The Super Mario 64 Iceberg: explained
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- Steff's official lore video regarding the iceberg: • Mario 64's Personalise...
Intro: 0:00
Tip of the Iceberg: 0:39
Below the surface: 4:30
Bottom of the Iceberg: 10:51
Dark Water: 19:50
The Abyss: 30:23
ecumber's Metal Mario discovery: / 1274558568507641859
Playlist containing all music used in this video: • SM64 Iceberg song list
The iceberg image, and twitter thread, that led me to make this video: / 1264217259796582401
I know there have been updates to the iceberg since, but honestly you could make a 4 hour video on all the weird stuff in Mario 64 and not cover it all.
A few great Wario Apparitions:
• 1995/07/29 Build (REST...
• The Wario Apparition
/ 1271981645512540162
/ 1268695575253315584
• Every copy of Mario 64...
Much of the research in this video was made possible by The Cutting Room Floor:
bit.ly/3g3ezOT
bit.ly/2YzcvIo (prerelease)
1996 developer interview: shmuplations.com/mario64/
Oman archive: www.retroreversing.com/oman-a...
SKELUX's castle video: • What Peach's Castle RE...
Jez San's interview: www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...
For documentation on many of the inner workings of SM64, check out ukikipedia.net/
For SM64 beta preservation, check out www.sm64beta.com/
Shoutouts to SimpleFlips - Ігри
An acquaintance of mine has put together a video about some things on the Super Mario 64 iceberg that I failed to mention. Steff has been working with a number of people in developing the mythos and lore surrounding the iceberg, so if you want to see how deep it truly goes, please check out their video... ua-cam.com/video/MLCmArsq7pE/v-deo.html
You put a creepy face in the wario picture when zooming in. In the ally with info section. I say with passion, what the frick.
So every copy is personalized?
Mish Koz how do you feel now that we know L is real and it has been 24 years and 1 month since the games release?
5th reply and ok
Also L actually was a real 😋
"It feels like there's a negative emotional aura that I can't really explain."
I think the level might just be shit
annoyed is a negative emotion, yes.
When I was little it was my favourite SM64 level for some reason, nowadays I can't fucking stand it lmfao
it has a very bad level design
is just a bunch of geometry thrown in the air and you gotta play with the water
maybe if it was just made around the town, it would have been a better stage
The level is so damn boring, holy shit. None of the stars are any fun. And this is coming from someone who actually likes JRB.
Indeed. It could have been a nice walking simulator like LSD Dream Emulator at the very least, but all you do as a newb is stand around waiting to get thrown upward. As a pro, you just start with the water level high and swim to your objective. A bad Mario level and a bad Dream Emulator level.
“Now imagine Mario running around”
“Ok”
*imagines Mario running around*
“Did you imagine Mario falling into a pit?”
“No I imagined Mario running around”
Eugene Quintana me too
"Did you imagine him falling?"
"Uh...i imagined him running...you didnt say anything about falling. If you had told me to imagine him falling i would have done so"
@Eugene Quintana lol exactly same for me
@Eugene Quintana me too but just in the spawn area
no, i imagined Koopa Running Around
Dude it’s unreal how big iceberg charts became due to this video. I remember seeing this about a week after it was uploaded and thinking that it was such a unique new idea. Now these types of videos are all over the place. Crazy how trends can form so quickly
Bro I know. I think Icebergs have gotten so mainstream bc. of this video that they have broken from being called a trend to now a full-scaled genre.
Its funny how this video is what made icebergs mainstream and he starts it off by saying "Ok, yall already know how this works"
It's just a rehash of top 10 lists.
There’s something really funny to me how this guy said “you already know how iceberg charts work” yet all the other iceberg videos that came out of this explains what an iceberg chart is
was just about to say this lol
Has nobody ever considered that the 'Please walk quietly in the hallway' is just a sign from when the castle was owned by Peach? Maybe she needs her beauty sleep
Where is her bedroom?
@@TheJebusCheese probably the top tower and maybe peach is a light sleeper
@@TheJebusCheese Nintendo of Europe said in the 90s that Peach was so rich she had 2 castles, one for furniture and one just for her art
@@moonchild4806 It would make sense, actually, nobles usually are loaded as fuck.
Or just a castle rule to not disturb others
This guy started one of the biggest youtube trends in years
Haha
In the entire internet actually
This is a really important video
This man is a legend
The iceberg trend is still doing well tbh.
@@faketoddhoward7280 hol up
I've come back to this video multiple times over the years. I just love how it feels like a story, uncovering details and artifacts from one of my favorite games.
The narration is clear, and there is no whacky sound effects or added fluff. Just a pure video of interesting content from start to finish
This is truly one of the absolute greatest videos on this platform.
Truly feel the same. It’s an amazing video and I expect to keep coming back to it over and over for a long time.
i like how a video this significant to the internet culture of the 2020s came from a random guy and not like a big tuber or toker. and as much as i like putting these iceberg explained vids in the background, i think this is still the best one (probably because its more specific than, say, "Murderers" or "Horror Movies"). godspeed.
