Super Mario 64 DS is the best version of Mario 64. It has more Stars than the original, more playable characters with Yoshi, Luigi and Wario, and a Luigi casino where you can gamble your life's savings on your Nintendo DS. This was my childhood, let's play all of it
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This is the best version of the game. If you'd like to see me play the Minigames as well, I've a seperate video of exactly that here kzhead.info/sun/eruEc96EkJeDmIE/bejne.html
You should definitely play bowsers inside story I love it when you play mario games
Apart from the 8 directional movement this is definitely the best version. I wish Nintendo had added it to 3d all stars, it would've been the easiest remaster ever.
This game was my childhood and watching you play it makes feel nostalgic. I actually 100% this game right before you started playing it and I was still ecstatic to watch you play. Can't wait for the rest of the games you have in wait
You're damn right it is!
YOU ARE SO RIGHT
I like how Peach specifically invited Mario for cake, but he decided to bring the Boys as well.
Real homie right there, even inviting his rival who has tried to murder him on multiple different occasions
actually the manual states they just showed up to crash the party, and i think wario was trying to rob the treasury. could be wrong on that second one tho...
@@Door227Wario is Mario’s childhood friend.
@@robertwyatt3912Dang, Mario lore was crazier than I thought
Why only Bois? XD is Mario sexist...jk lol 🤣 he's definitely not. XD he's an epic woke character conservatives fear...XD why'd I bring up politics XD because everything is political and I was not busy so I'll make chaos here XD that's what I'm good at XD
Most people and the game itself rejected Wario’s message. They hated Wario because he told them the truth. His only way that Wario can response is by saying *“BYEAH”.*
Byeah.
MY MUSTACHE DEEMS YOU GET MY WARIO STEAM
BYEAHAH
Byea
Eat a cheezeburger BYEAH
The fact we’re slowly losing the Toad voice due to Dan’s age is both a sad loss but also a blessing. 😂
It’s like Marge from the simpsons
He's only 28 😭
@@spencercollins200I can’t believe dad’s on death’s doorstep already 😔
@@spencercollins200the voice deteriorates fast 😢
I'm betting the use of the toad voice has itself also contributed to the loss of the toad voice, since I don't imagine it's very healthy on the vocal chords
I remember RT’s first play through of tears of the kingdom in 1914. Of course back then the tears were arch duke Franz Ferdinand’s!
Okay. but no one ever mentions this: Anytime anyone plays their animation for taking their hat off and their icon is on the minimap, their face marker will lose the hat for a moment while they do so.
Isn’t that because each character (save for yoshi) can lose their cap to the monkey? I think that’s the only reason lol
And for some reason when you unlock a character their icon doesnt have the hat until they jump out of the door
@@tvs26when you collect the key it has their hat on it
I would refrain from clicking past the dialogue so I could truly bask in the glory of hatless wario
As a kid I searched every single nook and cranny of the castle and every level looking for the final star, and I could never find it. I spent hours collecting every single coin in the game thinking that was the secret to earning the final star. Watching this video 20 years later, I finally discovered that I never found the hand boss. I’m going to open my old save file and collect that final star. Thank you for helping me finally achieve one of my childhood dreams!
that hand boss is kinda tricky to find
can we get an update on this??
You got the rabbits but not that one?
Did you get it
I don't usually like to leave comments, nor do I watch the streams, but I felt compelled to say that I am so incredibly happy that this video was posted today. I just had to say goodbye to 2 of my pets, one on Wednesday and the other just yesterday. I wasn't sure how to distract myself once I woke up today. Mario is my comfort series, waking up to this was a well needed surprise.
I'm happy this video brought you comfort :) in times of grief it's always important to find happiness in the little things like these. Condolences for your losses.
Jeez, that hurts. I’ve lost a pet before and it hurts just as much as losing a family member. Hope you feel better soon, whenever that is.
