SM64 - TTC Upwarp $1000 Bounty

Update: Due to people using hacked savestates to fraudulently recreate the upwarp, all submissions going forward must be an m64 file that begins from game start.
Recently, a video by twitch user DOTA_TeaBag was brought to my attention, in which he did an upwarp in Tick Tock Clock. I believe this is a new, unexplored glitch, but unfortunately I have been unsuccessful at recreating it myself. Thus, I'm putting a bounty of $1000 on the glitch. In other words, the first person to recreate the glitch and send it to me will earn $1000 from me.
The submission should be a .m64 from game start. The bounty will hold until the first person successfully submits a recreation of the glitch, at which point I will add the word [CLAIMED] to the end of this video's title, and then no one else will be eligible for the prize.
Helpful downloads (a savestate in the TTC room on the Japanese version and an MHS file showing the ceiling currently above Mario):
drive.google.com/file/d/0B3JC...
DOTA_TeaBag's highlight of the glitch:
• TTC Upwarp Highlight
Full VOD of DOTA_TeaBag that day:
• TTC Upwarp Original Video
The song I used at the end was a Benny Hill Techno Remix Demo made by Dj Freshwinter, which you can find here:
• Benny Hill Techno Remi...
Additional Notes:
(1) Some people are wondering why the spinners are rotating instead of being still. You must enter Tick Tock Clock when the long hand is at 12 for the objects in the course to be still.
(2) I've been told others have reuploaded this video. Basically, the bounty is awarded to the first person to submit a valid recreation of the glitch. If you submit your entry to someone else and they send it to me, then that person will earn the bounty. I'm not responsible for tracking down the original creator of the .m64; I award whoever sends it in, as is said in the rules. So don't submit to someone else.
(3) Your submission should be a .m64 file that Mupen64 can play. Anything else (such as .avi, .rec) is not valid. So don't use Project64 or Bizhawk.
(4) I've heard of and thought of every theory in the book. Maybe it was the bob-omb, the bob-omb's explosion, the bob-omb's coin, when Mario hits the corner, when Mario presses the wall, when Mario hits his head on the spinner, when Mario touches the other corner, when Mario lands at the edge, being under certain ceilings, etc. Telling me you believe one of these is the cause is not very helpful. I'm looking for hard evidence.

[@jeremyaster7470]

And the bounty goes to... Electron #6,534,829,657,142,966,353,781,408,553,962,610,744! Congratulations!

[@sanjum2475]

?????

[@jeremyaster7470]

@@sanjum2475 some people think that the random RAM manipulation came from an ionized particle from space

[@sanjum2475]

@@jeremyaster7470 That's the dumbest shit I've heard since Flat Earth.

[@jeremyaster7470]

@@sanjum2475 ℕ𝔼𝕎 ℂℝ𝕀𝕊ℙ𝕐 ℙℝ𝔼𝕋ℤ𝔼𝕃 ℂℍ𝕀ℂ𝕂𝔼ℕ 𝔽ℝ𝕀𝔼𝕊 𝔸𝕋 𝔹𝕌ℝ𝔾𝔼ℝ 𝕂𝕀ℕ𝔾

[@olivius8891]

*Photon

[@SimpleFlips]

I spent a whole 10 minutes trying to figure it out further verifying that it's impossible. RIP my $1000

[@TylerKehne]

SimpleFlips Not the dedication we need, but the dedication we deserve.

[@1ted59]

Tyler Kehne is that a real pic of you

[@PlushSM64]

SimpleFlips >10 mins >1000$ u wot bro, scott, tyler and me ain't dumb

[@SimpleFlips]

Plush i.imgur.com/fPKseeZ.gif

[@Zetter]

SimpleFlips I think the Bomb is the Key, landing frame perfect on that wierd "ceiling change"-Spot when the Bomb explodes may cause some wierd memory shit or so... i tried it some times now, but i'm simply too bad to time this... XD

[@supreetsahu1964]

The universe wanted to help him beat the speedrun world record

[@rickvanleeuwen9589]

Might you be a Veritasium viewer as well? I imagine this topic is getting a revival now

[@supreetsahu1964]

@@rickvanleeuwen9589 yeah man, subscriber since 2012

[@cay7809]

Ajar he failed still

[@user-li5lx3vi8o]

nno, he was wrong, veritasium doesnt know what he is talking about

[@edthedemonslayer6969]

But the universe doesn't even help anyone else

[@ExplodingWaffle101]

“did you get invisible walled?” hits different now

[@Josuh]

yeah, the horrors

[@BaronElBardo]

Just seen the video. Maybe the glitch has something to do with that?

[@FrancisACNH]

*comes back after 5 years* ...Nope, still unclaimed.

[@Diddz]

we may need people willing to test the tas inptus on console, perferrably with dota's console, and aided by hardware inspectors, and ram poking the console directly instead of emulated

[@mariowario5945]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYuWimR7aphomq8

[@mariowario5945]

It is and had been solved

[@mariowario5945]

@@Diddz if he was using of hardware, then how would this be possible? Also, it could just be a dirty cart connection, no?

[@Diddz]

@@mariowario5945 you cannot target a specific offset in memory with a cart tilt or dirty contact especially when the byte of reference is in the RAM onboard the console itself, also theres a thing called game shark and action replay, both enable memory hacking on console i used to use these to mess around with games before i found out about emulators. all consoles that have a game genie, action replay, gameshark, or homebrew can use cheat codes with games on original hardware

[@naircat]

I hear if you press the A button you can do an instant upwarp almost anywhere.

[@Fyreswing]

+warvad half press

[@xela4005]

A jump can only travel about 10 units upwards in the y coordinate, while upwarps can travel as high as 200 units. So a jump is not equal to an upwarp.

[@Ze_eT]

+warvad #STUPID

[@TheRealZeaga]

+Alex K. Whoosh

[@xela4005]

I don't get the "joke" part of it.

[@Umprella]

This is the Fermat's Last Theorem of SM64

[@h_3795]

Except that was solved almost 30 years ago

[@guycomments]

​@@h_3795 Yup... After being unsolved for 400 years.

[@genderender]

guy and possibly not how Fermat solved it unless he was just wrong and didn’t actually have a theorem and didn’t want to admit it

[@Nathan-kk6lb]

@@guycomments And using math that *hadn’t been invented* when Fermat was around.

[@petros_adamopoulos]

@@Nathan-kk6lb math is full of cryptomorphisms. There are many completely different approaches to proving the same thing. The suspicion is that Fermat didn't have a proof but a much simpler proof probably does exist.

[@BlazyDayz]

Universe be like: *"We do a little trolling."*

[@GDNashit]

God be like "Wow look at these bitches losing it over a bit of radiation"

[@UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal]

That we do

[@Shadowfire646]

What you can buy with 1000$: -Plasma TV -New Computer -New Console with a variety of games -Kitchen Appliances -A glitch

[@Charcoal190]

Shadowfire646 xD

[@TBaggingSince1990]

Shadowfire646 Haha I had to quote this comment on twitter while sharing this video.. Best comment!

