Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog ... According to a 2017 study by a team of Canadian neuropsychologists, playing Super Mario 64 increases grey matter in the brains of older adults, potentially being able to combat dementia and other neurological disorders. Playing Super Mario 64 increases hippocampal grey matter in older adults Greg L. West aa Benjamin Rich Zendel a Kyoko Konishi, Jessica Benady-Chorney, Veronique D. Bohbot, Isabelle Peretz, Syhvie Belleville Published: December 6, 2017 • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187779 HPC This image is taken from the research paper and shows the increase of grey matter in the subjects who played Super Mario 64 for 6 months, with the colored areas being the increase compared to the brain's state before the beginning of the study. For details, please check out the research paper linked in a reply to the post.

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Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog The European Nintendo Switch Online version of Super Mario 64 contains an exceedingly bizarre bug where Cool, Cool Mountain and Big Boo's Haunt will occasionally randomly swap O's and U's between each other, becoming "Cool, Cool Muuntain" and "Big Boo's Haont". This is how the name normally appears in the pause menu: 4 COOL, COOL MOUNTAIN Keep switching between levels and eventually it may become this: 4 COOL, CUOL MOUNTAIN Or alternatively, this: 4 COOL, COOL MUUNTAIN The same happens with Big Boo's Haunt, which is normally this: 5 BIG BOO'S HAUNT But may change to this: 5 BIG BOO'S HAONT The reasons for this are unknown. Source: info: YouTube user @NSOBug Report, youtube.com/watch?v=alEUNA9NH18, verified/reproduced by Supper Mario Broth

Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog The Super Mario 64 patent lays out the internal order in which Mario reacts to hazards, essentially laying out his "preferences". This is what Mario believes is worth reacting to, in order from most to least important: 1. Quicksand 2. Poison gas 3. Low health 4. Being cold. From US Patent 6139433A: In other words: START -1875 C -1877 Fig. 32 YES ANY INPUT FROM CONTROLLER? NO -1879 ARE MARIO'S LEGS SINKING INTO THE SAND? YES 1881 MARIO STRUGGLES NO 1883 IS MARIO YES IN A GAS FILLED ENVIRONMENT? 1887 MARIO COUGHS NO 1885 IS MARIO'S YES POWER LESS THAN 3 -1891 MARIO IS OUT OF BREATH NO 1889 OR LONGER TIME ELAPSED SINCE MARIO STOPPED NO -1895 MARIO LOOKS AROUND YES 1893 IS MARIO YES IN THE SNOW? NO MARIO RUBS HIS HANDS TOGETHER, 1899 FEELING COLD T2 -1897 OR LONGER TIME ELAPSED SINCE MARIO YES STOPPED -1903 NO -1901 MARIO SITS MARIO LIES DOWN TO SLEEP AND DOZES -1905 END Source: patents.google.com/patent/US6139433A/en M Mario prioritizes movement over everything else. As long as he is moving, he does not care about any hazards. If Mario is not moving, he starts being concerned with sinking into quicksand. If Mario is not moving and there is no quicksand, he starts being concerned about poison gas. If Mario is not moving and there is no quicksand or poison gas, he starts being concemed about being low on health. If Mario is not moving and there is no quicksand or poison gas and he is not low on health, he starts being concerned about being cold. Finally, if none of the aforementioned factors are present, Mario is at peace and can go to sleep.

*Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog In Super Mario 64 DS, Peach only appears in cutscenes. Placing her in a level to interact with her during gameplay reveals that she says Bowser's final boss speech when talked to. That's just fine--I've been looking for something to fry with my fire breath! Your Star Power is useless against me! Your friends are all trapped in the walls... And you'll never see the princess again! Gwa ha ha ha! qurce: Supper Mario Broth, screenshots taken in a DS emulator, game: Super Mario 64 DS (NA, DS)

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There is a spot at a ledge in Cool, Cool Mountain where Mario cannot backflip. Every attempted backflip will end immediately without Mario getting off the ground. This only affects backflips specifically; Mario can still perform any other action normally.

The mushroom platforms in Tall, Tall Mountain have faulty collision that manifests in angle-dependent invisible walls. If Mario approaches them at a precise angle, he will hit an invisible wall that is not normally there.

Come out and play

In Tall Tall Mountain, it is possible to skip the slide by jumping to the alcove with the star directly. This can also be deadly; as it was not designed to be entered this way, the imprecise collision can cause Mario to clip through the wall and die.

Mario has more polygons than some stages

$Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog Many of the courses in Super Mario 64 have about the same polygonal complexity as Mario himself, with some even having fewer polygons than he does. In many places in the game, the console spends more computational power displaying Mario than the entirety of the rest of the scene. Mario: 838 triangles Bob-omb Battlefield: 962 triangles Snowman's Land: 791 triangles Jolly Roger Bay. 722 triangles Shifting Sand Land: 714 triangles Tiny-Huge Island: 608 triangles The more complex courses such as Big Boo's Haunt (2350 triangles) or Wet-Dry World (1493 triangles) split up their geometry into zones, of which only one is loaded at any one time (e.g. exterior/interior or main area/downtown area), so that only a fraction of the entirety of the polygons has to be rendered. ource: models-resource.commintendo_6supermario64$

According to a 1996 Mario 64 interview, the developers consider the Sweep Kick to be "useless" as it was originally intended to deal with enemies that were too short to punch. In the finished game, all enemies that can be Sweep Kicked can also be punched.

