A Montage of Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls

I show a montage of Super Mario 64's invisible walls. This is actually the finale of my previous video that explained invisible walls in depth: • SM64’s Invisible Walls... . So if you want to learn more about these invisible walls, you can watch that video. But I also wanted to post this as its own video for greater visibility and easier sharing. If you want to support me and my efforts, please consider becoming a member of my channel: / @pannenkoek2012
Invisible Wall Colors:
gray = out of bounds
pink = ceiling hitbox
green = ceiling hitbox likely to cause squishing/downwarping
blue = floor gaps
orange = ceiling gaps
The music is a remix of the SM64 ending credit theme, created by D33JNES. However, I don't believe their video of the song is still available.

[@JacobBarberDeluxe]

I used to wonder why I would hit invisible walls sometimes. Now I wonder why I’m not hitting them all the time, they’re everywhere!!!

[@romajimamulo]

Short answer: they're really thin, most of the time, with gaps, so you often don't have a quarter step inside them

[@MetaKnight68]

Watch the long deep-dive video and you'll find out exactly why some of them are more commonly hit than the others!

[@Genzaijh]

What his video hidden walls explained once and for all. Its a 4 hour video, but he explains everything including where they all all and why sometimes you bonk and sometimes you dont. There is a reason for everything.

[@Xhepyxopila]

@@Genzaijh can you recap it or something I don't wanna watch it

[@puddlemage]

​@@Xhepyxopila...Do you really think a 4.5 hour video can be adequately summarized in a YT comments section?

[@pannenkoek2012]

Let me know which invisible wall is your favorite and why

[@WTIF2024]

.

[@superamogusbros5594]

That one in the ttm mushroom that has a star

[@supahsta2]

The out of bounds ones

[@someobscuremusicchannel]

The one right here ->

[@goaty_the_goat]

Probably the ones that I don’t bonk into.

[@TheTurtleyOne]

There needs to be a "Bonk Every Invisible Wall" TAS

[@TheTurtleyOne]

Might be impossible to do with the moving object ones, but the SM64 TAS community can't suprise me anymore

[@SubroOrbus]

@@TheTurtleyOneDefinitely possible since TAS can do impossible things, believe it or not! Edit: A bit of an unintentional overstatement. By "TAS can do impossible things," I mean TAS can do things humans cannot normally do, but still can't do things that are actually impossible. Probably should've clarified this better.

[@alansmithee419]

How do you differentiate between 'different' invisible walls? Some walls are made up of alternating sections of wall and empty space. Is that one wall or many tiny walls? If it's one wall, how big does a gap need to be for two sections of invis wall to be considered different walls?

[@owlflame]

@@TheTurtleyOne Absolutely not impossible with TAS... IT's almost literally the point of TASing.

[@FunnyIvri]

I think the best definition is the polygon that caused the invis wall, there could be a pixel of an invis wall and 2000 tiles away another pixel of invis wall if they are created by the same polygon they are the same

[@VorpalTiger]

If you didn’t know this was just an error of how the alignment is you would think some of those are maliciously placed with how they perfectly block some stars

[@RustyNips]

Definitely the ones around the mushrooms in mountain. It's like they are saying "(evil laugh) good luck sucker (more evil laughing) "

[@alaeriia01]

It's like the Mario 64 version of a kaizo block!

[@justsomeguy5628]

I watched and understood the whole vid, and I'm still not convinced with some of them that they didn't make them intentionally.

[@BIGBLUBLUR]

This is exactly what i thought till i read your comment, lol

[@Ninja1Ninja2]

@@justsomeguy5628lol they probably found the bug in development but then realized it could be a built in anti cheat if placed right

[@Beenkle]

After playing this game most of my life and have watch some of recent videos about invisible walls. I can now safely say that some of my deaths were truly not my fault.

[@Ninja_Koopa]

Bro. I was like, I knew I didn't hit that!

[@ShuckleShellAnemia]

“Let-a me go, Beenkle… the accident wasn’t your fault…”

[@lFunGuyl]

Bros entire childhood was in jeopardy until this video

[@UndeadCollector]

It motivated me to finally collected the max amount of Coins in Tick Tock Clock, since i hated the stage because of always hitting something and fall down. The anger about failing is smaller, if you know why you fail.

