For Super Mario 64 DS on the DS, a GameFAQs Q&A question titled 'How to we unlock waluigi?' Waluigi in Super Mario 64 DS Similarly to allegations of an unlockable Luigi in Super Mario 64, rumors surfaced around unlocking Waluigi as a playable character in Super Mario 64 DS. As the other three plumbers—Mario, Luigi, and Wario—were unlockable, Waluigi's absence seemed suspicious to many fans.

Well for the past years,on 2004,the time when Super Mario 64 DS was out,people rumored about that purple bunny on the instruction booklet and the black box that Nintendo forgot to remove in the game,was another big secret that Waluigi came in.2005, a Devintart account named king--bowser--koopa sent out a picture named'Purple Prizes Project'which showed many rumors about Waluigi in that game.Then people attempt to get him in that game.Here is something you can see,then try to get him in.

How to unlock..
_1________________Mario________8*________Easy______________________________Yoshi____
_2________________Luigi________8*________Medium____________________________Mario____
_3________________Wario_______30*________Hard______________________________Luigi____
_4_______________??????? _____150*_______Imposible_________________________Mario____
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1)
*****Mario*****

Character Used----------Yoshi
Stars Required----------8
Level of Difficulty-----Easy

First, with 8 stars go to Peach's Rec. Room. Then go through the door
straight ahead. When in Mario's Portrait (Goomboss Battle), go straight until you
get to a pole. Climb it, cross the bridge, down the hole and you're in Goomboss'
lair.
When in the lair run around the tree to get behind Goomboss. Then, eat a
goomba. Wait until it turns into an egg and go in front of Goomboss. Next, you
have to shoot the egg at him. Finally, do this two more times and you get a key
with Mario's hat and an 'M'. Go into the room in the castle with the red M and
BOOM, there's Mario!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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2)
*****Luigi*****
Character Used----------Mario
Stars Required----------8
Level of Difficulty-----Medium

With Mario in Big Boo's Haunt (any star from 2-7) go to the second floor and
go into the room all the way on the right. Grab the power flower and float onto
the platform above. Go through the door and into Luigi's portrait (Big Boo
Battle). Then go right, left, right, ride the platforms to the left, forward, and
up. Then go down the hole and you're in Big Boo's lair.
When in the lair punch the mirror several times and Luigi will appear as your
reflection. Hit Big Boo once as Luigi, then as Mario, and again as Luigi.
Finally, grab the key with Luigi's hat and an 'L'. Go into the room in the castle
with the green L and BOOM, there's Luigi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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3)
*****Wario*****
Character Used----------Luigi
Stars Required----------30
Level of Difficulty-----Hard

With Luigi go into the Mirror Room where you go to Snowman's Land. Then grab a
power flower and into the mirror and Wario's portrait (Chief Chilly Challenge).
First go down the slide and across the gap. Then cross the other three gaps and
then try to stay out of the water. Watch out for the FIVE bullies and carefully
cross the elevators, as they are slippery. Then go up and down the hole and you
are in Chief Chilly's lair.
You must punch Chilly off the stage and he will break away the outside of the
stage. Do this two more times. Finally, grab the key with Wario's hat and a 'W'.
Go into the room in the castle with the yellow W and BOOM there's Wario!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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4) Black Box Secret
*****Waluigi*****
Character Used----------Mario
Stars Required----------150
Level of Difficulty-----Imposible

