01.22.96 

I like that you can hear panicked tapping on the controller when “Player 1 No Input” appears on the screen. Really nice touch

Hexadecimals at the end when put into a -9 Caeser cipher translates to ignorance is bliss

Everyone gangsta until the Wario Apparition appears for the third time

If you released this 10 years earlier, this would be in the Creepypasta hall of fame.

Game: turn back Protagonist of every creppypasta: no

Rookie mistake. He didn’t walk quietly in the hallway. Dude straight-up sprinted.

The amount of effort that goes into this nonsense is appreciated.

dead mario: LEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVE mario: no, i don’t think I will

Pokemon: "The lavender town represents the place were a kid commited suicide and thats why you sometimes hear him..." Mario: "wario scary"

Near the end my bluetooth headset out of nowhere went like L O W B A T T E R Y P L E A S E C H A R G E and that kinda freaked me out

i like how there's a continuity to the tapes and the changes made with them. like here, the year is finally 1996, and it's only 5 months away from release day. the UI is all horizontal like the final, the colors are starting to shift from pastel colors to the rock jewel colors of the final, AND the power circle is in its final variation. Plus, Mario's spin jump has been changed to the triple jump. Also, 2 player mode... Guess L was meant to be real after all.

The lack of Charles's voice acting just goes to make this alot creepier.

"is this real" -some person who got pinned

I like this aesthetic of tinkering with old games in a way that invokes nostalgia but at the same time feels like a fever dream/alternate universe of newfound content.

Yea, my copy is personalized. I started the game up and to my surprise, it started playing Never Gonna Give You Up but Rick Astley.

"I gave my mom a heartattack after modding her nintendo 64"

The game: nooo u gotta leave theres like ghosts and shit This guy: haha mario go wahoo

2:36 "Please walk quietly in the hallway." "Do not awaken him. The exit is behind you" "..." "use it while you can" *Player turns around* "IT'S NOT REAL" "IT'S NOT REAL"

Sounds like if they got Michael Jackson to voice Mario. "Oww!" "Hoh!" "Hee-hee!"

I love these tapes. No lazy screamers or bloody gore. It’s just pure horror. Just being able to purely creep out the viewer takes a lot of talent and you manage to do that in all of these tapes. It gets two thumbs up from me!

Ah, my favorite Toad, the one that says: LEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVE If you got this far, congratulations! You get a star.

I feel like the rapidly flashing "Leave" and "it's not real" message breaks the credibility and the immersion 'cause otherwise. Damn. Those are creepy af.

I think the “PLAYER NO INPUT” thing signifies how the character is practically, well, “dead”. Luigi was found in WDW In the previous episode, and Mario drowns, here. I wonder how this will continue...?

“Mario 64 is personalized” is just a modern creepypasta that doesn’t rely on the traditional norms that bad creepypastas have and I love it!

When I started playing my personalized copy all I got was Mario Pissing.

Idk why but the "it's not real" thing is funny because is like "L is not real" It has the same energy as "not everybody was kung fun fighting"

"PLAYER 2 NO INPUT" Good detail

11.05.96: The Wario Apparition 03.11.97: L is real 2401 05.30.97: The Bowser Room 09.02.97: Wet-Dry World negative emotional aura 12.20.95: Silicon Graphics' curse 01.22.96: The internal plexus of the castle 11.15.05: Sequel was cancelled due to temporal leakage 09.14.96: Yoshi commits suicide 07.29.95: 1995/07/29 Build (DO NOT RESEARCH)

1:45 now THIS is what I’m talking about. Secret castle rooms are, to me, the most mystic and captivating part of the whole Personalized thing.

I’m not fucking kidding, as a kid I had nightmares of finding an area in the castle rooftop EXACTLY like 1:49. When I saw this video I was beyond spooked.

I think the one thing people are missing here is that the player actually died, and it's brilliant and terrifying that they put that in so subtly. Listen to the button mashing. First some taps of confusion, followed by some effort, and then panicked.... before slowing down and eventually stopping, before Mario even died. Just like how a person would drown if they were stuck.

Can we take a moment to appreciate how great these tapes are Like, I will gladly accept more Mario 64 horror whenever it's made

omg he reached the negative world Now we can finally unlock waluigi

Hearing that tiny "huh?" at 41 seconds in- I don't know why, but that's genius. It shows you, it's not just a recording of the game, it's someone actually playing, reacting to it, panicking as Mario drowns and they madly mash buttons to try and do something.

Game: “LEAVE!” Protagonist: “no, I don’t think I will”

These are very, VERY well made.. The distorted quality of this one makes it even more unsettling. Nicely done!

The fact that this could be devolving into a full-blown ARG is making me excited

one of the scariest things for me in video games was when there was no music. just the sound of your character's footsteps. It makes even light hearted games like Super Mario 64 really creepy

Great work. Knot in my stomach the whole way through. The lack of unnecessary jumpscares leaves me with a lingering feeling of unease as opposed to a jolt and then relief, making for a different horror experience.

Hey Greenio, great playthrough so far. You missed some stars but that’s okay. I recommend getting a capture card for future gameplay. For your next game I recommend Crash Bandicoot if you want more platforming.

