Waluigi

Waluigi is a recurring character found in the Mario series who was made to rival Luigi. Waluigi mainly appeared in spin-off games such as Mario Tennis and Mario Party 3. Waluigi is known to be Wario's partner ever since Waluigi made his first appearance in Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64. The details of Waluigi's past are unclear since he has no confirmed background, although he was evidently been antagonizing the Mario Bros., especially Luigi, for quite some time before his debut as seen in the opening of Mario Tennis, where he and Luigi confront each other.

Despite the appearance of all three main plumbers in Super Mario 64 DS, Waluigi was nowhere to be found. And it is unknown why, considering how a popular Nintendo-related magazine had a tutorial in one of its many issues on how to unlock the purple plumber.

Unlocking Waluigi
Several members of the Super Mario community have speculated about a possible way to unlock the lanky plumber in Super Mario 64 DS, although there isn't a clear way to do so. The most popular method to "unlock" Waluigi was the Purple Prizes, a magazine which claimed Waluigi was unlockable. The instructions are as follows:

It claims that only the best players could find the character, and that he could only be unlocked after gathering all the stars and "being the fastest footracer in the land", that way, the secret door would unlock and the player would have to race the Rabbit King, who is supposedly the leader of all the rabbits found inside the game. The article also claims that Waluigi's special ability is 'Spring Jump', and that his power flower allowed the player to run extremely fast. This was clearly fake and no evidence of Waluigi being in the game or being ever planned for the game was found.

Despite no traces of Waluigi being in Super Mario 64 DS, a purple rabbit can be seen in the US instruction manual for the game. While this could be chalked up to poor printing of the pinkish rabbits belonging to Mario, the rabbit's colouration is distinctly purple hinting that these could've belonged to Waluigi at one point. Additionally, it's rumoured that files relating to Waluigi or the areas associated with him can be found in the PAL version of Super Mario 64 DS.

Personalisation
Some characters have reported seeing Waluigi in their personalised copies of Super Mario 64, most as a non playable character that runs around the castle, away from the player. However, some players have actually encountered Walugi with a different behaviour, mostly in the fourth floor of Princess Peach's Castle, running through the infinite halls, inbetween Boos, while giggling like a maniac. Oddly enough, this version of Waluigi used his model from Mario Tennis, a game that came out after Super Mario 64.