Fun fact: Mario's model in the DS version has a lower poly count than the original model. They just got better at modelling, like a whole lot 😅

putting this on repeat to help pay your bills

Weirdly enough, my most fond memories from Super Mario 64 DS was the multiplayer. Despite being repetitive, me and my siblings would play that for hours. I clearly remember always beelining to the Wario hat and attempting to throw my siblings off cliffs.

In 2008 I was talking to a friend about videogames and I mentioned that I played Mario 64 on my DS. He wouldn't believe me. He just refused to believe that Nintendo found a way to port this game into a handheld. It was that impressive.

Dude that last video on bomberman was sick, one of my absolute favorites! So sorry that it didn’t perform well, that’s a terrible feeling. Hopefully there’s a tiny shred of good in just knowing that those of us who did watch it really loved it!

this is one of those games i could watch 600 video's about, and the 601st would still be interesting

i never realized how strong the DS was and how weak the n64 was

12:02 the movement in 3D World is actually restricted to 8 directions regardless of whether you use a D-Pad or not, so an analog stick causing you to sway at that part is very weird

64 DS is my childhood game, something I come back to on a yearly basis. Such a goated game

I remember as a kid finding the hidden power star in the mirror room by going through the mirror as Luigi and heading through the door, I was absolutely gobsmacked that I'd managed to stumble onto that by myself.

Just if anyone doesn't know already: On an emulator you can use analog input directly in the game. There is really cool project that enables this and makes SM64DS the definitive version for me personally. Oh and on a 3DS there is also a mod available for this :D

Unfortunate the Bomberman video didn't get that many views, it was so good it made me want to play the game myself

I just realized on the GBC they remade Super Mario Bros for the platform (which also included lost levels as a unlockable), then on the GBA they did Super Mario Bros 2, 3, World, and the first Yoshi's Island, and on the DS they did 64. wouldn't be suprised if people were expecting a Super Mario Sunshine remake for the 3DS when it was new

I often brought my multiple DS' at school, we would play SM64 DS very often at some point. After some time, we realised it was dumb to play the way it was supposed to be, so we made our own game rules that we would choose every round. From "Capture THAT cap" to "1v3 beat-up" and "Race to that specific location", we had so much fun.

I highly recommend the 3DS port of the PC port for anyone who really wanted those analog controls. It's a surprisingly amazing version and it fills that 64 DS d-pad shaped hole in my heart. One day it would be great to see the DS version get some upgrades too, good thing we can always count on mods!

Lmao okay that opening had me in stitches. Great video!

This is one of my favorite KZfaq channels of all time. I recently went back and re-watched every SilokHawk video in chronological order, and absolute loved it. It was sad to get to the last couple videos and run out of SilokHawk content to watch. Truly thanks for all the great vids. (Now where's Jackbox 7?)

The DS (at least the original model) explicitly had a sort of “thumb stylus” on the end of the hand strap. You could tighten the end of the strap onto your thumb, which positioned a hard nubbin of plastic onto your thumb tip. It worked quite well on the left thumb for the touch-screen analog control scheme, and also allowed easy access to the camera controls.

A couple nuggets about SM64DS: Wario's boss fight actually has special dialog if fought with Yoshi, which is possible by using a glitched spot on the mirror that seems like it was intentionally left broken even though they fixed other issues like JRB's Boat being a slope when it swayed The dialog is as follows: (Intro/before the fight starts) "Hmm? I see you have no mustache. Poor, bald, little creature. It's not a fair fight for you, but luckily, I'm not a fair fighter. Let's go!" (After the fight/Defeated) "I simply cannot believe that I lost to a hairless pip-squeak like you! My mustache was my only joy. Now what am I going to do?" This is possible on launch copies (The copies that start with "©2004 Nintendo") I'm not sure about later copies that start with "©2004-2005 Nintendo" You can duplicate caps on Snowman's Land by letting the Snowman blow you away then recovering them over and over again. it'll eventually duplicate too many for the engine to handle and it'll crash, showing a crash error screen. We didn't knew what the hole in the wall on the castle exterior was for (on the file select screen). I don't know if we ever got an answer for that. Super Mario Slot is just an easier version of Mario Slot. It's random whether you can see through the card on Psyche Out! You can complete the game with only one key very easily due to a bug that lets you walk underwater on the moat Unlike it's Original Counterpart, there's a lot of places where you can upwarp very easily, one of them is on the TTC/RR room. There's leftover stuff from the multiplayer for story mode.

I can still remember when I had my Ds… It’s impressive how good this was back in the day. Fantastic video as always man, gave me a good laugh here and there.

The intro alone was enough for me to subscribe, great content. Looking forward to seeing more!

About the touch controls, when discussing them people always seem to forget about the lace that came bundled with the first Nintendo DS. That thing had a small disk of plastic and the idea was that you'd tie it to your thumb so that you could use it to guide the characters without using a stylus. That control scheme was not intended to be used with the stylus, they knew that it would not work. That lace was probably included specifically for this one game. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't great, but I remember it being better than the dpad. It was basically like having a free form analog stick. The problem mainly being that it was centered, instead of being on the side. Which is appropriate for a remake of a N64 game, I guess.

