Super Mario 64’s smoke effect, emanating from the plumber’s toasted hindquarters, always looked a bit silly — even for the Nintendo 64.
A new ROM hack for Super Mario 64 reveals a fix for what we now know was a visual bug.
We’re unsure if Nintendo will officially fix this bug before Super Mario 64 comes to the Nintendo Switch in the rumored 35th anniversary bundle.
The much better looking smoke particle was inside the game all along, hidden beneath an incorrect line of code.
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