The Mystery of the 1995 Build of Super Mario 64 (Every Copy of Super Mario 64 is Personalized)

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On July 29th, 1995, a Super Mario 64 build was constructed that forever shook the internet. From a ghostly Wario apparition to strange cases of personalized copies of the game, this precursor Super Mario 64 version was full of many different mysteries. Many theories arose surrounding this haunted occurrence and today we'll be doing a deep dive into to the bottom of the Mario 64 mystery iceberg.
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Credits and sources:
Wario E3 1996 footage by Grooveraider.
Super Mario 64 but Different (Creepy first person gameplay footage) - game by Hunter Towe.
Super Wario 64 by Kaze Emanuar.
Written by SwankyBox.
Filmed and edited by SwankyBox and Stowgee.
Music credits:
Songs from various Super Mario Bros OST's
"Big Boo's Haunt" - Super Mario 64
"Dark Bloo Inn" - Paper Mario Color Splash
"Shadow Temple" - Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

[@charl2182]

Look, Wario's got some pretty bangin' games. I trust Wario, when he says he's gonna show me fun.

[@errorcluckstv]

yes, i too love the sound of painful psychedelic music as Wario tells us to hurry up and our only escape of what we thought was a peaceful trope slowly vanishes

[@Bendan]

@@errorcluckstv I think you might need to stop playing Wario Land 4.

[@bobbyjones9113]

That's how he gets you

[@errorcluckstv]

@@bobbyjones9113 [pulls out my fucking bass and plays the Law & Order theme]

[@primarina9812]

* Wario ware intesifies *

[@nightterror6727]

It's probably just Wario getting his revenge on us for making a bunch of videos of him dying

[@cringekid07]

Wario wasn’t prepared for the bombing of Hiroshima, simple as that

[@mikejameson7678]

@@cringekid07 What's his excues for Nagasaki?

[@KirbyProductions]

If it is then, I would understand.

[@FilledOfOJ]

He just wants us to forget the pain we made good through

[@beardalaxy]

OH MY GOD

[@harttman123]

2020: L is Real confirmed in Nintendo data leak 2030: The Wario Apparition is confirmed in a Nintendo data leak and it consumes and destroys us all.

[@crazyturbo4286]

I'd love the Wario Apparition and the whole personalized thing be real.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Nintendo's AI formed the US Democratic party in 2006

[@aileenp.5218]

*vore*

[@tracimiller9214]

oh no

[@tracimiller9214]

RAKEAFRI TV *vore moment*

[@willykempus]

Imagine your parents spending all their money on sm64 and they find you burning the game in a circle of salt

[@therubygemstonetrg]

Nah, Wario's just salty that Waluigi isn't in SM64DS, so he went back in time to haunt Mario in SM64.

[@aika1313]

Wario is a good brother.

[@WilfredCthulu]

That's surprisingly wholesome to think of...

[@Sansyboi611]

Actually Wario doesn't give a shit about Waluigi, and they aren't even brothers. Waluigi was wanting to call himself Luigi's rival so he changed his name and attached himself to someone comparable to Mario. (Waluigi's real name is Lesley btw)

[@ShaboingboingBouncer]

Prayer they’re just two dumbasses who don’t give shits about each other but are so good friends at the same time.

[@deadchannel6224]

@Prayerlook it up

[@Charriii5]

That's why most speedruns all go the same way; they all use the same ROM. Can't run into unexpected elements if your Copy of Mario 64 is Personalized.

[@KittyKatty999]

But if you play the same ROM enough, won't the same "Personalising" happen? Love your videos by the way dude! :D

[@JetixR]

@@KittyKatty999 Actually no it's the same rom so the A.I is the same throughout every copy

[@ThePyllyerkk1]

@@KittyKatty999 Think he's not fluent in English.

[@littlea420]

Hey charriii5

[@punkape]

speedrunners like simpleflips are CIA agents, and others have a personalised build tailored for speedrunning specifically/the ROM used in emulators

[@pringler_]

4:15 Dang, those depressed Mario's got some sick dance moves ngl

[@rajvindersingh3423]

I know u eddsworld fan

[@bakrobertjohnston4889]

Rajvinder Singh how exactly?

[@hey_this_is_a_handle]

There doing the dinosaur.

[@CertifiedWeirdass]

They vibin'.

[@isaaclee7887]

xd

[@Plastiware]

4:03 I'll tell you which came first. Mario in Real Time (MIRT) was a system Nintendo used at trade shows to allow Mario, in CGI puppet form, to interact with audiences. This is the Mario job Charles Martinet was originally hired for. Martinet would be hidden somewhere nearby and talk to audiences via microphone as his physical performance was partially captured via simplified mocap and rendered to a 3D Mario head. MIRT is the basis for both the talking Mario head seen in Mario Teaches Typing 2 and the Wario head from the E3 1996 presentation.

[@pokeryys5982]

have you seen a star that you dont have on the game of a friend but then when you go there you dont see the star

[@team8506]

Waldo from Black Mirror?

[@liengandriod55]

Wow

[@_bit_]

Hor

[@extremeconfusion6493]

Mario from Mario Teaches Typing 2 *flies*

[@healmore8716]

The wario apparition should just be called W is real

[@aoshi9254]

Healmore? The one that comments in the SMM2 videos?

[@gemmafortune8168]

yes

[@bruhboss3141]

I might unsubscribe if he keeps doing videos like this where he oversells things. These nuggets of viral misinformation only happen when you sprinkle mushroom dust on the cartridge and chant hail satan, then when that doesn't work you get high and imagine these things happening.

[@jayydexter]

Jack Rutledge ok unsubscribe bc he will probably always cover these gaming myths since gaming is his passion

[@morningbowl3156]

Jack Rutledge Did you watch the video?

[@ox8332]

Whether you’re resisting, pressing the A button, or hunting down Mario’s long lost brother- _pans to a dead Luigi_

[@zoelegant6489]

*pans to the now living Luigi*

[@starflayers]

Yeah he hunted em down. And fuckin killed him XD

[@PorkysPorky]

I did this gmod skit where (fake Luigi) is found in basement. With his head just completely off. And then Mario finds his real Brother and they eat speghetti.