[@KanagJ]

Shadowfire646 for everything else there is master card

[@bratplapper]

Shadowfire646 Food. Drink. Clothes. Rent. A pc that can run current games... :(

[@freakdj82]

TheRyander These days you don't really need much to run current games, unless you mean like setting everything on max, then yeah 1k dollars would suffice for your needs

[@fendoroid3788]

Since this glitch still has not been reproduced after a long time, many people think that the cause of this phenomenon was caused by a high energy particle hitting the n64 memory, modifying the value at the address of the most significant bit of Mario's Y position to a higher value. Or maybe it was a miracle, like the Red Sea glitch. By the way, the cosmic ray hypothesis raises a doubt: I, and thousands of other people are playing Mario 64 for almost 20 years (ah, the memories...), but in this large timespan, we have never seen this happening at all, and a cosmic ray upwarp could occur everywhere in the game.

[@pannenkoek2012]

Yes, I'm also skeptical of the cosmic ray hypothesis

[@fendoroid3788]

Yes, there are too much coincidences to hastily justify the cosmic ray hypothesis: before the upwarp there was a set of presumably bit perfect conditions, like the spot between the two ceilings. What do I think is the major problem, is that there is no cycle accurate n64 emulator right now. The only one that aims to this is CEN64, but it is still under development and still has not a record and debugging function. I remember one of your 0x A presses videos where a glitch was exploitable in emulator but not in console. A similar thing could happen in the opposite direction. Maybe is a console/cycle-accurate emulator only glitch.

[@toafloast1883]

Woaah, that shits something that can happen? Jeeesus!

[@SuperNintendawg]

the probability of that happening is so low that it's essentially impossible

[@TheTruthFadeswithTime28]

What is the Red Sea glitch ?

[@jden]

The fact this was never replicated confirms that all copies of Mario 64 are personalized

[@papajohn9945]

Pog

[@julesrezidor3807]

uhh ok

[@littlea420]

Nice still don’t believe but ok

[@KnownAsKenji]

What's the extent of that though? If you copy a ROM does it get re-personalized?

[@NnFbr-gw9oo]

@@KnownAsKenji no, because technically your making a copy of a copy so it might retain the same traits as the original (your welcome for answering this a year later)

[@seacat1342]

get Dream onto this, he has a lot of cosmic radiation in his house

[@Jx_-]

Yeah, he'd be lucky enough to just do it

[@viktoriaborn3472]

Yeabut he probably needs a bucket to Not get damage doring the teleport

[@KnownAsKenji]

Wouldn't work. There's no Seed to highroll.

[@ej-jz5rc]

Dream after getting all 120 stars at the same time upon spawning (he is just very lucky)

[@itlos3704]

Good one

[@GradeAUnderA]

at 4:37, the ceiling height changes momentarily from -2641 to -3951 for a moment, which I assume is another seam between two different ceiling heights. This seam is the exact point dota_teabag seems to do that kick in mid-air. At that -3951 moment, during his mid-air kick, he also seems to hit his head/hat on the corner of that platform thing above him, which he seems to be able to reach and hit by doing the mid-air kick during that big jump after the side jump, rather than just during a normal jump. I don't know anything about Super Mario 64, but maybe the glitch involves doing a mid-air kick that hits Mario's head on that platform-thing above him while being on that -2641/-3951 seam, and then landing on the other -2641/-173 seam. Let me know if this is stupid, or if there might be any validity in my guess. Many thanks :D

[@TylerKehne]

GradeAUnderA It would be weird but it's as good a guess as any.

[@renakunisaki]

I feel like it may not have to do with the climbable ceiling glitch at all. There are no climbable ceilings in TTC that I know of, and Mario wasn't climbing nor did he appear to warp to the ceiling. It looked more like once he landed he suddenly warped several meters up, putting him in the air above the ceiling. It could relate to having hit his head on the platform and/or kicked at a certain spot, but I suspect the main culprit is the precise angles. May be a case where a very tiny factor gets turned into a huge value; eg if it did something like Y + (1 / angle), and angle = 0.000001.

[@PaKuaKwon]

GradeAUnderA I love your videos, man.

[@WomboShlongo]

GradeAUnderA Holy fuck mate what are you doing here? I love your videos!

[@theojaquenoud419]

ö You sir have the cleverest youtube name and profile pic, thumbs up for that :D I'll even check out your channel just for kicks Edit: I'm back and there was nothing there, I am disappointed :P

[@mangomaster6459]

did you try replicating the alignment of the celestial bodies from the beginning of the run

[@ovrsurge4689]

Unironically it was probably a cosmic ray flipping a bit related to mario's vertical elevation. You can get an exact reproduction of the event in this way. So yeah i guess you would have to replicate the alignment of the celestial bodies as well as placing your nintendo 64 on the exact location.

[@Zum1UDontNo]

Update two years later: yep. It was an ionizing particle from space hitting the N64 and flipping a bit. Replicating the alignment of the celestial bodies actually would've worked.

[@jupitermonkey5687]

Maybe he should have lmao

[@gdash6925]

@@Zum1UDontNo wow. Can you show me the chat conversation in which this was confirmed?

[@niquel5831]

@@gdash6925 It hasn't been confirmed, it's impossible to confirm that by now, it's just speculation. It is however the most likely cause, given no one has found any other way this may have happened.

[@NintendoSunnyDee]

I'm convinced four years later that it was probably hardware related

[@mynewaccount2361]

It's all but confirmed that it's a cosmic ray bit flip

[@TheKivifreak]

I mean if you look at the crazy things Sethbling is doing with SMW I think it's still very likely to be a software glitch.

[@Cheesecannon25]

@@TheKivifreak SMW and SM64 are *very* different games. Sethbling is doing Arbitrary Code Execution in SMW, something not doable in SM64

[@genderender]

My New Account that’s a fun theory but unlikely to actually be the case. It’s probably just some hardware fault and impossible to replicate

[@AndrewJ9673]

@@genderender unless we break the N64 manually

[@hshot2000]

Remember how long it took to find the Barrier Skip in The Windwaker. Just cause it's been a couple of years doesn't mean it's out of the question! Keep searching!

[@genderender]

Remember how barrier skip was found twice since this video was released? Good times

[@heisenmountainb6854]

Isn't it confirmed to be a hardware glitch? Like a random bit swapped from 0 to 1?

[@sdfhkjfsdhawekhoidfshkj]

@@heisenmountainb6854 it's a cosmic glitch

[@rickvanleeuwen9589]

Veritasium has a video about it that uses this footage as an example. Particles traveling at high speeds create electrons, positrons, etc and they have enough energy to manipulate a bit

[@superkewlyoutuber2927]

@@sdfhkjfsdhawekhoidfshkj its not confirmed to be one

[@philhutchinson5885]

I heard that TJ """"Henry"""" Yoshi managed to reproduce this.

[@johnsmithe1875]

the greatest plot twist ever

[@angelabuechlein7576]

Almost no one will get the reference

[@sta3802]

+Angela Buechlein noone new, actually, but someone that watched all pannenkoek's videos where he talks.

