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Walls, Floors, & Ceilings Part 3

UncommentatedPannen

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This is part 3 of my Walls, Floors, & Ceilings series. In this video, I focus on observations made using Dennis’s hitbox hack (SM64 Janky Hitboxes).

Prerequisites for understanding this video:
(1) Walls, Floors, & Ceilings: Walls, Floors, & Ceilings
(2) Walls, Floors, & Ceilings Part 2: Walls, Floors, & Ceilings Part 2
(3) Wall Hitboxes: Wall Hitboxes

For convenience, here are timestamps for all the sections of the video:
00:00 Intro
00:38 Mario's Hitbox
01:46 Big Hitboxes
02:46 Misleading Hitboxes
05:29 Further Hitbox Observations
10:15 Simpler Geometric Shapes
11:54 Rotating Object Triangles
12:56 Falling Blocks
14:04 Further Object Triangle Observations
18:08 Mysterious Level Geometry
19:19 Misleading Level Visuals
21:38 Further Level Geometry Observations
29:39 "Walls" that aren't Walls
34:12 Walls with Both X & Z Projections
35:09 Object Walls Switching Projections
36:17 Rails

Note: If this video had to be commentated, then I wouldn’t have had the motivation to make it, and so there’d be no video at all.

20 Comments

@KazeN64 8 years ago

i just knew "Walls, Floors, & Ceilings" would get another sequel after the second movie did so well at the box office.

@nnamdi8775 8 years ago

Only Pannen can make a 37-minute video on walls, floors, and ceilings interesting

@emmbeesea 8 years ago

Coins and their absurdly large hitboxes yet extremely small draw distances.

@wehpudicabok 2 years ago

The discussion of floor overshadowing at 20:42 says "more on that in a future video." We finally got that video!

@FlameLFH 8 years ago (edited)

This is extremely useful information for modders who wanna create glitch-free SM64 hacks, or just wanna study game development in general.

@FixTheWi-Fi 8 years ago (edited)

- Huh, so the electric thingies have their hit boxes BELOW their visual sprite.

- THE SHARK IS CALLED SUSHI?!

- What is the point of the 1-Up having such a small hit box?!

@aloisio7975 8 years ago

18:35 there is a piranha plant near the elevator in the super mario galaxy 2 version of this level

@penguinimptheinsane774 8 years ago

20:40
Oh boy, can't wait for Walls, Floors, & Ceilings Part 4.

@Seth_M-T 8 years ago

I knew that damn eel's hitboxes were broken!!!

@jellywillreturn 8 years ago

18:50

As luck would have it, Mario historian Supper Mario Broth was able to prove Pannen's hypothesis the day after this video came out. As he discovered, camcorder footage of the game being played at Shoshinkai 1995 shows that there was a left-arrow sign at the exact spot the collission triangles are found in the finished game.

I just think that's the coolest thing, that two of the retro Mario fandom's biggest stars were able to come together to discover something that very few people would have ever thought about.

@AndrewJ9673 8 years ago (edited)

When Pannen uploads you watch

@FixTheWi-Fi 8 years ago

Someone do a full playthrough of "Collision Type 64"

@MythrilZenith 8 years ago

17:00 The speedrun-killing bonk finally explained!

@irok1 8 years ago

First the Smash Bros Ultimate Nintendo Direct, then this. What a great day to be alive

@vulduv 8 years ago

31:07 smooth af transition.

@ROCKCOCK64 8 years ago

pannen is right. i went through beta footage of the game and found the sign on the slide imgur /a/PZqYSnM

@Hiandbye95 8 years ago (edited)

Have you done a video on sliding mechanics? Like the butt slide, the belly slide, which surfaces induce sliding, how is the speed calculated, applied, etc? That seems like an interesting topic.

I assume surfaces need a special property to induce sliding, because Mario starts sliding on very shallow angles, like in Cool Cool Mountain, yet the staircase in the castle foyer that's actually a 45 degree ramp doesn't make him slide.

@Davtwan 8 years ago (edited)

K. Rool is announced for Smash Ultimate.
I sleep.
Pannenkoek uploads a +35 minute video.
REAL SHIT??

(In all seriousness though, I'm glad that he made it in Smash.)

@pixelator5312 8 years ago

I find it interesting how, in the Super Mario Galaxy 2 Whomp's Fortress, there IS a piranha plant in the same spot near the elevators that you showed in the video.