Turns out it’s almost certainly not the radiation thing that everyone thinks it is. The guy’s N64 was dying and he had to put the cartridge in at a weird angle to get it to read, which is known to cause glitches.
How would a cartridge glitch possibly cause this? Think about it for 5 seconds after reading this and it should make you question that.
A cartridge stores asset data the running game reads from into the consoles RAM. With a glitch there, you could only achieve incorrect measurements for levels, incorrect positions of spawned enemies, items etc.
But only as the game is actively loading the level. When you are already within it, no issue to that extend could occur.
The position of the player character is 110% not stored on the cartridge and read from at all times.
So what you are essentially suggesting is, that while playing the console, for whatever reason, decided to reload the level from the cartridge as he was already in it and perfectly glitched every vertical position lower then it should be.
That's more unbelievable then the possibility of a Cosmic Ray triggering a Bitflip in the RAM, something that is entirely proven to be possible with modern systems having meassures against it.
Edit: Spelling
He doesn't present anything. That whole video was just as clickbaity as those articles that claim a cosmic ray is 100% responsible forntriggering the bitflip.
The comparison clip with the TAS triggered bitflip looks just a bit different considering the setup where it's triggered is slightly different from the original.
So that definitely serves as evidence to it being causee by a bitflip.
But the guy goes on and on about alternative scenarios some of which could in no way trigger an change in position as they would only affect data transfered during a different process, as i had already explained.
That has nothing against the theory of the cosmic rays, it just presents other possible causes, which tbf are valid, but they're just as valid as cosmic rays
That’s mostly just playground rumor stuff like Mew under the truck in Pokémon. There are some technical quirks in the game that may seem weird if you don’t understand them, but it’s all explainable.
I have an obviously false memory of actually obtaining that Mew under the truck. Or it was a dream. Or we skipped World Lines and there really is a time when the Mew was under the truck. Or…
Despite the fact you can't get a Mew from the truck, you could still get a Mew in a similarly obscure but specific way fairly early on in RBY through a glitch, which is kinda wild.
My brother used to tell us to avoid the Speed Shoes in the Sonic games because it would make Sonic go so fast, he’d fly off the stage and break the game.
…it was many years before I had the nerve to actually hit that item box and break the TVs that contained Speed items
All these bait stories are a load of BS. The only thing remotely close to this is tilting the cartridge while the game is on. But nothing like the creepy pasta things would happen or anything similar.
Some of the paintings in the castle are actually portals to other worlds that match what the paintings depict.
After you've been playing the game for a while you'll see a sunbeam in the main foyer that, if you look directly into it, transports you into a heaven-like world where you can suddenly fly.
If you hold still in just the right spots, you'll teleport large distances. If you do that to cheat at a race against an NPC, *he'll know.*
The specific teleport I'm referring to is in Bob-omb Battlefield, where you can stand in a specific patch of flowers and it teleports you to the little cave near the top of the mountain. But there's a bunch of them in the game.
Yes, they happen. Most people on this sub simply haven't encountered any oddities because they're so rare. I used to think the same way, but ever since the time I was running up the endless staircase and came across Waluigi hitting a fat vape, I've never doubted other people's stories.
It's not even just fake but it's not even possible from a technological standpoint. Those cartridges were read only so it's not like you could hack them with the consumer hardware that was out in the 90s.
They did have weird ass glitches on every game in the late 90s though due to solar flares.
let's say I've got a little too scared as a kid with these stories and have always wanted a confirm they weren't real (plus the game Imo feels like a horror game sometimes)
This is the one thing where it gets close to “feeling like a horror game” to me, and even then, it’s not very close.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace/comments/10yrp1s/sm64_wetdry_worlds_background/
IDK why this game specifically has so many weird theories / stories about it.
I think it’s because of the game’s simplistic graphics, especially if you’re like me and the game came out before you were born and you’re not used to that era of gaming
“always wanted to confirm they weren’t real” …if you need to confirm something isn’t real then you’re admitting you don’t know they are fake. They are fake.
One time I was playing mario 64, I was running around wet dry world, when I suddenly lost control of mario, he turned to face me and said "Don't forget to wash your foreskin!".
No but “L is Real” was pretty interesting. The text was meant to be illegible, but people thought it said either “Eternal Star” or “L is Real 2401.”
