How were you supposed to know to jump into the paintings?

A gamer would know

Isn't there a sign actually telling you about it somewhere? Or maybe it was a Toad.

>tfw you didn't know and just ran around the starting area for hours on end as a child
>you still had fun

I'm done playing super Mario 64. How was I supposed to know I had to jump into the pictures? The game's just nat fun anymore.

>>379266486
How did he go through the doors?

>>379266036
The game tells you. though maybe an idiot whose never played an jrpg in their life didn't realise you could press a button to talk to toad or read signs.

>>379265775
How were we supposed to know to put sage in the options field?

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>>379265775
You weren't supposed to jump into the paintings. You've doomed us all, anon.

>>379266146
>Tfw you beat bowser at the end but still didn't know about two levels

>>379267450
One of them was the Snowman level wasn't it

>>379266430
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwww

>>379265775
with 1.5 button presses

>>379267749
This legitimately made me angry

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>>379267749
>There will never be secrets like this in video games again

Upon release, my mom bought this game for me because she thought it'd be like Mario Party. I didn't play it, but she did, and figured it out and actually managed to get quite far.

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>tfw had to have a friend tell me how to access Noki Bay
I miss this mouth-to-mouth secrets in videogames, the internet kinda ruined it all.

>>379265775
You read the manual on the way back from the store, i pity you if you never did this
http://www.retrogames.cz/manualy/N64/Super_Mario_64_-_N64_-_Manual.pdf

Because of this tape Nintendo Power sent me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxUmSyZ7Ylo

>>379268192
15 years later and I'm still convinced there's shit I didn't find in this level

Can't even remember if I found all the blue coins in it or not

>>379268247
>Manual advises you to not save the game if you lost your hat

That's crazy

>>379265775
>be a kid when sm64 came out
>had played the 2D entries to death
>don't remember what it was like to play a 3D Mario for the first time
>since I can remember I already knew all the secrets to this game
Finding new ones in the DS game was fun though

>>379265775
>DSP plays Super Mario 64

Its said in the manual
Toad talks about it
Paintings rippled when touched, implying you could do something with them

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should i emulate it?
how does the game holds out today?

>>379268397
Makes sense though. You'd turn it off, come back later, and then you don't know where it is any more if you forgot what stage you lost it in.

And Mario takes double damage without his hat, so a dumb kid just made the game even harder on himself.

>>379268496
Holds up fine, camera is still a bit touchy if you're not used to it

>>379268192
I briefly re-experienced it when Breath of the Wild leaked early. We had no guides and people were spreading playground rumors like "you can register the Lord of the Mountain if you equip the monster saddle/bridle from Kilton's shop"

>>379268081
Uhh nigger what about the illusion walls that lead to ashen lake in Dark souls

>>379267167
do you think that bowser gets embrassed when he is naked in front of luigi
sorry if this ofends anyone but i thought it was a funny thing haha

>>379269149
>Illusory wall ahead
>Illusory wall ahead
>Illusory wall ahead
>Illusory wall ahead

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>>379268496
>There are people that haven't played SM64

>>379265775

All these years I thought the bombs were shocked or something because i thought their foot was their hand and they were covering their mouths

>>379268446
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aLtu9_aQwIY

>>379270139
Yoshi... no...

>>379268496
go play the DS remake... its far superior in every aspect

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>>379265775
>How were you supposed to know to jump into the paintings?

The closer you get to the painting, the more it ripples like water.

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how were u supposed to know?
are we supposed to just punch very inch of the game until we find breakable walls?

>>379265775
The painting gets wavy when you get near. Since that's the only object worthy of note in the room, you try jumping into it.

>>379268081
BotW is pretty vast but whatever you find will never be as substantial as a whole zone. Bloodborne has great secrets.

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>>379265775
Honestly I didn't. My first open world game was sonic jam, I thought it was the same as that. I was happy just running around the castle. It was a solid few days before I found out.
No bully.

>>379270364
>Reading
Reading is gay.

>>379271453
*spits coffee all over keyboard*

WHAT THE FUCK?

>>379268192
When my friend came over to play Mario we did a lot of mouth-to-mouth secrets haha

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>tfw running down the stairs to the lower level as fast as you could because you thought boo was gonna get you

scary shit as a 5 year old bros

>>379269570
Sorry, my parents loved me and bought me a PSX

>>379272008
cringed thanks

>>379271453
This is arguably one of the few "how were you supposed to know"-moments in vidya that I can think of. No hint, no indication, just a hidden secret in a non-obvious place.

