Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga contains a "Spanish Peach Protection" exploit. Normally, Peach gets kidnapped in a cutscene when Mario is distracted by Toadsworth. Setting the language to Spanish helps mash through Toadsworth's text so fast that Peach never actually gets kidnapped.

"Peach has now been saved theough the power of Spanish". De nada ("You're welcome") 👍🏻

So, does the game continue normally despite the "cutscene" not actually playing? Do you have to exit the area and re-enter, or simply continuing throughout the game is fine as if Peach was captured?

This is purely beneficial, since Peach getting captured is not essential and only slows you down by forcing Mario to visit a different room to retrieve her. It saves time in this room by skipping the otherwise mandatory capture. Thank you very much for your inquiry!

Gracias por todo el conocimiento que nos das, Cena Mario Caldo 💖

Desde luego, el español gana está vez, gracias Caldo de Supper Mario

well now im curious how far she walks around. is she essentially a wandering NPC at that point?

Does that mean speedrunners have to play the whole game in Spanish?

Speaking of Spanish, Mr. Broth I have a question that you may know the answer. What was the first Mario game to fetaure Spanish as a language in NTSC regions (I know that PAL regions got Spanish much more earlier).

Wait, wdym with textboxes being "shorter"? Characters-wise you can just scroll all the characters instantly anyway. Do you mean you can *close* them quicker in Spanish for whatever reason? That sounds pretty bizarre in and of itself

Isn’t japanese really short too?

I hate that part !

Español Skip

La lengua de Cervantes lo hace de nuevo.

Spanish or Vanish

"¡Gracias!"

Lore accurate Spanish delivery

Do you know how this is handled in the remake? I think this is a super creative way to handle this cutscene in normal gameplay!

Damn Duolingo was right, Spanish or Vanish

@EricOrtizP lol

hey, when is the next experimental post? i think it's been a while have they been discontinued

SIII-i-ii Poder español more reasons to be proud for speaking spanish

¡El Español es un lenguaje superior!

That is so interesting since it's an exploit that has no downside and canonically makes logical sense too. It's almost like a very minor alternate route. Is it possible this was intentionally made to be dependent on text speed?

So what you're saying is, play this game in Spanish to speedrun it