Luigi’s possible inclusion in Super Mario 64 was part of a much larger leak of Nintendo data in games like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, Star Fox 2, Super Mario Kart, and more.
As reported by VGC, there was an early version of Super Mario 64 called “Ultra 64 Mario Brothers” and it contains files that reference Luigi. Modders have taken these files and started to recreate Mario’s brother and the results are quite good.
First is an image of @CometMedal with Luigi’s head in Mario’s body, which could also have been a horror game in some alternate universe.
@SpangleZeKankle then shared the full model of what Luigi would look like in Super Mario 64.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard that Luigi was going to be playable in Super Mario 64, as Shigeru Miyamoto had previously stated that Nintendo planned to include it in a “Mario Bros.” -style minigame, but because most users probably only They have that controller when they buy their N64 for the first time, for that reason (and others) we decided not to. “
Luigi’s planning for Super Mario 64 was only a small part of the leak. Other users have found one of the first Kokiri and Deku Tree forests from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, a prototype for Yoshi, uncompressed audio from the original line “Do a Barrel Roll” from Star Fox 64, and much more .
This search for Luigi has been going on since Super Mario 64 launched in 1996. In fact, we even released a $ 100 reward for anyone who could find Luigi in the N64 launch game.
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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.
