The Never-Ending Universe of Super Mario Fan Games

[@bonedude666]

Fun fact: The Luigi model in SM64 was discovered exactly *24* years and *01* months after the original game released.

[@icecontrol1]

That day in 4chan was amazing, will never forget it

[@dropdmike75]

The prophecy told not of the year he would be discovered, but instead how long it would take to discover him

[@saphcal]

L IS REAL 24 01 i remember the day it was found. it was beautiful.

[@Cuprite1024]

Fate has spoken.

1 months?

[@CorpseSyndrome]

54:23 Creator of (Mario) The Music Box here! Spot on with the "not your cup of tea" I don't imagine anyone taking the game seriously since it was a vent project with bits and pieces of symbolism and my life mixed into it.

[@matti.8465]

How do you feel about your vent project reaching such noteriety? It's not the first time I see a big youtuber talk about it.

[@Stormkyleis]

I don't necessarily feel like I'm the target audience either - I'm usually not into edgy and text-heavy stuff - but there's this morbid curiosity that drew me to play all of it (plus Arc) and it was such a fun ride. You're great.

[@idkany293]

Hope you're doing ok man.

[@masonasaro2118]

I still got to wonder... Why Mario?

[@AKitchell]

This game is amazing, especially the remastered version. I'm looking forward to the latest version, which I hope you're still working on.

[@TheMadHatter845]

32:31 Vaporeon was actually in smash land as a prototype Orcane for Rivals of Aether, the Vaporeon memes didn't happen until way after, Dan Fornace is one of the designers behind Rivals and was the creator of Smash Land, both characters even have the water puddle teleport

[@shadowsnake5133]

That's actually pretty cool, hopefully he sees this.

[@jameslawrenson1208]

He googled Vaporeon.

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

Still that cursed copypasta

[@TopOfAllWorlds]

No Vaporeon memes are actually pretty old. They definitly were around back then... I thought they did at least?

[@dawk7]

@@TopOfAllWorlds Nah. The copypasta is from 2018. Feels like it was yesterday though, huh...?

[@FrazzDude_]

original owner of MX, and old director of mario 85 here means a lot to see you cover the project! i never expected MX to get this far haha

[@lpnp9477]

Are you Lucas

[@kiricappuchin]

Hey there champ

[@Denisinkgames]

Innocence did in fact get u fat

[@kirklinguinihoodinithecubo8525]

Being a niche little project doesn't get you far. WAHOO

[@thatdovick29]

you know who else didnt expect MX to get far

[@___wye]

14:47 creator of A Plumber For All Seasons here - I'm super happy to hear it left a good impression! Hope you'll enjoy it when you give it a more thorough play too. :)

[@Kotarol]

omg its wye hope smw in godot progress is good

[@hugocastilla3102]

Yours is one of the nicest looking SMW hacks I've ever played

[@ThatChadWithTheAnchorArms]

MY DUDE. THIS LOOKS CLEAN

[@gawkers12]

This video got me to player your hack, it’s super good!

[@djyoshiman]

As the one responsible for Yoshi Gone MFGG, I am so sorry. As the one who made a part of the soundtrack for Psycho Waluigi and Psycutlery, I'm glad you shouted them out, and gave props to Luke's amazing history and the work they do. Thank you for that.

[@kimetsunoacademia3528]

If I may ask, what was your honest reaction when you saw your work in action? Did you have any second thoughts about releasing it?

[@djyoshiman]

@kimetsunoacademia3528 If you mean my reaction back when I released it, I vaguely recall it being along the lines of "hey, these MFGGers will love seeing their characters in this game, I'm going to release what I can now!!" No second thoughts, it was along similar "quality" at the time for fangames. If you mean my reaction now, it is deep, deep regret, with a dab of understanding simpler times, all encompassed in a sandwich of cringe.

[@kimetsunoacademia3528]

@@djyoshiman it maybe cringe, but man is it the type of cringe that every fandom hopes it accomplishes, this game is on the level of Fat Sonic, at how uncanny it is, I would not have it any other way lmao.

[@mamaluigi2954]

Did you make Toadette Strikes Ost too?

[@djyoshiman]

@@mamaluigi2954 I think 1 song, if that!

