The Many Myths and Conspiracies of Super Mario 64

[@austinwilburn1772]

90s Gamer: “Is your game haunted?”. Developer: “Do you have any idea how much memory that would take?”.

[@rojoscostanada8685]

Lmao

[@marcelodias5625]

The Wario head has more polygons then my head, that takes memory

[@KayzIdeas]

lol I was thinking the same thing about the Wario Apparition. That flying head is waaaaayy to smooth to be in the '95/'96 versions of the game.@@marcelodias5625

[@KevinEontrainer381]

I think this is quite a good idea honestly. They should add hidden mysterious feature randomly on certain batch of the game's copy. Making a snall amount of copies "haunted" and some arent. So its like Willy Wonka's golden ticket but on a bit larger scale.

[@Jasontrehiurgdugfiudsufhdudhdi]

@@marcelodias5625lmao true

[@logy650]

I can’t believe that the “Bowser Room” is still talked about to this day. I still remember when OneyNG admitted to faking the whole thing to impress his school friends lmao.

[@Joob_Toob]

I wonder how Chris feels about his lil playground scam being tied to MK ultra64

[@justbuildgunpla1315]

It's real to me damnit.

[@maun6139]

I find it kind of funny though he didnt meantion Oney at all

[@mosquitopyjamas9048]

update: can't believe it's actually real. Obey was lying to help the cover up, he's just a patsy. You seen the film don't believe his lies? That was about Chris. This is bigger than we ever thought guys, were through the looking glass people

[@starscape09]

The Bowser room thing was always a joke though, it was like a little thing oney and ding ding talked about once lol I have no idea how it spread so much

[@OhNoBohNo]

In all fairness, although it's fake (except for that Nintendo live event), Wario taking the opportunity to hijack one of Mario's most popular games to make it all about himself is *extremely* on-brand for him...

[@NeonWasInUse]

Honestly, the Wario Apparition could've actually fooled me into thinking it was real if it wasn't for the "trying painfully hard to be creepy." Part. Like, if it was just Wario being Wario, I wouldn't have even batted an eye and genuinely assumed it was Beta Content.

[@budderk1305]

@@NeonWasInUse yeah, same, a shame that some people just try too hard, cause Wario's whole thing was, in his first appearance, hijacking Mario's fame and fortune

[@NeonWasInUse]

@@budderk1305 That's what I'm saying! This kinda thing would be super in character for Wario. Even down to how overly elaborate it is. It's like the Backrooms where it was a really cool idea, twisted by people trying way too hard to be scary/funny.

[@colegilliam2379]

@@NeonWasInUse the wario apparition wasnt trying too hard. It was a joke lmfao

[@keyman245]

It was, Wario is kinda "funny Far gross reverse Mario" Edit: not that he wasn't weird mario before, but now he's Just that

[@kodokunayuki2232]

I find it hilarious how so many people believe or at least entertain the Bowser room myth even though Chris from Oneyplays literally admitted that he made it as a joke

[@ChrisFV]

Yeah, and the fact that ding dong was making fun of Chris because "why would anyone believe there was a white room with a bowser painting?" makes it even funnier

[@scottchaison1001]

@@ChrisFV ¿?

[@somekidontheinternet]

Literally who believes this lol

[@scottchaison1001]

@@somekidontheinternet ¿?

[@HipixOFFICIAL]

As opposed to metaphorically admitting it

[@brazilian_oak]

In case it's not obvious, the "Not for resale" carts are cartridges not meant to be sold separately by retailers, they were meant to be sold with consoles and other games. So yeah, it's literally the same game with a different sticker.

[@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva]

Nice profile pic.

[@Uniqorn]

I don’t think that’s correct, I thought they were the games in demo units in stores a few weeks before the console launched.

[@saygoodnighttoghosts]

@@Uniqorn why not both? One example is the Master Quest bundle-in Zelda disc for GameCube which features the same text. Whereas I also have press copies of games for the N-Gage QD which feature the same text, which validates what you said.

[@mountnstream]

To quote James Rolfe: "That sticker on the front, let me tell you, that is one expensive sticker."

[@phoneheaded]

I have both a regular cartridge and a "Not for resale" that was taken from an in-store display. They're both identical as far as I can tell.

[@MrBump2]

Probably the first game I was bamboozled by. I remember listening to and believing every single hoax on how to unlock Luigi.

[@mmmapplesauce1673]

Had this happen to me in emerald, where i spent several days looking up how to find mew, since mew was my most favorite pokemon because of how cute it is.