[@activecenzo4812]

F in the chat

[@cougher9000]

boi its almost 1000 likes im the 994th like

[@VirgilSonofSparda]

I don’t see why people seeing the head of wario offering you a fun time scary I’d find it blessing

[@connerpaintball916]

I mean if wario offered me a fun time I think oh yeah time for some competitive Tetris

[@allysilvrstone]

Down bad

[@thefutureofdunces7949]

Oh god

[@justadog8011]

I would play a game of Tic Tac Toe with Wario anyday, he seems like a nice guy!

[@johnic-exe3580]

Oh don't worry, Wario and I would just be... (light chuckle) ...hanging around!

[@picklehat1455]

SwankyBox: **talks about personalized copies** Eyeless Mario figures: *They're groovin*

[@PumpkidWasTaken]

Lol

[@Swampson7043]

6:39 the tunic color is value that can be manipulated with SRM and will stay on a save file. Gauntlet color also applies, but that can be manipulated with RBA, a weaker glitch than SRM but still powerful

[@Swampson7043]

Damn I fixed a spelling error and it doesn't have a heart from swanky anymore :(

[@TurboZarya]

Fair Slapson unlucky

[@CyberCactus]

@@Swampson7043 I still believe you :)

[@Swampson7043]

@@CyberCactus thanks lol

[@BlackScythe191]

English please

[@princessazunyan7537]

Most kids' games are incredibly surreal - nothing works as it should in the real world. I think this is part of the reason these types of horror stories are so compelling. To our young minds, who haven't yet fully understood the internal logic of video games, it feels like anything might happen within them, including the terrifyingly grotesque. These stories revive that scary but exciting possibility.

[@nobodyhere100]

K-On is life

[@AM-cy8mh]

I was 9 years old when I played this game. I was always scared of Bowser showing up outside the castle, even when I knew that would not happen.

[@pepesilvia429]

@@AM-cy8mh I used to close my eyes when I started the first Bowser level because I was scared of the changing painting.

[@JohnSmithsu2006]

N64 graphics are creepy I used to be scared of bowser and ever since ocarina of time I've been scared of the skulltula creatures since I was 4 and I still am

[@Kodeb8]

@@JohnSmithsu2006 In general, the graphics of these mid 90s, early 3d games, I always found kinda creepy. A lot of these 3d platformers always felt so lonely and mysterious.

[@T3KNUG3T5]

There's a timeline of the floating heads actually. All rely on the Silicon Graphics 420VGX. SCES 1992 - a 3D Floating Mario head is shown off to show off the real time rendering of the SGI 420VGX workstation. 1992-1994 ish - Nintendo Power Laserdiscs had cutouts with the floating 3D mario head (again on the 420VGX) and he could morph into a Super Scope or a SNES Mouse E3 1996 - The Wario head is shown off at E3 as a bridge/emcee for the Nintendo 64 demonstration. I can't remember if this demonstration used the SGI 420VGX or a later version of SGI workstations (like the Onyx). 1997 - Mario Teaches Typing 2 I hope this helps with the Wario Apparation

[@liengandriod55]

It does. How did you know?

[@shininginthed4rk]

Bro what

[@haikarawalker6996]

8:41 “warios watching you” the instant he said that my sister threw a garlic at me and my heart literally stopped for a few seconds

[@slinkraidsagain]

But why did your sister throw garlic at you?

[@haikarawalker6996]

Hedgehog. PNG idk

[@xinderx]

@@slinkraidsagain you're telling me you dont throw garlic at your siblings randomely? weirdo.

[@Feathertail442]

(Sad lol bit noise as i cant eat)

[@justinhamilton8647]

lolobitlol please stop.

[@brendancurry9808]

OMG. The whole "tilt cartridge" thing reminds me of this old mario machinma video where mario is sent into the sky glitching into oblivion screaming "WHO TILT MY CARTRIDGE?!" I never understood what it meant till now!

[@milo-vb9fm]

Do you know which animation it is?

[@SoggyMonki]

I remember that

[@skeletonentertainment4201]

@@SoggyMonki What is the name? Answer me!

[@skeletonentertainment4201]

@@SoggyMonki What is the name? Answer me!

[@brendancurry9808]

@@skeletonentertainment4201 it was no goomba stomping.

[@PinguinodelRio]

I didn’t realize there was actually an explanation for this. I always thought it was for the sake of a meme, lol.

[@Yummermonkey]

Same

[@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932]

I thought it was an ARG or something

[@veryexciteddog963]

it is, but Swanky went the extra mile and gave some plausibility to it

[@soda9573]

Every copy of flamingo is personalised

[@starforcemegaman5356]

Isn't it a meme tho?

[@enriquediaz6765]

The game always disturbed me bro. Sometimes I play it, and I'm very paranoid playing it.

[@Leomatoad]

i think that's do to the blocky nature of the game and how some levels are literally just untextured no-theme blocks

[@enriquediaz6765]

I don't even know. I always felt watched.

[@4am555]

Same thing happened to me with Minecraft I was so scared with Herobrine Then I learned about the game

[@enriquediaz6765]

No like it scarred me

[@DekuWolf64]

Yikes!

[@recht_voor_zijn_raap5506]

There's also the fact that some of these "apparitions" feature HD like models WAY more advanced than the actual graphics the N64 was capable of. Just look some screenshots: Perfectly round ears, nose and eyes and on a HD looking 3d model.. Not even close to N64 graphics capabilities. Clearly a hoax.

[@supersillystuffs]

It’s supposed to be HD so it’s like, a ghost instead of just a thing from the game

[@luiluiruirui]

one image wario got horrible

[@pokeryys5982]

have you seen a star that you dont have on the game of a friend but then when you go there you dont see the star

[@justinhamilton8647]

If you think this whole thing is so real that you had to debunk it personally, you’re VERY dumb lmao.

[@luiluiruirui]

@@justinhamilton8647 i know black sm64 waluigi

[@Void_Echoes]

I’ve been seeing this “Every Copy of Super Mario 64 is Personalised” stuff literally everywhere recently. Its nice to actually have an explanation, because I really don’t know what the hell this is all about.

