Then (Insert reader here) gets to read in on YT and make money. From there, Stryder reveals it was him all along in an attempt to discover Nuclear Launch codes hidden in Paper Mario and unleash Metal Gear.
What if these "Spooky Haunted Game" stories are all true stories for the people telling them, but are really just glitched saves by people like Stryder7x
'Alright guys! Back at it again with a new challenge: I just bought a used copy of paper Mario, so let's see how long it takes to beat all of the previous saves! Let's do this!'
"I had an urge to play Paper Mario 64, since it was my faaavorite game growing up, but I had long lost my cartridge, so I decided to buy a used copy of the game. I ended up buying a copy from a guy named [REDACTED], but he said something along the lines of 'You are not going to like this'. I don't know what all of that is about, but I didn't pay much attention to it. So after making my purchase, I went home, put the cartridge on my N64, and started playing. After being greeted by the title screen, I went to select a new file, but all of them already had saved games on it. The weird thing however, the names of the files read out a sentence. The first file said 'DON'T', the second said 'CHOOSE', the third 'THESE', and the fourth 'FILES'. 'DON'T CHOOSE THESE FILES?' I asked myself, being a little unnerved by this. Regardless, instead of just deleting a file and starting a new game like a sane person, curiosity got the best of me, and I decided to inspect each file, just to see what could possibly be wrong with these files. That's when I was greeted by THE MOST FRIGHTENING EXPERIENCE IN MY LIFE."
SchAlternate "Bubba appeared on my TV screen, then he _hyper realistically_ reach out on my TV and pulled me inside!! He then whispered: "*Don't ever drop the soap...*" and then I became YOU, and YOU became skeleton and wrote this story!!!" *THEND*
Dude, these locks are sort of metaphorical though. Like, you're stuck watching your enemy go unthwarted, you're stuck dying, you're stuck a criminal, and you're isolated from everyone else. How neat is that? That's some sp00ky stuff there
I think it was a different copy, but ok. Also, it is possible to save after each pig is hatched, so this person could have reset the game until that happened.
Pastel Gothling Thats not very dark. A small village is visited by a team of scientists. The town is isolated, and it's right before the winter season. A blizzard buries the town in snow. The locals refuse to help the scientists and they slowly starve, the locals seal themselves in their cabins waiting for winter to pass as our scientists are slowly driven insane by the hunger and cold. Eventually we get into donner party tier shit. Bam
THE PIGS THHEEEE PIIIIIGGGGSSS *i run over to the pigs* YOU PIGS!!!!!! YOU DONE IT ALL!!!!!!!! *smash pigs* Pig 666:i cANNoT gET hUrT!!!!!!!!!!!! *pig 666 becomes giant* Pig 666:IT'S YOUR END *i summon giant sword* PREPARE TO DIE,PIECE OF PORK!!!!!!!! *stabs and grabs pork from pig* Pig 666:... Pig 666:...? Pig 666:...what is hAPPENING?!? *the pig takes the pork and looks at it* Pig 666:...a...PORKCHOP?!? *pig suddenly realizes he's melting* Pig 66:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pig 6:I'M MELTING!! Pig 0: *I ' M M E L T I N G ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !* *the pig just stands there not dying repeatedly saying die* ... *i realize* *the cartridge* *paper mario* *i show it to the pig* WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS? Pig 0:... Pig 0:...th...the cartridge? *i blow it up in my hand* Pig 0:!?!?!?!?!?SIHT OD UOY DLOUC WOH *pig dies*
yosif mukhled then pig came back to lif with hyperealistic blod comin from its eyes and it siad "YoU wiLl dIe" and then a pig plush apeared with blood comig from iats eyes and den it stiabbed you with knife Edit: I made the spelling worse for an even better bad Creepypasta feel. Edit 2: Even worse spelling now!
One day I was walking down the street when I saw a dead guy with a copy of paper mario. Without thinking I quickly stole the cartrage and ran home. Later that night I played it only to discover that all the saves where " possessed "!. Also I died
Wow, this is way more clever and interesting than my evil Paper Mario cartridge idea. I was just going to put Paper Mario's cartridge sticker on a copy of Superman 64.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA The people who buy this will want a total refund. I, however, would just throw it against the wall until it's broken. I don't like superman.
"Hey, old friend of mine... Mind if I borrow your Paper Mario game for the weekend?" "Only on the condition that you don't, like, delete any of my saves." "Oh, you won't have to worry about _that_ happening... _maniacal laughter_ "
Superdave OZY On the bright side, the cartridge is still usable by simply deleting files. I thought it might be ruined forever based on the video title
I like the Bowser's Castle softlock. It's kinda like Mario failed to save Peach because of playing with glitches so you're forced to see the castle forever, a reminder of your failure.
