The Mystery of the Castle Plexus (Super Mario 64 Iceberg)

At the very bottom of the Super Mario 64 Iceberg, a phrase labeled "the internal plexus of the castle" caught the eyes of many people. But what is it exactly? In this video we're going to cover it from A to Z, but the mystery of the castle plexus is confusing because it has a lot of different ways that it can be analyzed. It's not a surface level mystery like L is Real 2401 once was (before Luigi was actually found in the files). So sit back and enjoy my slightly unsettling tale about Princess Peach's mysterious castle... But beware - every copy of Super Mario 64 is personalized!

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Credits and sources:

Written by SwankyBox.
Edited and filmed by SwankyBox and Stowgee.

Exterior M64 overlay by Skelux.

Music credits:
Songs from various Super Mario OST's

"Princess Peach's Castle" - Super Mario 64
"Mansion Exterior" - Luigi's Mansion

[Lugmillord]

Proof that there have to be more rooms:

There is no toilet.

[CheshireEsme]

I love that Chris O’Neal’s “Bowser Room” hoax still gets people to this day

[brianna]

Someone actually sent a letter to Nintendo asking all sorts of questions, one of them being about Princess Peach’s castle. Nintendo responded with, “Princess Peach has two castles; one for her art gallery, and one to live in.”
(Fun fact: in the list of questions, the person also asked “how do bomb-ombs reproduce, ” and Nintendo responded “with gunpowder and love.”)

[hex]

It's easy to explain everything:

Bowser had Kamek change the interior of the castle to include all those weird traps like infinite stairs, boos in the courtyard, trapdoor leading to the first bowser fight, etc. Sure, Kamek doesn't appear in game, but he still exists in the Mario universe. He could've just left once his job was complete.

[moonchild]

RE the no furniture, nintendo officially commented in an email to someone that Peach is so rich she has 2 castles, one for furniture, and one for art.

[emmanuelmercado]

Well according to that one text post about the person's dad who called/sent letters to Nintendo of Europe as a kid, Peach has one castle for her art and another castle for her furniture

[jakobgii]

You should do a bonus video on those endless labyrinths that were generated in 7/29/95 sm64, that would be a really interesting thing to see

[adscomics]

Honestly, given the overall inconsistency between her castle in the games (some even without a moat!) I've come to the conclusion that Peach simply just has multiple castles.

[pont]

Please, talk about 64DS.

The window corridor on the start screen.

The purple rabbit. And all that Waluigi stuff.

I'd just love it.

[ghostformanek]

My headcannon is that Peach is so unbelievably rich that she has a castle for her art (64) a castle for doing her royal duties (odyssey) and a castle she lives in.

Edit: I know her castles appear in other games too, I only mentioned those games because they were the only ones that were mentioned in the video and the most of the mario games I have played didn't have the inside of her castle (Galaxy) or it appeared once in the background (3d World).

Edit 2: I'm not saying those are her only castles, you can stop pointing out games that have other castles. I just wanted to share my explanation for why her castle in 64 is filled with art and not furniture.

[healmore]

I can’t believe that Mario 64 was released almost 30 years ago and to this day people still talk about the game

[cosplaymemories]

my brain melted when you said he built the castle before creative mode was invented.... BEFORE!!!! That's a hell of an ambitious project there and i salute!!!! :O I don't think i could ever get tired of hearing/learning/theorizing about other dimensions or parallel dimensions.... :3 <3

[jmaslaki]

“Mario was just eaten by the wall. Well that’s cursed.” Like the toads

[niftyrobo]

My headcanon is that Bowser just took all the furniture

[OtakuJuanma]

I always thought that Bowser's magic was what caused the castle to look like that. He morphed the interior into something more akin to what he wanted... Or the interior is a sort of pocket dimension that looks loosely like what it would but not quite.

[AlienXtream]

i always understood it that bowser "corrupted" the castle to make it into a deadly labyrinth

[linktheplayer]

You do realize that canonically this is peach’s “art” castle right?, this was confirmed by the Nintendo uk definition.

[Omega-]

5:36 “Help! I think I’m stuck between dimensions or something.”

[haikarawalker]

My theory on this one is built around a sort of “string theory” concept. For those unaware, string theory (or at least wormhole string theory) is the theory that when the universe was first created, it had holes in it that were linked together by pathways called strings, which were then stretched out when the universe expanded. This is sort of an inverse concept. The castle was mysteriously shrunk on the outside, and the interior areas and sections are completely different locations linked by “strings”. When the castle was first built, the doors were all linked to the room they went to with strings. Then, somehow, the castle was shrunk. The interior rooms were warped out into space, still connected to the exterior castle by the doors. If a toad were to drill through the wall, they would find and empty black nothingness. If they were to go through a door on this side, they would find themselves once again in the void, as they went through the opposite side of the door where the infinite void exist. The only way to escape would be to go back out through the physical hole they made. Peach was being kept in a physical room at the top of the exterior castle, while mario was running through the interior sections in space that had been warped and altered by bowser and his minions.

[famitory]

peach's castle has been in a lot of games, it might be interesting to see a comparison of all of them, with a focus on how things are moved around and changed. the paper mario 64 version in particular has a much more believable and fleshed-out version, with its library, kitchen, bedroom, ect.