User blog:SMFB7/hau14

hau14/jan61/toi21 is an anomalous enemy found in an unknown number of personalized copies of Super Mario 64. Only 5 people reported it appearing, 2 of them didn't really remember this, so it might be in 5 or more personalized copies. It was scrapped before a name was given, so it uses a RAC (Random Alphanumeric Combination). My copy has it called "hau14". Another person said it is called "jan61". The third person: "toi21".

Development
hau14 was removed from the game (but not from the game's files, the Personalization AI can still include this in personalized copies) in August 1995, not long ago after the famous 1995/07/29 build. Not much is known about the development of it and nothing at all is known about the looks it could've had in the final game.

Behavior and Looks
hau14 's supposed to be a Goomba-like enemy, but it has differences.

It looks like a dark blue ball with the size of a Goomba but slightly bigger, with its legs. It uses the Boo sound effect when saying something and has the Beta Boo's face textures (without the mouth). This means it was scrapped before it got proper looks and a unique sound effect.
 * It has 3 HP, which means you should jump on it 3 times to kill it.
 * Kills you if you touch it.
 * Tries to dodge your attempts to kill it. Says "Try harder."
 * Kills other enemies (unfortunately steals their coins, too)
 * Killing it drops 2 blue coins and the coins it stole. Because this is a test enemy, some copies might ask if it worked correctly.

Appearances
hau14 doesn't appear right away, you have to do something. It is unlocked by pressing START+A+B+L on the title screen, which then shows "TEST MODE ENABLED". It appears only in the following levels in the 3 properly known copies:


 * Unused Level 1 (TEST/Stage99)
 * Bob-omb Battlefield (Battlefield)
 * ? (Flower Mountain)
 * ? (Snow Island)
 * Big Boo's Haunt (Boo Apparition)

Report #1
randomguy123469: do you remember the purple ball from sm64? defeating it was so hard!!!!!! idk what it was named... (Aug 17 2009)

321xxx123 (Replying to randomguy123469): wdym??? never saw that one (Aug 18 2009)

Report #2 & 3
cawq14: omg f*ck that jan61 enemy !!! it was so hard to defeat !!! i had to use cheats !!! always killed me when i touched it !!! (Dec 13 2014)

car292 (Replying to cawq14): What do you mean "jan61"? I didn't have an enemy called that in my game! The closest to "jan61" that I had in my copy was "toi21". (Dec 13 2014)

The other reports were either lost or not on the internet at all.