There is another sign in Ocarina of Time’s Dodongo cavern that uses the same texture, so it’s possible that it’s just gibberish meant to represent any text. This was only a day off from Paper Mario’s release date in North America (Feb 05) in which he appeared but played a minor role as an NPC.

Others thought it was referring to a date (Feb 04 2001) after which people thought Super Luigi 64 (or Super Mario 64 2) would be released. Which was thought to refer to all the coins in the game but there are only 2,090 of them in total. Others interpret it as saying “Eternal Star” I think it was that it activates after collecting all 120 stars and completing some other tasks.Īnother was that the same statue has a sign that reads “L is real 2401”. The one I remember the most had something to do with the star statue in the courtyard (outside the Big Boo’s Haunt stage).

There were many rumors on how to unlock Luigi. Eventually, mod tools and N64 hackers came about to find a solution, which came to be known as Super Luigi 64. When the game finally came out, he was nowhere to be found, but plenty of speculation on how to unlock him. When Super Mario 64 came out, people wondered if Luigi would be playable as player 2. The only exception were the Game Boy games, but those were portable and so didn’t translate to multiplayer very well. From Mario Bros arcade to Super Mario Bros 3, even in the SNES era with Super Mario World, it’s a rule as old as time. Every Mario game that has ‘Bros’ in the title has had one thing in common: you can play as both the eponymous Mario and his brother Luigi.

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