I'm studying storytelling for my English class and this video is really good for studying. Analysis, sorry if I get some lthings wrong: So in the first version, there are birds chirping, a waterfall. it's atmospheric. But nothing is in the castle, there aren't even any stairs. Just an empty room with a door that leads to bob-omb battlefield. Bob-omb battlefield seems normal, but there are no enemies in bob-omb battlefield, and the music is slightly slower in tempo. You get a star, that's all. Something is off. When the game changes the first time however, the waterfall is suddenly gone. The outside starts to feel more empty. The castle is still the same. In bob-omb battlefield, nothing has really changed; the music is the same, still slower, layout is pretty much the same. But there's now a patch of yellow flowers surrounded by wooden signs with red arrows pointing downward, hinting that there's something beneath. But after attempts to getting under the patch of flowers, you collect a star. After the second change, now the outside is truly empty. No bird chirps, no waterfall. You're truly alone. The castle is still the same. Once you go through the door that leads to bob-omb battlefield, you turn around to make sure that you're safe before you enter bob-omb battlefield. Now, it looks different; the sky is jet black, the music is missing instruments. You get a message that says "objective". Huh? What does this mean? There's a sign with an arrow pointing right You go right. There's another sign pointing left, you go left. When you go right, however, there suddenly more signs that tell you to go left. You decide to ignore them. Then, there's that flower patch again. Now the flowers are glitched out; floating on top of the floor instead of stemming from it. After failed attempts to try to go downwards, like the arrows telling you to, you decide to go up the mountain that leads to the star. As you go up, there's arrows pointing backwards, telling you to go back. You refuse. You collect the star. The third change. There's no sky, just a white backdrop. The water is all dried. The trees are gone. The birds are possibly dead. The castle is still empty. When you get to the painting, you can see that the bob-ombs are gone. Once you enter the painting, it was the same as last time. You get a message: "Objective. Leave". You ignore. As you explore, you suddenly get a timer, ticking 30 seconds. You have 30 seconds to escape. You ignored...you screwed yourself. The area starts to get more dark and gains a red tint. Once the timer ends, you feel confused. Huh? What the? For a few seconds, you hear silence. Then, you start to hear faint static in the distance. It gets louder. Something is coming to get you. The static is a corrupt and inverted version of yourself. It's floating rapidly towards you. You get caught by it. You couldn't escape. The fourth change. Yeah, there was a logo, and now it's gone. You try to play the game. You're gone, but everything else is normal. The birds are chirping, there's a waterfall. Eerie music plays. You get a message... "Everything is better without you." You feel a sense of dread. This was not a normal copy of Mario 64. You should've listened.

12:22 I like how as the timer ends, Mario just crouches as if he knows he's gonna unexist soon

For just being another SM64 creepypasta hack, that race start sound scared the piss outta me

I love how Mario went through the five stages of grief after he fell off the mountain

The race music starting and ensuing timer was more terrifying than any jumpscare could be.

This was by far the most effective mario 64 horror I've seen in a long time.

the music at the end is haunting, this rom hack seriously gives a sense of hopelessness with the player and definitely represents the term “curiosity killed the cat” to great extent

This is what a videogame creepypasta should be like. None of that "Crying hyper-realistic blood!" crap.

the scariest part is when i tried to reinstall the rom after playing, it still starts up with the ending screen

the little suspense of how different the initial room of the castle is going to be never gets old to me

this to me feels like what depression is like. youre doing more or less the same thing as everyone else, except theres just less life to it. the things that are making others excited arent there for you, and youre just going through the motions. and even in how you can, if you choose to, try to appreciate that at least that you can see the colours and hear the music and wander the landscape, even if the excitement and the finer details arent there, but is it necessarily good to be okay with that when you know how much more there is supposed to be?

