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SOURCES/CREDITS
https://web.archive.org/web/201909110...
https://www.mariowiki.com/Super_Mario...
https://twinbee.fandom.com/wiki/Hissh...
https://manga.fandom.com/wiki/Hissh%C...
http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.c...
https://archive.org/details/NintendoC...
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/King...
https://www.mariowiki.com/Gramma_Toad...
https://www.mariowiki.com/Grandma

MUSIC
"Kitchen Bossa" from Kenkou Ouen Recipe 1000 DS Kondate Zenshuu Original Soundtrack
"Logic and Trick" from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Original Soundtrack, remixed by Zinle
"Inside the Castle Walls" from Super Mario 64 Original Soundtrack
"Inside the Castle Walls" short piano version by me
Other music via Epidemic Sound

To expand on when I said “it might even have been the same artist who illustrated the Japanese guide book”:
The art looks similar, even practically identical between the Japanese guide book and those little illustrations at the start of How To Win at Mario, so I assumed it must have been the same artist. However, checking the credits for the two books, the American guide credits "Daisuke Shigoto" as the illustrator, while the Japanese one credits “Sho Kobayashi and others”. So maybe Daisuke Shigoto was one of the “others”, or maybe he was just using the Japanese guide as a reference when he illustrated the American guide book. OR Nintendo had some kind of internal style guidelines which were sent to both illustrators. But this seems unlikely given how different the art from these books looks when compared to the official Mario art from this era.