Certainly one of Tremendous Mario 64’s few remaining mysteries has been solved, due to a participant who found out the way to open a beforehand “unopenable” door from the 1996 Nintendo 64 basic. We are able to thank an almost four-hour YouTube video that exhaustively detailed how invisible partitions work in Tremendous Mario 64, and the tenacity of the sport’s group for the brand new discovery.
That beforehand inaccessible door is positioned within the Cool, Cool Mountain world, the place Mario memorably meets a mom and child penguin duo — and likewise races in opposition to an enormous penguin within the Massive Penguin Race mission. (This serves as an amusing reminder that within the Mario universe, penguins are generally known as “penguins.”)
In line with a brand new video from YouTube content material creator and Tremendous Mario 64 professional Scott Buchanan (aka Pannenkoek2012), the one who lastly solved the sport’s locked-door thriller was Alexpalix1, an skilled speedrunner who’s developed dozens of tool-assisted runs. Alex exploited the hit field of Cool, Cool World’s mom penguin to push Mario by an invisible barrier, however added a fast turnaround transfer to drag off a frame-perfect maneuver that lets Mario open that door — and never plummet to his dying.
Intriguingly, Alex was reportedly impressed by Buchanan’s earlier video on Super Mario 64’s use of invisible walls. The three-hour-and-45-minute video provides a technical deep dive on how Nintendo designed the 3D platformer to stop gamers from accessing sure elements of the sport.
Buchanan provides a really fast digest on how invisible partitions work in Tremendous Mario 64 and the way Nintendo deliberately used them to stop gamers from accessing the unopenable door in query. However his almost four-hour video on Tremendous Mario 64’s invisible partitions can be a enjoyable and informative watch, when you’ve got the time.
For now, although, simply take pleasure in a group of online game gamers as soon as once more doing what was beforehand thought unimaginable.