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

55:38 so this an interesting case. The original story goes the developer was essentially under an insane amount of mental depression and lock down due to an accident that basically scared them for most of 2011-2016. While it is unclear a chunk of digging suggested something personal, like family related. They developed this game and in turn it's sequel mario the music box _arc_ as a form of therapeutic release as nightmares would be their inspiration. In fact as of this moment arc was discontinued due to... well... they expressed their worries and formed a circle of comfort. So yeah we have essentially mario trapped in a silent hill esc spencer mansions where nightmares are a common occurrence and can very much _kill you_

[@CorpseSyndrome]

To this day I continue to develop it as a therapeutics release, as of writing this I am in the hospital for an "attempt" And I have a lot of stuff to write for the game now.

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

​@@CorpseSyndrome ...well damn. Thank you for backing me up on this...

[@aidanhammans9337]

@@CorpseSyndromeSo that’s the deal…

[@Zanderman2006]

​@@CorpseSyndrome your stuff is amazing however it sucks that you go through so much it sucks that Team Ari disbanded I hope you are doing better and I hope that you are doing okay get well soon your fans are all here for you

[@scarecrowling]

​@@CorpseSyndrome Are you safe? I can give resources if they'd help

[@SpongeMagic]

Fun Fact, the dev for the original SMBX would later go on to make TERRARIA. No joke.

[@maskedshadow6853]

HOLY FUCK REALLY??? THATS SICK AS HELL

[@UmbralKnight1344]

@@maskedshadow6853 yeah, both were made by andrew spinks, also known as redigit. I'm pretty sure his previous work on smbx is the reason for the various references to mario in terraria, such as the green cap and the 3ds version fire flower easter egg.

[@firestorm5371]

By the way they now working on cross-platform multi-player support for terraria.

[@animalrpgdev]

Thank you so, so much for the shoutout!! Everyone in the team has been freaking out over it, we're so happy to have been mentioned in a video like this!

[@blobfishwithaninternetconn6565]

Which game did y'all work on?

[@animalrpgdev]

@@blobfishwithaninternetconn6565 Hunter Chronicles, the Mario & Luigi inspired indie game! There's a kickstarter trailer for it on the channel ^^

[@animalrpgdev]

​@@blobfishwithaninternetconn6565 Hunter Chronicles: Tara and Vyn, the Mario & Luigi inspired Indie Game ^^

[@danielisgamer]

​​@@blobfishwithaninternetconn6565 looks like hunter chronicles

[@BenjaMage]

@@blobfishwithaninternetconn6565 Hunter Chronicles (the Mario & Luigi-inspired indie game).

[@Mikeystar45]

I am so honored... SO, so honored, to have my fan-game listed as one of your most favorites. Super Mario: All-Star Attack started out as truly a love letter to the classic Mario games. But if it wasn't for one guy in particular: Camtendo, none of this would've ever happened. We went from it paying homage to the classic Super Mario Bros. games, to it paying homage to just about every Mario platformer and RPG before the Switch era! It's quite crazy looking back and seeing how much has been accomplished, especially when I wanted to discontinue the project after just about all of the original members left in pursuit of other things. But, I carried on. And now look where we are. THANK YOU SO MUCH, ANTDUDE!! 🌟😁🎆🎈🎊

[@bruceify]

Hey Mikey, I did check out the link for your game and noticed you are on hiatus. I just wanted to tell you that it's ok to take long breaks. I just hope that Antdude inspired you to get back into the project, but whatever you decide to do please take care of yourself and enjoy things.

[@ryanclemons1]

​@@bruceifymy guess is it will be abandoned happens a ton with fan games. Shame but guess the drive just dies or something.

[@KingdomHeartsFan-mu9cf]

Hey, do you take suggestions for the game at all? I think you shouldn’t be able to accidentally stumble on minus world and essentially lock your save file if you’re not good enough.

[@numbskull4899]

​@@ryanclemons1in the thread he says hes still working on it albeit slower, cut the shit man

[@ryanclemons1]

@numbskull4899 keep telling yourself that, but I would put money down on dev gives up on the game before it is finished. been online a long time, and many fangames follow the same thing. Starts with a ton of drive that then lead to less and less drive often starting with devs going on hiatus followed by them maybe doing very small updates till dev finally says "sorry but I can no longer work on ______" and that is if your lucky many devs never even tell fans they are quitting on the fan game leaveing many hopeful.