[@sta3802]

+Angela Buechlein wtf did i try to say there lol

[@Architector_4]

Could someone, please, finnaly just link it or at least tell me the name so i can get it? I watched lots of pannenkoek's videos and i still don't know where that's from and what this is about.. :c

[@furfagyiffininhell3525]

It's been a year and people still haven't claimed this lmao

[@Epicgecko01420]

XD

[@YoutubePizzer]

Character in MVC2 that literally nobody plays as :That's why it costs 1000$

[@lBiil]

Character in MVC2 that literally nobody plays as

[@CryOverdage]

it doesnt cost, its a reward

[@tuonganhk]

It's time for an in your face DISGRACE LMAO TRUE 😂😂

[@mae_lia]

after 5 years I'm starting to think that maybe his copy of mario 64 was personalized and granted him the upwarp

[@saplingdatree4111]

lmao yes

[@loooongneck]

It was reproducible by hacking the game to change a single bit pertaining to Mario’s height, meaning that a stray cosmic ray flipping the bit is actually a possibility

[@loooongneck]

@RomCodes that just makes it all the more likely he had a personalized copy, idiot. Much easier to change a ROM than a physical cartridge of the game. You’d think someone named “RomCodes” would know this lmao

[@mioc7741]

@RomCodes freezer boi is correct. The most likely explanation is a cosmic ray.

[@Ludvix]

@@loooongneck ouch.

[@Ultra_64]

I have a good idea recreate Dota Tbag's life up to the glitch. Surely it must happen

[@aorusaki]

or get the game file

[@haronka]

Or hack his console with snowden's program

[@oradio1020]

Is this worth an r/wooosh?

[@Jake_Josh]

Oradio10 no.

[@2chill2bbored72]

it won’t work

[@PAPASTAIN]

nearly two decades later, there's still weird shit we've never seen before. what a game

[@AmazingFrenchman]

TRASH?????? 2020 People actually unlock Luigi in the garden... What do we know!?

[@TheTMC035]

TRASH?????? 3d games have so many chances for fuck ups it's great, the addition of that Z axis really makes it interesting. I would assume people will be finding new stuff for decades.

[@IdoWolf]

Yep, it's THAT much of a buggy mess.

[@spencer1531]

TRASH?????? Like in SSB melee, with a documentary and one of the strongest competitive communities in gaming

[@GarketMardener]

TRASH?????? Well, for one of the first 3d games, a simple enough code to put in a N64... yeah that's going to have some "flaws" but yeah, lol

[@Mark-xk3hh]

surprised no one mentioned the many jokes of folder names at 3:31

[@0DRONZER]

lol

[@TheExarion]

I'm surprised I didn't pay it any mind until just now lmao

[@sashascool]

Not porn lmao

[@the0therethan]

Now give me da monnayssss

[@atma7189]

Just a note: In the actually upwarp video he hits the wall before hitting the ground but in all of you attempts you never hit the wall. The backward momentum from hitting the wall may be one of the main ways to perform this glitch but then again maybe it doesn't matter at all. Who knows.

[@civilcornball]

Speaking of ways to perform the glitch, it’s entirely possible that they jumped just when they landed.

[@johnnyboro9558]

@@civilcornball i honestly think the bomb-omb under him might have some influence too.

[@FixedKarma]

@@civilcornball no, there's animation lag for landing and jumping, so they could happen at the same time.

[@jesuscagoule7808]

@atma7189 I think the same even though i have never played the game, but if the physics of mario 64 is the same as rocket league it's probably possible lmao

[@genderender]

Considering we now have the C source to this game and nothing has come from this glitch since it was found, it was most likely a hardware glitch. The streamer mentioned that he had to tilt the cart to get the game to work and cartridge tilting can do weird and unexpected things

[@drexsd4448]

Plot twist: This entire glitch was actually Tj Henry Yoshi realizing there is half a presses

[@furfagyiffininhell3525]

TJ Henry?

[@thefatfighter3263]

Lel

[@LordBob]

how is that meme still alive?

[@TJ-Henry-Yoshi]

I still refute this claim and it lies in the fact that regardless of whether he is doing a fully game run, for that individual star, the A button is pressed. It does not matter when it is pressed, but it is definitely pressed fully at one point to get said star

[@1BrotherDragon]

An a press actually has 3 parts to it. When a is pressed, when a is held, and when a is released. Write it down!

[@rank10ygo]

Let's be honest that was probably King Crimson

[@ItsYaTrashboi]

mario's shape was snatched to the top of the level

[@teamyordle23]

I hate Jojo fans.

[@KingDoppio23]

Thank you. Just... thank you

[@discordmodder8846]

It was probably some Roids player

[@IvanDSM]

What does prog rock have to do with this?!

[@ImmaFarmerInMalaysia]

Man, it's disappointing that this ended up not being replicable. It could've been the basis for many cool glitches, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be

[@TSMSnation]

You just gonna become good friends with the universe and ASK for those cosmic rays.

[@pro-socialsociopath769]

He was God's chosen speedrunner

[@Henrix1998]

In the end it probably would have required A press anyway

[@Shuruia]

Would be incredibly meta if the cosmic ray did this to a Super Mario Galaxy speedrun instead.

[@Brain-washed2]

It's not like the idea was based on nothing, I think a lot of people heard "cosmic rays" and thought it was purely a joke without knowing

[@user-li5lx3vi8o]

no that did not happen

[@mymyscellany]

Reading the comments, it's pretty clear people have tried most everything. For glitches like this, where people have literally basically replicated the glitch set up exactly and nothing happens, there is probably some hidden input that the glitch is connected to. Look up the frozen turnip glitch in Super Smash Bros. Melee, a glitch that could not be solved for over ten years. The solution was doing an input that was never displayed on screen, the frame of getting hit. I would not be surprised if this is something very similar.

[@thinygamer9408]

This is a huge Clue to what might be the solution, I will play around with mashing different buttons on the frame I land for a bit, I encourage EVERYONE who reads this to try the same!

[@Edwo1]

My Miscellany what part of the frozen turnip was not "solved"? link?

[@mymyscellany]

+TheCickenStyler What made the glitch happen was unknown. Also too lazy to post a link. But it the glitch was discovered around 2002 and was figured out how it happened in December of 2015.

[@verbbudders904]

it took people a long time to figure out that the key was hitting Peach out of her up B on its first frame since it's basically impossible to see the first up B frame occurring in videos of the glitch

[@kama2106]

Or its a prank....

