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Post by Mother on Apr 21, 2008 21:17:09 GMT -5
Unlocking Johnny Jones in super mario RPG. So many super jumps and golden beetles for nothing. Oh man I loved that game. Sooooo many "secrets" that never came true. Like you could see Genos true form if you went a certain way into the lost woods or whatever they were called. Gosh they need to make a true sequel for that game. Ah yes. That was around the time when I first got the internet and didn't "know" that people made crap out, also since the guides and everything costed SO much, that it was just easier to look online. I remember a code about a "Cow Hat" where you have to jump on Mario's bed exactly 100 times at the beginning of the game, then go outside and find Toad, who is on the roof, where you talk to him and he gives you something. You play the game through, until you get to Marrymore, where the music is MUCH louder and there is someone there waiting for you. You talk to him and he trades you Toad's useless item for the Cow Hat, which maxes out everything. God I was a dumb kid |
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Post by sunwukong on Apr 21, 2008 21:24:17 GMT -5
Also, I remember rumors about Yoshi in Pokemon and a creature named "Pikablu", that may or may not have been inspired by art of Marill (I think thats its name, I havent played Pokemon in almost 10 years) who debuted in a later game. Pikablu was just a name attributed to Marrill by fans after the design was shown but before the actual name was released. It was blue and vaguely Pikachu looking so someone somewhere called it Pikablu and it stuck around for a few months, even making it into some video game mags. |
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Apr 21, 2008 21:33:16 GMT -5
Also, I remember rumors about Yoshi in Pokemon and a creature named "Pikablu", that may or may not have been inspired by art of Marill (I think thats its name, I havent played Pokemon in almost 10 years) who debuted in a later game. Pikablu was just a name attributed to Marrill by fans after the design was shown but before the actual name was released. It was blue and vaguely Pikachu looking so someone somewhere called it Pikablu and it stuck around for a few months, even making it into some video game mags. Well, kids around here swore you could catch it in Blue/Red, even though it didn't appear in the games till Gold/Silver |
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Post by Hypnotix on Apr 21, 2008 23:29:40 GMT -5
There was the rumor that if you beat the original Street Fighter 2 on the SNES, on the hardest setting, without losing a round, it allowed you to unlock the four final fighters, Vega, Balrog, Sagat and M. Bison - effectively making it Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition. Totally untrue.
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Post by Gopher Mod on Apr 22, 2008 0:44:23 GMT -5
Thought I'd start a thread for all the video game urban legends you may have heard be they true or not, I'll start things off Game: Perfect Dark System: N64 Urban Legend: When Perfect Dark was being developed Rare began advertising quite a nifty little multi-player gimmick. The idea was that using the newly released Game Boy Camera, players could photograph their face and then transfer the image into the game and paste it over the character they're playing as. This seemed a good idea but Rare took it out for "sensitivity issues". Thinking that giving people the idea to actually shoot the crap out of video game effiges of themselves and their friends would cause a whole lot of bad puplicity. However the story doing the rounds at my school at the time was a little different. Apparantly developers and game testers had been using the photo pasting tool, but not to put their faces in the game. Instead they had been taking photos of their genitals and pasting them over the heads of the games characters creating walking talking d---kheads. I don't know if this rumor is true but part of me wishes it is. I remember seeing an issue of Nintendo Power where they talked about this (think it was around November of 1999) and thinking that this was a good idea. Thanks for letting me know what exactly happened to it, since Nintendo weren't on the ball to tell us. |
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Post by default on Apr 22, 2008 0:44:47 GMT -5
I'm surprised noone's mentioned my favorite.
In Maniac Mansion, you could use the chainsaw to cut through the boarded up window upstairs in the house.
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Post by Killah Ray on Apr 22, 2008 0:59:40 GMT -5
To go along with the original poster's thing, I don't know if it never happened, but did they ever do the face mapping on one of the Tony Hawk games? I remember that was a huge feature they were talking about one year.
Also remember when one of the Smackdown games were supposed to have face mapping?