Miyamoto: Our thinking was that as players got good at the controls, they'd want to try out more and more button combinations, and if there was nothing past the basics it would be disappointing for them. So we created movements for all button combinations-of course, that means a few useless ones got left in too. (laughs) Koizumi: Yeah, like the crouching trip kick. (laughs) That was made to deal with short, small enemies, but we ended up not adding those kinds of enemies after all. Demonstration of intended use of the move using a hypothetical Mini Goomba enemy (not present in the game): MISS HIT Source: shmuplations.com/mario64

There is a specific spot near the top of Tall, Tall Mountain where failing to grab a ledge will result in Mario comically falling down the entirety of the mountain while hitting every ledge on the way down.

In Super Mario 64 DS, it is possible to cause the Chill Bully boss to self-destruct by making it stand on a crate. This disables its self-preservation AI, causing it to walk off the edge of the arena and die.

OXO In Super Mario 64 DS, there is a crate near the start of the course in Snowman's Land. It can be Throwing the crate onto the arena from the ledge with the tree will cause the crate to land next to the Chill Bully. Then, approach the boss. used to cause the Chill Bully boss to self-destruct. If the Chill Bully touches the crate, it will briefly climb on top of the crate. This will cause a glitch in its Al. After standing on the crate, the Al of the Chill Bully loses the self- preservation routine that would normally cause it to avoid ledges. It will walk straight off the edge of the arena into the water below, dying as a result. Source: Supper Mario Broth, screenshots taken in a DS emulator, game: Super Mario 64 DS (NA, DS)

Pushing a block underneath this platform in Wet-Dry World will cause Mario's crawling animation to become glitched on top of it, resulting in him crawling in mid-air at unnatural angles.

It is well known that the Endless Stairs in Super Mario 64 can be skipped by performing a series of backwards long jumps up the staircase. However, at specific angles, Mario may get caught on an invisible wall and then warped down to Wet-Dry World instead

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Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog In Super Mario 64 DS, if Mario's Wing Cap runs out while he is jumping into water and holding Ukiki, his hat will become invisible. The next time Mario gets a Wing Cap after this, the wings will appear to sprout directly from his head. ror. Supper Mario Broth, sereenshots takenin a Nintendo DS emulator, game: Super Mario 4 DS NA. DS, internalresclution of game increasedfor clearer viev)

The Japanese official Super Mario 64 trading card for the Mother Penguin shows her in the middle of a blinking animation for an unknown reason, making her seem to have a bored or annoyed expression that she never actually displays in-game.

SURER 64 MARIO トッスサソ A237 © Nintendo Source: ebay.com user "ihaznintendostuffs", ebay.com/itm/124874509844

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There is a spot at a ledge in Cool, Cool Mountain where Mario cannot backflip. Every attempted backflip will end immediately without Mario getting off the ground. This only affects backflips specifically; Mario can still perform any other action normally.

The mushroom platforms in Tall, Tall Mountain have faulty collision that manifests in angle-dependent invisible walls. If Mario approaches them at a precise angle, he will hit an invisible wall that is not normally there.

Come out and play

In Tall Tall Mountain, it is possible to skip the slide by jumping to the alcove with the star directly. This can also be deadly; as it was not designed to be entered this way, the imprecise collision can cause Mario to clip through the wall and die.

Mario has more polygons than some stages

According to a 1996 Mario 64 interview, the developers consider the Sweep Kick to be "useless" as it was originally intended to deal with enemies that were too short to punch. In the finished game, all enemies that can be Sweep Kicked can also be punched.

There is a specific spot near the top of Tall, Tall Mountain where failing to grab a ledge will result in Mario comically falling down the entirety of the mountain while hitting every ledge on the way down.

In Super Mario 64 DS, it is possible to cause the Chill Bully boss to self-destruct by making it stand on a crate. This disables its self-preservation AI, causing it to walk off the edge of the arena and die.

Pushing a block underneath this platform in Wet-Dry World will cause Mario's crawling animation to become glitched on top of it, resulting in him crawling in mid-air at unnatural angles.

It is well known that the Endless Stairs in Super Mario 64 can be skipped by performing a series of backwards long jumps up the staircase. However, at specific angles, Mario may get caught on an invisible wall and then warped down to Wet-Dry World instead

I didn't know Mario was part High Entia

The Japanese official Super Mario 64 trading card for the Mother Penguin shows her in the middle of a blinking animation for an unknown reason, making her seem to have a bored or annoyed expression that she never actually displays in-game.

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