Thank you, I really appreciate this comment.
might be a dumb question but do you ever think like Holy Crap I Influenced Culture or are you so used to this videos legacy it doesnt cross your mind anymore
@@michalswag
I think I've gotten used to it but whenever I see a big UA-camr that I've watched for _years_ upload an iceberg it feels very weird like I'm somehow indirectly responsible for this.
Now it's only happened once or twice but when I hear people in real life talk about iceberg videos it REALLY throws me for a loop.
I am continually grateful that people to come here and recognize me as something greater than I am, but you did get it right that I am just some guy, and I only happened to luck out on the algorithm with a format that people happened to enjoy. I'm also honored whenever I see others expanding upon the iceberg video format and sharing amazing content with the world because of it.
@@MishKoz
It must have been surreal when you first noticed the trend taking off, seeing tens of to later hundreds of videos about something you made (How many subs did you even have when you released this?).
I always come back to this video to pay homage to the person who created LITERALLY one of my favorite entertainment genres ever. You are a real legend dude.
@@SpaceKadet1454
Thank you man. I think I had like 100 subs at the time.
Wait, Super Mario 64 is real? I thought the game was just a myth
oh yeah kittrz, you're in this vid as a tiny cameo at 28:46
Oh nice I didn't notice that lmao
I did not know mario 64 actually existed until now. Thanks, mish!
@@kittrz hi kittrz
Dude a fan PC port of it was released recently
“Picture Mario running around”
*Proceeds to remember me making Mario run around in circles in Bob-omb Battlefield
I just imagined the same thing !
waGHuUUUu
i just pictured him in the front of the castle
Dude, get out of my head.
Same
My theory about the negative emotions of Wet-Dry world is that it causes discomfort because it combines claustrophobia, and slightly eerie music, with the discomfort from viewing a liminal space. The liminal space in this situation is the abandoned town. If you see a town you subconsciously expect that there must be people there to inhabit said village. This braking of an expectation in your mind may cause you to feel uneasy or as if something is off somehow. The human mind loves consistency, and when something violates that consistency it can disturb you.
liminal spaces
Ironically, Wet Dry World's chilling atmosphere and uncomfortable feeling is why it's always been my favorite. It's really odd that I loved exploring what I considered a haunted level, as I was an absolute pissy baby who was too scared to fight Deku Babas as a kid. It's still my favorite level, and Tiny Huge Island is usually when I hit my 64 burnout.
same with me, i sort of enjoyed exploring Wet Dry World and it was usually Shifting Sand Land that had me closing the game
“Bob-omb battlefield bridge hanging” sounds so much darker than it really is
I think it ‘s to practice or how to use that ability
@@dominotheteddybear2570 Good point but you don’t start hanging until Hazy Maze Cave
Great band name
I thought that as well... That sound really wrong
I thougt it was going to be something like the luigi's mansion phone room creepypasta
"Wet Dry World just feels so... weird."
[health bar shows that he's 100% certain of what he's talking about]
I dare you to reason otherwise.
@@madokalover From a practical standpoint, the very tall walls and completely enclosed areas are necessary given that the entire map has to be able to completely fill with water. Were these outer walls to not exist or at least not be so tall, the map would likely feel a lot less claustrophobic.
Wet dry World is the scariest level, the underwater ghost town and the skybox give it a very creepy aura.
where are the people from that underwater town? What's happening in the skybox? Are we being watched the whole time? Its a lot to speculate from
That only made it a more powerful statement. You know he's 100% sure he has no fucking clue what's up with it.
@@EvaristoH toko
This video is UA-cam history. Not only did it popularize the whole Mario 64 iceberg thing but also iceberg videos in general. I remember watching this and getting the creeps. Dude basically started a new video format
20:37 Nah, I ain't about to let you slide with that, homie! Wario's face itself was bad enough, and you had to go on ahead and sneak that terrifying picture in. 🤣
This was a fantastic half hour.
An hour is an hour, sou can't say it's a half!
davisdoesgames what?
You’re the dude who likes to kill yoshis
@@davisdoesgames6815 an apple is an apple, therefore I can't cut and share it with another person
*SENSE*
@@davisdoesgames6815 wut?
I’ll be honest the Health meter constantly changing so that it would fit how confident you are in your claims is a really clever touch
@Ma Rk
he mentioned it at the start of the video but the fact he actually did what he said for the entirety was unexpected
Then every iceberg video stole it cause why be original?
@@Scary_Mar0
huh? what do you mean, I’ve seen no other video do that. If you have could you please link it to me? not to bash them but cause I’m curious
edit: okay so there was a Minecraft one that did something similar (thank you Ruby for telling me about this gem). But even so they did ‘t copy him completely there’s still some merit to it.
@@cornedbread3669 I just saw a Minecraft one that was posted like 2 months ago that used the Minecraft hearts. I think it’s neat.
@@KassandraQuiseng
Wait till someone does a Danganropa one but with the colour or number of the truth bullets.
