Super Mario 64 Wario Apparition Mod Guide

Star 29: Dire, Dire Docks. The eel was replaced with a stretched model of Wario's face, mouth sewn shut. Marco swam past it, got the star. Exited the level.

"You're not collecting stars anymore. I am. And I'm collecting you." Marco tried to reset. The save file now had 30 stars—but the file picture wasn't Mario's face. It was Wario's. The console made a grinding noise. He turned it off, pulled the cartridge. When he plugged it back in, the game booted to a black screen. Then text appeared, pixel by pixel: super mario 64 wario apparition mod

After grabbing the first star, the level didn't end. The music stuttered, dropped an octave, and became a low, vibrating hum. The sky turned from blue to a sickly orange. And standing on the far hill, motionless, was a polygonal figure. Star 29: Dire, Dire Docks

But Marco could still hear it. Late at night. A faint, reversed whisper from the drawer where he threw it. Exited the level

He paused the game. The pause screen was normal. He unpaused. Wario was gone. Over the next few days, Marco noticed the pattern. Wario would appear only after collecting a star, only for thirty seconds, and only in your peripheral vision. On the "Whomp's Fortress" tower. Behind the trees in "Lethal Lava Land." Staring into the mirror in "Big Boo's Haunt"—but when Marco turned Mario around, the mirror showed Mario, not Wario.

The user wrote: "He stops being an apparition. He starts being the player."

Wario.