You failed to mention the integral game design behind adding MIPS to the basement: People discovered the fake wall was fake because they tried to corner MIPS. And when they missed, they accidentally discovered the secret level. Imagine discovering it that way, the way the developers intended a blind playthrough to be

@LilacMonarch

4 ай бұрын

I'm sure some people discovered that level simply by walking near that dead end, then noticing the "wave" effect giving it away.

@Accrovideogames

4 ай бұрын

@@LilacMonarch Yes, but it's good game design to create a situation that could accidentally reveal the secret to you if you somehow missed it.

@gelse6037

4 ай бұрын

In reality, when I played the game for the first time I completely missed the Shifting Sand Land. MIPS didn't work for me that way idk

@hamstreak5591

4 ай бұрын

@@gelse6037 Did you ever catch MIPS?

@gelse6037

4 ай бұрын

@@hamstreak5591 i can't remember honestly lol, it was a long time ago

MIPS doesn't allow the N64 to "run games faster". MIPS is the actual language that the N64's CPU understands. The entire game was coded in C, and then it was compiled to MIPS so that the N64 could execute it. Every instruction the N64 executes is a MIPS instruction.

@SilveryMP

4 ай бұрын

Dang dude where were you when I was writing the script

@Phredreeke

4 ай бұрын

MIPS architecture was also used in the PS1, PS2 and PSP.

@pinkyoshi9339

4 ай бұрын

​@@PhredreekeI believe it was also used in the Sega saturn

@samuraivader3814

4 ай бұрын

The burning you feel, it is shame

@awlomthesheepermen

4 ай бұрын

“The end of mips”

Guys…. MIPS isn’t in the BASEMENT of the castle… he’s in the FOUNDATION of the castle. He’s CENTRAL TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE of the game.

@Nightmareplayspopgoes123

4 ай бұрын

He built the damn thing

@Pencil._ink

4 ай бұрын

Idk where you got that from, but that's kinda funny and that will be my head cannon until I forge​@@Nightmareplayspopgoes123

@moosecannibal8224

4 ай бұрын

I will die never knowing why youtube places your typing cursor before peoples tagged usernames now when you reply to them @@Pencil._ink

@ellioteel

4 ай бұрын

​@@Pencil._inkThe comment by JohnP55 explains it best, but C and MIPS are the coding language that the N64 reads! The game could not function without MIPS, so in a way he did indeed build it all c:

@Pencil._ink

4 ай бұрын

@@ellioteel ohhhhhhhhhhh, that's really clever, thanks for explaining it!! But now I'm just imagining a sea rabbit being god in the Mario universe lol

i’ve said it once, i’ll say it again princess peach built her castle on a fault line

The fact that Mips is programmed to have air bubbles coming from him while in the water is interesting since he can't legimately go into water without the clip. He even breathes at a slower rate than mario, so the effect doesn't seem to be just copypasted

@hi-i-am-atan

4 ай бұрын

after a (very quick 'n dirty ) scan through the decomp, i can't find anything mips-related that handles spawning bubbles, so chances are it's just a standard behavior inherited from a parent object. in fact, the code that handles mips's falling state has an interesting bit where when he finds floor collision, he's supposed to spawn a splash effect if the collision's underwater ... though i'm not sure why it doesn't seem like anything happens at 28:47 in that case. best guess is that the effect itself automatically places itself at the water's surface. either way, it's the sorta behavior that implies no special consideration for his interaction with water ( again, outside of stuff inherited from a base object ) outside of the shallow flooding in the basement, since it only really makes sense in a context where mips would hit the ground near-immediately after hitting the water he's supposed to be splashing

@ScriptCatz

Ай бұрын

*MIPS

@wubbsy

Ай бұрын

@@hi-i-am-atanhe said that MIPS could be thrown in the beta content. So maybe the splashing effect stems from this. So if you throw him into the shallow water, he would splash.

