wow! playing this as a kid i always oscillated 3000 units away from that 1-up so i never knew it didn't flicker! thanks for blowing my mind❤

Imagine being commissioned by Pannenkoek to draw art of heartfelt arrows. Every artist's dream.

I love how when the 1up looks back at mario while flickering it is actually different frames and not the same frame toggled

I'm absolutely loving this new era of pannenkoek with silly goofy commentary and editing it was so worth the wait

truly a heartwarming story. i hope the grey arrow and blue arrow can put their differences behind them and finally come together as one.

Words cannot describe how much I've missed your videos, Pannen. Your watch for rolling rocks video is what made me interested in computers, programming and speed-running. It completely blew my mind, I didn't think doing something like that was possible in a video game. I regard it as one of the greatest videos on the internet. Thank you.

how do I turn on my dad's rendering

I think in the Goomba and Bully examples, activeness has an effect on the movement of the enemy. When the Goomba becomes inactive the spot it was in will be the spot it reappears in when becoming active again. Whereas the Bully becomes invisible it looks like it continues along the path it was taking and reappears in a new spot when becoming visible again.

I think the one thing you missed in this was explaining what exactly "visibility" controls in the game versus "activeness". I think the better way to think of this is: visibility only toggles rendering, while activeness toggles all behaviors, which includes rendering.

Honestly that drawing of the two arrows made it all worthwhile.

It's incredible that we're STILL learning new things about this game, despite how much we already know

Thanks to pannenkoek for fullfilling the flickering wish of the 1-up, you're truly a hero.

pannenkoek's return in 2023 was a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one

Pannenkoek returning has to be one of the highlights of 2023

Not only did we get commentated Pannen back, but also his narration and editing have become incredibly great! One of the best YT combacks of all time.

whoever drew that arrow art, I appreciate you immensely

For anyone who is curious, Visible/Invisible and Active/Inactive are common to find in a lot of game engines. Visibility typically is used for situations where no matter whether the object is visible or invisible, movement calculations, hitbox detection, and other interactivities are processed each frame. While activity is typically used in a situation where you would rather skip all those extra operations when the object is inactive to save on CPU load. And in any programming situation, there's always those unexpected exceptions.

10:45 "Distance-Kun, I can't thank you enough." "It's okay Flicker-Chan, you deserved your time in the spotlight."

The return of commentated Pannenkoek was something no one could have expected. Thank goodness I was both not active and KZfaq showed me this premiere's visibility.

It's so funny to see how kludged together some games are internally and how it's clear different devs had different opinions/methods. I learned a lot, great vid!

Dude I freakin' love the editing, I really felt what it was like to be a 1-Up in their final moments. That was a super cool moment, haha.

It’s a great day when Pannen uploads. Always love to learn more about SM64.

that was beautiful pannen. The flickering 1-up and the blue and grey arrows finally working together brought a tear to my eye

what have we done to deserve a commentated pannen vid?? in all seriousness, glad to know that you're still around and kicking, hopefully you're doing well. your content is absolutely astounding

The bully continues to move while invisible, the goomba does not.

It's truly amazing seeing your love for computing through Mario 64, and I hope you're enjoying the creation process in some way for these videos :) Cheers

I'm so glad that we're getting commentated videos back, even if they're short and not super in-depth like the two previous ones. It's just nice. I'm glad pannen found the energy to do them again, but don't burn yourself out, king

I'm glade pannen is finally both visible AND active on KZfaq.

I bet the Mario 64 devs feel silly right now

Somehow I don't think pannen will be able to one-up on this one!

All these years later and people still analyse this game.

pannen's analysis, editing style and content in general have only improved with time. some of the best content on this platform.

Never knew I needed this information.

I never knew how much the gray arrow was in pain, thanks for giving them the grace they deserve pannen

I’m enjoying this new direction for the channel. Now that the A-button challenge has reached the point where updates are very few and far between, I think it’s great that you’re using all the knowledge that you gained over the years of working on it to educate us on both the intricacies of how SM64 works, as well as on the basics of computer science.

Your channel is definitely one of the best on all youtube! Fixing a bug with brute force... Genius!

10:46 What an incredible graphic

cute arrows

I love the way your newer videos come out. The animations and diagrams give it soul. I'm glad you're back

I love watching these videos. They're always so concise, and any time there is a little joke or visual gag it never takes away from the video no matter how much they always surprise me to see.

I heavily appriciate the editing effort you put In these videos. Illustrating your topics makes it much easier to understand what you're talking about and i wish more coding KZfaqrs did this.

Everything about the video is so good. The structure, the flow, the way your presented it, and the basic object flickering logic you provided before going into the actual topic.

Pannenkoek, your videos are so interesting to watch. You can talk about the most complex mechanics but never do I feel bored. Great stuff, keep making videos!

You are insanely good at explaining these concepts that might have been confusing otherwise! Thank you for taking the time to explain and edit this explanation. I really enjoyed this!

Incredible that you synced up the arrows to the exact frames the object changes state. Shows how much attention to detail you put into your videos!

I always thought there were 3 types of 1UPs in this game but apparently there are twice as many. Good to know! Also, I’m so glad gray arrow got to have her chance to shine!

Hey bud. I just wanted to say that your content is great and I’m always excited when I see it pop up. It doesn’t matter if it takes a week, a month, a year, or never again. If this brings you joy, then keep doing it, but even if it doesn’t, I’ll always be a fan

The way you present information makes these concepts very easy to understand. I'm glad you've started making videos like this again.

These kinds of conflicts happen *all the time* in programming. It's something you gotta be watchful of!