*One day, i found a cartridge of paper mario in a garage sale. I put it in my N64, and checked the save files. The names were "DON'T CHOOSE THIS FILES". I checked the first file, and it was stuck on Bowser's castle, unable to do anything... I then smashed the cartridge like i smash your mom*
In my opinion, these are disturbing when you think about it. Watching B Bowser's castle endlessly. The second one is watching you die over, and over, and over again, for a permanent game over. the final one is not really deep material.
Staring at your console crashes Paper Mario. Opening the game crashes Paper Mario. Sitting down crashes Paper Mario. Acknowledging Mario's existence crashes Paper Mario. Finishing a meal crashes Paper Mario. Thinking about anything real crashes Paper Mario. Talking about Nintendo crashes Paper Mario. What doesn't at this point?
Yes please. I'd love to see glitchy textures changing with every step in unused palletes everywhere in the game. I don't know if that's possible without rom hacking though, it would most likely require a bug allowing you to edit any variable in the game code (which I wouldn't doubt existing if it was Super Mario 64 or Super Mario Bros. 1).
Yeah, but first, some idiot has to write a crappypasta about that and upload it to creepypasta.wikia.com, and then Yuriofwind has to get a hold of it before the admins can delete it for sucking :P. He has too much pride to write a sucky story for his series himself.
Lemme try my hand at creepypasta! I decided I wanted to play Paper Mario, but I've never much liked using emulators, so I saved up my money and bought an N64 and a copy of the game on eBay. When it finally came, I opened the packages and set the game up. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a note fall out of the box that the game came in. It said, "Enjoy your game...if you dare! ~S7x" There were splotches of red paint all over the note. I just chuckled. Why did those initials sound familiar...? So I booted up the game. The intro was...surprisingly normal. I dunno, after reading lots of creepypasta, I guess I was expecting a hacked cartridge or something. Well, anyways, when I got to the Start menu, I decided to see how far the previous owner had gotten. There were 4 save files of varying progress. However, their names were...odd. Combined, they said "DON'T CHOOSE THESE FILES." I said, "F*** this s***, I'm outta here," wiped the files, and started anew. I'm not stupid, like those creepypasta narrators! ~The End
1 bowser's castle looks like an evil prison with chains ticking like a clock, 2 you're in an ice prison, 3 you're dying and being tortured in hell, 4 it's because you murdered the guy?
That file with 10 golden oinks had to be some kind of hack, right? In order to have a 10 gold oink farm, you have to get 10 gold oinks *in a row*, correct? In order to get 10 in a row, you have to get 1, and then 9 more consecutively. You will start by getting X number of non-gold oinks before getting your first gold oink. After that, you might get another gold oink, or you'll get something else. Then you have to keep going until another gold oink. Let G = gold oink, and N = not gold oink. A sequence could look like this: NNNNNGNNNNGGNNNGNNNNNNNGN The first, third, fourth, and fifth G's can be thought of as "first gold oinks" since they have the potential to be the first of a string of 10 gold oinks. Each first gold oink can be thought of as an attempt at completing a string of 10 gold oinks. This occurs when a first gold oink is followed by 9 more gold oinks consecutively. The odds of "rolling" a G is 3%. Therefore, the odds of completing a 10 string is 0.03^9 = 2E-14, or about one in 50-trillion. So on average, you would expect to have to get 50-trillion "first gold oinks" before completing a sequence of 10. And since you are also getting non-gold oinks mixed in there, this 50-trillion is less than 3% of the total number of oinks that are rolled (strictly less than 3% since there are also 2nd gold oinks, 3rd gold oinks, etc.). So you expect to roll more than ~1.7 quadrillion times before getting this sequence. Assuming it takes about 30 seconds to complete one oink roll, this would take about 1.6 billion years to do, on average. So I kind of suspect that the 10 gold oink farm was hacked.
+Matt Krambeer It could've been a hack, but it's also possible to save after each Lil'-Oink is hatched, so they likely reset the game when getting a different type.
Ah, I see. That's probably what they did. If you use that method, you would expect to reset a little over 300 times, which would probably take 5-6 hours. That's much more reasonable. Thanks for the reply.
All this math... but it's also possible to save after each Lil'-Oink is hatched, so they likely reset the game when getting a different type. How to make 1.7 quadrillion go to 300
The Japanese cart I bought was maxed out (as much as possible without glitching) before even going to ch7. Max level almost all star pieces/badges/partner upgrades. Can't remember if they had all 50 recipes or not.
