The Mystery of Banjo Kazooie's Locked Chest
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- Can the mysterious chest be opened?
Banjo Kazooie is back in Super Smash Bros Ultimate! With the recent release of this dynamic duo, I thought it was time to turn back the clock and cover one of the most bizarre Nintendo 64 mysteries from the game that started it all. Deep within Mad Monster Mansion lays a slew of things that taunted us as kids. A sealed off fireplace... A treasure chest that wouldn't open... Were these stop n swap assets? Let's trek back through these haunted halls and take a look at one of Banjo Kazooie's spookiest levels.
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Songs from Banjo Kazooie OST
"Gruntilda's Lair" - Banjo-Kazooie
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Banjo and Kazooie are here! To celebrate their Smash Ultimate release, I thought I'd take a trip back to cover one of the perplexing mysteries from the game. I'm TOTALLY looking forward to giving them a whirl in Smash!
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Sans is in too as a mini fighter costume.
The chest was hiding his Smash Bros. Acceptance Letter
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A year before the first Smash Bros. even came out? Damn. That's some spooky stuff.
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@@orin6705 They knew it would take that long to get it open.
what else could've been In that Chest? a Skeleton? ...OH WAIT-
A combination of interviews and detective work done by fans has revealed what a lot of the oddities in Banjo Kazooie were for. So first of all, as many know, this all stems from the dropped feature called Stop 'n Swop. Players would be able to find colored eggs with ?s on them and the ice key which would then be used to unlock something in the second game (which they were planning from the start based on Gruntilda's line if you get all 100 Jiggies). The idea was that you would collect them in Banjo Tooie, then transfer them over via cartridge swapping into Banjo Tooie. Now, if you don't know what cartridge swapping is, good job. You shouldn't. It's a terrible idea. It turns out, when you reset the N64, a portion of the information remains in the system. If you switch cartridges fast enough, then you can actually transfer that information over to the other cartridge. This is not an intended feature of the N64, and doing this can cause all sorts of damages. But, apparently, Rare Ware actually got it to work consistently, so when making the game, they operated under the assumption that they'd be allowed to do this. Though, at some point in production, Nintendo got wind of it, and said that they couldn't make the features of the game use this unintended hardware glitch.
I'm unclear on why Rare left it in the game. It seems to me that Rare just decided to leave it in as a monument to what Nintendo ruined. It wouldn't be the only time Rare did something seemingly out of spite for Nintendo. But, whatever the reason, Stop 'n Swop not actually being a feature of the series meant they DID have to change a lot of the game design. In particular, they had to cut out Black Eye the Pirate. The remnants of Black Eye can be seen all throughout the game.
Based on the evidence, it would seem that Black Eye the Pirate was interested in collecting all the Stop 'n Swop items. Through some data mining, an unfinished beach level was discovered in which Blubber can be found crying about the fact that Black Eye the Pirate is making him search for the Ice Key, but he doesn't know where it is. Furthermore, you can actually find Black Eye in Banjo Tooie getting drunk in the back room of Jolly Roger's Bar. He rants about how a bear and bird "stole his glory". A reference to the fact that his part was cut out in Banjo Kazooie. In that room, you also see a painting of Shark Food Island form Banjo Kazooie which is where one of the Stop 'n Swop eggs is held. The island is in its raised position which it has to be in order to collect the egg. There's also a couple of treasure chests of a similar design featured in this video. I believe there may also be a picture of the mysterious door in Gobi's Valley being open where you can find another one of the Stop 'n Swop eggs.
In Rusty Bucket Bay, you can find a treasure map on the wall of one of the interior rooms of the ship. The treasure map shows Treasure Trove Cove, and has an X marking where Shark Food Island is. Based on that, I think it's reasonable to assume that the ship was supposed to be Black Eye's ship. In fact, there's another one of the eggs that can be found in the captain's quarter of his ship.
Which leads me to the content of this video. In Mad Monster Mansion's cellar, you can find another one of the Stop 'n Swop eggs. If that's not enough of an indicator of that Mad Monster Mansion probably belonged to Black Eye, then the fact that his portrait is all over the interior walls probably should be. At some point, Mad Monster Mansion seems that it was designed to be the dilapidated home of a pirate. Which would also explain the treasure chest next to his bed.
