The Waluigi in Super Mario 64 DS Hoax

[@kingsmithgaming8726]

I imagine Waluigi was planned at some point but was removed for either system limitations or a lack of ideas for the character. It's pretty much the same thing for Luigi in the original Mario 64.

[@tortured_ape]

Waluigi's length and girth was too much for the ds to handle

[@Chill-n2c]

It was actually Peach she has unsused animations in the game files such a as a idol, Run, Walk, jump, and fall animations

[@LincolnAKAVenox]

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[@teardrop6723]

The lack of ideas is the reason he doesn’t have and won’t have his own game

[@EthanAndTails]

My theory is that he was planned at some point, but either they forgot that Camelot had the rights for the character creation or they directly asked them but couldn't get to a deal, either they said no or they didn't reply at all.

[@GooTheMighty]

As a kid, I always thought you’d get to play as Peach after beating the game. I was disappointed.

[@ahums16]

I didn't want to play as Peach, but for her to be there. Saved. And Bowser gone. For a lifetime, games disappointed me by locking me out to before the final boss. My sister's completed The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages save file set up false expectations throughout my childhood. To this day, as a 28 year old man, only Dragon Quest XI has scratched this itch.

[@Justus-ev2md]

its kind of incredible that both sm64 and sm64ds both had huge rumors surrounding a hidden character

[@timmyb.3426]

SM64: Where's Luigi?? SM64DS: Where's Waluigi??

[@nostalgiafactor733]

Anybody remember the jump scares for those Waluigi videos? You'd be watching the video and then all of a sudden Bloody Mary pops up out of nowhere, screaming loudly.

[@JustSmile12]

Happened to me twice as a kid. First with a "tutorial" on how to unlock Toad in SSBM and the other time with another tutorial on how to play as Taboo in SSBB. Hated those.

[@nmo922]

What was with that era of jump scares 😂

[@marcstergeorge7065]

Yep. Traumatized me. Early youtube gifted me crippling anxiety 🗿

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

I think you’re thinking of the How to unlock Luigi in Super Mario 64 were it had the K-Fee jumpscare

[@nostalgiafactor733]

@@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000 nah it was both

[@VinnytotheK]

The Microsoft Movie Maker text in that KZbin video 😍

[@ChocolateSoda1]

It’s like 2007 again lmaooo

[@yaboijuanito1460]

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[@chillvgm]

I remember one of the rumors to unlock him was to shoot Mario with the canon at the castle window you see in the file select menu. I tried so many times to no avail, I think by brain grew a little bit that day 😅

[@RoachCatJr]

the black box. i remember that one of the multiplayer beta videos that people played and recorded at the nintendo expo at the time, showed that black box during gameplay.

[@Shibacki]

Aw man this makes me happy. I remember playing this game in 2012 and asking my dad to look up how to unlock Waluigi. Simpler times

[@lottji]

i remember when i was like 10 i was CONVINCED those videos were real. why else would there be one of Wario's black brick boxes in the file select screen 😂

[@MushroomyPlayzYT]

It was actually going to be Peach. God, Nintendo just hates Toadsworth and Waluigi, huh?

[@psychopianist630]

Why does Nintendo hate Toadsworth? Is he just too unique for the Toad ethnostate they want to put in every single fucking Mario game nowadays?

[@chuuweebyou]

considering that there's no orange spot on the floor of the rec room, I just assumed that the purple bunny is what wario's orange bunny was supposed to be

[@TheBoiiThiago]

I'll just say one thing: If you look in the game files, Peach has unused animations like "Walk, Run and Jump"

[@fawkewe]

Honestly the craziest part is the Waluigi rumours definitely made sense and all the evidence pointed to him being a real hidden character. How it was actually believed you were supposed to unlock him though was kinda werid. after getting 151 stars, hit a weirdly placed piece of the castle with the cannon as Yoshi (And yes that part is actually in the game which made this crazier.). After this you will be taken to a weird room, (reminiscent of a debug room) with Waluigis painting in it. The level to get Waluigi is an absolute gruelling challenge that has segements requiring the use of every character, which is why Yoshi is required to enter as he doesn’t have any caps of his own. Once you get through this segment (from here on out i may be misremembering details but it was something like this.)there is a power star. Collecting it spawns you back in the now flooded outsides of the castle courtyard as Waluigi. Luckily for you it just so turns out Waluigi has 2 abilities in addition to his longer long jump, that being his swimming. What you need to do now is swim to the peach painting in the castle courtyard. In there you will fight Petey Piranha where the Key for Waluigis door will spawn after his defeat. From there on out the white door, becomes an R door, Waluigi caps start spawning, and Purple rabbits (such as the one from the manual we all saw like it seriously was believable ngl) start appearing around the castle. Even though the unlock process was really complicated (sometimes even with extra steps such has collecting a certain amount of coins in the wario level as wario prior to shooting the wall.) there was so much evidence he was hidden in the game we all believed it anyway.

