Toad's maniacal smile when he's supposed to be crying is scarier than any ghost or monster in Luigi's Mansion

About the straps boncing, there is something really strange in some 3d softwares that can cause that effect. I use a Blender 3D a lot and every time i try to move a mesh parented to a bone without the bone, the mesh get really distorted just like in the left side in the video. But the bounce is probably happening because of the bone it's attach to a spine bone that rotates a little during the animations, a little rotation will cause a lot of moviment in a far away object.

For the GCN texture, if I had to take a wild guess, it might have been the loading indicator while it was still in development.

The mario shrinking head could have been used to have a “pop out” effect in the cutscene. Shrinking objects has been often used to these kind of animations, like existing or entering warps. The GameCube texture could be a early development assets (maybe for loading?) that was kept in the texture folder since it wasn’t expensive to keep and maybe not break some dependencies in the engine. Having two sets of hands of different quality is something other games do, portal 2 does that in cutscenes. Having 3d models instead of 2d ones, for the “picture in picture “ events, is cheaper and simplify the production, if not you’d need a lot of 2d videos for every instance you need to have them. DVD already had little room to use, the GameCube had even less room to work. It also gives much simpler work if the devs change characters in production, so they do not have to render every video again. I think everything in Luigi’s Mansion is a “tech demo” approach as the game was made to test real time reflections normal mapping and per-pixel illumination. I also see some physics, vertex shading and similar examples.

Luigi's Mansion is like a gift that keeps on giving for boundary breaks.

Luigi's Mansion is the best Luigi's Mansion.

The hallway thing could be related to Luigi's Mansion supporting glasses-free 3D displays during development.

I have a feeling we're going to see a lot more SPOOKY Boundary Breaks! Can't wait!!

Textures on older consoles were often told to load semi-manually. A texture being loaded doesn't mean it's used anywhere in the scene.

Mario's head isn't full sized when it enter's the frame that it gets stuck in afterward. Its actually still at about 80% scale and reaches 100% about a frame or two after. Its so it doesn't clip through the frame, and its probably scaled to 0 beforehand because setting it to the exact scale needed would require more careful timing than just scaling it down to zero and making sure its full size soon after appearing... basically its an animator's "smarter" work rather than "harder" work. My instincts as an animator/modeler myself.

Speaking of taking the camera anywhere you want, if anyone here wants to replay Luigi's Mansion, but add a twist to it, there's a first person mod out there that, as the name says, let's you play the game from Luigi's pov. It's pretty cool.

Could the bouncing you mention at 1:05 be the motion of Luigi's holding the gun but the zero offset is so far off that it appears highly exaggerate from that view point? Like if you held a 200 foot pole and moved your end slightly, the other end would raise and lower significantly?

6:05 Picturing Toad cry-laughing now has me picturing some seriously twisted Luigi’s Mansion game. Throw in some glowing eyes, neck snapping, and pursuit music and you got one seriously messed up section.

9:03 that coin is actually a beta asset, in the space world demo the gameboy horror used it as the icon for the players money. In the final game this was replaced with a simple 2d sprite, but the coins were left behind.

I remember watching the first Luigi’s Mansion episode around the time when that came out. I can’t wait to see what possible new discoveries have been found. Keep up the great work Shesez!

TLDR: The Gamecube graphic was likely a placeholder for boss stages like Chauncey's. For the gamecube graphic, it's not very surprising to me that it's in the files because they were literally building the Gamecube alongside the game, even leading to the developers being able to ask for modifications to the system to allow for real time shadows and modifications to the controller after playtesting their game. There is even a daisy render from Mario Tennis for the N64 in the files of the game as well called test which was used as a placeholder for the posters you vacuum off the walls. Beta64 has an hour long video out where he revisits Luigi's Mansion and goes over a lot of this stuff and a ton more interesting stuff too. He says in the video that it's likely the gamecube texture left in was a placeholder for the backgrounds for bosses like Chauncey.

Being a game developer myself, the game performance improves when assets are loaded for later use, waiting for the cue to zip wherever & whenever it's needed It's faster for the assets to work from RAM rather than loading from disc. You may notice in some games(Skyrim) that characters zip into position the closer you get to the area. The GameCube graphic was originally for the loading icon when loading levels & wasn't used, the little disc window would of had a spinning disc graphic in it when loading.