13:21 I love how the health meter going down is perfectly timed to Mario dying to the fireball.
The "Toad Projection" entry refers to how the Toads in the castle seem to fade in and out of existence depending on how far away you are from them.
"I'm not gonna waste your time, you know how this iceberg images work."
Me, who had no god damn idea what he's talking about and thought this video was about an actual iceberg: "oh ok"
So basically, the higher the iceberg the most common and not as “dark” conspiracy theories are, but the deeper, the darker and more speculation rises that are packed into the theories at the bottom.
Warfare 0G thank you I didn’t know what it was either
@@woopko1198 in short. Deeper you go the more based it gets
@@redline841 what does based mean
Me too
"Your friends are trapped within' the walls", is just another way of saying, "Your friends are trapped in the castle". I don't think Bowser meant they were literally in the walls.
Bro! You aren't overanalyzing like a normal person. Shame on you! :)
The ghostly toads who are never more than a foot from any wall and materialize into being when you speak to them aren't supposed to be stuck in the walls?
probably not perfectly translated
did any boy see smile dog on 20:37
Except the first Toad says they're trapped INSIDE the walls.
I don't think the Toads are literally walled-in, nor do I think they're simply unable to leave the castle. That very same Toad says the following:
"The Princess...and I...and, well, everybody...we're all trapped inside the castle walls. Bowser has stolen the castle's Stars, and he's using their power to create his own world in the paintings and walls."
I think by "trapped inside/within the walls", they mean they're trapped in the pocket dimensions Bowser made, which are accessed via the paintings in the walls. True, we never see any Toad in any of the levels, but we can assume some of those dimensions were made simply as prisons and he threw away the key or something, or maybe we never found them all to begin with. This also explains why Peach seemingly comes out of the stained glass in the end.
I mean, there's no definite proof of this, but I don't think it's that much of a stretch or over-analysis. I always thought it was pretty much implied that's what was happening.
Starting my journey of the 200 hour iceberg playlist
did you do it?
Link?
LINK????!?!???
Try my iceberg playlist, it has 300+ videos, with most of them being longer videos/icebergs.
I love how this Mario 64 iceberg is full of weird and interesting stuff, and most of the information is obscure even to people who beat Mario 64, but 99% of the icebergs that came out as a result of this one are basic information anybody who played the game would know or stuff you can easily find on Wikipedia
You said “now did you imagine him falling into a pit?” and i was shook cuz i was just thinking of him running in circles 💀
Same here I imagined grey cobbles, blue sky box and grass and running round in circles
i imagined him running around inside the entrance of the castle
I imagined him running and jumping happily next to to the castle wtf wit the fall
Same and him screaming”mamamammmmaaaaaaa!”
Me too lol
"Did you imagine Mario falling into a pit?"
Literally everyone: *Mario running in circles like an idiot*
Thanks, SMG4......
golly havent heard that name since 2014
I pictured him running in circles like an idiot and also bashing a few goombas, too.
this
yep, just about sums it up
I thought of mario running in a circle shouting fire.
Will always be the best iceberg video of all time
Can’t believe it was already 3 years ago
After 2 years, I came back to watch this iceberg video and noticed something. When you were talking about the Brain diagram at 29:28, saying that there's some brain diagram hidden in the assets of Wet-Dry World. When you said you couldn't find it, I saw at 29:36 Mario was laying on the brain diagram. It might be just me but the ground texture looks just like a brain diagram...But now I can't unsee it...Worth it!
I have to give you credit: your idea kickstarted my channel. I wish you all the best!
Love your channel
It wasn't his idea
Hi random checkmark man
a-ha, so you stole the entire concept, just like miyamoto-san
@@pootis.145 Idk if he knows but he just used the same idea
Edit:I meant the user who commented
I have some input on the WDW negative aura:
Since the entire thing is a village, and as you said earlier, Mario is the only human that enters these worlds, it may be a sort of autophobia (fear of isolation) causing that negative aura.
I like this theory
The little isolated village always reminded me of one of those 'prop towns' that were used in desert areas when they'd test atomic bombs way back when. Always found that area a bit unsettling, as I used to think Bowser drowned the Toads who might have once lived there.
At least it's slightly better in the DS version, a Bob-omb buddy can be found at the top to assist with finding red coins.
I feel like it has more to do with being the first upstairs level and also being pretty boring compared to ttm or thi
Holy shit someone knows this feeling
The mysteriousness of the never ending staircase scared me a lot as a kid, hard to explain
And also why does Peach have a tall staircase in her castle? What purpose does it serve?
@@bottledpoerich noble ass people like to have weird shit just because lol. Look at every noble aristocrat, george VIII had a gold shitter
Probably because it's a pretty claustrophobic space with some spooky music
28:24 Wario, the original VTuber, before it was cool.
Yasss
"Picture Mario running around."
