Why luigi wasnt in sm64

The most common interpretation of the plaque's inscription was that the top line reads " L is real ". Consequently, the plaque was theorized to have connections to Luigi, a character who makes no appearance in the game. Players may have struggled to believe in Luigi's absence as he had been a playable character in every prior Super Mario game, aside from the Super Mario Land games.

A popular urban legend was that Luigi could be unlocked as a playable character. This led to various rumors speculating on his unlock method, sometimes involving the perceived number Interestingly, multiplayer with Luigi was originally planned for Super Mario 64 , but was removed along with his art assets before the game's release.

As technical knowledge of Super Mario 64 grew, unofficial models of Luigi in the game's style propagated online. One rumor claimed that represents the total number of coins in Super Mario 64 , and that collecting them all and returning to the statue would unlock Luigi.

While collecting coins does unlock Power Stars elsewhere in the game, this rumor is false, as the maximum value of unique coins in the game without duplication glitches is This total includes a few misplaced coins that are inaccessible without glitches, lending further doubt to theories that assign a meaning to the game's coin total.

If the game were tracking the collection of individual coins, especially by designating each with a unique bit in memory as it does to track Power Stars, it is more likely that these misplaced coins would have been addressed and removed.

If the game were not tracking coins individually, it would be trivial to reach the number of unique coins in the game by reentering courses to respawn the coins. This has likely been accomplished by accident. Note also that a player could also obtain an arbitrary coin total by using glitches to duplicate coins. If these glitches are counted, it's trivial to claim any sum of coins is the "total number of coins in Super Mario 64 ", such as:.

Another rumor claimed that running around the statue, or alternatively the castle grounds, times would unlock Luigi. This may have been inspired by the method to defeat the Mr.

I enemy, which appears in the nearby Big Boo's Haunt. The magnitude of this action likely made the rumor difficult to disprove, as making thousands of laps is a long process where it's easy to lose count, and the inevitable lack of results could be blamed on an unnoticed mistake anywhere throughout the process.

This seems to have been a common tactic to make rumors unfalsifiable, but it becomes less effective as one realizes that Mario games tend not to be designed with such repetitive or exacting sequences with no indication of progress. A separate theory around the "L is real" interpretation was that it was hinting at Luigi's later role in Paper Mario , which released in North America on February 5, , one day after Under this interpretation, the bottom line could be read as " in Paper M ", lending the full interpretation "Luigi is real on in Paper Mario ".

The answer lies in the past — specifically According to an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto — translated by shmuplations — Super Mario 64 was made with the brothers in mind. Luigi was supposed to do everything Mario could do, but the game couldn't handle two playable characters. Luigi was in Super Mario 64 "until February," and was removed because of "memory issues.

They tried to create a minigame where players could control Mario and Luigi, but it was scrapped under the assumption most players wouldn't have enough controllers. A passion for video games was instilled at a young age when Kyle Gratton and his older brother were gifted a Nintendo 64 with Ocarina of Time and Mario Kart. Graduating from the University of Kansas as an English and History major, with a minor in Film, Kyle enjoys discussing literature, movies, television, and especially video games.

He currently writes features and reviews for Screen Rant's games section, and dabbles in short fiction occasionally. By Kyle Gratton Published Aug 22, Share Share Tweet Email 0. But how can there be a modern, 3D Mario game without Luigi? He was in pieces, but fans rebuilt him. They had the technology. Not a huge difference, of course. And so, after nearly a quarter of a century, L is real.