Oldschoolgamer Nah, Chapter 6 has a good grind spot of Amazee Daisies that can be exploited with a fully-upgraded Watt and some badges available by Chapter 6. I believe it.
When I was in middle school, I got very sick to the point where I had repeating fever dreams, all of which revolved around loading a game of Secret of Mana (which I was playing constantly before I got sick) and getting an instant game over like the third glitch in this video.
Why? The objective isn't to rip the buyer off, but give the buyer something to think about before they do delete the files. I think the idea of playing into reverse psychology "DELETE THESE FILES FIRST" is a really smart way to catch the new owner's attention.
I like checking out other peoples progress in save files too. In fact, I sometimes dont even delete it if there is enough room, like the first game file in my used copy of Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon
When I got a used copy of Mega Man ZX, there was a save file with Model O unlocked, and Model X was always available in new files after getting Model ZX.
You can also try: DONT PLAY THIS GAME THIS GAME IS HACKED THIS GAME IS GLITCHED THESE FILES ARE EVIL YOUVE BEEN MET WITH A TERRIBLE FATE HAVENT YOU? (if it can fit)
I'd assume they saved his position because it was easier to program than to spawn him on ground below the save block, and there was no reason to change it because you can't move away from the save block normally.
Benjamin Brady Because you can Only Normally save under a Save block. Why add code for a Teleport to save block when you can save Position and not have to deal with Setting you Code for each and every Save block Position?
But surely it's easier to store the map number and location corresponding to each save block and then save at the save block number which will load you at that location than it is to save the location and map number and load you there, no?
Benjamin Brady Keep in mind how many Save blocks. That means at least 2 or 3 Lines of Code per Block. If you just make it Save his Room, X, Y, and Z coordinates instead of setting up Coordinates for each and every block, saving that coordinate, and the the Room, and however many lines of code for finding which block was used to Save, and then Forcing a Still Movement State. Just Saving Mario's coordinates is easier. And makes for Stryder7X to exist.
It doesn't have to mean two or three lines of code per block. The code that spawns you in a map at certain coordinates already exists so you only need to force the map and location in the map to correlate with a save block number. This can easily be achieved with a table and would probably be easier to program and would save processor cycles (although, probably too small a number to be noticeable). Which is why I don't know why they implemented a system that takes mario's coordinates and map number and uses that instead
Well, everyone else is making creepypastas. Time for me to take a swing at it. EDIT: This has been ENTIRELY reworked as of January 18th, 2024. I took the time to clean it up, remove unnecessary elements that was just cringe and overused creepypasta content, plus adding details among other things. I hope this makes the story more bearable to read. Now, without further ado... _All of this started on March 2nd, 2002. I learned about a brand-new role-playing game for the Nintendo 64, Paper Mario. It had a very similar gameplay aesthetic that reminded me a lot of my all-time favourite role-playing game, "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars." However I was living in a rented apartment with my parents at the time, so I didn't have much money, yet I really wanted to play it. So on my birthday, my parents decided to gift me a used copy of Paper Mario and my very own Nintendo 64. However since they purchased the cartridge from a discount retailer, it was WAY below the price of what it normally sold for it was incredibly inexpensive. It appeared to be missing the cover, and only the words "paper mario" were scrawled in black marker on the front of the cartridge. I didn't mind, since as long as it was clear what kind of game it was, it was good enough for me._ _I quickly set everything up and inserted the cartridge into the console to begin playing. The intro screen was soothing, as it told the tale of how Star Road granted everyone's wishes through the Star Rod. Having already seen the trailers for the game, I was already aware of what happens. However, immediately something didn't seem right. Bowser did not come on screen when he was supposed to, and it began to play a slightly distorted version of the final boss theme in the background. After that, Bowser did appear, but his face was black and red and he appeared to be decaying in some manner. Instead of grabbing the Star Rod and fleeing, he turned to face the screen... was he staring right at me? "YoU'VE mADe a TerRiBLE deCISiON!!!" The next thing I remembered was how quickly the screen flickered and how the game's frame rate drastically decreased. As Bowser leaped in the direction of the screen, the game abruptly turned to black and froze._ _I remembered thinking to myself, "That's not how it was supposed to play out. Is this some kind of bootleg cartridge...?" Yet I was determined to keep playing and enjoy it, so the thought was quickly pushed out of my mind. The system required a cold boot to play the game again. This time the opening sequence seemed to be skipped entirely and the title screen just appeared without any background music. There was also no background where Mario and his pals were meant to be. It was completely black, with sporadic game sound effects and a lot of garbled noise. I had a thought about blowing on the cartridge to