[@Void_Echoes]

If there’s one thing I’ve learnt today, its that this video is painful on the eyes Well, for me at least

[@SuperHops]

Yeah dude me neither I was so confused seeing these videos.

[@gooolixx]

sane

[@bk7064]

I was seeing it around like 2 weeks ago. It was more confusing then for me and I had to do alot of research.

[@bea-bo4032]

do you know about the mario 64 iceberg?

[@mr.hippopotamus1792]

If every copy of sm64 is personalized then speedruns depend from who has the fastest copy

[@tjeesseinthahouse]

Mmmmmmmm

[@Mepphy99]

Oh no

[@anonymousanonymous8216]

not really but ok

[@LerpzZ]

@@anonymousanonymous8216 ever head of a j o k e

[@mossman1428]

Anonymous Anonymous bro you so dumb you anonymous twice

[@Chewi_]

The devs of that doki doki literature club need to take note on this whole every copy is personalized shit for their next game. That would be freaking creepy.

[@roobeeeee]

Chewi Please don’t, I’ve already lost sleep because of the first game.

[@harley898]

Doki doki wario apparition club

[@mute5118]

If you didnt know, the first game is already personalized on a basic level! For example, theres tons of text you dont see on your first run that somebody else saw, or maybe a eye 'glitch' for yuri you never saw!

[@engineerheavy1344]

Noah Gentry like the undertale fun values but with major changes to the game instead of small random encounters. I like the way you think

[@tonyhakston536]

@@mute5118 anywhere I can read all the alternate text?t?

[@NotACutie]

And I thought the "every copy is personalized" thing started with NES Godzilla Creepypasta and Petscop.

[@paperbagbox]

@Big Guy makes sense Petscop was either a alternative universe game or just some game some guy put together for a creepypasta..

[@somethingAccurate]

Nah It's just a development of the creator's old ideas. It does include some theoretical stuff that's similar though

[@rabidguineapig]

Step 1: Obtain a repro version of Majora's Mask where the events of Ben Drowned occur. Step 2: As a creepy old man, go back in time and give this game to your younger self Step 3: Create a "Song of storms" style paradox where your younger self keeps the cartridge only to do the same thing when HE grows into a creepy old man. Step 4: ???????? Step 5: Profit.

[@PKwooper8281]

yos

[@HeliosimWorld]

So that's what really happened

[@alexanderleonardi3625]

though you of course will need to meet your older self first

[@bsharpmajorscale]

That is, until the cartridge inevitably decays away after looping so many times.

[@roaringthunder115]

Yes

[@RoryRose_]

I find it kind of hard to find a story scary when the main antagonist is Wario.

[@primarina9812]

Hit the frog switch on wario land 4 and just WAIT.

[@michaelk9279]

“You want scary? Wario show you scary!”

[@beng9360]

I find this hilarious because the funny garlic man pops out of the wall

[@pvzbronygodgaming8476]

Five Nights at Warios is pretty fuckin scary

[@Skeptix1]

0_0

[@ThePoptartKing]

Sees Wario on Mario 64 Some random guy on the internet: S A L T

[@connerpaintball916]

Wario does not like salt

[@buerert]

@@connerpaintball916 yes

[@rauhamanilainen6271]

Summon the salt.

[@donaldyoung3565]

me when the salt is sus!1!!11

[@cay7809]

@@donaldyoung3565 NOOOOO

[@theohmguy]

Plot twist: Wario just wanted to give you every Wario Ware game copies

[@MakoChannel]

My Mario Kart 64 copy has been personalized, when lightning struck our house when I was playing it as a kid. Randomly when playing the characters sprite will turn upside down and shrink when playing on Koopa Troopa Beach, and sometimes the game crashes on Toad's Turnpike.

[@off-the-grounder568]

Well, at least the shrinking is normal for being hit by lightning.

[@keganmemestar4465]

Ok

[@SECONDQUEST]

Cool story bro

[@spontaneouscombustion5014]

Are you sure some dude in 12th place used a lightning?

[@TestAcct46]

you forgot to mention Toad turning hyper realistic and then having a hyper realistic crash with hyper realistic blood

[@Chaos.A]

There is something really nostalgic about this whole trend honestly. As a kid I did have this small sense of unease towards Mario 64, probably between being scared of the piano, the chain chomp and the eel the fact that the castle and the levels felt so huge it always felt like there was something in the game out to get me. Obviously, these fears pretty much went away entirely when I discovered emulation and toadstool 64, being able to literally see and modify everything in the game shined a light on all those dark corners. So even though it's a bit silly and Creepypasta'esque, it is fun to indulge this iceberg and imagine that maybe there were depths to this game I still don't understand. Maybe my copy was personalised

[@rhiairish3917]

I literally thought I was the only one! When I was younger I would play Mario 64 all day but never wanted to play it at night because I would be too scared which is quite strange to feel towards a Mario game. Idk but I just felt so on edge playing it and I also used to have nightmares about the different levels.

[@Future_Doggo]

This was a really creepy game to me.

[@thecreatorofpc7929]

d I wasn’t scared of this game, but i do know that people have different types of fears.

[@glowbug4603]

I sort of had a similar experience with Mario 64 on my ds. I was afraid to go into the basement or down a set of stairs or something (I can’t quite remember) and I was afraid of the chain chomps and bombs in the first painting so I never progressed in the game but maybe that was just me lol

[@mentelgen3274]

... well I got the same feeling like something is gonna get me but it’s more like... how do I say this. Uh I got this feeling when I don’t go inside the castle bowser? Is going to get me outside..

[@astrumnavta]

As a kid I would tilt the cartridge on Ocarina of Time. I loved the glitches and how it would make the game still fun after I completed the game. I stopped because Link's face started "melting" and it scared the shit outta me.

[@PlebeianGoth]

I've always loved how your videos are so heavily based in nostalgia and feelings toward games, and cold-hard facts, while always there when necessary, play second fiddle to the overall theme of the video. I love turning to your videos for a nostalgia rush. Thank you for such fun videos!