The inflation power up is originally from SMW where it was in the form of P-balloon. And yeah, that thing.. did inspire some art. A _LOT_ of it.. I've seen entire doujinshi dedicated to it, so even Japan is in on the fun too.

The Bomberman Wars review was actually really good. It was so good I watched it like 4 times.

Fun fact from the emulation front, if you inject a patch into the rom and enable an analogue stick expansion pak (I think melonDS does it, it's not a real cartridge unfortunately :c), you get full stick support just like it always should have had

13:20 When the game first came out, there was a thumb-stylus. You'd hold your DS like a 64 controller while playing 😂

Super Mario 64 DS was my childhood, my sister would always play it in her pink DS and I’ve always wanted to play it, she’s still addicted to it whenever we see it somewhere around the house

I'm so glad you're making this video I hope it gets the views that you deserve and I love your videos

that bomberman video was amazing and cozy, probably my favorite video of yours. That's really sad it didn't do well. I had no idea the game existed before and the video convinced me to add it to my backlog. I feel like there's gotta be a way you could market it, but it's probably too late to change the title and thumbnail to re-roll the algorithm now

10:05 64DS has a flying glitch in this room that lets you do the final mission with any character, and it works until about halfway through the credits when the game freaks out and spits you back outside the csdtle

This was very cozy watching, I needed this today. Thank you :)

The reason I didn't watch the bomber man video is because of my passionate avoidance for anything fire emblem.

This was my first Mario game ever. I couldn’t have started with a better game imo

at least he's being honest!

Subscribed immediately with that entire intro commentary, well done

Alright but I'm barely a few minutes in and know this is gonna be a game documentary channel I listen to at night! Keep it up! Major props.

THIS IS THE SUPER MARIO 64 I GREW UP WITH! 🥰

Hey Silokhawk! I just wanna say that everytime I see an upload from you, I get very excited because you have some of the best content this platform has to offer. I love hearing your thoughts and critiques on games that I grew up with because it shows me that it is okay to be critical over the games you love. Anyways, I’ll always be supporting you and keep up the hard work!!

12:16 Fun fact! The camera move options allow you to change the direction the 8dpad options move, giving you a full 24 directions again. Also touch mode

Was just thinking about this game. Thanks for letting me relive my childhood for 20 minutes.

If I remember correctly. The game was ported to the Wii u and they let you use full joystick directional use for that version.

Luckily, I got to play this on a 3DS so I never hard the d pad problem. I really recommend doing that

Enabled notifications and rewatching your previous videos during work :) Great content and you deserve the views!

My feed didn’t tell me your bomberman video came out like this one appeared on it. so I’m glad this video told me about it to watch afterwords!

I’m still hurt by Wario having been done so dirty… my boi never deserved that dammit

Hey man, great video! One question: are the controls fixed when playing on the 3ds? Been thinking about buying one lately, would be great.

1:35 That’s how I found out about stuff like Action Replay and the R4 flash cart stuff. That blew my mind.

…Well, that intro sure was something. I didn’t even know about your Bomberman vid: I just saw this in my feed on a whim.

Something a lot of people seem to not know. The DS originally came with a thumb stylus, and that is what you were supposed to use for the touch screen analog movement. It wasn't perfect, but it actually felt pretty alright. They never expected anyone to use the pen stylus for movement.

18:05 I'd actually disagree and would say the wireless local multiplayer isn't outdated at all. It's a really good idea for handheld multiplayer and for being able to play with your friends easily. I wish the Switch had this feature

I’m right handed, and when this game launched, I 100% it using the wriststrap thumbpad w/ the touchscreen to control movement. It was awkward at first, but much better than the stylus and provided more control than the d-pad.

Got there a week ago and watched a lot of your videos. This is a really good channel, videos are ineresting and well paced, keep it up :)

Goomboss isn't "new" to SM64DS. He debuted in Paper Mario 64, although he was simply called "the Goomba King" there. In fact, Goomboss bears the distinction of being one of the only Mario characters to ever be introduced in the RPG series and then cross over to the mainline platform series. King Boo also appeared in Luigi's Mansion and Super Mario Sunshine before his fight here, although his design was drastically different in both games.

Can I just say that I really prefer this version? I get the criticism about the controls, but I don't hate them. No, they aren't perfect. But they work. The incremental turning does really well in masking the limiting d-pad. I will agree, it's pretty bad for narrow levels, but as someone who mainly plays Mario 64 for the sandbox levels, I didn't find myself facing that issue often. Playing on the 3DS doesn't fix the issue, but it does make it more comfortable for my hands. Being able to just pull my 3DS out of my pocket and knock out a Star on Cool Cool Mountain is main selling point for me. Overall this was a great review and I really appreciate SilokHawk taking into account it's time of release and being as objective as possible.

