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DidYouKnowGaming uncovers Mario 64's abandoned wall-smashing move

The channel's new development-history video follows lost animations, an unused egg and Miyamoto's late-night swimming demonstration.

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DidYouKnowGaming Story of October 29, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Super Mario 64's Cut Content & Hectic Development

Things we can learn from the video

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0:05Concept art shows Mario charging through a wall, introducing an abandoned movement mechanic.
3:41Developer interviews describe early movement experiments in rooms built from simple blocks.
6:20Miyamoto physically demonstrated swimming movements for Koizumi during late-night development.
8:26The unused egg graphic's source-code label connects the mystery asset to Hoot rather than directly to Yoshi.
14:35The closing section examines developer burnout during the push to meet the Nintendo 64 launch.

Mario could once charge toward a wall with something more forceful in mind than bouncing off it. DidYouKnowGaming's only new upload this week, "Super Mario 64's Cut Content & Hectic Development," starts with concept art of him smashing straight through, then searches surviving code for traces of the discarded move.

Written and researched by Shane Gill, with narration by Remix, the video reached roughly 68,000 views in its opening eight hours. Its development history has a wonderfully physical detail: Shigeru Miyamoto acting out swimming movements for Yoshiaki Koizumi late at night in the office. Before Mario's movement felt natural on a controller, someone had to wave their arms around.

There is detective work, too. An unused egg graphic often associated with Yoshi carries a bird-related label in the source code, which the video connects to Hoot the owl. Viewers are debating how that asset might have been repurposed, while others point to later Mario games as possible homes for discarded ideas. Several also pick up on the narrator's piano joke.

The new upload is easily the channel's busiest video right now. "Every Cancelled Zelda Game," the archive fixture we discussed last month, continues to draw viewers, alongside the older WonderSwan history.

Subscriber numbers held steady over the week. Among nearby gaming channels, MandJTV added subscribers and had a much larger viewing week; Austin John Plays and Scott The Woz also held steady on subscribers. DidYouKnowGaming's fresh contribution is a return to Nintendo's workshop, where even an unused egg can leave a trail worth following.

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What viewers say

“Less Bach, more bite” was so clever, btw. 10/10.
@SteneduxSee it on YouTube
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@DairantoDXSee it on YouTube
ive scoured tcrf since around 2011 and kept up on anything i could about its development history, cut content and whatnot. you still opened with something ive never seen. you guys have gotten really good at what you do in recent years
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13:18 really surprised there’s no mention of this concept being revisited in Super Mario 3D Land.
@VaniRoyalSee it on YouTube
7:17 Seems he didn't drop the idea entirely since we end up getting the rabbit chase in Galaxy...
@supersonicmario56See it on YouTube
Curious that they didn't try to recover the shoulder charge in the DS version considering that it had Wario(which main attack in Wario land tends to be a shoulder dash) as a playable character.
@carlostejeda4341See it on YouTube
Despite the cut content Super Mario 64 is still a revolutionary great game.
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