NEW Nintendo 64 Game Facts Discovered (N64)

Get an amazing in-game loot with a super strong Epic Aina upon reaching level 25!

Did You Know Gaming takes a look at a whole bunch of new facts from Mario Kart 64, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and Super Smash Bros.!

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Video Editing by TheCartoonGamer
Japanese Translations by Jacob newcomb
Video Narration by Dazz

Sources/Further Reading:
Famimaga 64, Dec 27, 1996 issue
Nintendo Dream, Dec 2003, Vol. 102
64Dream, Oct 1997, Vol. 13
64Dream, Nov 1999, Vol. 38
64Dream, Feb 1999, Vol. 29

#nintendo64 #n64 #nintendo #mario #zelda #smashbros

[DidYouKnowGamin]

Get an amazing in-game loot with a super strong Epic Aina upon reaching level 25!

[TwoPairSA]

Got a good laugh on Miyamoto's response to "what if the moon falls during a puzzle?" being basically "skill issue"

[OverKart]

Included with the Nintendo Leaks were source code files for Mario Kart 64, and within these were some traces of code describing a "chain" item. They used placeholder assets at the time and the code seems to be unfinished. There was also unfinished code for a Tornado that would would have gone on Kalimari Desert.

It seems a lot of the unfinished designs from 64 were fully realized in Double Dash.

[AdamHolland-Adz]

I find it amazing how DYKG still goes out of their way to translate 20+ year old Japanese magazines and works just to try and find any scrap of information that we, the viewers, eat up.

[residentdingus]

you're trying to tell me that majora, with its masochistic countdown mechanic and constant backtracking, was designed to be more accessible than ocarina of time? was there a gas leak in nintendo hq?

[drewba]

That time crunch on Majora's Mask's development honestly explains why the game has the time system it does. Never thought about that before.

[xJCRx]

Rumble is one of those features that you take for granted. Like, you forget it exists most times because you're just so used to it, but back in the N64 days, that shit was revolutionary.

Also, we did eventually get that Kirby Fighting game.

[safebox]

MK64 not having replay camera angles because of the weird mix of 2D and 3D feels like an odd complaint given both the original MK and MK64 were able to create a nice visual effect of the racers still carrying out the race after the player completes it.

[streled]

6:26 to skip the scripted raid sponsorship

[malic_zarith]

If they wanted 80% of players to beat Majora's Mask, then idk what Nintendo was thinking. I remember how difficult that game was when I was a kid. I barely beat it. I had to use a walkthrough, and that is not the norm for me. I hate using walkthroughs. As an adult, I beat it the 3ds version with no walkthrough easily, but I never tried beating the N64 version as an adult. I just know most kids won't be able to beat it.

[JJMcCullough]

It was never supposed to be "Kamek" just a generic magikoopa. The idea of there being a "head Magikoopa" wasn't really established at that time, so it would have just been a random mook enemy as one of the eight racers, which I agree with Miyamoto, would have been too "ordinary."

[normalguycap]

They wanted to make Majora's Mask more accessible than Ocarina? Then their inclusion of the time reset mechanic is completely against that goal.

[llauram]

really interesting addition by Itoi! the first one is my favourite for that reason. I like how all the characters are done in the same "smash 64 style" and the toy setting. melee was fun at being more serious, but then all the rest went far too faithful.

[maddestmike]

It's sad that not every Smash character has been made into an action figure, especially considering the idea in the very first Smash is the characters are toys that came to life and fought each other.

[seanmcbay]

Sakurai looks exactly the same in that 25 year old magazine as he does on the video he released a day or 2 ago. Just a different hairstyle.

[Fernando]

16:40 Might just be the translation, but Sakurai always explains things in the most unusual manner, lmao

[MoonPrincess]

Can confirm, Japan's magazines are a goldmine of information we never got in the West.

[sailorviolet]

Majora's is more accessible? That's a laugh

[Rafael_Oiticica]

Listening to that part of Majora's Mask, it is no surprise that the producer once had that nightmare of deku scrubs. The game was really a nightmare to produce, and it really belongs to that dark vibe.

[apollorockr]

1:41 At least Kamek eventually did make it to Mario Kart Tour and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

14:37 Kirb cameo. XD