Mixing information and comedy is a very risky thing... Needless to say this was perfect, I almost laughed out loud with the grey/blue arrow art. And when the camera shifted to the 1-up's perspective. God I love these videos, especially seeing the code behind the game

I love the production and style on the enumeration of the 1-Up types. Very cute visual and audio design, clean and informative. True Pannen Power.

Your more humor-implemented editing is pretty great.

As a game programmer, it hurts to see an absolute failure in testing here. This programmer wrote the code knowing it was simple to test and didn't test it.

11:33 "if you toggle your visibility instead of activeness, you are gonna have a bad time" is such a profound way to end the video

It’s super awesome seeing you make videos again, keep up the great content!!

I'm so happy you're back, your videos always scratched that itch i had for learning crazy things about the games i loved

2 videos in a year?!?!? We're been blessed

I was playing this video as background audio and not paying much attention. Started paying attention halfway through and I am so confused.

I remember watching your videos before highschool back when they were text only, and always being fascinated by how much you could glean from seemingly small details. Glad to see you back.

I love these. You explain things so well and as a visual learner your graphics captivate me. Great stuff! I watch every single one.

Beautiful to see gray arrow's dream be realized.

Dude, you're explaining it as if we were completely dumb 😂 EXACTLY what we need

Back to the main channel? Good for you!!! I was a fan long before the rolling rocks debacle... Glad to see you here!!!

I love this new short commentated video of yours, it is really fun. Good to know that you are feeling alright to do videos like these now, they don't need to be long like the last one for them to be commentated, released and good. Keep it up! And take care.

It never ceases to amaze me what people do with their free time and how interesting it always is.

Always an amazing day when Pannen uploads! Hope you’re doing well dude

Absolutely amazing! I'm so happy you're back to making videos.

Im so glad you're doing commentary in your videos again! These are always super interesting to watch! Ty for the great videos!

Here at 938 watching now. Wow, he's really back to it...

ludicrously high quality video

it heartens me to hear your voice again pannenkoek. thank you for sticking around

this video explains this bug extremely well for people who don't know anything about coding

Damn, the quality here is incredible. You've got sound effects on your transitions, custom art, well thought out explanations. You could put in half as much effort and still be an amazing explanation channel.

I think there’s something weird in Mario Sunshine’s blue coin flickering also. In sirena beach, they’ll only flicker for a very short time if you spawn one on a different floor and jump up to it

Pannen, you rock. I started watching your videos waaaay back in the beginning when I was still in high school, and I'm about to be 30. There's been a whole lifetime of change in the last 11 years, but you've always been out there doing your things and looping us in on it when you want to share. I could go on and on, but really I just want to say it's just good to see you again, pal. I hope you're doing well. Relax, drink lots of water, and have a great day.

This was a really fun watch! Your videos are always amazing Pannen, and it’s been awesome and exciting to get these new videos from you lately!

I feel like you didn't really mention why exactly both states of activeness and visibility exist, and why a developer would opt to change one over the other, in both examples (goomba vs. bully and the 6 different 1-ups) there's a difference between the subjects mechanically. When the goomba disappears it also stops moving, as an enemy that should be plentiful in the stages it would be demanding to always check their pathing and collision so it just stops everything altogether, all the while, when the bully disappears, since it is a mini-boss enemy, it appears with less frequency in level so the game can afford to always check for it. In that way, the two mushroom cases that don't flicker, it is needed to change visibility over activeness, for if it would become inactive before hitting a wall it would stay in the level for as long as Mario doesn't get too close to it, filling data unnecessarily

Pannen you are seriously one of the most entertaining and inspiring people on this platform. I love what you do, and I hope you are having a good day! Keep up the good work man

The shounic of Super Mario 64 returns to the scene once again! Personally, I think you could've spent a couple seconds explaining that activeness also controlled objects' _behavior,_ not just whether the were rendered onscreen, and as such wasn't redundant to the visibility variable; other than that oversight, this was a very informative and entertaining video. Good job

I never thought every object had its own parameters for distance, I always though mario just have a circle around him that things would react to.

So happy to see you posting some commentated vids again! These are so incredibly interesting to watch and learn about the internal mechanics of a game that had such an influence on me as a kid.

Happy you're comfortable doing narrated videos again. I liked you're delivery style, visual effects, and silly sound effects on this one.

WINNAGE! This is not a #shorts video.

These analysis shows me that even though the code is quite flawed, the final product can be great. As a programmer this is meaningful for me

It’s a fun thing clicking this video, realizing there’s audio 30 seconds in, recognizing what channel this is, and smiling. I hope this stuff’s been treating you well.

Please do not go on another 3 year hiatus, I am loving these videos.

Life changing knowledge!

I can't believe there's this much to talk about a green mushroom flickering

this was actually such a good way of explaining the logic to make it accessible to non-programmers!

Oh wow, your video's are consistsantly the same insanely amazing quality as they always were. Its good to have you back pannen, great video!

Man, so many of my favorite channels are dropping new vids today

Me:" Super Mario 64." My neighbours:" Super Mario 64." Everyone else:" Super Mario 64." Pannenkoek2012:" Süper Märiou SixtehFo."

Oh wow, I wasn't expecting another video so soon after your pendulum crash video. It's dang good to see you back to it, enlightening us all on the deep crunch of SM64!

I love every single one of your videos and your explanations are insane. I'm so happy you uploaded again

I noticed you use a lot of Banjo-Kaoozie music in your videos recently, are you a fan of those games as well? Ever look into the inner workings of them? I imagine they'd share similarities with Mario 64.

Excited!

Your editing is getting really good, Pannen. Great work, we're really glad you're doing commentary again!

We missed you so much, pannenkoek! Thank you so much for coming back 🤗

code analysis is always fun

Which of the 6 1up types is your favorite?