Hard to believe, but almost 30 years after its release, people are still making discoveries about Super Mario 64. Mainly because those discoveries require you to leave a Nintendo 64 running for four years for someone to actually discover them.
YouTuber Kaze Emanuar shared some of their new Super Mario 64 discoveries this week, all of which require a level of dedication to find them, or forgetfulness to stumble upon them by accident. One of them not only explains why you can't choose a star right away on each level's star select screen, but also demonstrates what happens if you leave the game on that screen for more than two years.
We would've smashed our controller.
Super Mario 64's code dictates that a star cannot be chosen on the star select screen for 12 frames. That's why you are unable to smoothly jump into a painting and choose a star right away. You have to wait for those 12 frames to have passed. However, if you stay on that screen longer, the timer that tracks those frames keeps counting up.
That won't affect or break the game in any way most of the time. You are free to select...