The straps in the opening scene are likely bouncing because the bone on the model that they're attached to it still parented to another bone on Luigi. Since the bone has been pushed so far back so that it wouldn't be visible, any small movements are going to appear more drastic. It's like holding a long stick between two fingers. You don't need to move your fingers that much for the end of the stick to wobble all over the place.

Those ghosts in the unused portrait in the portraitifaction room look like Muppets oddly, though given the style is so much a homage (intended or not) to Ghostbusters it makes sense, and if you have ever seen the original two it is freaky how much the style fits. The electric chair ghosts in GB 2 look so much like Mr. Lugs the glutton ghost.

I've been playing the Luigi's Ghost Mansion game in Nintendoland with my kids and I think that game deserves a boundary break episode (and more Mario Party episodes as well!)

Theres some funny thing with Nana, when you first enter her room, then leave it, always look left for these upcoming steps, using Sidestep mode: go to the horizontal part of the hallway, and reenter her room, for a few frames you can see her stretched in an odd way, with free camera, you can see the funny face she has. I have no idea why that happens, but the face was worth seeing, also i saw that face on Dolphin 5.0, in case its not there on GC or the most recent Dolphin beta/development versions

One of the coolest things about the pause menu ive found is the photo of luigi entering the door was at one point animated, you can see it in one of the oldest trailers for the game

That shrinking Mario head is so funny, I'm so happy they did that

I was very excited for this one! Nice work, Shesez. These videos are very validating for amateur 3D artist/animators. It's nice to see "the big leagues" are doing trickery, too.

The joke about toad being manipulative caught me off guard 😂

One of the most mysterious games of all time! Am excited!

One idea I have as to why Mario's head randomly shrinks is from my own experience with tweening animations on a computer. Sometimes for reasons beyond my understanding (or maybe a bug) the tween motions (position and scale) would freak out. Sometimes this would mean I'd had to start the particular animation from scratch. But other times if an idea would change, I could hide the model and you'd only see the intended animations. If Mario's "deportrification" was changed, or just bugged out, but they knew the player couldn't see it, it's likely they just thought "screw it, no one will see" and they left the broken animation in. The Luigi being sucked up by Bowser geometry makes me think this is even more likely.

Oh, shoot I just realized something. SO those white circles on the side of his vacuum ARE wheels. And that explains why he's able to ride the vacuum in the PAL version because of the small red wheel in the front allowing him to actually move. Pretty cool detail I never noticed. Side note: I remember a long time ago my friend made the Poltergust (5000 I think) in real life and wore it to school for Halloween. It was pretty dope. Anyways nice vid

The rug thing kind of blows my mind. It exists for a close-up in the cutscene as it's a higher quality texture, but it doesn't remain for the rest of the game. My initial thought was that this is to save memory space, but it just can't be because they've kept the rug in the scene off camera. I suppose a high quality rug surrounded by lower quality textures throughout the game would be too jarring.

The coin you see in most rooms is most likely an object pool. Creating new objects in a game scene is a pretty expensive function (You have to load in textures, allocate memory etc), so objects that are frequently used are loaded in once outside the play area and just duplicated when needed. This is also how the Warriors games can display so many enemies, they are dumbed down copy objects of one that is out of bounds.

finally after all these years we get to see his eyes behind his glasses,I wouldn't expecting them to be dots though XD I don't know what I was expecting all of these years,but not dots

As a guy who's 3D animated before in the most technical possible sense, I can imagine they have his head shrink just so the push out of the machine feels like it has more pressure behind it for the designers at the backend. Kind of like how dentists who drill holes in teeth, which is more serious business, will sometimes make executive decisions to drill slightly larger than what's technically sufficient because they think it feels more right. If his head is a separate object from his body, doing the same thing in blender would be as simple as "click, S, mouse move, click, I, click." Very low data cost to add, but gives it a different vibe. Could also very well have been just a joke the animators put in for themselves to laugh at, that isn't so obviously a joke, because this was before any designers were thinking about people breaking the game apart and finding hidden stuff on the map, so they wouldn't have considered making a presentation out of it to those people

6:40 The head shrinks so Mario can get closer to the grating without clipping before suddenly returning to full size to POP out of it more sudden, I think.

