The OLDEST Mario 64 Guide showed me This Secret...

[@SimplyN64]

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[@Sema-ht3uu]

hi simply

[@randybobandy1309]

Put it in me bud!

[@AlternateDargon]

No. cause they are shit. Taking shitty companies money is bad. If you dont know that its shit, you should ask anyone who understands PC hardware and they will explain its shit. Those guys are idiots selling shit to other idiots.

[@lolwillow188]

It bothers me you didn't try pounding the ground on the bullet bill and piano So not installing it to do it myself

[@Gondalica]

No

[@shadoninja]

I had this guide as a kid! My family was too poor to have an N64, so I bought this guide (I think for $10) and read it every night. It was a really high quality print. Using the pictures to imagine playing the game was the closest I could get, but it was still quite fun for me :)

[@gratifizzle]

Bro i cried a little

[@nofluffagain]

Wholesome af. Simpler times man

[@Weed69420]

Reading is power and power is Mario ✊

[@matthewmullins4046]

When did you finally get to play the game?

[@THICCTHICCTHICC]

I remember having a PS1 cheat code book before I owned a PS1. Was awesome to see all the cheats different games had and imagine how good they'd be.

[@KazeN64]

I actually knew about this already because I read the code

[@greenin5537]

how messed up the code for the ddd rings is?

[@wileecoyotegenius5955]

@@greenin5537 I believe PannenKoek made a video about the manta ring code. It's pretty fucked.

[@De_an]

PogYou

[@partitionpenguin]

GIGACHAD

[@brianb2308]

You would :)

[@jonothanthrace1530]

I love all the old official player's guides that include odd bits of lore, some of which were just invented by a random editor to fill in space in the guide.

[@baxterwilliams2170]

I can't believe that the 1-up from killing moles 8 times was real. That sounds so much like an elementary school rumor lol

[@eyenuh300]

The editing makes it seem like the direction you get blown off was what made the hat appear on the snowman. But what really happened is Simply reset his console after getting his hat blown off.

[@noturboi909]

Will it work on the Switch version or no?

[@MaximusXavier]

To clarify: the texture at 8:08 with the Bob-Omb is in front of the stone bridge right at the entrance to the mountain path (the one with the 1-up and the button)!

[@cxx23]

I'm only 8 months late, but I found it funny that the time stamp of 8:08 looks like "BOB".

[@MarcusGronkowski]

14:06 this guy doesn’t realize that back in the day, there were no KZbin videos or online guides you could watch for a more detailed explanation. This book was as good as it gets. And using a guide like this was better than no guide at all

[@nickick8498]

I think he expects it to just not get things blatantly wrong

[@arciks11]

@@nickick8498 Wait until he learns that one magazine did a Resident Evil 1 guide that was blatantly wrong, apologized because it was based on a prototype build, did a new one in next issue and that one was ALSO blatantly wrong because it was ANOTHER prototype build.

[@nickick8498]

@@arciks11 Bro, people get PAID for this?

[@arciks11]

@@nickick8498 Old gaming journalism wasn't much better than modern one, but it was on average less vindictive towards its own audience usually.

[@wesshiflet2214]

@@arciks11player’s guides aren’t exactly “journalism” lol, this is frankly closer to an advertisement

[@RickRaptor105]

I actually knew about the snowman hat because our copy of Super Mario 64 was a used copy with preexisting saves and one of them had a 70 star file that was missing his hat. Given how cryptic the entry to Snowman's Land is, it took me so long to finally find and retrieve the lost hat of that particular Mario.

[@vegetarblessb]

Wait I've seen the missing hat before too, waaaay old memory lmao

[@SwedenTheHedgehog]

Exactly this happened to me as well! I even found the hat, as a kid, and didn’t understand how to get it back from the snowman, so he was just mocking me for my entire childhood…

[@uhhh_adam]

I need to boot up HD mario 64, I think I know now where to find my damn hat

[@uhhh_adam]

No wait...I think a cloud on Tall Tall Mountain blew it away. Oh well..