[@TheProGam3r]

@@mmmapplesauce1673 Pokémon Emerald*

[@coltgun876]

@@TheProGam3r cringe

[@Mocci-Eli-]

L is real bro lowkey

[@connorself]

Thanks bro for clarifying it was a Pokémon game, I couldn’t tell because I get it confused with Mario Emerald and the Yoshi named Mew in Sunshine. You’re a life saver really

[@Han-yb7qo]

I always took the “please walk quietly in the hallway” sign as a hint to sneak up on the boos to attack them

[@rnj323]

Or the sleeping piranha plant

[@mr.monkey354]

Or it's just joke text

[@BrickstyNine]

​​@@mr.monkey354 JP to EU translators be trolling

[@gowwiwwa_twag]

᥇᥅ꪮꪻꫝꫀ᥅ ꪑꪮꪀᛕꫀ??​@@mr.monkey354

[@CadDriftarus]

I always assumed it was livrary rules. Like, "this hall is an art gallery/museum, please be respectful."

[@Corndog52]

so tired of hearing ppl say the luigi texture/model leak is what 'confirmed' L is real, miyamoto stated in an interview years ago that sm64 was intended to be multiplayer

[@L0rdOfThePies]

i think its meant that it confirmed the "2401" prophesy thing whatever you wanna call it, luigi's sourcefile leaked 24 years and 1 month later n whatnot

[@Toniscampers]

I was upset not hearing the follow up to the bowser room segment not being backhanded by confirmation that it was just made up by OneyNG and discussed on his crash LP.

[@TheSuperCasual2914]

Its almost like SourceBrew doesn’t know who One-E Plays is. O H W A I T !

[@tranquil3727]

Not mentioning Oney made up the Bowser room makes me think this video wasn't very well researched. The Bowser room was never a conspiracy or an internet hoax, it was literally just a picture Oney made and shared with his friends when he was younger.

[@planescaped]

@@tranquil3727 I got a similar feeling myself...

[@patrickmaybe2197]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/apq9oaiOf75getk for those who still don’t know what’s going on.

[@aortaplatinum]

Searching "the bowser room" brings up joke/arg wiki The MIPS Hole, which acts like all jokes and conspiracies and creepypastas are true. Every single other link is related to OneyPlays. Mf doesn't just tell instead of showing, he does the absolute worst research I've ever seen.

[@CreepyKat86]

I used to work in video games at Toys R Us. The not for resale games usually come from demo stations. Nintendo reps used to come in to collect them but sometimes you’d be able to snag one from them.

[@traurigekatze]

I'm pretty sure for this it was to prevent retailers from trying to sell the game separate from consoles or other video games that these "not for resale" was bundled with, like how Arizona sweet tea prints the price on can.

[@rgerber]

snag?

[@rgerber]

@@traurigekatze aesome her name is Kreepy Cat and your name is Traurige Katze (which means 'sad cat') must be fitting

[@CreepyKat86]

@@rgerber The same as grab or obtain. It’s an informal North American slang 😊

[@Felixman128]

The Toads in the Walls thing is so obviously taken too literally. It's wordplay to mean "we are trapped in the castle." Edit: @keroppib4ptista pointed out how the ost is literally named “inside the castle walls” dang Tbh I’m kind of tired of Mario 64 getting turned into this hyper scary thing unironically, not that the creepy pasta stuff is bad, I just don’t like the people who literally believe that shit is real lol

[@SlayCap]

I am watching you.

[@Felixman128]

@@SlayCap god fucking damnit slaycap

[@joequiming8079]

i am in your walls

[@beesree39]

meanwhile shifting sand land is a wall

[@shawnmccullen1578]

I always took it as "the paintings on the walls".

[@windogendoors7566]

The one myth that Michael Jackson voiced Mario at one point is a hilarious one.

[@0yaSumi6908]

HEEEEE HEEEEEE!!

[@SALTYTOAD00]

That wouldn't make sense because SEGA at the time had a deal with Michael Jackson with the release of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the genesis/mega drive.

[@a.s.raiyan2003-4]

Mamma mia, Cause this is thriller!

[@jakeparkinson8929]

Toads in the wall makes sense because in an instruction manual for one of the nes/snes games, bowser turned people into the breakable bricks.

[@maxencevacquier7299]

That's litterally what he says in the video X)

[@bladeiron]

If you actually watched the video, you'd know he said this like 2 seconds into the myth

[@pafoneto1275]

​@@bladeiron Apparently him and 150 other people have an attention span of 2 seconds.

[@keroppib4ptista]

The soundtrack for the castle is “Inside the Castle Walls” and Mario clearly isn’t trapped in a wall

[@themagimal]

It’s hilarious that oneyNG’s fake bowser room render he made as a kid has become a rumor some people actually believe. 😂

[@Bitter-Wounds]

Look!, look!, it's real!

