This Took Me 3 Years to Find 

Hey all. This is the OP on his main because logging in on the alt is a chore.

This reminds me of when I was playing my first ds game, Bowser’s inside story, and taking like 6 months to realize that the game wasn’t hard, my r button was just broken and thats why I couldn’t do anything.

Back in the day (before Internet was easily accessable) these moments all felt so rewarding!

For me, the most insane moment in this game is the "Behind the Waterfall" level in Hazy Maze Cave. If you fall down the Waterfall, you end up behind Peaches Castle

I remember hearing this in VC.

I love moments when i figure things out in a game by myself, and if it takes hours or days, i sometimes look at a walk through.

I love hearing little stories like this. SM64 DS was definitely one of the main games with playground rumors when I was a kid. I remember literally being on the school playground and my friend telling me that Dry Bones was the 5th unlockable character and he was behind the grey door in the character select room. Of course it wasn't true, but stuff like that totally captured my imagination as a kid. The game's ACTUAL secrets gave some credibility to the rumors, because you never knew what was hiding in each level. Boo's Haunt itself felt like a huge discovery to me as a kid. I really enjoyed this video. Keep it up!

I know friends of mine that will google any solution to a game, and not try to discover and lean the issue, whenever we play a game together, luckily enough they respect my preferred way and will not google solutions, I just don’t find it being the true and intended way to play. Though, I will admit, if were truly are stuck I will eventually concede as it’s clearly not fun for them.

I came into this video knowing exactly what was gonna be the subject. I honestly feel surprised that so many people didnt know how to unlock Luigi and Wario until recently. I really hope that Nintendo remasters this. It’s clear they haven’t forgotten it since there’s a WarioWare slider minigame based on SM64DS

Nostalgic videos like this hit home.

This story is so charming. I remember on the Nintendo 64 that same ledge in Big Boo's Haunt gave me trouble too. Not only did it take me forever just to find it like you but it even took me forever to get up there too. I love that Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS have both been a place of wonder for people. There really is something special about playing video games as a child in specific, or exploring something completely new in general, when you have no idea how things work or what to expect. It's not the same - maybe not necessarily worse but definitely not the same - when you're an adult and the world isn't as magical anymore.

gosh, i'm so happy i wasn't the only one brute forced the majority of this game with unlocking the pure bare minumum, the first time finishing this game i didn't unlock either of the other characters OR the ? switch. i think it took me a bit into postgame (and accidently, mind you) to find the ? switch, and eventually, after practically clearing out EVERYTHING you could with just yoshi, mario, and the ? Blocks to finally figure out there was a third floor in BBH and, you know, finally unlock Luigi and immediately after, Wario. I think the funniest part was my brother was older than me by 5 years (for reference I was 6, he was 11) and even he didn't have any clue on how to find the progression stuff in SM64DS either. Our parents would sometimes get us the strategy guide for games we'd get but this one in particular was one we didn't have that luxury lol

As a kid I figured out the white light to get the wing cap cause I just ... saw the light and was like "WHAT'S THAT?!" like a snot nosed bwat that I was. I also remember going to one of my Kindergarten friends' house, and he still didn't get the cap so I showed him how to do it. I felt like a genius, even though I couldn't read.

The same scenario happened to me. I no longer have my ds from when i was 12, and i know it doesn't matter because even if i did, i still wouldn't feel the same as i did back then. It's still fun remembering this, though.

It's amazing how a video game can make you feel as a kid. It's like our brains are just designed to be super easy to please at that stage in life.

I had a pirated version of this game on an R64 card and I remember getting my dad to beat the Goomba King to unlock Mario because it was too hard. Did the same for the like 6 phase robot boss in Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter.

lmao i remember being afraid of a goomba. A FUCKING GOOMBA. i think it was that toad described them as “monsters” and my brain was like “monster = scary” so yeah i would always hide behind the cannon at the start of bob-omb battlefield.

I have so many similar memories with this game, this video really made my nostalgia come back

I think I had a similar experience with unlocking the Power Flowers. I can’t tell you how much time I spent trying to get on the roof from the castle’s courtyard and reading the manual’s page about the flower being on the roof. Like five or so years later, I realized I could look it up on the internet and finally unlocked it. Never had any trouble with Luigi or Wario though 😅

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