A researcher who goes by mochi64 rebuilt the 32 by 32 pixel stone tablet in Super Mario 64's castle courtyard by re-rendering candidate inscriptions and scoring them against the game's image. "Eternal Star" ranked first among 1,237,405 candidates, and a search of 17,700 common English words produced "We hope so" as the second line. Nintendo has not confirmed the reading.
YouTuber mochi64 recreated the tiny 32x32-pixel pedestal inscription from Super Mario 64 in 1990s-era fonts and compared pixel differences against the original. The upper line matched best with "Eternal Star" and the lower line with "We hope so." Among roughly 470 period fonts, Adobe's 1990 Palatino Bold Italic gave the closest match. Mochi64 notes Nintendo has not confirmed the reading and wants outside verification.
RTA in Japan announced on October 18 the accepted and backup games for its winter event, which will run from December 25 to 31 at Bellsalle Iidabashi First in Tokyo. The lineup spans 90 titles, from recent releases such as Hollow Knight: Silksong, Silent Hill f, Donkey Kong Bananza and Kirby Air Riders to older games including Doom 64, Clock Tower 2, Shadowgate and Tengai Makyou ZERO. Nintendo titles are back in number after a summer 2025 event with no Nintendo games accepted, with The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Twilight Princess HD, Pokemon Sword and Metroid Prime Remastered on the list. The unusual categories carry the attention: Super Mario 64 gets a blindfolded 9-star run, Donkey Kong 64 gets a 0.0% low-percentage attempt, The Legend of Zelda 1 gets a swordless first quest, Resident Evil Village gets a VR mode run without glitches, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii gets a four-runner race. The detailed schedule is set for October 25.