[@cedarnomad]

"Creepypasta land." *Welcome kids, to the Super Mario Horror Show!*

[@1080Frostbite]

"We're the Mario Brothers, and scaring's our game. We're not like the others, who make peaceful games"

[@kittykat5090]

ngl i'd totally watch that

[@S-CB-SL-Animations]

@Underboy64 *Wario show you FUN!*

[@Ze_eT]

@@S-CB-SL-Animations *_Wario shows you FUN!_* R34: Write that down, write that down!

[@galladegamer3579]

Mario's tunnel of-a-doom! Very scary.

[@TheLegoNation]

0:11 hunting for Mario’s brother Shows Luigi dead in water

[@user-ek2xg3ps5s]

Helvetica standard

[@glacierwolf2155]

No one said that this hunt was non-violent.

[@nolongerusing7430]

Poor choice of words

[@user-ek2xg3ps5s]

@@nolongerusing7430 very

[@SwankyBox]

Luigi's floating body is a powerful metaphor that represents how my soul felt after coming up empty-handed. Also, poor weegee.

[@jeremyusurp5710]

One time I accidently tilted my cartrige of SM64 and it got spoopy. Mario was miscolored, his head woulf spin and limbs would expand, his right hand was giant, and he kept grunting in pain. It was the noise he makes when he gets hurt, over and over again, and they were in different pitches every time. It was like a fever nightmare..

[@white_mochi]

3:38 Every Mario: *Glitching* That One Mario: Hey what was the script again? Oh yeah.

[@AlanElChato]

Nintendo developing SM64: Let's make this game a learning A.I, that could scare out players with their own nightmares and fears. Also Nintendo developing SMS: Mario and a water nozzle cleaning up an entire tropical island, collecting sunshines and having fun!

[@antonioaguirre5464]

But what SMS has even more creepy secrets than SM64 and we just haven't found them yet.

[@thatoneguy9582]

they realised that probably isn’t a very good idea and how about we don’t do that

[@XamiNaxamis]

@@antonioaguirre5464 It ain't nostalgic enough to make creepypasta of yet so nobody's lookin

[@incidentlyaniguana2193]

SMS is far more evil. I still have nightmares about that god damn lily pad level.

[@Notanegg.]

@@incidentlyaniguana2193 lol

[@healmore8716]

Honestly I feel like this “ever copy of Mario 64 is personalized” is really stupid and dumb but for some reason I really like it

[@michaeligbinoba2894]

Same lmao

[@luisjogos821]

Me too.

[@-awezomexd-]

Mario is real

[@JShortsFR]

I like your pfp lol

[@nicosalsa21]

It’s like Ben drowned, you know it’s stupid but it’s still interesting

[@appletherapy3492]

The 90’s. When haunted ghost levels were actually scary.

[@Hydro.131]

3:44 me and the boys after drinking 12 gallons of milk

[@koshkamatew]

Hell yeah, if i ever get a time machine that will be my target aswell. To scare some random kid with a creepypasta rom hack :D

[@nybbles2076]

Is it Ben Drowned time?

[@burnttoaster431]

Reese Williamson yes

[@Dargonhuman]

@@nybbles2076 It is always Ben Drowned time. At least, that's what my avatar tells me in my sleep.

[@thomasstewart9752]

here's my theory: you need to think about this not as the cartridge behaving like a mind, but your mind behaving like a cartridge. when you play a game as a child, your brain is still developing. you are not 100% immersed in the game, because you are still subconsciously taking in the environment around you and processing the rest of your life in the back of your mind. you begin to associate a certain level with the stress of an upcoming test, you smell dinner cooking in the next room, and your mind creates a context that you associate with the game. when you play a friends copy of the game, you are often in an entirely different context, and your brain behaves like a tilted cartridge. the "pins" that your brain needs to be there to properly process the game just aren't lining up, and because memory needs context, and due to the brains built-in "error correction" your memories of the game become partially fabricated to make up for the missing context. this leads to the game becoming unfamiliar even though nothing within the game has changed.

[@princessazunyan7537]

Really clever explanation! Part of me wishes we were still capable of that level of connection with art as adults...

[@ehx3419]

Plus, I bet tilted cartridges can actually produce ACE (Arbitrary Code Execution) to the point of writing cartridge parts that aren't supposed to be writable by hitting pins that are meant to be unwired and, when actually connected, overwrite the actual ROM

[@sambayer9271]

Damn

[@cadenhenderson4322]

Princess Azunyan It’s nice to hear someone else say this. Some of the games I played and the movies I saw as a child were world changing to me because obviously my kid brain wasn’t super aware of what the world was. Playing games like New Super Mario Bros DS could really transport me there. It’s a surreal feeling that I’m afraid I will never replicate completely.

[@emrahalien2972]

that never happened to me, what weed were you smoking?

[@Sonicbladez]

I never had a nightmare about super mario 64. But I had a ton about Super Mario Allstars, especially SMB3. The Game overs were so scary to me, and the game sometimes glitching and showing weird stuff, or just turning black and the bowser music sounds playing? Insane nightmare fuel for a kid.

[@einztree5189]

*"Wario is watching you"* *pulls out le cocc*

[@lordoffrogs6786]

He'd like looking at that

[@gakmey]

You want fun? Dankey_bte_nusweaty will show you fun!

[@youdonthavehumor2545]

Time stamp?

[@shookengie370]

"y u have smoll pp"

[@pleaseboi3410]

Just imagine a kid pouring salt around him almost setting the house on fire by dropping a match on their game.

[@paperbagbox]

That is why creepypastas are stupid

[@stickythestickman.official]

@@paperbagbox And that creepypastas are so stupid, they don't even care on what they're saying, they just spit so much word that its just so hard to even understand. Remember, Nintendo would never do such a thing! Satan will die. God... will win...

[@paperbagbox]

@SuperGamer yes I agree

[@nyxorcinus7797]

Agreed.