Hey I'm sorry to hear that, hope you're doing okay and taking some time out for yourself
@@RTGame Thank you man. I really appreciate the kind words
Losing a pet sucks and I couldn't imagine losing two at a time. I'm sorry to hear about this for you. Take some time for yourself to heal. Things will get better eventually, even if it seems impossible right now. I can supply internet hugs and cookies to help. 🫂🍪
This game unintentionally scared the shit out of me as a kid. I used to watch my older cousins play the original on the N64, but I never played it because it was theirs and I was really young. Flashforward a couple years later, I got this game and was super excited to try out the game that I'd watched my cousins play so often. And then when I started as yoshi, I got kind of freaked out because I thought I had some weird incorrect game. Whatever, maybe I was just misremembering. Then I got to everyone screaming behind the locked character select doors and I started crying and never played the game again. I was convinced I had some haunted creepypasta Mario game until I was in my teens and finally learned it was a slightly different game. Thanks for the nightmares, Nintendo.
The boos in the castle's corridors were the scariest shit ever for me as a child, expecially because you couldn't defeat them as Yoshi
This game was my SHIT as a kid, I played it all the time. I have a very vivid memory of me nearly bricking my save while at a restaurant, I explicitly remember expressing my distress about this, only for my older sister to immediately turn to me and go “I hope you lose everything”
WOW. Cold as frick.
Common sibling moment lol
I hope you said this to her when she lost sometbing too
Ah, good times! I remember my brother breaking my DSi way back then.. good times indeed
Are you sure it wasn't a canon event and the start of your villain arc?
Hey look, the best version of Super Mario 64. As a kid I thought "trapped within the castle walls" meant Bowser had teleported the Toads into the actual walls of the castle and they were just trapped there, merged with the stone. I also thought that the flower warp in Bob-omb Battlefield took you to a whole different stage because I was terrible at directions. Yes, even though there's a map on the touch screen.
Tbf i think he did that in the first mario
I legit thought that too and they were just projecting themselves through And That's why they were fading in and out
Same
i remember renting this game and only touching it once because bowser laughing when you lost a life terrified me
i also thought the same thing, with the original. i didnt connect the walls and paintings because clearly those are really portals to other realms!
You never realize how much something means to you until it's gone. Goodbye Toad, you will me missed.
I agree
Remember guys, Waluigi is under the truck with Mew!
I forgot this version existed and it was my whole childhood
It's the reason I know how to gamble
It brings back so many memories. 😭
Me, my cousins and my sister would just play the minigames because none of us actually knew what we were doing on the actual game. Also we played it on my cousins DS’s which they had those 200+ hacked cartridges for, great times
@@Joosher56 I was that cousin lol, me and my brother had those cartridges
8:12 “Hes been buried in the walls” Could you call it….the Cask of A-Mario-ado Im sorry
You should be
Top tier reference.
Never apologize for art.
That's an incredible pun. I've actually got a few good ones I'd love to tell you, perhaps over the Amontillado I've got in the basement?
For God’s sake, Luigi!
This game brings back memories. It just took the basics of Mario 64 and went wild with it, up to the point that I wouldn't even consider it a port. It's like a whole different game. The concept of having to find hidden stages to unlock other characters, these characters having different powers and abilities (with Yoshi being so unique that playing as him feels nothing like the others at all) and being able to switch between them on the fly was just... insane. Also, as a kid i was DEEPLY convinced that Waluigi was behind the white door and I just needed to find the fourth hidden stage to give it its color back. I even started a rumor in the school about it.
Yeah Nintendo should have used this in the three games bundle XD
The mirror secret to unlock (I think it was Luigi?) was literally mindblowing to me as a kid.
So this was the "Mew under the truck" rumour for Mario, got it
This rumor was about over her in germany as well. So an international rumor lol. I remeber searching everywhere.
I didn't realize Nintendo was so cash grabby even in the old days. Sad to see them continue this practice even now.
This video makes me realize how much more human Dan is compared to a lot of KZheadrs and streamers
He isn’t a human anymore, he’s a Vtuber now. He willingly cheats death and escapes the mortal plane into the synthetic one Otherwise, he is pretty human compared to a lot of KZheadrs
@@hungarianpirate1309 Escape the flesh.