[@MooglesandNoponForever]

I remember spending AGES looking for Waluigi as a kid. The way I believed you got him was that you had to collect all 150 stars, then quickly use the cannon to get on top of the castle as Luigi. You grab the vanish cap at the top, quickly go back to the cannon, and blast through peach's portrait. You'd enter a room with a chain chomp painting and would have to defeat the chain chomp to unlock Waluigi. Those were the days.

[@EmilyCorradino]

I deadass think the purple bunny in the manual is a bad pic of marios pink bunny. If you look at the grass, the color doesn't look like any grass in the game.

[@theman13532]

props to the people/person for making the video accessible in so many languages, usually that's something you see only on those really high quality documentary videos that use 90% stock videos so it's cool that it's becoming more common

[@Floralz]

Interestingly enough, there actually exists an unused palette for a cyan-colored rabbit in the game (though it was probably an early rabbit design for Yoshi or something lul)

[@gabrielathemagekirby5070]

Dude. I loved this game so much. I'm so close to 100% it

[@SpeedyGwen]

so that 4th door wasnt totally useless ! I always wondered why it was there if there was nothing but I never actually managed to catch all the bunys

[@PhilipGamez]

I remember for three years (from 2010-2013), I was trying to find Waluigi in SM64DS, you won’t believe the crazy things I did to try and unlock him! 😬😬😬

[@TravisRenegade]

f in chat for waluigi

[@shewolfthegamer]

I still have this game for my ds, it’s my absolute favorite game I have for it. Still haven’t completed it 100% yet though

[@sturges707]

That the fact that Nintendo was gonna add him. But Nintendo cut him from the game.

[@jackusy3414]

Bowser might have just had one planned for Yoshi, but couldn’t find him

[@spiderplant]

The fact that he's not in there is why it can't be better than the original

[@IsabelleChiming]

I think it’s honestly wonderful that Mario 64 DS had its own playable character rumor perfectly analogous to Luigi in the original. History repeats itself :)

[@BaconNuke]

Another piece of "evidence" was on the title screen there is a weird black box on the right side of the castle, much like what Wario can break throughout the game

[@pacoramon9468]

The conspiracy is that you needed to collect all blue coints.

[@Peyatoe]

“In hindsight, this is obviously photoshopped” I disagree because in my opinion those look very well made. Whoever made those had talent.

[@isaiahhicks158]

It should’ve been a door for Yoshi, and going back through the same door as your character would just end up with you being the same character

[@DarkKnightWolf]

waluigi may never get justice

[@aureliamastergoomba1278]

I got a brilliant idea: Someone makes a rom hack of Super Mario 64 DS, with Waluigi being added!

[@renbothegoatman]

Ah yes the Luigi in Mario 64 of my era

[@BKLYN48]

Kid me was so sure that you could unlock waluigi from that white room. Which is strange cuz this was my first game… how did i know who that was??

[@shaunwhatever]

I remember the Rick Rolls

[@megamushroom]

Dang nabbit

[@Tiamat-sz5qi]

Nah, he’s in there, all you need to do is ground-pound big Goomba three times and you unlock WALUIGI THE ASSIST TROPHY

[@rosiemymelody]

it's funny how no 3D Mario game will come out and people will be satisfied with its playable characters, doesn't matter if you have 1 or 4, there has to be a secret one I was also one of these conspiracy theorists

[@Normal_user_coniven]

yeah... I remember seeing that video and fake post when I was a kid. I tried and finished all of the tasks but with no Waluigi.

[@Kidneydiseasegaming]

I believe they were gonna add him but were short on time

[@SuperShyGuyBros54321]

I like to believe that waluigi was planned but got removed last minute, but I’m sure the bunny color might be discoloration or something when they printed the manuals.

[@timmyb.3426]

I remember looking all over on KZbin back then trying to find Waluigi gameplay because of this hoax.