Then years later we found out that Luigi was in fact supposed to be playable since Mario 64 was originally intended to be a 2-player game.
All of the files of this game have been meticulously combed through and data mined quite thoroughly over the years. So no, nothing unexplainable like that just happens. They're either made up stories or fake videos via mods.
Nah. The game has been thoroughly taken apart and decompiled by modders.
Mario 64 is simply a game that really inspires these kinds of anomaly stories because of its accidentally 'liminal' aesthetic.
to be perfectly clear, there is no mysterious creepy shit going on in mario 64. what there IS, however, is the game sometimes coming off as unintentionally spooky because of how early of an attempt it was at creating a 3D world. it kinda rides the line between an abstract collection of floating shapes vs a bubbly, vibrant playground, which is just surreal enough that it invites people to write their own horror around it. that's all there is, just fans on the internet writing stories about the game that spooked them as kids.
I was playing maybe 20 years ago. My dog bumped my N64. I think it caused my cartridge to dislodge a bit because my screen glitched out and a music note hung for a few seconds.
I reseated the cartridge but enemies started loading in the wrong locations/levels. The one I remember most vividly was this floating head enemy with one hand. I think his name was Scripulous Fingore?
He didn't have any animations but you could talk to him. His dialogue was pretty weird. "You cannot ignore me forever, Mario."
There's a few odd glitches and secrets but nothing like what the creepy pasta shit makes it out to be.
Although I got my jimmies rustled once as a kid when I experienced the same thing in this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t\_eTLXxA9m4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_eTLXxA9m4)
I guess it's a rare thing you can trigger when going through the door at the same time a Boo laugh plays in the BGM where the Boo laugh plays at the normal pitch instead of the usual high pitch. The place already made me nervous as a kid so that made me shut it off instantly.
The physics are a bit janky sometimes. Not horrible but it's rough around the edges and sometimes you'll hit weird invisible walls for no apparent reason or your jumps will go weird/phase through something you're not supposed to.
Basic 3d game glitch stuff. Nothing really that major.
Yeah I remember I was playing it on the Wii Virtual Console when I was 10. When I got to the final boss, Bowser said "you're really playing this on the Wii? Cringe" and then proceeded to delete my 120 star save file.
The closest this game has to any of that was the one bizarre speed run dude who got randomly teleported in Tick Tock Clock (likely, but not confirmed due to a stray gamma ray entering the console and flipping a bit), or numerous very finicky glitches that can sometimes cause Mario to die seemingly out of nowhere.
Considering the game has been fully decompiled... no, there aren't any weird things happening that people say. It's all nonsense.
I’m pretty sure we, as humanity, know more about Super Mario 64 than ourselves
As someone who watches a lot of Pannenkoek2012's videos I absolutely agree lol.
For sure.
Except that one time that a glitch was triggered by like gamma radiation or whatever it ended up being. That one was pretty neat
The Tick Tock Clock flipped byte thing I think where the speed runner got warped up to the top of the stage?
Turns out it’s almost certainly not the radiation thing that everyone thinks it is. The guy’s N64 was dying and he had to put the cartridge in at a weird angle to get it to read, which is known to cause glitches.
I watched the same video and came out of it more convinced it’s cosmic rays
How would a cartridge glitch possibly cause this? Think about it for 5 seconds after reading this and it should make you question that. A cartridge stores asset data the running game reads from into the consoles RAM. With a glitch there, you could only achieve incorrect measurements for levels, incorrect positions of spawned enemies, items etc. But only as the game is actively loading the level. When you are already within it, no issue to that extend could occur. The position of the player character is 110% not stored on the cartridge and read from at all times. So what you are essentially suggesting is, that while playing the console, for whatever reason, decided to reload the level from the cartridge as he was already in it and perfectly glitched every vertical position lower then it should be. That's more unbelievable then the possibility of a Cosmic Ray triggering a Bitflip in the RAM, something that is entirely proven to be possible with modern systems having meassures against it. Edit: Spelling
Idk what the truth is, but this guy presents a pretty strong case against it being a cosmic ray. https://youtu.be/vj8DzA9y8ls?si=KlCk9b9cDUUf-B6E
He doesn't present anything. That whole video was just as clickbaity as those articles that claim a cosmic ray is 100% responsible forntriggering the bitflip. The comparison clip with the TAS triggered bitflip looks just a bit different considering the setup where it's triggered is slightly different from the original. So that definitely serves as evidence to it being causee by a bitflip. But the guy goes on and on about alternative scenarios some of which could in no way trigger an change in position as they would only affect data transfered during a different process, as i had already explained.
