While looking into files in the Super Mario 64 ROM, ProjectRevoTPP noticed another texture oddity, similar to the Koopa wearing pink underwear bug mentioned in Ukikipedia News Week 1. The texture in question is the smoke that comes off Mario while he is running around after being burned by fire: It turns out that this … Read more
This week, Super Mario 64’s glitch hunters took another look at a glitch that dates back at least three years, and ended up with a completely new method of obtaining infinite coins in Bob-omb Battlefield and Tiny-Huge Island. In this 2015 video, TASer sonicpacker demonstrates an intriguing phenomenon – after generating high speed while riding … Read more
When Banjo-Kazooie was released in 1998, it was largely compared to the game two years its elder, Super Mario 64. Despite the period in between, these two games helped define what 3D platformers could be given the new technology. It is easy enough to acknowledge their similarities (vs. older 2D games), both games have a … Read more
The current iteration of the any% TAS category, dubbed the “1 Key TAS” (named so since it only collects the 1 Key in Bowser in the Fire Sea), has had an interesting couple weeks. The TAS made an appearance at GDQx with commentary by speedrunning legend cheese, improved by one frame that lead to an … Read more