Ok, this describes the small black box mystery about that black box you see
near the right by that tree in the picture above, which is on the menu top screen
in
Super Mario 64 DS adventure mode. Many people have tried break it and the very few
have succeeded in what is known as PRECISE aim. This black box is not a 3D box but
actually a 2D box, meaning that the side you see in that pic of the castle is the
ONLY side. And you actually have to break the 2D box coming from that angle, and
getting from the castle is near impossible. However, after trying for days to no
avail (yeah I have no life, lol) I finally got it. What happens is, the broken
block creates a vortex in the princess peach's painting above the castle entrance
from the outside, and as Mario, get the wing cap and fly through it. Once inside,
here is what happens..
Once you enter the Peach painting, you will be in a room similar to the mirror
room on the 2nd floor, except some of the paintings will be different. You will see
a Waluigi painting on the far right side. Kill the goomba on behind the pedestal on
the left side and grab the Luigi hat it is wearing. Now grab the flower from the
pedestal on the right and get invisible and enter the painting of Waluigi.
Now, when you enter the Waluigi pic, you will see 2 doorways, one is a door
with an upside down L above, but its locked, and there is an opening to the left of
it which leads to the key. First grab the Mario cap, go into the opening, in there
it is dark so you can�t see. You need to wall jump through a maze of ledges.
Remember to keep to the right and use the D pad to make it easier. Get to the top-
most ledge on the right where you will see a large treasure chest with a gold
upside
down L on it. Open it and you get a Waluigi cap key. Grab it and head back down and
open that door that was locked. YOU GOT HIM FINALLY!!! You will see a small cut
scene of Waluigi coming out and then it will take you back to the castle front
yard. EXCEPT..
It seems the castle is completely submerged in water, except for the very tip.
Swim up there and there is nothing but a newly relocated red box. Hit it and
Waluigi
will get a lightning power when you press a. this is a great way to kill enemies
cause any enemy around you gets fried when you use it. go to the very tip of the
castle roof tower and press A. Lightning will come down and break off the tip of
the roof revealing a hole. Go in it and there is a switch in a very small room. Hit
the switch and it will drain all the water so it is back to normal. I have no idea
what the purpose of this whole idea, but it appears as the only way to get back
into the castle again. Maybe just something to make use of his special ability.
Once you hit the switch, soon as the cut scene ends, back flip out of the
small room in and land back on the roof of the castle. That�s about it from there.
Some of the miniboss sayings are quite interesting to watch with him.
Oh, and that black box on the menu screen. It's not there anymore.

Waluigi, We Hardly Knew Ye

The time I fooled the world

by Andrew Brown - December 7, 2011, 10:41 am PST

Or: how an April Fool's joke can become infamous.

Waluigi's trickery knows no boundaries. Such is his presence on the gaming world that our own Andrew Brown decided to prank the world into believing that Waluigi was indeed in Super Mario 64 DS, just like many had convinced us that Luigi was in the original Super Mario 64. But Waluigi is so sneaky that it seems that the joke's on Andrew. Check out this story on how an urban legend came to be. - Pedro Hernandez

I'm going to tell you a story about a certain piece of artwork that somehow became famous.

After graduating from a multimedia course involving 3D modeling and animation a few years ago, I entered an obsessive phase of endlessly churning out 3D fan art, trying to replicate characters as best I could within my own humble polygon-crafting skills. Around March 2005, Super Mario 64 DS had been out in Australia for about a month, and I was enamored by the improvements over the original game.

I thought back to the time of the original N64 game's release, and the countless claims that Luigi was somehow included as an unlockable character had choked the internet left right and center. There were so many doctored screenshots of varying quality, some went so far as to place a pre-rendered artwork scan of Luigi in his Mario Kart 64 go-kart onto Bobomb Battlefield.

I enjoyed the absurdity of the thing and reading the ridiculously lengthy instructions on how to unlock him in their games, and I wanted to replicate that with my own parody for the new generation, a kind of homage to the campy legacy. After all, Mario, Luigi and Wario all made an appearance in the game's remake, what was the next logical step?

I opened up my old LightWave 5.6 3D software began the process of building a simplified, blocky model of Waluigi that I could position into various poses, while trying to match the low polygon models seen in the game. Despite some challenges like the amount of fingerless balooning that his hands should have to match the other characters, and some textures that somehow sported too much anti-aliasing (such as the Ls on his gloves), I think I did a halfway decent job. Heck, on my crappy old PC monitor the purple of his clothes even matched the color seen on the official artwork in the top right of the page there. While writing this feature I've searched for the original .lwo 3D model file, but alas, it has been lost into the void of my countless old backup CDs.

