User:Ultra64Detective2401/Iceberg Analysis

Here is where you can find my analysis on the Super Mario 64 Iceberg. More information on specific entries will be found in my sequences.

This page is currently still under construction.

Backwards Long Jump
The Backwards Long Jump is a glitch that can be found in Super Mario 64. There is a cap on positive speed, but not on negative speed, and long jumping multiplies your speed by a specific value. Therefore, long-jumping backwards will multiply your negative speed exponentially without bound, which is why it can be used to clip through walls and reach the top of the endless stairs without 70 stars.

Impossible Coin
MIPS Hole’s article on the Impossible Coin has everything I have to say. Besides the fact that if you want to learn more, you should check out the video on the article by Pannen.

Mystery Goomba
Again, MIPS Hole’s article has everything I have to say. Once again, watching the videos will give you more info.

Bob-omb Bridge Hanging
It’s possible to hang on the bridge in Bob-omb Battlefield. Other strange hangable ceilings exist as well, though they do not count as anomalies. Look here for more info.

Half A-Press
Check out this, and this says a bit more. (Look under 17: “What are half-A presses?”)

Parallel Universes
Check out this. Yes, this is the same video as in the previous entry:PUs are explained later on in the video.

L is Real 2401
One of the most popular rumors to exist. The text “L is real 2401” is believed to be on the Star statue (“Eternal Star” is the most common reading), and this is believed to hint towards Luigi. Coincidentally, 24 years and 1 month later, Luigi’s beta model was found in the Gigaleak.

Spaceworld ‘95 Beta
The most well-known beta of the game. There is an ongoing attempt to recreate this beta, known as The Preservation Project.

Whomp’s Fortress 1-up
On the tower that appears on every star aside from Chip Off Whomp's Block, a 1-up can be found hidden within the tower by breaking the bottom of the back wall. How this knowledge first came to be found is a mystery... that will force us to dive deeper into the iceberg...

The Big Dud
This refers to Big Bob-omb becoming a big dud after being defeated. Interestingly, a third rolling ball is added-Could this be Big Bob-omb?

Volcano Blocks
This article is correct, and has all the info we currently have about these blocks.

Yoshi’s Saddle
This article has everything there is to say about this entry.

Please walk quietly in the hallway
This refers to a sign in the second floor of the castle. It is unknown why the sign is even there. Perhaps it was left over from an earlier iteration of the castle? There are rumors of a floor that had Boos roaming the halls... so perhaps at one point enemies were meant to be in the castle, and enemies in the second floor would attack if you weren’t quiet. (Perhaps Piranha Plants?)

ET in Pyramid
Do you see it? (hint:bottom right of hieroglyphics)

Bugged fire texture
The smoke from when Mario gets burned is actually a glitch.

Mirror Room
I’m actually not sure what this is doing on the iceberg. Perhaps it’s trying to refer to what’s on the other side?

Secret Aquarium
I’m also not sure what this is doing here, for that matter. The Secret Aquarium isn’t really much of a secret anymore.

Don’t become his lunch
This is referring to a sign introducing the player to Dorrie. It’s unknown why this line was in the game, as Dorrie cannot eat Mario. Perhaps he could in an earlier build?

Ghoul Medal
“If you walk out of here, you deserve... a Ghoul Medal.”-Big Boo

Yet this medal appears nowhere in the game. Sometimes, the medal is reported in the game anyway, though...

This also seems to imply it’s possible to leave the area without collecting a star or exiting the course. This very well could have been the case in an earlier build. I wonder where you’d have ended up if you somehow did it. Perhaps the answer is further down the iceberg?

Broken paintings
Some paintings just don’t work. These were likely decorative paintings.

JRB Box
This box is strange. Sometimes touching it does nothing, sometimes it damages you by a large amount. We still don’t know what determines which one it does, but this is a glitch rather than an anomaly, as the same thing happens in emulated versions of the game.

HMC Alcove
It is unknown what this refers to.

JRB vanishing fog
When you first enter Jolly Roger Bay, there is fog. The fog goes away if you collect the 1st star. This is permanent, going back to the first star doesn’t bring the fog back. Only deleting your save or using a different file can bring the fog back.

Whomp King turns into the castle
Whomp King states the Whomps are used to build things. A castle is made after he is defeated. So it’s plausible he was used to build the castle.

MIPS throwing
It’s actually possible to throw MIPS underwater. It was once supposed to be possible to throw MIPS normally, but this was cut. Underwater throwing MIPS is therefore a remnant from that time.

Big Boo unused text
“Eh he he... You're mine, now, hee hee! I'll pass right through this wall. Can you do that? Heh, heh, heh!”-Big Boo

Blargg
This article is correct.

Dancing Flowers
This article is also correct.