My dumbas brain: *YAHOO YAHOO YAHOYAYAYAYAY-*
BLJ
YAHOOYAHOOYAYAYYAYAYAYYAYAYYAYAYYAJJHHPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYAHOOO
Dumbass*
I imagined him triple jump diving since that was the move I used the most
my barin is stupid and because he said running around, i literally pictured him running around in circles
"Imagine Mario running around"
Brain: Mario is now breakdancing
"Did you imagine him falling in a pit?"
Brain: Mario is now falling in a pit. Mario has not stopped dancing.
He just vibin doe
Mario is me
Does running in a circle near the chain chomp count as dancing?
Isaac Ferguson yo i was thinkin the same shit lol
He is now backfliping into the hole
I think the reason that wet dry world has that aura around it is because of how grey and dull it is. If you think about it, all the levels before and after are fun, colourful, and different from the last. Wet dry world is grey and sad. The music adds aswell. When it’s used in Hazy Maze Cave, it’s ominous. It fits with the dark, dreary feeling of the map, which ultimately makes it fun. When you look at wet dry world compared to, let’s say Whomp’s Fortress, Whomp’s fortress is joyful, using happy music that fits the stage to grow feelings of joy, and child like happiness. The stage has a clear design, switching it up from it’s previous stage. When you enter wet dry world, the music immediately brings you back to the dark, dreariness of hazy maze cave, but the feeling quickly flees, as you realize that it is very off looking. The grey look of the cave gives off the feeling of sadness and despair. The stage eliminates any sense of exploration, as you can see everything (except the town) which makes you lose that joy of a new level. When you go to enter the town, you have to go down a long, grey, sad tunnel, a metaphor for the level’s depressive feeling. Then, you are given a claustrophobic, boxed in town. All the homes, grey and sad, still giving off energy of sadness. After completing a star, it plays a happy jingle, but fails to rejuvenate the player from the depressive level they have played.
Thanks for reading if you did. I just kinda wanted to give you guys what I think is the reason for the level’s negative aura. Thanks
i think the level is just shit
this is still one of my favorite videos to come back to. So interesting and just a vibe to listen to. Well done man
We’re talking about years-long conspiracy theories, meanwhile I just realized today that the background of the health meter is Mario’s head turned sideways.
how though lmao
How in the flying fuck did you not see that!?
You're talking about a profile.
What the fuck I thought it was a cloud when I was a kid
Dam
I like how “L is real 2401” is actually real now
Ikr
Stop to think
L is real 2401
And it was discovered 24 years and 1 month later
@@srmiojao6674 well i mean the people who figured it out obviously had the files way before that, but wanted the prophecy to be true so released it exactly 24 years and 1 month later
@@corporalfailure you say that like it's a bad thing..
He has been awakened
Its a shame so many people adopted the iceberg format and left out the confidence meter. Without it i feel like people are just reading wikipedia entries
I've come back to this video so many times now. True masterpiece
Can you explain what this is? He's just saying stuff from the game, but everybody in the comments is saying how amazing it is and how he's a genius
@Jackson B Still not getting it 😒
"Bowser may have attempted to enter Peach's back door"
Hey now
Mmm yes big secks moment
Hey now that's peach's bedroom
you're an all star
@@sverreaar9916 get your game on
@@krimzonnebula9341 get your game on
“The yellow gas is peaches farts”
Deviant art users: *S N I F F F F F F*
*Rule 34 intensifies*
@@thisiswhatilike54 *Gets shot in the eye by a musket due to seeing that*
It costs you $0 to not to say that
Goddamnit man, I didn't need to see this!
BRAAAAAAAAAAP
I have watched this so many times, I will soon have it fully memorized.
Help
Take the script to _truly_ memorize it: docs.google.com/document/d/1Vx4ElGVtd3FD98E6bKZRU2GWM-ETTavPJKm2d7dZDJo/edit?usp=drivesdk
@@MishKoz Oh my gosh, Mish Koz TCRF content right there.
It scares me that this was 3 years ago time has just flew by jesus
Laughed loudly at that "FAKE ENDING, KILL THEM ALL" reference.
Truly amazing video, and I love the idea of the health meter as an indicationfor certainty
Cool, a fellow follower of the Rovert ROM Hack Universe.
MISHU GET OVER HERE NOW
Nani
megalomania thwomp
@@rovertronic LMAOOOO
I don’t know if this is true, but I’ve heard that the “walk quietly in the hallway” sign is actually a hint so you have a chance to hear the clock ticking from Tick Tock Clock
That’d be really clever
Huh. When I was a kid and I first got to that part, I DID wonder if the sign had anything to do with the "weird sound coming from behind that door".
It wasn't until I got to that part that I finally found out it was a clock.
Probably, but as a Japanese, I can tell that it is a phrase that teachers in Japan say a lot, like don't run in the hallway. Because in Japan, running or being noisy in the hallway is a rude and annoying thing, and also could interrupt the other classes.
So since the game was developed in japan, maybe this is it.
@@lolazoretr0563 I'm American and over here it's the same thing, that's kinda what I was thinking too
I really like how you set a trend for small time UA-camrs. You and Sunflower made classic videos regarding the Super Mario 64 iceberg, and iceberg videos as a whole.