[@AndrewJW]

Damn that's so cool

[@EpicAntos]

also, at 9:09 that’s a Banzai Bill since it has a mouth, not a Bullet Bill.

[@njlugo4025]

the description never fails to give me an aneurysm.

[@adventurewithdanny]

I painfully read it every time

[@rreprah9515]

Lmao the mans gotta get his bag by adding all the tags. (yuh)

[@johnandrews9433]

@@rreprah9515 I’m sure he’s making plenty shilling for those assfuck overpriced pcs

[@Purriah]

The TITLE is worse than the description

[@ayoitscat]

I'm shocked they didn't name drop Clint in it

[@ExSuPiO1]

Okay the crawling on slopes was new to me as well, but the hat on the snowman? Who hasn't been blown away by that giant snowman at least a couple times during their casual playthrough!? Just saying, the snowman had been wearing my hat a couple more times then I'd like to admit :D

[@want-diversecontent3887]

Nobody, but wouldn't they pick up their hat directly after so the snowman had no chance to pick it up?

[@mr.lavander7145]

In the first Bowser level, my Mom was playing with me and she tried crawling up the blue slope near the beginning. I kept saying "that won't work" until I slowly realized it was working and she outsmarted me.

[@jamesesterline]

I already knew about the slopes thing at least in the DS version from chuggaconroy's let's play but the Mr. Blizzard wearing Mario's cap blew my mind

[@Nora-ky1dw]

The first time I went to Snowman's Land, I got yeeted, didn't realize Mario's hat was missing and got the bully star instead. When I went back in to get the hat, the snowman had it and I had no idea how to kill them so I just gave up on it.

[@bobbuilder625]

I remember doing the same thing, and then years later, I actually read the signs that tell you to spin around them.

[@Space_Lion]

I think the thing about "wailing at the wall" might be a terrible reference to the Wailing Wall, more commonly known as the Western Wall, which is a super important historical location in Jerusalem

[@drakez341]

If it's the actual reference then it's terrible lmao. I don't think so since it looks like the rest of the strategy book was written by a 6 year old or something

[@Smogshaik]

Yeah I remember when they taught us about theologically significant places in Israel in elementary school. Later when reading the Mario guide at home I had a right pleasant chuckle about the reference.

[@joshuaweiner1]

The TTM quote “It’s Big, It’s Heavy, It’s Wood” is a reference to Ren & Stimpy

[@Atimar1]

19:47 that's gotta be a Ren and Stimpy reference. In the episodes there was occasionally this skit commercial for a kids toy called "log". Like a mr potato head/doll parody.

[@Shugunou]

Apparently, you can actually beat the piano using glitches. I'm not sure how it works but one of them involves using menu storage when the menu asking if you want to leave the level after getting a star comes up. So, technically, it wasn't lying. You just had to break the game.

[@FOmar151]

The bob-omb picture with the weird texture looks like it is in bob-omb battlefield, it's the stone bridge right at the base of the mountain. You cross it to get to a wall of bars with a gap that leads to the area with three balls rolling back and forth. Underneath, there is a switch that opens a gate at one side of the underpass, along with a 1-up and a red coin.

[@Panetierre_]

It's big! It's heavy! It's wood! is a reference to Ren & Stimpy's jingle for the toy Log. Classic 90s

[@bangersntrash]

It's loooog it's looog it's better than bad, it's good!

[@Snooplax]

Great video, I remember I had a 100% save file and I thought it was glitched because I could not figure out how to get my hat back. I checked klepto and the monkey, I was so surprised when I finally figured out the snowman had it

[@vileshaft9730]

this reminds of when the first time speedrunner got a certain banana coin in dk64, lots of people including myself and fam found the banana coin in our childhoods but it took a long time before it was first collected on a stream with a lot of people watching and it made big news, its kinda a tease when u already know about stuff like this and then its suddenly news like nobody ever knew about it

[@MathewRenfro]

7:00 this happened to me when I was a kid and I'm so glad I finally see it referenced somewhere else I was never able to get my hat back because every time you approach the snowman he rises up. And nobody ever believed me but here we are!

