. So, for example...
<mg src="blah.png"><br>
<img src="blah2.png"><br>
<img src="blah3.png"><br>
Very simple. Of course, you need a website and each picture needs to be one frame.
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Don't ask me, I just answer the mail.
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How do you get comix to become vertical? Turn them 90 degrees, duh!
Or, just make each frame as a separate PNG like I do and place them on web
pages individually. Don't ask me how to do HTML because I have no clue.
-CSM
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I've got a couple questions about the end of "Super Mario Bros. 2".
#1: After Mario and the gang defeats Wart and when the residents of Sub-Con are praising them, Mario wakes up then goes back to sleep. Does that mean the whole game was a dream and Mario's dream form is the one you play as, as well as Luigi, Peach, and Toad dreamed up by Mario?
#2: Are the Shy-Guy's, Birdo's and all the other enemies who weren't in the original Super Mario Bros. (meaning pretty much all of them) dreamed up by Mario and they came from Sub-Con, or were they in the Mushroom World, Mario saw them and he dreamed of them? Because some of the enemies (such as pidgets) appear in other games like "Mario & Luigi 2".
Sorry it's so long. Thanks.
Caleb
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1) Yes
2) That was actually the first case for Super Mario Mysteries. Check out what people said.
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#1 Yes, it means the game was a dream. As for "dream forms," I always just figured Mario was dreaming of being Luigi, Peach and Toad at those moments. Dreams are weird like that.
#2 This always bugged me. Those enemies started appearing again in Yoshi's Island with no explanation at all for how they could escape the dream world of Sub-Con. The real answer, probably, is that Miyamoto simply liked the character design (originally from non-Mario game Doki Doki Panic) and co-opted it for some of his later Mario games. But from a Mario universe standpoint it doesn't make a lick of sense.
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Now that's a silly question.-jay
(What? You wanted more? Too bad!-jay)
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I'm sorry, I fell asleep trying to read the
question and started dreaming I was throwing large
vegetables at giant enemy crabs.
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I have an answer to "A question from Caleb". &nbs p; #1: It turns out, that Mario was dreaming all of &nb sp; them, and as a result they were in his dream. Now, Mario suffers from & nbsp; multiple personality disorder, so in reality, he was dreaming he was &n bsp; all of them at once. He secretly wants to be Toad, Luigi, and/or Peach, you see, so &nb sp; he had a dream where he was them. Then there is question number ; two. & nbsp; #2: Mario drank too much, so all the &n bsp; creatures he saw were made up &nb sp; out of perfectly normal objects he had hallucinated ; after a long night at the bar. For example, he had the strange belief that pidgeons had the power to make perfectly useless &nbs p; carpets fly. Anyway, they became real when & nbsp; Mario accidentally damaged reality using Warp Whistles in Super Mario 3. They opened up the evil chasm of his mind, allowing &nb sp; all the monsters to escape from it. The moral of this story: Never use " &nbs p; " in your emails.
Editor's Note: This answer is a direct cut and paste from the e-mail. Appologies if you can't read it well.
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I think maybe Mario did see those characters somewhere in the Mushroom Kingdom, and maybe that's why he dreamed of them. And I wanna know what the heck Mario took to have a dream like SMB 2. I want dreams like that. XD
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Caleb again? How many Calebs do we get here anyway? Is your last name
Rentplayer?
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I know this is a weird question, but I can't stop thinking about the
guys on Super Mario Bros. For the original NES--what is the name of the
guys who throw the hammers in world 7-1?
--roccoberardi
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Ummm....Hammer Bros?
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Hammer Bros.
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They're called the Hammer Dudes. Trust me. I'm an expert.-jay
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They are called the Mallet Fraternizers. I can't
BELIEVE people still ask this question.
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Their names are Ted and Joe. And also Kane... and Bob... and Chad. Oh. And then there's Smith. All of their last names are Hammer, though... no relation to M.C. Hammer. They are commonly referred to as the 'Hammer Brothers' for this reason.
