/vr/ - Retro Games

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What does the axe represent?

I've actually had the same thought.

>>6068438
Communism

Why did Bowser have an axe next to a chain that holds up his very own life?

>>6068438
Mario is actually Mussolini.

>>6068452

>>6068431
How does fire work underwater?

thats a key, not an axe

>>6068471

>>6068471
Where is your god now?

Since I guess this is the Mario lore thread, what's the deal with Switch Palaces? Who build them? Why do they have this dreamy aesthetic to them?

>>6068471
Mario throws balls of magnesium.

>>6068491
>Who build them?
The developers, as a game mechanic
>Why do they have this dreamy aesthetic to them?
Probably because they acknowledged that its a surreal mechanic

how does the mushroom get from yoshi's stomach to mario's mouth?

>>6068431
He prefers hammers.

>>6068431
That’s clearly a loudspeaker (item ties into his role in Wrecking Crew) and he shouts into it to demolish the bridge

>>6068468
Formerly knew

>>6068532

>>6068532
Thank you, Mario.

>>6068527
It comes an enchantment that can effect multiple touching creatures - but it has no effect on Yoshi.

explain this

>>6068691
Map 64 is a prototype/tech demo. Environmental effects ended up being too resource intensive but they left the test board in the game.

>>6068691
Mario 64 is a prototype/tech demo. Environmental effects ended up being too resource intensive but they left the test board in the game.

>>6068737
that doesnt explain why its gone until you start a new file

>>6068691
Doesn’t that also happen with Bowser’s submarine or does it show up when you replay the star?

>>6068691
It's a bug the devs didn't notice before release.

>>6068749
Because it's gone. The hurdle of re-enabling the environmental effect may vary well have been why they abandoned them

Remember to disregard anything Gramps has to say regarding N64 or its games.

>>6068762
How much evidence do I need to pile up? That fog thing is a prime example.

>>6068767
Actually? You fucked up by making it extremely obvious that you have an irrational bias against the system. I think it's late now, people won't take your posts seriously; on top of people not taking your post seriously in general, your N64-related posts are even less serious than your usual antics.

>>6068491
It's the previous inhabitants of Dinosaur Land, who had technology much more futuristic than is seen in places like the Mushroom Kingdom. Perhaps aliens like Tatanga, who were seen in the last Mario platformer to come out before Super Mario World, which of course was Super Mario Land.

In Mario 64, there are only two black spheres rolling at the bottom of the mountain in Bob-Omb Battlefield, but after you beat King Bob-Omb, there are three. You killed him, and his body rolls around at the bottom of the mountain forever.

>>6068750
>>6068757

yea bowser's sub can never be seen again after you get the 1st star.
im guessing it has something to do with being tied to the water wall that blocks boswer's 2nd level. since thats something that can only happen once. maybe jolly roger bay had something similar at one point

>>6068795
Oh god that last bit about the remodeling got me laughing.

>>6068737
Every game ever made is a prototype/tech demo. What does "finished" even mean? Whatever you want it to mean.

Shigeru Miyamoto: "You know…we might anger some people to say this, but games are never going to be truly ready."

Shigesato Itoi: "What a statement!"

Shigeru Miyamoto: "It’s true. If you’re doing it normally, you can’t do it. And they’re out there—games that are not yet completed but assumed to be so. There’s a project plan, you follow it as instructed, you finish the job laid out, and if there aren’t any immediate bugs, then it’s considered ready. The entire time I’m creating something, I’m desperate to stop it from turning out that way. I question what it still needs halfway through production in order to complete it. I offer ideas and help the director in order to secure a level of quality fit for completion."

https://yomuka.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/earthbound-64-cancellation-interview-itoi-miyamoto-iwata/

>>6068776
There's nothing irrational about it. I speak ONLY the fucking truth and never have I spoken other than! For my every utterance is a lie including this very one

>>6068849
wow shut the fuck up faggot
namefags are so fucking insufferable

>>6068863
Shut up or I'll shut you up with my musty ramrod.

>>6068795
Sounds like Peach's doors are a popular place to go through.

>>6068459
hello, redpilled department?

>>6068459
that's the fasces lictorii

>>6068527
Mario is Yoshi

>>6068481
Minimum 105k a year.

>>6068981
God I wish that were me.

>>6069967
The guy in that picture is just training. When you actually do it, you are duvet to hallucinations while simultaneously having the real possibility of encountering unknown fauna. There's a constant possibility of immediate horrible death due to minor equipment malfunction and even if you have the psychological fortitude to ensure all that, it ages your body so horribly that the median length of career is something like 3 years. It's possibly one of the most insane legit careers that exist.

>>6068471
That's not fire. It's yummy shrimp.

>>6070068
I'm sure its fine, wagecucks love to bitch

>>6070068
I was going to comment and say most guys I've talked to on oil rigs stopped doing it after their early 30's but they said they lived like kings during that time. They treat you like gold when you are on the job site and people bend over backwards for you because you are the magical underwater welder who could die at any point in time. If you do it longer than 5 years you get totally fucked up (They didn't explain why or how they knew this) and end up having weird shit happen to your body and then retiring or going into a management position and then dying in your forties. These were guys who did this shit off shore in a camp so it's a little more intense than just doing some welding at the bottom of a lake/river.