[@cxx23]

I'm a month late to your comment and an entire childhood away from getting your hat back, but you defeat those snowmen by running circles around them. They get dizzy and poof away leaving behind a coin, and your hat.

[@MathewRenfro]

@@cxx23 thank you.

[@beatziegraham6928]

I knew about the snowman hat cuz it was in 64 DS. DS also has an infinite hat glitch involving the snowman that can crash the game.

[@McJiggyWiggy]

I like how you've been playing this game forever and your an expert but you never seen the snowman with a hat, and still this game showing you new content doesnt phase you

[@noobandfriends2420]

19:00 I can do you one better. I used to take a pen and paper with me to the grocery store and write down Game Genie codes from the Game Pro magazine because I couldn't afford to buy it.

[@OmegaChase1002]

I feel happy knowing there were some secrets to SM64 that I knew but a speedrunner didn't.

[@pauwerful2161]

6:55 for the secret

[@TS-ge1nb]

Is it really a secret if you've played the game just enough to know the little features? Saved me some time man, thanks

[@nygiantsfan6]

There was one time when I was a kid that I lost Mario's hat in SL. I think the it blew somewhere inaccessible, so I couldn't pick it back up off the ground. I remember trying to reset the game, but it was still gone. Eventually, I found it on one of the snowmen. Cool little thing they included.

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

5:20 wow that makes a lot of sense, so that means the red coin on bbb can be crawled to?>

[@Z_E_B_O]

I never knew you could just crawl across the roof of the ghost house. I always hated that section cause you can fall down so easily.

[@MagnumForce51]

I did not know that about the crawling feature. I always wondered why Mario can crawl....it's to go up slopes apparently. *The More You Know jingle plays*

[@FlamingZelda3]

2 things: I just now got the "Peach's slide" innuendo and as a kid I always liked maps like rainbow cruise, TTC, and TTM, but when I was finally old enough to play through the game on my own HMC is what blew me away. Every other level feels like a glorified obstacle course after playing hazy maze cave. There's just something really engrossing about it in a casual playthrough.

[@justinmadrid8712]

It was not intended as an innuendo.

[@wesshiflet2214]

innuendo?

[@obsidianchao]

The photos were typically taken with a film camera, underneath a blackout screen, with a CRT television. That should help explain the screenshots. Nintendo typically provided minimal assets for these guides before the GameCube/GBA era and companies like Nintendo Power had to work with what they could make.

[@Idran]

NoA published Nintendo Power themselves until 2007 though, it was in-house They published all the Nintendo Power Guides in-house too under that umbrella

[@Zreknarf]

bro my entire life i have wondered what the intended strat for the star ontop of BBH is. and there it is in the nintendo power player guide

[@Bolpat]

The guide speaks the truth. It never lies. Follow it with all your heart and you will be known as the Lord Savior of Super Mario 64.

[@uhhh_adam]

I'm surprised you never crawled on the haunted house roof. Totally did that as a kid. Holy shit "It's Big, It's Heavy, It's Wood" is totally a Ren & Stimpy reference lmao

[@JrIcify]

17:53 this is how every single person who's ever seen this image has reacted. It goes too hard for it's own good.

[@Nam8Macs]

"It's big, it's heavy, it's wood" This is a Ren and Stimpy reference, to LOG

[@t-real7088]

I have an old guide where there supposedly was a trick where Mario was walking on top of water and I've actually never seen that even with Gameshark back in the day.

[@Franzeco333]

Maybe it meant by riding a Koopa shell?