I think the “shhh, please walk quietly in the hallway!” Is supposed to be a nod to art galleries or museums. In America you usually only think about that sort of courtesy in Libraries and sometimes art galleries, but in Japan where this game was mostly developed, it’s a common courtesy to be quiet in museums, libraries, and art galleries alike. The area it appears in seems to be some sort of art gallery.
That's what I always thought. I figured the paintings and statues made the place feel like you shouldn't be running around or you could break a priceless Mushroom Kingdom artifact.
Nice
Yes
Water is wet?
@@lifespanofafry1534 NO
Wet Dry World's negative aura also comes from the fact that there's a town with no one in it. A dead, drowned town. Disturbing.
There's also the flamethrower orbs in the water that don't function. Another drowned, dead resident. AFAIK they literally can never come alive and shoot fire. Disturbing.
You also (barring speedrun techniques) can't just jump up to higher levels of the course without using the water. Which feels like it restricts freedom. That on top of the fact that some of the water levels are only triggerable by entering the painting (max height is just above the highest crystal), and you can't get out of the town. Disturbing.
Wet Dry World's drowned town is just the New Londo beta
@@SecretEccentric Why does this make so much sense
You can’t get out. Just like the citizens of the town
I never really thought of it as disturbing or negative, I don't know for some reason it reminds me of a bathroom? lol
Yeah, I don't think it's that hard to explain, it's just a very empty feeling level. Plus there's awkward and frustrating parts to the gameplay of that level that adds to it on top like the flipper enemies being finicky and dangerous, and you can easily mess up the water level. Also how hard it is to access the town plus all the steps with changing the water level to get to it adds to the mystery of the level.
Love that this was the first big iceberg video and it's still one of the best.
The truth of the Big Boos Laugh: its a very real phenomenon that happens but it's just a technical artifact of processing for the system picked up in audio. Sometimes when audio is stopped or loaded or preloaded it can slow down in the old 64 engine. This happens during transitions, like opening up a door. You can detect this easily audibly walking in out or doors in Zelda. Sometimes the music slows for a second as the next music picks up. In the boo level, that happens if at the same time a boos laugh is cued during a transition, it would be a slow down boos laugh, which sounds weird because it pitches the voice down back to normal speaking octaves, but its still being modulated synthetically so it's so uncanny. It sounds like a sinister man laugh when placed in context of it being a haunted house.
I thought the music was midi and the boo laugh was a sound effect?
@@n646n sigh. Yes you are right. These sounds need to be loaded in engine and sync to time. During processing transitions sometimes they get slowed down to sync. The sound effects for boos laugh is a normal man laughing sped up. Bowser uses the same laugh sped way down. That's how they made the sound effect. When syncing during transitions like opening up a door if a boos laugh is played some of it can be sped down making it sound like a sinister laugh. Some of the low end is gen losses from being sped up to slowed down again so it makes for a modulation and clipping that can make it sound more out of place and uncanny.
The "L is real" texture was actually also used in Ocarina of Time, inside Dodongo's Cavern.
Yeah I assume it's just gibberish
@@raph2954 They added it to laugh at people who try to read what it says
@@infernaltourist9601 No man, they're just confirming that Luigi is playable on OoT
Was it on a sign? I didn’t know this
Link is real 2401
Here's a better thought experiment: picture Mario running around...
Was he running in Bomb Omb Battlefield?
Yes, near the chainchomp
He was just running around in the castle lobby for me
That's literally what I thought he was gonna say in the video lmao
Bruh
My Mario was running in an empty room, counter clockwise. Still had an echo from his pitter-patter.
The video that started it all.
Thank you for spawning a new video genre, I love iceberg videos to death
all time classic video. perfect exploration of just how creepy and mysterious mario 64 can really be under the surface, all backed up with some great music selections
Another thing that I don't see mentioned very often is that in the mirror room, Toad tells you to pay attention to what "ISN'T reflected" but the secret painting is only invisible from the side you're standing in, which could imply you're on the wrong side of the mirror, as your side is the one not reflecting the painting
I wanted to mention that, but I figured that it could be interpreted either way; like the blank wall _isn't_ reflected in the mirror. The Toad's message would make sense either way so I figured it didn't really matter that much.
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@@MishKoz There's some big dark theories about the dust(!) which is not being reflected in the mirror room!
@@MishKoz you replied to a person good job
@@kormsplaysroblox6723
I reply to a lot of people lol
Hi! Just wanted to say I appreciate the level of respect you showed while discussing the 0.5 A presses topic.
I _do_ want to clarify the fact that the alt account started as an experiment to sort of log just how often I get these jokes to this day (since even I'd lost touch with EXACTLY how frequently I get them). While these jokes definitely are a mild annoyance, I use the word "suffering" entirely for dramatic and comedic effect.