It's worth noting that both of MIPS' two power stars are considered castle secret stars, which Bowser does not know about considering his surprise when you show up with all 120 of them. Granted, Bowser might just not know about some of the secret stars (i.e. from the secret slide, secret aquarium, or the ones the toads kept from him), but the game makes no distinction between any of the 15, so all 15 could be unknown to him. MIPS may have just claimed the stars were gifts from Bowser as an excuse, to seem to Mario for how he got them. Given that he said he didn't intend to hide them from you, and that he's Peach's pet, he's likely an ally. Maybe he's just a bit cheeky, maybe he's trying to appear at least somewhat antagonistic towards the player so Bowser's minions leave him alone. In which case, if his stars were indeed from Bowser, might he even be a double-agent?

@renakunisaki

Ай бұрын

These stars were gifts just like this wallet I received from his pocket!

Sooo thats why Mario's Rabbits are pink it's a reference to the original MIPS!

fun fact about mips: the path he runs in the basement makes it very likely you'll bump into the shifting sand land wall on accident, see it ripple, and realize you can jump into it. great little bit of invisible game design!

@Q-TebGamesNL

4 ай бұрын

That's how i found out about it in SM64DS

@tarblade1448

4 ай бұрын

MIPS path through the area brings you to all meaningful locations in the basement. The hazy maze door, both portraits and the basemont toad that tells you how to heal.

8:16 Keep in mind, just because something is quick to be added into the game doesn't mean there's enough time to test it, or that the Devs don't already have a bunch of other more important things on their To Do list. I mean, there's already a glitch involving MIPS in the game, so who knows what else could've gone wrong if you were able to throw him. When you're in the final stages of game development every change you make could potentially mess up 5 other things that you weren't able to predict, which at that point you often don't have time to fix anymore, so it's often best to leave good enough alone.

@TheJacklikesvideos

4 ай бұрын

yeah they not only had deadline, they had strict standards of polish. obviously big N was not happy that they didn't perfectly handle picking him up and putting him down. i can't imagine them throwing more mechanics in with such an essential and already janky part of the game at the end of the dev cycle. at that point, idk which is harder, throwing him or trying to throw him out of the game.

@Jman0163

4 ай бұрын

not to mention, they would have to create a reason for mips to be thrown in the first place, a big task of its own.

@MSCDonkeyKong

7 күн бұрын

Plus, he ended up having a game breaking glitch anyways LMAO

Can't trust actual news on KZread, but if you need a documentry on a videogame you are set for effin life

It should be noted that MIPS also makes an appearance in Mario Party 3 near the item shop (the multi colored bunny versions), as well as a Japanese-only Mario story and activity book. If anyone was curious, other things that only appear in Mario 64 are Chill Bullies (if you don't count the scorecards in Mario Golf), and Heave-Hos

@TyGuy2462

4 ай бұрын

Both of those are in 64 DS though

@thecriticalghost4626

4 ай бұрын

​@@TyGuy2462?

@TyGuy2462

4 ай бұрын

@@thecriticalghost4626 Chill Bullies and Heave-Hos aren’t exclusive to the original Mario 64 because they reappear in the DS version

Since the dialogue discussion, I've been drawing comparisons between MIPS and Nabbit. They are both in this very unvideogamely position of ambiguity. They are not one of the heroes. They are not one of the enemies. An ally, maybe, but in which one cannot put much confidence...

@SilveryMP

4 ай бұрын

That’s a very interesting comparison I hadn’t considered!

@HanSanwich

4 ай бұрын

We’ve never seen MIPS and Nabbit in the same room at the same time…

@littlefox_100

4 ай бұрын

​@@HanSanwich hahahaha

A full documentary dedicated to this little bunny? Sure, why not? This was a nice watch all the way through!

