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[Phoenixus]

What the fuck, did anyone else know you could do this?

Nice to see all the variations, I only knew a few back then.

Actually, can this be done for the Grey GameBoy games on eShop? I've only gotten Zelda on there thus far so I can't tell. :S

 

[Bomber Bob]

What the fuck, did anyone else know you could do this?

Instruction booklet

 

[ULTROS!]

Not really mind blowing but kinda funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWFvbgkWls&feature=player_embedded

Check out 0:47 - Schala's Theme is being played (for reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtwEpQe6w0)

 

[Roto13]

Not really mind blowing but kinda funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWFvbgkWls&feature=player_embedded

Check out 0:47 - Schala's Theme is being played (for reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtwEpQe6w0)

I like the version without the shitty rap better.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Not really mind blowing but kinda funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWFvbgkWls&feature=player_embedded

Check out 0:47 - Schala's Theme is being played (for reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtwEpQe6w0)

Also in Japan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqWt7ELGJD4&feature=related

 

[Muskweeto]

Actually, can this be done for the Grey GameBoy games on eShop? I've only gotten Zelda on there thus far so I can't tell. :S

Sadly, no. Which sucks because some games look great with the added color.

Also, I wish they allowed you to use the "X" button as "B", it would be more comfortable for platformers that require you to hold "B" through most of the game to run.

 

[Kazzy]

What the fuck, did anyone else know you could do this?

It was a good way to get through tunnels in Pokemon Red/Blue without having to use flash.

 

[Platy]

Talking to some gamer friends .. and i said something i considered to be common knowledge ... and the majority had their minds blown

So ....

This bird right here .... is a girl

It was a good way to get through tunnels in Pokemon Red/Blue without having to use flash.

now THIS is mindblowing !

 

[jimjonjimmy]

Talking to some gamer friends .. and i said something i considered to be common knowledge ... and the majority had their minds blown

So ....

This bird right here .... is a girl



now THIS is mindblowing !

Wow people don't know this? its said so many times in the games the box's and the manual's.

 

[Platy]

Wow people don't know this? its said so many times in the games the box's and the manual's.

People don't play Banjo games (specialy the n64 games) for the story ... so i can totalys ee someone ignoring the text ....specialy if they didn't played the games all the way

 

[Tyeforce]

It was a good way to get through tunnels in Pokemon Red/Blue without having to use flash.

I thought I was the only one who did this! XD

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Oh and here's a little fun tidbit, though not necessarily mindblowing-
CvSNK 1- Dojo stage

SF Alpha 1 Japan stage-

No time to find pictures now, but if you walk to the left in the Alpha stage, you find a bathhouse (with the Yu kana on the door). IIRC, this is the same building as the one in Honda's SFA3 background. Also, supposedly, both his SF2 background and the Marvel vs Capcom background are inside this building.

 

[Professor Beef]

People don't play Banjo games (specialy the n64 games) for the story ... so i can totalys ee someone ignoring the text ....specialy if they didn't played the games all the way

Wouldn't ignoring the text make the game significantly harder in certain areas?

 

[SpongeBob NoPants]

Talking to some gamer friends .. and i said something i considered to be common knowledge ... and the majority had their minds blown

So ....

This bird right here .... is a girl



now THIS is mindblowing !

Okay. Now my mind is blown - with the thought that anybody who's graduated kindergarten could be oblivious to the fact that an egg-laying avian might possibly be female.

 

[Myriadis]

Not that incredibly mindblowing,but still a neat thing:

The picture below shows the last room before the boss in the Anicent Tomb,which is the 8th Dungeon in Oracle of Ages.
To reach the door,you have to slash the obstacle with your sword away,then use bombs,then you use the seed shooter and finally,the power gloves.



The thing is,

Spoiler

that is exactly how you defeat the boss,Ramrock.First,you attack his fists with the sword,then you lay bombs when he tries to crush you to damage him,after that you use the seed shooter to reach the back and in his last form you fling the metal balls he throws at you back to him with the power gloves.

So basically,this room shows you how to defeat the boss.I played through this game several times and I didn't notice it.

 

[Platy]

Okay. Now my mind is blown - with the thought that anybody who's graduated kindergarten could be oblivious to the fact that an egg-laying avian might possibly be female.

well ...

edit :

Wouldn't ignoring the text make the game significantly harder in certain areas?

Well ... english is not our first language .. and we played way harder SNES games without understanding a word in english ...

And i doubt any of then get to the point where you actualy need to read to REALLY know what to do (and i can only remember the Quiz as a harder part...)

 

[Roto13]

Talking to some gamer friends .. and i said something i considered to be common knowledge ... and the majority had their minds blown

So ....

http://i.imgur.com/SV3eo.png[IMG]

This bird right here .... is a [B]girl[/B][/QUOTE]
Your gamer friends are dumb. :P

 

[XxSlasherMcGirkxX]

Whoa I just randomly stumbled across this watching some old RE1.5 footage and listening to some of it's prototype tracks.

