it's a hidden sound effect that's gonna take an insane snack budget to settle into listening out for. Kaze Emanuar, a hacker who's been reporting his findings on Super Mario 64 for years now ...

Super Mario Super Mario Bros speedrunners spend ... them 200 times Super Mario Super Mario 64 hacker discovers in-game sound effect you can only hear in full if you leave the N64 classic running ...

The second was a faintly horrifying pitch from the game's sound director, Koji Kondo. "His idea was, when a Wonder Effect activates, a live action version of Mario with human proportions appears ...

The result is sensory overload. Mario games are cacophonous enough as is; switching every single sound effect to human vocalization is... Look. Judge for yourself. You can see (and hear ...