[@ssj2matt]

I mean come on LOOK IT'S REAL

[@worldstrongestbillionaire]

lol he outright said he made it

[@thumtak_]

@Cottonheaded Ninnymuggins lol

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

No, it exists, but only in pre release 0.6.1

[@shalashaska68]

Seriously, watching this game play is so hard, and they are on the first damn star!

[@Whocares158]

XD

[@Vibes_is_gone]

Someone finally said it

[@BadMoonRising92]

It was frustrating me so much. I hope this is borrowed footage and not his game play

[@MOSSHEADD]

so painful

[@AzureRoxe]

Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time seem to be the games with the most amount of blatant hoaxes and creepypastas trying to pass off as real.

[@DylanYoshi]

They're up there for sure, but I think the original Pokemon games had more.

[@alted2749]

cant forget minecraft

[@paddymalky1979]

Gave up on both less than halfway through. Played colony wars red sun instead

[@Krabapple]

Some one probably said this already, but there is code that was around at the time that allows for the game to be easier or harder for players depending on how good said player was. An example would be if the player kept dying to a boulder rolling, the boulder would slow down so the player could react in time. Developers do this so players won't rage quit the game, thus allowing for better beliefs surrounding the game. Maybe this is what people mean when they say the game feels different depending on what console or time they play, as people will be better or worse at the game, resulting in major or minor differences. I could be wrong about all of this, but that could be what Miyamoto meant when he says the game changes for players.

[@renegadesofanarchy289]

Adaptive difficulty, Crash has that as well, in fact a hell of a lot of 3D platformers are “personalised” in that sense. Hell IIRC even my all time favourite video game ever, Ratchet and Clank 2 has that.

[@beesree39]

no that's not it at all, it's a meme

[@Whocares158]

Resident Evil 4 has this too!

[@canofsoda]

He could be talking about how because of someone's skill level the game is played so differently it's almost not the same game

[@elchuchooofin3807]

​@@renegadesofanarchy289I remember dying so much to the final boss to those weird bombs that chased ratchet and after dying around 15 times i felt like the bombs moved a lot slower and there were less on them (this was on Ratchet & Clank 2017)

[@sworddemonboggle1491]

So, stupid question, didn’t we already know Luigi was scrapped from SM64 when they were considering a possible two player/split screen mode? Since you could manipulate the camera in the final cutscene of the game by plugging in a second controller, it seemed like a lot of people (to my understanding) chalked it up to be a leftover bit of that two player feature and that was where Luigi was going to be included before it was scrapped

[@mr.junior7880]

I always forget about that.

[@keganmemestar4465]

Yeah, most people already knew far before the 2020 leak. There are tons of interviews with the devs that talked about the 2p mode and how Luigi was planned to be included. The main reason it was scraped was because of console limitations.

[@pancakes8670]

It's just a matter of who's been paying attention or not

[@Xpwnxage]

And in the DS re-release of the game, Luigi along with other characters were playable.

[@mr.junior7880]

@@Xpwnxage Which goes on to prove that Luigi was intended to be in the game but limitations stopped them.

[@carlosguillermo566]

I'm surprised that after all this time there's not a conspiracy about the eel giving people thalassophobia

[@propheticrain-maker1486]

Or the big fish

[@mayara.mp3]

I hated the eel when i was youger. It looked so weird

[@veto_5762]

that's not a myth... it's a fact

[@travistreadway3180]

I remember the bowser room where oneyplays started that whole rumor about it as a joke when one of them was a child

[@bruxinth4660]

The gameplay leads me to believe it was played by a game journalist.

[@poke_man_3785]

same bro, same

[@planescaped]

The "L is real" text always just looked like blurry lorem-ipsum to me, and people were trying to hard to convince themselves in a true Jesus toast moment. And Luigi being a part of the early game's concept doesn't mean that the statue ever referenced him to begin with.

[@AzureRoxe]

Pretty sure Nintendo themselves have said that it just gibberish. If they truly wanted it to say something, they would've made it readable or at least interactable. Plus it was also in Ocarina of Time, so it clearly has nothing to do with Mario.

[@sgillman16]

The text was uncompressed and it's just random Japanese letter

[@TheCow-j1l]

yeah, most textures were random photographs edited, doubt they made a specific texture for that sign

[@abominati0n]

something i love mentioning abt it is they used the same exact sign in ocarina of time. the same texture, i dont rly remember where but it is in ocarina as well

[@sgillman16]

@@abominati0n Dodongo's Cavern

[@xmilkshakesx]

I’ve definitely had nightmares about being swallowed whole by one of the giant fish in Mario 64.