If you don't already know Resident Evil 2 was 80% done and Capcom decided that it was too much like the first game so, so far into the production they scratched everything and started over. Fans call this prototype/beat/original version RE1.5.

Anyway while listening to this track I got the odd feeling that I've heard this before.

Unrelased music track from RE1.5

The Red Lab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k0_2NQTN7c

Resident Evil the Umbrella Chronicles

Live Evil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfxachun-to

 

[XxSlasherMcGirkxX]

Sorry for the double post but maybe somebody can help me out. My last post was about when I was talking about the RE1.5 unreleased soundtracks.

Well I started listening when someone posted this video in the "funny videogame videos that make you lol in real life thread"

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

Anyway at the 2:46-2:56 mark there is music playing that I don't think I have ever heard before. It's not in the OST or unreleased beta tracks. Where does this come from?

 

[wondermega]

YouTube

Japanese version of the original 8-bit Castlevania had title screen music! Did they really have to cut this for memory purposes?

 

[Octorockin']

Not that incredibly mindblowing,but still a neat thing:

That's some seriously clever game design right there. Cool find!

 

[Muskweeto]

YouTube

Japanese version of the original 8-bit Castlevania had title screen music! Did they really have to cut this for memory purposes?

This reminded me of Zelda LTTP.
They improved the title screen and file select screen for the English release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_XhbRJM8yY

I picked up a copy of the Japanese version once while in China Town here in Seattle and found this out for myself.

Not mind-blowing but a neat little fact.

 

[BocoDragon]

This reminded me of Zelda LTTP.
They improved the title screen and file select screen for the English release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_XhbRJM8yY

I picked up a copy of the Japanese version once while in China Town here in Seattle and found this out for myself.

Not mind-blowing but a neat little fact.

Yeah I thought it was cool that it had "Super Famicom" on the title screen.

 

[Muskweeto]

Is that a Facebook symbol above the staircase in the upper right corner?

 

[TheOGB]

Is that a Facebook symbol above the staircase in the upper right corner?

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

 

[BocoDragon]

Is that a Facebook symbol above the staircase in the upper right corner?

Yeah it's the mobile version of Oracle of Ages that Nintendo prepared for their inevitable flight to iOS development.

"Like this staircase?"

 

[Seda]

Not that incredibly mindblowing,but still a neat thing:

The picture below shows the last room before the boss in the Anicent Tomb,which is the 8th Dungeon in Oracle of Ages.
To reach the door,you have to slash the obstacle with your sword away,then use bombs,then you use the seed shooter and finally,the power gloves.



The thing is,

Spoiler

that is exactly how you defeat the boss,Ramrock.First,you attack his fists with the sword,then you lay bombs when he tries to crush you to damage him,after that you use the seed shooter to reach the back and in his last form you fling the metal balls he throws at you back to him with the power gloves.

So basically,this room shows you how to defeat the boss.I played through this game several times and I didn't notice it.

wow

 

[TheOGB]

wait a minute

i didn't even read that spoiler before

holy shit

 

[Emitan]

Yeah I thought it was cool that it had "Super Famicom" on the title screen.

Do they expect people to forget the name of the system they're playing it on? Is that why every N64 game had 64 on the end?

 

[Drkirby]

Do they expect people to forget the name of the system they're playing it on? Is that why every N64 game had 64 on the end?

Maybe it is so people onlooking would remember. Older people tend to have issues remembering which system is which.

"Now what video game system did the wife get the kid..."

 

[Roto13]

This reminded me of Zelda LTTP.
They improved the title screen and file select screen for the English release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_XhbRJM8yY

I picked up a copy of the Japanese version once while in China Town here in Seattle and found this out for myself.

Not mind-blowing but a neat little fact.

"KILL"

 

[JumpingTheGun]

In the original Fallout, on some walls of burned out shacks and buildings (particularly in Junktown) are photos of Maynard James Keenans facial pics in Tool's "Undertow" album.

 

[Kazzy]

I thought I was the only one who did this! XD

YES! It became the only way, I hated/hate using a HM mule whatever the game.

Also the above post reminded me of a Persona 3 related piece of trivia, I don't have any screenshots on hand to prove this but I'm pretty sure this image from the Lennox Lewis poster was used in game as a flyer.

If I remember rightly it can be seen in various places, most prominently around the stations. Its always bugged me but I've never gone and actually compared the two.

 

[ReyVGM]

YouTube

Japanese version of the original 8-bit Castlevania had title screen music! Did they really have to cut this for memory purposes?