[@Genzaijh]

@@UndeadCollector I think I played it enough to remember where to jump. But I was clueless as to why I would bonk and why I wouldn't. Just if you bonk in a certain place so many times you just remember, to avoid that area. Tick Tock Clos was one of my favorite levels, BUT it would be a much better level if all these invisible walls were gone. Or would it? Sometimes the difficulty in a level makes it all the more a better experiance when you overcome it. But still, yat bonking for no good reason just isn't fun and is frusturating as a player.

[@Markeplier23]

You know some speedrunner is gonna memorize all of these so they can never mess up again

[@matthewcarter919]

Kinda impossible to never mess up when many are in the shortest paths

[@sergewind2208]

I wanna see "bonk all invisible walls"% speedruns

[@primalinea682]

Some probably already do

[@Medlek]

@@matthewcarter919 dog you don't know what speedrunning communities are capable of lmao. They've memorized several difficult inputs to do flagpole glitch consistently down to the sub pixel, they're totally capable of figuring out this kinda stuff

[@FishSticker]

@@matthewcarter919more about how sum are just completely surrounded with a sparse invis wall

[@purpisdus3118]

ngl I want a mod that just makes these walls visible to the player like this during actual gameplay, it'd be pretty helpful but more importantly hilarious

[@LucrativeWacko]

I wonder if it's possible for him to release it like that, if he edited all that in more props for him but it would def be useful too, I'd love to see if my chances are low or high bonking in to the wall to test my luck tbh 🤣

[@Mordecai02]

Might be possible with Decomp or PC Port!

[@nthgth]

Haha 💯

[@critterisgrey]

i have no way of proving it, of course, but once while playing totally casually i actually got killed by the OOB wall in snowman's land that disappears for a second and then reappears when the ice blocks fall off the platform. spent years wondering what had happened and chalked it up to some weird one-off glitch (which, considering the odds, it basically was). now i know! thanks, pannen!

[@fragrantdeco3579]

This happened a few years ago to a speed runner. The clip is in pannen’s full video on invisible walls but here’s the clip by itself. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmGqhIeIhbN0Y8U

[@ZombieaidZ]

Closure

[@frijolitoazul4343]

Well now it's more like a "weird two-off glitch", congrats on getting it though, even replicating it is absolutely difficult

[@TheSpiritlol]

Same thing happened to me or my brother when we were playing together as kids. We both spent hours trying to recreate it without any luck. I still have memories of being pushed by the snow pyramids thinking this next time would surely be the death again

[@lowlifestyle]

that one killed me casually before too, i thought it was the cold water that drained my health down to 0 instantly at the time lol.

[@himax5795]

Can’t wait for a “Super Mario 64 Invisible walls tier list”

[@ScrawnyTreeDemon]

The one that kills you in Snowman's Land is obviously an S tier

[@Algorox]

​@@ScrawnyTreeDemonPLEASE. FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING GOD. WHAT THE HELL? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? WHAT THE--

[@himax5795]

@@ScrawnyTreeDemon Agree, I’m actually fascinated by that one, next time I play the game I will try to get Mario killed by it

[@realityChemist]

Be the change you want to see in the world

[@Mordecai02]

Based on difficulty to penetrate, or just annoyingness in general? Cuz the former would prolly be easier to quantify...

[@SimpleFlips]

You're such a beautiful presenter dude, true art. Truly defined skill man

[@sergio_henrique]

I agree. Lengthy as they might be, his videos are a delight to watch!

[@alderkit]

@@sergio_henrique is this a ligma?

[@ExperienceLOS7713]

Based giga chad simpleflips? ONE, TWO, OAAAAATMEAL

[@scrip3799]

shout-out to SimpleFlips

[@SAVUFILMS]

Simpleflips is downloading all this info to abuse this next strat

[@Neptunequeen42]

My favorite invisible wall is the one by the waterfall, because it stops you from ending it all when you find out how many invisible walls are in this game

[@razzmatazzbean]

my favorite is definitely the one in the castle lobby. it’s so peculiar and solitary.

