Meet Kinoko. Does this sound like a normal mushroom power-up in a Super Mario game? Well, it’s not. It’s not like this little boy has decided exactly once here Super Mario Galaxy 1 And D Can exist and play properly.

As a cutting room floor document, Kinoco is a mushroom that exists in the files of both Wi-Fi platforms and you never See Mushroom In-Game, the title requires it both. “If the file does not exist, the game crashes,” TCRF begins accessing the wiki.

According to Nintendo hacker ecumber05, Kinoco’s model data is still alive and well Super Mario 3D All StarCollection of new switches, including three classic games. In an email, ecumber05 mentioned it as surprising, because behind the hood, it looks like some unused models were removed in the new version of the game.

At the direction of Polygon, ecumber05 was merged with Mud turns According to both of these tinkerers, the mushroom seems to be neutral. Phirubi extracted model data from the game and Galaxy Still successfully booted.

“I also wanted a reference to the mushroom code, but I didn’t get anything,” Eckmber 05 said in an email. “I think it’s safe to remove all the mushroom ties in this version.”

Why so much grip on mushrooms in the first place? The main hypothesis is that at some point during the development, the mushroom could probably have played in the early prototype. Super Mario Galaxy. Polygon could not find references for this online, but what happened in the first game probably moved to the second game because Nintendo reused some of its resources for the sequel.

None of this is back in the conversation for a viral Twitter post from Boundary Break YouTuber Chase, who recently posted a funny Tumblr exchange about game development. In it, fans are surprised to find something random in a game, while a developer explains that the game collapsed when the random thing was taken out.

Mushrooms, as a recent example, are far from the only killer “tomato” that allows games to work properly.

“When I worked at EA, I was told that the NASCAR team would have to give up the post of a field goal under the world because if it was removed due to the old Madden code in the game, the game would be broken.” Chris Wingard Said on Twitter. Many other game workers comedied in their responses to tomatoes or mushrooms carrying their own loads that they had heard about in other games.

If you know anything about game development, the existence of something like Kinoko should come as no surprise: after all, almost every title is held together by proverbial duct tape.