It's what makes him my favorite. His videos are very chill, and it's nice to just relax while watching or just listening to him talk to chat
He's so kind and friendly, you can tell even when he's doing a bit, it's why he's one of my favourites
I think its because he doesnt project a fake personality, mind you that doesnt mean we know the TRUE RT but instead we get an RT who's just looking to vibe and play games while chatting to peeps who feel the same (And mind you TRUE RT means like how the TRUE you is how you talk to your family and junk not like hidden secrets)
I find this remake a really interesting part of Nintendo history. A game meant to demonstrate the analog stick remade for a system with only a d-pad. And the fact this game was a demonstration of what the DS could do. There are completely different people who grew up with their own version. We really need a Mario 64 definitive edition. A version that has the better controls and momentum of the original but with the new content and improved camera control from DS. A lot of what determines what you think is the better will be which version you grew with and what you value in your Mario game more.
I would absolutely love a version of SM64 updated to the graphics and controls of something like Oddysey
Wtf "improved camera" are you talking about? Both have bad cameras, and if anything, DS made it worse.
@JTE96 the camera is rough in both, yes, but at least DS gave you better control of it. You have more options to change which way it faces. Granted, it might be better to revamp the camera entirely until its up to modern standards, but DS in my opinion was better with camera control.
23:49 i love how he starts as a normal RToad and quickly Progresses into a simultaneously crying and laughing Granny-RToad
I couldnt fucking breathe at this part it was so damn funny
I’m so happy to hear that someone else thinks this is the best version of this game. I said that once and I got thrown in a psych ward.
They'd put you in a rubber room?
with rats?
and did the rats make you go crazy?
@@danahthx Crazy? I was crazy once.
It would be so much better with joystick movement though. I enjoyed it on the dsi but I prefer to emulate it nowadays
that section halfway through where it's straight up wario being bullied is one of my favourite things of all time "gotta use his stubby little arms to swim back to the surface"
It’s always been my headcanon that Koopa the Quick from 64 was the same koopa in the Mario kart games. It was that headcanon that made me main him in Mario kart 8 deluxe
That’s a top-tier headcanon imo
@@finnybrooks8068 thanks!
He had such humble beginnings in Super Mario Kart. What classic races.
30:54 i love that this is where dan's mind goes, kevin chewing on his controllers lmao
As someone who was born 2004 and grew up playing this game, I still own it from my DS days! I am turning 20 this year, painful agony
As someone who also grew up playing this game and just turned 20 a few months ago I can relate to this painful agony you speak of.
I think I had this game (my mom probably got it to play, she liked to play Mario on my DS and I was happy to provide the console for her) but the only thing I ever played were the mini games. I’m sure by scouring my room/house I could find the copy, and re-experience baby’s first poker game. Edit: oh btw to note I turn 19 late March :,)
To be honest. I'm quite happy long RT videos are coming out again. This may sound stupid, but i'm really not doing so hot right now, and they help a lot. Thank you.
i hope you’re doing better!
@@saucykenn2971 it's a long road, but it's going up. Thank you for your kindness.
The definitive best version of this game, it's a shame it's way less known version too. Thanks for playing through and helping us reminisce our childhoods Dan
Gotta love the cold open playing as Yoshi of all characters instead of Mario. I think this is his best playable appearance, actually.
I too grew up with this game, and was unaware of the original version for years. Moving around with the touch screen felt downright NORMAL.
Man even as a kid I rejected touch screen controls Why did Nintendo push them so much
Growing up on this and Phantom Hourglass as my first Mario and Zeldas respectively was an experience lol, going to those franchise's other games and having to adjust to buttons was super weird. (It's not likely but man I'd kill for a RT Phantom Hourglass playthrough lmao)
huge fan of how about halfway through this playthrough it just turns into The Wario Experience.
I had always wondered where these differences came from. I as a kid loved Mario 64 and when I came back much older, I wondered why I felt like I thought the game was different to what I remember. Turns out, it was just the DS version of 64 that was what I had originally played and had one hell of an enjoyable time.
This was my first 3D Mario game and I loved it. I got stuck one day when I was 7 and while I was moving all my ds games upstairs, I dropped some into the basement and to this day I cannot find my copy of mario 64 DS. I never got to play as Wario.
