- Accent Depundent: A minigame in the game is called "Twist and Route". The pun on "Twist and Shout" is lost in specific English accents that pronounce route like "root".
- Colbert Bump: The game was barely recognized outside of the Mario fandom until a series of videos documenting (fictional) anti-piracy traps in the game gained viral popularity.
- Urban Legend of Zelda: Mario Party DS Anti Piracy, a series of fan-made videos for anti-piracy measures in Mario Party DS, became extremely common in late 2020, to the point where the top autofill result for searching "Mario Party" was "DS anti piracy". The alleged countermeasures ranged from a simple warning screen on boot-up
, to the game throwing punishments during gameplay to deter would-be pirates, to calling 911 through Wi-Fi. The videos never explicitly state that they are fake, which led to many people genuinely believing they were real, in spite of the fact that the entire Mario Party series (let alone DS) lacks anti-piracy measures of any sort and the ridiculousness of the game calling your local police number just to report a non-emergency case, with not even a simple crash to deter pirates being documented on The Cutting Room Floor (and some users tried to edit the Mario Party DS page on that site, which led to it being locked).
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