Computational Analysis 'Solves' What Super Mario 64's Infamous Plaque Says, and It's Not 'L is Real 2401'

Programmer Mochi64 has performed an open-source computational analysis of the infamous plaque in Super Mario 64's Peach's Castle, concluding it reads "Eternal Star" and "We Hope So" rather than the long-theorized "L is Real 2401." Because the original text was written on a small 32×32 pixel tile with 3-5 pixel tall lines, upscaling is guesswork; after testing more than 1.2 million words, the result scored a mismatch of 1,129 versus 2,031 for "L is Real 2401" on the first line alone. Mochi64 has posted a "plaque challenge" using the same open-source code, though Nintendo seems unlikely to ever confirm the answer.