Nintendo has today announced that their recently released first party game, Super Paper Mario, has a game destroying bug in it which causes your Wii to explode into a thousand pieces freeze and in need of some reset button loving.

The full details of how to recreate the bug have been released on Nintendo Europe’s official site:

At the start of Chapter 2-2, you will come across a character called Mimi. She will tell you to go to the farthest room on the first floor to meet a character called Merlee. Enter that room and press the green switch. A trap will be triggered, and a spiked ceiling will descend upon Mario. Before the ceiling reaches him, flip into 3D and jump on it to find a key.

If you pick up the key, you won’t run into any problems. Use it to open the locked door to Mimi’s right. However, if you talk to Mimi without picking up the key, the game will freeze. You will then have to turn off your Wii console and start again from your last save point.

Nintendo have also announced that they will be listing details on how to get your bugged copy replaced for a working one very soon on their website.

I suppose it could have been worse, and they could have put the release date of the game back even further, like they did for a certain party game not too long ago.