[@paperbagbox]

@SuperGamer but ur ending didn’t make sense to anything you said tho

[@sammcgarry5822]

"...Or hunting down Mario's long lost brother." Shows Luigi dead in the fountain

[@Keisezrgs]

He has been hunted

[@goofyglob]

Didn’t he say fuck in Mario golf?

[@danger6371]

@@goofyglob He did?

[@olivergula8044]

I love how the internet can take a non-scary joke that Nintendo made into a creepypasta.

[@theronin942]

Dude creepy thing is as a kid I played mario 64 at my dads friends house because we didn't have a n64, when i got my own copy I recall it wasn't exactly the same as the one I played at my dad's friend's place, something seemed different or missing. I had always marked it up to be my imagination or memory being bad cus I was young but its weird this creepypasta literally deals with what I experienced as a child.

[@epicphantom589]

The part about playing a friend’s game and it feels different is almost certainly a psychological thing.

[@funni_noises]

EpicPhantom XD it’s because your brain knows the stuff you have done the way you did it was never done on the save you are playing and that makes it feel off

[@yoamiunpinco4372]

Or could just be the sticky buttons!

[@slime-up9st]

it’s also definitely not as rewarding to complete levels on any game that isn’t your own.

[@shinygiveaways1920]

The tv aspect ratio could be different or the controller could feel of if u use thiers

[@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967]

@d Basically the same with most kinds of conspiracy theories. Once you actually think about the things that'd make *insert secret project or cover-up here* possible, it just kinda falls apart and doesn't make sense anymore.

[@johnweber4504]

Soul: *exists* Also soul: “I’mma possess this game cartridge and scare some kids”

[@DJL3G3ND]

bruh

[@furret122]

Soul: exists Random yellow flower from another game: *mine*

[@goldsteed8832]

honestly if i was a ghost i would do that

[@memeboi6942]

Soul: *exists* FNaF animatronics: That's an adult soul.

[@S-CB-SL-Animations]

@@memeboi6942 Exactly!

[@Xxbtztrl]

This video gives me some closure, I remembered Mario standing when he spins Bowser rather than sitting and magically rotating on his ass

[@jasonmartin7968]

every time he says “super mario 64,” it sounds like he’s slurring it, sounding like he’s trying to get through it as fast as possible

[@MACROPARTICLE]

Later that night in the princess' castle... Peach: "What are you doing in my bed?" Wario: "You want fun? Wario show you fun!" Peach: "MARIO!"

[@bear.gaming]

i really imagined that in my head when i was reading your comment

[@mr.69yomoma31]

Not my proudest fap.

[@DayFlounder]

mr.69 yo moma BUT ITS UP THERE

[@mr.69yomoma31]

@@DayFlounder definitely

[@tripplordofinconvenience9953]

You hear Luigi and Daisy having a good time in the next room

[@MichaelMacaw]

I rented Ocarina when it first came out, played up to the Fire Temple and stopped. Six months later, my mom bought the game for my birthday from the same Blockbuster I rented it from and it was the exact same copy, with my file name still intact at the same point.

[@shrilleth]

Dude, that must have been the best birthday of your life. I can only imagine if that happened to me.

[@Hadeon7]

this is how creepypastas start

[@drewf6208]

cool story bro

[@toxxxics_4210]

Imagine putting your heart and souls into creating an amazing game that was a part of hundreds and thousands of childhoods, just for people to call it "true evil of humanity"...

[@FerraraPasuqlaw]

I think that once, when i was a kid, i dreamed that i could've fight Bowser outside the castle, but it was so realistic

[@danielt7708]

The scariest Wario has ever been is in Smash Ultimate when he gets fully charged waft

[@Lucky-132]

B r u h

[@extrapathos]

*WARIO WAFT!!!!!*

[@shyrusz]

I love this topic because of how stupid it is, like a Nintendo employee just chopped out our foreskin to make a personalized copy of the game

[@havenandaura]

WAIT IS THAT WHERE MINE WENT?

[@lapiscarrot3557]

Brand new sentence, well done!

[@silentantagonist2333]

Pfp checks out

[@rgkong8783]

Silent Antagonist I wonder where it’s from

[@AJOlaks]

Oh that’s where it went

[@maxwell4508]

I had a dream where I played the game and there where two extra levels. One was a marble tower with art gallery elements that you had to climb, and a few fast as hell werewolves just smashed through segments of the walls every floor. And there was another level you reached by swimming through a water tube with many wooden beams that lead to what I could assume was an aquatic construction site where you leapt up wooden boards to reach a fish boss.

[@moonyuri9507]

Honestly, since L is 2401 was confirmed on July 25th (2+4+0+1 = 7 | 24+1 = 25) I'm tempted to believe some of the more deeper parts of the M64 Iceberg

[@guester2006]

Also found after 24 years and 1 month

[@guester2006]

Also found after 24 years and 1 month

[@Blockinstaller12]

When you think about it from a coders perspective, "personalizing" at least a savefile isn't too difficult. All you need is a bunch of condition statements that, when fulfilled, slightly alter the game in some way, like: if player got hit by first goomba, place next group of goombas slightly to the right.

[@UltraAryan10]

Yes, N64 is 64-bit so there could be 2^64 different personalised copies of this game based on player movement. In fact, nintendo uses player movement to simulate RNG in Mario Maker 2, it is clear this is not the first time they are doing it.

[@mrmimeisfunny]

Except does any code ever get run from SRAM? because that's the only thing you can modify on the cartridge.

[@darkness74185]

RNG via movement is the common method all the way back in the NES......

[@Melkac]

Yeah, that's exactly what RE4 does. It "personalized" your save file based on your actions.

[@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her]

@@mrmimeisfunny , Just simple triggers in the code would do, really. "If player [action], move [enemy] -12 z." That kinda thing. Since player inputs ARE obviously processed, and the game responds to those processes, just adding some unusual, obscure changes to activate on specific obscure action cues wouldn't need much fancy trickery, other than making sure the combined code for the game itself, and the individual response commands, can fit on the cartridge.

