MarioMario54321

Happy September, everyone! I got a few videos in store for you guys this month, along with a special surprise. I also know what my Halloween video this year is going to be, so stay tuned!

For context, September is Marko's favorite month because that's when stock market stocks usually drop in value, and Marko is a character that makes money that way while his older brother Marjo is the opposite. Marko is overall a much more interesting character partly because of this, at least to me.

2 months ago | [YT] | 294

MarioMario54321

Hey everyone! I have a few announcements.

The end of this month will mark the 20th anniversary of ROBLOX, an extremely overrated game that I used to play way back in the late 2000s and early 2010s. I'm going to be doing a livestream then where I talk about my experience rank and go over my old ROBLOX videos.

Also, I'm still looking for voice actors for some of my videos. Namely voice actors for characters like Marjo, Marko, Mowai, Dr. Vilde, and so on. I've also decided to completely eliminate AI voice cloning from my videos. I've been hearing too many bad things about it, and I cannot take the guilt anymore...

And don't forget, I'm also still accepting Youtube and Patreon channel members who can help to fund voice actors for hire, and fund models and references I plan to have made for my videos! If you guys loved the artwork I had made for the thumbnail for my Gameoverse video (for example), please consider helping me out! Seriously, my Patreon has a bunch of exclusive content like artwork, vectors, and such, as well as early releases and other video content! You can also become a channel member to access member-exclusive videos there!

2 months ago | [YT] | 9

MarioMario54321

First Sneak Peek of DSX: TFA Part 4 drops on my Patreon page (www.patreon.com/c/u76775995) and on my Youtube (members only) July 7th!!

4 months ago | [YT] | 19

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So just a heads up regarding future videos. The script for Dark Star X: The Final Attack Part 4 is complete, and I hope to get a sneak peak ready for my channel members and paid patreons!

Also, I want to hire more voice actors for the videos I have planned that will have voice acting. I want to wean myself off of using AI. (Fun Fact: For my last video, I lost access to the Whoopee Goldberg AI model, so I had to voice Dr. Vilde myself and use Audacity to change their voice around.) So this means I want to one day find a proper voice actor for characters like Dr. Vilde, and in their particular case, preferably someone who is nonbinary or at least uses they/them pronouns.

I also plan to have some models and references made, and as you guys know, things like voice actors and models, and help all cost money, so I would appreciate it if you guys helped me out more by becoming a channel member or joining my Patreon page as a paid member!

4 months ago | [YT] | 31

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Message from Marko Doughrand, brother of Marjo Doughrand!

4 months ago | [YT] | 33

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpz4T...

This caught me off guard, considering my situation! But yeah, I got more excited when Ridge Racer 64 hit NSO. If you don't know what that is, then that's my point.

5 months ago | [YT] | 17

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Ztarragus's Island is coming back!!



I have practically redone the entire music selection for each of the scenes too. There is now a lot of music from Smash Remix. But I also cut out a lot of redundancy so as to give it faster pacing.



And I have one more surprise. It's something I've never done before! The boss music for when Mario fights Ztarragus is now an original music composition that I had commissioned just for this series!



This original music track is available for paying members of my Patreon (www.patreon.com/posts/153158807), and as of this post, my members can watch the full re-edited series with the original music track, which I will post publicly on my channel separately in the future.



The recompiled series will be public next week Saturday!



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And here's some interesting trivia regarding the series! I couldn't get it to fit in the video description.



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- The association of Rawest Forest with Ztarragus's Island was due to my love of that song at the time and how adventurous it sounded, regardless of the lyrics. It ultimately led to the fake sequel "Ztarragus Gets Angry" from April Fools Day of 2024, upon being remade in 2023.



- The Joe Lememe character as well as the reference picture of him came from someone else's Super Mario 64 Blooper series from way back. All I remember is that the plot revolved around a character called "The Cheeseburger King".



- The island of Ztarragus's Island itself was inspired by the Isle of the Ancients, the giant floating island from Subspace Emissary, the Adventure Mode of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.


- The idea that Ztarragus's Island would be on Planet Bomber was inspired by the large overview background of the main worlds from Bomberman 64, of which the background of the artwork of the island itself seemed to look like.



- Master Hand and Crazy Hand working for Ztarragus was due to the "Play as Master Hand" gameshark code that was around back then, which was mistakenly labeled "Play as Crazy Hand", hence the confusion.


- Some of the times that the gameplay slows down during the Ztar Missions was because of problems with the emulator and my recording software.



- A fan complained about the music originally used for the music during the Master Hand/Crazy Hand fight (Retextured Eyerok fight) not fitting (since it is the Golden Hammer music from Brawl). This was addressed in the sequel.



- The original uploads of Episode 16 and 17 were made with as much filler as possible, as I had exhausted the possible "Ztars" for the characters to collect, and wanted to hold out until Episode 18 for when Mario would fight Ztarragus.



- The section of the skybox during the Ztarragus Battle that's blue and moving up is the result of an oversight in the pixels of the texture when editing the sky's textures.


- The idea that Wario was behind everything (later debunked by the sequel) was thought of at the last second of making this series.

7 months ago | [YT] | 30

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Ztarragus's Island is coming back! And I have a very special surprise for everyone when Mario fights Ztarragus! It's also worth nothing that two years ago, I did an April Fools thing with Ztarragus, but this year I did something real with the series. You'll see what it is when I recompile Ztarragus's Island and upload it as one video.

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7 months ago | [YT] | 42

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Ok everyone! So here's my plans for 2026.

The first thing I plan to do is upload a new tutorial video that I've been meaning to get to for years.



But more importantly, I have a lot of projects in mind that I've been adding and contributing to with my own creative vision, and getting people to help out.



I also want to wean myself (if not completely) from using AI voices in my videos. I'm already able to do my own Toad voice, for one! For this, I'm going to need to hire voice actors, not just hire people to help me with editing like I already initially planned. So if you can help me by becoming a channel member, or even better, a Patreon, I would really appreciate it!



On a minor note, the only AI voices that have worked for me before are robotic ones like FLUDD, and the Talking Flower, and Cranky Kong to some extent, but I'm serious about weaning myself from jerky sounding AI voices as much as possible, if not completely!



For instance, I tried to use an AI voice for Pauline (both young and adult) but I hated the way they came out so I just used voice clips for adult Pauline in my last 2 videos of 2025 and didn't use any for young Pauline. (Young Pauline is fully voiced in DK Bananza and she feels more alive than adult Pauline ever did, it'd be a huge crime to reduce her to what her adult counterpart and other characters like Mario and Void are, which are voice clipped only).



There's already a handful of characters I'd like voice actors for:



Marjo, Marko, Mowai, Adult Pauline, Young Pauline, Dr. Vilde



One of my upcoming projects calls for Young Pauline from DK Bananza, so if there's a really good voice actor for her out there that I can hire and sounds as close to Jenny Kidd's Pauline voice as possible, please let me know!



Finally, there's one other project I've put off long enough. If you have to ask what it is, then I can't apologize enough if you look at the facts. At least one comment on this post is going to say what that DSX project is, hint.

10 months ago | [YT] | 61

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Check out this awesome Christmas artwork drawn by JMations1998!



I realize this image is inaccurate to DK Bananza being a prequel to Odyssey or even SMB, but it's still a great one!

10 months ago | [YT] | 101