[@Darkonius64]

23:00 Well i did NOT expect to see our SMBX episode Delightful Adventure Enhanced outright mentioned like that! Thank you and i hope you enjoyed it! And happy to see Flashback mentioned as well (of which i am the level designer of) Maybe one day we'll be able to rebrush it up and continue...

[@PollyPlushie]

Oh hey, thanks for spotlighting my game (Luigi Floating on an Egg Over The Sea). It's one I worked really hard on and I appreciate the nod! :)

[@RandomNICK]

So glad to have seen my old Mario fangame mentioned! I'm currently working hard on Aurascope and I can't wait to release it for everyone to play! Thanks for being awesome, Antdude!

[@cherryx2682]

Speaking as a beta tester, I can assure you that it is peak gaming!

[@unbeliekess8335]

IT'S SO GOOD

[@nonpost]

ASM dev for SMBCD here, thank you so much for the mention! Kinda crazy to see someone I watched back in the day shoutout something that I had a part in building. We thank you all for your interest and support!

[@Silver-Nao]

where is the proof of it

[@officialteamsombie]

​@@Silver-Naoik this dude they are an ASM dev

[@Silver-Nao]

​@@officialteamsombieim serious.Wheres the proof.Like a link to the actual developers page

[@ryanclemons1]

​@Silver-Nao and how would he do that when youtube removes comments that have links in them?

[@ssg-eggunner]

all i can say is, you cooked 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Superstarshi]

Really appreciate mentioning our SMBX project! Though it's not out yet, we've been working hard to get a demo out as soon as possible!

[@Snarf_Dev]

42:32 Thank you for featuring a bit of Project Green, it was really crazy hearing that title come out of your mouth! Brought a smile to my face :) Hopefully we will have something new and available sometime at the end of this year!

[@ThatChadWithTheAnchorArms]

Hope So. SMOOTH AS A LITTLE RICHARD ALBUM, THIS IS

[@Monobrobe]

“At the end of the day, Super Mario” Wow, what a profound statement.

[@andresmachina3475]

“So in conclusion, Sonic the Hedgehog” Just like Sonic

[@ap1evideogame44]

Man, he was really puttin' out some good quotes this video

[@Pumpkinsmasherok]

Please tell me this will be a recurring joke and then he retires and then it comes back for like a few videos and then retires it and then

[@Reoko77]

Even Shakespeare himself couldn't come up with a more moving, profound statement.

[@SaddieMoon]

1:21:08 What you most likely didn’t know was that Doki Doki Panic started out as a Mario game before becoming a licensed game. And then was reverted back into a Mario game.

[@GuessWh0seBack]

just as a note, the pc port of mario 64 has nothing to do with the leaked source code and was a decompilation project that had been in the works for many years before the gigaleak

[@viola8422]

Is thats why its kinda a shobby port.

[@moomew64]

As a bonus note, 99% of the hacking community didn't want to touch the giga leak with a 50ft pole as it was a sure way to have Nintendo nuke your project from orbit lol.

[@ssg-eggunner]

@@viola8422 nah the reason why its so shobby is because it was a tad rushed, unlike ship of harkinian, so up to today we still dont have the graphics intepreter in complete form and lacks features such as framebuffer & 2cycle textures properly, aside that it suffers with scrolling textures a bit that means you can still get the original game accurately but you cant get rareware or kaze emanuar level of stuff modded in yet aside that using gigaleak only had pieces of unused code leftovers from sm64, not the full game

[@hugocastilla3102]

Oh really? I always thought that😅. The timing of the events was such a coincidence

[@Boxish]

Fun fact: The dev behind Super Smash Land is Dan Fornace, one of the main guys behind Rivals of Aether and Rivals 2. Rivals of Aether also has a whole stage dedicated to Tower of Heaven.

[@therealflorpepic]

And the modding community for rivals LOVES making super smash land versions of other modded characters

[@FamicomCD]

Look ma-ma, we made it haha! 17:19 Thanks for covering our little hack, though briefly. :]

[@bertbread0]

Your game looks awesome!!

[@Mechanrobot]

I'll support you guys until the end :)

[@maldonadoluis3458]

1:16:47 You have no idea how happy I was when you mentioned Luke Tarlowe (A.K.A, ThunderDragon) and his projects. Psycutlery deserves a lot more attention for how fantastic its design, gameplay and world are executed, along with being influenced by the creator's MFGG roots, cosiderably Psycho Waluigi. (Its even the whole reason there wasn't another ThunderDragon game until just earlier! This was being developed for 9 years after the release of Toadette Strikes: TSB2!) 1:24:24 Man, BowserTech was the true start of Mario FanGames Galaxy, and of ThunderDragon himself. I'll admit, for something that was out all the way back 1998, it was REVOLUTIONARY. Mario Quest and MQ2 were the cream of the crop.