>>379266486
DEEPEST

How were you supposed to know you had to do backwards longjump to go up the stairs?

>>379268174

>upon release
>she thought it would be like mario party

Huh?

do you guys think that joshy gets embarrased when he poos eggs in front of mario? haha

haha just thought that was funny

>>379267749
To be fair, I never found the 2nd ice level until I played the DS remake 8 years later

>>379268192
>mouth-to-mouth
It's "word of mouth" dumbass.

>>379271453

This is clearly edited, right? RIGHT?!

>>379272548

Phrases are diamond dozen in this doggy dog world man, don't get dizzy about it.

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>>379268174
>be a 5 year old shitter at spyro
>mom goes back and gets all the gems

>>379272171
The music changes when you are near 1-UP shrooms.

>>379271453

22 years later and this is new to me

And i thought I knew it all

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>>379271453
>>379272008
>>379272171
>>379272563
Oh my fucking god

Someone call Pannenkoek

>>379271453
This is fake right

>>379270283
>go play the DS remake... its far superior in every aspect
Imagine being this delusional.

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why is this the only pole that doesnt spit out coins?

>>379271453
I don't see any problem with utterly obscure secrets like this so long as they are not vital to game progression. It's fun if you discover it accidentally and it's fun/surprising to find out about such secrets years after the fact.

>>379273932
What happens when you run around it 120 times?

>>379273770
>>379270283
>lower resolution
>art design changed to appeal more to babies
>limited to 8 directional movement whether or not you're using a 3ds circle pad
>run button instead of analog acceleration.
>significantly watered down, slower, stiffer, fucking boring movement and physics
>extra characters are intentionally made shittier than mario was in the original to force you to switch between them
>extra content is all just terrible filler/bloat.
Yeah, the DS version is for literal retards.

>>379274215
you get dizzy and pass out

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>>379273932
>tfw you ran round this 150 times to get Luigi
>tfw he didn't show up

>>379274307
Boring.

>>379265775
a painting is in each room, is the clear focal point of the room, and also bowser taunts you about turning the paintings in to worlds and putting stars in them

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>>379271453

>>379274456
dumb feelsposter

>>379265775

That concept called experimentation, you know, that thing old games did and the people playing them actually tried, they weren't the current CoD handhold retards.

Giant paintings more than large enough to jump through being the only thing in the room with a steps leading to it in a game where you jump to accomplish everything.

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>>379270283
u are a fucking retard

>>379271453
>>379274834

Yes, that's a concept from before that game's time.

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>>379271453
>>379272008
>>379272171
>>379272563
>>379272890
>>379273509
>>379273584
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>>379274631
Just checked lads, I had to know.

It's real.

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>>379271885
I knew, but yeah seeing Mario in a 3d open world was kind of mind blowing at the time, honestly. I spent the first 20 minutes or so just running around the castle and jumping everywhere and spazzing out.

>tfw you'll never know this feeling of pure, naive joy ever again

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>>379272527

>There are people who owned the N64 version back in the day and didn't get all 120 stars

How can you live with yourself.

>>379275282
>sm64 on a phone
I can't imagine that being comfy at all.

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>>379275678
>had 119 for years
>mfw I got the 2nd star from the secret slide
I will never understand why I never beat 21 seconds at least once

>>379275678
Shit's hard. Especially without a FAQ to tell you how to do everything. I played donkey kong country 3 for 6 years trying to find the last DK coin.

>>379275282
Can cross confirm, just checked myself as well on P64 with EU version.

god, those 20 fps feel so horrible

>>379267749
You were supposed to know because Mips the rabbit ran around that corner and stopped at that dead end, and you were meant to b-dive to grab the rabbit but you'd miss because you're shit and that rabbit is impossible to grab and you'd hit the wall and see it shimmer.

>>379276182
Look at that z button nigga

Even keyboard controls are comfier than this shit

>>379276425
Why would someone do this to themselves?

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>>379275678
>tfw never got 120 sprites on SMS
I honest to God spent like 10 hours straight looking for blue coins on one of those levels.

If anyone actually managed to 100% that game as a kid, they were inhuman.

>>379276568
Being able to play SM64 on the go is probably worth it desu, but yeah it does suck

I just booted it up again because of this thread. I don't remember the boss battles being this pathetic, and there's a lot less actual platforming than I remember.