[@ClawedCat]

The mystery of 1995... oooh this is gonna be glitchy

[@LazyTheoRenders]

In my personalised copy of SM64 there is a star called “pound the four posts” in Bob omb Battlefield. How I got the star: I went up to the area where the red coin star spawns in Bob omb Battlefield, ground pounded all four of the posts and a star spawned above Mario’s head.

[@diobrandoscreamypuffs8094]

Imagine your parents spending all of their money on sm64 and find you burning it in a circle of salt

[@homiecat7683]

i’m pretty sure the whole every cartridge is personalized and that’s why it feels weird to play another friends game is just your brain being used to your save file and having a certain amount of stars so when you play the friend’s game it feels weird because you’re brain expects your save file but it gets confused when it’s your friend’s

[@paperbagbox]

Maybe because everyone’s save files are differently played, not everyone plays the game the same way..

[@CrackedDylMil]

I'd guess it's because if you play your friends game, you're probably also using their TV, which may have a different amount of input lag

[@128randomness]

@@CrackedDylMil TVs did not have input lag back then.

[@BogusLettuce]

Playing a friend’s copy never confused me.

[@sandaru245]

No,it would be strange with every game,if this theory was correct

[@mattwolf7698]

7:33 You could still do that, buy a bunch of old cartridges and then hack them and then give them away to unsuspecting people. If the game was messed up, I wouldn't see it as morally right to sell to a used game store but you could either sell it for cheap at a yard sale or leave some cartridges laying around in random places. I'm honestly surprised nobody has done this. Sametime, you would be destroying physical classic games, maybe get some old cartridges for games nobody cares about like sports games and Super Man 64, flash a hacked ROM onto and then rip off the old label and then put a replica label that's been made to look aged and beat up of the game ROM that's in it. Granted, these days people that reported it online would soon give the cartridges to someone that had the know how to dig into them so it wouldn't be mysterious and it would be clear that nothing super natural was going on but some creepypastas just stay within the realm of hacking with no supernatural elements (Pokemon Creepy Black for example) so it would still be interesting.

[@blinxtheredone6844]

I rented a copy of Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time from Hollywood Video and the one to file that was on there Link had the Hylian Shield but no sword, no Deku Shield, and only three hearts.... and had not been to the Deku Tree yet. I tried and tried and tried to figure out how you could get the Hylian Shield before getting to the Deku Tree. Yes there are glitches, but when I was six years old I didn't know what the hell was going on.

[@jpesicka999]

An early speed runner must have got a hold of it

[@blinxtheredone6844]

@@jpesicka999 That's what I thought when I became an adult... but at 7 years old. So confused

[@willyhoo2946]

you: some say this is haunted---- me: stop say no more im in im emotionally invested

[@Sammy-py3rd]

I never understood what was going on with that Super Mario 64 is personalized thing.

[@Void_Echoes]

Sammy Same, I’ve been seeing this stuff all over KZbin this past week and its had me hella confused.

[@Light-vl6sr]

Sammy From my understanding, it’s just a creepypasta that people came up with. People are jokingly creating a cult around it. That’s all, really.

[@BalooDumptruck]

@@Light-vl6sr those folks need a life

[@sgillman16]

It's a hoax. There is a video from Spaceworld 1996 with Wario's head in front of a still image of Dire Dire Dock's entrance in Super Mario 64, and he says he's going to show you fun, which is the Virtual Boy presentation

[@Void_Echoes]

sgillman16 If the “fun” Wario was talking about was the Virtual Boy, then it’s no wonder the Wario head became a creepypasta or whatever. After all, we all know how people feel about the Virtual Boy.

[@gameworldjt]

Wario: this-a game sucks, ima show u real game People: spoopy

[@plumjet0930]

Starts showing you your favorite game

[@CheshireTheMaid]

Dragon Age Inquisition, but it's SM64, and Wario is in control.

[@Probably_Daniel]

I actually experienced the Wario Apparition, or at least, something similar, fairly recently. My save data for SM64 was damaged due to the game crashing during a save. That was strange, since saves are incredibly fast. I continued playing the game, anyway. Mario's head on the title screen wouldn't go back to its original state when I was done editing. This caused some creepy Mario faces to be made. I'm not that scared of stuff like that, only things that are unexpected, so I laughed and pressed start. I selected one of the save files, and started playing. Mario was in the ground, flashing from red to green. I was a little scared from it, since I was used to Mario standing up. Only made me slightly jump. Feeling fearless, I went into the castle to get some stars. First up was Bob-omb Battlefield. I had no idea if controls were effected by the corruption, so I did some jumping. The iconic yah played, and when I jumped again, the iconic woo-hoo played. Everything was normal, until my 3rd jump. Mario said a creepy ya-ha, and then said boing. He flied off incredibly fast, reaching a parallel universe. I'm an expert on SM64, so I knew what was going on. But then, King Bob-omb appeared. But this time, he was changing size by the frame. He also lacked a moustache, and threw himself. I said to myself, "I really should have deleted the save file." and then, as if it heard me, even though I had no microphone, (I never got into Hey, You, Pikachu! because my friend said it didn't work right when he rented it, and since I had a computer, I saw reviews of it and knew he wasn't alone) the game flashed the words PIRACY DETECTED and went to the delete save file screen. Why would an anti piracy screen show up? I bought this game legally, and would never pirate this game. That didn't make sense, so I looked at the screen, and something happened. The screen was messed up. This time, the Mario's on the screen were yellow. It kept saying "fun" in the voice of Wario, so it was like a Nintendo Spaceworld where Wario showed off a bunch of fun stuff, saying the stuff that happened before was terrible, and to focus on what was to come next. This legitimately scared me, so I went to shut off my N64. But it didn't work. I kept playing, despite the spook. I went to my save file, and spawned in Bowser and the Fire Sea. Mario was in the floor, and was moving automatically. A Blaarg appeared and Mario died. Then, I heard Wario. "Ah, this is terrible!" He said. I don't remember the rest of what he said, (I didn't really hear him that well, as the volume changed a lot, without my control. But I heard the last thing he had to say; "You want fun? Wario show you fun!" I then saw him appear. He was a flat 2d texture, with random white pixels on the outline, similar to the Mario near the health icon, except facing forward, and being Wario. He moved forward. I ran the opposite direction, and long jumped. I was too slow. Wario killed me. (In the game. Obviously.) I heard Mario say "game over!" and a text box appeared. It said "Wow. You were so good at this game when I saw you playing. You couldn't even outrun a head, this time around! How is this possible? Every copy of Mario 64 is personalised. The game changes difficulty based off of your skill in the first level, and you nailed it! Well, not the first star. That star corrupted. But most of the other stars were amazing! You tricked us. Now, Wario will show you fun! Ha ha!" I took the cartridge out and hid it under the couch. But the game still played. Wario replaced the Mario head on the screen. So I put in Mario Kart 64 to get it to stop, and maybe play a little. When I got to character selection, Wario was all of the options, rather than the Mario, Luigi, Peach, etc options. I then remembered about Stop 'n' Swop, but thought it was crazy, since I had an N64 model with only 1/30 of the time it was possible. Plus, I'm certain a Nintendo made game wouldnt use a glitch in the system, unlike rare. So Wario was definitely behind this. I turned the tv off and went to bed. Of course, I wouldn't sleep after that, so I played cookie clicker for a few hours.