I forget where people found this information, but among a list of levels scrapped for Banjo Kazooie, one of the names was "Fire-Eye Mountain". Which seems to sound like a reference to Black Eye in some way. It furthermore sounds like what would have originally been the "Lava world" that Gobi refers to in Click Clock Woods. The prevailing theory is that it would have been the fire side of HailFire Peaks. But, the kickball stadium would be replaced with the structure that is now known as Mad Monster Mansion. Based on the size of Black Eye that we see in Banjo Tooie, this also explains the massive furniture in the first floor room of Mad Monster Mansion.
On a mostly irrelevant note, there's a funny line in Nuts 'n Bolts in Banjoland. Banjoland is a museum dedicated to everything about the first two Banjo games. For one quest, Bottles asks you to collect some things that fell out of the "Cut for Time" closet. He then goes on to say, "There was just so much in there that we couldn't get the door all the way shut." Obviously, Rare had to cut a lot of what they wanted to put into Banjo Kazooie. A hefty amount of it seemingly has to do with Black Eye the Pirate. So, what is the treasure chest doing there in Mad Monster Mansion? Seemingly a leftover that was used to indicate that this was the bedroom of a pirate.
Edit: I was just rereading my comment a long time later and I forgot to mention something. As I said, Mad Monster Mansion is pretty evidently originally supposed to be Black-Eye's home, most likely within the scrapped level "Fire-Eye Mountain". This fantastically explains why the hell Mad Monster Mansion's location in Gruntilda's Lair inexplicably has you going through a volcano to get to it. Because, originally, the level WAS supposed to be inside a volcano.
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Wow. Why didn't this comment get more recognition? This is the most interesting analysis of the game I've seen.
@@strongandbigman Thank you. I'm used to going unrecognized. :(
Incredible explanation! Thank you for taking the time to share all of this 😊
@@eastsideeric2231 "Fire-Eye Mountain" IS a unused level name found in the code. Black-Eye the Pirate IS referred to frequently in unused content and by Rare themselves (and always seems to be connected in some way to the Stop 'n Swop). His appearance IS on the paintings in Mad Monster Mansion.
It's technically speculation that put these facts together into what we believe now. But, it certainly seems like a pretty simple conclusion based on what we know.
That room has references to the pirate guy from the original concept for Banjo-Kazooie. That chest is probably one of them.
Project Dream, right, if memory is correct, wasn't it supposed to be a rpg for the snes
@@daxernsthenobody And that pirate, Captain Blackeye, was supposed to be the main antagonist of what Project Dream originally was, before it became Banjo-Kazooie; instead, Captain Blackeye ended up as a minor character in Banjo-Tooie, with subtle references to his original intended role.
Ya as you guys are saying, I think the chest is just another touch referencing banjo's original pirate game. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the same designed chest as what was going in Dream, maybe it was a significant openable chest there. This is especially believable because Ed Bryan (lead Rare designer) carried a whole bunch of already made things in Dream into Banjo-Kazooie, such as the 'Tee-Hee' ghosts' faces having already been made for an enemy in Dream.
I replayed the game after a long time. This chest confused the fuck out of me, I thought it was for a jiggy and I forgot how to get it.
Do a video on the mysterious "?" question mark box in DK64! It's located in Hideout helm in one of Tiny's 2 challenges. Really easy to find. There are several of these boxes in the game but this is the ONLY one that can't be opened. Been driving me nuts for years.
I didn't know about that, maybe it's just for decoration. I do know of a door in another one of Tiny's exclusive areas, in Gloomy Galleon...
Wiimeiser I must have missed that. Where is it? Would love to locate it!
@@ddave6419 I've can't believe I missed this door as well. I've played through DK64 so many times,& somehow still missed it. I thought that long ago I'd managed to find every last secret this game held.
