5/1996 "DESTROY JAPAN" Build

The "DESTROY JAPAN" Build is the name given to the tampered version of the release build of Super Mario 64.

The Build
According to files leaked by W. William Hodges, the personalization AI that was planned to be released was completely stable, and actually going to be advertised as part of the game. However, at the last minute, Nintendo discovered that someone had tampered with the build of Super Mario 64. The cause of this tampering was unknown but Nintendo ran the build on a virtual machine and they discovered that if someone were to play Super Mario 64 with this build then the AI would seek out the nearest internet source and connect to the internet. This would mean that hundreds of thousands of copies of the AI would be on the internet. The AI was designed to plant a program on the computer that it used to connect to the internet that would allow the AI, which would combine with its other copies, to form enough processing power to hack into the Japanese military's digital infrastructure. It would then, using an exploit, hack into Japan's nuclear missiles silos and fire each one of them at strategic targets located in Japan. The AI would be able to neutralize the missile defense systems using the another zero day exploit like before. This would cause every square foot of Japan to be ingulfed by Nuclear Fire. Nintendo reported this, and the exploits, to the government, and Japan completely disabled all of their missile systems. Nintendo then scrambled to get another build to release, they thought that they had picked a build without the AI but they had not. Luckily though, the AI was not tampered like before though it was still unstable, causing many anomalies in the years past the release. The build that they released was the S-0-C-0-P-1 build.

The Criminal
The perpetrator of this incident was found 9 years later when during Operation Hodges when W. William Hodges was arrested by Nintendo and Shigeru Miyamoto. W. William Hodges thought that the entire country of Japan had "taken" his family when in reality they were still alive and living in Manchester. This caused Hodges to execute PROJECT: DESTROY JAPAN which would have destroyed Japan if it wasn't for the heroic efforts of somebody's uncle who works at Nintendo discovering the build and stopping Hodges master plan before it was too late.

The Note
When Nintendo took down Hodges, they discovered a note along with a Nintendo 64 cartridge inside of Hodges' car.

The note was scribbled in red marker:

MARK MY WORDS NNTEDNO (sic) YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MY FAMILY I WILL DESTROY JAPAN HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!