[@AlphaPhoenix7959]

Hmmm. I think what happened was that you did buy a pirated copy, but never knew. If you bought it at the store, there must have been a bad apple employee who purposely sold you a pirated copy, thinking it was a joke. Not everyone in the world is good. And if you ordered the game online, say, ebay, have you checked the details of the copy? (I'm only saying it's ebay because I doubt Amazon still sells N64 cartridges) It may have not had an official Nintendo seal. That's what I think, at least. It could be a pirated copy lurking in plain sight. Could have contained the Anti-piracy screen virus, which would infect your entire system and cause an anti-piracy protocol, even if you didn't have a pirated copy. I don't think it's something otherworldly like dumb fan theories suggest. The best you can do now is report the copy and whichever store or website sold it to you to the police. I wish the best of luck to you.

[@Gurtopolis]

7:38 I'm wheezing that's great

[@DPlex]

I always get this weird feeling with SM64. an errie feeling, as if i'm in another world. I can't describe it.

[@ChaosMyth1012]

Have you ever played a video game before my dude?

[@DPlex]

@@ChaosMyth1012 Well yeah. I'm just saying 64 gave me this feeling when I was a kid.

[@emilioduran3430]

@@DPlex Espically The WDW level

[@moonfly1105]

Yea, that's virtual world you are felling xD

[@yeetusthefetusthencommitse204]

I got a similar feeling with other video games but instead of eerie it was this awesome feeling like I could anything in this new world. Video games can feel like a vacation from the real world which is great but you have to have balance and not let yourself be consumed in escapism

[@thebotbuilder]

I can't take this creepypasta seriously, Wario is just not scary in my opinion

[@wayfinder7024]

Yeah Wario is not scary at all I mean like how is someone who likes money in the Mario universe where money is literally inside of blocks scary

[@PinguinodelRio]

Is it supposed to be scary? I thought it was for the sake of a meme, lol

[@MatiEP09]

Same

[@mageferago]

It's more the concept of this that's supposed to be scary, like the amount of nightmare fueling stuff that's hidden within the game, and it being some sort of learning AI thing, idk

[@errorcluckstv]

i mean, the 3d Wario head is kinda creepy ngl, but Wario as a creepypasta icon... nah chief, that ain't it

[@seedmole]

Reminds me of the good old days of diving into custom game genie codes for Secret of Evermore. That game transcended its original form through those hacks. Truly a personalized experience once you learned to modify the game in your own unique way.

[@CthulhuianBunny]

"Tailor the game to be appealing to you, on a subconscious level." Does that mean if _I_ played it, then the controls would be as tight as Banjo-Kazooie's, the Y-axis movement while swimming would be un-inverted, and it wouldn't kick you out of levels for getting power stars?

[@BloggerMimimimimmimi]

In some copies, it might be just like that.

[@PhantomDusclops92]

I remember having some weird things in some of my games. I swear that in my copy of Pokémon Gold Quilava evolved into Typhlosion at 38 instead of the usual 36 and the move Cross Chop was missing in the Machop line's moveset. And then there's that thing of my Pokémon Pinball cartridge with the costantly changing control scheme...

[@cringekid07]

I really want to know if the control scheme actually changed like that

[@Evnyofdeath]

Probably just being a dumb kid misremembering things tbh

[@CallMeSugarMilk]

I been seeing these “Every Copy of Super Mario 64 is Personalized” videos/threads almost everywhere (including the SM64 iceberg) and never understanding what the hell people mean’t by this. I couldn’t tell if this was just a creepypasta (given how people are now uploading “supposed” recorded game footages from around the time SM64 was released (either through that retro VCR filter or w/e) or if this was a legit conspiracy. I’m a sucker for urban video game myths/rumors or things that are just now being unearthed from a 20+ year old game (whether it be an weird, unexplained easter egg or something found in the game’s code after all this time.) Glad to finally get a explanation of this whole thing and even going the extra step to a “what if possibly” route! Keep up the great work as always, love these videos!

[@UltraAryan10]

SM64's code of atleast one personalised rom has already been decompiled so its very unlikely to find new discoveries other then glitches.

[@Agentshadling]

Evil farm game wya

[@parkerjb23]

The personalized cartridges that can be haunted or something reminds me of something out of the Goosebumps show

[@toy_bonnie]

5:03 Thanks I need that salt to replace all of it that I poured around me

[@MewZe.]

“Mario 64 is personalized” Also Mario 64: *has Wario in every copy all of a sudden* Makes sense Edit: this isn’t to just say it isn’t a thing I’m just joking about it

[@first-last557]

Thank you groovin purple guy

[@tredI9100]

beta

[@evilweevil58008]

I've seen you before lol

[@JustAnEldritchGod]

@@tredI9100 beta what?

[@HoochJune]

@@JustAnEldritchGod the beta version of mario 64

[@cataclyx]

literally just watching a Greenio video. your timing couldn't be better.