Without that full context, I realize that the name might've been cause for alarm and I want to assure anyone who sees this video that it has minimal effect on my life emotionally. Great video btw! 🧡
ooooHHHHOOO hi hope you have a good day/week/month/year
Have you ever wondered what yoshis eggs smell like after he poos one out? Haha just askin for a friend haha
Okay there "Henry," you can't have a half-suffer for "dramatic and comedic effect," you either suffer or you don't.
@@zkirbster we've gone too deep
Oh hello henry, i hope you liked this video. I guess you are very into the mario 64 community, right?
I come back to this video every few months. It just has a lasting editing style and vibe to it idk what it is. Overall a video I still love to this day and it deserves all the love it's got! ❤
I still smile a bit every time Nintendo says "Thank you for playing!" At the end of almost every Mario game.
Love the idea of using a bar to show one's confidence in their theory.
Yup for such a small channel this video is incredibley well made!
It's more like a pie, but still. I agree, more theorists should do that.
This should be a staple for all kinds of channels. If someone makes a statement, but they’re only 40% sure about it, they’d probably get a lot less hate if they got it wrong.
My guess for “toad projection”: toads only render when you get close to them, and it looks like they fade into view, so it looks like they’re projected holograms?
from Urban Dictionary, Projection means "An unconscious self-defense mechanism characterized by a person unconsciously attributing their own issues onto someone or something else as a form of delusion and denial." The toads were projecting onto Mario with their messages.
i think it's because they're trapped in the walls and floors, so they fade back into the walls as you approach
@@40hzsquarewave There are other definitions for projection, such as what is displayed by a projector or astral projection. The Urban Dictionary definitions are always relating to social/conversation contexts rather than pure meaning unless the meaning is obscure enough that people will think it is slang.
@@throwachair4574 Yeah, you'd think it'd be obvious, but I guess the fact that the Toads are trapped in the castle walls doesn't really get to people, it's why there are never any toads in the middle of a room, they're stuck to the corners and walls, That's definitely why they fade
@@throwachair4574 that's what I always thought, like they're trying to give mario messages though they aren't actually there
no matter how many years it has passed, no matter how much the trend is dead, this video and generally iceberg videos, expecially sm64's one keep haunting me. I just.. can't get my mind off the more "mysterious" parts and "myths" about super mario 64 it's.. kinda of an obsession at this point.
there is something about super mario 64.. that has always been mysterious. this iceberg.. I don't know how to put it in words, it's just that there is this aura around super mario 64, and I can't get enough of it
Nice Iceberg video, dude! Your voice is pretty relaxing to me. Great for background sound when I'm studying.
as the creator of most of the lore bits for the iceberg (whomp's fortress 1-up collective conciousness, wario apparition, wet dry world is a functioning digital simulacrum of the human brain, etc.)
cool video. i love the wario land music
May I have more lore please?
@@sophiasantiagogonzalez7608 all of the truths lie within 121, the eternal fort
now, you just have to find it.
Can you please give me some more information on the Bowser room, all I know is that you can fight one of the koopalings, and if you fail and not turn the n64 off quick enough you black out and end up in the hospital.
@@KingKalashnikov i SHALL the find the TRUE SM64 ending. if they find me, then, well..
That “simulacrum of the human brain” thing sounds sooo interesting
I keep staring at the "health meter" hoping on some subconscious level that the coins are going to refill it.
BRUUUUUH SAME
If he ever does a follow up on this for whatever reason, that'd be a good visual gag.
Did anyone catch the smile dog
My theory about the "broken paintings" is that you, as the player are supposed to recall what paintings you have already jumped into, therefore testing your memory when you make it to the upper floor of the castle.
Yoshi didn't kill himself. he just went go swim back home to go commit tax fraud.
Tax fraud is his favorite activity.
@@ExtremeWreck family fun for everyone
@@user-do4mi9qs6g Agreed. So is littering, shoplifting, & genocide!
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Honk
Unbelievable, UA-cam actually did its job for once and recommended a smaller channel to me based on my interests.
This is surprisingly rare.
What a cray cray world :O
This ain’t happened since like 2015 hahaha
I wish the "health bar=confidence in explanation" part of this video had remained part of the trend. I remember it was still there in the first few videos that popped up after this one, but it largely died out by the time the iceberg genre truly exploded.
I cannot believe that it has been almost two years since this masterpiece was published. This will forever be a cult classic.
every time he wasn't sure about his theories and the gameplay collected coins, i expected the health to go up
Add it to the iceberg
lol
I think theese coins are healty choclate coins
Kayra Umut Sönmez gelt
"Did you imagine him falling in a pit?"
What? People don't just imagine him running around in bombomb battlefield or something?
I imagined him running through the castle chasing a rabbit.
The stuff that pannen puts when he talks about basic things is what came to my mind like mario running in circles and theres yellow bottom text
i imagined bobomb battlefield
Mario running around bombomb battlefield is exactly what I thought of when he said to picture mario.
I imagined BOB as well
thanks so much for making this video, because icebergs are some of my favourite vids on youtube
This was awesome. I look forward to more retro gaming icebergs.
