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A 2004 internal Nintendo document featured a bizarre model that looks like a fusion of Super Mario 64 and Paper Mario. This is actually a model from the famous Super Mario 128 tech demo, and is the only known place where it was ever used again after that.

The 2004 internal Nintendo programming manual for Nintendo DS graphics contains two sample images featuring this bizarre dot-eyed Super Mario 64 Mario.
Could it be a fusion of Super Mario 64 and Paper Mario?
Or Super Mario 64 and Super Mario World?
It is neither!
In the famous Super Mario 128 tech demo at SpaceWorld 2000, one of the graphical effects that the demo cycled through was cel shading, during which the Marios assumed this model!
Not only is this manual the only place this model was ever used outside of Super Mario 128, it is also the only place it can be seen without cel shading!
Source: YouTube user @AdamDoree, youtu.be/VBH50xxUKEk; internal Nintendo document NTR-06-0017-001-A4

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