[@eeveefennecfox]

mom and dad told me to never do the tilting or take out the cartridge cause it could ruin the game

[@dustymightmeme9345]

Someone was speedrunning mario 3 and he teleported to a random place and they found out that it was a dust particle in the cartridge and it somehow changed the code to make them teleport

[@jayden3988]

That personalization thing is more cool than creepy to me.

[@theCidisIn]

What came first? The chicken or the Wario?

[@spookyscaryskeletons578]

@@LZMP60 DUN DUN DUUUUUUN

[@Java_Protogen]

The cucco

[@Keisezrgs]

@Derek Hottenstein *waluigi

[@UltraVioletLite]

this happened to me but wario actually showed me fun. he gave me every single nintendo console and every mario game for the consoles

[@BloggerMimimimimmimi]

Wario decided to be nice atleast for a day.

[@Chinarider1972]

“Getting eaten by Dorrie” Cause of that “Don’t become his lunch” quote, man that scared me as a kid I was so scared to go near his mouth, it either was the translators having some fun, or an unused idea for Dorrie being one of Bowser’s easily trickable enemies.

[@mRibbons]

I hope Mario takes the Peach's last name since he's such a fungi.

[@AshKetchum442]

Mario Mario-Toadstool

[@HakaeRich_69420]

Mario Toatstool :)

[@SackboyLBP]

That would be pretty weird Imagine: Crash Bandicoot-Bandicoot or Sonic the Hedgehog-Acorn

[@matemon5943]

6:00 - 7:44 Wow, it's a lot easier to manipulate individual game cartridges than I thought. This also makes me wonder if the urban legend "Ben drowned" may have originally come from a single Majora's mask cartridge that was altered in a similar fashion to cause either altered imagery and sound, I always thought it was simply contrived as a creepypasta from the ground up, but just maybe someone found a cartridge through a rental store that someone had played around with that just by coincidence had a file named "Ben" and they honestly believed they had stumbled upon a haunted cartridge and started the urban legend through a game of telephone to become the modern creepypasta, very thought provoking stuff.

[@bosselotiscanon]

ben drowned was an ARG; everything about it was intentional

[@Enderpig124]

I've recently heard alot about the ''Super Mario 64 Iceberg'' but nobody actually explains what it is, they asume you know. Glad this vid shines some light on that :)

[@DrakkenWolfgangDLNO]

I used to have a randomly occurring nightmare of what essentially is the Wario apparition as a child. Started the dream like I was normally playing SM64. Something would cause me to lose all lives in my game & instead of Mario's face on game over/ title screen, it would be Wario & he would somehow manage to kill me in real life as punishment for losing in the game. Strange my dream has blown up as a creepy pasta, of sorts.

[@pokeryys5982]

have you seen a star that you dont have on the game of a friend but then when you go there you dont see the star

[@DrakkenWolfgangDLNO]

@@pokeryys5982 negative. It's been roughly 20 years since last time I actually remember having said dream though... so it could be possible & I just don't remember. Lol

[@humbleheathen69]

I've actually had dreams of weird m64 levels/hubs. I saw a custom level speed run and the hub was all blue with the paintings surrounding a center piece star statue. I swear to fucking tzeentch I had a dream of that exact place when i was like 8 and had a mini freak out when I saw it in real life

[@humbleheathen69]

@Lukas von das Eis I'm not typically the superstitious type but I've had more then one of these insane dreams not always about m64 but quite a few for it not to be something.

[@SpicyWah]

I had a M64 dream that I still remember having as a kid. It took place in the hallway with the red carpet where you go fight the first bowser and instead of the normal bowser/peach painting, it was a picture of Kamek but in low poly form

[@SammEater]

@Maintenance Renegade Makes sense after all why would you have a "premonition" for a goddamn Mario game. Unless it was a "glitch in the Matrix"...

[@paperbagbox]

@Lukas von das Eis same I get those dreams too

[@Saixjacket]

Maintenance Renegade Oh man, the sun rises and sets consistently for the most part, totally a simulation man

[@hchich2528]

I never knew where this all started and I thought it was just like the next “unsettling meme” but it was actually a real thing that wasn’t meant to be scary... huh...

[@brandtlyallen1007]

Swanky. I recently watched u and the Hobo boys and this caught my eye. I own a N64 game of M64 and I never had any "glitches or spooky" things happen while reaching my personal best on 115 stars.

[@imsupercoolandawesome]

“You want fun, Wario show you fun!” **turns on minecraft** Wario did want to show you fun, he came to you to tell you that he found diamonds in Minecraft, but you keep on turning off the game as soon as he gets to you. :(

[@NotASpyReally]

When I read the title of the video I was like "omg what really?? Wow, that's amazing! This game was really ahead of its time!" Then I realized this was kinda creepypasta lol Never played Super Mario 64 before. I should give it a try. It's a classic.

[@OanSMM]

1:08 oooh the song of the hotel in color splash I love it

[@Herrscher-of-Autism]

I hope I don't get stuck in a time loop, my birthday is tomorrow!

[@Winrarnt]

@@Herrscher-of-Autism happy birthday!

[@OanSMM]

@@Herrscher-of-Autism happy birthday

[@Herrscher-of-Autism]

@@OanSMM Thanks, I had cake, and I got money, a phone, and a Marx plush!

[@ultimatebreak827]

TNTLOVER42 nice

[@mariofan773]

Very well done analysis SwankyBox. Lol I remember the times you mentioned well. Remember rumors of Bulbasaur's Garden in Pokémon Red/Blue as a example and well hearing the famed Pokémon Black Version creepy pasta in my college years. However strangely enough one time when my younger brother and I rented Majora's Mask from a hotel N64 rental program in the 90s we started the game with nothing but Ocarinas as ALL item slots in the menu and held items and eerie music( probably normal music from the opening scene lol didn't play Majora's Mask as a kid at that time). It scared me and my brother for years and well we called it a haunted rental rom. Oops sorry got a tad carried away there. Anyhoo cheers to you for another intriguing analysis vid. Loved it!

[@SlyHikari03]

I love this stuff. Mysterious and paranormal stuff used to fascinate me.