"Every copy of Mario 64 is personalized" I have two copies. One you play as Mario and the other you can play as luigi

List of stuffs: -There was a developer menu specifically for this ROM to access different builds. This was maybe made to play without switching ROMs and/or to compare changes. -This tape was maybe recorded as a playtest for Nintendo. (date recorded matches date of the newest build) -Player 1 & 2 No Input text. Co-op was supported. -This beta comes with a (near) complete castle with some extra stuff. -The pipe you used to get to the castle stayed and another on the right side of the castle led to the first pipe and vice versa presumably. -The waterfall outside goes up instead of down, probably a coding error but anything could be plausible too. -A white Mario with a white portal appears under the bridge connected to the castle. -Yoshi's in this build, you can hear him walking on the roof. -Remember the rumor where there was a secret in Peach's stained glass portrait? You were able to do that in this build. -There was originally going to be a hallway with another sideways one in the middle instead of the backyard, and the straight exit leads to behind the peach glass. (may come with wario attractor) -The stairs to the bottom floor were originally in the door and not outside it. -While the exterior is pretty much complete, the interior resembles the beta one and doesn't have stairs to the door to the next floor. -Main floor's doors to the paintings have been removed, likely due to this being a reversed, alternate world -Returning to the castle leading to the bottom floor, it actually leads to another hallway but this time, there's nowhere to go except straight. Also, the door Mario enters doesn't match up with the one he comes out of. -Afterwards, Mario falls out of the wall next to the pipe leading to the one near where he spawns on a new game. This references the weird hole in the wall that appears on the right side of the castle in Super Mario 64 DS. Maybe Waluigi was in the game too? -The music that plays in the reverse/'aesthetic' world is Donut Plains but backwards, slower and slightly modified. -Goombas in the Castle Grounds may have existed but they were removed. Or it's the effect of the reverse thing. -The water is now blood? Or just red water. -When the P1 input cuts, does that mean that maybe controllers ran on batteries instead of being plugged into the console? This could make sense since it came out 5 months after this build. -(i didn't find this, but other people did so yes) The Error screen reads "ignorance is bliss" in hexadecimals and the person speaking says "Nintendo's fun has just become". -That's it.- FIN

Ominous note: please walk quietly in the corridors Mario: Tap Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap

The part at 3:35 feels like the mario has ruined the game and can’t go back. The music feels like this and so do the visuals. Nice job!

you're genuinely so talented with this like even small details! like personally i'm a huge fan for small details you can see if you listen/look for them and hearing the rapid button mashing on the controller after there wasn't anymore input? absolutely amazing it makes the video seem all the more real, and i genuinely love that you deserve some sort of award for this, seriously

"Nintendo began going to great lengths to wrestle the true nature of their personalization AI and its mysterious origins under control, the program had apparently developed a mind of it's own and began screwing with the game in intense and disturbing ways, creating levels, editing levels and characters, altering behaviors, to the point where it became a threat to the game and its developers. Realizing the scale of their mistake, they began trying to hide its existence by any means necessary. But still in builds following the notorious 1995/07/29 had traces of the program, and players who managed to get their hands on those versions would stumble upon areas of the game deliberately hidden to the public, provoking a response of kind from the program, and whether it was hostility or confusion is yet to be known." -1996 notes on current build

0:16 every copy of Mario is Michael Jackson.

Something tells me that with more people witnessing the Wario Apparition in their copies of the game, the more he manifests in other player's copies of Mario 64. He seems to be appearing more often, maybe even being the cause of the game's mysterious nature. It seems the more people witness him, the more power he gets to other copies.

i decoded the ending screen and got "zxefiretvzjsczjj" does this mean sonic was meant to be playable??????? edit: figured out it says "ignoranceisbliss" so you're telling me that it was knuckles?

"The exit is behind you. Use it while you still can." I love this line

I like how all of the tapes end with a Japanese Nintendo worker telling you to restart the system and keep quiet about what you’ve seen

I love how this one messes around with the player's curiosity and the entire thing gets worse as they keep fuckin going, and they ignore turning back despite the game telling them to do so

Oh, apparently the music in the reverse world is actually the SMW theme from the end of Tape 4!

The player 2 input is so subtle and yet the icing on the cake.

2:47 wario is like "Oh ok you found me. Continue on I am just an observer." and then he dissapears

ngl the part where the colours got inverted is kinda *a e s t h e t i c*

The fact that it’s a vhs tape doesn’t make it scary but the one “LEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVELEAVE” part kinda at least warns you. With a little editing you could probably make this actually scary, but that’s not what this footage was meant for.

When you’re trying to finish the blooperists but you find another tape in the house.

The SM64 Iceberg is my favorite creepypasta, just because of how original and well-made it is. Of course, the iceberg concept is done-to-death now, but this was really something else when it first started it’s rounds on the internet.

The last voice says, "Fun about nintendo is just started now."

This channel is pretty great. i love this whole arg mario 64 beta stuff. its like a story cut into multiple piece and we much piece them together.

