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Super Mario 64, a masterpiece in gaming history, continues to captivate fans with every new discovery. Recently, an archived interview with its director, Shigeru Miyamoto, has resurfaced online, shedding light on the early stages of development.

The Interview

The video footage, uploaded by Kanpei Hagama, features an interview with Mr. Miyamoto conducted around the game's release. While the interview is entirely in Japanese, fans have dissected it to extract fascinating insights. Find a link to it in the original article.

Key Insights from the Interview

• Garden Dioramas: Miyamoto describes the levels as 'garden dioramas', suggesting a creative approach to level design.
• Product-Testing: The game was tested by both adults and elementary students, indicating an emphasis on accessibility and gameplay appeal across different audiences.

Early Build Differences

The footage also includes several differences from the final version of Super Mario 64:

• Bowser dialogues were altered.
• The Penguin you race in Cool Cool Mountain had a different size.
• Missing assets and early textures can be observed.

Why This Matters

Given the influence Super Mario 64 has had on gaming, finding out more about its creation remains exciting for fans and developers alike. This rare interview offers new perspectives that could contribute to our deeper understanding of one of Nintendo's most beloved titles.

What do you think these differences in early builds tell us about the development process? Do you have any additional insights or curiosities about Super Mario 64?

China is preparing to lift sanctions on European lawmakers as it tries to revive an investment deal with the EU after losing most of its access to the US market in Donald Trump’s trade war.

A spokesperson for Roberta Metsola, president of the European parliament, confirmed the move, first reported by German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Beijing took the measures against several MEPs in 2021 after the EU placed sanctions on some Chinese entities because of alleged human rights violations against the Uyghur Muslim minority in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

The European parliament then refused to ratify an EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment that would have deepened trade ties between the two.

“The president will first inform group leaders once the Chinese authorities officially confirm that sanctions have been lifted. It has always been the European parliament’s intention to have the sanctions lifted and resume relations with China.”

Archive link

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Archived

• Pipeline: A Chinese prison is part of the pipeline that delivers fentanyl to the U.S., ProPublica found in a review of U.S. and Chinese documents and interviews with investigators.
• Fallout: Opioid overdoses have killed more Americans than the number of U.S. deaths in several wars combined.
• Permissive: Veteran federal agents told ProPublica that China has failed to cooperate and even interfered with drug investigations; China insists it has cracked down.

China’s vast security apparatus shrouds itself in shadows, but the outside world has caught periodic glimpses of it behind the faded gray walls of Shijiazhuang prison in the northern province of Hebei.

Chinese media reports have shown inmates hunched over sewing machines in a garment workshop in the sprawling facility. Business leaders and Chinese Communist Party dignitaries have praised the penitentiary for exemplifying President Xi Jinping’s views on the rule of law.

But the prison has an alarming secret, U.S. congressional investigators disclosed last year. They revealed evidence showing that it is a Chinese government outpost in the trafficking pipeline that inundates the United States with fentanyl.

[...]

Although China tightly restricts the domestic manufacturing, sale and use of fentanyl products, the nation has been the world’s leading producer of fentanyl that enters the United States and remains the leading producer of chemical precursors with which Mexican cartels make the drug. Overdoses on synthetic opioid drugs, most of them fentanyl related, have killed over 450,000 Americans during the past decade — more than the U.S. deaths in the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined.

The involvement of a state-run prison is just one sign of the Chinese government’s role in fomenting the U.S. fentanyl crisis, U.S. investigators say. Chinese leaders have insistently denied such allegations. But U.S. national security officials said the Yafeng case shows how China allows its chemical industry to engage openly in sales to overseas customers while blocking online domestic access and enforcing stern laws against drug dealing inside the country. Beijing also encourages the manufacture and export of fentanyl products, including drugs outlawed in China, with generous financial incentives, according to a bipartisan inquiry last year by the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.

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