ChrisRLillo

ChrisRLillo (full name Christopher Rios Lillo) is a Chilean musician, formerly the singer and vocalist of metal band Brutal Agresión. He also created B3313 along with a relatively small dev team amassed through the months.

Personal life
Cristopher was born on December 13, 1996. He formed the band Brutal Agresión in 2012, along with fellow musicians Patricio Villagra (bass), Nicolás Soto (drums) and Christian Diaz (guitars). Outside of his band, he has other musical projects as well, usually covers.

Super Mario 64 hacking history
His first Super Mario 64 hack was a retexture based on Luigi's Mansion, created somewhere around 2011 under the nickname kurtcobainnirvanaxd. However, this hack was never published and his video showcasing the hack has since been deleted, only preserved in low quality as a reupload. According to him, he already experimented with SM64 beta restorations in this early era, but nothing significant has resulted from these experiments.

He returned to the hacking scene around October 2020, which is when he started working on B3313, his largest hacking project. It originally started out as " something personal, to distract [him] from the shitty things happening in the world right now", but due to popular demand, he decided to turn it into a public project in January 2021. This is the same time he created his Discord server, The Cult. He released the first public build, v0.4 on April 26th of the same year, and kept working on it, with several shorter breaks, up until November 23rd, the release of v0.7, following which he announced he would take a long, if not forever, hiatus from developing the hack, passing it down to Jefftastic, who started working on the hack in decomp earlier that month.

In January 2022, he announced that B3313 would make a return under his directing, and started posting the first teaser images of what would then be called the v0.8 version. This would eventually turn into v1.0, as the scope of the hack would greatly increase from the amount of ideas gathered in Christopher's mind. His mental and physical health issues, among other things, took a toll on this development process, which alongside the aforementioned large scope resulted in v1.0's release date getting pushed farther along, from the initially planned March 13, 2022 all the way to Q3 2023. Eventually, he couldn't bear with all of his problems and the supposed incompetence of his dev team, which led to him releasing the v0.9 "abandoned" build on May 29, 2023, which was pretty much v1.0 in a 95% complete state.

In June 2023, Christopher tried getting back into v1.0's development, attempting to regain his former development team, a plan which initially seemed to work out, but later backfired when he discovered that a good chunk of said developers were already part of an effort made by one of the contributors, TheGreatestRoman, to "unabandon" the hack without Christopher's involvement. After the somewhat controversial release of the unofficial "Unabandoned" build, Christopher once again tried to regain control of the situation and finish B3313 once and for all, but was unable to reconcile with the part of the team that had betrayed him in favour of Unabandoned. Eventually, he finished his own, official version of v1.0 with the remaining members of his team, and released it on February 4th, 2024.

He also has other smaller hacking projects which he occasionally shows off in his Discord server, most notably a remake of B3313 centered more around the pre-E3 beta stages of Super Mario 64. A demo of this build was later released as a Patreon subscription tier perk, but was eventually discontinued in favor of the main hack.

Trivia

 * He invented the word "sus" in 2010. This is a fact.
 * He often expresses his negative thoughts on B3313, which he only considers a side project, gathering more attention in general than his and his band's music. This may have also contributed to him taking a hiatus from developing said hack after releasing v0.7.
 * His favourite area in B3313 is Bob-omb River, also being his main inspiration to create the hack, especially through Greenio's video on it.