[@t-real7088]

@@Franzeco333 No, a picture showed Mario was shown standing on top of the water as it was a floor on the outside of Peach's Castle (near the cannon that opens after you get 120 stars).

[@0x2480]

8:10 simply not realizing that its above the gate opened by the purple switch in BOB is frustrating lmao

[@bluustreak6578]

8:18 I think that is from under the bridge in bobomb battlefield. Next to the the slope that you jumpkick up.

[@BlinksAwakening]

"It's big, it's heavy, it's wood" is actually a Ren and Stimpy reference, from Log, a fictional toy that would get advertised on the show with a real catchy jingle including those lyrics.

[@CristianGarcia]

Simply, after all these years oblivious to the crawling tech which 100% guarantees you won't fall on Big Boo's mansion roof.

[@ayoitscat]

Why doesn't he just do this in runs? Smh

[@domdude64dd]

Bowser will SIMPLY extend his painting worlds...

[@yourlocaldilemma]

i was NOT prepared for the amount of Mario 64 lore in this book LMAO

[@Corndog52]

ah yes, bob-omb battlefield-omb battlefield. also how did he mistake a wizard of oz reference for a second reference to aladdin lmfao

[@Controser]

I honestly got the hat blown off on purpose because I thought Mario looked cooler without it as a kid. That was until I realized I was taking unnecessary damage. Had to find that snowman, and honestly forgot where I lost the hat. What memories.

[@JrIcify]

"Mario doesn't have to wail at this wall" is a reference to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem because kids would get that.

[@masterdj6077]

I love that the guide just straight up says Mario is from Brooklyn

[@tomsoya]

When I was a kid, I didn't notice right away that my hat was gone. I had no idea how to find it, so I was taking double damage for days until I found it again on the snowman when I came back to that world.

[@barofsoap3795]

Dude I thought you were supposed to walk next to the penguin I didn’t know you could go in his head

[@jarrod752]

Amazing how Princess Peach is _always_ missing! I wouldn't be surprised if she asked Mario for an open relationship after the next "rescue."

[@obsidianchao]

You could say this is the first 120 star guide ever written

[@minecraftiscool290]

what is the song at 17:28 it sounds so familiar

[@dracibatic2433]

glover (world 1 theme i think)

[@elizathegamer413]

9:30 ay yo our boy grindel on the scene

[@sungodmoth]

shud moment

[@elizathegamer413]

@@sungodmoth shudhead checking in

[@CheeseyDan]

15:56 That SSL pic looked really cool for some reason.

[@username5155]

By the way the game literally calls them the Lakitu Bros. multiple times.

[@jacobe9131]

The thumbnail filled me with pain. This happened to me as a 5 year old and i didnt know how to kill the snowmen

[@mnicy]

When I was a kid my brother and I bought the pokemon guide even though we didn't have a gameboy. But I read that guide hundreds of times

[@ActuallyAFungus]

This guide seriously had a Ren and Stimpy reference I'm dying

[@xCloniC]

What the song called at 14:00?

[@vileshaft9730]

i did not know about the monty mole 1-up

[@Infindox]

Wow this is a blast from.the past for me, I had that exact guide as a kid but flipped through it so much the cover was coming off lol

[@thecianinator]

19:46 that's a Ren and Stimpy reference!

[@bamweasel]

How did you not know that riding the penguin was the intended route for Snowman's Big Head? The speed route is just one you happen to be able to do.

[@wesshiflet2214]

because it looks like you’d get blown off! I always thought you had to walk with the penguin, hiding behind him. it was always a huge pain

[@kourtiss64]

I have the SMB encyclopedia so i already knew it.

[@louiepikmin3184]

The snowman thing happened to me when I was younger and I didn't know how to kill them so I just didn't have my hat for the rest of the game

[@spiderjosh9472]

I actually learnt new things because of this, wtf...game continues to wow me .

[@JamesFromRedLedger]

2:52 IT’S STILL REAL TO ME, DAMMIT!

