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Super Mario 64's "Unopenable" Door Opened After 28 Years (timeextension.com)
31 points by isaacfrond on May 13, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Direct link to the video in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmqFoojMeD8


It surprised me that this was actually a working door that could be interacted with from both sides. I honestly expected there to be no loading zone on this side at all, like there usually isn't in games where a door isn't meant to be used from a certain side.


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40335172 81 points | 1 day ago | 9 comments


There's an interesting underlying philosophy of what constitutes a 'hack' and what constitutes a 'glitch' here. Both are clearly going against what was intended by the original developers, and if you push a 'glitch' far enough you can reprogram the entire game.

I suspect that the line is one of those fun fuzzy ones.




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