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Mario has been sleeping for "an eternity", up until the game's beginning. He thinks he hasn't beaten Bowser all that long ago, but when he talks to the Toad in front of him at the start of the game, he reveals that Mario has been dreaming of saving Peach from Bowser by doing easy adventures, but now he has to face the real world, which is anything but nice. Princess Peach was kidnapped by Bowser years ago, and he used her magic powers to destroy the world, which resulted in an adventure that is anything but easy. There are now many more lava pits, lava falls, bottomless pits, and other hazards. Mario must now save Princess Peach and defeat Bowser by facing the truly challenging levels that await in this game.

Super Mario 74 Extreme Edition is a ROM Hack made by Lugmillord. It's the sequel to Super Mario 74, and was released on Christmas of 2012. It contains 157 stars, and a majority of the levels from the original Super Mario 74 make a re-appearance. However, a lot of them have been mirrored and made extremely difficult, with alterations like underwater sections and even solid ground being replaced by excessive lava falls or bottomless pits.
For a few months, it was considered to be the hardest Super Mario 64 hack ever, until Star Revenge 2: Night of Doom came out in July 2013, just over half a year after this hack was released. It was then to be considered the second hardest SM64 hack in existence, just below Night of Doom, but since then most of the kaizo hack releases have surpased Super Mario 74 Extreme Edition's difficulty

There are also even harder joke versions of this hack called "SM74EEEE", "SM74EEEEEE", though they are not made by Lugmillord and only move objects around without changing any level model.