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They, my friend, are the Hammer Bros. Like the Mario Bros, but Koopas. With hammers.
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I just call him MC Hammer. But I think the folks at Nintendo call
him a Hammer Brother. I still recommend you calling him MC Hammer. -CSM
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1. WHEN will Jay finally update?
2. Do you think Mario football would be good for the DS?
3. do you think anougther NC mailbag would be funny?
pattersonwillard
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1) When hell freezes over.
2) NO MORE MARIO SPORTS GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3) Sure, why not.
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1) When I untie him and let him out of the closet.
2) Um... yes?
3) Probably.
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Crap. ANOTHER question for me. Won't you people just leave me alone??? What have I ever done to you??? Don't you know how much pain and suffering you cause me??? DO YOU??? *Sobs*
Anyway, I have no idea when I'll ever update again. Sorry, but that's the tooth.
And another NC mailbag wouldn't be funny, since you're assuming that the first NC mailbag was funny, which it wasn't.-jay
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A. After he stops playing Final Fantasy 6 for the
849th time.
Dos. Maybe, but only if they use the Chargin' Chucks
and if there's a hidden Nintendogs fighting game.
4. Only if you give Jay $500.
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1.
x + 5^(q - 1/35 + 0.15(15.238 - 39) * 3.01923 + e)
q^2 + 25q - 6^(2000*e) * 3.333333333333333333333
That many years. Yes.
2. No. Playing football with Mario clothes and using the DS as a football would be very bad for the DS. It would cause it to get dented, and several football players to go insane and think they are Mario. Very messy.
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N. A-noug-ther: To hurl nougat at theramins. Causes weird sci-fi effects and ruins nougat.
Hurling nougat at theramins is serious business, bub. It isn't funny, when you think of all the poor transistors, killed before their time by nougat. *sniff* Evil, horrible thing it is! *runs away*
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Guh. Unless football = soccer, no. I am not a huge fan of American football. If it's soccer you're mentioning, though- well, who knows. It might work on the DS. And I dunno about the NC mailbag- I'm not the NC lady. I just answer the mail.
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1. Jay will update before his 27th birthday.
2. NO. MORE. MARIO. SPORTS GAMES. Let's go back to the classic Mario
we know and love, ok?
3. Yes. And I'd do it if I were Jay. But I'm not Jay. Go bug Jay. Jay
loves to be bugged. -CSM
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Hey guys, I was just bored, so I put some questions.
1. Why can't Nintendo make up their minds on what Pokey should look like? I
mean, they used the same design in all 3 Paper Marios (much to my
satisfaction), then used the flower-headed one from Super Mario Sunshine in
some Mario Parties, then switched to the creepy white-eyed ones in later
Mario Parties, and...well, can't Nintendo just settle for ONE design for
future games?!
2. What do you think of Princess Rosetta in the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy?
PeachFan, this one's going to be tough.
3. If you could take one playable character out of a future Mario Party and
add a new one in, who would it be? I say take Hammer Bro out and add Goomba.
No, don't ask me how he'll pick stuff up. After all, he held a bat in Mario
Superstar Baseball.
Signed, Bobby.
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Lotta multi-questions today.....
1) Did you realize that you are complaining about a moving cactus?
2) THERE'S A NEW PRINCESS?!?!?!?!?!? Wow.
3) Who cares? I rarely play thoses type of games (unless it's Mario Kart).
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1) I never noticed this, but he's totally right. Pokey's design has changed a lot throughout the various spin-offs. Then again, Goomba's were round and Koopa Troopas had arms in Super Mario World. Thwomps went from spiky edged monsters in SMW to large blue blocks in SM64. And Wario trimmed down considerably after his premiere in SML2 (if you can believe that). My point: different artists take some liberties with character designs between games, and that's ok. It keeps things fresh.