[@MikeyTaylorGaming]

Dude... If anyone has the ability to recreate this glitch it's you pannenkoek2012! I'm glad you've started to upload videos again, I've been amazed by the in depth analysis of glitches you've recorded in the past, I hope to see some kind of revelation on this one! :D

[@overthebridge_]

When's the next glitch picnic coming out? :3

[@MikeyTaylorGaming]

sonmarico イワン Tomorrow! :D

[@BigButterCreamCandy]

Mikeytalorgaming I recreated the glitch it's at my channel

[@MikeyTaylorGaming]

jake nbake As much as I wish that were true, it look like you've taken the clip from this video and just re-uploaded it hahaha In the rules it states: (3) Your submission should be a .m64 file and a .st file that Mupen64 can play. Anything else (such as .avi, .rec) is not valid. So don't use Project64 or Bizhawk. That means even if you manage to recreate the glitch you'd have to have the proof in form of states and I assume that the .m64 file is some kind of recorded Movie for the emulator so they can track movement and analyse what's going on :)

[@ominouswave236]

+MikeyTaylorGaming dude. I keep finding you all over KZbin comments. I GET THE SIGN I WATCH UR VIDS SO PLEEZ STGHAP K

[@vossafails]

The fact that this happened because a fucking ionizing particle from space hit the ram on that n64 is beyond crazy

[@petros_adamopoulos]

Because it didn't.

[@xenotronia6681]

@@petros_adamopoulos proof?

[@blancogohan]

@@xenotronia6681 LMAO wdym where the hell is the proof for a fucking cosmic ray bitflip

[@CyberCat3O]

@@blancogohan it's the only explanation. It's been over 5 years, and no one could reproduce the glitch. Even when people tried to recreate it frame by frame.

[@blancogohan]

@@CyberCat3O that's not proof thats just blindly believing something this is way more believable from a sm64 TASer twitter.com/nimka005/status/1358933922206343170?s=19

[@MrTorkxx]

Anyone still pop by just to check? Lol.

[@KnownAsKenji]

Yes.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

MrTorkxx yes

[@joltganda]

Only when it appears on my homepage.

[@jonarmani8654]

Nah, never.

[@jammy3662]

@Jon Armani yet you came back to comment lol

[@ddnava96]

Please watch when he lands on the first platform. He lands in the corner between the platform and the wall, and Mario makes an instant 180º turn for one frame before turning 180º again and push the wall. Later, when he lands on the platform right above it he lands around the same XY position, and notice that when he touches the wall he's pushed back a bit right before landing and being upwarped. My best guessing is that when he almost got stuck between the first platform and the wall some value was frozen, and when he got to the same XY position that value was unfrozen, so it recognized it as Mario moving from the first platform to the right-above platform in just one frame, and adding some momentum he was pushed upward really fast (1 frame for such height)

[@ddnava96]

Also, I watched the video and it was somewhat near the ceiling change, but it was not exactly there, it was a bit to the left. I'm sorry if this info is not useful at all

[@aradiati0n]

Here's your 1000 dollars

[@commscan314]

Maybe you could replicate this via TAS.

[@SupremeCaptainHWD]

Couldn't it be related to the Bob-omb under Mario at 0:19? Because when he warps up Mario is in the animation when he gets hurt and sent flying.

[@HeyItzMeDawg]

That looks to be exactly it.

[@Metagross923]

you can hear the explosion as well at the same time as it happens

[@peabnuts123]

This looks very related

[@PierreDefretin]

+pannenkoek2012 let's hope he sees your comment.

[@AmaranthRBY]

People suggested this basicly right when this video was released, nothing came of it. It's almost guaranteed to be related but we don't know exactly how.

[@koshkamatew]

the solar flare that hit earth that day did a lot of trolling

[@HazhMcMoor]

All those talking about downwarps feels different after watching the invisible wall video

[@PillowTalk420]

What if it is actually a downwarp, but it is warping him back through to the top of the map? When he warps up to the floor, Mario acts as if he just took a fall.

[@gonderage]

y axis parallel universes?

[@PillowTalk420]

Gonedridge​ Why not? If they can work laterally, why not horizontally also? If they worked the same, though, I don't think he had enough speed to enter a valid PU.

[@ShadwSonic]

+Pillow Talk I don't think so... if it was a downwarp then Mario would either appear on the surface instantaneously or would appear in midair and immediately begin dropping down... but if you pay attention to the warp he teleports, goes UP for a moment, THEN comes crashing down. Perhaps he jumped at precisely the right spot? The way Mario was landing may have contributed too...

[@scotthorning354]

+ShadwSonic That is a good theory...

[@mariophreak]

+Scott H though a bob omb exploded under him right as he kicked so that might have given him enough speed to do so.

[@Sylocat]

Sadly, this may have been a cosmic ray error. Which is a shame, since this would probably be the key to finally getting rid of those last few A presses in the ABC.

[@nojjon2985]

I'm sorry, a what?

[@Milkbutter]

A cosmic ray error is the result of cosmic rays (from space) causing soft errors on hardware down here. They're...completely random and have been observed since the late 70's by a guy at IBM. If Rabbit is right, this glitch is virtually impossible to reproduce.

[@nothayley]

Has that been observed on the N64 before? I've never experienced one on a normal computer.

[@Milkbutter]

christian.mann91 I'd have to look into that...recording something this unpredictable would be very difficult though.

[@SOLAR_WillToWin]

Not a cosmic ray error. The fact it happened at the boundary is a strong indication that had something to do with it.

[@Duskaria]

I've seen enough crazy ass speedrun strats being discovered to know that this will eventually be found, even if it takes 30 years for someone to re-create it.

[@realconquerorchen1609]

It would have to depend on literal astronomical phenomena to be doable then

[@vxyrssVEVO]

i don't think we'll ever be able to replicate cosmic phenomena in our household

[@armitx9]

"did you get an invisible wall" insane foreshadowing

[@redpurple1035]

what was the food Dota_Teabag ate before playing?

[@ThisAlias]

mera mera no mi fruit

[@redpurple1035]

43abdi43 ???

[@ThisAlias]

+Muhammad Anas Muhammad Othman do you know one piece?

[@redpurple1035]

no

[@ThisAlias]

+Muhammad Anas Muhammad Othman what??? 4 real??

[@sirrocu659]

To this day no one has gotten it yet?

[@thinygamer9408]

Correct

[@blurryfacedfan770]

Sirrocu Still haven't

[@Metagross923]

I did it, but then my nintendo warped into a PU

[@osvaldovy7996]

still no

[@Dougy]

I KNOW BUT I DON'T HOW TO PROVE IT 😢😢😢😢

[@DomiAnimations]

Mabye it was something BEFORE he enterd tick tock clock

[@ruben._._34577]

Probably

[@nevergonnagiveyouup291]

Domi?

[@jamesdean9183]

Pannen, I think I may have found another up-warp location. If you go beside the 8 Star Door in the castle lobby on the left side of the door, and do a small jump where the vertical crease on the doorway beside the railing is, it will look as if it warps you up to the top of the crease. Despite doing a small jump, it warps you up to the top of the door, much higher than your original jump height. I'm pretty sure I'm wrong on this, but it is still quite strange. If you need video proof I can provide that as well.

[@semisemicoloncolon]

Put this on the sm64 subreddit or something, I don’t think he’s gonna see this comment

[@kjl3080]

I really want to see it can you upload it to KZbin? Make sure to record the movements on mupen64 too

[@want-diversecontent3887]

I can easily reproduce. If I were to guess what was happening, I'd say it's a (glitchy?) ledge grab onto the "floor" above, but there's a ceiling above it, so it pushes you off.