I'm a bit disappointed that you skipped over that Alice in Wonderland reference so quickly. Especially since, as we all know, Miyamoto based the Super Mushroom and the Mushroom Kingdom on the Mushroom that makes Alice grow in size. And with that, plus MIPS being a reference to the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, we have interesting theming that could be interesting to use for the Mushroom Kingdom as a whole, and if MIPS ever makes a new appearance. Not only that, but this could also be the theme for the Mario World as a whole. Not just Alice in Wonderland but fairy tales. The Beanbean Kingdom is already based on Jack and the Beanstalk, Sarasaland could be the Arabian Nights, and so on and so forth. And I came up with that cool theming idea thanks to MIPS himself. He is very cool.

@SilveryMP

4 ай бұрын

Fair, I didn’t think it was super relevant since it was a localization thing but it would’ve been a cool comparison to draw. Thanks for the feedback!

@Oceane1803

4 ай бұрын

@@SilveryMP No problem ^^

@luckyinky7849

4 ай бұрын

​@@Oceane1803 hey I've seen you on some pokemon videos

@evanseifert8858

4 ай бұрын

How is the Beanbean Kingdom based on Jack and the Beanstalk? Just because there are beans?

@Oceane1803

4 ай бұрын

@@evanseifert8858 I mean yeah obviously. Just like the only Alice thing in the Mushroom Kingdom is the fact that there are Mushrooms that make you grow. It makes sense thematically, it had to be intentional.

So glad you explained the MIPS name, as it's some trivia i usually shares with friends with no reason. i feel less insane now...

I find it odd that MIPs has never returned considering his simple design and how easy it would be to plant him in various scenarios, but then again most Mario 64 characters don't return much outside of their own games.

@healthyminds9279

4 ай бұрын

Well you'd think Mips would be important enough to return, being Peach's pet with direct relevance to a main character, and great potential. Then again, they killed Toadsworth...

@theking8347

4 ай бұрын

Rabbits became rather commonplace in Mario games.

@KurwaUnited

4 ай бұрын

He would be a cool partner for Paper Mario. I never thought about it that you never see him after SM64. I don't play much Mario and I hoped MIPS were somewhere else.

Wow, incredible detective work, mr. The MIPSbuster

ive always wanted a 36 minute video essay about mips

THIS is why i come to KZread. An obscure subject i had no idea i cared about, in a game i haven't played for years, despite watching endless hours of speedruns. This spouted so much information i didnt 'need' to know, yet i was riveted for the entire 36min runtime. Keep it up good sir

KZread: Do you want to watch a 36 minute video about that rabbit from Mario 64? Me: ……Yeah kinda.

I love me some obscure Mario trivia, particular when it comes to obscure characters. Videos like this is what I live for!

About unfaithful translations, the German version of SM64 has the Whomp King complain about back pain that Mario, doing 3 ground-pounds, relieved him of, and as a thanks, he hands him the power star.

This has inspired me to include MIPS cameos in everything I do

That "Clips" plush is the best idea for a plush I've seen in a long time and I'm surprised it hasn't been done sooner. I hope they keep getting made for as long as possible, because all of us need to get one. Maybe there can even be some more variations based on the rabbits in Super Mario 64 DS.

The man the MIPS the legend. Good movie

"who is this man? why is he in the basement?" - silvery 2024

I really love the 16 star route in Mario 64 speedruns, even as a non-speedrunner. It's probably the most "accessible" speedrun category. Runs aren't a huge time commitment, and you don't need to learn routing for a ton of stars, yet you also don't need any crazy tech like the lobby BLJ. 16 star still makes use of a lot of cool speedrun tech, and allows me to casually beat the game in around an hour. Thank you MIPS!

Thank's MIPSbuster!

my main take away from this video is that the MIPS clip was discovered almost 20 years ago. that's wild.

