State-sponsored execution aside, something else is happening in Nintendo Town. That button signals the police, who will throw you in jail and charge you with high treason, for which you will be found guilty and killed, because this is Nintendo Town, futhermucker. What’s that? You dis-agree? Well, perhaps you might also like to dis- appear! *pushes button for hidden trapdoor* Stay locked to Toys as we will be covering the event on Wednesday afternoon.Few people are going to argue with this statement: Super Mario 64 is one of the best games of the ’90s. That means we should get some new details and more than likely more footage of the upcoming 3D platformer. But with release just around the corner now, Nintendo is specifically mentioning Super Mario Odyssey as one of the main talking points for this week’s announcement. The 45-minute showcase will kick off at 3 pm (Eastern) and will center around what is up next for Switch and 3DS. In other Nintendo news, the gaming giant has a Direct event scheduled for Wednesday. While not overly complicated, you’ll need to hit up some download links and follow the instructions in the videos found right here. Now, as you likely expected, the process with which to do this is almost as archaic as the game itself. It’s up to you and the rest of your online Mushroom Kingdom squadron. You can just collectively rip through stages as the developers (mostly) intended, punch and kick the other players until they smash their controller (mouse) on the floor out of frustration or just play hide and seek in the castle. Each of the selectable characters has individual attributes and plays slightly differently.

The new mod allows up to 24 players, each having chosen their own Mushroom Kingdom character, to get into the same game at the same time. Well actually it can be anything you want. SM64 is a new user hack brought to by Kaze Emanuar, Melonspeedruns and Marshivolt that turns Nintendo’s single-player 3D adventure platformer into an almost (massively) multiplayer death match.

There are already some ROM mods out there that bring 2-player couch co-op to the experience, but that’s clearly not enough.

Super mario 64 online with characters