My favorite spooky game series!

15:50 Pie punched in the middle is certainly one way of describing it

"Skelton was buried here" Could easily be a nod to Red Skelton, the comedian.

I would LOVE a boundary break of Outer Wilds! How cool would it be to see what the inside of the Ash Twin planets looks like??

For Boundary Break episodes using Dolphin Emulator, you should record FIFO logs of cutscenes with troubling jump cuts so you can freely explore a scene without a restrictive time limit or camera movement getting in the way. If you do not know, FIFO logs allow you to record the graphics rendering of one or several frames and replay them. Free look is still available, so you can even explore a single frame of rendering.

This is extremely interesting. As a fan of this series i'm glad you made a video about this as it made me discover things i never knew before about one of my favourite games ever

My theory about the outta bounds straps is that they caused issues with the intro animation, but for some reason couldn't be removed from the scene, and had to have an animation applied to them in order for the scene to work properly. Maybe some spaghetti code between them and the Poltergust made something break in the scene if the straps were gone or something, and there was no time to properly fix the root of the problem, so they managed with what they could.

If I recall correctly, that boss fight used to take place on a giant Game Cube. I assume the texture is just left over from that

So about the bouncing straps: it might be that it *is* in fact attached to Luigi's model still, and it's moving relative to Luigi's shoulders/chest. Look at this angle here. > Notice how the distance between the two lines reduce as they converge? Now imagine the straps are attached to Luigi. They're moving up and down with his shoulders as he creeps forward with a slightly bouncy step. If they're located at the body, then they'll move very little to maintain the same relative position. But, if you were to move the straps farther away from his shoulders, they would move more to maintain the same relative position, thus I'm guessing that the bouncing motion matches his steps

17:23 that portrait of the ghosts is actually seen animated in the spaceworld 2000 trailer and yes, they are playing poker.

the door at 4:50 was a squeezed version of the door shown at 7:35

Perfect for Spooky Month!👻🎃💀

It's pretty cool how they used the original Luigi's Mansion to test the tech for the gamecube!

5:13 The other scenes have the fadeaway because the doorknobs actually have reflections. If the fadeaway weren't there, players could probably make out that Luigi's arms are infact disembodied

For fans of Toontown (especially Corporate Clash, where they revamped the models), E. Gadd's glasses-less eyes have very similar energy to that of the Flunky.

That toad thing is horrific. Always happy to see someone upload stuff on Luigi's Mansion 1!

I do remember playing Luigi's mansion on the GCN it was hard but i still enjoyed it

Luigi's disembodied arms is my favorite thing in this video

I think I've heard from Beta 64's video, I think he said the texture for the GCN, was used a place holder for the arena of the first boss: Chauncey. For more explanation: it was the placeholder for the background texture.

Awesome Video Bro.

I love the return to Luigi's Mansion! A lot of interesting things in this video! I absolutely love seeing the techniques used! Great work as always Shesez!

From my menory, the gamecube texture was a placeholder for the backgrounds for the bosses. It was never ment to be in the finished game.

14:58 that's why I'm always getting goosebumps when I'm doing this event.

From what I can deduce looking at the fight, the gamecube texture is being used for the auroras-borealis effect in the background.

I like how bounds breaking shows finished games are essentially saying you cleaned your room but really you just shoved everything into a closet

Can't wait for Luigi's Mansion 2 and 3 to get the same boundary break remake treatment! maybe even the remake of LM1

Hey man, i've been watching your videos back to back and liking them since yesterday, i hope, even small it could be, that it brings a bit of help, especially during the holidays! Have a great time with your family dude 🎊

Wow!! Really cool to see all of E. Gadd's lab!!! Don't think I ever seen that before unless it was in the other Luigi's Mansion boundary break video lol

I love that they went out of their way to put that texture in to show the nice HD rug in the cutscene, only for me to never even realize that big shape in the foyer is supposed to be a rug at all..... I thought it was just fancy tiles!

