Super Mario 64 Wario Apparition Mod 【TRUSTED × 2026】

Star 29: Dire, Dire Docks. The eel was replaced with a stretched model of Wario's face, mouth sewn shut. Marco swam past it, got the star. Exited the level.

"I'm in the save file now. And you just autosaved." A month later, Marco sold his Nintendo 64 on eBay. The buyer left feedback: "Console works fine, but the save file on the memory card is weird. Says 'MAR10' but the picture is a fat guy in purple. Also, my phone keeps taking pictures of my closet at 3 AM. 5 stars." super mario 64 wario apparition mod

After grabbing the first star, the level didn't end. The music stuttered, dropped an octave, and became a low, vibrating hum. The sky turned from blue to a sickly orange. And standing on the far hill, motionless, was a polygonal figure. Star 29: Dire, Dire Docks

And somewhere, in a corrupted .sav file, a pair of white pixel-dots smile in the dark. Exited the level

It was the title screen. But Mario was gone. The "Start" option was grayed out. And standing where Mario should have been, waving slowly, was Wario. His mouth moved, but no sound came. Except—Marco turned up his TV volume. A whisper, reversed, playing on a loop.

"You're not collecting stars anymore. I am. And I'm collecting you." Marco tried to reset. The save file now had 30 stars—but the file picture wasn't Mario's face. It was Wario's. The console made a grinding noise. He turned it off, pulled the cartridge. When he plugged it back in, the game booted to a black screen. Then text appeared, pixel by pixel:

Marco found it at a garage sale in a box labeled "Old Nintendo Junk." The cartridge was a faded gray, not the usual yellow of a Mario 64 NTSC. The label was worn, but he could make out the title: Super Mario 64 in the correct font, but below it, someone had scratched in permanent marker: "feat. Wario."