[@axelorca]

Thank you for mentioning Stellar Bonds in your video man! Super duper appreciated! We're cooking HARD behind the scenes and hope to create something everyone will enjoy :D

[@apozuu]

axel spotted

[@spanoguy2283]

You could say we're cooking up something fierce. DAMN RIGHT WE ARE!

[@msjay3489]

HI AXEL HI AXEL HI AXEL HI- (sorry for y'all seeing this in your notis)

[@Doctortots]

Hey, so I'm one of the head devs behind Midas Machine (I did 99% of the graphics and level designs and what not). Glad you enjoyed the demo, I wish we could have finished, but as you said, life sort of got in the way, but it was a fun thing to work on at the time, and I'm taking what I learned from it to make a more original project.

[@ArgentuTA164-2]

49:20 Yo, I'm the primary (and as of typing, only?) French translator on _Star Journey_ and we see you eyeing us. We're all super excited to be working on the game and just as excited to show everyone what we've been cookin'!

[@haydnberthold9489]

Just a little fact since you mentioned Mario doesn't have a personality besides being jolly and good natured. I actually met Charles Martinet and asked him about the process of making Mario as a character. I'm going to paraphrase this, but he said he wanted to make someone that everyone could like and vice verse. To make a character that's unprejudice and unbiased. Someone anyone can get along with. Just a good guy. Although I agree Mario doesn't have a personality, the way Charles talked about his mind set made sense to me and it stuck with me ever since. It also explains how Mario can easily play a round of golf with his enimes and have a fun time with them.

[@Rediscool9]

Those same people who say “Mario has no character/personality” are the same people who unironically think Link is an actual character with a personality. 💀

[@Stoplookingathatistolethis]

​@Rediscool9 like the vid but God do I hate that Mario has no personality take

[@Rediscool9]

@@Stoplookingathatistolethis Same here, I personally hated that Mario movie take he had

[@NathanielBandy]

Damn 90 minutes

[@M64bros]

Ikr it's crazy!!!

[@mekonnen_melon]

NATHANIEL B !!!1!!1!1!!1

[@penguinman2233]

Ain’t you Nathaniel B?

[@TCSGamingThroughTheAges]

Somebody stop this man! 🙃

[@williamdavidm.l6665]

Stretching it out past the 64 minute mark should be a crime.

[@JamOfCyanide]

Artist for Boll Deluxe here, was very surprising to see it mentioned but I really appreciate it!

[@Gunnarshots]

Mario 85?! I never thought I'd see Antdude cover this lol

[@raycraft93]

And a slight mention to mario madness too. That's insane.

[@Gunnarshots]

I just like that he did Mario fangames, I ain't to big on Mario's madness lol

[@scanchannel3259]

Surprised he didn't cover Toolate.exe as well. Would make for a nice Halloween special.

[@Feeeshmannnnnn]

they made an 85th mario game!!!

[@NovaDXX]

​@Feeeshmannnnnn what happened to mario 84?

[@nicolaslucena8077]

0:55 that's because everyone's response usualy is "GOD, Nintendo, PLEASE, don't shut this down!!" Instead

[@KkTheMEMEpotato]

Fr

[@PrDrNintendo]

Both are overused jokes tbh

[@UltimateGamerCC]

sad but true.

[@BRD-Senpai]

@@PrDrNintendoistg nintendo fans have one joke

[@M64bros]

​@@PrDrNintendo Same and It's honestly getting annoying at this point

[@spaceace9103]

So glad you shouted out Psycutlery and Aurascope they deserve all the love

[@Toondude10]

49:24 Oh shit, one of my friends is one of the main developers for this game! Their Kickstarter is still up too!

[@Mr_Pixel_Official]

That's so cool

[@childhood9643]

I like how some fan games help the creators to improve their game creating and either start creating their own games or just join a company to create games.

[@ipodtouch0218]

1:01:32 Aww. you should have changed regions to "us"! There's like at least 50+ people playing every day!! Welp. at least you *saw* my game. oof.

