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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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Best explanation I ever heard was that it stands for "not a real password."
Starwolf_UK
Member
So bailey isn't slang for swimsuit anywhere at all? I guess like the whole BS Zelda took 8 minutes to load each dungeon and was a flop and never finished or Wario Ware twisted has liquid mercury in it, BS on the Internet lingers for an eternity.
Now does it make more sense?
According to gamewinners:
My favorite prankster Metroid password is the "engage ridley mother fucker" one which locks the game up. If playing on 3DS you lock the whole system up. Emulation, eh?
Though the daniel daniel daniel daniel one on Gamewinners is easy to remember and is a fairly normal password...
NAR PASSWORD
Now does it make more sense?
According to gamewinners:
http://www.gamewinners.com/nes/Metroid.htm said:
My favorite prankster Metroid password is the "engage ridley mother fucker" one which locks the game up. If playing on 3DS you lock the whole system up. Emulation, eh?
Though the daniel daniel daniel daniel one on Gamewinners is easy to remember and is a fairly normal password...
Since I'm from Brazil, all of them are in Portuguese - Koopa Troll is perhaps the only one in English.
But that's standard procedure for the ones that do not know English, I guess. Sometimes the language is a barrier that is we circumvent with a lesser vocabulary and mundane words.
Thanks for the info. I like Koopa Troll! They're Koopa Troopas here in America but I think Koopa Troll is fitting since they usually pop up out of nowhere to troll you!
KittenMaster
Member
Metroid Passwords allow you to turn on a lot of strange bits that aren't understood by humans (if you look up a password generator there's a lot of unknown flags turned on by that password) so those might be giving strange effects. One of the flags for that password seems to be one that resets the game as well. I'm guessing it's a password that screws up the RAM state and causes the game to fail to load properly. EDIT: Watching a vid of it done and it doesn't reset on emulator. I wonder if there's a vid of it being used on an actual NES.
Metroid also has a really weak validation checker for its passwords, as long as you can bypass the checksum you have quite a bit of freedom on what password you can make.
Since we're talking about Metroid 1, its "secret worlds" are quite a fascinating thing too, even though they aren't actually new worlds but level or other data regurgitated in strange ways.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
What if you switch it around?
Code:
RIDLEY POSING
OMGWTF FAGGOTDoes it change anything important?
Yeh I've heard all the theories, but never found anything confirming the origin of it.
TheRedSnifit
Member
nvm
moniker
Member
Yeah, if I recall correctly, the checksum is just the 8 least significant bits of the 17 first bytes added together. The password is 18 bytes total, but the actual password as presented is 24 char which are 6 bits each. That means there's a 1 in 256 chance that any random password is valid (I think? I haven't really thought it through). Though a lot of passwords will just reset the game, so the chance to randomly get a usable password is actually less than that.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Yeah, that always bugged me as a kid. Never knew why the bright part was at the back.
ResidentDante
Member
This was probably posted like 30 times already but it's the first time I see it so:
Apparently they mistakenly switched around the fireball sprite.
We need an 11GB patch to fix this asap.
Version 3.0
Member
Right, until it disconnects from him, it's drawn correctly. I guess at that point, it should morph into the mirrored sprite, but I just figured they didn't bother.
The12thGripper
Member
Shame that 3DS and Wii U are 2 seperate games. (Smash 4 and Smash 5 respectively.)
SeventhSon
Member
Toad gives Mario both barrels!
SuperAngelo64
Banned
Just thought I'd throw this out there since a few people in another thread didn't make the connection:
ALBW Spoiler!!
Ravio's motif is a pink rabbit.
ALBW Spoiler!!
Ravio's motif is a pink rabbit.
He's also Link's counterpart in Lorule.
Link's Dark World form in A Link To The Past is a pink rabbit
Link's Dark World form in A Link To The Past is a pink rabbit
Diablohead
Member
The metroid password stuff reminds me of Road Rash 2, if you go to the password screen at the start of the game and change the single last letter to something else the game reads the password thinking you have tons of money.
Mind blown.
What's the top thing?
Japan
Garcia
Member
Mind blown.
Good one!
Just thought I'd throw this out there since a few people in another thread didn't make the connection:
ALBW Spoiler!!