After seeing this a bunch of times, I now just realized, the "negative castle" in 3:34 not only has one of the previous tape's music or is likely a nod to SMB2's subspace neither Luigi's Brawl Final Smash, even aside from the textures being negative, the world's Geometry is negative/flipped as well. Meaning when Mario came out of the hole at the castle's right, he technically came out on it's left like the pipe's location from the normal castle. (If you're viewing it, it'll be by Mario's right.) And of course this is later, but hear me out, this used to be speculated a lot... In the remake, Super Mario 64 DS, the Castle's image in the file select has a square hole located at the Castle's left (or the viewer's right), exactly where the pipe and hole is. This might be pure coincidence but it can confirm in this tape's AU, that level was going to be brought back into SM64DS. Or perhaps, *Wario isn't alone.*

No Marios Were Harmed In The Making Of This Tape

Sign: please walk quietly in the hallway Mario: I make an loud steppy

Everyone: EvEry CopY iS pErSonAliZed Me: but the game literally sold 12 million copies, how comes the voice actor said so many different things for each

The details, eerie, and yet cryptic at the end is still neat!

i love these to absolute death, i really hope you continue to do these as a side thing to what you actually do, because these are super high quality and I eagerly await each and every single tape.

"Please walk quietly in the hallway. Do not awaken him. The exit is behind you, use it while you can."

Quite honestly this does a great job at making it seem personalized

"Around the same time as this tape was recorded, there was an FBI investigation into Nintendo for reasons that have not yet been declassified due to low priority and a focus on more urgent problems. Of note is that there is evidence that WikiLeaks has at one point seen the results of the investigation, but has never explicitly said anything about it. Julian Assange could not be reached for comment." -10/5/2016

Wow! the backwards song is "Donut Plains" from tape 4 reversed and slowed, nice touch! i just heard it in audacity after applying "reverse" and "x2" on that part :D

Is nobody gonna talk about the “PLAYER 2 NO INPUT” text?

"Will you play the game, or will it play you." Clearly this dude let the game play him, what a shame.

5:11 For those who don't know, the error message at the end is IGNORANCEISBLISS. I figured this out by decoding the hex values to ascii and then caesar shifting the letters (zxefiretvzjsczjj) by +17 Idk if anyone has figured this out yet

I love how in a lot of these tapes, the players don't think to stop playing the game after discovering something that would scare them shitless.

"TURN BACK" "IT'S NOT REAL" "LEAVE" These are the message that I see. Is it a complete list or is there any message that I missed?

The manic button mashing at 4:35 is subtle but that's what really got to me

"Oh god this is pretty scary" 4:45 "It's not real" "Oh, okay, phew!"

Imagine just a little kid playing ultra 64 and then this is on there screen

"You want fun? Wario Show you fun!" "Not today Satan!" *pulls out cross*

Wario will devour people who say, LiKe ThIs CoMmEnT and FiRsT.

The message in Japanese at the end says: ニンテンドーの楽しみは始ましたばかり (Nintendo’s fun has only just begun)

That’s the actual voice of Mario on earlier. And if that wasn’t changed idk what Im gonna say

0:41 you can hear the guy just saying “what” under his breath. Subtle

Sonic.exe: I am the scariest copy of a video-game there is Mario's 64 copies: Hold my beer.

To be honest, you're probably one of the best SM64 creepypasta makers out there. I like how you focus less on making obvious jumpscares/threats and instead focus on visual/environmental horror. The way everything is presented is unsettling, with each little detail and moment building on top of one another until it reaches to a somewhat indecisive but unnerving end, as if you saw/did something you weren't supposed to. Good job.

Still pretty crazy that these videos are so closely replicated like the nightmares I used to have as a kid about SM64...

The Japanese at the end is "The fun of Nintendo has only just begun."

That moment when you buy a horror game but it ends up just being Mario 64

This is all INCREDIBLY accurate, especially the flashing "Player 2" GUI, as SM64 originally was going to have 2 player functionality.

My favorite one so far! I loved how he found the door accidentally, makes it scarier imo. And how it's more of a better, steadier build up instead of mario just teleporting all over and just dieing on screen lol. The water ending is kind of strange though,

best one so far. i love the whole inverted g-major world aesthetic too, would be so cool if that were an actual world in mario lmao

“Nintendo’s fun is just beginning”

These are probably the best and most convincing "every copy is personalized" videos I've ever seen and their amazing. Keep up the good work! 👍🏻

Greenio: "This channel is not for viewers under the age of thirteen. It is strictly intended for an older audience." Me: *Cries in 13 yo*

I really respect that you actually played a type of “demo” version of the gane because January was a few months before the game actually came out, I thought you did not gave a shit and you would play the actual version as it is, you should get a better vhs effect next time tho.

I think it’s kind of interesting how after the player sees Wario in the hallway, the rest of his time in that area you can tell he’s nervous and avoiding turning his camera

3:17 I’ve had a dream about a room like this in SM64. Same floor texture too. Also I love the hallway behind Peach’s stained glass idea. Seems like it could actually be there

I think this was my favorite one of the "Personalized" stuff. It really just has that uncomfortable feeling..especially at the end where it says "Player 1 No Input" and you can also hear the person playing panic a bit with rapid sounds of the N64 Controller stick