Multiple developers have projected the hack's release onto the summer of 2023. Production seemingly resumed in April, with several ingame screenshots posted in the Discord server. On March 20th, 2023, Christopher announced that the game's development would enter an indefinite hiatus, mainly due to his recurring health problems. This date was deconfirmed by him later, stating that the game was not yet in a releasable state despite the team's best efforts. Two weeks later, on January 28th, the release date of 1.0 was confirmed, as Chris stated that he will "stop hacking" on March 13th and give way to other projects instead. On January 13th, 2023, a new 1.0 demo was released on with an accompanying trailer, under the title Motos Factory, mainly featuring the titular area, with several hidden areas and collectibles as well. After several delays due to various issues and changes of plan, the release date of the full version was projected to early 2023. Since the demo's release, v1.0's development has continued with screenshots of new areas and other features often getting posted to Christopher's Discord server. An extended version of the F3 trailer was uploaded to Christopher's channel on August 5th, along with a demo of 1.0 (also called B13), containing several of the upcoming areas, along with some intentional and unintentional easter eggs. On July 30th, 2022, B3313 was featured on the F3 2022 expo organized by Kaze Emanuar. Several of the new features were teased by Christopher on his "Friday Jamz" music streams and even some standalone videos. Over the course of the following few months, v0.8 was rebranded to v1.0 due to a plethora of new features being added: areas, stars, music, enemies and even a fully functional "AI" able to personalize the player's experience based on variables derived from their gameplay style (all within the limits of keeping a 100% completion of the hack possible). He then later uploaded an hour-long preview video of v0.8 which showcases more than 10 new areas, revamped sound effects, new music, and other changes. In January 2022, Christopher, disappointed by the sluggish progress on the decomp port, continued working on the hack. Around the same time, Jefftastic, another game developer with a history in SM64 hacking, began working on converting B3313 into decomp, a more versatile hacking method, potentially adding new content to it eventually as well, as a way of shifting the hack towards a v1.0 release. On November 22nd, 2021, the 26th anniversary of Shoshinkai 1995, Christopher released v0.7, another major update, along with his announcement of taking a hiatus from developing the hack in favor of his other personal projects. This was a subtle reference to the " build" meme, a mythical beta version of Super Mario 64 said to be haunted by the personalization AI. The next big move was made on 29th July of the same year, when v0,6, a major update, got released. The first public build, v0.4, was released on 26th April 2021. Development on the hack started in late 2020.
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