Objects

Objects are everything that exist in the Super Mario 64 world outside of the background and terrain. The maximum number of objects in a course varies from 240 to slightly under. For example:

• BitFS has a limit of 232 Objects
• TTC has a limit of 238 Objects

The exact object limit is decided by the type of course.

Objects exist in two tiers: unimportant objects and important objects.

Unimportant Objects

Most special effects are unimportant objects. Some examples of unimportant objects are:

• Smoke from being burned in lava
• Yellow Stars from ground pounds and headbonking
• Sparkles around a Koopa shell and a 1-UP
• Dust from collecting Stars or ground pounding
• Wind particles

Important Objects

Every object that isn't unimportant is important. Some examples of important objects are:

• Characters
  • Mario
  • Toad
  • Red Bob-omb
  • Peach
• Coins of every type
  • Yellow Coin
  • Red Coins
  • Blue Coins
• 1-UPs
• 1-UP checkpoints
• Power Stars
  • 100 Coins Stars
  • 8 Red Coins Stars
• Fire
• Caps
  • Wing Cap
  • Metal Cap
  • Vanish Cap
• Cap/coin blocks
• Moving platforms and some stationary platforms
• Boxes of every type
• Trees of every type
• Cannons (Count as 2 objects: the blue base and the cannon barrel)
• Signs
• Coins' twinkles
• Dust from Mario walking or sliding
• Teleporters
• Water crystals

Objects Limit

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Freezed game after collecting a coin in TTC. Note the object counter (top-left) at his limit (238) in the Top Left of the screen

The Object Limit is the maximum number of Important Objects a course can have loaded simultaneously before the game cannot handle loading any more. (Note: this doesn't apply to the total Objects in the course, only to ones that are loaded at the time. Unloaded objects use no slots). As the object limit is approached, Unimportant Objects will sacrifice their slots in order to empty them for Important Objects. If every object slot is filled with important objects, as soon as another one is loaded, a Game Freeze will occur.

Trivia

• Clones never unload and thus occupy object slots even when the original object is unloaded.
• PUs don't naturally contain any objects, but they can be brought there.

See Also

• Object Slots
• Game Freeze
• Parallel Universe