Ravio's motif is a pink rabbit.He's also Link's counterpart in Lorule.
Link's Dark World form in A Link To The Past is a pink rabbit
okay just completed the game but
the dark world is different from lorule right? so they're not really related right or are they?
Dark World and Lorule are not connected. Dark World is Hyrule's sacred realm transformed whereas Lorule is a parallel world with its own scared realm. Basically Lorule is in some ways the what if result if Ganon got his way and did manage to merge the Dark World with Hyrule.
It's just a nice throwback like the masks the villagers are wearing being based on the transformed Dark World NPCs.
Mind blown.
And in typical fashion, Kyushu is forgotten, Hokkaido is a useless ornament and Tokyo is at the center of everything!
Really cool find, though.
How are they separate games? Same roster, same mechanics. Same title even (minus the system name).
Not cool enough.
Surprisingly, I think this was the only Nintendo-published SNES game that slammed into Sega in a noticeable fashion. I mean, not in ads, of course (IIRC DKC's ad was basically that it looked better than Sega CD games despite not being for a CD add-on), but I can't help but feel there should be more jabs like this with how heated the ads were. Guess the devs themselves didn't care?
Bottom right corner.
Also, for those curious, the rest of the uncool words in Unirally/racer are quite funny.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but a friend of mine just sent me this and I thought it was pretty awesome
I don't know, the only source I can see for that is Reddit, and you know how that usually goes...
BeekleMatter
Member
"Oh hey look a mushroom cloud!" "Dude is your thumb bigger than it?" "Yea bro." "Oh alright were good then!"
Yea idk.
Yea idk.
I dunno, "Duck and cover" used to be genuine advice given out. Anything goes after that.
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
Super Mario Bros. 3 is the prequel to Super Mario Bros. 2.
In World 3 of SMB3, also known as Sea Side, players fight Wendy Koopa to save the king after being transformed into a Kappa. After defeating Wendy, Mario successfully reverts the King back to his original form, which ironically enough is very similar to Mario himself.
Turns into
Kappa's themselves are Japanese folklore, which are known to be mischievous troublemakers who enjoy vegetables, especially eggplant and cucumbers.
Mario met the a king similar to himself in appearance that was transformed into a Kappa. And while sleeping subconsiously dreamed him up in Super Mario.
In World 3 of SMB3, also known as Sea Side, players fight Wendy Koopa to save the king after being transformed into a Kappa. After defeating Wendy, Mario successfully reverts the King back to his original form, which ironically enough is very similar to Mario himself.
Turns into
Kappa's themselves are Japanese folklore, which are known to be mischievous troublemakers who enjoy vegetables, especially eggplant and cucumbers.
Mario met the a king similar to himself in appearance that was transformed into a Kappa. And while sleeping subconsiously dreamed him up in Super Mario.
SeventhSon
Member
megaStryke
Banned
Just posted this over the in Shovel Knight OT:
SuperAngelo64
Banned
I'm pretty sure it's just because the Castle in World 3 is located in Japan.
A kappa is from Japanese mythology.
Mario was created by a Japanese company.
That's all there is to it.
EDIT: Goddamnit, how I have to listen to this awesome arrangement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcROeK8yL8U
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Just saw this, but it seems in New Leaf every Sunday and Monday at 3:33 A.M. there's an alien broadcast. 0.o
More Wart: his Japanese name is Mamu, まむ. This is made by changing the order of the characters for "Dream Demon" (muma むま
And that is also why the Wart like character in Link's Awakening in called Mamu. Two games about dreams.
No way.
Just saw this, but it seems in New Leaf every Sunday and Monday at 3:33 A.M. there's an alien broadcast. 0.o
That is so cool.
Just saw this, but it seems in New Leaf every Sunday and Monday at 3:33 A.M. there's an alien broadcast. 0.o
Just posted this over the in Shovel Knight OT:
I know a lot of these are years old and the final release of Shovel Knight's only weeks old, but that is still cool!
Same about the alien broadcast in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. IIRC Villagers don't mention it at all, so playing at 3:33 and having the static get interrupted is really spooky/surprising.
Also, can't believe I forgot DKC2... Thanks, BGBW!