A few days ago we recommended you subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online to have access to one of the best retro games in the catalogue, as is the case of Super Mario 64. The first and mythical 3D platform adventure of the Nintendo plumber marked a before and after later in the history of video games, and that was not perfect and I had some other bug.
Most of them are used by speedrunners to overcome parts of the stage at full speed and thus reach the end as soon as possible. However, there are other rather curious and strange glitches, such as one that was capable of making Mario immortal and completely defy death.
Gain extra lives to die and lose them to live
First of all, it should be noted that this ruling corresponds solely and exclusively to the version of the title that was published in Japan. Starting from this base, in the battle against the first Bowser, he would throw fireballs that, when he dodged them, would turn into coins, which came in handy to heal poor Mario’s life if he received a hit.
However, what is important about this fact is that by repeating this process over and over again it was possible to collect 1,000 coins and thus exceed the figure of 999 which is the only one possible to achieve in the rest of the versions. When achieving something like this, the screen suffered a failure that caused the life counter to change and put M25 on it.
You could say that the M corresponds to a negative symbol, mostly because gaining an extra life was detrimental, because that caused the number to drop and therefore become M24. On the contrary, dying caused the opposite effect, which meant that every time Mario lost a life the counter added one more and amounted to M26 and so on.
The only way to return to normality was to enter the different phases and gain lives without stopping so that the counter returned to 0 and in turn the M disappeared from the map.
Even so, the effect of this glitch was more beneficial than negative. The reason was because another way to lose M was to die dozens and dozens of times until you reached M128, so that when you died once more this number would become 100, so you would have another hundred lives ahead until you see Game Over screen.
Without a doubt, for those who were not very skilled at the controls, it was something magnificent, since it was a way to completely forget about the life counter. Of course, to get to this point tremendous patience was requiredbecause getting 1,000 coins in Bowser’s phase was an extremely long and tedious process.
Yoshi transformed into an ally or villain?
To complete Super Mario 64 100%, which means having achieved the 120 stars of the game, unlocks one of its biggest secrets, such as the fact that Yoshi appears on the roof of Princess Peach’s castle to deliver a message from the dev team and enough life to reach 100.
Instead, with the counter glitch mentioned above could cause adverse effects upon obtaining it, especially by defeating Bowser or exiting the stage in question from the pause menu. At that moment, the counter could not go up or down until any other phase was entered again, at which point the previously highlighted conditions began to take place.
However, if Yoshi was spoken to before entering any new phase, the game was completely broken. The reason was because Mario’s faithful companion would try to give him non-stop lives at that time until he reached 100, but since the counter could neither go up nor go down, Mario was completely paralyzed without being able to move in any way.
Of course this made Yoshi an even worse villain than Bowser. On the other hand, if he entered any phase and then talked to Yoshi, he would give lives to Mario so that he the M25 reached 0 and from there to 100. Fortunately or unfortunately, in the rest of the versions of Super Mario 64 This bug is not present, which is striking that it went unnoticed by the developers in the original Japanese title.
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