I could never beat bowser in the fire sea because I didn't read what bowser said on how to beat him
Very glad that chat gaslighting Dan (and each other) into believing cosmic brownies are weed brownies made it into the video. Highlight of my week that was.
Really hope to see Dan play all of Phantom Hourglass, and all of Spirit Tracks one day.
I read that as Pokémon Hourglass. I'm gong back to bed
finally. we can gamble with luigi.
Every character in this game lives in mortal terror of being eaten by Yoshi. Truly his reign is wicked.
I like how RT explains the game to us like we are a kid who’s never seen Mario before
For the longest time I didn't realize this was the game i had played as a kid all the time. I remembered being bad at the minigames and never really progressing through the game, and because i never progressed i years later didn't recognize the game when i saw the original version. Suddenly finding out through a video that i apparently owned this game and this was where those minigames came from was quite the experience lol
I remember visiting family while I was a kid and accidentally stealing this game. I 100%ed it and tried returning it, but my cousins already got a new copy. And that's how I got one of my favorite games of all time.
your "lets play all of ___" series is some of my favorite content on this site, great way to burn a couple hours every time. love your stuff bro :)
Until i saw mario 64 speedruns, i had no idea that there was a version of this game where you _didn't_ start as Yoshi. This is the best version of the game
Man I just learned I am 1 month older than RT, and holy shit has he done way more with his life than I have. I honestly wonder if I will ever achieve anything close to him with the remainder of my life.
You can start by lessening your wondering and start dling some stuff. Could be little, could be huge. What matters is you keep doing stuff. Everyone does things at different rates.
Remember that Alan Rickman didn't get his big break until his 40s. Also remember that everyone's definition of success is different. What makes you happy? What would you like to do? Find that goal and then the best ways to achieve it. And don't compare yourself to others. That's the best way to get so down that you accomplish nothing.
Life isn't a race, just focus on what makes YOU happy. I'm 19 and already feel like life has passed me by- but then I remember that I've had a different life compared to others. I'm doing much better than I was 5 years ago. You are the only person you should compare yourself to.
@HazeEmry @AinuLaire @nostressjustcress-fr1uv Thank you all for the kind and encouraging words. I've been going through a tough time lately, and tend to have my negative thoughts leak out. Haze you are right I should start trying to do stuff, but I've been so defeated lately from work and general life. It's hard to find the energy and motivation to throw myself at something. I need to try better to do so though. Ainu, that is one of my biggest obstacles. I constantly compare myself to others. Doesn't matter if it is KZheadrs, Streamers, my brothers, my coworkers. I constantly look around and see my flaws compared to their success. It's something I need to improve on. Nostress I should look at it that way. 5 years ago I was homeless, and last year I got out of it. That is something I should focus more on.
He does nothing but play games and talk to himself all day. We love him, but we can't say that he's done "a lot" with his life. God bless im
23:48 Ok so why did the Toad with the cold make me laugh so hard it almost gave me an asthma attack? xD
I’m dying lmao
16:00 - 16:10 I can't not give the editor* props for that transition. Flawless. (I'm aware of her name, but can't easily type it because of the accent on the e at the end)
That's and easy edit to do lol XD
I see bi pride Ophelia I simply must voice approval
(é) or (è)? Dunno about names but Americans often ignore accents and tildas and It's still considered grammatically correct
Hello fellow bi
1:36:17 *Twitch suffered so KZhead could laugh.*
Dan, when I went to school, there were weird horse girls who would "gallop" to class and cst girls who would hiss at you or purr at you. It's absolutely believable that there are kids who growl at each other.
I always loved the fact u could play Mario, Luigi, Wario AND Yoshi! It was a true gift to my childhood.
Disney purchased Toad and infused him with The Mouse. This video showcases his last fight to maintain his original self.