>>6068491
I always figured they were a magical drawbridge. The inhabitants (the Yoshis?) could build walkways and such out of them to make getting around easier. When invaders show up, they just turn them off so the enemies have a harder time.

>>6070068
>>6070590

Two words for you anons...

Delta P.

>they don't know the Japanese idiom "taking the axe to the turtle"

>>6070068
The dudes that do nuclear diving and glow boys are up there with them. Nothing like getting your yearly dose of radiation in a day.

>>6068795
>brown bricks
Were they made with mine crap?

>>6071335
Makes me remember how for the longest time someone made up a story that Farfetch'd was "based on a Japanese legend where a duck uses a leek like a sword", and the internet just took it without question until someone finally looked and saw there was no story like that, and the entire thing is just that ducks are fucking delicious with onions.

>>6068795
>Bowser may have attempted to enter Peach’s backdoor
I have the mind of a 12 old but I don’t care, that shit is funny

>>6071428
No, it's also based on the Japanese idiom "Kamo ga negi wo shotte kuru", which means something to the effect of "you're hungry, then a wild duck appears... and it's carrying a leek to use as a side dish". It's a phrase for when you have a stroke of luck, then find out it just keeps getting better.

>>6071974
That's also why it's called Farfetch'd in English, by the way. Because the odds of something like that happening are farfetched (and because it fetches the stick).

whats inside these balls?

>>6072484
They're golden ornaments.

>>6072484
Delicious Cadbury creme

>>6072484
Koopa kreme

>>6068910
This image speaks to me. Basically what happened when I was a teenager

>>6072573
You played tug of war with the Pennybags against a pair of sanitation workers? For what porpoise?

>>6072756
nah I was more free will and realized all my punk friends were just a bunch of commie losers

>>6072829
So wait. If you're friends were the commies that would make you Pennybags? Why were you playing tug of war against a pair of sanitation workers?

>>6068431
Why is there no Mario game where Mario wields a wrench. Or a pipe?
>>6068531
>He prefers hammers.
welp.

>>6068471
If its hot enough fire burns effortlessly under water because water doesn't actually quench fire it removes heat from it.

>>6068795
I'm sure Bowser entered Peach's back door many times.

>>6068527
their anuses are fused
haha

>>6068491
Dinosaurs? It's the Dinosaur Islands.

>>6068786
Remember that Mushroom Kingdom is pretty much backwater. When Bowser invades it with a fleet of basic airships, they are completely helpless. In contrast, rest of the world utilizes Power Moons to create modern and steampunk technology, like baloon-less airships of Hat Kingdom, electricity in Metro Kingdom (likely the setting of WarioWare games) and robots in Steam Gardens.

The only place more primitive than Mushroom Kingdom is probably the Donkey Kong Country, where they literally use bananas as currency - which is why it gets invaded by more technologically adept Kremlings.

>>6068527
Human Centipede

Mario universe lore:
In SML 3: Wario Land, in the area Sherbet Island, Wario has to fight penguin pirates in ice levels.
https://www.mariowiki.com/Penkoon

These are supposedly part of Brown Sugar Pirates, but we never again see them on crew of Captain Syrup in two other games she appears in, meaning they were likely natives of Sherbet Island hired as extra temporary help.
Notably, they wear medieval armor, which is different from most enemies in the game, who are pirate-themed with bandanas and swords.

...

20 years later, a fleet of snow pirates, including armored penguins called the Snomads - hailing from unspecified islands up north - invades the DK Island in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.


Obviously, Sherbet Island is the home to Snomads.

>>6072937
i am the sanitation worker

>>6073221
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IMJUc2KTbXQ

>>6074345
Oh shit Mario's got an axe in this video lol

>>6074243
That explains the smell

>>6074345
>no actual rape
>no actual dungeon
I am disappoint son

>>6074407
That song is from an officially licensed /vr/ album. Flash animation is old as shit too but probably not 20th century

so bowser just had 5 of these guys in his castle and thats it? they arent anywhere else in the game

>>6074810
Reminds me of ganons castle in oot: mostly a creative way to reuse cut content

>>6074810
They are native to Subcon. It's a miracle that he managed to get any of them to come to his dimension at all.

>>6076682
Aren't pokeys from Subcon originally too? They're in SMW as well.

>>6076793
And bob-ombs.

>>6074810
When I was a kid, I was always surprised the dolphins only appeared in one or two levels, given how damn prominent they were in advertising.

the fact of the matter is

>>6076682
>>6076793
Shyguys and Snifits appear in Yoshi's Island so there's no reason to assume any of the other SMB2 creatures are native to Sub-Con.