[@nachfullbarertrank5230]

@@kjl3080 aargh stop being everywhere

[@MateAndMead]

For all we know this could've just been the game bugging out due to a faulty emulator/rom/cartridge. Something like a corruption. We don't even know if it IS even recreatable on purpose (except of very precisely corrupting the game)

[@NoName-nh3rz]

if it, i wasted a month of my life trying to get this

[@John-239]

Pannenkoek2012 said in another comment that it's on the N64.

[@JetFuelSE]

+John Smith Remember what happened to Siglemic during his 120 star run at SGDQ 2014? Something like that might have happened.

[@neopalm2050]

what if the glitch doesn't start at tick tock clock but instead includes actions from before entering the stage? or is all data in the ram deleted when you enter tick tock clock??

[@winderps]

He did try TASing the player's entire run up to that point, however, since we don't know his exact button inputs it can't be exactly reproduced. If the actions leading up to TTC have to be at all precise, it's unlikely this will ever be reproduced.

[@GuitarWholesale]

You need to enter the mind of the Twitcher, wear his same clothes, eat his same breakfast, everything!!

[@Wtahc]

GuitarWholesale lol this game is dead

[@Odyssey_Central]

neopalm2050 very possible, sethbling codes games in smw so possibly the right actions could have

[@xxp0siZlayr]

neopalm2050 it could have something to do with HOLP

[@fuchsiamarisad]

This video is now 8 years old and still unclaimed.

[@kevinsekol5645]

Look at the most recent video of the channel Veritasium "The Universe is hostile to computers", there it is explained how this glitch has happened. In fact he explains that this wasn’t even a glitch, it just was a bit-flip caused by cosmic radiation striking a single transistor responsible for Mario’s height. The exact alternation of Mario‘s height can be recreated by manually applying the same bit-flip at the same spot, thus confirming the theory.

[@kirbycube]

people have already known/speculated this for quite some time. it is nothing new, veritasium simply compiled a bunch of different sources into one video.

[@xehP]

lmfao bruh moment, this theory is commonly known and widely accepted by the community, veritasium didn’t speculate anything new.

[@redacted3670]

cool

[@philiphammar]

@@xehP no need to be an asshole

[@Orincaby]

Think about it - it hit his computer - it hit the RAM - it targeted SM64 - it, out of all locations of RAM, adjusted the position - it shaved time off the run we're never replicating it

[@RepiteoHD]

I have severely underestimated just how much you want that 0AP goal. 1k is nothing to scoff at, so I imagine you'll get results FAST.

[@garrettkoontz4307]

Just some musings- First, to attempt to sum up what has been said so far: - Mario obviously takes fall damage. This means that he was probably not hit by the Bob-omb's blast. - This glitch may or may not be related to the more common upwarp glitch that involves fulfilling the ceiling_collision flag while fulfilling the beneath_climbable_ceiling flag. To this end, what other event flags are present in the code? - As pointed out by GradeAUnderA, there is a point in which Mario is not only beneath two surfaces, he also seemingly performs a kickflip and a collision at this seam. This same manoeuvre also brings him in contact with the wall and a different seam. - It may be necessary to enter the clock tower at the correct time - in which the platforms are immobile.Some say exactly 1200, but others say it can be between 1100 and 1300. - There is a Bob-omb that possibly goes off on the same axis as Mario at approximately that time.This may mean nothing, but explosions are typically a good way to gain altitude and mess with data.This may prove hellaciously difficult to recreate, since they are, in fact, guided by RNG. And then, a few of my own hypotheses; - The strange wallkick - is it possible that the game started reading his height differently when he encountered the wall at the seam, and then when he landed, it "corrected" the placement of Mario's model? Such as ((ZAxis=100 -> ZAxis= 400) + encounter_ground). - It seems apparent that at the moment he landed on the platform, he landed on the upper platform instead. This is probably a direct translation along the Z - axis (I know the vertical axis is probably Y, but I'm calling it Z for the sake of simplicity). The question is "Why?". At some point the game decided that Mario was located so many pixels above his previous position, OR standing on the next available solid object along the Z-Axis. - Is it possible that he translated THROUGH the vertical seam? In more recent 3D games, particularly of the open-world variety such as WoW or Skyrim, it is possible to climb the almost-sheer sides of mountains by jittering back and forth between two different rock faces and repeatedly jumping. The forward movement is translated upward. In this case, if Mario clipped through the wall, the data may have been interpreted differently which caused the Z-Position to change upon contact with a solid surface. - If the Bob-omb IS involved, it could have to do with launching Mario upwards- if it exploded when Mario was attached to the wall- in the middle of the jump- it may have avoided the launching effect. It may then have applied the launching effect (translation only- sans animation and sans clipping) upwards the moment he next encountered a floor. In fact, the delayed reaction to the bomb may have left the "launch" effect going for those extra seconds. - But here's my pet hypothesis- notice how he drops from the very top of the level? This may in fact be a DOWNWARP glitch that cycled him through the bottom of the level and onto the platform. This may be supported by the fact that the TTC level has multiple variations depending on when you enter it. Just a thought.

[@PlushSM64]

Garrett Koontz Hypothesis #3 is pretty interesting

[@MrLemonGrahb]

Garrett Koontz What if the grid that the glitch makes landing on have some same properties than the previously know wrap up glitch location and material? What if this is some input-induced exception? "Yeah, a glitch" you could answer, but I meant it in the way of a direct and possibly higher level of induction that usually does'nt do such thing, and in a pattern that lead to a relevent response of the emulator. Hope I helped, but as far as i'm concerned, "ain't nobody got time of dis" :) Enjoy

[@Supertinyfeathers]

+Garrett Koontz I think it's a double glitch of sorts. Mario lands on the platform just before he warps, he even bends his knees. Perhaps he "fell through" the floor and hit the bomb. Perhaps he hits the bomb (as if jumping on it) but because the space was taken, the game drops him from mid-air as if he were falling. My only question: is the point where he fell the max altitude mario can be in that level? I would try jumping on the bomb under the platform with a kick or two.

[@okedokie]

+Garrett Koontz clocks are not in 24h format, between 11 and 1 -not 1300

[@MineNAdventurer]

Garrett Koontz Here's my hypothesis. Maybe because of Mario Wall kicking while landing it thought he was higher based on the difference between the difference between the two above celings and his original jump causing the game to think he is on the higher platform while he isn't making mario launch skyward

[@MrInsideEye]

What if the warp was caused by cosmic rays colliding with the n64's RAM? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error

[@MrInsideEye]

@@3pical what the FUCK

[@vossafails]

what the actual fuck, how did you predict this

[@CaptainFlavio]

he was a prophet and nobody listened to him

[@ehak72]

holy fuck

[@oxob3333]

the messiah LMFAO

[@wahjergah4543]

Legitimate question: I think it’s been determined that this was indeed a cosmic bit flip. However, there are two things that this reveals: 1. The bit that was flipped had to have been the bit that stores Mario’s y-position. 2. This bit can be manipulated on a dime without any repurcussions, as the video showed. These two things beg the question; if it is possible to manipulate anything in the game, how easy is it to manipulate the game into changing the y-axis coordinate? I am not an experienced member of the ABC TAS community, but I’m just sorta bouncing ideas off the wall here/

[@heisenmountainb6854]

Easy enough to verify that a bit flip is likely the cause. You need the right tools and knowhow.