2) Personally, I think a new princess is long overdue. With all her appearances in the Party/ Tennis/Golf/Basketball/Soccer spinoffs, I think of Peach now less as a damsel in distress and more as a kick-butt competitor (Especially in Strikers. That outfit is HOT!) Going back to having Peach kidnapped in SMG wouldn't really fit this new image.
3) Good question. I would take out Toadette (Seriously, what the hell's up with Toadette?) and add in Wart, because Wart gets no respect. He's the Rodney Dangerfield of the Mario universe.
Editor's Note:
Yeah, I can see a resemblance. :P
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What's with all of the questions? Anyway, none of your questions interest me, so I'm not going to answer them.-jay
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The answer to all three questions is shortwave
radio.
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1. I know the man named Nintendo. He has a very hard time keeping his mind on the same thing. One minute he's partying, and the next he's mutated into a freak and shoots lasers at you. He also likes picking up objects and socketing them into his forehead, and he also likes to save parts of his brain for use later, when he sockets them in and charges himself $15. Any way, as for pokeys, he is unsure what they are, and has a habit to forget how they are made. So he has to remake them every time, out of available parts. It is not pretty, the mess he makes. You're lucky you get something vaguely-pokeyish. The last time I asked him to make a sandwich for me, I got a golf club made of sandstone!!!!
2. I think she will exist to translate Egyptian Hieroglpyhs into Greek. Indeed, Mario will need to use her to read those hieroglyphs inside the SMB3 pyramids--about time Mario games involved real linguistics, too.
Also, she is fluent in both Greek and Egyptian, but not English, Japanese, or Spanish. That'll make it tricky for Mario to talk to her...
3. I would take out Mario and add in Wayne Gretsky. Because then he and Waluigi could be a team. "Team Hockey." Oh, yes. And he would have the power to
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1. I've noticed that Nintendo changes the designs of their characters rather often. Heck, Princess Peach used to be a brunette! I don't know why they can't settle on one design, though. Oh well.
2. DO NOT WANT. It's bad enough having Princess Daisy around, but now a new Princess? DX
3. Take Donkey Kong out and put in... uhm... Mallow or Geno from Super Mario RPG! Heck, stick 'em both in! It'll be a Mario RPG reunion! :D
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1. I think they should make Pokey look like the fat kid named Pokey from
EarthBound.
2. Not as disgustingly insulting as Bowser Jr., but still pretty bad.
They need to keep Peach.
3. The KOOPA KIDS! WE WANT LEMMY AND IGGY BACK! -CSM
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Hi,
I'm looking to do a Super Mario birthday party and was wondering if you had any ideas for games decoration etc. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time
Jenn Cranna
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There is a certain website that is so overused in this mailbag, that I will not say it again.
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Well there's always eBay, but you can manage on your own by printing out images from this very site to decorate your room with! Yay!
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What's with all of the Super Mario birthdays? Anyway, I say serve fried mushrooms. Kids love those.-jay
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Well, there's Hot-Fireball (best if played with
real fire), Pin-The-Tail-On-The-Bowser, and my
favorite, beating up on each other until you fall off
the screen.
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Find or create various things with Mario's image, logo on it... stock up on Mario games... make a Mario cake... the possibilities are endless!!!
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Well, for decorations you could print out pictures from the internet. For right now, that's all I've got, unfortunately. Maybe make a Mario cake? On eBay there are a few Mario cake pans...
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Do you have mushrooms and flowers in your yard? If so, pick them.
Put them all over the house. Now you can get "super" and "fire" to your
heart's content! If not, go buy some Portabello Mushrooms from your local
organic grocer. They're actually edible. Serve them. See my recipe for
1-Up Mushrooms from a few mailbags ago. -CSM
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I hope this isn't a stupid question, but where can you send questions for the Purity Test or Rants and stuff like that? I don't know if it's just me, but I can't find a link or an address to send to anywhere.
Steve Peterson
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