User:Ultra64Detective2401/Other Canons Unofficial Explainer

Here at MIPS Hole, there were once universal constants, not to be questioned.

1:Super Mario 64 is the only game that is personalized. Period. Why would Nintendo add the AI to other games after the first case failed?

2:This includes the DS remake, which was built from the ground up.

Now, it has in fact been demonstrated through differences in quirks in the code that the DS remake was built from the ground up. However, evidence also suggests that the game was both originally meant to be a closer match to the N64 game than it ultimately ended up being (unused room for code for the metal and vanish cap switches exist, and the original Secret Slide entrance is there in the game, unused), and dialouge may have been directly copy/pasted as well, given the existence of unused Big Boo text that is an exact match from the original game... that was also unused.

This had lead some to speculate... what if these assumptions were wrong? What if the AI actually was brought to other games?

These questions were swiftly dismissed:No reliable reports of these other games being personalized existed, and surely, after Nintendo already decided the project was a failure and started acting to keep the AI under wraps in 1997, they wouldn't just bring the AI back, right?

But many things that were once considered unbelievable were later found to be true. Two additional floors, potential new game campaigns, and levels of personalization that are so different from the base game that they look like they are ROM hacks made by Kaze. Not to mention that few, if any, credible reports of personalization in SM64 itself existed until some leakers came forth in 2020... and evidence suggests the Dissident himself was involved, who then reported everyone involved. This, and the complete failure of the Nintendo Ninjas to properly discredit these reports and censor the results, after more than 20 years of sucessfully doing just that... isn't that kinda sus? And what does that tell us? If an insider didn't give it away, would we even know that every copy was personalized today? Would we still be under the impression that no copy was? The 1-up crack being sus was only discovered after the fact.

What if the Ninjas have been doing the exact same thing with the other games? What if the reason why we haven't seen reports of other games being personalized... is because Nintendo has been taking them down?

And it's not like Nintendo to give up after just one failure. When Sticker Star failed, Nintendo doubled down with Color Splash (which also failed.) When the Virtual Boy failed, Nintendo kept trying to make 3D (though these attempts never made it to retail) until it finally paid off with the 3DS.

This has lead us to reconsider the possibility that other games are personalized, and the reports have simply been taken down, leaving only the fan creations that are obviously fake.

For this reason, claims of personalization in other games will soon no longer automatically be non-canon. Instead, there will be special canons for these possibilities. It's up to you to decide whether you believe these claims or not. Maybe it is just Mario 64... maybe it's not.

Besides, as the Foundation put it... there is no canon.