[@adriennetamia5645]

Omg I be having night mares about Bowser sometimes.

[@wyewye300_yt]

@@adriennetamia5645hope you win.

[@iamarizonaball2642]

Ah yes, *VORE.*

[@shelbybunny]

The best thing about the L is real 2401 thing is that it was solved 24 years and one month after the release of Mario 64. *24* years and *1* month.

[@Smarties.]

I never understood why the every copy is personalized theory is so hyped up I feel like if every copy of Mario 64 was personalized why would it be something Nintendo would want to hide like it's a dark secret? I feel like that would be a good selling point and Resident Evil 4 has something kinda simalr to the Mario 64 theory where depending on how you're doing the game will differ slightly

[@joe_mama__]

It was just a dumb shitpost

[@lemone12]

It's just a creepypasta, it's not meant to be real or a theory

[@Smarties.]

@@lemone12 Im aware but I don't get what's so scary about it lol

[@lemone12]

@@Smarties. yea it's more of "what if [_]? that would be pretty spooky"

[@bookworm4133]

Dude i agree. The personalized copy thing is just really lame. Even if its supposed to be secret creepy thing that inflicts psychic damage, why would miyamoto go onstage and talk about it?

[@Prpl08]

the cognitive desire thing is actually op, like, imagine if you went into the basement thinking "damn, would be pretty cool if there was a naked peach in here" an then the AI spawned in 2 naked peaches by default

[@Austin-5098]

Aw hell yeah polygonal tits

[@ReverbCanvas]

Hahahahhaha

[@Sporkel]

10:34 great video, but i couldn't stop giggling at how mario fails to ground pound one block numerous times & just gives up

[@mayara.mp3]

Dude was trying to pound the wrong block. Those small blocks are supposed to be catched and thrown by the player, so you can break it

[@matthewisguy7336]

I will trap Santa in my BLOCK locked up like BOMB OMB BATTLEFIELD

[@Maibes]

people who use the word "conspiracy" when they mean "theory" is one of my biggest pet peeves

[@that-one-sanrio-girliepop]

Ikr

[@pafoneto1275]

Worst when they use "theory* when they mean "myth".

[@Stusheep]

@@sydneymack8110No, Sans is Ness is a theory, the moon landing was fake is a conspiracy

[@BakonTSB]

ITS JUST A CONSPIRACY, A GAME CONSPIRACY.

[@lasteffort1549]

@@sydneymack8110”conspiracy” and “theory” don’t mean the same thing or “conspiracy theory” would be redundant. As others have said, “conspiracy” means 2 or more people plotting something criminal or nefarious and “theory” is just a guessed explanation of something. So you can have theories about lots of things such as conspiracies, the natural world, another person’s motivations, etc. “Conspiracy” has no place in this video but several myths and theories (also not the same thing) are explored here. The channel makes no theories about any conspiracies.

[@thisisapc5676]

This gameplay makes mario 64 look like the cuphead tutorial

[@joshuaadams181]

Damn; the Mario Silhouette has gotta be a mandala effect or something because I distinctly remember seeing that back in the day

[@mightymoo4018]

Me too!

[@lfranklin805]

Dude I specifically remember seeing that Mario silhouette! I think after a while of playing the game and not being able to pass certain levels, would the Mario silhouette appear and start to mimic your previous moves based off the worlds or levels you’d go through. But I distinctly remember chasing after the silhouette!

[@nephalemnova]

In Mario Kart 64 if you are running a time trial race with yourself and have a rumble pack (I believe it was called? An attachment to the controller) you would race "against" a ghost of yourself trying to beat your old time and stuff. I wonder if the attachment has anything to do with Mario sillhouette? I could be silly idk

[@mayara.mp3]

Aww man, i guess i don't want to play sm64 no more after this. I really don't wanna have a encounter with mario 2. That would creep the shit out of me since the player is the only person supposed to be in the castle

[@Severmore]

The silhouette was real. I remember it when I was playing with the homie John. Though I played the hell out of this game and the fact that it faded into oblivion till I saw this video leads me to believe it was a glitch and happened very few times.

[@ct6852]

Kind of unrelated...but had a flashback to playing this for the first time and having my mind blown by those shiny 3d rolling balls and the mechanics of having to avoid them. Such a game-changing Nintendo game. Super psyched to get this for Christmas. 👑

[@selohcin]

Nearly all of these can be attributed to 1) out-of-control, over-eager modders, 2) people who don't understand Japanese, or 3) people who have no understanding of how limited the N64 hardware was.