[@heisenmountainb6854]

If you mean, ingame, like without tools, just by playing the game, even with TAS, this is literally what we are trying to do here, if it was possible we wouldn't care about this and there wouldn't be a bounty.

[@heisenmountainb6854]

Cosmic bit flip means, nothing ingame caused the bit to flip. It was never supposed to flip. It did it anyway, and idk the physics behind it, but if it was something that would happen all the time, anything data related wouldn't really work.

[@harsh3624]

@@heisenmountainb6854 you can watch veritasium new video to understand part of the science of how the glitch occurred. It's called why the universe is hostile to computers.

[@ZaHandle]

play in the x-ray room in the hospital

[@ltlynx77]

What about imitating all his gameplay frame by frame through TAS and see what happens?

[@pannenkoek2012]

I've tried it, along with many other TASers, and yet no one's been able to get it to happen again

[@ltlynx77]

Oh my god :( From the very beginning of his whole gameplay?

[@pannenkoek2012]

We've TASed it from the start of entering TTC very closely, and nothing happened. I also TASed the game from the very beginning (not super precisely, but basically the same movement and star collections in order). The save state I included is actually after TASing all this movement from the game start

[@ltlynx77]

Amazing. Maybe the precision is the key, I don't know. Why is this shit so hard? :(

[@BeastachuLV16]

if it was easy there wouldn't be a 1000$ bounty on it

[@matty4351]

I'm just wondering, was DOTA_Teabag playing on VC or N64? Because if it were on N64, the height change could have been due to a crooked cartridge.

[@SwissArmyTin]

Yeah, I was wondering something similar. What if the upwarp was caused by some sort of hardware glitch? That's like a whole new ballpark of variables and possibilities...

[@codycooper3005]

and if it was in the virtual console it could be because of its odd emulation which would make it exclusive to that version

[@womp6338]

Someone should ask him..

[@Lazhern]

I think he was playing on Mupen, which I think is why he specifically said to do it on that emulator.

[@codycooper3005]

GlitchStep he said to use mopen because it can record the in-game counters and things

[@Bombasticpik]

7 years and no sign of the [CLAIMED] text

[@GDNashit]

Imagine a cosmic ray hits on the start of a run and changes the star value

[@GDNashit]

​@Vini Chenzo say you were doing a 16 star run though, if it changes to 64 you'd be able to skip nearly everything But yeah it doesn't change each indiviual star to "yes", does the game check for that or does it only check the star value?

[@Xnoob545]

If there's a star counter and it's at 00000001 (1 star) and one bit flips For example to 00100001 (pretty sure that's 33) it could save a lot of time

[@StormerSage]

The star count is actually a long string of bits, storing whether you've collected that specific star or not (so it knows whether to spawn the yellow star or the faded one). It simply takes the sum of all those bits and that's the star count. However, it actually reads more than 120 bits, so the star count can go higher, which is used in romhacks.

[@cay7809]

it cant because thick and dense material like cement blocks cosmic rays

[@cay7809]

cart tilting probably can tho

[@apotato1679]

I was wondering how you can provide $1000 but then I forgot that you can clone it. 😂

[@alexrector2150]

The coin limit is 999.

[@sawnikk]

Ryan Swaggert That's only the saved coin score limit. If pannenkoek lives in a course with an infinite coin glitch he can get 999 coins

[@LiEnby]

jdjsnsnsaga yeheh but if hes playing in the Japanese version he can get 1000 coins

[@evanbowl]

He can get 999 coins in a level, but the coin scores do not agree over 255+ coins

[@iqbaltrojan]

pannen: the dutch/japanese person playing a 19 year old game while trying to find glitches

[@oussama7132]

3:32 am i the only one who read the files' names?

[@SkicoNow]

No.

[@dmas7749]

No...

[@accuratejaney8140]

'goverment passwords'

[@dmas7749]

AccurateJaney: Well, he's made them just in case

[@Cam275YT]

*n o t p o r n*

[@maxymilion]

The chances of this happening again are *astrononical* . I'll show myself out, thanks

[@Needformadness2]

Your comment would've been funnier if you posted it 6 years ago when the cosmic ray hypothesis was originally made.

[@mynameisnothere9465]

I come back to this video at least twice a year and it never fails to fascinate me (especially the unofficial 'conclusion' of a cosmic ray or whatever). This is the video that really got me interested in speedrunning, though I'm not smart enough to understand most of the technological jargon lol. I just like to watch updates by Karl Jobst and such.

[@MonJilley]

the bombbomb exploded below him. Watch the bombbomb the video where it happens. It's directly under Mario when he warps and the timing for it seems spot on for the bomb exploding.

[@eatingsyne]

If I win this, I can finally buy that rare pepe I've always wanted.

[@TylerKehne]

***** last i checked they were sold out

[@PlushSM64]

Rarest pepes ain't even close to 1k bucks bro, u can get very cheap and common ones doe

[@leonzchannelz]

***** well meme'd

[@OmoiSenpai]

Wouldn't it be something like a falling glitch, since you would be falling off the platform, and gets zipped up if lined up with the top platform?

[@AB-Prince]

GRABABLE LEDGES his speed put his next intended position out of bounds. His position was then set to just below, because he was landing. He then goes to a ledge grabbing state and gets upwarped, similar to a grabbable celing, to the ledge above and onto the platform.

[@zawarudo596]

This might be it. Unfortunately I think alot of the community moved on to have jobs etc so we might never know, but if this is the case it makes upwarping possible almost anywhere.

[@RobertEnciso]

Failsafe mechanism? And I don't think the speed was enough to go out of bounds

[@knack3381]

Maybe WE should TAS this, because I don't think Pannen will see this Make sure to remember the bob-omb, too

[@turkeycooktime458]

He would have to have 400 speed to go out of bounds, and Mario's normal running speed is 32, so I don't think that's the case. However, you mentioned a ledge grab, and that gave me an idea. Mario seems to fall backwards after the upwarp at a speed similar to when he drops off a ledge. I'm thinking this could be a new type of glitchy ledge grab that goes much higher than other ones that have been found.

[@ITGAlex]

"I have never seen that in my entire universe of a life"

[@WojtekBacza]

I just tried to do this, set everything up, emulator, ROM, pad, then I realised that I'm shit at this game and can't even jump into the clock. 10/10 will download English version and play from the beggining

[@Pjdemonman69]

Raul Daitx climb up on the clock then just walk in, you can save state too right before the freeze time and just keep going back to it.

[@foiledagain1914]

The fucking unmatched power of the sun vs mario

[@MRICKAY36]

8 years later, the universe haven't given peoples n64 cosmic rays yet.

[@fendoroid3788]

Where pannenkoek is getting 1000$ from? Well, simple: just watch at 3:30. Future lottery numbers. Interesting.