I remember i never staying up one night trying to get my last star which was 100 coin star in rainbow ride I believe, I was having so much trouble with it, but man the moment i did it, it felt so accomplishing, this game will always have a special place in my heart

I missed your previous vid! Gonna watch it now. This is a good video too!!

The intro skit hit too hard homie😭

Just two days ago I got a random urge to watch videos about this game, perfect timing :D

The algorithm brought me here. I really enjoy your style, and I think I'll go watch that Bomberman video now. :)

I loved the Bomberman video Hawk :> I'm glad you made, that game deserves more love!

I remember having a lot of fond memories with this game despite not actually owning it. Would constantly rent it out from video stores, and it was a blast to play.

I LOVE this game, everyone likes to GUSH about and mod the original, and I really wish that more people talked about it! Thanks for doing that!

Never seen your videos but the title is hilariously relateable.

It was intended for you to use the lanyard for the DS and its tiny thumbpad as a "virtual analog stick" and...once you get used to it, it actually worked alright, but yea, i found myself consistently switching between that and the d-pad to get through this game. Also, i've gotta say that shell sliding mini game was like actual crack.

I remember playing this game so much as a little kid on the bus to summer school every morning. It was so dope as a kid

That's only the second video from you that I watch and I subscribed

i love the honesty in the title, i’ll watch the whole thing

Honestly, that intro bit on this video made me watch the Bomberman Wars video, and I don't regret it lol

So this is how I found your channel, and this is fun

Love the transparency with the title and intro 😂

This, New Super Mario Bros DS, and Mario Kart DS were some of the biggest games of my childhood.

This was my first Mario game, nice to see someone talking about it!

first off great video about mario 64 ds BUT i will not let you think that the bomberman video was bad. i loved that video. it was very very very well put together and i didnt even know there was a fire emblem bomberman and now im playing it. MAKE MORE BOMBERMAN VIDS!

That Luigi backflip was so clutch! I actually got all 150 stars before I ever got 120 in the original because I had no idea how to get to big Boo's balcony. But you could just flip up there. So eventually when I got the Wii virtual console I was able to do it on the original

This was a really wonderful video, Hawk! ^^ I totally missed the Bomberman vid somehow, definitely gonna check that one out too if it helps your channel.

There was a lanyard that came with it and had a plastic bit on it that you would tighten onto thumb. It basically made it feel like using an analog stick but with no feedback. It was quite a stretch to reach the touch screen though.

I never even knew you had a bomberman episode and I frigging love bomberman. Ima go watch that and I'll be right back.

best video title ive ever seen

When I was a kid I had a Japanese neighbor and he had a ds a whole year or so before it came out in the US. It was like a magical device and I couldn't fathom how he had something so advanced.

Love the vid man!

Good work Revenue Piggy! I didn’t watch your bomb thingy video, but this was GREAT

Bomberman fucking rules, even just as a character. I fucking love it. Never got the notification that you posted a Bomberman video sadly

Dang, I didn't know you made a bomberman vid, didn't show up in my sub box thingy. Thanks for showing me, gonna watch it

18:56 there are actually alternate versions of this, in one of them Yoshi actually gets a kiss

The timing of this video is scary as I just started replaying sm64ds like the night this video came out and got this reccomendation just now

I just picked this game up yesterday when I made a round of 3ds games at the buy-sell-trade store. Not my preferred genre at all but it's fun to throw on for some relaxing unwind time here and there.

Tbh that Bomberman video was a fresh air for me, new game basically for me to play

I love how the manual straight-up tells you not to get too attached to your title screen drawings bc you can't save them.

This was the second video game I ever played and I never remember any problems with the controls, but that was probably because I didn't know any better. Now that I have actually played 3D games, going back to 64 DS always feels weird even when I'm playing on a 3DS.

people always used analog sticks with the left hand before, and there was a thumb sleeve accessory you could get to use your thumb on the touch screen for control instead of a stylus. Of course, this was early on and way before they released XL models of DS systems.

You can make what you wanna make. Have fun with it! Loved this video!!

1:43 this is soooo true! I remember the reverse of this when everywhere phased the GameCube out super early and as a 10 year old kid I had no idea this was going to happen so I was rushing around all the stores looking for games and there was NOTHING. It was all just suddenly gone 😭

this was the most convincing argument to watch your bomberman video i could have imagined.

That’s so weird. When I was like 4-5, me and my family went on a camping trip, and some kid that I met on the camping grounds had a DS, and it was the first time I had ever seen one. According to my mom, I never did anything related to camping after meeting this kid, I was just watching him play his game the whole time.

Can feel that about the opener animatic 🥲👍🏽

Thanks for this video, was looking for something to play on my steam deck 🎉

Most honest video title holy sht. Watching just because of the honesty.

i wasnt even aware of the bomberman video, boutta watch that now

I wasn't notified about the Bomberman video :c I'll watch it now at least 10 times

Aye bro awesome video! Keep it up dude