11:55 damn Koopa the Quick really stepping up his game here

bro- that moment when the music changed to only bass and percussion kinda slapped ngl

i found this vid in my recomended feed

This hack is a great example of when you get a feeling that something is wrong but you dont know what is

I love how most rom hacks try way too hard to be scary, but this one manages to be one of the creepiest rom hacks I’ve came across. There’s something about the eeriness and emptiness that makes it super unsettling

My interpretation is that an iteration of Mario during a previous gameplay remained within a pocket existence after the game has been turned off/reset by the player and because this Mario desired to fulfill the goal of completing the game, it attempted to continue having an adventure in a world that was slowly fading away. It all came to a head when the Mario tried one last time to climb the mountain of Bob-omb Battlefield, a timer began, and the Mario was approached by another glitchy Mario that represented the inevitable descent into oblivion; finally there to claim it so that the next iteration of Mario appear in it's place and start the whole process over again. The final message of "Everything is better off without you" is the game sticking it to the previous iteration of Mario for thinking that it was important enough to finish the adventure when it's time & place in existence was by definition, finite.

Glitch Mario sents Mario to Venezuela

Whenever the sky first turned black, typical elements of the level felt ominous. In particular, running up the mountain and along those walls made it feel like you had a blind spot on the left side of your vision, and man, turning those corners was tense! Great suspense.

Imagine a kid from 1995 accidently having this on his super mario 64 cartridge

Honestly, when I read the name of this hack, I was legit expecting it to be like a mix between Normal Mario Bros. 3 & Bowser's Dank Rave.

“Everything is better off without you.” damn that gave me chills

Watching this felt like an alzheimer patient trying to remember a deep memory.

This rom-hack feels like an “everywhere at the end of time” experience.

the music when the bomb-omb battlefield changes fucking slaps tho

its funny that most of the horror from anything sm64 related has to do with the nostalgia of playing the original game because you just know something's off in the video

At first i readed the game title as sperm ario 64.

I immediately noticed that the PrincessToadstool stained glass looked exactly the same, the castle looked a lot different too, in the beta.

I like how all the arrow signs are pointing away from where you're "supposed" to go

This entire rom hack is summed up well with “huh, that’s odd”

This hack really brings me back to 2020 and the "every copy of sm64 is personalized" creepypasta.

This is seriously some of the coolest shit. It's so terrifying. What makes it all the more unsettling is it's characters you know too.

I never thought that a race jingle of all things would scare me the most in Mario 64.

i like the fact that the end moral says "everything is better off without you"

“Everything is better off without you.” Bruh that quote hit so hard ESPECIALLY with the music

12:15 5 stages of grief 12:15 denial 12:20 Rage 12:25 Negotiation 12:29 Depression 12:31 Acceptance

Pov: you're a dementia patient trying to remember your favorite childhood game

It's sm64 but every time you get a star the game starts to change until 11:57

If this video makes it to 100K views, I will consider making a B3313 playthrough.

Congrats on... turning sm64 into a liminal space

The backwards signs are so effective, damn that’s creepy

just another anti-piracy measure 👍

This is fuckin' incredible! Kept me on my toes from the moment it started and wow. Truly a wicked road to go down on This romhack is fantastic

a good title: mario takes his schyzophrenic pills

Man this was really tense, specially when the timer appeared

When I played this, the race startup music and timer started and the one thing in my head was: Na na na na na now We're completely fucked Completely fucked We're completely fucked

You can't keep running from your problems forever, Mario. Luigi, Toad, Peach, Bowser.... They all know it's pointless to keep running. Because your problems are always so much faster than you, Mario. So, what are you going to do? Will you keep running, jumping, kicking off walls, thinking that every time you do you'll be one step further from your problems? Or will you finally suck it up and accept the futility of your dillemma?

After watching this a few more times, I think I understand the message… The player repeatedly playing the game represents a person going through one day after another until the world around them start to be missing something it used to have; as if it’s coming to an end. Until the objective at the beginning of the level is no longer “Get to the top” but rather… nothing. Like there’s no point in being there. Once the player visits the level one last time, the objective is to “leave”. Not to leave the game, but leave the world. The player then encounters a distorted version of Mario, perhaps representing the player’s darker side and takes you to the complete version of the game saying “Everything is better off without you.” With that being said I believe the message here was showing the stages of depression/suicide. In this state of mind you actually believe that everything is better off without you and you’re removing one thing from the world that it used to have… However if you look in the background at the end, not just the waterfall is missing but the player as well. Everything is NOT better off without you. The world will be still be missing something, and that is *you.*

I feel like the story that is being told here is that is that the glitch is running rampant, consuming everything in its wake. But it can ONLY when the player is there, that’s why the game is trying to get you to leave, since whenever you come back it consumes more. Then, the last time, the glitch finds you, and we can see it’s taken on the form of Mario, it leaps towards him and finally consumed him as well, in doing that, however, it deletes itself since it also deleted the only form it could take Finally we come back to the game and see that everything is back, but you, Mario. Only to then be told that everything is better off without you, since it’s because of you that the glitch existed, and it’s because of you that it consumed so much.