[@haassteambraker9959]

tbf its like, exactly why he made the video so comprehensive

[@darnikrshowtime]

Any of the walls in Tick Tock Clock are my favourite, I think. There's something so charming and threatening about how they are so ubiquitous, but also so destructive, nearly every single one capable of bonking you into the void.

[@tbtb66]

Still pretty impressive that the game works with most of this 90% od the times I bet if you showed this to the SM64 staff they'd just be like "God damn it"

[@thekiss2083]

Miyamoto would greenlight a remake instantly out of sheer regret

[@realityvanguard2052]

I have played a lot of this game, as in beating it 6 or 7 times casually is a lot for a normal person. Along with some casual attempts at speedrunning tricks. I've almost never ever hit an invisible wall, even where this is showing them to supposedly be. The only reason we see people hitting them all the time is because there are currently hundreds, if not thousands of people, who play this game 12 hours a day, almost every day. When they hit one of these, it is almost always a clip. The odds of a player who is playing the game normally happening to run into one in a full-casual-play through are probably only like 10% chance of encountering even one of these.

[@baltakatei]

I feel like 95% of all the invisible wall errors could be corrected with a script reordering vertex coordinate specifications and correcting vertex overlap near oob/ceiling/floor leakage.

[@louiepikmin3184]

@@realityvanguard2052 Strong disagree. I've beat the game maybe 3 times total and I've still run into quite a few invisible walls. It's not a common thing but it's also not at all rare, especially when they're in the way of common spots to long jump like in ttc

[@fco64]

​@@thekiss2083nah instead they would take this down and pretend it was fake

[@Mateolochi]

Visualizing and understanding TTC 0xA pendulum strat is amazing!

[@Lucas003_]

All these years I thought me falling off the ceiling in hazy maze cave was me not holding A hard enough...

[@giraffelove12]

lol

[@aikawa_404]

the invisible mushroom wall got me dirty as a kid

[@amateraceon5202]

The most magical part of this is still the invisible walls appearing while synced to the music during the first slow section of the song at the beginning, pure beauty in art

[@Genzaijh]

You're video, "Invisible walls explained once and for all" is going to go down in history as one of the greatest SM64 game tutorials / explanations. It is a masterpiece.

[@JoBot__]

*your

[@gabrielevalentini5905]

yore'u*

[@Genzaijh]

@@JoBot__ You're right. Corrected.

[@GuiFoxJus]

PHD worthy

[@finadoggie]

2:11 I just noticed these blocks are falling in sync with the music, that's a nice touch

[@PowerCreep-mx5sv]

I honestly cannot play or look at the game the same anymore knowing there are jsut this many invisile walls sitting around

[@Tryagain-ml1jn]

@@realityvanguard2052 spam

[@enderlands3373]

The one on the Bob-omb Battlefield warp is just troll, I love it

[@TheOofaloofa]

“Thank you so much for a playing my (potentially rushed and absolutely broken, yet still loved to this very day) game!”

[@Pinkmanbutawesome]

Yeah the more I watched the 4 hour video the more I realized that this game was probably not playtested at all

[@JanusHoW]

Super Mario 64 was pretty much the very first game developed for the Nintendo 64. It's kind of a small miracle that the game isn't even more broken.

[@littowel]

After watching the entire video on invisible walls, this is unironically peak content

[@baltakatei]

1996 Japanese salaryman programmer Hall of Failure.

[@IkeSMB]

LMAO

[@DrSabot-A]

Imagine how many drunken night train rides it took for this

[@realityvanguard2052]

I have played a lot of this game, as in beating it 6 or 7 times casually is a lot for a normal person. Along with some casual attempts at speedrunning tricks. I've almost never ever hit an invisible wall, even where this is showing them to supposedly be. The only reason we see people hitting them all the time is because there are currently hundreds, if not thousands of people, who play this game 12 hours a day, almost every day. When they hit one of these, it is almost always a clip. The odds of a player who is playing the game normally happening to run into one in a full-casual-play through are probably onlu like 10% chance of encountering even one of these.

[@uglybad4]

@@realityvanguard2052 i've only ever played the game casually in short bursts over the years and i hit invisible walls constantly 💀

[@Guinxu]

This content is the reason why I pay for internet.