I've speedrunned Mario 64 for eight years this week and MIPS is one of the most memorable parts of the entire run to me

I have always admired extremely in-depth video essay passion projects like this one. This video now hits my list as one of the most well-produced video essays/review videos I've seen for the 10+ years I've been consuming these sort of videos, up there with Tucker's "Katamari Damacy and It's perfect sequel". This video hitting that list comes thanks to the great quality in every bit the video is comprised of, from the sound design not having any relevant audio being hard to understand nor the bgm being invasive, to the content-referrencial visuals being nice to the eye and not overloaded. The scripting is easy to follow aswell. I also think that taking such a niche thing and producing something this high quality with it is admirable and definitely adds points. Needless to say, loved this video and I am excited to see more from you! Good Job, Mipsbuster!

You'll always be the MIPSbuster in my heart.

What's *exceptionally* crazy about the MIPS Clip is that the basic fundamentals of it were known way, WAY earlier than 2004. The fact that you could get MIPS into rooms he wasn't supposed to be in was a constant in fake "How to Unlock Luigi" guides that flooded the internet in the mid-late 90s; I remember doing it as a kid! That might actually be why the GameFAQs boards reacted to it with some measured skepticism. But I guess nobody had ever thought to try using him to push Mario through the Star Door.

@thehevandragon

2 ай бұрын

I think I FAINTLY remember that as a thing in those old videos

MIPS showed up just for 5 minutes?! That's a lie. He's there for several hours

this video proves you can make a documentary out of anything

While I’m sad that MIPS didn’t get a cameo appearance in the Super Mario 64 DS port/remaster, I am happy that his offspring are running all across the castle and that if you try to catch one as Yoshi after getting the key from it, the rabbit will flip out at Yoshi saying “How many times do I have to tell you that I’m not food?!” 😂

I don't think lil Mips being a pet would be such a good outcome. Little guys hanging out in a watery basement instead of the upstairs with warmth and floors that arent wet poor guy.

your effort for looking into the japanese text does not go unappreciated. throughout the whole segment about the text i was constantly "thinking, okay but what about the original JP version? hopefully he doesn't just use google translate or deepL and call it a day" and I was very very glad you actually got real people to translate it. great job and great video 😊

mips is one of my favorite mario characters, so seeing a whole video essay about him in my recommended was a pleasant surprise. you did a great job researching for the video too; i had never really thought about why mips was in the castle and the explanation as to why [no spoilers] was really neat! great work

YOU ARE INCREDIBLE FOR MAKING THIS. i’m always looking for unique sm64 videos as it’s my special interest. keep up the good work!!

This video has such good production value, and surprisingly interesting too lol. Deserves more views!

Finally, fellow buns getting the love they deserve!

This is so neat to see someone do a full video on this little bunny. Keep up the great work.

Great video, looking forward to more from MIPSbuster

This is the first video of yours I've seen and it was a blast! Really funny, informative, and overall well-presented. Looking forward to more!

Okay, the chapter title cards are a nice touch. Thank you for that.

Fantastically fun video on so many levels from the topic to your jokes :) Thank you so much for brightening up my day ^^ I really love videos that are clearly chosen entirely for passion, there's something so special about them

The mipsbuster just caught himself a new sub, this was wildly entertaining for no reason

Finally some good actual fucking content, I loved this video and how deep down you went into the RABBIT hole, and the fact that there's no misinformation is also great

The editing on this video is phenomenal. The level select transition, music titles, and script structure really show that great deal of effort which our friend MIPS deserves!! Looking forward to your future vids!

An in depth look at MIPS, but no talk about he functionally helps you learn the control scheme, fast movement, and probably revealed the location of Shift Sands Land when you accidentally jumped into the wall?

Very informative, and a good sense of humor. Learned a lot, thank you!

Thank you, MIPSBUSTER. This is the first video of yours I've ever watched, but I'm already subscribed.

...That was the best line I've ever seen a video about Mario 64 end on. Thank you, MIPSbuster.

I've watched a lot of youtube videos, and I think this is he first about Mips; great job!

Oh boy, an in-depth video essay on one specific minutiae of a video game I've never played? My favourite kind of content!~ It's great when the algorithm works.