@@Wiimeiser I would also really appreciate it if you'd give more info on this door. Thanks! :)
I remember trying to search for Gobi in the "lava world" before we knew that he'd appear in Hailfire Peaks. I thought it was somewhere in the lava pit outside Mad Monster Mansion and tried to scope out every corner of that room. Another MMM thing that bugged me was the barrel in the basement with the X on it, which we later learned was a Stop & Swap egg.
The chest was hiding the Sans MII costume
Maybe the Chest belongs to Captain Blackeye after all his portraits are in the Mansion
I think they had a lot of plans for B&K that were cut for whatever reasons. We're just left with clues to wonder about.
Despite it not having a door,if i remember correctly that's Captain Blackeye's bedroom. He's a pirate,hence the treasure chest in there.
why is he living with grunty?
Summary of this video: there is a chest.
That ice key was supposed to have been accessible in the 2scd Banjo Kazooie game.
I noticed at the last level of the game ; after opening all the locked door with the jigsaw pieces I had at least 1 or 2 pieces left over. I couldn't find where those pieces went to.
Oh, this stage! So full of Magic. The best Halloween centered material after The Nightmare before Christmas.
Nice placement of this video. Just slipping it in with all the banjo news.
All aboard the hype train!
I thought you were gonna talk about the chest in Jolly Roger's lagoon in Tooie, apparently years ago someone found some stuff in the code that would cause it to open, but couldn't figure out what they connected to
Considering the picture of Captain Blackeye, the room may have belonged to him at some point. That would make the oddly placed treasure chest make a bit more sense.
Can you do Conker's Bad Fur Day Windmill mystery? Please.
Ohh man i love that game!! but what is the windmill mystery?
Well, the windmill. Can it be accessed by day? What's the history of it in Twelve Tale's (beta version)? Like why did they bother So on.adding so much details to it especially on its top if no on could access it? And so on. n again, the old Rare really like to troll their fans with these type of things.
KevyReady Didn’t it get destroyed near the end?
Yes. I just wanna know what will happen if it can be accessed by day. Why they are so much detailed textures on it when players can't even get on it.
In general, I would like to see Swanky do videos on Conker's Bad Fur Day 'cause he has done a video of Diddy, Banjo and Conked being in the same universe.
@Repo man Ugh. Coming back to see this made me curious again.
I remember watching an ancient Banjo Kazooie bloopers video where Banjo goes to the mansion on halloween at midnight because that would let him open it, but there was a jumpscare inside.
Knowing old-school Rareware, the reason it's there is "because we knew it would piss people off."
the chest had banjos smash invite and he accidentally locked it when putting away his car fuel after diddy kong racing
Honestly, these two went right over my head. Truth be told, the sites of Stop n' Swop were the main headscratchers for my childhood; SnS is functional in the Xbox releases, so for all intents and purposes, I say case closed.
As an ever curious person....I’m kinda surprised I never wondered about this. It just always seemed like a perfectly normal fixture in a bedroom to me(despite not having one myself). I believed I tried to open it a few times before giving up and moving on. I was a lot more accepting of not being able to do things when I was younger than I am now. Take that as you will. Lol.
Banjo and Kazooie never "returned" to Smash, it's their first appearance in the series
i always thought that was gruntilda's bedroom, i assumed its her house, and the chest was where she kept her pants
Banjo and Sans. Two seemingly impossible characters for Smash just got announced. Huzzah
A very similar and also non-openable chest also appears in Banjo-Tooie.
This and Banjo coming out today? Yes please!
Klungo sealed tooty in there after banjo kazooie that's why she goes missin and why we cant acess mad monster in banjo tooie
I think you're on to something huge man you should totally make a video about it
@@oceandreams9625 me? Or swanky?
Thank you for inspiring me to make my own channel your a great youtuber
Man I remember playing this level around October always got me in the mood for Halloween.
I just want to say you are one of the best youtubers! Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Oh boy I was just watching the direct
Welp, there's an "unopenable" big chest in this game. You know what that means.
*aN OpPoRtUnIty To TaLk AbOuT oOt PaRaLlEl UnIvErSeS*
This is amazing keep up the good work on these videos!
I need to watch more of these more often. I subbed because I loved these whole video game mystery vids but never seem to watch enough of them
Huh, isn’t it funny that banjo JUST came out?