This half-finished test render of the 3D model was the only thing I found.

Using some PhotoShop trickery with copy and paste techniques, I crafted a bunch of screenshots and layered the model renders in his various poses over the top. I thought up some examples of special abilities and Power Flower affects that would befit Waluigi and set him apart from the other playable characters in the game, and concocted an elaborate checklist of conditions to meet before he would appear in the game. Finally, my work was complete. I was a little concerned about the amount of unused white space at the bottom of the page, but April 1st was fast approaching and I didn't want to make it too believable.

I posted the picture onto my DeviantArt account with a deliberately poorly-written story of how 'i found it in sum gamer magazeen and scaned it lolz', and with sneakiness to rival the purple clad character himself, distributed it around to a couple of smalltime gaming forums.

A week or so later, my friend whose host server I had uploaded the image to came at my throat, ranting about a sudden spike in traffic that massively exceeded their monthly allocation, resulting in a large penalty charge. Research showed that the image had spread like wildfire and had been hot-linked on dozens of pages, particularly one popular Chinese site where a large portion of the hits had come from. The image, which I simply titled 'Waluigi in Super Mario 64 DS', had been unofficially renamed 'Purple Prizes' after the 'article' page I had supposedly scanned it from, and mention of it was popping up all over the place. Some had even said that it had been featured on IGN, and was rumored to be in one old issue of Nintendo Power (which isn't published or sold here and I've been unable to properly confirm).

Ah, good old-fashioned photo manipulation.

The weeks became months, then years, and the topic was still hotly being debated on bulletin boards, chat rooms and gaming blogs. People had begun to decide it completely necessary to comment on my DeviantArt gallery, warning people to 'Beware, this is fake! I saw it on this gaming site and it's not real, it's a hoax!!' even though just 2 days after posting it I had clearly stated for all to see that it was indeed a fabrication of my very own and detailed the process behind making it.

It got scarier. With the introduction of YouTube and its rise in popularity, several videos pointing out the 'flaws' that 'proved it was a fake' emerged, in which the posters meticulously comb over every pixel searching for telltale clues of the picture's forgery. What's really hilarious is that most of the reasoning that's mentioned is based on their wild imaginations. Claims that the 3D model had a yellow C on Waluigi's hat rather than an upside down L, Waluigi's buttons being the wrong color, claims that it was impossible to defeat the Chain Chomp wearing Waluigi's hat, the list went on. Most of these accusations stemmed from the unintended anti-aliasing and pixelation of the renders, which was amplified when they zoomed in to such an extent.

Hilariously, they even started to point out parts of the images that had no manipulation done to them whatsoever, such as the yellow tone of Wario's hat on the overhead map screenshot or the type of hat the Goomba was wearing in the background of the snow picture. My favorite was in reference to the pic of Waluigi sleeping in the center, 'Also this hall is from Super Mario 64..FOR THE N64'. Was this person unaware that the DS version of the game was a remake featuring mostly the same areas as the original game? The screenshot I used was most definitely taken from the DS version, not the original.

And finally, this year, the whole thing has come full circle; somebody on DeviantArt actually posted my picture on their own gallery, with a claim that they found it in a gaming magazine and scanned it for the benefit of all who see.

There are still many remnants of this craze circling the net now, you're welcome to Google 'Purple Prizes' and see what comes up. If you're one of the people who was angered by this back in the day, I encourage you to do better and show me.

My art skills have improved considerably in the six years since then and I'm always contemplating trying a new trick to see if I can garner the same reaction. Any suggestions?

Waluigi, We Hardly Knew Ye

Talkback

wow.. I'm sorry you took to write such a long article about Waluigi haha

I've only really seen him in Mario Kart Double Dash where he seemed completely insane, the kind of guy who you'd want to stick into an asylum before he blows up an orphanage just to see if that makes it rain cheese.

