Super Mario 64 DS Special Edition Archive

fine >:(

lets take this to discord dms so we dont keep clogging up the damn accounts posts lmao

OH DON'T EVEN START YOU CAN'T THROW BOWSER TO SAVE YOUR LIFE

i understand you suck at the game lol

YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND LACEY THOSE THINGS HAD IT OUT FOR ME

8. Behind Chain Chomp's Gate now makes it so you have to travel through a whole-ass CAVE to get it

7. THESE FUCKING BASTARDS I HATE THEM. THEY WERE ADDED TO BATTLEFIELD AND THEY SUCKKKKKKKKK DUDE FUCK
(Lacey's Note: exact quote from Oswald when I asked him about the Ptooie's LMAO. They appear in the trench with all the Big Steely's and just have them flying above them. tbh not that bad lol)

6. A new star with a really weird name, "The Easy Way Out", has been added. It can only be given upon getting both Mario Wings to The Sky and King Bob-Omb's Revenge. King Bob-Omb has the star and just wants you to take he doesnt care anymore man lol

4. A new character in the form of Prince Bob-Omb! He appears after defeating the king, and will appologize for his fathers actions, and give you a star as compensation!
5. After being defeated, King Bob-Omb is literally in prison. He wants a rematch with Yoshi, and gives another star upon defeat!

Anyways things that happened in Bob-Omb Battlefield that I felt were noteworthy:
1. The entire place is now in Autumn
2. More floating islands
3. The Chain Chomp is seemingly BLIND, given its lack of eyes. It even behaves purely off of sound and not sight, which is a neat (albeit odd) touch

we got up to whomp's fortress and we Goomboss Battle cause I was tired of watching Ozzie miss throwing Eggs

OKAY FUCK UM I FELL ASLEEP AND FORGOT TO CATALOGUE WHAT ALL HAPPENED LAST NIGHT SORRY ABOUT THAT

I remember encountering the weird alternate campaign anomaly, specifically being able to play Super Luigi 64 after beating the main game. Was more of the same from base 64 but a little more difficult because Luigi is a slippery jumpy bastard.
Very similar to his inclusion in the galaxy series!

Ozzie's playing bob-omb battlefield right now and while I wait for him to get done with that so I can catalogue all that was changed, I'm curious, anything specific you guys remember from your copies of 64?

STOP COMPLAINING AND GO INSIDE THE DAMN CASTLE

OKAY IN MY DEFENSE I HAVENT PLAYED THIS GAME IN LIKE TWO DECADES CUT ME SOME SLACK

Also I don't think this is as noteworthy as the other stuff but Oswald said he saw a t-posing bowser but i dont believe him in the slightest

The rabbit was so fast it felt like a god damn LOONEY TOONS BIT
The weird fake mario said he was planning on "Making sure they aren't that fast anymore"
I've heard of AI's personifying themselves but this is new for both of us.
This shit gonna get interesting

He told us the controls (EVEN SPECIFYING HOW WE WERE USING AN EMULATOR WHICH WAS EXTRA WEIRD), and put down a sign "In case you ever need a refresher!"
Then when we tried to get in (cause oswald forgot we needed a key) the weird not-mario told us about the MIPS, and we ran after it.

Peach also greeted everyone and led them inside. Then came the part where Yoshi got woken up and instead of a Lakitu it was some weird creepy fake mario guy???
He talked and we actually heard him, and it felt like he was less talking to Yoshi and moreso to me and Oswald

Same with mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Wario. Mario looked kind of normal, but he had a bunch of holes in him. Yoshi looked like something halfway between a dry yoshi, Luigi looked like sad wet cat with his arms being invisible, and Wario was covered in weird metallic splotches.

Sorry for the wait that rabbit was fast as fuck man holy shit
Anyways, the opening part of the game was... interesting.
Before we got to play, the letter thing played out as usual, but Peach's design was weird
Like, she had stitches all over her body, and she looked nervous.

All jokes aside, this beta build is actually neat, especially since the Mario head talks to you like it does in Mario Teaches Typing 2.
He's even hassling us to start the game and stop looking at him so I guess we will lol

Ozzie started streaming and we both started laughing our ASSES off dude WHAT IS THIS
Obviously it's a bunch of placeholder graphics but like COME ON even for a beta this shit is GOOFY

OH MY GOD OZZIE FINALLY FINISHED MOVING AFTER OVER A MONTH AND HE SAID HE GOT AN EMULATOR WORKING WE ARE ACTUALLY GONNA HAVE SHIT TO SHOW YALL WE WIN

I'll continue to add to this thread as we further explore the game!

- We found that the reason for it's buggy state was sloppy code, odd to see from a Nintendo game. Assets were in areas where they shouldn't have been, object tables within object tables within object tables. I managed to reorganize all the data, getting into a functioning state

Here is what we managed to find before we switched over to this account (1\2)
- A build of the game in an old leak from 2015-ish on, oddly enough, the SomethingAwful forums.
- In said build was messy code. The game was nearly UNPLAYABLE.

It's unknown as to why it was cancelled, allegedly, according to the directors of the project, Nishimoto Yutaka & Asai Atsushi. Though there were rumors of the AI failing to adapt to the DS system.

"What's SM64 DS: Special Edition?"
I'm glad you asked! Special Edition is an old remake of Super Mario 64 which began development around 2010. It was a remake which was intended to implement the illusive Personalization AI found in the origin Nintendo 64 game!