19:08 hey Mish Koz, I would like to complete your theory about the darkness in the ghost cage. It’s been proven (not by actually shrinking someone but by how light works) that if a human were to shrink down to a microscopic size, their eyes would perceive things MUCH darker because there is less light absorbed from the perspective of smaller eyes. This is why the blades of grass and sky look like a dark haunted forest!
That still raises the question of why there's a moon instead of a sun, though.
@@glitchphoenix2242 Maybe it took a while to shrink him
@@glitchphoenix2242 It's because the light from the interior which is reflecting of a glass and into the world
I am so glad my comment has attracted the brightest minds in the scientific community. Go off, kings. Go off 💖
@@Oddie99000 genius!
The secret Boo laugh part reminded me of something interesting. That was a sound effect of a man laughing, it was pitched way up to make Boo's laugh, but also pitched way down to make Bowser's. Well, turns the original sound effect was apparentlly recorded by Charles Martinet.
I did want to mention that! In fact, the majority of the sound effects in the game sound sped-up if you extract them, and they're slowed down during gameplay to sound normal. Charles Martinet also recorded the "URGH" sound used for Thwomps and stuff
ohk.
@@MishKoz So all those are Mario.
Those sounds were voiced from Mario himself.
Mish Koz, Your videos always make me happy, so I subscribed!
Never seen the dirt texture haunted thing, but I saw the face immediately when you showed it and I can’t unsee it. It just peaks out in one area and looks at you like those dig sprouts from Paper Mario
The picture that flashes during the wario section is just smile dog btw
I wish I read that sooner because I just spent an unnecessary amount of time trying to pause it right
What? Please help me understand
@@derpithfacilities3515 set the playback speed of the video to 0.25 and then watch it around the 20:37 mark, there's a frame with a creepy smiling dog. It's a famous internet shock-image (a joke) the Mish Koz placed intentionally.
Kari thanks! I had actually just watched the explaining the iceberg questions thing.
I was too lazy to try to pause it but now I’m glad I didnt
I did not imagine Mario falling into a pit, just merely running around in circles as was asked of me
i did not imagine that either. mainly because he said "running around" so i literally just imagined him running around
Whoever imagined Mario falling in a pit is just bad at following directions
I just imagined Mario running up to the pit, then side flipping to turn around then running some more
Yo me too
I imagined him running in circles
Thank you so much for making this video, I first watched it whenever it was a few months old and would put it on as background music while I did online school work. And of course for kickstarting the Iceberg trend on UA-cam they’ve been a part of my UA-cam recommendations ever since 2020, I really recommend the Cartoon Network Iceberg by Look-Out Look it has a really eerie atmosphere I like. Thank you Koz hope you upload more in the future.
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I remember my friends telling me that the grate outside in the front of the castle could be smashed through after the end of the game on the DS version as Wario, letting you fight Bowser again to unlock Peach as a playable character.
Playing this game with no ability for myself to use Wifi or the internet, I had to experience all this weirdness myself and with people at school, and years later I look back on the game thinking about the game's mysteries and what's real and what wasn't and what was discovered and what wasn't lol
Smh I LITERALLY pictured Mario just running around in circles.
EDIT: Ok can y’all stop replying. I get it “Same! Yeah! Me too! I pictured him running around in grass, I pictured him running around in bomb omb battlefield” I get it bros.
same
LMAO me too
I understand why some would imagine Mario falling in a pit. You know since he's a plumber.
My mental Mario was also just running around in circles
i remember it vividly. Mario's in a flat, green grassy field, running around in S-shapes and dashing to a side. no jumping or HUD or sloped terrain either; you could see the edge of the map around 20 - 40 ft ahead of you. the skybox was BOB/CG.
I pictured him at the start of bob-omb battlefield running up the bridge.
I think wet dry world is unnerving because it's a strangely human town with no life. It's disturbing
Same it scares me
The name went dry world just makes me wanna throw up
y'all are cowards, this level is dope and if it was a real place I'd visit it
Can someone please explain whats happening in the video? I dont know anything about mario stuff but ive heard about this thing like the third time now and i saw someone in this comment section saying that he made most of the "lore bits" saying something about nintendo and about the truth shall never be silenced and im intrested because it seems like critical or important stuff so im really thankfull for whoever explains
Hadi Jammal there is no “lore”, it’s just a joke but like anything disingenuous on the internet you’re always going to get some morons who take it seriously because they can’t tell when people are being ironic. Don’t even worry about it.
Good job starting this intriguing UA-cam genre of videos!
Decided to come back to this video, seeing how it's 2 years old now.
It's crazy how time flies on by.
"Picture mario ruining around"
Well his running animations were limited in Nintendo 64 so it's not really that surprising that people would think the same thing.
I personally imagined him running around in a tight circle counter clockwise.
same but clockwise
SAME SAMESAMESAME
A fellow man of culture I see
Same
in my case he ran for a bit, did some flips, a long jump, and thats about it, still funny how it went "and did he feel down a pit?"
