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[ThatObviousUser]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Bill Rizer]

In Lost Planet, Capcom game set on an iced, snow-covered world, there's this mysterious company named NEVEC. It's an acronym for "NEOVENUS Construction". But, maybe, not all of you know that in Italian "neve" means "snow", and "nevicare" means "to snow" (ex. nevica = it snows)

 

[Celine]

ahahah, always gets me.

 

[Azure Dream]

Just noticed this while playing Sonic 1 via PSN download...

The rings are in stereo. Pick one up and you'll hear it in the right speaker, pick the next one up and you'll hear it in the left speaker, and it keeps alternating.

I can't verify the original did this, and don't have my gamecube sonic collection, and the 360 download and sonic's genesis collection are the same port so those probably do it, too.

The originals did it, and it's basically a mark of good/bad emulation for the various collections. Some do it, some don't.

 

[Melchiah]

I dunno if this has already been posted.

The level 3 of Zelda.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

That would be a swastika except it's backwards.

 

[heyf00L]

The originals did that too. I remember because I wanted to a similar thing in a game I worked on many years later, and was told it would be a bit of work to get working. I raged because a MegaDrive could do it, why not a machine many years later?!

Someone sucks at programming then. Alternating sides would just be a matter of flipping a bit (Boolean).

playSound(side);
side = !side;

 

[aaaaaa]

I dunno if this has already been posted.

The level 3 of Zelda.

The level being called MANJI might have been a hint.

 

[jaxword]

That would be a swastika except it's backwards.

Yeah, everyone knows that the Nazis took a spiritual Eastern religious icon to twist it into the Reich's.

It's entered our pop culture, partially distorted. There's lots of weird sites that talk about it:

http://www.jrbooksonline.com/HTML-docs/The_Backwards_Swastika.htm

 

[AbsoluteZero]

Not quite a mind-blower but I saw this on tvtropes and thought it was interesting.

Reportedly, the blocks from Super Mario Bros that release multiple coins when hit multiple times were actually due to a programming mistake. After fixing the blocks, the designers decided they missed them and deliberately programmed them back in, and they've been mainstays in the series ever since.

 

[Sixfortyfive]

Just noticed this while playing Sonic 1 via PSN download...

The rings are in stereo. Pick one up and you'll hear it in the right speaker, pick the next one up and you'll hear it in the left speaker, and it keeps alternating.

I can't verify the original did this, and don't have my gamecube sonic collection, and the 360 download and sonic's genesis collection are the same port so those probably do it, too.

Also don't know if other Sonic games do this.

Anyone else notice this? Obviously you have to be picking up the rings slowly to notice.

Noticed this right away when I decided to utilize the headphone jack on the old model 1 Genesis.

 

[AbsoluteZero]

This is how I used to beat the Casino Night Zone boss, you can tell where Robotnik is at the bottom of the screen due to the stereo sound field. In my youth I didn't realize how I was doing it, I thought I had a sixth sense, haha.

When I used to play the original Diablo I would use headphones, as the original game didn't map your co-op buddies points on the map, but positional sound of them battling more or less could guide you in the right direction.

 

[heyf00L]

Noticed this right away when I decided to utilize the headphone jack on the old model 1 Genesis.

Yeah, I know my old Genesis model 2 only came with a mono audio cable.

 

[jaxword]

I guess this isn't that Mindblowing, but Parasite Eve and FF7 were essentially the same game in the drawing boards. FF7 was supposed to take place in new york, Barret was more a cop, Cloud was "Hot Blooded Detective Joe" and other paranormal events happened in the cities. Sounds like the 80s American movie homage that they were going for that time was ghostbusters and escape from New York.

PArasite eve was split off from that project and took the New York detective angle with it. That's why Aya's Partner is Daniel “Bo” Dollis, who seems to be an alternate universe Barret who is a cop who still has his wife and son.

 

[jaxword]

Everyone hated that guy, right?

