Deter Inc.

Deter Inc. is a company that went bankrupt at around 1999 known for creating several cancelled Nintendo-related media, such as some of the Unreleased Super Mario 64 Merchandise and the Mario Month Magazine. It is believed that Deter Inc. had some association with the development of Super Mario 64, and may have even been the company that allegedly sold the Personalization A.I. to Nintendo.

Description
Most of the little information on Deter Inc. comes from 3 anonymous users that claim to have worked at Deter Inc. before it went bankrupt, as well as a document containing a supposed patent for a mysterious piece of technology believed to be the Personalization A.I., though this document has yet to be deciphered due to it's current state.

According to 2 of the 3 reports, Deter Inc. was not the original name, with the company name having gone several changes. No previous names are currently known, though an unconfirmed report claims that one of the original names was "Opal Industries". Strangely, these 2 reporters appear to have gone missing and all contact with them was lost.

Deter Inc. is known to have created a set of 3 plushies: A plushie of a Motos, finished Blargg, and a finished Hopper. These were originally discovered upon being sold by the first reporter on eBay, though the plushies were bought by an unknown person. They also are believed to have made a set of models of levels from Super Mario 64 alongside several figurines to go with them, such as a set of enemies from an earlier version of Whomp's Fortress, though this is unconfirmed. The final product associated with Deter Inc. is the Mario Month Magazine, being a cancelled magazine with an issue released on every March.

Upon searching through a list of now bankrupt companies that existed in Japan at around the time period Deter Inc. allegedly existed, a company by the name of "Nintendo Merchandising" was discovered that appeared to have created Nintendo merchandise that matches the description of the items sold by Deter Inc., appearing to confirm Deter Inc.'s association with Nintendo being somewhat more than creating merchandise for Super Mario 64. There was also evidence of them originally creating video games, though any games associated with them have yet to be located.

Employee 1
This supposed former employee of Deter Inc. was the first located employee, as well as the one who brought the existence of Deter Inc. to light. They were located when they were selling the set of plushies of unused enemies from Super Mario 64 on eBay. They were contacted by a user known as Motoshopper, who was interested in buying the plushies. The employee will be labeled as E, and Motoshopper will be labeled as M.

M: "Hello, I was wondering what the origins of the plushies you are selling are. Are they official Nintendo merchandise, or homemade?"

E: "I was going through my attic, and found them in a box from when I used to work at Deter Inc. They were making some Super Mario 64 merchandise around the time it came out and a few years afterwards, and they went bankrupt a little bit later. I don't really want them anymore, since I have a few others and I'm running a bit low on cash."

M: "Huh, weird. Never heard of them before. I'll have to research that company a bit more."

E: "I don't think you should. I've heard that one of my coworkers went missing after he tried to look up a catalogue of stuff we sold. Before you ask, I don't have that."

M: "Wait, someone just bought the plushies. Who was that?"

No response from the employee.

M: "Hello?"

Employee 2
This employee appeared shortly after the Mario Month Magazine was discovered. They were the one that circulated the fake image of part of the magazine, so their validity is questionable, but they do appear to have some true evidence, so it is not entirely known if this employee was lying or not.

"''Hello. So, I actually forgot about Deter Inc. for a while, but I did work there. I can confirm that this magazine was made by that company the one guy selling the plushies mentioned. I don't know what happened to him, but I think I know why. I think Nintendo made Deter Inc. as a decoy for SOMETHING. It was only making Mario stuff, popped up during Super Mario 64's success, and gone without a trace after it started to lose traction. And also, I swear I saw Miyamoto himself at the building one time instructing some suited men. Actually, I don't know, I may have been hallucinating, I was overworked there doing nothing in particular than typing up descriptions for the merchandise that never went up, I doubt that happened because why in the world would Miyamoto be there? I do have a scan of part of the magazine, though. I'll leave you with that. I don't know if I'll last much longer than the last guy, so if you don't hear from me again, ask Nintendo. Oh yeah, apparently Deter was originally named Opal Industries or something if I remember some old document I found."''

This employee then appeared to disappear after the magazine scan was de-confirmed by the original people who located the Mario Month Magazine. Some believe this was due to the employee being a troll and disappearing once their cover was blown. However, due to their description of the company being somewhat accurate when compared to the other employee stories, some believe they weren't lying but the magazine scan was faked for an unknown reason or it was from an older version of the magazine.

Employee 3
This employee appeared shortly after the Unreleased Super Mario 64 Merchandise page was uploaded in order to give more insight into Deter Inc. They also provided several images of the document that provided the most insight into the company, and is currently the only employee that still has established contact. They appear to have insight into several anomalies related to Super Mario 64 and the Unreleased Super Mario 64 Merchandise.

"Okay. Deter Inc. That company has haunted me for a while because of some weird things about the company I never figured out. Some employees were directly from Nintendo, and we only ever did Mario things.. Specifically Super Mario 64. I got the good job of playing the game to find stuff to make merchandise out of. I'm not going to elaborate on that due to finding a certain thing you probably know about. Anyways, I have something that makes me think something strange was going on with Deter Inc. An old document. It's ripped, teared, and everything in between, but some parts are readable, and it appears to be a patent for some weird game-changing mechanism? I don't know. I don't have much else to say simply due to the document speaking for itself, and that I don't even know much else about the company. I'll probably talk about some other things if people want me to."

Images of the document were posted alongside the message, though it was entirely illegible due to it's state and the low quality of the images. Some people have attempted to decipher the documents, though it is unknown if they will be successful. However, according to the employee, if the document does concern a "game-changing mechanism," it is safe to assume it refers to the Personalization A.I. This theory is potentially backed up by the evidence of Deter Inc. originally making video games, which could explain why they created the A.I. before selling it to Nintendo and eventually becoming the "modern" Deter Inc.

Trivia

 * Deter can mean "discourage (someone) from doing something by instilling doubt or fear of the consequences," or "prevent the occurrence of." It is not entirely known what this represents.
 * Both Deter Inc. and Opal Industries are the names of currently existing companies. This may be a coincidence, as any association between these companies and this Deter Inc. are unknown.