Also, you can unlock the real Luigi with it, which I'm pretty sure is legit because it's the same exact model (skinny, smaller head than mario, and unmistakeable long gorilla arms) in several different videos.

Did anyone manage the wall jump to get to the top of the castle? I never could do it.

It's legit, I've just done it myself.

Woah

I saw in some videos some people have 121, 122, or even 124 stars. Is that because they tinker with the counter or are there actual stars that can were removed from the final version of the game and can be unlocked via TT64?

Woah

I saw in some videos some people have 121, 122, or even 124 stars. Is that because they tinker with the counter or are there actual stars that can were removed from the final version of the game and can be unlocked via TT64?

I don't know, I didn't look that deeply into it.

Looks like the Luigi thing is just stretching the Mario model and changing the textures, as his head turns funny when he takes his hat off. It's a feature built into TT64.

Best moment for me was probably the opening cutscene and the first glimpse of a 3D world. For some reason the camera sweeping under the bridge especially made me swoon. And Peach... actually talking!

No it's the one where there's this secret passage above a bookcase that you have to wall-kick to access. Then it leads to the balcony where there's a massive ghost.

It kills you in two hits and there's strawberry float all space to manoeuvre, so there's a big risk of falling off if you try the usual running nosedive technique. If you fall off, then at worse you lose loads of energy or die and at best, the boss is reset. That happened to me plenty of times. Even if you don't fall off, using the dive means it takes ages to get up, usually resulting in the ghost hitting you.

Also, sometimes, when obscured from view by the ghost, Mario would accidentally go back through the door, which would also reset the boss. But the most annoying thing is how the collision detection is off, so even when you're blatantly punching it, nothing happens. So desperately, you mash the button (because you can't just run away, as that will result in the ghost hitting you because he's gone opaque), which causes the 3-hit sequence, but it's futile because you know that as soon as the sequence ends, the ghost is going to kill you.

I finally did it the other night, after about 20 stressful attempts, then I turned it on the next day to discover that the emulator hadn't saved for some reason (despite making SURE to choose "Save And Continue"). But I thought that, as I'd done it once, the next time wouldn't be so bad - but I was wrong. After the 2nd failed attempt I felt my heart rate go through the roof and my hands started shaking but I carried on to no avail. After loads more attempts, I just lost my rag and smashed the pad. This was after punching myself in the thigh really hard and nearly breaking my laptop over my knee.

All in all, it reminded me why I stopped playing computer games in the first place. They really are bad for my health...

Two Japanese players invent a new game inside of Mario 64 - activate a 1up mushroom from a tree then attempt to gather all 8 red coins on a level and collect the star without letting the 1up mushroom reach you.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

What do people think about Mario 64 DS?

I prefer the original.