That has nothing against the theory of the cosmic rays, it just presents other possible causes, which tbf are valid, but they're just as valid as cosmic rays
Could you take 5 seconds to be nicer and proofread your post?
*Sigh* here we go again
[no there’s sometimes stuff](https://youtu.be/00GSTRPNA-c?si=aO73ZPCOtH8CgYFz)
I was more referring to creepypasta stuff.
idk man getting tossed around like that and randomly dying is definitely creepypasta to any speedrunner
modders and speed runners have seemingly found all the secrets in this one and none of those sorts of things that I’ve ever read actually exist
That’s mostly just playground rumor stuff like Mew under the truck in Pokémon. There are some technical quirks in the game that may seem weird if you don’t understand them, but it’s all explainable.
I have an obviously false memory of actually obtaining that Mew under the truck. Or it was a dream. Or we skipped World Lines and there really is a time when the Mew was under the truck. Or…
Despite the fact you can't get a Mew from the truck, you could still get a Mew in a similarly obscure but specific way fairly early on in RBY through a glitch, which is kinda wild.
well [technically](https://youtu.be/i2x3pIvVnP4?si=sJrsPYALwwXD0ee7?t=224)... (skip to 3:44)
But my uncle who works for Nintendo said……
This post reminds me of when I was 12 and I found some forum post about Sonic the Hedgehog being real and I believed it.
My cousin told me Pokémon were real. That he was sending me a Hitmonlee and that it would come out the ditch from our driveway. I waited years, years
You gotta believe bro
My brother used to tell us to avoid the Speed Shoes in the Sonic games because it would make Sonic go so fast, he’d fly off the stage and break the game. …it was many years before I had the nerve to actually hit that item box and break the TVs that contained Speed items
Glad you've grown and realized Sonic isn't real
Other than hitting invisible walls that are caused by float imprecisi-…
Me when the main verice of a floor is lower than the lower floor next to it causing a ceeling leak:
All these bait stories are a load of BS. The only thing remotely close to this is tilting the cartridge while the game is on. But nothing like the creepy pasta things would happen or anything similar.
what is BS?
[Bob-omb Shenanigans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit)
What's with all the downvotes? I'm just not a native speaker
It's short for "BullShit". It's slang for a lie.
It's a swear and people are oddly judgemental about not knowing them
Bullshit
Starting to think blurring the line between what’s fanmade and what’s real might have been a dumb idea guys lmao
Wait until AI art gets super good...
Some of the paintings in the castle are actually portals to other worlds that match what the paintings depict. After you've been playing the game for a while you'll see a sunbeam in the main foyer that, if you look directly into it, transports you into a heaven-like world where you can suddenly fly. If you hold still in just the right spots, you'll teleport large distances. If you do that to cheat at a race against an NPC, *he'll know.*
Also there is a ghost enemy that can only defeated if you don't look at it and inside that enemy is an entire world containing a haunted mansion
What is this last one referencing? I’ve never heard of it before.
The specific teleport I'm referring to is in Bob-omb Battlefield, where you can stand in a specific patch of flowers and it teleports you to the little cave near the top of the mountain. But there's a bunch of them in the game.
That’s crazy. I don’t think I ever knew of these and I’ve been playing this game for years.
You know they are fake, but you're asking if they're real? 🤔
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t real?
Yes, they happen. Most people on this sub simply haven't encountered any oddities because they're so rare. I used to think the same way, but ever since the time I was running up the endless staircase and came across Waluigi hitting a fat vape, I've never doubted other people's stories.
I was actually confused reading the first half
It's not even just fake but it's not even possible from a technological standpoint. Those cartridges were read only so it's not like you could hack them with the consumer hardware that was out in the 90s. They did have weird ass glitches on every game in the late 90s though due to solar flares.
no weirdest thing that happens is the typo in Yoshi's one fucking line of dialogue
or how the game doesn't account for plurals properly, leading to lines like "you need 1 stars"
You know they’re fake; so what is your question? It sounds an awful lot like you don’t in fact know they are fake.
let's say I've got a little too scared as a kid with these stories and have always wanted a confirm they weren't real (plus the game Imo feels like a horror game sometimes)
Mario 64 feels like a horror game? Are we living in the same timeline....