7:10 Its so funny how I didn't know this game was Super Mario 64 because I remember playing this as a kid and thinking it was mario party ds since I have more memories of that game. Guess I had mario 64 as a kid lol
I actually bought a used copy of this game to play on my 3DS and now my New 2DS XL. It was way harder than I expected.
my entire world shattered when rt said he didnt know what a cosmic brownie is
The pure joy I had when I saw this in my recommended. This was my childhood experience of Mario 64, and poker Luigi will forever be my start into gambling
That end credits song is so nostalgic (and kinda makes me feel sad), but really nice when it's going through the photos of all the different levels. Also the cake at the end 😭
YOU'VE MAMAD YOUR LAST MIA
The fact that he casually mentioned that the game came out in 2004 made me feel really fuckin old. Thanks Dan for reminding me of my mortality!
As someone who never actually played a Mario game as a kid, I got this one a couple years ago from a local used game shop and had a blast! This and Kirby Superstar Saga kept me sane between long work hours during pandemic!
i forget daniel's actually good at games
RT is finally playing the best version of Suoer Mario 64. I'm so happy 😄
This brings me back to my childhood! 😭❤️
i remember spending hours just swimming around the castle grounds when i was 6 or 7. i was never very good at mario, so i always just watch my sister play it. this and your mario galaxy videos are so nostalgic for me, so thank you rtgamedad :)
I found your content like maybe 6 months after you started doing variety content and have gone through almost the entirety of my bachelor's degree since. It is wild to be almost the same age as you were when you started making variety content.
I actually played this one on my 3ds. Because of that, despite it was jerky, i had a much better time with the controls than others.
Hey Dan, you literally released this video as I was celebrating my 21st birthday! From what I understand of Europe (admittedly not a lot) this isn’t anything too special, but in the states this is the most special birthday in your life. SM64 for the DS is up there for one of my favorite games of all times, and I couldn’t think of a better Birthday present than seeing this from you. Cheers! And thank you for the amazing unintended gift! I hope you have an amazing 2024
53:48 Luigi is actually the Bravest Character in Mario. He is Afraid yet he constantly faces his fears.
Love how Nintendo casually drops a full remake of an N64 game on DS and just never did that again for the system. Wouldn't see anything else until the 3DS. Huge missed opportunity to flex the technology imo.
I’d love to see RT play The Phantom Hourglass actually, same with spirit tracks
Holy hell, aint this a throwback to my childhood. I remember the first feeling i got when i 100% it back then.
RT, I literally just turned 18 a few days ago, this game is older than ME by 2 YEARS, so no, I don't remember playing every version of Mario 64 throughout the ages
I AUDIBLY gasped when I saw this in my feed. RTGame and Mario 64, two of my favorite things in one video! 😭❤
This game was so much fun... but yeah the existential dread hits when you realize how old it is 😂
It's more than twice as old now as the original Mario 64 was when the DS game came out
I absolutely loved playing this game as a kid! My greatest memory from it was being unable to beat it because the controls were so bad for the Bowser fights.
I was 2 when this came out. I turn 22 this year. Jesus Christ. I remember finding this when I was like 7 or 8, and being like “wow, I love this game” then lost it. Now I own a N64 with the original version of Super Mario 64. It’s crazy
it's so freaking funny to me that every boss explicitly tells you how to beat them. i know this is a game for kids but it's still super funny
6:44 this is exactly what I did. My parents bought this for me way back when, but I was never good at Mario games and I was like 8. So i just played the minigames with my sister. My sister also has new super mario bros, which has some of the minigames too.
i apparently played this version as a kid when it came out and as an adult was so confused watching the regular 64 original version being played i thought i was just crazy lol
The "Uncle, Uncle" at 1:18:17 sounds very much like a Japanese translation thing to me. The translation for Japanese word Oji(-san) is "uncle". HOWEVER, it is also commonly used as "mister" (when talking to strangers/ adult men). So here, it is ment as a "mister, please just leave me alone"
Holy shit this is such a generational/regional divide. "Crying Uncle" was a fairly common idiom in use for admitting defeat at the time of the original 64, and was still somewhat in use by the time 64 DS came out.
Wow, that is amazing. I have never in my life, in no language I'm familiar with, heard of this phrase. But then again, I played this game around 2009 I wanna say. So I was definitely not around for the OG N64 to know the terms of that time.