[@yoshihunteranimations5780]

It's also incredibly insulting that he thought it was a flash game xd Love the game btw! Looking forward to that big update!

[@tastethepainbow]

11:30 I'd totally watch you cover B3313 in full. Especially considering you seem to be playing a much older version and the full 1.0 experience (which is more than double the content you played) is much crazier.

[@masonasaro2118]

i’d argue that the unabandoned fork is the superior version. and i have absolutely no *shame* in saying that.

[@tastethepainbow]

@@masonasaro2118 Eh, I'd have to wait to see what A3 will bring to the table, but 1.0 and minor subsequent updates fixed most of the issues that 0.9 had and gave more fulfilling areas, imo.

[@masonasaro2118]

@@tastethepainbowthe ending blows though. what happened to the reveal that peach was the ai and losing all your stars? all thrown out in favor of what? *literally* shaming the unabandoned devs for not wanting to put up with chris’ (alleged) crap?

[@tastethepainbow]

@@masonasaro2118 1. That ending proved too difficult to implement 2. The majority of the "shame" references were removed, and I believe the remaining one will be removed in 1.0.3

[@spyr0guy]

@@masonasaro2118The two teams have made amends, and the one who refused was blacklisted from both. Can we stop this conflict now?

[@iamwillisaclown]

hey i worked on mario 85 as a musician, ik it aint in the video but i did the warning screen music also 2 things, we're working on making the game less difficult because right now its kinda hell to play and second thing, just to clarify, mx isnt a demon, he is an ancient spirit created at the beginning of the universes birth, or atleast thats what i think because they may have updated it

[@Ashkihyena]

49:51 HeY tHeRe ChAmP! Vinny is having PTSD flashbacks right about now.

[@jtlego1]

The one creepypasta mario game that broke Vinny, just not in the way anyone expected.

[@mynamesnotshanekid813]

LUUUUUUUUCAAAAAAS!!

[@masonasaro2118]

🎵SuPeR MaRiO GaAaAAmESsSs🎵

[@jeffd.683]

*SAME AS IT EVER WAS!*

[@jtlego1]

"We seem to have encountered some space time anomaly-" [falls into pit] *"-ANOMALUSSY"*

[@alessandrobozzi7085]

Man, what memories did you unearth. Blue Twilight DX was a DEEP cut, but then you brought up Forever, the obligatory Fusion shout-out, and even Super Mario War. Hats off to you.

[@Fuges]

1:12:57 it’s a reference to how the red and green fireballs work in the Mario bros. Arcade game

[@ShadwSonic]

"Psycho Waluigi" Yeah, that was a fun one! "...the guy made a new game for free." Wait, what? Okay, gotta look up this "Psycutlery" now!

[@maldonadoluis3458]

Yes! Fun fact: there was a demo that released three years back, and I ended up playing it out of my enjoyment for ThunderDragon's games. Suffice to say, the full thing is a BLAST.

[@langtonlion64]

Glad to see you were a fan of the Mario Drinks A Glass of Milk trilogy and Super Mario Bros. Dimensions! Wasn't expecting to see any of my games on here, honestly. Cheers

[@tonymuskrat1086]

You made peak

[@granthuebner9716]

Please, explain to the world. What were you cooking with Mario Drinks A Glass of Milk?

[@jootersblaccat]

@@granthuebner9716 I double this

[@langtonlion64]

​@@granthuebner9716The whole idea for the game came to me when I woke up one morning back in March 2019. I'm serious. Then I spent a week making the game a reality.

[@janko1]

I love mario dimensions its a shame he didnt talk about it more

[@nimaginendogames2293]

Hey it's Nimaginendo Games who made these two fan games 46:00 (Super Mario Wonderland and Kiddy Kong's Challenge) thank you very much for sharing the projects in your video, and for even showing my channel.

[@darquezze306]

The guy behind Super Smash Land, Dan Fornace would end up making his own series inspired by Smash Bros called Rivals of Aether which is an amazing platform fighter with a retro look, and it even has a sequel in development and in beta testing (that you can watch right now) that's called Rivals 2, which is in 3D and has AMAZING animations. That's something you don't see much of in other platform fighters outside of Smash.

[@PsychoCerax]

"Mama mia, here we go again" was lowkey a fantastic triple entendre (quadruple if you count Mario iconically saying "here we go!" in 64)

[@tropicalkitsune5131]

I was not expecting to see "AntDude learns about the Vaporeon Copypasta" in a mario fangames video.