Banjo's gay? Figures. If I had to haul a girl around in my backpack who never shuts up or stops pecking my head, I'd turn gay too.
R/cursedcomments
I’ve never questioned what was inside that chest but here I am watching this video lol
Wasn't expecting an upload on a Tuesday. Pleasant surprise!
The Chest contains the secrets to Stop-n-Swop, thus, it shall never open
A yes the treasure chest bother me a lot, loved the bed design though (wish it had a bounce property to it) as for the fireplace, I think I've never notice it I seriously don't remember it at all.
Mad Monster Mansion wasn't my favorite place to be, I just wanted to get in, get out the ghosts there were annoying. I've didn't discovered the wonder wings, I think it was one of my little sisters or my older cousins that found it in her playthrough much later.
The only places I like about the mansion was the bedroom (I was a simple kid ok) and the church due to the music and the giant sized organ to play with.
No kidding!! This always bothered the mess out of me!!! Made worse after I played Tooie and opened a chest just like it in Jolly Rogers Lagoon (I think it was...)
When entering the sewer pipe below the entrance to the lair area for Clanker's Cavern you walk through a pipe and at the end is a blueish grate. My brother told me a rumor there was a secret water world behind it.
I never once thought about what could be in there, I didn't even know there was a chest in there
This dude reminds me so much of jack mcbrayer lol. Not that that’s a bad thing if you happen to see this swank. The man is a hero and seemingly the sweetest guy on earth
I am not sure if I ever wondered about that chest, but by the looks of it, having no bottom, as well as no floor under it, it's possible that at some point, it may have been meant to be opened up to lead into another room. Like a secret room under that one, similar to both the large treasure chest leading to Treasure Trove Cove, as well as the chest in Jovani's house that you jump into in Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess. I never thought about that sealed off fire place, but your idea of pumpkin Banjo going into the small chimney where the jinjo is on top actually makes sense. Too bad you can't get to the top of the roof in pumpkin form. I wonder if my cousin also wondered about the chest when she first played this game?
You know you're a true gamer when you played the first Banjo Kazooi's as a kid, and still play it whilst being an adult
"And if theres a locked box, we wanyed to open it" fucking fnaf 4
They didn't return to Smash, that would mean they were once in Smash
The chest is hiding Banjo Kazooie, Tooie and Threeie for the Switch
Awesome a Banjo vid 😀 I love all your vids keep up the great work! 😁👍
It's very likely the chest originally held a jiggy, jinjo, or honeycomb piece.
I considered it just an ornamental piece of furniture like the chairs and the bed. Nothing out of the ordinary here.
What a coincidence. I'm playing this game right now.
I’ve just passed this level and it took me the most time to complete. This chest really bothered me a lot. So I thought I would have something to do with the abandoned stop’n swap, but thankfully it was just some scenario item.
Its like this series was just meant to blue ball fans of it. Theres a shit ton of mysteries that are really just unfinished elements, no banjo kazooie 3, the closest there is are a shitty xbox game and a bad spiritual successor.
Being a banjo fan must be true suffering.
Eh Yooka Laylee was more Mediocre than Bad, but I get the sentiment
Except "Banjo-Threeie" IS "Nuts and Bolts." The game grew too large and Rare felt walking around enormous levels would be dull, so they created vehicles.
@@BedroomScenesMovie Except it's not. That's like saying Mario Kart 64 is Super Mario 64 2. They're set in entirely different genres.
@@BedroomScenesMovie Actually, Nuts and Bolts started out as an entirely different game altogether. In fact, it wan't even supposed to be a Banjo-Kazooie game to begin with. Nuts and Bolts was originally just a custom racing game, but somewhere along the line, during development, someone made the decision to change it into a Banjo-Kazooie game, and we ended up with Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, instead of an actual Banjo-Threeie.
Also, I actually enjoyed Yooka-Laylee, but I wish it had more worlds than it did.
It's such a paradoxical aspect of reality: the game may be wonderful as it is, but we'll always wonder about "the roads not taken", the unknown. The moment one of those things is trully answered, it quickly turns to dust, and we go look for something other mystery to solve. Life in a nutshell.
