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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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GameplayWhore
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Zombie James said:
I will be adding tables so that individual facts can be indexed (and linked to posts) so that it'll be easier to keep everything organized. I'm too lazy to do it now, because this weekend had/has me hosting two house parties. Luckily, the ball pit was constructed in time for Saturday's, and I got somebody to bring a sledgehammer and watermelon for today's.
But, yeah, sooner or later there will be an extra section on that already too populated page wherein you can register a fact and mark posted facts as dupes of others, etc.
Brazil said:
I just thought that it'd be nice if people could rebut with more than just a single worded "Old!" reply. Seems less trolly that way. Or more, depending on how you look at it.
IAmABeliver
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Chairhome said:
My bad, it's my first day! And it's totally not a mind blowing fact....but it's till mounds better than complaining about NES boxes!
drizzle said:
I think the bigger bullshot is that the Japanese/European boxes have Mario in blue/red when his color scheme is CLEARLY brown/red in SMB1. If I lived outside of the States I'd want my $40 and 26 years back.
Sapphire Dreams
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aaaaaa said:
I found Gutsman to be easier with the mega buster.
I thought Bombman was the easiest.aaaaaa said:
You just walk towards him while shooting. As long as you're moving, he can't hit you because he shoots a slow arc shot to where you were, not where you're going to be. And whenever you're about to crash into him, he jumps away from you.
So you just keep marching towards him, and shooting, and he dies.
Edit: A tiny bit of sense is also needed, because if he lobs a shot and then jumps over you, you can't immediately turn around, or you'll walk back into his shot.
jimjonjimmy
Member
that is amusing and kinda interesting though as for sonic i think he absorbs them as energy but im not sure
GameplayWhore said:
A little rough around the edges, but it seems to work!
Do you know who made it? This person deserve some praise.
Wait... nope, no no no... my Paperboy 2 secret isnt mentioned correctly. They just tagged a small comment i made in a reply after the secret! And it was a great secret!
Also my Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey secret got no love... at least i cant see any tag for this game...
I was thinking about making a small wordpress blog with all the secrets, no rush, just posting one by one in my spare time, maybe adding some comments in each secret, either made by gaffers in the thread or by myself.
Specially since the images are vanishing... it would be a nice idea to make a full backup in this blog.
EDIT: Sorry, the Paperboy2 secret is ok. The thing is, as i feared, the image is already broken. So sad...
Big One said:
That´s exactly the problem. I cant find it.
Gonna check my old HDD. I used my own camera to get a picture from the ds, it was a labor of love. Such a huge secret deserve it!
EDIT: FOUND IT!!!
HERE IT IS! The most amazing secret ever found in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Hecatonchires Custom
Member
In Persona 2 EP, in the Sanitarium and KS High School dungeons, you can find a demon with a red robe called Erinys. When you contact or damage her, she makes distinctive singing like sounds but when you actually kill her, it really sounds like Atlus took a short Celine Dion voice clip and used that as her death cry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLuo7aR4Fvg
Sorry for the quality, had to do with my limited means. The sfx is right after the 3 gunshots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLuo7aR4Fvg
Sorry for the quality, had to do with my limited means. The sfx is right after the 3 gunshots.
GameplayWhore
Member
cacildo said:
It's a secret to everybody.
I made and have been posting about it on the sly for over a month here
Har. The idea was (and is) that everyone can tag stuff as they please whenever they find something missing. It's like a wiki. That way, you don't have to have one person scouring through everything alone, which could lead to stuff being missed.
that's still what happened anyway
Yeah, the worst part are all those posts which are completely blank except for an image or a couple links. Like a post that reads "HEY GUYS, LOOK: http://img.url/deadshortlinkS@3nvFq8y". I really wish people had the foresight to just write out whatever the actual fact was. You can sometimes work it out from the replies, though.
In Ocarina of Time and Majora's mask, when you press the Z button without targeting something, your camera gets set behind Link, right?
The sound this action makes is different depending on if you're in a temple or not.
Inside a temple it's kinda like a creepy whoosh and outside a temple it's more like a cheery wheep noise. Pretty hard to describe.
This is a speedrun of Ocarina of Time on youtube (apparently walking backwards is the fastest way of walking.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ukJe4UAxg
Check 0:52:00 and 1:00:28 to hear the difference.
Also, first post ever.
I've been wanting to post this since forever.
The sound this action makes is different depending on if you're in a temple or not.
Inside a temple it's kinda like a creepy whoosh and outside a temple it's more like a cheery wheep noise. Pretty hard to describe.
This is a speedrun of Ocarina of Time on youtube (apparently walking backwards is the fastest way of walking.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ukJe4UAxg
Check 0:52:00 and 1:00:28 to hear the difference.