I thought I knew most things about MIPS after watching all those SM64 iceberg videos, but I learned so much new stuff! Thank you for making this!

Really, how else could you have ended this but with "so long gay viewer, thank you so much for to watching my video." The cherry on top of an amazing piece of investigative journalism/shit post/very silly self indulgent nonsense/actually pretty interesting thing.

I would argue that the first rabbit in M64DS is MIPS. It's pretty much the only one with a fixed colour and it talks very similarly.

Thank you Silvery! Mips is dah best Super Mario 64 character! Love that damn rabbit!

I remember hearing about MIPS with the 16 star MIPS clip, but I was under the impression that he was a stuffed rabbit, not an actual character. Very cool video.

I'm not sure why, but MIPS doesn't seem to spawn on my cousin's of Super Mario 64. He's got four save files that were each individually gotten to 118 stars and has never gotten MIPS to spawn on any of them on any playthroughs.

@alephnull8463

4 ай бұрын

actual personalized copy of mario 64

@AzumarillConGafasBv

3 ай бұрын

Personalized copy of Mario 64

@renakunisaki

Ай бұрын

Sure he's not forgetting and it's two other stars he's missed? It is theoretically possible he has a faulty cartridge but the odds of such a specific defect are incredibly small.

A+ video MIPSbuster! it feels like every other aspect of Mario 64 is fascinating in some way.. and maybe we partially have MIPS to thank for all these rabbit holes!

Incredible video. You had me caring about some silly video game rabbit I only had slight memories of. Hope to see more stuff like this!

this might be by far one of my favorite mario infodump videos now…. i love u mips… im such a fan of him now

This is exactly the type of video I want to see.

This was very interesting! Thank you!

I’m not sure the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia can be trusted for that tidbit about MIPS being Peach’s pet. It looks like a really fun book to flip through and I’m sure most of the information is accurate but it’s well known that the translator copied some stuff off of the Mario Wiki, like unofficial enemy names. It’s possible that there are some other inaccuracies in the English version. Since it’s never been said anywhere else that MIPS is Peach’s pet, it would be good to have a look at the original Japanese version to confirm it.

This is without question the best video documentary about MIPS on KZread.

I love incredibly specific video essays like this

holy moly silvery ur popping off!!! let's go

Great job, learning something new about Mario is rare these days. But you did it

I love how the comments make it clear this could have been a 50-minute video. Who knew Mips had such lore?

Very thorough. Love it

The past tense of Speedrun is Spedran

MIPS is actually still taught in some Assembly and Computer Architecture classes. Its a very limited and simplified Assembly Language, which makes it ideal to teach not just how to write assembly in it, but how one would build a full mips CPU out of simple logical components. I have a lot of fondness for MIPS, even if im probably never going to write in it professionally.

I'm glad there's more talks about MIPS, I had to study MIPS for my CS degree so hearing it be talked about made me chuckle

I was so onboard the Bowser X MIPS ship train until you got to the Japanese translation… tragedy… This is a phenomenally well made video essay! Thank you for sharing!

The line by line reading rocked but then the translation was so epic. Subbed

That was the greatest outro in the history of KZread

30:44 Those black balls that spit fire that the devs spam in the second half of the game. In the OG SM64 they're their own enemy, but in the remake they were replaced with Flame Chomps from SMB3.

Very good video. I enjoyed it a lot 👌🏼

@SilveryMP

4 ай бұрын

Whoa! Dude, thanks so much! I must’ve watched your tutorials like 100 times to help me capture footage, haha! You really made it feel a lot less daunting!