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Post by default on Apr 22, 2008 1:09:28 GMT -5
To go along with the original poster's thing, I don't know if it never happened, but did they ever do the face mapping on one of the Tony Hawk games? I remember that was a huge feature they were talking about one year. Also remember when one of the Smackdown games were supposed to have face mapping? Now that you mention the Tony Hawk games, I vaguely remember the face mapping supposedly being in certain versions of the games somewhere... I think in an old Nintendo Power. I think they were toting the Gameboy Camera and it's possibilities. I really wish they'd have added it. This latest crap is ridiculous. American Wasteland's customization after arrival in story mode wasn't too bad. But the players available to select in Project 8 for the X-Box was awful. You could make like... 9 people... three punks, three "urbans" and three kids. I couldn't make a decent version of me, so I ended up just sticking a cap and shades on a punk and covering up his tats with a longsleeve shirt.  |
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Post by Ace Diamond on Apr 22, 2008 1:17:58 GMT -5
To go along with the original poster's thing, I don't know if it never happened, but did they ever do the face mapping on one of the Tony Hawk games? I remember that was a huge feature they were talking about one year. Also remember when one of the Smackdown games were supposed to have face mapping? At some point, just about every game with a create-a-character was supposed to have face-mapping it seems. I know EA experimented with it in some of their sports games...to varying success (most people's scans looked a lot like Sloth from the Goonies, Michael Berryman, or Rocky Dennis in terms of severe facial deformation) I don't know if anyone still does it now because I've largely stopped playing PC games. Here's a couple that pertain to a game probably few of you have played for the PC, X3: Reunion. In this Space Sim you occasionally encounter ships that show up as "Unknown Objects" on your scanners as you travel between sectors, however they look an awful lot like the stereotypical "pie tin" design of UFO that has permeated the UFO culture. Nobody knows what their purpose is, all they do is seemingly fly from sector to sector without purpose, emitting a low-pitched hum as they fly by. Scanning or shooting them down causes you to lose favor with the games main religious faction, but other than that no other clues can be garnered. As can be expected this leads to many wild rumors in the X3 community, the most favorite one is the UFO Base. What this basically claims is that somewhere there must be a base producing these UFOs, but it's either A) Cloaked, a rarity for ships and stations in the game B) Mobile, thus making it very hard to find C) Both A and B or *SPOILER ALERT* D) Located in the Sol system, which you can't get to until the end of the campaign. *END SPOILER ALERT* Of course after much thorough nitpicking nothing has come up but the legends still remain. Another popular myth is being able to capture a UFO, but these are largely unfounded. Still...  yeah I know, I'm a nerd ;D |
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Post by Jock Ass on Apr 22, 2008 1:18:02 GMT -5
I'm surprised noone's mentioned my favorite. In Maniac Mansion, you could use the chainsaw to cut through the boarded up window upstairs in the house. Or better yet, putting the mouse in the microwave...depending on which version of the game you had. I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this one yet.... DUKE NUKEM FOREVER IS COMING OUT ON (INSERT DATE HERE)!!! |
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Apr 22, 2008 1:21:33 GMT -5
I'm surprised noone's mentioned my favorite. In Maniac Mansion, you could use the chainsaw to cut through the boarded up window upstairs in the house. Or better yet, putting the mouse in the microwave...depending on which version of the game you had. And what's supposed to happen. |
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Post by Ace Diamond on Apr 22, 2008 1:23:04 GMT -5
Or better yet, putting the mouse in the microwave...depending on which version of the game you had. And what's supposed to happen. Well you put the hamster (not mouse) in the microwave and can kill it (though I think this was removed in the US NES version), then if you show the remains to Weird Ed Edison he kills your character (well one of 3) |
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Post by default on Apr 22, 2008 1:26:45 GMT -5
And what's supposed to happen. Well you put the hamster (not mouse) in the microwave and can kill it (though I think this was removed in the US NES version), then if you show the remains to Weird Ed Edison he kills your character (well one of 3) Nope, you can still do it in the US NES version as that's the one my friend had and we'd play for hours talking everytime I slept over at his place. (It was a ritual). You came back as a ghost. I read on wiki there's apparently a glitch on the NES where using two characters you can clone the hamster somehow and have a dead one and another. |
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Post by Jock Ass on Apr 22, 2008 1:27:08 GMT -5
Or better yet, putting the mouse in the microwave...depending on which version of the game you had. And what's supposed to happen. It blows up! From what I remember, only Dave and one of the female characters would do it (and pull it out of the microwave after said "late night snack attack"). And if you showed the guts to Dr. Fred, he would either throw you in the dungeon or kill you (again, can't remember...been a few beers years since I've played it). For more details on how NoA "changed" Maniac Mansion, read this. *** EDIT: Thanks to No More Ace Diamonds and It's The OTG As You Can See for beating me to the punch. But still, check out the reading material I added in. *** |
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Post by Ace Diamond on Apr 22, 2008 1:27:43 GMT -5
Well you put the hamster (not mouse) in the microwave and can kill it (though I think this was removed in the US NES version), then if you show the remains to Weird Ed Edison he kills your character (well one of 3) Nope, you can still do it in the US NES version as that's the one my friend had and we'd play for hours talking everytime I slept over at his place. (It was a ritual). You came back as a ghost. I read on wiki there's apparently a glitch on the NES where using two characters you can clone the hamster somehow and have a dead one and another. Ah ok, I just looked it up and it's the PAL version that had the hamster thing removed |
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Post by Panda Bear on Apr 22, 2008 1:30:44 GMT -5
The 17th Colossus in Shadow of the colossus Though if they did have a 17th Colossus, they should have used this Scraped Colossus.  or this one  and this one happens to be my favorite, It give me the chills  |
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Apr 22, 2008 2:11:18 GMT -5
Back when I was just a little guy, there was a rumor that in the fifth level of the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" for NES, if you waited by the railroad tracks in the overhead map view, a train would come out at midnight with Shredder on top of one of the cars. Of course, this was totally untrue, but it's a little nostalgic to remember that that was the sort of crap me and my friends used to talk about at lunch at school.
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Post by Stu on Apr 22, 2008 2:11:41 GMT -5
Two words:
NINTENDO ON!!!!!
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Post by thepaywindah on Apr 22, 2008 2:21:24 GMT -5
Can't believe no one has mentioned the old rumor that you could shoot the dog in Duck Hunt.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Apr 22, 2008 3:11:21 GMT -5
One that turned out to be true in the end:
Command & Conquer (PC DOS Version) Jurassic Park mission - Type in a certain command on DOS and you will unlock a new level and video. The video is of Kane sitting in a directors chair and saying he is having trouble with Dinosaurs on an island and needs you (So it's a Nod mission) to fix the problem.
Now when I had the game the command did not work so I just brushed it off as an urban legend. Later though I got the 'Covert Operations' expansion pack (You see back in the old days we had to go and buy our expansion packs in shops) and the level was contained in the expansion pack.
And I must say the level is pretty pants. The graphics of the dinosaurs are really bad. Their legs don't move when they walk.
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