MIPS in Black Rooms of Death

[Franklint 107]

Hey all.

Dom! In the Super Mario 64 game completion with 16 stars section of the site, you mention that using the "B + Z to merge with door" glitch you can get MIPS inside the Black Rooms of Death. How is this achieved? You can merge with the door and grab MIPS. Then it is easy to put him down inside the Black Room of Death. However, Mario steps back to put him down, thus getting pushed onto the "legal" side of the door from whence he came, and is close enough to activate the door. He then goes through onto the other side of the door (Not the BRoD) and MIPS dissapears. What is the method to get MIPS into the room with you, as I have an idea that involves him (assuming it's male)?


Thanks,
-Franklint

P.S. Thanks for the info about the DivX codec, I'll download now.

P.P.S. I'm also interested to know what MIPS stands for. And why is it in capitals?

[Dom Dunc]

When merged with the door, grab MIPS and then start jumping and wiggling the stick if necessary, mario should pop out of the door, if you come out the wrong side try again pushing in the other direction.

As for MIPS, he was named after this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture

[Conor Lindop]

Why would they name a yellow rabbit after that? Weird.

[Dom Dunc]

Apparently the rabbit was a model they used to test the MIPS chip in the N64.

[Conor Lindop]

Hmm, neat, using a yellow rabbit to test a MIPS chip in the N64, understandbleish.

[Franklint 107]

Mmm...

Anyway, thanks Dom, done it now. Unfourtunately you can't get MIPS to the second area of the Black Rooms of Death, so I can't attempt to use him to bump me through the wall of the Wet Room of Death and into the lagoon under the castle (in the second area that is). Oh well, I could try something else I guess

Thanks again

[RadicalOne]

You can get him into the actual black room of death, but he can't be used to bump you through the wall into the water (see my topic about bringing MIPS into the WROD in the Submit Glitches). All you have to do is run in the opposite way of the side of the door you want to get to, and jump once. You will be in the Black room of Death with Mips.