@Drogie

4 ай бұрын

@@SilveryMP that's so cool!! 😁 Hope to see more documentaries. Btw, I couldn't have resisted buying the guide either. Good choice to do so

silvery didn't know what i was thinking; i was thinking "MIPS was on mario galaxy he didn't disappear from the series"

_Super Mario 64_ will always have my heart as it’s one of only two games I can confidently say that I 100%ed them, where this could be considered an achievement. The other was _Star Fox Adventures_ together with my younger brother. MIPS’s stars were one of the last ones we got, we just didn’t think it was possible to catch him. The last star we found was Princess Peach’s Slide in under 21”; it’s such a stupid star as there is zero hint the slide has a second star.

im gonna call you the mipsbuster in every future video you make now just because of that one joke alone anyways very fun vid

Dude, if you make a 152:30hs about how yoshi moves i would watch it, MULTIPLE TIMES. You have a welcoming voice and an amazing way of narrating, thanks for the hard work!

I think it's interesting that the rabbit entities in Super Mario 64 are each called a 'MIP'. That means that collectively, they're the MIPS. (:

I had a different comment planned, nagging about the beginning where you, like you said you wouldn't, still tell us how great the Mario Game is (and that part sounded a bit Chat GPT-ish), but i have laughed so much up until 16:40 and THEN THE BIT WITH THE TRANSLATORS?! You blew my mind! Thank you so much, you are hilarious in a really unique way!

thats one deep rabbithole all about our buddy MIPS

Charles Martinet once did a corporate software ad as a conehead where he just says "MIPS MIPS MIPS"

Expected this video to be about MIPs' speedrun history but instead it's more focused on the character themself, very nice surprise. Still watching through the video, I'm 16 minutes in. I like the idea of Bowser hiding the stars strategically but getting more willy-nilly with them over time, giving it to MIPs without little thought. MIPs likes the star and wants to keep it and doesn't have any intentions outside that. They kinda have the vibe of a simple minded brat who'd steal candy or throw rocks at a window without considering the consequences or ramifications, it's interesting that he's aware enough of Bowser to know him by name. Thank you for the upload.

@Xahnel

4 ай бұрын

It's always the same, huh? You start with a basket full of easter eggs, and your first thirty spots are fiendishly clever, delightfully devilish. You even hand an egg over to several adults, just to reward those clever clogs who ask. Then you realize you've still got 90 eggs to hide. By the time you're on the last twenty, you're sticking them in any spot where geometry will keep them from rolling away.

While not a canon appearance per se, it seems MIPS made a cameo in the Japanese activity book series Mario no Bōken Land in a Mario 64 arc. I have yet to go hunting for a full page scan but the Super Mario Wiki does provide a screenshot on its MIPS page. On a similar note, I wouldn't be surprised if MIPS also appeared in Super Mario-Kun; for those unaware, its a Mario manga series largely based off the games. It seems the Mario 64 arc was from Volumes 15-19. Again, information is hard to come by unless you find a scanned volume / own copies yourself. If anyone is up to that digging, I'd be curious to know if our wascally wabbit cameos.

Mipster Silvery coming back with another banger

I remember being kind of oddly fixated on MIPS back in the day, and I never realized that SM64DS never called out the rabbits specifically as MIPS. I do hope they reuse him in another game in the future.

I really appreciate you looking into the original dialogue

that intro "like and subscribe" request was great.

THANK YOU MIPSBUSTER

love that dang rabbit. go team silvery!

MIPS is the most underrated influence on videogame history. except to his fans.

I appreciate this video, thank you for making it. I don't really know why MIPS hasn't been used ever again, even so with the developers having so much love for it, but at least he holds forever the origin of the rabbits in following Mario games. As a 64 DS player, I hold something for the rabbits in that game, and I remember rather fondly the eight shiny white ones. But also I was really confused when I learned about the existence of MIPS in the original, and questioned why there was only one rabbid in there instead of a lot. I specifically remember some gripe that I have about not being to carry around the rabbits in DS, mostly after I saw that using MIPS to clip through the doors was a highly regarded thing in the community. People may feel bad about not being able to throw MIPS as intended, but they don't know the pain of 64 DS players not being able to carry the rabbits around at all in the first place. At least we could play the catching the rabbit games more than two times I guess.