[@toadbrawler9077]

Fendoroid He had to travel to parallel universes to find those numbers

[@xenosonic9x414]

Fendoroid You'll be rewarded 1 dollar because As you can see, this twitch player DOTA_TEABAG was very high for seemingly no reason.

[@xenosonic9x414]

ToadBrawler SCUBADUBADUBADUBABOBOOBOBEBEBBEBEBBBOBOBOBOOBOBOITYDODODOODODOODODOODODODOODODOODODOODO... I'M A SCATMAN!

[@squiddler7731]

also included there are government passwords. and "not porn"

[@xenosonic9x414]

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[@JosephJosetar]

We're getting closer to 05.08.2016... It's almost an year since the video was uploaded and damn, this really is a hard glitch to reproduce. EDIT: It's been almost 3 years and still nothing? WOW!

[@JosephJosetar]

And now it's June 29th, almost July. Still no one claimed the prize...

[@namenivkname9012]

+ThomasRk Maybe the bounty will increase to one million dollars before the glitch is found ?

[@liamhasfriends1408]

3 more days 😂😯

[@QuintetMagician]

And now it's been a little over a year! Craziness, my dudes.

[@gh0un]

With the knowledge of invisible walls from pannenkoek´s most recent video, I now suspect that the one glitch where dota_teabag randomly upwarped in TTC, actually has to do with an invisible wall appearing/disappearing into Dota_teabag. Dota_teabag was just about to fall onto one of the elevators thingies on TTC, but he was on a downward trajectory with a kick still in animation. And just before he warps up it looks like mario rapidly changes directory a few times (so it aligns with the explanation that mario bonks when on a downward trajectory and going into an invisible ceiling), as if he gets squished between invisible ceilings (bonking back and forth probably?), and then he appears on the top of the level. Since invisible ceilings go all the way up to the level, i suspect that there is some kind of alignment of triangles on top of the level, which when aligned with that invisible ceiling back and forth bonking down below, causes mario to appear up on top. Pannenkoek you only showed what happens to mario when he is on a downward trajectory going into an invisible ceiling, but what if that invisible ceiling disappears after the bonk, and then reappears inside mario? Also note that next to mario is the out of bounds zone as well, next to that elevator with the invisible ceilings, so that might also play a role.

[@ImExcalibastard]

I saw this in my feed after watching the entire invisible wall saga and that thought clicked in my head as well.

[@Richyman397]

Darn. I was hoping to see pannenkoek's response to this...

[@ImExcalibastard]

You make an excellent point and I went and rewatched dotas clip. The upwarp happened when the platforms were not moving. The invis ceilings only appear briefly while the platforms are moving during certain frames of their rotation. Specifically at the "sweet" angles pankoek described in his invis walls documentary. There are (as far as I know) no other invisible ceilings in the area that the upwarp occured at.

[@gh0un]

@@ImExcalibastard The platform being still at that moment doesn't have to mean anything. If the platform starts moving, invisible walls start appearing, even on the very first frame. You wouldn't even notice the platform having moved yet after 1 frame. So the platform's non existent movement in that moment cannot be taken as an indication of anything. Pretty sure that invisible walls are the reason for the upwarp. There might just be mechanics involved that pannen isn't aware of yet.

[@ImExcalibastard]

@@gh0un The TTC painting was entered by the streamer with the big clock hand on 12 which completely stops all moving platforms in the level. They weren't just beginning to move at all, they were frozen indefinitely in the upwarp clip. I digress, if you watch the invisible walls video closely there are zero examples of invisible walls in the specific area the upwarp occurs. Had he been jumping off the side of the platform when it happened that would be different but he was centered on the platform safe from the ceiling leaks which only occur on the outer edge. On top of that getting stuck inside of an invisible wall that appears inside of Mario just down warps him below the ceiling it's leaking from. I'll reiterate that Mario can't just jump inside of an invisible wall because that just causes him to bonk or if he walks into it his movment is cancelled. The wall needs to appear where he is currently located to cause the downwarp and the only way that happens is when a moving platform with leaks stops leaking temporarily at certain angles in its movement. This allows Mario to enter the temporarily clear area with no invisible wall before the platform hits another angle that causes the ceiling below to leak inside of Mario. Once again that only ever causes him to downwarp. So whether or not the platform is moving DOES matter as any invisible walls in that upwarp video would only have caused the streamer to bonk after he jumped not even downwarp. It's impossible for Mario to get inside of the invisible wall without the movement of the platform causing intermittent ceiling leaks.

[@thisisahumanlol8255]

Btw, this glitch was actually a soft error caused by cosmic rays in real life. This glitch is extremely rare

[@asiamies9153]

not guaranteed

[@rzno3414]

@@asiamies9153 its the most logic reason though

[@onyhow]

Radiation-induced effect isn't that uncommon, especially at higher altitude (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening#Radiation_effects_on_electronics there's several classes of that, also things like ECC memory is partly designed to combat)...it's the one that produce noticeable result like this that is rare.

[@thisisahumanlol8255]

@@onyhow I actually meant the glitch not the radiation. It wasnt worded properly

[@asiamies9153]

@@rzno3414 Obviously but not guaranteed, like he is implying

[@zeroseven9864]

sockfolder bout to make easy money

[@Jademalo]

ZeroSeven Considering he managed a cannonless setup, he could probably do it in 5-10 minutes, OpieOP. Someone should get in touch with Touval as well, he did Gelato skip in SMS and it only took him like two days when the community had been working on it for years.

[@PlushSM64]

ZeroSeven sockfolder ain't shit on tyler kehne bruh

[@pannenkoek2012]

ZeroSeven I hope he does. I just want to get my hands on this glitch already

[@PlushSM64]

LMAO 1k? Holy fuckeroni bro

[@godwin972]

Plush 3:33 0_o

[@9fly640]

Hi plush

[@AlexSongDoesCovers]

Plush He's not actually going to give the person who finds it $1000. He's going to say "That's close, but not what we're looking for." Then a week later, he will miraculously "discover" how to do it on his own, saving himself from giving anyone the money.

[@PlushSM64]

9Redfly Nah he's not a dick

[@9fly640]

Plush wut

[@captRhay]

I came back to this after your most recent video.

[@Lodekac]

3 years later and still not claimed

[@tamertamertamer4874]

AWESOMEBOY2295 well this is sad

[@tamertamertamer4874]

AWESOMEBOY2295 the 1000$ will never get claimed

[@purrplaysLE]

Tamertamer Tamer Exactly. It was probably just a cartridge tilt.

[@haronka]

4 years now, maybe it was just a hacked version of sm64 what they were playing

[@timbos468yt4]

@@haronka no i did it but didnt record it

[@Doschy]

Its the bob-omb. It was exploding right below him.

[@Doschy]

Maybe had some downward momentum which was reversed when the bobomb exploded.

[@Doschy]

+Dusky Gaming tho, i dont know anything, but it would be cool if it actually worked

[@lajeandom]

+Dusky Gaming Like I said earlier, The bo-bomb explodes before the glitch. So I don't think it is related to the bo-bomb...but maybe to the coin that the bo-bomb gives, or the smoke animation..?