[@Unquestionable]

Remember when the game was relatively new and gaming magazines basically tearing the game apart to come up with new trivia. Still have a copy of Ultra Game Players where they had an article showing off a variety of tricks and glitches. Really neat to see the staying power of some of the rumors and gives me awesome nostalgia of being 6 years old listening to all the various gossip about the original Super Mario Bros on the playground.

[@QueenAnnalise5]

I was so bloody obsessed with this game when I was little, I used to have several nightmares with it, all of them were somewhat related to the paintings, with scary images. Probably due to that one Peach painting that turns into Bowser. It terrified me back then.

[@CarbonatedGravy]

Any 3d game on n64 was ideal nightmare fuel just how characters happen to look and the limited expressions something about it…

[@bruhtholemew]

7:30 the image was made by OneyNG and he did it as a joke as a kid

[@Dank-Hill]

I’m so dang distracted by you repeatedly throwing King Bob-omb off the mountain, even though he keeps saying you can’t do that. 💀💀💀

[@localshowershitt3r]

ikr same

[@RoachCatJr]

considering this is the FIRST star of the game, he most likely has never played this shit in his life & just did a video over it because it was popular at the time

[@EduardoMendoza-oz8uy]

I used to get nightmares of Wet Dry world or the secret aquarium. It was terrifying. My dad bought me a Nintendo 64 when I was about 3 years old. Super Mario 64 was my first game ever. Great memories and hundreds of hours of play. Super Mario 64 opened the door of video games for me

[@vaultdweller94]

In regards to the shared nightmares, I had a nightmare about falling into a pit of ants on the road I usually took when walking to school, and the ants made the same sounds as the SM64 penguins made. Coincidentally, the sounds that the ants in Fallout 2 make when they die are strikingly similar to those of the SM64 penguins. I say coincidentally because I played SM64 -> had the nightmare -> played Fallout 2

[@hifivejo2247]

i saw the mario apparition when i was a kid. it stopped and looked right at me before going into a door. it gave me chills for a long time. never heard of any of this other stuff

[@spacemanleezy93]

Same!

[@masterretro1585]

Just to add: the bowser room was created by Chris O’Neil.

[@PlushyAnimations]

Also known of OneyG and The Original voice of Eduardo

[@mcrufflestuffles7726]

King Bob‐omb: You can't keep throwing me off the cliff! Mario: No. More.

[@coralinesvlogs]

I used to play this game religiously as a child and I was right along with you until you mentioned the Mario Silhouette theory because I specifically remember this in my game. I don't know how, but it was there and it freaked me out. I thought I was supposed to follow it---like it was part of the game---and it would lead me somewhere. Also, the ship level with the eel totally gave me submechanophobia.

[@mayara.mp3]

Oh noes, i don't want to see that in my game. Guess i will never play it again D:

[@Mindcreat0r]

The “L is real” thing falls apart completely when you think for more than two seconds and realize the game wasn’t developed in an English speaking country

[@RoachCatJr]

exactly

[@AzureRoxe]

Plus the hyper obvious fact that the same asset was used in Ocarina of Time, so of course it had zero to do with Luigi.

[@mbdg6810]

Or the fact that the L (capital) is not the first letter of that text

[@Cypherwraith001]

On top of that, the "AI personalization" myth falls apart when you remember that N64 cartridges only had 64 megabits of memory. Imagine trying to cram a machine learning engine into that amount of space, on top of the game's engine and assets.

[@DylanYoshi]

This logic doesn't hold up as Japan uses English all over the place. It's not uncommon to see English signs in Japan, just as a stylistic thing. It's very common to see Japanese video games use English text both in file names and in game for various reasons. Famicom games in particular almost always used English text for their HUDs because it took less memory to include the Roman alphabet than any Japanese alphabet. Super Metroid's text is entirely in English in its Japanese version, with an option to turn on Japanese subtitles at the bottom of the screen. Super Mario World's HUD has "TIME" written on it in the original Japanese version. Plenty of Japanese games use English text at various points. It probably doesn't actually say "L is real" but it's still very likely to be in English.

[@milokonna]

Approaching N64 now I would suggest one for ocarina of time. There are some interesting ones, like obtaining full triforce, unicorn fountain, light temple and so on.

[@tombirdy3350]

5:43 The music that plays in the background when Wario chases you is actually the song from the endless staircase/looping stairs. It souds kind of off-pitch when you compare them together, and that's because the version from the Wario Apparition is kind of pitched up (probably +1 semitones.).

[@KestrelDC]

A lot of this stuff would make for great inspiration for a PetScop-esque series or even an actual indie horror game. There's so much you could do with it. Also, I'm not sure that statue plaque actually says anything. Probably just random lines to give the appearance of text. The same texture has been used in several other games including at least one Zelda game. And the Chainchomp with no pupils is probably just a weird texture glitch if anything lmao.