This is literally the most scary rom hack I've played. I'm not one to get scared easily, but going through the battlefield the last time and hearing the race sound start made me feel more terrified than any jumpscare ever could

The song at the end... I dunno what it is, but... *I feel like I've heard it before.*

Really awesome horror hack. I have been searching through different ROM hacks (Super Mario 64 is one of my childhood games) out of boredom. Either there is an over-use of blood, jump scares, etc. But this one is my favorite as it uses suspense and the environment to create an uneasy atmosphere. It legit frightened me the first time. I am doing a fan-art of this right now. That's how good it is 💜

There is something so eerie about the game slowly losing its features.

The timer sound effect was such a cool concept!

The 30 seconds timer made me freak out and I was afraid of what happens when time runs out.

The way the camera is set up in Mario 64 makes this a lot more unsettling. Whenever you enter a room the camera faces Mario, and you have to walk forward into the room and wait for the camera to slowly turn around, which builds a ton of suspense and anticipation of what you might see.

0:50 that was so unnerving it gave me a slight fear response.

I feel like creepypasta never really died, the stories have in fact increased in quality over time. Yeah, the early 2010's had some bangers-Ben Drowned is pretty good psychological horror and has a well-made romhack to back it up, and Funnymouth and Godzilla NES kept me up at night for weeks-but even a lot of the really iconic stories were just kind of meh. It feels like in recent years we've consistently gotten really, _really_ good creepypastas, and I feel like this is a shining example.

i love how the very first reset, the only thing that changed was the colon getting removed from the “objective: get the star” text

13:27 one of the hardest quotes of all time

this rom hack made me feel like someone suffering from dementia, where super mario 64 is an important memory slowly forgetting it

When you get chased by M, (the static mario) you have to run until you get to the flower patch. then duck under

Nah as soon as I saw 11:34 I would have closed the game lmao shit like that creeps me out

A 30 second timer has never scared me more

This video feels like me desperately trying to remember all the Mario 64 romhack show cases and blooper videos I'd watch back in the day (I'm never finding those videos again bruh 😭)

Everywhere at the end of Mario

I like the increasing amount of signs with arrows pointing anywhere but towards the star like the game itself is warning you to get out before its too late

I thought the beginning said "sperm mario 64"

I have a theory: The Mario that our player controls is actually not the real Mario, it is a kind of virus or entity that is slowly corrupting the game. The Mario that manages to trap us in the end is actually the real Mario but already corrupted so it also corrupts whatever is the faker "Mario" Getting to remove "Mario" from the game code That's why at the end of the game we are told "Everything is better without you.

12:35 it has come for his nectar

The beginning of the vid when they entered the castle and the inside was just empty gave a similar feeling to seeing the house you grew up in without furniture because you're moving away

0:11 I READ SPERMARIO64 LOL

Mario 64 but the bill collector came

I thought the logo at the beginning said "Sperm 64" for a moment... Yeah my broken humor is starting to take a toll on my brain

WEIRD MARIO THING SENDS YOU TO BRAZIL

This was disturbing on a whole new level. I'm seriously shaken by this.

Change 1 Removed bob omb from the picture / Music is bob omb battle feild is slower / Foggier bob omb battlefield / Signs that tell you to enter flowers Change 2 Quiet Castle /No Peach Symbol/ Another removed bob omb from the picture / Better music in bob omb battlefield / Night time in bob omb battlefield / No objective / Random signs / Removed fence / More signs wanting you to enter the flowers / Flowers flying / Change 3 White sky / No water / Giant room / No bob ombs. Just sky in the picture. / Objective says leave / No music at all / Darker Night in bob omb battlefield / Random timer before your fate / Scary Music / Place is turning red / The music stops at the end of the countdown / Place seems normal / Caution sign / Noise / Screen starts shaking / 12:45. / Music / Change 4 Everything is restored / Mario doesent exist anymore / Text saying that everything is better without him / Console turns off

AND It's... it's amazing how something so simple, with nothing so scary, can still be so disturbing...