[@NotBigSurprise]

a lot of times people say "this is probably older than you all watching this" for the first time, this is true for me ...by a few months

[@Dargonhuman]

At 42 years myself, that's something I likely will never experience since I'm older than the NES, so by default any fan game made on that or later systems will never be older than me.

[@TheMoney9999]

It's worth mentioning that Psycho Waluigi was made after Toad Strikes Back but before Toadette Strikes and that all three games were made by the very founder of MFGG, Thunder Dragon

[@toxictincan]

So a couple little notes about the Smash detour. 1. McLeodGaming, the creator of the Smash Flash series, is also working on a new crossover platform fighter called Fraymakers, starring several indie characters. Smash Flash 2 development hasn't been abandoned of course, they just have two projects now. 2. Super Smash Land was made by Dan Fornace, who went on to make Rivals of Aether, where Vaporeon served as a basis for Orcane's moveset. The Steam Workshop for Rivals even has a dedicated sub genre that tries to emulate the Smash Land vibe. Thought these were worth mentioning, even if other comments go over these.

[@TwilightGummi1118]

“Brother. I love Mario.” -Antdude, 2024

[@andresmachina3475]

“Like, the gameplay and the modding community, not so much the guy, like, d…don’t make this weird” -AntDude

[@EngineerOfChaos]

One of my favorite Mario Flash Games is Bullet Bill 2. A game where you play as a Bullet Bill and have to manuever in an endless runner style with your mouse. It's really great.

[@Jimsonez]

48:08 *Leo Pointing Meme* thank you for the kind words! Cant tell ya when part 2 will be done (maybe by the end of the decade???) But anytime I see someone enjoying part 1 it encourages me even more.

[@Waffletigercat]

Fun fact: Nintendo did sue over the Great Giana Sisters, and that’s why no new games with them were made for a long time. The IP was purchased by Black Forest Games, the same company that would later make the ill-received Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back. They wanted to use the recognizable IP to help sell their game, which played basically nothing like the original Giana Sisters.

[@JaxRetroGamer]

They never sued actually. The developer just took the game off shelves maybe due to fear of a Cease and Desist or a Lawsuit, there was technically a second game made after it is known as "Hard N' Heavy" it uses assets and the same engine from The Great Giana Sisters.

[@evilchild1851]

1:01:42 Your browser caused Jelly Mario to work like… that.. other browsers actually perforn better with the game, since theres meant to be collision with Mario and the environment

[@GermanPeter]

1:23:57 That is the Doom 1 Pinky sprite, but Yoshi. And at 1:27:08, that's the BFG9000 effects. I guess "Doom" and "fan games" will always go hand in hand.

[@benial]

For a little extra background on X2, it's actually a mod built on top of the older fangame Super Mario Bros X. The original SMBX was made by Andrew Spinks, who went on to create Terraria afterwards using experience from working on it. For most of its history before X2 it was only a level and world map editor with the ability to swap sprites, so a lot of the more impressive things being done with it now are relatively recent given how old the engine itself is.

[@stephenbeatty9856]

I would NEVER expect MX to be in a antdude video

[@Lucas.pcport85]

49:51 yoooooo thanks for including me in this video hel yeah

[@super8bitable]

24:07 That one didn’t age quite so well…

[@trentsticles6198]

Dammit. I was just about to say that

[@RobertTheFoxxo]

1:27:45 Wow, finally, I can tell someone this! Luigi's Smash fireballs are actually based on the classic Mario Bros arcade game. There, a red and green fire ball can spawn if you take too long to finish a level. Red fireballs bounce around the screen in a diagonal direction, and green fireballs spawn in a random corridor to slowly float around across the screen before disappearing. With Mario and Luigi, Mario's fireballs are technically based on SMB fireballs, but the way they bounce across the floor is reminiscent of the MB red fireball bouncing around, so they gave Luigi the remaining Green fireball. TL;DR classic Mario Bros Reference

[@heitorsant1759]

1:12:57 they gave luigi those because in the original arcade mario bros the red fireballs bounced around, while the green ones went straight

[@friedpancakes266]