>>379276895
Wait till you get to the last few levels

You'll regret typing that

Also back then there was word of mouth and shit. Sharing secrets actually was one of the big appeal points for me in games.
I still remember that I only ever got Epona's Song because my elementary school teacher had a niece that also played OoT and in exchange for letting me know where Epona's Song can be gotten, I told her where one can find the Sun's Song.

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>>379276895
make your own platforming you vapid cunt.

>>379276895
Boss battles are all shit, but the last 2 Levels actually have a lot of platforming in them.
But it certainly is more a collectathon game where exploration is the focus.

>>379276860
Wouldn't it just be better to play it on 3DS instead?

>>379268496
every modern 3D game has taken something from Super Mario 64

>>379276895
The camera is the hardest boss in the game

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>>379276895
>tfw /v/ just does the most mindless, obvious solution instead of trying to experiment with the tools they're given.

>>379277189
It's the Banjo Kazooie mindset. Mario isn't some fat turd who can barely move without a panel powerup, play him right and he can jump over most of the level.

>>379265775
The Toad that appears in the lobby tells you to jump into the paintings. Even if you were an impatient little shit who couldn't read, the Bob Omb Battlefield painting starts to ripple when you get close to it, making it look like it holds some significance

>>379277107
My 2ds can't emulate it properly

>>379277189
/v/ is full of reddit casuals these days

>>379277298
Banjo Kazooie ruined 3d platforming. It made developers realize that they can just pad everything with minigames instead of making interesting core mechanics.

>>379276895
Yeah, the bosses were a joke. Probably the easiest Bowser battles in the series, aside from the very first game when you had a mushroom or flower.

>>379277298
Yeah, you are absolutely over equipped and the levels are clearly designed with players in mind that never played any 3D games what so ever.

>>379277425
SMG 2 Bowser bosses were easier

>>379277425
Say that to that speedrunner who lost out on his world record.

Also I remember 2nd Bowser being surprisingly difficult back in the day, he has this dash attack that there's no way a casual gamer could possibly avoid.

>>379275224
>complaining about skeeter's eye thing
>while koopa the quick also had the exact same problem in the N64 version
that said I prefer the N64 designs

>>379265775
>big room with nothing but a painting
>pretty sure if you didnt press start you got to see some parts of the game being played since it was standar back in the day

>>379277483
Ironically enough, people with a lifetime of experience with 3d games still suck ass at SM64.

>>379277616
I'd attribute that mostly to the camera and the fact that next to no 3D platformers incorporate any momentum at all in their pyhsics compared to SM64.

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>>379271453
No fucking way you memers actually showed me something new

>>379267749
>the game tells you that there are worlds in the castle's paintings and walls
>surprised when there are worlds in the castle's walls

>>379277806
What's wrong with the camera? You can't really control it, but like Galaxy you don't have to because the game is hardcoded to give you the best possible angle.

>>379277928
Tbh I'm pretty sure I did stumble upon this years ago, but it's certainly one of the easiest things to miss in the game.

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>>379266486
>hole outside the castle walls
>hole leads into a magical world inside a painting
It's flawed logic to begin with, Bowser couldn't have gotten in through there before casting the curse on the castle and stealing all the sturrs.

>>379266486
>implying he didn't just store up speed by standing on the sub's slope for 12 hours and phase into the castle

>>379278046
>the game is hardcoded to give you the best possible angle.
Did we play the same game?
You constantly get shit camera angles. It's happening so often, that you have to walk along a narrow path and you can't even GET a camera angle that would allow you to either press left/right or forward in order to walk that path, it always seems to want you to push the stick in a ~30° angle. There are some moment's where the default camera works, but about 80% of the time it simply doesn't.
Mario Galaxy has minuscle camera problems compared to SM64 and actually does it right.

>>379273237
calm down, retard. it's water under the fridge.

>>379279835
>it always seems to want you to push the stick in a ~30° angle
why are you playing a 3d game if you just want to hold up/down, left/right?

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>>379272071
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZlWXNoDlIg

>>379279835
>It's happening so often, that you have to walk along a narrow path and you can't even GET a camera angle that would allow you to either press left/right or forward in order to walk that path, it always seems to want you to push the stick in a ~30° angle.
R+c down

people who whine about sm64's cameras are some of the dumbest fucks in the world and can't even read signs or the game manual

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>>379270283
>run button

>>379271453
To this day I still can't remember how I found this one.

>>379276234
Sounds like you didn't have THE POWER™. One issue showed the trick where you jump off the side of the slide and fall down straight in front of the exit, skipping most of the slide.