>>6073401
It's not just that they are backwards with technology (which bothers me how a lot of people seem to ignore the most fantasy aspects of a setting where floating blocks are a natural thing and there exist god and angel like star beings) There is a Jewelry Land where they have gems that can warp reality, and the neighbouring Beanbean Kingdom where the Beanstar is so powerful that they keep it safe at all costs.
Peach only has the 120 stars to protect her castle and even that didn't stop Bowser from going through her backdoor

>>6073363
haha

>>6068737
No its just that theres no wiggling of a sprite and dots that you need to dodge that sets you off

nobody has ever figured out why some dots are bigger than other dots

>>6078048
Level size

>>6073384
>>6073401
Donkey Kong Island is on Earth

>>6078383
wrong

>>6070836
Not only are they like drawbridges, but they also hold valuable stuff like power-ups

>>6079003
Reminder all the blocks are transformed Toads

>>6079008
>this fucking meme again
Bowser turned them into something that already existed in the world. It's like the tales where witches turn kids into frogs, in that not every frog is a transformed child, nor is every block, floating or not, a Toad.

>>6074810
>>6076832
Reminder that there is only 1 (one) vampire dude in the entire game in Super Mario Land 2, in fact it is the only appearance of this character in any game. He is not even some kind of boss, just a regular enemy that appears only once

>>6078524
its how many seconds you get to complete it

>>6079125
wasn't that Chocolate Island?

>>6079125
That's not it either.
It's still a mystery to this day.
It isn't level size, amount of secret exits, any item in particular, time limit, nothing of that.
Some anons suggested it might be a left-over from a prototype idea, it might also be just an stylistic choice.
Maybe there is something every one of them share and people just haven't figured out yet.

>>6079063
>It's like the tales where witches turn kids into frogs, in that not every frog is a transformed child
I've literally never heard of this "tale." Maybe you are thinking of frog princes. The "lesson" of the frog prince stories is that any frog you meet may well be a disguised prince, and generally any mundane-looking object might actually be something special.

>>6080473
i thought red was multiple exits yellow is single exit and big dot is 400 on the timer and little dot is 300, im not going to dig out my SNES to confirm that though so you could also be right and I could be misremembering

>>6078048
The big dots wouldn't fit in the same space as the small one.

>>6080818
Yeah, it's not that. You're right about the red dots having multiple exits, but bigger dots don't necessarily have more time than small dot ones. It's not the timer.

>>6080507
No tale in particular, just the general idea of magic being used to turn people into mundane objects or animals. If the story has any other meaning I don't care, just the bit that is similar to the game's story. That is to say, that blocks with items inside is just a regular thing that exists in Mario's world.

>>6080835
BREAKTHRU THEORY, does it have to do anything with the ends of the levels like big red having 2 goals instead of a goal and a key exit?

>>6073391
But neither Mario nor Yoshi are human

>>6068478
Maybe a keyaxe, like a keyblade, you know? but an axe.

>>6081571
Once human, but human no longer.

>>6080872
No, that's not it either.

>>6068438
ROCK & ROLL

>>6081571
>Mario
I know he's italian, but that's kinda mean, don't you think?

>>6079008
Not all blocks. Bowser turned some subjects of the Mushroom Kingdom into objects, including blocks. Some blocks give you coins and other items. Other blocks do not. The ones that do not are regular blocks. The ones that give you things, and also happen to be unbreakable, are people. They're trying to help Mario, and also this was the devs' way of establishing that Mario doesn't actually kill any good guys, despite them being turned into blocks.

However, Goombas are also subjects of the Mushroom Kingdom who sided with Bowser when he invaded. Mario does kill plenty of them. The fact that they are from the Mushroom Kingdom is why they don't appear in SMB2 or SMW. Other enemies being called Goombas in SMW was a localization choice that fucked things up, and was corrected in 3D World, where both enemies appear.

Since SMW is in Dinosaur Land, there shouldn't be any Toads there anyway. If anything they'd be Dinosaurs. But IDK if there are any references to Bowser turning people into objects in that game anyway.

>>6072484
Koopalings. They're Bowser's eggs and the arena is his nest.

>>6082475
>Bowser is female
>Yoshi is female
>Birdo is male
Nintendo is very progressive with all the transexuals in their series.

>>6082437
The manual, and/or Yoshi in the first level that he appears, says that Bowser trapped all the Yoshis in eggs
>>6082475
This makes me wonder he lays the eggs and such, but needs Peach's magic to be able to do so.

>>6068527
I feel like /an/ could answer this one. And if you've been on /an/ long enough, you know how degenerate they can be.

>>6079095
Weird

>>6082981
Mario got the world rid of vampires at once.

The fact that you never see a vampire in the series again is actually a callback to the incident where Mario killed the first vampire before he was able to reproduce by biting someone else.

>>6078416
According to who or what? DK series clearly takes place on the same planet as Mario games. Supplemental material like cartoons isn't canon.

>>6078416
New Donk City and DK '94 tells me no

>>6083063
yeah, Blue Twilight DX was pretty fun

>>6084673
Uh I'm not familiar with that many Mario games, so I was talking about SML2, but good to know about more fun stuff to play.

>>6083068
>mfw Mario did a better job than every Belmont ever

>>6070969
>Google that shit
https://youtu.be/AEtbFm_CjE0
This is pretty fucked up.

>>6078048
Time limit and Level Size.

>>6078048
The dots were added after the world maps were designed. God you fucking zoomers are stupid.

>>6085391
Its quick...but not pretty for the clean up.