Summary Many objects in SM64 use spawning points to load. For instance, every ring of 8 coins has a spawning point that manages the 8 coins. This spawning point signals the coins to load when Mario gets close, and signals the coins to unload when Mario goes further away. When Mario collects a coin, the coin sends a signal to the spawning point so that it knows not to load that coin again. It turns out that spawning points are objects, so they are in fact clone-able. When you do this, you can mess up the communication of signals that is usually there between the spawning point and its elements (such as coins). Because of this, you can actually clone a spawning point, release it, and then collect its 8 coins without the game knowing that they were collected (so they will reappear if you leave and come back). This technique (which I call "coin spawn cloning") might be a more effective way to clone coins, since you gain 8 coins per clone.

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