13:17 “Mario is dead. You can quit the game now. Never return, monster.”

10:16 I kinda want to study what’s causes dread in this image

Oh look, sm64 video *Immediately skips to the end to find the analog creepypasta demon*

I like the subtle changes in "Objective: Collect the star" and "Objective get the star"

Seeing this gigantic map recreated on n64 after it came out on ds last gen felt very nostalgic, truly one of the gaming experiences.

Every Single Copy of Mario 64 Is Personalized

Me reading the title: Oh it's like a creepypasta. Me most of the video: oh, it actually was just the map on its different early versions. Me at the end: Oh it was like a creepypasta.

I love that ending. So dreadful yet melancholic

I remember a while ago I saw this video by a guy (I forgot the name of the KZfaqr) where he explains some of the creepy and unsettling aspects of Mario 64. The first of them was how lonely the game feels in the castle, think about it, the castle is mostly empty, the only NPCs that are in the castle are a few toads and mips the rabbit. I think that sense of loneliness and emptiness is why this rom hack succeeded at what it wanted to be so well.

What's the name of the song that plays at the end?

Why is the letter U in the titlescreen flipped in 3D, making it SIPER MARIO 64? Is this an original mispronunciation and typo of the word SUPER?

played a sonic fangame mod based off of this. it was terrifying. props to the og rom hack creator for making it exist so that mod exists!

That message in the end gave me the chills

12:36 pov: the lights didnt flicker immediantly in the previous room that you sped through, and now ambush is coming and the room your in doesnt have any closets

This is the clear representation of "but I didn't give it importance"

"Every copy of mario 64 is perzonalised" My copy: 12 rooms, the castle walls are painted with white paint, there are some scratches in the walls, 3 rooms have paintings, one leads to wet-dry world, with it having the second bowser fight music, which makes it even stranger, no enemies, and when you go to the city, you can hear footsteps and some kicking on the doors, if you stay there for long you'll notice a black hole in a squared form in the gray house, when you enter it you'll find some stairs that lead to where the eternal star statue. Just a room with a brick texture with a rocks floor and the eternal star statue. There are no stars, only exit is in the eternal star room or exiting by pause menu. Next level: Bob-omb battlefield, or as the copy names it, bobomb field, its all empty, no chain chomp, the tree branch of the chain chomp is still there, bt nothing is attached to it, only 1 star, you can get it by the only 1 cannon and in the left side there is a red wing cap block, the top of the mountain is locked with brick walls, so you fly to the top of the brick walls and get in a hole that leads you to a new room where your gonna have to parkour to get to the star, when you get the star mario doesnt dance, and there is no winning song, after you exit the painting, which is just a photo of bob-omb battlefield, you cant enter it anymore, when you try to re-enter a text box will appear saying "i dont know what is in there now...... And you shouldn't know too... " The 3rd room has a painting that is just white and nothing more, when you enter it the name is "heaven?" This is the strangest one, BY A LOT, when you enter its just an infinite white space, its all white except for mario and the floor, which the floor is a little bit more grey to distinguish, the music is just like when you call on an old phone and there is interception, just at low volume, a REAL low volume, i explored there for 12 minutes and i found a wing cap box, when i used it i found a black island with a sign that only said "try to find an exit.... As fast as possible.... Dont go to the red door... .. " thats when i looked behind me and noticed a red door, i dont know why the sign said to not go there, so i used the wing cap to go there.... I will explain later.

13:37 Mario if he were a good character:

Super neat! I wasn't aware of this romhack before your video. I wonder if you could get this running on the PC port of Mario 64.

This feels like Super Mario 64's beta story on a budget

I knew i wasn't crazy when i first noticed how longer the painting room was ar rhe first two times

this is the exact footage I saw being used in another video about this rom hack! super cool!

Super Mario 64!: Mario's Dementia!