[@Jinxanator66]

I would love to do something like Petscop but I am not sure what software was even uses to make it. Would I have to rebuild the game from the ground up?

[@TheDigitalApple]

Beware the Warriors apparition, it says if you meet him…..he will show you fun!

[@L0rdOfThePies]

im picturing a warrior cats nerd harassing you about lore

[@0yaSumi6908]

😏

[@RoachCatJr]

@@L0rdOfThePies ????

[@DragonAurora109]

Fun fact: in the July 29 1995 build, the courtyard was originally a course, and its name flashed between mario.reunion and luigi.purgatory, also there was no fountain, it was more colored pink and orange (at least that's how i remember it)

[@vzkhaos]

I’m not an old guy, I just have a huge interest in the 80s - mid 2000s. I remember playing my uncle’s old N64, when I was around 7. While playing my uncle told me to play SM64, so I did. My uncle then told me if I had gotten to the wario level yet, at the time I had absolutely no idea what he meant, but through recent years I now know that it had something to do with the wario apparition. When I found out what he meant all those years ago, I texted him asking if he remembers about the wario level. He told me almost the exact details about the apparition, besides running in an “infinite” hallway. I couldn’t tell if my uncle was joking years ago, but it seemed like he was serious, so I believe him. He explained to me that he played the game at a friend’s house. They had been playing for hours, up until 11:00 pm he said. Around 9:00 or 10:00 he said that he died, so his friend took his place. The friend decided to go to the level my uncle was struggling on. Again, my uncle can’t remember this perfectly, and nor can I. The conversation was around 3 years ago, so it’s difficult to remember. As I was saying, his friend took over and beat whatever level was hard for my uncle. After that, strangely, instead of coming out of the painting as usual, he spawned into the hallway with no transition whatsoever. They were both confused, and decided to continue anyway. They then saw wario, just sitting there. They walked up to him, and nothing happened. They decided to leave and go into peaches castle, and continue their session. I don’t really know what to say from here other than that he saw wario, so that’s strange.

[@ExtremeWreck]

Conspiracy Theory: Van Partible owns one of the prototypes & is currently hoarding it as we speak.

[@macklemorganfreeman8488]

He'll only show it at conventions

[@TheSuperCasual2914]

The guy who made Johnny Bravo? Why would someone so un-associated have something so crucial to the community?

[@azaleawinchester]

@@TheSuperCasual2914 it's a joke

[@coffdrop77]

@@TheSuperCasual2914 But why wouldn’t he? 🤔

[@EchoGulch64]

@@TheSuperCasual2914 it's a joke about how he doesn't want the Johnny bravo pilot ever shown to the public I think

[@hannahbeanies8855]

I still swear I got the dark Mario in my game as a kid. Memory is bonkers.

[@swirlighost]

these myths, while obviously fake, are perfect "campfire tales" to tell with your nerd friends

[@chompchompchangbin]

I interpreted the Shigeru Miyamoto as everyone will find new things to notice about the game because it's more in-depth (3d) than games before lol

[@sararodriguez3452]

Tbh I remember seeing a black Mario and I cried so bad bc it scared the shit out of me. Long story short my dad threw the console away. Now I’m sad to know it was probably just a glitch.

[@mayara.mp3]

I'm afraid to see that when i get to play again. That's the last thing i want to happen, for God's sake. Maybe it just happens on the actual Nintendo 64 console. Maybe emulators won't suffer from this

[@momodolape]

dear god i dont think ive ever seen a worse mario 64 gameplay and now i don't think there is s worse one

[@lix0347]

Who’s playing Super Mario 64 in the background? Because they don’t know how to play and it bothered me how bad they played XD

[@Applee10101]

That’s funny asf bc I had a reoccurring nightmare about this game as a kid. Honestly until I started watching your videos recently, I thought this whole game was made up from my nightmares

[@joadarium9605]

Man I missed content like this. It really takes the best of both worlds with both one of my favorite childhood video games, and horror and mystery

[@RestrictedAudiencesOnly]

The reason we had nightmares was spending hours upon hours trying to get those stars on those stages

[@UltimateTobi]

Watching this gameplay is pure torture.

[@JMFSpike]

Fantastic video going over all of this stuff. Nicely done. I just have a few things to note. We've known that Luigi was originally meant to be in the game since shortly after it's release. It was not something realized in 2020. That's just when game data relating to Luigi was finally found. As for the game feeling a bit different each time it's played, that's most likely due to the time gap between plays. People are coming back to it years later, and do to our faulty memories things seem a bit different. Also, graphics and especially the controls are not going to feel as good as they once seemed to be. For me personally, I've played through the game numerous times since it's release and it has always felt exactly the same. Pretty much all of these myths (except for Luigi and L is real) never were a thing until around 2 decades after it's release. People just like to make stuff up, and many people are sadly gullible enough to believe it.