Banjo*writes message next to the chest*: chest ahead
The blocked off fireplace is a real thing in older english homes. As some houses modernised to use central heating they blocked off their fireplaces as they were dirty and time consuming to maintain. However today many people are restoring them as they're seen as desirable features in a room.
I literally never gave this chest a thought. I just knew it had gold feathers hiding behind it. Also I never really noticed the sealed off fireplace either. I knew that room had no jiggies, notes, or Jinjos, so I always avoided it.
Great video man love the mysteries
And with the direct being over... this is a nice appetiser.
Forget locked chests and bricked-up fireplaces, my mind was blown that environmental objects in the game are part of the level model! Not like "the furniture models are locked together with the level models" but like they're literally part of the level's mesh, and aren't separate meshes that were placed into the level!
When you think about it, it really goes to show how much planning and effort went into these stages- it's so easy to make a bunch of assets and plonk them around a stage to fill it out without any real planning or preparation, but this proves that they knew EXACTLY how they wanted the stage to look before even modelling it!
ive been bored for the past... 2 weeks!
I think I know the purpose of this chest, it’s just decoration to let us know this was actually Blackeye’s room (the “Dream” pirate)
Maybe this is a Victorian house thing that doesn't really exist in America, but a lot of old houses in the UK have those bricked-up fireplaces, or an open fireplace that no-one wants (unless you enjoy dead birds falling into your house every now and then) that you brick up immediately after moving in. I think it was just there to give that 'ramshackle old house' feel.
I'm early, let me ask a question, how did you come to your name swankybox? Besides that, Love your content man, keep going :D
Presus swanky box: the origin story when?
The answer to this mystery is solved with the answer of a different mystery. The Piece of Chocolate behind bars in Conkers Bad Fur Day, as explained as when some devs did a Let's play of it. It was put there just to mess with people.
Waiting until the direct to maximize views, smart
Can you do a video on the inaccessible “Rare” books in the shape of a question mark in Grabbed By the Ghoulies? This kinda reminds me of it, and it’s made by the same company if you didn’t know
I think I didn't even enter the roofs rooms as a kid. XD
Rare loves trolling
I really like your videos man.
Those two things did bug me as a kid.
Maybe it's just a reference to the entrance to treasure trove cove
My fav is Clanker's cavern I love Clanker so much!!!!!
let me save you 5 minute. it is a decoration, nothing more.
no one likes a party pooper
The sealed off fireplace and chest both contain nothing...
"Reality is often disappointing"
Great video bruh
In The legend of Zelda or Ocarina of time when playing the chest game I can actually look into the corner of the chest and see inside to see if there is a key or a ruby but there is nothing inside until you open it so it’s back to the lens of truth or just getting lucky.
The green egg should've been placed in there, rather than atop of Loggo.
About time.
I thought this was going to be about the Chest in Banjo Tooie in Jolly Roger Lagoon in the room with the pirate
Missed opportunity to link the pixal portals in the i card
I love swanky
Banjo Kazooie mode in a Super Mario Maker 2 update ?
The map in rusty bucket bay is pretty suspicious
Best chests in Banjo Kazooie:
- Treasure Trove Cove world entry
- Mad Monster Mansion chest of this vid
- “Melon Lady’s” chest on the beach when Banjo bests Grunty
- Grunty’s chest - not her “gold” in Treasure Cove - when she bests him. There are over a million views on a vid of it to attests that’s no. 1.
I tried to open this chest for hours. When I was 16… and playing this game for the first time
Inside it was the thing fnaf wanted to keep secret
Just realised this is the voice of LGR. Subbed
Banjo's *return* to Smash Bros?
Amazing
Nice story
I never played the haunted realm because I was a little kid and it was too scary 😖
This make anyone else think of that episode with Heraldo opening Capones Vault?
0:16 Returning?!
destiny. i just finished an epic BK romhack and now this vid 1min ago lol.
The chest is hiding the body of the ghost
Good video bro, hope you got some good halloween gaming stuff lined up too : ) If you ever need help writing let me know : )