Impossible Coin in Super Mario 64

The exploration and reasoning here is like a detailed report on a science experiment. I liked the layout of the presentation from noticing an incongruity to explaining exactly what was happening. Then the video surprised me by putting forth a hypothesis on why the &#x27;world&#x27; was the way it was.<p>It has benefits over real-world experimentation because the fundamentals of the system are known and everything can be observed. No messy approximations are needed. Most guesses can be confirmed. But then we still end up with an unconfirmed hypothesis about how the situation came up in the first place. Reasoning is presented but there&#x27;s no way to confirm it beyond asking...the creators.<p>The tooling used to recreate certain game situations is like a magical testing apparatus that doesn&#x27;t really exist in the real world.

I respect the amount of effort and time that goes into videos like these. It&#x27;s the best part of internet.

Didn&#x27;t even have to click the link to know it was Pannen. The guy truly embodies the concept of Virtual Exploration.<p>If you haven&#x27;t done so already, go ahead and watch his Watch For Rolling Rocks .5 A Press commentary.

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Awh I wish he&#x27;d shown a hacked implementation of slope X and how the bowling balls would have rolled the other way :)

I love these types of videos that dive into the nitty-gritty of how certain games work. I wish the author would have explained more why there is no position that the coin spawner works correctly in. Are they saying that while playing the game there&#x27;s no way to move it, or that even if the coin spawner were placed correctly (on the ground) it would still not work?

I&#x27;d like to see a video of someone playing a modified version of this level, with the original slope restored.

This is some fine digital archaeology.

I love development postmortems of games from my childhood.

I know it&#x27;s a little late but I&#x27;n entitled to a refund. or Nintendo should release a patch. lol