[@sgillman16]

The "L is real" text is just random Japanese letters, highly compressed

[@matejamicic3037]

L is real 2401 illuminati confirmed the day of reckoning will come unlockable luigi secret bowser room wario head appearance every copy of mario 64 is personalized it was true all along nintendo employees and users are brainwashed members of the illuminati they are preparing for a new world order,on september 11th 2001 it wasnt al qaeda it was nintendo it was a warning l is real 2401 isnt actually whats on the plaque the plaque says september 11th 2001 we were warned but we didnt listen

[@RealHyperHedgehog]

It’s amazing how many stupidly hilarious conspiracies are made about this game.

[@SALTYTOAD00]

The Toad one sounds the most realistic.

[@Spongyboi897]

It may be stupid but atleast it's fun believing in them!

[@spyglassov8438]

2401 -> 24 years and 01 month later when Luigi was found quite a coincidence

[@kamptey]

20:24 i had this video playing in another tab while i was busy doing other stuff and this moment got my full attention lmfao

[@PigCake]

that gameplay footage was rage inducing

[@TryppyKyd]

I beat this game so many times, usually within the span of a day just to challenge myself. Never once saw anything out of the ordinary, but I will say that one sunken city map did give an eerie vibe sometimes

[@Mistertbones]

Bowser Room was made up by OneyNG.

[@peet404]

I’ve started going down this super Mario 64 rabbit hole and I’m addicted.

[@kriichan6100]

Maybe L was the friends we made along the way

[@abletotabel59]

the fact he spent the entire 25 minutes of the video to beat king bob-omb is hilarious

[@GreenPonderingFrog]

The bowser room was created by Oneyplays as a prank for his other class mates.

[@Asian_Kid]

The Mario silhouette reminds me of a glitch in Saints Row 2 named "The freezer" where an all black figure can be seen just standing, or walking, and then the game freezes shortly after.

[@benny21293]

basically all of these "campfire stories" are easily deubunked with at least at bit of technical knowledge

[@dyjhjfrtt6607]

I like how Mario 64 urban legends basically turn it into an SCP.

[@blackenedtiamat2807]

I remember spending hours on trying to unlock Luigi by getting 1000 coins in a bowser battle, or something of that nature, back in the day.

[@rougexsparkk9495]

Omg the bomb omb battlefield gameplay in the background is just hard to watch

[@tcsslaveleia61]

I fucking despise the Personalized Copy meme. It makes Minion memes on Facebook look funny in comparison

[@richardprice5542]

You literally have family guy uploaded on your channel

[@godschild2004]

@@richardprice5542 ratio

[@thumtak_]

@@godschild2004 ratio

[@Goji01Films]

@@godschild2004 failed ratio lmao

[@Rosie199X]

Now that the Luigi thing is solved, can we just acknowledge that the statue totally says, "Eternal Star."

[@ville666sora]

And there is a board in Mario Party called "Eternal Star", so imo it can't be anything else.

[@laurawalker1279]

no i took a picture it says L is real 2401 but you should look for spaces there are three other words though

[@TheAsj97]

It doesn't. The "star" part look more like Katakana characters, the first two characters look like コイ

[@yeet.mp8458]

@@laurawalker1279 sorry to burst your bubble, but it seems to be just a mess of pixels slapped onto a sign to kinda make some words. This seems to be proven by the exact texture being used again in Ocarina of Time, showing that it obviously has nothing to do with Mario

[@mermermermercy]

​@@yeet.mp8458 tbf there has been mario references in zelda games like that sm64 picture in oot and the obvious references in links awakening, though yeah i agree with you

[@daratking98]

The gameplay in this video is making my eye twitch.

[@bat6353]

Strangely, the only SM64 nightmare I had as a kid was about Tiny-Huge Island of all places.

[@keijijohnson9754]

14:44 - Honestly, this whole trend of making “creepy” anti-piracy hoaxes baffled me with how common they were at the time. Granted the first time around it was very believable with that one Mario Party DS video that seemingly started this whole thing, but outside of that Mario 64 one you just showed here, every one of them have gotten more and more annoyingly cringy to the point where it rivals that of the most cringy of Creepypastas. Even the ones that emphasizes hyperrealism in the eyes and whatnot.

[@scottchaison1001]

No.

[@cosmicjenny4508]

Yeah, some of them were pretty convincing if you didn’t know it was a trend, but some were just dumb creepypasta bullshit.