Wario made more sense because you turn an M upside down and it becomes W. But there is no M in Luigi, so I never really agreed with the Waluigi name. Maybe they should have just had his name spelled backwards or something, to make him like a backwards Luigi. Have him named Igiul or something.
I'm not sure if he can really be considered part of the Nintendo canon anyway since it was Camelot and not Miyamoto or whoever who invented him.

Of all the evil Nintendo characters, Waluigi is the most 'warui' of them all.
I'm not bothered that they took him out, remember the stupid baby characters got taken out too. (FINALLY)
But yeah, the replacement characters they chose are just stupid. Metal Mario? WHy not Cosmic Mario, at least he's a different entity altogether, not just Mario with a power up!
What's next, driving as a warp-pipe on an item-box?!

This was a nice article. I just wish I saw this level of fandom for other Mario characters who miss out on games like this and others. There are a lot of interesting Mario characters out there who deserve both more exposure and fans.
In the case of Waluigi though, I wouldn't worry about it. As this article speculates, Mario Kart 7 probably didn't get the development time it needed due to the lack of compelling software on the 3DS, so someone had to be cut for them to add new characters. Since Waluigi has yet to appear in a mainline Mario game, he is expendable. Even Daisy has the luxury of appearing in Super Mario Land.
Waluigi has appeared in every spin-off game since his debut in Mario Tennis, so after ten years he was bound to miss one game. It'll probably be another ten before he misses another. I've always felt that he would be much more accepted if he ever appears in one of Wario's games, which would be a good way to add co-op to the Wario Land series. Whether that happens or not though, he'll always be one of the Elite 8.

wasn't he in one of the Mario Rpg's? I never played it but I remember the sprite.

wasn't he in one of the Mario Rpg's? I never played it but I remember the sprite.

I don't think so. The only game I know of that he appeared in with sprites is Game and Watch Gallery 4.

I never liked Waluigi.
I hate the babies.
Where's Tiny Kong (all grow'd up version)?
As long as Daisy is around, I'm happy. Plus, I think that she could also star in her own adventure/action game and appear in Smash Bros., but not as a clone or palatte swap.

He may have made a brief cameo appearance in one of those scenes in the RPG games where everyone in the Mushroom Kingdom was outside watching the fireworks.

Pedro, thank you for writing this. I am a vocal proponent of Waluigi and will miss his bizarre presence in MK7. Let's hope this is only a temporary suspension for the best tennis player in the Mario universe.
By the way, there is a fan-made game called Psychic Waluigi that I recommend checking out. It's not just a sprite hack but a very thoughtful and well designed 2D platformer with unique mechanics.

If MK7 has the possibility of DLC in the future, they could always add him in that way.

Waluigi's my character in every game that features him, so I'm pretty upset at his exclusion from Mario 3D Kart. He'd better be back for the new Mario Tennis game.

yeah, I prefer Waluigi to Wario. He has more of that tie a damsel to a traintrack look. Best character to play Tennis as too.

Most of Nintendo's characters are a bunch of nobodies, because Nintendo doesn't want to include them in anything but sports, party games, and Smash bros (usually only as a trophy). With games that'll give them chances to stand out and grow personalities, they'll remain as part of a goofball cast of shallow weirdos.

I'm glad for the addition of Wiggler and Honey Queen. They're cute. I wouldn't mind the roster having been expanded instead of some of these guys being replaced, but I don't hate the new ones. I do wish for Shadow Mario instead of Metal, though. I'd like to hear his maniacal utterances while lapping his opponents (and, how about an instant wipeout of regular Mario if Shadow Mario touched him?).

Mario Kart 7 is coming out and outlets have confirmed that Waluigi has been left out of the competition.
And nothing of value was lost

i remember when Waluigi was announced, I was like coooooool.