I can also confirm that the use of "Uncle" is just a way of saying "Mercy" (as in, "have mercy on me"). I'm on the east coast of the USA if that helps narrow down any sort of regional dialect/phrases.
Midwest USA. The phrase "Uncle" is so ubiquitous here that my older brothers would force me to call it out while play-wrestling when we were very young.
good to have you back RT, hope your holidays were good :) thank you and your editors for their hard work getting these longform videos out so often!!
FINALLY ANOTHER PERSON PLAYING THE BETTER VERSION OF MARIO 64
Oh my god, this game is wonderful. Glad to see you playing such a KZhead’d legend.
"metal-head wario can't move" sounds like a really disparaging political headline
These are my fave games to binge watch. Can't count the amount of times I've rewatched your playthrough of Sunshine
I never knew how much I wanted this video until it popped up in my feed. I'm so ready for this
Truly the peak of Nintendo Games
I absolutely love this game I remember late nights at my childhood best friend’s house playing EVERYTHING in this game it was so nostalgic for me watching this video all the sounds are so iconic and the music is just amazing love ya Dan keep it up
I was born the same year as this game but it was my childhood! It was my first game on my 3DS when I was 7. The water levels though terrified me as a kid.
Holy frick RT has blessed me this day with a BANGER
Every copy of girl dinner is personalized
literally my favorite game of all time YIPPEEEE this gave me so much nostalgia........ it's so much fun and whimsical but also weirdly unsettling at times especially at the beginning and i love it so much!! ur playthrough was so good!!
I think the craziest realization that I had while watching this video is that when I was younger I actually had this game, I just played the casino and nothing else.
I was about 4 when I got this game and I just explored the entire time because I didn't know what to do lmao. Bowser's laugh scared me so much that it triggers my flight or fight response to this day💀
oh feel this, i used to play it on the nintendo 64 and just jumped and swam around outside because his laugh was so terrifying to me
Wow I absolutely loved this game so much. I'm suprised you also think this is the best version of this game! I've always felt that way but noone seems to ever agree! Super excited to watch!
The moment I saw this in my recommended I had to watch and was not disappointed. I swear, this was just, "I agree", the video. The minigames ate so much time for me and when I finally, a couple years later, found out the original didn't have Luigi, Wario, Yoshi and plenty more in it, I was stunned. I never played the original Mario 64, but did get to play the DS version an insane amount. It got to be the first Mario game I ever played, and one I hold close to my heart. I am so happy I was not the only one that had the same thoughts and love for this game as you did. Thank you for playing this and reminding me to one day get a new copy, having lost my old one years ago from being terrible with misplacing things.
Thank you for posting again, I've binged your hollow knight, bloodborne, and eldenring series again last night and was running out
Holy shit my favourite youtuber is dredging up some core memories
As someone that could never do too well at this game cause super autistic and struggled with mobility in my hands, but played this version so much as a kid, this is so nice to watch. A lot of stars seemed too obscure for my mimd to figure out that even now I have to look up a guide and I just cannot play well, on any version of the game cause of joint mobility and my hands not always responding the way I want. So just watching people complete games I can't is so cathartic to me. It's just relaxing. Definitely gonna watch the archived streams after this. Maybe will bust out my own game too. Fully agree this is the best version of the game and anyone else is wrong. (/lh)
This was not only one of my first mario games, but one of my first games in general, i get to relive those moments now, thanks RT
People complained a lot about the controls, but as 6 year old me's introduction to the game, I didn't mind. This is one of the first mainstream video games I actually played a lot of, and it's a huge part of the reason I love games today. The internet was around, but I wasn't really on it much, so many stars did remain outside my grasp, but Mario 64 DS will always be one of my OGs
This was the first game i 100% i was so proud as a kid
Oh my God, I remember dumping so many hours into this game. So much nostalgia just from seeing the thumbnail, can’t wait to watch the video!
this year is off to a great start with this kind of content. thank you RT!
Ah this has brought back so much nostalgia. RT, you should do Banjo Kazooie next! :D