Turns out you can kill him in a rather unorthodox way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwQ5yVgcjIQ

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

System Shock 2 was supposed to be released on the Dreamcast. Unfortunately, LGS fell apart, and thus the project was abandoned. However, some guy with a Dreamcast development kit managed to dig up some early port code on his HDD, resulting in this:

 

[harriet the spy]

I dunno if this has already been posted.

The level 3 of Zelda.

This made me feel very guilty as a (young) kid, it made me feel that miyamoto had a secret nazi infatuation. Years level, the name of the level and some encyclopedia search redeemed him in my eyes.

edit: holy shit at SMB2 phanto stuff.

 

[jaxword]

edit: holy shit at SMB2 phanto stuff.

Well, he DOES disappear when the key disappears. Guess he was haunting that piece of brass all along.

 

[Ledsen]

There's a common myth that the Nazis took a spiritual Eastern religious icon to turn it into the Reich's.

It's an example of a pop culture misconception. Partially true, but partially distorted:

http://www.jrbooksonline.com/HTML-docs/The_Backwards_Swastika.htm

What the fuck. "A White Nationalist Literary Resource". Get that shit out of here.

 

[edgefusion]

always thought mine was broken

The fat ps3 does it as well. Not on the inferior slim models though.

 

[/XX/]

It freakin' rotates. Try it. Did anyone else know this? ...

Sorry, but it was specified in the 'Positioning the console' section of the system's manual:

PlayStation®2 (30000 - 50000) Manuals - PlayStation®2 Computer Entertainment System
http://us.playstation.com/support/manuals/ps2_30k/index.htm

The "PlayStation" product family logo located on the disc tray.
The "PlayStation" product family logo located on the disc tray can be rotated to match the horizontal or vertical positioning of the console.

http://www.playstation.com/manual/pdf/SCPH-30001R.pdf

 

[UrbanRats]

Ok, i don't know if it's just me, but the other day i realised that the new XMB default background, on the Ps3, just moves left or right, by shaking the dual shock.
Only the new one with the sparks though.
Is it real or just an optical illusion i'm looking at? Because it's really subtle, so i'm not sure.

 

[bjork]

It's not a secret or anything but I just realized yesterday how weird it is that in every Pokemon game the nurse from the Pokemon Center will say:

"We hope to see you again".

What's the significance of this? The screens on the gas pumps at the station near my house say the same thing.

Unrelated, but I'm really tempted to sift through all the pages of this thread and make a new thread that's got a list in the OP to avoid redundancy.

 

[MNC]

Ok, i don't know if it's just me, but the other day i realised that the new XMB default background, on the Ps3, just moves left or right, by shaking the dual shock.
Only the new one with the sparks though.
Is it real or just an optical illusion i'm looking at? Because it's really subtle, so i'm not sure.

It's probably real, but I have a background set so I can't check it right now.

Unrelated, but I'm really tempted to sift through all the pages of this thread and make a new thread that's got a list in the OP to avoid redundancy.

DO IT.

 

[Uchip]

This made me feel very guilty as a (young) kid, it made me feel that miyamoto had a secret nazi infatuation. Years level, the name of the level and some encyclopedia search redeemed him in my eyes.

edit: holy shit at SMB2 phanto stuff.

yeah.. only that it originated in ancient india and was a bhudist symbol and very unlikely intended to be nazi related at all

 

[ThatObviousUser]

It's a windmill.

 

[bjork]

DO IT.

If I thought it would stop reposting of things, I'd be on it. But seeing people repost things on the same page, it makes me wonder what good an OP list would do.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

What's the significance of this? The screens on the gas pumps at the station near my house say the same thing.

Why would a nurse hope to see you again?

 

[Ondore]

She knows you'll get your Pokemon beat up or at least out of PP again so she hopes you stop by to get them back to full health.

Or they get paid by the healed Pokemon.

 

[bjork]

Why would a nurse hope to see you again?

So you don't take your pokemon to Lavendar Town? And so she can keep her job?

 

[Link Man]

I dunno if this has already been posted.

The level 3 of Zelda.

Wait wait wait...