"The yellow gas are peach's farts"
"These are balls of poop (Peach and Bowser's poop mixed)"
LMAO
dude i was fucking cracking up lmao, i feel like im 6 or 7 again playing sm64ds
Peach getting "kidnapped" to have sex with Bowser semi-confirmed.
@@glacierwolf2155 :|
E follower tasty
Just thought I'd let you know that I saved the image as "POOP_MIXED.jpg"
I love this video, the mystery of a video game where people shared so many stories, some are wrong, some are still unsolved. Great video to relax to. Great Job.
the one that started it all i still love iceberg videos and hope they continue to be made
Fans: I FOUND A HAUNTED MYSTERIOUS CRAZY SCARY CURSED TEXTURE WITH THE FACE OF A WITCH IN SUPER MARIO?
Devs: lmao forgot to delete this corrupted texture
B-b-but... What if a GHOST corrupted it???
Fans: "Corrupted"? :O DEVS CONFIRMED THAT A SPOOKY HAPPENED
What is it?
@@starrysar6143 it's mainly a joke about scrapped content of the game that people make hoaxes about...
Toad Projection ties in with the "in the walls" theory. The theory states that because the toads are more transparent the further you get away from them, they're actually holograms while the REAL toads are in the walls... I think
I couldnt have been any older than 3 years old when I played, so I thought it meant that they were glued to the walls of the castle
How is that a theory?? Don’t the toads literally tell you they’re turning themselves invisible to hide
@@newtybot I don't remember that in the slightest.
Even as a kid I thought it weird how they are translucent when you are far from them, so yeah, maybe they are projecting themselves directly into Mario's mind to communicate.
I always thought that the Toads were magically trapped inside the walls and their transparent appearances were supposed to be indicating they were projecting outside the walls to talk with you, I'm surprised a lot of people didn't come to the same conclusion.
This is one of my favourite videos to watch good job!
This video is only 2 years old and already feels nostalgic
29:28 The "brain diagram" claim goes back several years in 4chan threads. Some years ago, there were threads about uncanny lonesome feelings in early 3D games, with games like Glover, the original Spyro games, and (of course) Super Mario 64 being brought up. Wet Dry World in particular was a notable alien-feeling level, and at one point in these repeating threads someone claimed that they once clipped out of bounds in the level and saw an image of a human pineal gland somewhere outside of the waterlogged tunnel. This oddity circulated Super Mario 64 threads for a while, and it was kind of irrelevant for a while until the iceberg threads were gaining traction in recent times.
Interesting yeah it does look like an experimental level
Alright someone tell me what the fuck is up with all these theories. I know nothing about this and im not gonna watch this long ass video talking about something that could all just be fake/creepypasta. a summary would be great thanks. I know this is a weird place to reply but for some reason hundreds of people decide to reply to one comment so this is a fitting thread where my comment will be seen, thanks.
ヌードル It’s an old classic game that iirc revolutionized 3d games that has lots of things to learn about even today, so naturally people like speculating and making theories! a lot of these are real but just blown out of proportion or made to be more than they are
firebuug Well i should’ve clarified I know about the game and the L is real type stuff, but nothing beyond. the “every copy is personalized” caught my attention, and i seriously cant bring myself to believe that’s real. I mean, it’s just a mario game, why are there so many theories
ヌードル trust me. You want to watch the video. I thought the same exact thing as you but I forced myself to watch it. TRUST ME. I wish I could reset my memory just to experience this.
Ok, it really freaks me out how the "Peach is behind the stained glass window" theory is there, because as a kid, I used to play this game so much and always had this feeling that Peach was always there, trapped behind the glass, not being able to get to her or for her to get out and as a kid for some reason it just really got to me in this weird, amazing kind of way, that made me want to keep going back for more to try and find out.
This was such a nostalgic part of the video for me and made my hairs stand on end to think somebody thought of this too, and not just me having those thoughts as a kid.
Nintendo company is not what it seems.. it’s finally coming out and people are waking up and realizing things. I knew something was off about the game but very exciting. Lots of others are speculating this and it’s not looking good for Nintendo. Their company is no different, deceiving and nothing more... I see why they’re making a new Mario collection to clean it all up..
@@fabiantalton6888 *confusion* wtf do you mean "people are waking up and realizing things*
Raad Shkerchy damn man you gotta be a deep thinker. You really think people in power care about you and your family. No. Your money to them because it’s business and they will study you without your consent because they have the power to do so. Have to go do research on business in general. Sad they trick so many people into agreeing to their policies 🤦🏽♂️ you MUST READ man no joke
@@fabiantalton6888 yeah that's all fun and games but how tf do they "personalize" a game or ya know spy on you?
We all gotta gotta give nintendo a blackout and not buy their things at all. Knowing that they personalized their games is bad enough. Ask miyamoto they all money hungry loll and sick
20:37 smiledog flash frame for a split second
I think the reason why the fog above the water in Jolly Roger Bay goes away after collecting the first star is probably because the sunken ship was blowing hot air from underwater up to the surface, making steam.