[@JohnRobenault]

I probably spent days trying to unlock him lol

[@lupilloandrade3950]

It was a star hiding in that door

[@JmMateo933]

Very cool bro

[@CyanOxayaCreatenet]

Im pretty sure the purple bunny was the red one, it just looks purple due to low quality

[@Squeam9750]

Imma be real. The fifth door being a load of nothing should've been Waluigi. Missed opportunity for Nintendo there

[@thegamingwolfkingofthemult37]

Good times... I was one of the scavenger hunters who wanted to unlock him... Until I found out thatbit was the ULTIMATE APRIL FOOLS DAY JOKE. Lol that guy was a GENIUS who practically PRANKED THE WORLD.

[@ApolloJustice-rs5ry]

Uhhh I'm pretty sure it was peach? I think she's in the games code still.

[@BubbaHugger]

MEAT ARROW

[@blossom6309]

Nintendo need bring back wario land wario world wario woods characters

[@toricon8070]

Γ is real

[@jennyfisher3765]

It’s actually not a hoax, if you run around the courtyard fountain 64 times and then do a backflip off of the right side of the mezzanine in the foyer as luigi then switch to wario and do 10 consecutive ground pounds on the bridge waluigi decends from the mural like peach and kisses his brother’s nose for rescuing him (real)

[@joneyisbigfunny]

the fact that nobody learned from the fake luigi character from the original mario 64 is insane to me

[@ilovemybeard3394]

He is in the game, but the character sprite probably needs work 😂

[@mteverett689]

Um, that's just a low quality image of a red bunny, not a purple bunny.

[@catsdogswoof3968]

Hopefully its not a pink bunny in earlyier state

[@byronbarrientos8471]

Well it'd make no sense for it to be Walugi since he isnt canon, or a real character. He's a made up filler character by a guy from a different studio. Walugi doesn't exist in the manga or mario lore. He only exists in the spin off sports games. If he was Canon, then plum the cute golfer girl from mario golf 64 would be Canon and since she's purple it could've been her door ? But ya see how that doesn't make sense.. If anything best plausible character it could be would be that nabbit character , literal purple bunny.

[@CassiusStelar]

You're forgetting that every mario game is in a quantum superposition of being both canon and not canon at the same time. Simultaneously everything and nothing matters to the story. Any character can and also cannot exist in the main timeline. Do you know why? Because they dont care. Never have. Never will. Its a game. Its always been just a game. Nintendo only cares about story when it comes to Metroid or Zelda and even then they dont really give a crap

[@bennel3588]

I looked up the info on Google. I read that Nabbit first appeared in New Super Mario Bros. U, which is made in 2012. I read that Super Mario 64 DS came out in 2004. This makes it seem like Nabbit could not have existed in Super Mario 64 DS.

[@titihabdel583]

انا اقسم لك لا يوجد شيء وراء هذا الباب الأبيض يوجد ضحكات ل ذلك الشبح الابيض نسيت اسمها

[@jfv26]

Bro for like a solid 3-4 years me and my cousins tried to find Waluigi 😂 I refused to believe those KZbin videos were fake

[@jamesthecool2560]

Luigi in original super mario 64 rumor turns be true in July 2020 Waluigi rumor in super mario 64 ds the rumor is not true

[@egreaterthan753]

upside-down L is real

[@EktoAnim]

I think Nintendo just wanted the room to be symmetrical lmao

[@DJSlimeball]

purple. rabbit.

[@hakima905]

What walaluigi was in that game

[@josheaster1547]

Unfortunately waluigi isn’t in mario 64 ds. But dk is

[@yxxng1z943]

love the mario party ds ost as bgm

[@daltonlovescake2227]

Waluigi this, Waluigi that. You know who genuinely has unused animations to suggest that they were a playable character? Peach. It's much more likely she was scrapped as a playable character due to the fact that she has, running, jumping, and idle animations that go completely unused.

[@joshuam-vn9rd]

W is real 2042

[@Chino_The_Muted]

IF L WAS REAL THEN WHY NOT WALUIGI WE MOST FIND HIM

[@norbertruiz5110]

Song?

[@22hamm]

I wish Waluigi were added in Super Mario 64 DS

[@scottlacher8884]

W is real 2401?

[@davidng2336]

That looks like a Mario bunny just made darker due to either a misprint or because the printer couldn’t handle the ink color. I do wonder what would have happened if Waluigi was indeed added to the game, but everything is always up to our imagination.

[@Jaajsuke1]

Reversed L is real 2401

[@andynaveda]

People should recognize that Waluigi isn't treated as a main character and was just added to have more characters in the sports themed Mario games... He won't be a main character ever.

[@ShinoSarna]

W is real 42069

[@dominicscherder2037]

I have this game