You're supposed to use a bomb to beat Manhandla?

 

[Zoe]

Wait wait wait...

You're supposed to use a bomb to beat Manhandla?

Zeldawiki says this

A cleverly placed bomb at the center of the flower will rid the boss of all four hands in a single blow.

 

[Link Man]

Zeldawiki says this

Huh. And I always found it to be one of the more difficult bosses.

Well, at least I learned something from that post.

 

[Granger Danger]

Why would a nurse hope to see you again?

Ever heard of preventative medicine?

 

[the androgyne]

Some Miyamoto quotes concerning Zelda series, that i don't think are well known, from a Miyamoto interview in Australian Nintendo Magazine System #16, July '94:

"Link comes from computer vocabulary and it basically means the person who unites pieces of the Triforce."

"At the beginning, we were tempted to make the true character of Triforce an ultra modern material such as a floppy disk from the future"

"I liked the sound of rupee although i wasn't thinking particularly about India"

Same interview also has some tidbits that are amusing thanks to the passing of time!

"The fundamental development of the game is action and solving a puzzle, I would not expect it to become a shooting game"

"We tried before but we came to the conclusion that it was likely to be played alone"

 

[Sword Familiar]

Huh. And I always found it to be one of the more difficult bosses.

Well, at least I learned something from that post.

Your avatar and nick, you don't deserve them. Leave them at the reception on the way out.

 

[Azure Dream]

Unrelated, but I'm really tempted to sift through all the pages of this thread and make a new thread that's got a list in the OP to avoid redundancy.

I've been wanting this for a while. And maybe some rule that "This music kinda vaguely sort of has the same chord progression as this music" shouldn't be allowed.

 

[KittenMaster]

Ever heard of preventative medicine?

I think in the Pokemon World that would be what the Item Shop is for.

 

[bjork]

I've been wanting this for a while. And maybe some rule that "This music kinda vaguely sort of has the same chord progression as this music" shouldn't be allowed.

I'm with you on that. Aside from things like the GC and Famicom jingles, or games straight up reusing the music from other games unchanged, these are always a stretch to me.

 

[Version 3.0]

I've been wanting this for a while. And maybe some rule that "This music kinda vaguely sort of has the same chord progression as this music" shouldn't be allowed.

If we're making rules, kick the Pokemon trivia into its own thread.

 

[OnPoint]

Ok, i don't know if it's just me, but the other day i realised that the new XMB default background, on the Ps3, just moves left or right, by shaking the dual shock.
Only the new one with the sparks though.
Is it real or just an optical illusion i'm looking at? Because it's really subtle, so i'm not sure.

It definitely does. I almost posted this myself a few weeks back. Weird to see it here, I wondered if I just forgot that I posted it at first.

 

[Philanthropist]

Old? Yoshi can eat dolphins in Japanese SMW, but he can't in other versions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXZmeN85QPA

 

[Nocturnowl]

Old? Yoshi can eat dolphins in Japanese SMW, but he can't in other versions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXZmeN85QPA

I remember that on my pal SNES version he can't eat the dolphins but they allowed the devouring of dolphins in the GBA port (well you would put them in your mouth and could spit them out though that may have been a Luigi based ability)

 

[Ahoi-Brause]

Ran Hibiki is probably Dan Hibiki's sister.

 

[Diablohead]

Ran Hibiki is probably Dan Hibiki's sister.

awww shit son

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

Ran Hibiki is probably Dan Hibiki's sister.

oh Shit

 

[Chairhome]

Old? Yoshi can eat dolphins in Japanese SMW, but he can't in other versions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXZmeN85QPA

Well that just puts the documentary, "The Cove" into another perspective. Japan loves eating dolphins! jk.

 

[jon bones]

Ran Hibiki is probably Dan Hibiki's sister.

oh shit

 

[-KRS-]

I dunno if this has already been posted.

The level 3 of Zelda.

Uh, Manhandla? No one is gonna question that?

 

[PKrockin]

I remember that being brought up in Nintendo Power once actually.