We knew Luigi was planned for 64 this entire time. It was stated in interviews that Luigi was planned from the beginning. Due to hardware limitations, Luigi's inclusion would have meant drastically scaled back level design. They chose to remove Luigi in favor of more complex levels. The gigaleak gave us Luigi's original model and texture

[@ssg-eggunner]

aside dealing with camera is hell they were planning on adding a mario bros arcade esque minigame where luigi would be controllable but they realized the n64 wouldnt come with a 2nd controller so thus luigi was scrapped

[@GSPScorp]

*50:48** He’s saying “GET OVER HERE LUCAS” or at least I think*

[@madsssssssssssssss]

I love MX I'm so fucking happy to see him and also the mention of the Mario Madness fnf mod with him lmaooooo

[@crazy-man-danger]

2 year old spotted

[@madsssssssssssssss]

@@crazy-man-danger I'm 20 lol

[@crazy-man-danger]

@@madsssssssssssssss forgot the 0 my bad

[@madsssssssssssssss]

@@crazy-man-danger understandable, have a nice day :)

[@crazy-man-danger]

@@madsssssssssssssss damn this turned out weirdly wholesome. Nice day to you too random stranger on the internet

[@Wahloogeh]

for the record the version of midas machine shown here is actually out of date, there was a new demo released in a "mfgg time capsule" back in 2021. from what i remember there's just a few more levels added though, and it unfortunately doesn't seem like it'll ever be finished

[@ericf.a8623]

Oh, I'm glad someone else commented this, its a shame most people don’t know about the final version of the game (since it will never be completed) because its still worth playing.

[@Wahloogeh]

@@ericf.a8623 hello fellow rare midas machine fan. yes i followed the mfgg development thread on the game pretty religiously back when it had regular posts so i'm glad we at least got one more updated version in the end. (it's a massive shame the post a dev made describing all the levels got all its text wiped before it could be posted)

[@edwardgyt_revived]

I can already tell how many people will be surprised when MX is in a Antdude Video/Thumbnail

[@imaginationsquare]

Your Jelly Mario is broken 😭 It's supposed to be an actually functional game, you can only play it in one or a few browsers for it to work, I think Fire Fox works? PLEASE get back to it once and let me know what you think! It's not very long anyways;)

[@thebahooplamaster]

Super Mario maker doesn’t help things in that never ending regard

[@PrideEepy64]

32:45 Vaporeon

[@StafkiGTN]

Except for when the servers shut down

[@akirapink]

23:13 Did You Know? boll deluxe was originally made in response to the creators of crossover not wanting to add sonic in! :]

[@ReddFiveOhOh]

1:24 "some guy i read about on Encyclopedia Dramatica" oh boy we got a winner here

[@PrideEepy64]

1:27:32 At the end of the day, super Mario

[@gilapo27]

30:00 man that is such an incredibly specific title it is so impressive you even brought it up, the hombrew downloads on the wii were so weird

[@Rediscool9]

23:48 This is definitely not a fair comparison. One side is trying to keep things in the Mario world while the other is crossing over a bunch of other franchises outside of Mario into Mario. Expecting Nintendo to make an entire mode dedicated to nothing but Nintendo crossover stuff in a MARIO game just sounds extremely misguided.

[@ShadowKnux372]

Love seeing how many devs are in the comments being floored by the spotlights. Big ups to Antdude for always spotlighting so much that's going on in the fangame communities.

[@GMDTheOnyxGuyEizzX]

16:08 Fun fact: this bootleg is a reskin of a Rescue Rangers knock-off titled "Squirrel King". . . . Also I actually had it and played it as a kid, how (maybe) fortunate

[@FatTundra64]

I’m hyped for the future of these fangames I feel like rainbow stars is the greatest Mario fan game and has SO MUCH potential !!! (Also this is probably the first person I’ve seen in a while to actually attempt to look at Mario 85 with a slightly positive view . Thank you Mr.Ant)

[@DarktheEagle]

Hey, Render96 got a mention! I'm actually the voice of Wario on that project! I'm always happy to see people enjoy it~

[@DynaZ.3dsx]

1:12:57 Luigi's Fireballs work like that because thats how fireball's worked in the original Mario Bros arcade game

[@hubsterheck]

6:09 My favorite part of the L is Real event is that Luigi's model was found 24 years and 1 month after the game's original release L is real 2401

[@DonaghKelly]

Ikr it was so surreal at the time

[@S0meCrazyIdiot]

Eah, what’s going on hubster?

