Super Mario 64 & # 39; s Glitchy Smoke Fixed After 24 Years

All the while, over the years, we've all been playing Super Super 64 in a noticeable color: the smoke from Mario's waist when he caught fire was broken.

Yes, it turns out the MS-Paint-lookin effect we used is not the way smoke should look. Instead, after moving to code (and due to recent attempts to decay the entire game), "pool" because Super Super 64

Converts "texture displayed incorrectly by game, resulting in pixels of black garbage." The repair simply "corrected the error by displaying the texture properly as the correct smoke.

Here's what it has looked like since 1996:

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And here it is, behind the lake, is you should look like:

Even better! If, ahem, you're playing a game on PC, you can download the pool here.