Also, first post ever.
I've been wanting to post this since forever.
GameplayWhore said:
Well, i thank you for your work. Its a good thing someone finally took the time to make a small catalog of all the secrets.
About the broken images... well, we can ask some users about what the hell they were talking about. (for exemple: i just dont understand what the hell the first post on the thread is talking about)
Also, i upped my Paperboy2 secret again
DiipuSurotu said:
Hey, I remember your posts too. There was another guy named Notti who made some good contributions too. Finding that was almost what got me back into video games as a hobby. I had entered the working world and didn't have a lot of time for games, but was playing FFT again in my quest to finish the game without killing anyone, and while doing some of the sound novels, the alphabet jumped out at me. What a great feeling of discovery.
Wait a minute... W. Mark Felt? "Deep Throat" ... ディープスロート ... DiipuSurotu?
*mind re-blown*
Here's one that will amaze and astound in equal measure:
I was the first member of the public in the whole wide world to complete Sabre Wulf on the ZX Spectrum.
Cynics might suggest that I was actually the first member of the public in the whole wide world who was sad enough to write a letter to Ultimate: Play The Game to tell them that I had finished the game, but to their credit they did make my decade by writing back in a totally unpatronising way to say that I was the first person they knew about who had finished it, which kind of makes it official.
The letter still exists somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my attic. I'll attack the task of finding it one of these days.
I was the first member of the public in the whole wide world to complete Sabre Wulf on the ZX Spectrum.
Cynics might suggest that I was actually the first member of the public in the whole wide world who was sad enough to write a letter to Ultimate: Play The Game to tell them that I had finished the game, but to their credit they did make my decade by writing back in a totally unpatronising way to say that I was the first person they knew about who had finished it, which kind of makes it official.
The letter still exists somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my attic. I'll attack the task of finding it one of these days.
Mascot said:Here's one that will amaze and astound in equal measure:
I was the first member of the public in the whole wide world to complete Sabre Wulf on the ZX Spectrum.
Cynics might suggest that I was actually the first member of the public in the whole wide world who was sad enough to write a letter to Ultimate: Play The Game to tell them that I had finished the game, but to their credit they did make my decade by writing back in a totally unpatronising way to say that I was the first person they knew about who had finished it, which kind of makes it official.
The letter still exists somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my attic. I'll attack the task of finding it one of these days.
Lol! Congratulations! But wait, are spectrum secrets on now? I could tell you something about the skool daze sequel that still makes my beard stand up
Lord British
Member
Mascot said:Here's one that will amaze and astound in equal measure:
I was the first member of the public in the whole wide world to complete Sabre Wulf on the ZX Spectrum.
Cynics might suggest that I was actually the first member of the public in the whole wide world who was sad enough to write a letter to Ultimate: Play The Game to tell them that I had finished the game, but to their credit they did make my decade by writing back in a totally unpatronising way to say that I was the first person they knew about who had finished it, which kind of makes it official.
The letter still exists somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my attic. I'll attack the task of finding it one of these days.
Man... Speccy graphics could be so striking. Beautiful in their own way.
Blood code for Genesis version of Mortal Kombat = abacabb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8WGnxBBgeI
I find it unlikely this wasn't on purpose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8WGnxBBgeI
I find it unlikely this wasn't on purpose
Valjean Lafitte
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Ragnamith said:
Great first post, and welcome to NeoGAF!
bgassassin
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I don't think I would call this mind blowing, but it's at least neat. And if it's been posted already, then my bad as I tried to search as best as possible. But it seems OoT's Windmill theme took some of it's motif (think that's the right term) from Yoshi Island's - Castle theme.
OoT Windmill - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGvNVcM6AkI
YI Castle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifvxBt7tmA8
OoT Windmill - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGvNVcM6AkI
YI Castle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifvxBt7tmA8
In Infinity Blade, the number of exclamation points following a break (I.e. "Dodge break!!!") directly correspond to how many hits you can land (One point gets you a single hit, two lets you land three, three gets you five, etc.)
I was at level 90-something in my new game + before noticing that... : (
I was at level 90-something in my new game + before noticing that... : (
HylianScribe
Member
bgassassin said:
Arguably, the Windmill theme sounds very similar to something much older. This is extremely old and has been brought up countless times elsewhere, so this shouldn't be a shock at all.
OoT Windmill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGvNVcM6AkI&feature=player_detailpage#t=7s
Surprise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ-uV72pQKI&feature=player_detailpage#t=152s
Also, the TP Hylian thing - really? Guess if you didn't lurk/participate on Zelda sites/forums, you missed it, but it was extensively covered and made public before the game even came out in fall 2006.
bgassassin
Member
TSA said:
If anything to me it sounds like the harmony comes from YI and the melody would come from your "surprise".
