Textureless Mario Anomaly

The Textureless Mario Anomaly.

The Textureless Mario Anomaly, the TMA for short, is an anomaly only known to exist in individual personalized copies. Encountering this anomaly implies future bugs and crashes. It can also occur in altered ROMs through unknown means.

While this anomaly is active, the HUD and screen will flicker. Various 3D objects, the pause screen, and other map geometry will appear to be black. When the player interacts with the objects, the game will freeze or crash. In more personalized copies, an error screen will appear instead. Water textures will also appear to be completely invisible. When this happens, the music and sound effects will not play while the anomaly is present. Mario will lose all texture, appearing to lose his face, hence the name of the anomaly.

An up-close look at the anomaly.

Documentation and appearances

Footage of this anomaly occurring can be found in a video made by SwankyBox on his channel SwankyZone.

The Textureless Mario Anomaly in Super Mario 64

SwankyBox has also made a video explaining how he discovered this anomaly. Watch his video here.

Greenio's Tapes

This article is dubiously canon. It might feature things that contradict with known information or other more accepted anomalies, or simply be too unrealistic.

Reason: See Greenio's page

11.15.95

This anomaly appears on one of Greenio's tapes, specifically in 11.15.95, where he briefly appears in 1:20 in the room with the trapdoor to Bowser in the Dark World. The screen goes black, and then this anomaly shows up close to the camera in the black background with the message "I'M NOT HAVING FUN," then his red and blue color turn black, and the screen goes black.

Further text in the video shows the entity to take on a more benevolent manner, advising and pleading with the viewer to find their way to the Fourth Floor and to end the source of the suffering of likely itself and others.

It also appears in the videos Beta Bob-Omb Battlefield, Deeper Cavern, Genesis and Aftermath.

Gallery

The Textureless Mario Anomaly, or TMA for short.

The Textureless Mario Anomaly in Super Mario 64

A Video made by SwankyBox.

Theorizing

Considering that the only available footage of this anomaly was from a ROM hack where coins replace all the objects, Nintendo's adaptive A.I. is likely trying to reprimand and punish the player for tampering with the game. It could also be an anti-piracy system.

A hidden message within the footage of the anomaly seems to imply that the anomaly and Wet-Dry World are connected.

Anomalies
Power-ups	Cape Feather ⭑ Fire Flower ⭑ Frog Cap ⭑ Gold Mario ⭑ Hammer ⭑ Lightning Switch ⭑ Mini Mushroom ⭑ Ninja Mario ⭑ Phantasm Cap ⭑ Purple ! Box ⭑ P-Wing Cap ⭑ Rainbow Cap Switch ⭑ Safety Cap ⭑ Tanooki Cap ⭑ Umbrella ⭑ Yellow Cap Switch
Objects	Big Bully's Key ⭑ Cactus ⭑ Coin Discoloring ⭑ Crown ⭑ Dancing Flowers ⭑ Eternal Star ⭑ Ghoul Medal ⭑ Medals ⭑ Night Light ⭑ Poison Mushroom ⭑ Power Moons ⭑ Present Boxes ⭑ Star Discoloring ⭑ The Book On Bad ⭑ The 121st Star ⭑ Trampoline
Glitches	Astral Projection Glitch ⭑ Backwards Long Jump ⭑ Bugged Fire Texture ⭑ Cloning ⭑ Impossible Coin ⭑ Mystery Goomba ⭑ Parallel Universes ⭑ Toad's Tool 64 Star
Entities	Abominations ⭑ Ally with Info ⭑ Big Boo's Creeps ⭑ Birdo ⭑ Birthday Toad ⭑ Blargg ⭑ Blooper ⭑ Companions ⭑ Dry Bones ⭑ Enemy Toads ⭑ Eerie (Grand Eerie) ⭑ Hopper ⭑ Luigi ⭑ Memario ⭑ Mimics ⭑ Mipsy ⭑ Mother Dorrie ⭑ Motos ⭑ Namazu ⭑ The Cap'n ⭑ The Castle Keeper ⭑ The Mario Silhouette ⭑ The Prisoner ⭑ Quin ⭑ Shadowy Figures ⭑ Siren of Hazy Maze Cave ⭑ Unintended Playable Characters ⭑ Prince Bob-omb ⭑ Wario Apparition ⭑ Wet-Dry World Girl ⭑ White-eyed Chomp ⭑ The Whomp's Fortress Creature ⭑ Youkiki
Other	Active Geometric Aberration ⭑ AI Degradation ⭑ AI Misapplication ⭑ Achievements Anomaly ⭑ Alternate Campaigns ⭑ Alternate Endings ⭑ Alternate Peach Letter Anomaly ⭑ Anomalous Mario Manifestations ⭑ Anti-Piracy Screen ⭑ Coincidental Character Creation ⭑ Complete Data Wipe ⭑ Costume Closet ⭑ Developer Dialogue ⭑ Dynamic Level Arrangement ⭑ Dynamic Level Rearrangement ⭑ Discolored Enemies ⭑ Enemy Environment Reactions ⭑ Kill Code ⭑ Kore o subete no torakku ni tsuika.sm64 ⭑ Internal Clock ⭑ Internal Weather System ⭑ Level Locked Screen ⭑ Linked Worlds Phenomenon ⭑ Major Level Expansion ⭑ Mario-Bowser Fusion ⭑ Mario Clones ⭑ Mario Clone Event ⭑ Mario Decal ⭑ Mass Game Retheming ⭑ Multiplayer Mode ⭑ Notable Star Relocation ⭑ Options ⭑ Painting Creator ⭑ Peach's Bestiary ⭑ Personalisation A.I. ⭑ Personification of the A.I. ⭑ PLEASE INSERT CARD ⭑ Possessed Mario ⭑ Pre-Gameplay Changes ⭑ Qrty-unk.png ⭑ Score ⭑ Shared Nightmares ⭑ SM64 Stop N' Swop ⭑ Silicon Graphics' Curse ⭑ Sudden Restructuring ⭑ Super Mario 64 Toy Codes ⭑ Textureless Mario Anomaly ⭑ Timer ⭑ The Self-Patching Anomaly ⭑ The Shop ⭑ The "Super Mario Movie" Phenomenon ⭑ Ultra Mode ⭑ WDW Brain Diagram ⭑ Whomp's Fortress 1-Up ⭑ 7/29/1995 Build