I appreciate putting the thumbnail thing first, really really appreciate it

Wow perfect timing I just replayed it and beat this game yesterday. I try to play it every October now I’m playing the second game. The first will always be my favorite though

Bowser sliding in the air when he jumps can be seen with the Game Boy Horror first person perspective in normal play. I’m happy to discover that as young as I was back then

This should be interesting! Can’t wait to see what goofy or creepy stuff is hidden

14:41 Flat Mushroom world confirmed? Wait, no.. still not since super bells exist and if it were flat the cat crew would knock everything off the edge.

How cool! Luigi's Mansion is definitely a bizzare game, but I guess that's what happens for release titles.

Toad smiling while crying being me through life

8:51 the music used here is the best in the whole game

YESSSSSSSS IVE BEEN WANTING MORE OUT OF BOUNDS FROM THIS HOLY SHIT I LOVE YOU SHESEZ

"just like any truly manipulative person" hahaha good one

Maybe you've explained it a million times but I still don't know how you make this videos/play around freely with the camera like that! 😮

The shape of Luigi's head is haunting. 3:08

That rug really ties the cutscene together.

I remember my cousin had a GameCube in the basement it was sort of a makeshift game room, we don't usually play horror games but with the lights off and being like 7-8 years old the game was scary to play I love this game this made me a luigi fan we were scard together.

I love that you’ve kept the little pop up at 14:11 to say Twitter instead of x lol

Very surprised that even the menu animations are being rendered live! The developers must have been having a field day with the power of the hardware they had just been given. Makes the game very future proof too since there's no need to upscale these assets.

Boundary Break spooky edition??? 😨

Thanks Shesez! Always looking forward to a new episode!

Finally a youtuber with thumbnails that are actually addressed in the video

13:30 load-bearing gamecube texture

2:20 That isn’t a third wheel it’s a deep tissue back massager to keep luigi from tensing up too much!

6:27 I laughed at Mario’s head shrinking

Around 08:40 I bet the poster of the ghost with the trumpet/bugle was originally where that mirror is. Maybe they figured out how to make a mirror and wanted to show that off, so they replaced the picture with it

DUDE you HAVE to do Viewfinder on PS5. Unreal!

If only there was more stuff in the vid discussing remake differences.

In Luigi's Mansion 3 you can also see Professor E. Gadd's eyes during a certain part of the game. It is early in the game after you meet E. Gadd in the hotel for the first time and he follows you around as you head for the basement so E. Gadd can set up his portable lab. During this you can suck or blow at him with the Poltergust, flash him with the Strobulb and perform a Burst to mess with him. I think when you flash him with the Strobulb his glasses rise up for some reason revealing his eyes and he becomes startled briefly.

Apparently that older GameCube texture was used as a background until the final version was made

Love the videos! I hope we can get an Okami HD video someday, played it last year for the first time and fell in love!

Rare and ex-Rare staff used that art gallery blackout effect in some of their games, with Donkey Kong 64 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect coming to mind as examples where you can actually see this via glitches (no emulators or hacks needed)! It has something to do with culling for performance reasons- I'm guessing it's used either as a less expensive way to check for occlusion, or to force objects to be culled when they're visible only to the game, but not the player. About the picture-in-picture situations, have you checked to see if Mario/E.Gadd/Bowser is hanging out somewhere in the void? You'll notice that they're not actually standing just behind the frame- they're somewhere else entirely, and the game is essentially drawing them onto a second screen, then converting that into a texture ("render to texture", it's called).

15:49 Yeah almost like an apple pie was "punched"

Oh boy I’m excited to see this series of games

I’ve never noticed, the gold coins are not the usual Mario style coins! I wonder why?

the GameCube texture was a placeholder for the weird galaxy skybox, which is why it is the unreleased version of the gamecube with the glass screen because the game was under development at the same time that the gamecube was. Not sure why it's still in the games files but it is hidden.

One thing I would love to see is someone take control of Luigi in the secret altar after defeating king boo.

7:02 that is pretty accurate to how you’d pull yourself through a tight space

I think the straps in the cutscene may have been still attached to Luigi's model, just offset by a great amount. That would explain the bouncing since Luigi's walking animation would exaggerate the bobbing from that distance.

love this channel, love video games keep it up

I wonder if that GameCube texture is used for the psychedelic effect in the sky for boss fights?? Just a theory…