Hi Gaf,
I don't think this is posted yet. But I found that in REmake the first EMBLEM uses some gibberish marks. Only it's not gibberish but greek letters. While in greek they make no sense, If you swap the letters with the english ones assigned on a greek/usa keyboard layout you get:
"While there is life, there is hope"
(Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Here a screenshot taken from dolphin.
And here's the keyboard layout:
I don't think this is posted yet. But I found that in REmake the first EMBLEM uses some gibberish marks. Only it's not gibberish but greek letters. While in greek they make no sense, If you swap the letters with the english ones assigned on a greek/usa keyboard layout you get:
"While there is life, there is hope"
(Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Here a screenshot taken from dolphin.
And here's the keyboard layout:
yes I am greek 
And yes I am aware that they used V instead of W
That's a pretty nice find, yeah. I don't think they based it from the keyboard layout, but just the traditional English interpretation of those Greek letters. That would be why Omega is used for W (given its lower case form) instead of V. It's very readable to me from the pic and I only have rudimentary knowledge of the Greek alphabet.tsab said:
Mascot said:Here's one that will amaze and astound in equal measure:
I was the first member of the public in the whole wide world to complete Sabre Wulf on the ZX Spectrum.
Cynics might suggest that I was actually the first member of the public in the whole wide world who was sad enough to write a letter to Ultimate: Play The Game to tell them that I had finished the game, but to their credit they did make my decade by writing back in a totally unpatronising way to say that I was the first person they knew about who had finished it, which kind of makes it official.
The letter still exists somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my attic. I'll attack the task of finding it one of these days.
Congrats. Rock hard game, so good job.
Now, post Spectrum secrets!
ScionOfTheRisingSun
Banned
This always bothered me as a kid. Look at the cover for Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap:
Notice that the snakes have two heads, or rather they look like two snakes tied together. Now flip over the game and look at he game screenshots on the back and you see the same twinheaded snakes appearing in the island zone, just like on the front art.
Thing is those snake enemies in the actual game have only the one head, so this was changed very late into development for reasons that are beyond me. As a kid I always thought there was a way to make the twinheaded snakes appear in the game, but I guess it was just a late random revision.
Also, back in the day while having fun with glitching games by rocking the cartridge back and forth while a game was running on the SMS for very strange results I managed to make it so the human form of Wonderboy appeared in the town. This impossible scenario is part of the save system because I then went and got the password which would replicate the result if you punched it in after resetting the game.
Notice that the snakes have two heads, or rather they look like two snakes tied together. Now flip over the game and look at he game screenshots on the back and you see the same twinheaded snakes appearing in the island zone, just like on the front art.
Thing is those snake enemies in the actual game have only the one head, so this was changed very late into development for reasons that are beyond me. As a kid I always thought there was a way to make the twinheaded snakes appear in the game, but I guess it was just a late random revision.
Also, back in the day while having fun with glitching games by rocking the cartridge back and forth while a game was running on the SMS for very strange results I managed to make it so the human form of Wonderboy appeared in the town. This impossible scenario is part of the save system because I then went and got the password which would replicate the result if you punched it in after resetting the game.
ScionOfTheRisingSun said:This always bothered me as a kid. Look at the cover for Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap:
Notice that the snakes have two heads, or rather they look like two snakes tied together. Now flip over the game and look at he game screenshots on the back and you see the same twinheaded snakes appearing in the island zone, just like on the front art.
Thing is those snake enemies in the actual game have only the one head, so this was changed very late into development for reasons that are beyond me. As a kid I always thought there was a way to make the twinheaded snakes appear in the game, but I guess it was just a late random revision.
Also, back in the day while having fun with glitching games by rocking the cartridge back and forth while a game was running on the SMS for very strange results I managed to make it so the human form of Wonderboy appeared in the town. This impossible scenario is part of the save system because I then went and got the password which would replicate the result if you punched it in after resetting the game.
I think it's just 2 snakes crossing over another.
ScionOfTheRisingSun
Banned
tsab said:
Then what about the screen shot from behind the box? That is clearly a twinheaded snake enemy not just two snakes on top of one another.
ScionOfTheRisingSun
Banned
Totobeni said:
You know what, a picture is worth a thousand words, I found a pretty good scan of the full cover so I've updated the post with the shots in question.
Tricky I Shadow
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Totobeni said:
DiipuSurotu
Banned
General Leo from Final Fantasy VI looks White in-game but he is actually Black according to Amano's art:
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
DiipuSurotu said:
Yeah I always remembered this, but could never remember where I saw it. Looks like Guile and Balrog had a baby.