[@darknessguide3036]

Que demonios haces aqui Fred.png

[@AmazonEnforcer]

This content is the reason I travel to McDonald's to get online via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

[@MenwithHill]

The work you've done on this is legitimately incredible. Some of the most impressive game documentation I've ever seen - specifically for a topic that's so hard to properly display for people.

[@Nightcaat]

Pannen out here making SM64 fancams now

[@x_Foxy_]

Daamn, the opening for the Invisible Wall anime is lookin fire 💀🔥

[@MechMK1]

Definitely the leaked ceiling by the sunken ship around 1:45. Such a beauty.

[@usernametaken017]

no wonder the ship sunk

[@AmethystSZS]

This video really has a "we've come so far" vibe to it. Cheers to another invisible wall bonk, and to more Mario 64 chaos in the future

[@meltingrocket89yt]

What the heck hi amethyst lol

[@eldafint]

would go very well with komm süsser tod

[@joshuawiener5003]

You have absolutely no idea how much you have helped the speedrunning community with your video. This is quite literally revolutionary.

[@grfrjiglstan]

Getting on top of the snowman was my own personal hell when I was young. Finding out there was a platoon of invisible walls waiting for me at the top is just another level of pain.

[@RandInternet]

Bug report: Walls were advertised as being “invisible,” but can still be seen in the video

[@PixelSubstream]

It's crazy to think how many people have jumped through those sections of invisible wall and manage to just miss it by a single unit

[@bettergames6259]

I love this song, it fits the journey through the levels so well, feels like a goodbye song, but so good.

[@TrialzGTAS]

28 years later, and we’re still talking about this game. The music is legendary. The speed runs are mind numbing. The memories, the sweetest. Thank you for playing a part in compiling such great info!

[@SaberTail]

1:09 I'm going to laugh so much if there's ever a reveal that the invisible walls have something to do with the upwarp glitch that got me watching Pannenkoek's stuff in the first place. Regardless, the work that went into this is amazing!

[@TemporalZack]

Honestly having this at the end of the invisible wall video was... kind of emotional in a way. Like, I know at some point in the video Pannen jokingly said “you were so innocent back then”, but being an average casual SM64 enjoyer, I really was quite oblivious about this kind of stuff until I watched that video, and now... looking at this, I know what they are, I know how they work, and I get to know *where* they are too. It feels like... quite a journey, really.

[@ZipplyZane]

Releasing whatever code you use to visualize those invisible walls might help the romhacking community (even if, as it appears, it only works in the PC version).

[@Lolytendo_GD]

The ending was so brilliant, I've already watched the invisible walls video twice and I think it's coming up three times today. Absolutely brilliant work, I love the video and especially the ending.

[@Wabafoodle]

This song now has official lyrics. Every single word is bonk. 😌

[@Mordecai02]

I thought the lyrics were about Pannen's commenters and using them to assist in glitch movement tricks

[@FoxSnootz]

Those ones around the mushrooms are fing evil, I always remember having anxiety for risk of falling while playing that level feeling very uneasy standing on those mushrooms. Invisible walls causing you to fall during good jumps explains so much

[@Anetaeus]

Those two on the CCM bridge make me RAGE

[@WannabeMarysue]

best AMV of 2024

[@pideperdonus2]

I watched the whole documentary without taking a break and this moment was... incredible.

[@VirginVulture]

Me: “just one more jump and I’ll finally get that star!” Random Invisible wall: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.

[@acomp250]

The ones on the arches in Lethal Lava Land make so much sense. I remember riding around the koopa shell on that stage as a kid, and one of the biggest challenges was making it over an arch without getting mysteriously bonked by an edge and dying.

[@chaset2628]

Maybe the real invisible walls were the friends we made along the way

[@VideogamesPang]

I wonder if there is any other game fan in history who has researched and worked on their favourite game as much as pannenkoek has for Super Mario 64.

[@jonbowman7686]

Time for a "bonk every invisible wall" speedrun to be a thing

[@jkf16m96]

When the topic of invisible walls was talked by pannekoek and watching this video. I can't help but feel like the Pandora's box has been opened, and now I can't stop feeling discomforted watching super mario 64 gameplay. An invisible wall for me, has always been like "it was my fault, the hitbox must've been bigger than it seems". It was never my fault, I can remember some time mario just bumped, but next try it worked.

