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A mockup of what the button to access the Options menu would look like on the file select screen.
The Options Menu is an anomalous menu that reportedly manifests on the file select screen of some personalized copies of Super Mario 64. The Options menu usually replaces the Stereo button at the bottom right of the file select screen, though can reportedly appear as a separate, fifth menu. The Options Menu contains several settings that can affect the appearance of the game, as well as the option to have some more drastic anomalous changes.
Description[]
The Options menu usually takes the appearance of the other menus, appearing as either pink or the color of the button if it is recolored. The actual menu usually has several buttons or sliders for the options present. There are usually many options varying greatly. These options are usually very inconsistent between reports, though there are very little reported options that only appear in one report. A list of the reported options are:
- Sliders to change the audio of sound effects, voice clips, and the music.
- Buttons to change the controls of the player.
- A button or slider to change the player character if there are multiple characters present in the copy.
- The difficulty or campaign of the game. Difficulties usually increase the amount of enemies, change the types of enemies that spawn, how many lives the player starts with or can obtain, and how much damage the player takes or even how much total health the player has.
- Whether sprite objects should become 3D models or not. This option is usually very buggy, can cause lag and can potentially even crash the game.
- A built-in equivalent to the Costume Closet.
- A slider for how personalized the game should be, going from simple DLR and Enemy Discoloring to new levels and mechanics using a similar metric to the Wario Approximation.
Theorizing[]
It is most commonly believed that the Options menu was removed due to being buggy, somewhat unnecessary and some settings simply being able to be automatically accommodated by the Personalization A.I. or simply used in other locations. Some people theorize that the menu was particularly removed due to the 2D sprites to 3D models option, though the idea that the entire menu was removed due to a single option does not sound very realistic.