[@Laventory]

Hello Hubster.

[@FlawsFlaws16]

Woah. An hour and a half of Red Luigi fangames!

[@carlosv3884]

Yeah! Finally, another fangame video, been some time since we had one of those, love them since I get to know good ones that I didn’t know, and can try

[@CrimsonMoonM]

And here I thought this were one of those video compilations that's all the rage these days. Leave it to Antdude to drop one and a half hour of brand new fangame goodness out of nowhere!

[@raydaks6383]

That DOS Mario game is not a bootleg , it’s a fan game made as a test for a game engine that creator used in his own games

[@raydaks6383]

There is a great video about it , but it’s in Polish only sadly

[@Pitrek1113]

@@raydaks6383 Such an Archon moment

[@chromacattios]

voice of the mascot for super mario bros. CD here !! thanks for mentioning the project! was a treat to see that pop up

[@DarisuccSA]

0:55 literally not true, there was a WHOLE song made about "nintendo hire this man" Although as soon as the song came out, that died out QUICK

[@LiamNayru]

As a composer for Super Mario 63 Redux, seeing a game that I'm a part of featured in an AntDude video is absolutely SURREAL ❤

[@raphaelt6585]

didn't think Antdude would talk about Mario the music box, but I am so glad he did!

[@PepperFlakes-o]

The moment that he said the name of the game, the biggest smile came across my face. I love mario the music box so much

[@UltimateGamerCC]

49:45 - hey Ant, i got Starlight Worlds, i can give you a copy. sadly ICU Gigasoft, the devs who created it are no more. word on the street is they were busted for monetization, even though their fangames have always been free. anyways if i had a way to send it to you, i would happily hook you up, cause it's good.

[@misterzygarde6431]

I’ve been definitely waiting for this one! Also I would sell my soul to combine Super Mario Bros Crossover and Mushroom Kingdom Fusion with Newer DS, Wii or Super Mario Bros 3Mix. Also regardless of whether or not you feature Undertoad Mission Luigi, I still recommend checking out Undertoad. It’s a fun webcomic, especially when it gets to the Snowdin equivalent. Has a great soundtrack as well! Like one of the tracks, Chimp Chase, mashes up Cranky Kong’s theme with Super Mario World’s Athletic and it goes hard.

[@Mankey619]

It's incredible that how much amazing work that the fans have made for these Mario games. I gotta tell ya that these guys will have great futures as indie developers. Best wishes for these guys.

[@Mankey619]

​@@ROAN3I'm definitely fall in love with these fan games already.

[@ddsretro2697]

Actually the very first fan game was technically commander keen by id software in 1990. The guys at id just wanted to port Mario 3 onto the pc and decided to use the bones from that to make the first commander keen

[@BuzzNBen]

I hope you make a part 2! There are still so many fangames to potentially cover.

[@griffonsarcade]

I'll come back and watch this later; I had to stop at the 37 minute mark so I could drop everything and play Modern Modern Chef for a few hours.

[@W01F0S360]

Fun fact: Smash land lead to Rivals of Aether. The Creator of Super Smash Land went off to form a dev team and put together Rivals of Aether, with the move set for Vaporeon going on to be the standard moveset of a character in Rivals' roster.

[@Swagdimite-gi5sq]

The Luigi fireball is supposed to reference the original mario bros game where red fireballs ricochet while green ones go across the screen

[@finalmix4375]

"At the end of the day Super Mario" -AntDude 2024

[@GodsLeastFavorite-vs3xv]

I can't escape this damn hedgehog. -Antdude pretending to be Eggman

[@goomy4046]

creator of super mario funny rpg here, and its genuinely insane seeing my game i made with little to no expectations of it getting popular being featured in one of your videos! also, if i do ever finish the sequel i lost motivation for, ill try to remember your criticisms at address them!

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

Excellent video as always, but my man, a new video on SM64 romhacks is LONG overdue. Its the most active and impressive area of fan made Mario content you cant put it off forever.

[@Zayn-tg7tu]

Man you're videos are just so much fun to watch keep up the amazing work

[@Kirby_Super]

YOOO 13:13 A SPLIT SECOND OF THE LEVEL I MADE!!!! I was a beta tester for MB64 btw

[@nick-cepticon782]

12:47 THEY REMADE BATTLE FORT⁉️ I love the Mario modding community 🔥