clean the pins if they were dusty, but decided to only do that if it locks up again. Upon pressing Start, there were already four premade save files. Each one of them spelt out, "DONT. CHOOSE. THESE. FILES." Ignoring the ominous names, I wanted to test them all before deleting one to play the game from the start. They all had some kind of progress stored on the files, and I was curious to see what they were. I choose the first one, in which it faded to Bowser's Castle hovering in the sky. Nothing else was happening as it the game just hung there... however the music was now being eerie, and it played things that I didn't think would belong in a Nintendo game. Shortly afterwards, Bowser showed up once again, and the game hard locked on a black screen._ _I turned off the N64, and blew out the cartridge in hopes that it would be more stable. Putting it back in and turning on made it go back to the file select screen, with the first file being greyed out. No matter what I did, I could never select that file. "This has to be some kind of sick joke." However my curiosity got the best of me and I pressed on, choosing the second file. This time I was able to play as Mario and it showed him talking to the seventh star spirit, but the background was still black. The seventh star spirit was speaking in an odd language that looked a lot like Japanese, but the characters were deformed and crimson. I skipped past the dialogue quickly to gain control of Mario. I persisted in figuring out how to get back to Toad Town, even though I had no idea where I was. However my progress was halted when I discovered that there was a glass wall preventing me from going any further. I spent what must've been at least half an hour trying to get past it, but I came up short. Anticipating another visit from Bowser, I walked back towards the barrier. However, the seventh star spirit suddenly materialized, his face all crimson and black, a red trail emitting from his eyes. They smashed through the barrier on the other side, sending glass fragments flying in the direction towards Mario. The noise I heard was so loud that it spooked me, and the framerate took a heavy hit as the game was struggling to render what was going on. Then it seemingly froze once more, before the screen went black with what I could only make out to be a scream that was just garbled noise. Bowser finally showed up again, this time saying, "YoU'VE mADe a VEry TerRiBLE DEciiISION... TURN bAcK bEFoRe It'S tOO lATE...!!!!!"_ _The game cut to black, but it didn't freeze up this time. It had returned to the file selection screen, with File 2 now greyed out as well. Bowser was trying to get me to stop repeatedly, those file names are also doing the same thing. It appeared as though the entire game was deliberately attempting to keep me from discovering what further horrors were waiting for me. Unfortunately, I went ahead and selected the fourth file, being the ignorant yet curious person I am. This time I was properly in Shiver City... and I was told that I had assassinated the mayor, which confused me. I had no idea if this was past that glass wall or not, but I should've known I would've been spoiled on some of the story events. Regardless, I was told to track down the perpetrator since Mario explained that he did not kill them. I left the place and explored the area to find some clues, and soon discovered there was a key inside the ice pool. Upon trying to break it, I accidentally did the spin jump on top of it and that did the job. "All I need to do now is get that key." I remembered that this game had partners that followed Mario around, and so I tried to access the partner menu to see who I had, only to realise that no matter what buttons I pressed it simply refused to open. I then realised Mario didn't even have any partners with him, so I came to the conclusion that the game was messing with me again. Upon entering the pause menu and trying to select my partners that way, I instead saw Goompa all by his lonesome. The text for his description flashed quickly, "THIS MESSAGE SHOULD NOT BE APPEARING! IF YOU SEE THIS, CONTACT ONE OF THE DEVELOPERS IMMEDIATELY!!!" I didn't get much time to process this before the menu was closed on its own. Almost instantly, the graphics were completely corrupted along with the music and audio before the game hard reset back to the file selection screen._ _By now I had seen enough crap from this terrible bootlegged game and flicked the power switch to turn it off, yet that did nothing. Pulling the cartridge out, or even taking the plug out from the wall did nothing either. I was seriously concerned about what this console was doing, and decided to pull the plug on the controller. Despite my defiant attempt to stop this insanity, the game played on its own and selected the 3rd file for me. Upon starting, the game immediately sent more nightmare fuel in my direction, as it began with Mario falling down and being pierced by a spiky enemy. The expression on his face was the worst thing I had ever seen. I was frozen with disgust, horrified by what I was seeing, forced to watch Mario suffer such a violent end. It faded out to the Game Over screen, Mario laying there with his body having a gaping hole where the spike went through him. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, the screen glitched out and the impaling sequence replayed itself again, complete with even more detail than before. The spiky adversary seemed to enjoy himself as he bounced back and forth, looking completely joyful as a cruel person would, with Mario's overalls being completely stained in red. It repeated once again, this time Mario having been completely brutalised with him having holes all over his body and face. The game couldn't render all of what had happened to him, and I'm glad it didn't. For the last time, Bowser showed up and had some choice words to say. "YoU hAD YoUR CHanCE, aND YoUUU iGnORED ME... WhAT HaPPens NeXT IS YoUR FAULT!!!" What happened afterwards was an almost seizure-inducing number of frames that had scenes of Mario going through the most torturous situations, with the audio and graphics slowly destroying themselves as it spiralled into chaos. It got so bad that the game's crash handler appeared with null numbers, before a high pitched noise emitted from the TV. It went to a red screen with white text, telling me that hardware internals were damaged, and advised me to contact Nintendo to get it repaired. "NO FUCKING WAY AM I DOING THAT," I remembered saying to myself clearly._ _I still remember those events even to this day, it having left a permanent scar in my memories. It still sometimes haunts me in my dreams, and I'm having to live with this personal trauma for the rest of my life. But, at the end of it all, I learned an important lesson. Don't skimp out on getting legitimate copies of your games. If you try to cut it cheap, you might just end up being the victim in witnessing horror that the world was never meant to see. Not to mention that it took out my console along with it... which was just fucking fantastic._
Drflash55 NOTE: if you experience jump scares from your n64 go to the nearest hardware store, get a hammer and smash the n64 until it turns off (gone wrong)
OCG - Overwatch Console Gameplays or you could make files that have to be solved using extremely hard exploits, for example, having goompa out in the chapter where you have to save the yoshi kids so you would have to go out of bounds many times cause you can't use sushie cause of goompa being out
I know another one. In dry dry ruins, if you save at the first save block. Try to jump as far to the back wall as possible. Maybe parrakarry helps.when you load your save file, you will not be able to use your joystick. I experienced it:/
You know, this makes me now want to always check the save files left behind when I get a used copy of a game instead of deleting them right off the bat.
Someone is gonna get this cart, and then write a creepypasta about it. Even though this is stupid. "I bought a used copy of Paper mario, then went to play it. I saw that the files had names that made a sentince. 'DONT USE THESE FILES', they said. I went into the first, in Mt. lavalava. I spawned over a spiketop and died. In the second one, I was in the Shiver City cave, after the boss fight. I thought i would not be stuck here, but there was a ice wall halting my progress. I went into the third, just to find Bowsers castle floating in the sky. In the last, oddly, my partner was Goompa. I opened my partner menu, but the game instantly crashed. I think that Satan himself made this cart." Imagine someone typing all that, then someone showing them a video. What was the video? Look up.
Honestly, if the cartridge said something like "YOU|HAVE|BEEN|WARNED" would be great. Player wouldnt ever forget it and then anything else that went slightly off would leave the player a little on edge.
That One Guy With A Moustache of course if he did it without saving/resetting until he got the perfect combination that’d be insane, but yeah that’d be something like a .03% (3% x 10 oinks did I do that right?) chance of happening, so pretty damn good chances in lottery terms.
This is still easily probably my favorite video of yours ever! It's just so... *evil!* I really don't feel comfortable letting you have this kind of power.
Now all you need to do is add a GPS tracker to it, sell it online, them go to the buyers house whilst they are playing and violently bang on their door
This is still one of my favorite of your videos ever! I watch it every once in awhile. Holy cow, this is evil. I agree with my comment from when this video came out; I love that you got a 64 version of the game, but I don't feel comfortable letting you have this much power.
Mario is framed for murder in shiver town... He's stuck there for all eternity. That means Bowser won. His castle will stay in the sky forever. Mushroom kingdom is doomed. The ice wall represents his prison. The endless game over in the lava area represents his personal hell.
i got a similar GAME OVER softlock file but it's for a different game final fantasy 7 in the mako reactor with the timer save the game when the timer is at 0 instant game over upon starting the game 😂😂😂😂😂
If you wanted to go for a haunted feel, the fourth should go first or second, after the infinite floating bowser castle, as it would be most likely to be selected. The fact that the residents are blaming mario, or the player, for Goompa's death while his 'ghost' is following you and locking you out of progression would definitely do the trick. I would also do something different to the spike damage one tho, as it feels more like a troll than a spooky file
My cousin bought a used animal crossing game at a nearby gamestop once and it turned out that the guy who sold it had maxed out the bells for every save file... Looks like they had the same idea that you had to to sell weird save files in games
If it's anything like wild world, the infinitely spawning bells all over town is a super common cheat that made it super easy to max out - even if you didn't have it, if a friend did and you visited their town you could get all the money you wanted
I just realized how easy it is to get all 10 Golden Oinks. Just save beforehand and then get one, if it's not golden, just reset, if it is, save and repeat! Man, it took me from March to October, just under 7 months and several times watching this video, to figure that out.