That's not the title screen music, that's the file loading music. Since it's a FDS game, you could save your game and that music played on the loading screen.

When it was ported to the NES, the file loading screen had to go and so did the music.

It was later reused in Harmony of Dissonance's file loading screen.

 

[Vire]

Talking to some gamer friends .. and i said something i considered to be common knowledge ... and the majority had their minds blown

So ....

This bird right here .... is a girl



now THIS is mindblowing !

Uh, why would a male lay eggs?

Herp Derp...

 

[randomwab]

Whoa I just randomly stumbled across this watching some old RE1.5 footage and listening to some of it's prototype tracks.

If you don't already know Resident Evil 2 was 80% done and Capcom decided that it was too much like the first game so, so far into the production they scratched everything and started over. Fans call this prototype/beat/original version RE1.5.

Anyway while listening to this track I got the odd feeling that I've heard this before.

Unrelased music track from RE1.5

The Red Lab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k0_2NQTN7c

Resident Evil the Umbrella Chronicles

Live Evil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfxachun-to

That track made it into the final version of RE2. It was only played in the room which required two handprints in the labs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mUAV21dHAI

 

[XxSlasherMcGirkxX]

That track made it into the final version of RE2. It was only played in the room which required two handprints in the labs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mUAV21dHAI

Heh, I guess your right. I hardly ever hear that piece in game becuase I never go in that room. Not worth all the running around.

But I'm still very curious about this

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

Anyway at the 2:46-2:56 mark there is music playing that I don't think I have ever heard before. It's not in the OST or unreleased beta tracks. Where does this come from?

 

[Roto13]

Kazooie wears lipstick.

 

[randomwab]

Heh, I guess your right. I hardly ever hear that piece in game becuase I never go in that room. Not worth all the running around.

But I'm still very curious about this

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

Anyway at the 2:46-2:56 mark there is music playing that I don't think I have ever heard before. It's not in the OST or unreleased beta tracks. Where does this come from?

That doesn't sound like it's coming from the game, and it's playing over the music and sound effects. I think that's from his stream/editing.

 

[Bjoern the Smexy]

Whoa I just randomly stumbled across this watching some old RE1.5 footage and listening to some of it's prototype tracks.

If you don't already know Resident Evil 2 was 80% done and Capcom decided that it was too much like the first game so, so far into the production they scratched everything and started over. Fans call this prototype/beat/original version RE1.5.

Anyway while listening to this track I got the odd feeling that I've heard this before.

Unrelased music track from RE1.5

The Red Lab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k0_2NQTN7c

Resident Evil the Umbrella Chronicles

Live Evil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfxachun-to

THIS is the right kind of musical comparison.
I find it awesome that Capcom not only reused music from an unreleased prototype but also music that was about 10 years old at the time Umbrella Chronicles came out.

EDIT: Oh well, it seems I suck and can't read other peoples posts.
Yeah well, shoo shoo, go away, there's nothing true to be seen here.

 

[XxSlasherMcGirkxX]

That doesn't sound like it's coming from the game, and it's playing over the music and sound effects. I think that's from his stream/editing.

You are probably right. I can't come up with anything else.

 

[The Shadow]

Most people know that the NES and SNES by design supported additional chips in the carts that would aid the main CPU. Most people don't know that the Famicom allowed additional hardware sound channels via these chips whereas the NES did not.

Castlevania III - NES version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qYghfHEAbI#t=01m24s

Castlevania III - Famicom Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SJaF8no9t03#t=00m59s


Well, it blew me away when I first heard the difference.

 

[Medalion]

Is that a Facebook symbol above the staircase in the upper right corner?

Zelda invented Facebook...

*bows*

 

[catapult37]

I just found out about this. In Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, chapter XI:

Spoiler

Astrological puzzle

The first symbol you enter is Virgo (zodiac sign for August 23 to September 23)

The second symbol you enter is Day: 24.

I'm not sure about the third one, it might just be a simple part of the puzzle or it might have a meaning I'm not aware of. Suggestions are welcome.

Now guess whose zodiac sign is Virgo and was born on August 24.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kojima

Me -- that's my birthday! Mind blown!!

 

[Diablohead]

Every time Resi 1.5 is brought up I want to play it

 

[ULTROS!]

Silent Hill plugin in Suikoden II (sorry if the pic is too small):

Here's the video version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc-QSgmPqXw

 

[Chet Rippo]

Talking to some gamer friends .. and i said something i considered to be common knowledge ... and the majority had their minds blown

So ....

Kazooie

This bird right here .... is a girl



now THIS is mindblowing !

 

[WEGGLES]

3DS game manuals tell you to google it if you need help

 

[Medalion]

3DS game manuals tell you to google it if you need help

This disclaimer/tip should be on life's manual in general

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Parts of the 3DS browser are open source.

Blew my mind anyways.