[@DasStanzy]

My favorite invisible wall is the one in Snowman's Land that can just kill you outta nowhere, since that was the one I had the most fun explaining to my friends and listening to them lose their gourds

[@CountMonsparkle]

It's... actually really beautiful... and also somber, in a way. What a way to de-mystify such a mysterious game mechanic. Great documentary!

[@thekilla1234]

It's interesting really. Seeing them all back to back in a 3 minute video, I'm actually surprised there aren't a lot more considering how easy it is to create one.

[@OliverJacobs-rp1pj]

The amount of physical pain this caused me is crazy

[@pocketspider7839]

The sync with the music is glorious, especially at the end lol

[@Tommie64]

What a triumph this entire series has been. The full video is such a work of art, and this small portion is such a beautiful summary.

[@gratedradish6699]

This made me very anxious. Never know when you're going to be walking down the street and hit an invisible wall.

[@GameCatastrophe]

Make sure the sidewalk tiles don’t have any gaps

[@AphidKirby]

My favorite is the Dorrie one, when i was little it made me down warp ALLL the time as I was trying to climb from the tail, assumed she just didn't want me to ride her and was shaking me off

[@monorail0]

Please rise for the national anthem of falling your death

[@IBETHETOPMAN]

New Speedrun Category: Hit Every Invisible Wall

[@BloodbornePC1279]

One of my most played games ever & I cannot recall ever having hit an invisible wall. It's insane to me there's so many.

[@realityvanguard2052]

I second this! It's insane how many people are dogpiling the original devs, while I bet most of the people saying the game is programmed "bad' based on this, have never encountered more than a single instance of colliding with an invisible wall in their life. I have played a lot of this game, as in beating it 6 or 7 times casually is a lot for a normal person. Along with some casual attempts at speedrunning tricks. I've almost never ever hit an invisible wall, even where this is showing them to supposedly be. The only reason we see people hitting them all the time is because there are currently hundreds, if not thousands of people, who play this game 12 hours a day, almost every day. When they hit one of these, it is almost always a clip. The odds of a player who is playing the game normally happening to run into one in a full-casual-play through are probably only like 10% chance of encountering even one of these.

[@cynderrs_]

The visuals for this video and the uncut one were just spectacular! It goes to show that a simple game on the surface can hide so many intresting details. Looking forward to your next video Pan!

[@PocoQuinn]

seriously outdid yourself with this whole project! felt weirdly emotional by the time this montage played

[@Discoh]

What a fantastic finale for such an incredible video. I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment you expressed in the full video - that we love this game because of its glitches, not in spite of them. I think this segment expressed that really well. Glad it's been reuploaded here for all to see.

[@Bitelstar]

3:00 Thanks, now I understand why I fell there a couple of times.

[@Aladato]

Tick Tock Clock is literally an invisible wall machine, we just didn't know how efficient it was at its job.

[@Kosac07]

3:06 rip, got bebopped again...

[@Electrosa]

Pannen, your videos make me genuinely happy. Thank you.

[@nthgth]

Haha, well done with the end credits tune. Which still hits the feels even with this midi version. Funny ending too!

[@Gorilogro]

You know, this video gives me a feeling I can't describe. Not just because it's the SM64 ending theme (Quite nostalgic) but because it's a love letter to the game, culmination of the years and years of enjoying and dissecting the game to a point it's almost a science of it's own. It's just beautiful.

[@IanEthereum-zd3se]

Best video ever, he putted so much effort and time making this one video about Invisible Walls, its so good hes explanation is very understandable and its very unique to teach these.

[@Rslb7.]

This is actually surprisingly relaxing. Well done.

[@Luisin88]

The mushroom one is simply unacceptable, it had me crying in frustration back in 97.

[@mattdean6712]

I'm amazed by your channel. Editing quality is through the roof. I liked the subtle syncs with the music here!