[@MrAdam802]

lol I knew about the snowman taking your hat, it happened to me as as kid and I couldn't get it back for a while!

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

I can't believe there's an official Nintendo Power Player's Guide for Super Mario 64 that says you can defeat Bullet Bills and the Mad Piano, and everyone tried it and said "guess they lied?" However, when more sources than I can list confirmed Luigi was not in the game, they collectively all went mad. Some remain in denial to this day... although, they are in luck because the DS remake and mods are a thing now.

[@RoseQuartz692]

21:03 we got both The Wizard of Oz and Aladin

[@noturboi909]

10:08 chat 0.01 nanoseconds without the zaza

[@ThePersuasiveParrot]

Yo... was that Glover music towards the end of the video?

[@JesusDaLawd]

I actually remember the snowman cap because when i was young i beat a level after getting blown off without recovering the hat and i played alot of the game without marios hat because i loved it and really liked his hair

[@thend4427]

I had a dream where I was going through a hallway full of paintings from mario 64..it was so freaky I still remember what I saw

[@BagOfMagicFood]

5:19 That's how I always got that star.

[@modernmanueee_]

If wall kicks are wall jumps, then what is it when you kick the wall to bounce back?

[@Mielesplayz]

I knew about the snowman because it took me a few hours to realise you had to pick the cap back up

[@SSJ3Tim]

I knew about the snowman hat thing because it was a key step in a hat duplication glitch you can do in Super Mario 64 DS 😅

[@zachywatcher2312]

as a kid I didn't know hot to kill a snowman and I was stuck without a hat on my original savefile. still beat bowser with it tho, but with hatless red luigi

[@ayoitscat]

I think the bob-omb was in BoB by the gate next to the slope, but I'm not sure

[@OscarIna0fTimeVODs]

I had a save in which a fucking snowman had my hat. The worst part was that I didn't know how to kill snowmen...

[@CinnaSwirls]

I'm so glad to learn the penguin gets wide.

[@theruleroftheinternet8260]

I knew about the snowman one because it happened to me and i didn't knew how to get Mario's hat back. Lol for the longest of times i just accepted the fact that my Mario didn't have a hat. I think Mario also takes more damage when not wearing it. can't remember if that is true or not

[@vito449]

Dear Simply, i just got a great idea on how you can be a SM64 world record holder again. The no walk speedrun, where the main movement method is crawling. You are the expert here so think of some rules but think about it, i think is could be great content, so you. Cheerio

[@xera5196]

Oh wow I forgot I had one of these. When I saw it I went to find mine.

[@vileshaft9730]

i knew about the snow man having marios hat in my childhood all u gatta do is loose marios hat and leave the level, save restart ur game restart the game and come back and the snowman will have it if i remember correctly heres a fun fact i still remember im pretty sure mario takes twice the damage without his hat

[@zacharymacaroni7649]

PLEASE make a video from the SMO hide and seek stream. the SimplyStares were so gold

[@WhenYouGoMadd]

On my first playthrough as a kid the Snowman stole my hat and I cried

[@d2dominoes807]

woah i totally forgot about this strategy guide, really cool

[@stonebeard2194]

It’s log, it’s log, it’s better than bad it’s good!

[@richardsaid973]

"Plunges you into a world where anything might happen".....personalized AI confirmed by nintendo

[@pokcow01]

19:45 It's better than bad it's good

[@eightcoins4401]

That sponsor segment is the most painful thing ive ever seen

[@Oakshield2]

Pretty cool, knowledge always has gaps no matter how dedicated to a craft you are

[@jonahj9519]

I think a snowman stole my hat once. It might’ve been the DS version though.

[@LawnMeower]

back then i diddnt know how to the my hat back from the snowman and deleted my savegame xD

[@thend4427]

I actually didn't know u can rerace that penguin cause I never wanted to do it again after the first time lol