I'm glad for the addition of Wiggler and Honey Queen.

Aren't Wiggler and the Honey Queen way too large to ever possibly fit in a Kart? Wiggler isn't so much large as he is long, so he could drive a train I guess, but the Queen is so huge that Mario literally crawls on her belly like a flea, so she would have to drive some huge building sized Kart, and with that she could easily run over all the other karts..

I'm glad for the addition of Wiggler and Honey Queen.

So was Rosalina, but they still shrunk her.
Isn't the Honey Queen way too large to ever possibly fit in a Kart?

Bowser's too big, too. They like to fudge these things for Kart.
Just, like, 12 hours until this is mine.

Waluigi and 'the babies' have always been some of my least favorite characters in the entire Mushroom Kingdom. Good riddance!!
Is Metal Mario a good addition? Hell no. That's should be some kind of unlockable alternate suit at best.
Is Honey Queen a good addition? No.. though it does remind me of my favorite power-up, the Bee suit.
Is Wiggler a good addition? Not at all.
Will I miss Dry Bones? Hell yes. He was (one of) my boys!
Is it all worth it for Shy Guy? Well.. no.. but it's close! =P

There are several ways Nintendo can justify Waluigi's existence. The easiest would be to just put him in a Wario game as a sidekick or player 2. They could start by exploring several missing aspects of Waluigi's character, namely his relationship to Wario or lack of one. Wario is so self-centered that he pretends or even forgets that he has a brother (assuming they're brothers). Sounds about right.
Wario was created as a Mario's foil, a sort of anti-Mario, a parody. More than simply acting as Luigi's opposite, Waluigi is, in a way, a parody of Wario. If you made a bootleg version of Wario, you'd get Waluigi. He has similar facial features as Wario, but he's lanky and even smarmier. Wario can play the anti-hero, Waluigi kind of just looks like a dick because of how little thought and effort seems put into his character. Wario's existence is clever, Waluigi's is not. He looks like a cheap imitation that you throw into a spin-off sports game, instead of a character you're supposed to give a damn about.
Still, personally, I think that's what makes Waluigi interesting. I don't think Waluigi can carry his own game, but I'm intrigued enough to play a game that explored his character. Besides being a parody of a parody, Waluigi is basically a clean slate and Nintendo could have a lot of fun with a game that paired Wario and Waluigi and mocked the Mario tradition. The princess is in another castle? Oh well. Shoulder check Toad and steal his gold coins. They could do a lot with the gameplay due to how physically different they are. If Wario is oafish and overwhelms opponents with his strength, would that make Waluigi graceful and refined due to being extra frail? Super Wario Bros. could be the best and funniest platformer ever.

I agree that Metal should have been an alternate color/suit. It could have also been a powerup that allows you to not be fazed by attacks and track hazards (except falling) for a brief moment. Maybe even have it allow you to easily bump other players hard to the side of the road/off track with your added weight.

Why did you die Waluigi! Why did you leave us in this time of Kart Racing. You were the best quirky sidekick villain ever! I will miss you in Mario Kart 7..

they haven't done Wario Bros yet? I could have sworn they did. I would love a Waluigi game, something where you got to be a dick to get anywhere. Something like torturing sheep or something. In a lot of games you run into npc characters and you have to help them, but in a Waluigi game your goal would be to make the situation worse.

I dislike Waluigi so I dont care/mind if he is not in MK7

Wario made more sense because you turn an M upside down and it becomes W. But there is no M in Luigi, so I never really agreed with the Waluigi name. Maybe they should have just had his name spelled backwards or something, to make him like a backwards Luigi. Have him named Igiul or something.
I'm not sure if he can really be considered part of the Nintendo canon anyway since it was Camelot and not Miyamoto or whoever who invented him.

Wario and Waluigi have the 'wa' in their names because in Japanese, 'warui' means bad. Thus 'Wario' = 'Bad Mario'

Why did you die Waluigi! Why did you leave us in this time of Kart Racing. You were the best quirky sidekick villain ever! I will miss you in Mario 3D Kart..