[@Joey-nt4xr]

Great song choice ❤

[@lespier8249]

Yesss❤

[@SuperN57]

It's amazing how broken this game is

[@ricarleite]

Mario 64 is a complete shit show of a coded game, held together by coding duct tape and prayers when it was released. It was horribly rushed, developed for hardware still being designed, and Nintendo was not ready to tackle 3D. It was also the high point of Miyamoto megalomania. It is very under optimized and it's a miracle the whole thing boots in the first place.

[@SuperN57]

@@THRACIA776ISTHEGREATEST I meant it more like, it's amazing how broken this game *can be* even stuff like minecraft parkour is insanely broken when you go to the depths of it (blips and X/Z facing, then deeper down there's stuff like inertia and 45s, and then there's crazier stuff like half angles and floats being weird with angles and hitbox sizes). All that, yet during normal gameplay, you more than likely won't be affect by these at all

[@desu2000]

It's like it was put together with flextape

[@Tirgo69]

Wild how such a shitshow is one the greatest games ever made. It's too bad they never made a better 3D Mario.

[@aperturius]

​@@ricarleiteThe world: "Mario 64 is an incredible game that revolutionized 3D platforming." This guy: "Mario 64 is a piece of shit and so is its creator."

[@DDArtsArts]

This alone makes SM64DS better

[@DDArtsArts]

;)

[@meemogan]

I love this video, I'm so glad it was posted on its own- the end credits song cover is my favorite I've heard, and the editing is so enjoyable.

[@zacvarg3530]

From someone who only played sm64ds, watching this (and the previous vid) really make the game look absurdly impossible 😭 amazing to see how much of this got through playtesting

[@Thiago_Rodrigues30]

To be fair, most of the invisible walls are only 1 unit thick, so it is very unlikely you would hit every single one of them by accident while playtesting.

[@MelodiCat753]

I cried when I got to this point in the video. It's such an emotional climatic moment, and this credits theme is soooooo good.

[@remor698]

This is a positively underrated segment to end off the 3 3/4 mega explanation on. Glad to see it reposted it as its own video so more people may get to appreciate it.

[@SlanderMonkey]

Wow what a video - so well-made with the camera work and synced to the music! What a feeling it brings!!

[@sadr-yt]

pannen: Hey Nintendo, I'll let you appreciate how messed up your game is!

[@submaniac93]

Having only played the DS remake when i was younger, i do wonder if these issues were fixed on it? Because although it's been nearly 20 years, i don't remember hitting invisible walls on that one. Tbh, this hidden walls series has been a surprise to me lol

[@SF124-gy7hk]

0:30 I have the mental picture of that one saving somebody from being thrown off the mountain by King Bob-Omb.

[@lpsp442]

Simply beautiful. Glitches are the true soul of experimental video gaming.

[@KrimsonAus]

Wall 👍

[@Inky3417]

Wow this was uploaded 8 seconds ago for me, nice

[@get_stached]

I can't even explain how satisfying this is to watch

[@JanusHoW]

I gotta say this is a very pretty rendition of the SM64 ending theme - and the way you timed the camera movements to the song was great too.

[@waylan0]

first ?!?!??!!

[@SubroOrbus]

Congrats!

[@user-ph3ym5xk3g]

ur not

[@SubroOrbus]

@@user-ph3ym5xk3gur mom

[@alexlowe2054]

I can gladly enjoy this video, knowing that I sat through the entire lecture to learn all of the most critical details about this obscure bug. It's funny how invisible walls are more clearly explained than the majority of college material. Pannenkoek is one of the greatest teachers and scientists of our time, and he's dedicated his skills to uncovering the mysteries of one of our favorite childhood games. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

[@AgtJX33]

Super Mario 64 staff roll is my favorite ending themes and thanks for showing all the walls

[@Zolerian]

I love how the music syncs with the killer one appearing and disappearing at 1:26

[@HatteusFedoran]

I love how well timed the walls and music are. Beautiful video

[@crazybobby14]

Watching this video after finishing "SM64’s Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All" feels like you have just graduated from pannenkoek2012's Super Mario 64's invisible walls course and I love it.

[@supersonicgamerguru]

My favorite invisible wall is the one on that floating platform that exists in theory, but it's next to impossible to confirm because it disappears before mario can touch it.

[@daveOnYouTube]

Sweet, more pannenkoek2012 content, love the new videos