[@Doschy]

***** c:

[@acousticpark6881]

Nope

[@Jadinass]

The year is 2050. Scientists and Engineers at CERN work endlessly on the most advanced technology on the Planet, the Large Hardron Collider is running hot. Millions upon millions of dollars and hundreds of man hours are invested to answer this one driving question. *How does this glitch work?* It is expected that the computer processing will take several years before a result is found but the scientists are optimistic. "We believe that this could be a breakthrough discovery, when we can analyze this glitch we can get a better understanding of how our universe works."

[@cubruce1103]

Mention by Veritasium.

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

Yeah

[@Patience-Human]

AFTER 8 FRICKIN YEARS IT'S UNCLAIMED

[@madDragon08]

I didn't see a comment on it, but Mario did perform a downward kick on the platform right at the edge. Possibly placing his foot under the platform, the game would reset his position to the floor above him, similar to your head collision on the edge of two ceilings.

[@devector9491]

1000?! Wow... looks like you are REALLY getting "out of bounds" with this...

[@sssstick]

its nearly virtually impossible to reproduce the glitch. so its a worth awhile reward

[@devector9491]

+yoshiclay9000 That's good, for him, because without somebody who claims the prize, the debt is not "A Pressure" for him

[@1993Southparkfan]

It's been 5 years and yet, I still don't see [CLAIMED] in the title. I guess people are still unable to reproduce the glitch...

[@sonyabladesbooty3890]

Very astute observation.

[@the0therethan]

It’s probably because the glitch was likely due to hardware issues

[@Marcotonio]

2:48 I love how you already had 3 time-saves planned for the upwarp before it was even reproducible.

[@DaniPaunov]

I bet those $1000 aren't going to make that much of a difference in your savings account (or... something like that?) considering you have future lottery numbers :)

[@DaniPaunov]

the folder names totally don't sounds suspicious btw

[@groszak1]

a $1000 difference is a $1000 difference. You can't say it's only not that much

[@j3stuh869]

Dani Paunov 8

[@bearsofintelligence3491]

You are genius

[@Biosquid239]

@@groszak1 it took me a sec to realize what you were doing there

[@DarthChrisB]

Haven't seen Shigeru Miyamoto for a while. I wonder what he's doing...

[@zipzingg]

A supernova exploded

[@wolftales5203]

Mysterious Ray from Outer Space: lmao fuck your red coins

[@pyroktanor]

Don't know if this helps, but it it looks like the Bomb-omb could have been directly under Mario during the warp.

[@Z1mb0bw4y]

Jackson Kraepel This looks exactly right. It has also been enough time for it to be exploding right when this happens

[@gazdenroolay]

Z1mb0bw4y I think you're on to something!

[@trendkillcfh]

It explodes prior to him glitching, but it does damage him 2 bars, which if I remember correctly, is how much an exploding bomb damages you normally

[@trendkillcfh]

Z1mb0bw4y you can see the yellow explosion on the very bottom a second or so prior to the glitch

[@MrHobo-zi5qg]

trendkillcfh It looks like he's getting fall damage not exploding bomb damage.

[@viciousviridian6761]

Omigosh, guyyyzz, I tooootally did 1000 upwarps on TTC and got to the Thwomp with -5 A presses, but I wasn't recording, guys.

[@darkMarth123]

cool

[@sssstick]

+Dark Marth i hope you know he was joking

[@disctr4k69]

yoshiclay9000 I hope *you* know he was joking.

[@cy5434]

EndlexReapz I hope yooooou know he is joking.

[@Dasher_The_Viral]

+Dark Marth +yoshiclay9000 +EndlexReapz +Cybotnic I hope you all know this joke has run it's course.

[@hurtzz-lz5gl]

The only way i think this can be replicated is if you use the exact save/system/game combo DOTA had. Meaning you would need his exact save before reaching this level and then replicate from there.

[@Digital_Butterfly]

THE SPACE PARTICLE

[@sanjum2475]

??????????????

[@crinknor6083]

@@sanjum2475 "T h e s p a c e p a r t i c l e"

[@sanjaux]

Still not solved... man...

[@yunashadow]

Wait... you know how to speak? You should explain things to us that way more often, your voice isn't bad!

[@humantreewastaken]

yunashadow This was my reaction too. =)

[@Ultimaximus]

***** It's pretty cute~

[@SnipinG1337]

yunashadow He has many more videos where he voiced

[@yunashadow]

None that I remember... I think I have watched most of the button-saving stuff and this is the first time I feel I haven't had to read something -_-

[@eduardolarrymarinsilva76]

yunashadow But his text makes me hard!

[@zakharafonin1023]

The year is 2029. After hooking up Z3 theorem solver and analyzing the entirety of SM64 code for every possible path, someone has finally found the exact setup that led to the infamous upwarp. Well... either that, or it really is a gamma ray induced bit flip.

[@tytyraenius7306]

this is like the holy grail at this point

[@willinthepark856]

Could it have something to do with a variable that can be set outside of TTC? Kinda like the HOLP position.

[@pannenkoek2012]

it could have to do with _anything_ for all we know

[@lajeandom]

+pannenkoek2012 I don't know anything about the HOLP position, could someone explain? On a side note, I personally don't think that the variables outside of the level can affect Mario, since each level is separated as an individual game. They don't really have anything related to each other, as far as I know.

[@Lugmillord]

+JDK Game Room Well, if you don't know about of the variables not connected to a level that have an effect on Mario, what makes you so sure that such a thing doesn't exist? ;P There are a lot of these variables, like speed etc. But they usually get updated every frame. The H.eld O.bjects L.ast P.osition is one of the exceptions.

[@lajeandom]

yeah I went see his videos explaining the HOLP. Okay, granted the speed is one variable that can be kept in different levels, but that's definitely not what happened with the upward glitch. And the speed is something related to Mario himself. The only thing in common with 2 different levels is Mario. Beside speed, there is height...and animations...but those are ''reset'' when you go outside of a level. You can't keep those variables in lock like the speed...and if there was a way to do that it would be super complex to keep that variable on all the way to the upward glitch location... So for now I still think it has nothing to do with anything outside of the TTC level.

[@Lugmillord]

JDK Game Room It would be interesting to know which variables are actually stored. I bet there are some obscure ones for safety mechanisms.

[@paulwebb2078]

It's been a year. Maybe increase the bounty?

[@VMan_2002]

yes

[@MinkesSM]

yeah,maybe $1500 or 2000 dollars,

[@grandlandmaster6143]

RODOLPHO MONTE Nothing will change, the people who tries to earn money with is are already happy with 1000$.

[@dans_ythandle]

Lets not get greedy now.

[@MinkesSM]

+Grand Landmaster its 4000$ to brazil

[@thepankaker1901]

Dear diary it has been 2 years and no one has figured out the glitch yet.

[@heheheiamasuperstarwarrior9281]

Dear diary: fuckin ay man ima just say he hacc

[@palaceswitcher]

Some space particle flipped a RAM bit. Seriously.

[@gegi2079]

@@palaceswitcher yeah veritasium made a video about it an hour ago

[@freakzone1284]

7 years and this is unclaimed.