[@scottchaison1001]

@@cosmicjenny4508 No.

[@cosmicjenny4508]

@@scottchaison1001 Dude, they suck, let’s face.

[@scottchaison1001]

@@cosmicjenny4508 No.

[@chrisoneal2718]

I used to think that there were secret rooms at the top of the swimming beast room in HMC. If you stand on top of Nessie and look upwards, you can see doors high up. They probably are the earlier rooms but I used to think that there was a secret room, possibly leading to an early Bowser fight.

[@z.a.k.e.n.3901]

Timestamps (Let me know if I miss any!) 1:19 - L is Real 2401 3:49 - Spaceworld '95 Beta 5:00 - Wario Apparition 7:21 - The Bowser Room (And Bowser Domain) 8:29 - Mario Silhouette 9:19 - Every Copy of Mario 64 is Personalized 11:37 - Yellow Cap Switch 12:39 - Not for Resale Cartridges 14:04 - Anti-Piracy Screens 15:24 - White Eyed Chomp 16:00 - 1995/07/25 Build 17:41 - The Oman Archive 18:49 - Whomp's Fortress Creature 19:25 - Shared Nightmares 20:00 - The Forbidden Door 20:23 - Super Mario 64 is a Freemason Initiation 21:45 - Silicon Graphic's Curse 23:21 - Toads Trapped in the Walls 24:13 - Yoshi's Death

[@TheBlueis_real]

Please walk in the hallway quiet 13:33

[@schlevvy]

This gameplay is driving me insane

[@cneale9431]

Had anyone else just always assumed the Toad stuck in the walls thing was, like, the whole plot of the game?

[@HopePapernacky]

Makes me happy that we finally found Luigi

[@oasisflame]

Honestly the freemason theory is the most logical...

[@ReverbCanvas]

Yup

[@DocSportello838]

Yeah that's why everyone who plays this game has dreams about it. That masonic symbolic shit goes deep into your subconscious.

[@emilybarclay8831]

Lmao you’re smoking something. Magical spooky shadow world governments are not putting breadcrumb trails into kids games for you to find, this isn’t a James Bond movie. If an organisation like that existed, you would never know. Youre not the main character, you aren’t the guy who cracks the code

[@emilybarclay8831]

@@DocSportello838funny, played this game my entire childhood and never dreamed about it. I have more dreams about minecraft than this game. Is minecraft also Masonic?

[@ReverbCanvas]

lmao a girl with an elmo pic sure knows more about the world. You don't seem to know shit about grooming and predictive programming @@emilybarclay8831

[@THEMIMIK]

Its funny to think that with the technology we have now, Every copy of a game being personalized because of some AI that each copy was installed with can *techinaclly* be possible, considering how ridiculously advanced AI has gotten… But this is 1996 we’re talking about, when 3D gaming just became a thing, so idk how people came up with THAT idea

[@Kazooples]

You’re so good at Mario 64

[@AtomicFlounder42]

Alot of people in the comments are mad about the gameplay, like every person on earth is supposed to be pro at SM64

[@KyubiMaster100]

This is atrocious gameplay. The clip where the player failed to ground pound an unmoving block several times is just sad.

[@LemonZ124]

@@KyubiMaster100 Not to mention he wasn’t even trying to ground pound the log that has the chain chomps chain attached to it

[@Kittenfox_55]

I remember reading the text box when you get enough Stars for the 2nd Bowser fight saying "Did you rescue poor frightened Luigi? Did you pound the 2 Columns down?" Even though I unlocked Luigi it made me think there was an alternate way to unlock Luigi.

[@SuperSimmerGal]

That's the DS remake, where Luigi IS a playable character.

[@EasternEGG39]

No way that sign reads "L is real 24/01." People had imagination back then i give em that. The sign is just unreadable as it is.

[@NesstheEchidna]

I'm sorry this was a good video and all but the boomer gameplay in the background turned me into a backseat Twitch chat member when I should've been listening to you talk about Wario stalking Muda on his driveway at 3 AM

[@christinaw8083]

Then 24 years and 1 month ( 2401 ) after super mario 64 released a leak was found with bits of Luigi.

[@alexanderchippel]

Only 379 more years until the second coming of Luigi!

[@Eric_64_UwU]

I like to imagine the dude behind the Giga Leak was like “I’ma time myself 24 Years and 1 Month to leak this!”

[@Redneck_Hero]

Whoever was playing SM64 in the background was doing a very bad job

[@SirSmokeVGC]

Back 2005, at my friends house whenever we used to play Mario 65, I was terrified of the bowser laugh whenever you didn’t have enough stars to enter a star door 😂😂