He's never really dead, so long as we find a way to remember him.

When Waluigi was first introduced, I did think it was rather silly but thinking about it later, it made sense to me that a mirror version of Mario (Wario) should have a brother also. Personally, I firmly in the Waluigi camp and try to use him as much as possible in any games he is in as long as it isn't a big handicap.
When I play with my friends, we all know Waluigi is my guy. Believe it or not, it is the voice that sells me on the character same reason I dislike Luigi. Waluigi has a dishonest sound to his voice. He reminds me of a cliche 1930's gangster - 'Wahhh. The coppers got nothin' on me, see? I gave them the ring around the rosie and flatfooted it to Chicago. Waaaaah.'
I love his 'You Lousy' taunt in Mario Party games. So perfect to use when another player has just acquired a star and the shimmering sound effects have just ended. I love to use that brief silent to voice my displeasure at the current turn of events with a 'You Lousy' being all you can here.
Camelot seems to have the most fun with him. In their opening videos for their Mario Sports games, Waluigi always has gets the best gags. The Toadstool Tour opening video where he has an easy putt and keeps missing and his reaction ('Wah, I hate this game!') is a true to life experience we can all relate to. In the Mario Party games, Hudson seemed to catch on to this and gave him some great showboating poses for when he wins his Mini-game battles. He also seems to be the most upset at losing than any other competitor. I love that competative spirit he displays.
As someone else posted, he has a smarmy quality to him. I think it's the mustache. You can easily get a bumbling Inspector Closeau vibe with him as well as that Snidely Whiplash feel of villainy. Waluigi looks like the kind of guy that would sell out his mother to save himself. The kind of guy that the Police threaten in a back alley to get info from and then, after getting the info, they throw him in the slammer anyways because they just don't like him. A small-town with much grander aspirations he cannot fill no matter how much he tries.
Plus, he was the villain for Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix's story. So, he has some legitimacy to being included regularly in with the other Mario Cast.

awesome intros
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjU5KzVVUrw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoZ_Mwc7lNE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygcf2mGB4Uo

The feature has been updated with a story by Andrew Brown about how he pranked the world into believing that Waluigi was in Super Mario 64 DS:
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/28610

I hope everyone longing for some facetime with Waluigi is planning on picking Fortune Street.
http://i43.tinypic.com/29ze74g.jpg

ShmegeggeA petty person, an untalented person. Definitely a fun sounding way to insult someone. Bubala book.

I hope everyone longing for some facetime with Waluigi is planning on picking Fortune Street.
http://i43.tinypic.com/29ze74g.jpg

He's in Mario and Sonic at the London Olympics, and I mentioned this at the end of this feature.

I saw that you did, I was just posting a pic of him in Fortune Street because I read some good impressions about the game.

Wow, I'm surprised I don't recall hearing about that Waluigi in Super Mario 64 DS prank. That seems like something I would have caught word of eventually, and I know I visited this site back then. That's a pretty funny story, and it seems you put a nice amount of work into it.

Waliugi is awesome! He is a neutral, both helping and annoying the mario bros. I reckon he is one of the best nintendo chracters, because Nintendo does corny chracters better than anyone else!

Yup. And the Best Buy demo. He was my pick.
No Waluigi hat in Animal Crossing. Wonder if that's something they can send out through DLC..

wow.. I'm sorry you took to write such a long article about Waluigi haha

Just saying I'am a massive wario bros fan!
WHY DID THEY REPLACE HIM WITH HONEY QUEEN! :@

wow.. I'm sorry you took to write such a long article about Waluigi haha

Just saying I'am a massive wario bros fan!
WHY DID THEY REPLACE HIM WITH HONEY QUEEN! :@

because womens rights :D
besides the honey queen actually shows up in a mainline mario game(twice)