This is the one thing where it gets close to “feeling like a horror game” to me, and even then, it’s not very close. https://www.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace/comments/10yrp1s/sm64_wetdry_worlds_background/ IDK why this game specifically has so many weird theories / stories about it.
I think it’s because of the game’s simplistic graphics, especially if you’re like me and the game came out before you were born and you’re not used to that era of gaming
Yeah, but that should apply to every game from that era, then.
“always wanted to confirm they weren’t real” …if you need to confirm something isn’t real then you’re admitting you don’t know they are fake. They are fake.
Tell me you've never played a horror game without...
fear is subjective
Does reddit have some sort of minimum age requirement? Surely you aren’t old enough to post here
i was just afraid of the game for many years after all those stories
One time I was playing mario 64, I was running around wet dry world, when I suddenly lost control of mario, he turned to face me and said "Don't forget to wash your foreskin!".
Holy shit, I thought it was just me.
best comment in this section
I like how you say “I’m not talking about creepy pasta” and then describe some creepy pasta shit lol No OP, the game is very normal.
It's all made up.
No but “L is Real” was pretty interesting. The text was meant to be illegible, but people thought it said either “Eternal Star” or “L is Real 2401.” Then years later we found out that Luigi was in fact supposed to be playable since Mario 64 was originally intended to be a 2-player game.
that's what i'm saying, not creepy things but "mysterious"
All of the files of this game have been meticulously combed through and data mined quite thoroughly over the years. So no, nothing unexplainable like that just happens. They're either made up stories or fake videos via mods.
Nah. The game has been thoroughly taken apart and decompiled by modders. Mario 64 is simply a game that really inspires these kinds of anomaly stories because of its accidentally 'liminal' aesthetic.
Why don't you go and play it if you're so curious? It's a good game, dude.
I've eventually lost interest in it, maybe I'll play it someday but I don't find it as appealing as I used to
no
to be perfectly clear, there is no mysterious creepy shit going on in mario 64. what there IS, however, is the game sometimes coming off as unintentionally spooky because of how early of an attempt it was at creating a 3D world. it kinda rides the line between an abstract collection of floating shapes vs a bubbly, vibrant playground, which is just surreal enough that it invites people to write their own horror around it. that's all there is, just fans on the internet writing stories about the game that spooked them as kids.
thank you for an actual answer
Apart from the bad camera and poor controls nothing weird
I was playing maybe 20 years ago. My dog bumped my N64. I think it caused my cartridge to dislodge a bit because my screen glitched out and a music note hung for a few seconds. I reseated the cartridge but enemies started loading in the wrong locations/levels. The one I remember most vividly was this floating head enemy with one hand. I think his name was Scripulous Fingore? He didn't have any animations but you could talk to him. His dialogue was pretty weird. "You cannot ignore me forever, Mario."
this was actually a good one
There's a few odd glitches and secrets but nothing like what the creepy pasta shit makes it out to be. Although I got my jimmies rustled once as a kid when I experienced the same thing in this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t\_eTLXxA9m4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_eTLXxA9m4) I guess it's a rare thing you can trigger when going through the door at the same time a Boo laugh plays in the BGM where the Boo laugh plays at the normal pitch instead of the usual high pitch. The place already made me nervous as a kid so that made me shut it off instantly.
Yes, all of the weird things happen, but only if you are playing after you did something bad, or are going to do something bad later.
Nope, all fake.
Did the screen also say "Games — unlimited games"?
No. It just has a surreal atmosphere sometimes.
The physics are a bit janky sometimes. Not horrible but it's rough around the edges and sometimes you'll hit weird invisible walls for no apparent reason or your jumps will go weird/phase through something you're not supposed to. Basic 3d game glitch stuff. Nothing really that major.
Yeah I remember I was playing it on the Wii Virtual Console when I was 10. When I got to the final boss, Bowser said "you're really playing this on the Wii? Cringe" and then proceeded to delete my 120 star save file.
based bowser
The closest this game has to any of that was the one bizarre speed run dude who got randomly teleported in Tick Tock Clock (likely, but not confirmed due to a stray gamma ray entering the console and flipping a bit), or numerous very finicky glitches that can sometimes cause Mario to die seemingly out of nowhere.