Yellow Cap Switch
An unused switch found in the game’s files. What kind of block it was meant to activate is unknown, as the game’s coding defaulted to it already being pressed, and it being linked to Koopa shells, which is not a cap.

Unagi’s Tunnel
We never get to see what’s within the tunnel Unagi the eel comes out of. There are reports of it being possible to access said tunnel, though. Why is that? We also still haven’t solved the mystery I gave about the 1-up.. So we have to go even deeper.

WDW Skybox
The skybox is an image of Shiban, Yemen.

Mario enters WDW early in the Got Milk Commercial
No he doesn’t. You only need 31 stars. However... it typically is a bad idea to go to the 2nd floor this early-There’s barely enough stars in the 2nd and 3rd floors to beat the game.

Something that actually is off in the commercial is the WDW skybox in this commercial. The clouds that can be seen do not appear anywhere in the final skybox.

Haunted Dirt Texture
This section has all there is to say... except that face is kind of a stretch.

LLL painting fireball
The fireball never appears anywhere else in the game besides the painting. The in-game fireballls have no face. So why does this one have a face?

Island in the Distance
The Bob-omb Battlefield skybox has an island in the distance. What is this island?

Big Boo’s secret laugh
Here is a video of this exact laugh happening. Note that it predates the creation of the iceberg.

This is a result of a glitch where the game doesn’t properly increase the pitch of the generic laugh. You see, both Bowser’s laugh and Boo’s laugh are the same sound file-One is made by slowing the laugh down and pitching it down, the other by speeding it up and pitching it up. For some reason, this didn’t happen correctly, so we end up with a laugh somewhere in the middle.

Tower of the Wing Cap true location
As you can see, the Tower of the Wing Cap exists high in the clouds, with the towers extending downwards presumably all the way to the ground, but Mario gets kicked out before he gets anywhere close to the ground. So... where exactly is it? Where could we find the bottom of the towers?

How Bowser got into the castle with his sub
Dire Dire Docks has a drain that leads straight to the Castle Grounds. This is how Bowser could have reached the castle without being noticed. As for how he entered the castle... That’s for the next layer.

Skyboxes are photographs
We know for a fact at least one of the skyboxes (WDW) come from a real photograph. The others are very similar in style, making it likely they come from photographs as well.

True locations of painting worlds
This section is correct.

THE END screen
This section is correct. However, I’d like to add that what is behind the cake is likely the mystery the iceberg is referring to.

Removed courses
32 courses were planned to be in the game. We only got 15. This means the other 17 were at one point removed. We know what some of them were but not all of them.. (Unused Level 2 doesn’t count-Test levels don’t count towards the number of courses meant to be in a game)

Debug menu names
This section is correct.

Zelda 64 beta assets in Wet-Dry World
Wet Dry World’s city area had Zelda 64 assets used within it, and at the time, Zelda 64 was in beta. This means Wet Dry World’s city area has assets matching beta assets from Zelda 64. It was confirmed Nintendo did this on purpose in the Gigaleak, where we saw the area’s file name:11ZLDCITY

”ZLD” stood for “Zelda”.

Yoshi commits suicide
No he doesn’t, he jumps off somewhere. Yoshi, like any other main character in any main Mario game after 1982, can survive high jumps like this.

Rainbow Ride’s village
For some reason, a village was added to Super Smash Bros. Melee’s rendition of Rainbow Ride. Was it always meant to be there, out in the distance? What is this village?

Mario 64 is Freemason initiation
...It refers to this horrible theory.

...After seeing that nonsense, I’m not touching another spiritual theory again. Not even with a twenty-foot pole.

Big Boo’s haunt Forest
The skybox of Big Boo’s haunt shows a forest, rather than the Castle Courtyard. Perhaps if you could leave Big Boo’s Haunt, you’d end up in Big Boo's Forest? And get your Ghoul Medal? Yep, that seems right. Now we know where you would go if you COULD just walk out of Big Boo’s Haunt. Not that it matters, since you can’t... right?

Secret Slide Dimensional Rift
The entire slide is in a void of nothingness, both above and below. Fall off, and you end up falling through the ceiling of the first floor of the castle.

Original resolution textures
All the textures of the game once had higher resolution, before being compressed to work with the Nintendo 64. We found some of the original textures, but others are yet to be found.

Whomp’s Fortress Interior
What is a fortress with no interior? There must be an interior to Whomp’s Fortress... but we can never access it. Such a shame... wait, what’s that sound coming from the great abyss below...?

Oh! It must be from the Cold Cold Crevasse! That’s an abyss! So let’s do that next!

Cold, Cold, Crevasse
In Cool Cool Mountain, there is a sign that says:“Warning! Cold, Cold Crevasse below!"

Strangely, there is only a slope and bottomless pit below, and no apparent way to enter this supposed “Cold Cold Crevasse”. Strange.. if only there were some way to enter the actual Cold, Cold, Crevasse...