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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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Emperor Bohe
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Karin Kanzuki would have possibly made her first original appearance in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, where what looks to be a completely finished stance based on Sakura's own laying in the code near Dan's sprites. Her appearance is based on her original in Sakura Ganbaru! manga, with boots instead of sneakers.
Of course, she eventually went on to debut in Street Fighter Zero 3, instead.
Awesome, did not know this.
Dunno if this would belong here or not.
Am I crazy, or do these sound incredibly similar?
Super Mario Bros. 3 Water Land
and
Strange Things by Randy Newman.
Am I crazy, or do these sound incredibly similar?
Super Mario Bros. 3 Water Land
and
Strange Things by Randy Newman.
If this is legit, this is the most amazing thing in this thread.
sixteen-bit
Member
Neat. That's news to me.Karin Kanzuki would have possibly made her first original appearance in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, where what looks to be a completely finished stance based on Sakura's own laying in the code near Dan's sprites. Her appearance is based on her original in Sakura Ganbaru! manga, with boots instead of sneakers.
Of course, she eventually went on to debut in Street Fighter Zero 3, instead.
I love this. I feel like anyone who's ever worked on a game before can relate to this - if it looks fine on the player's side, then it's working.
sixteen-bit
Member
That's unusual. It says 30 for me.
Diablohead
Member
this.
As long as something looks correct it doesn't matter how it's achieved (outside of terrible performance killing methods at least)
In Super Mario World getting all the secret exits in the Valley of Bowser makes the map look like this:
81 is the amount of exits in the game, minus the front door, back door, and the Star world levels.
Mind blown
PC gamer says it's a hand, not a hat! It got weirder.
http://www.pcgamer.com/heres-whats-happening-inside-fallout-3s-metro-train/
mcz117chief
Member
As an aside, a personal anecdote: When I worked on Delta Force: Urban Warfare, we had a mechanic where as a player took damage, they'd bleed - and start leaving visible blood trails that enemies could follow.
It was one of the first gameplay elements I implemented, when I was fresh out of university and really wasn't comfortable that I had a clue what I was doing. I'd do it differently now, but then what I did was made a 'blood gun', and fired it downwards every time I needed to drop a blood splodge.
Worked brilliantly.
Seems to be pretty known around people but I just saw this in a speedrun, why didn't anyone tell me you could steal items like that in Link's Awakening?
https://youtu.be/91fIloruAmU?t=6m43s
https://youtu.be/91fIloruAmU?t=6m43s
Finale Fireworker
Member
This must be very widely known, right?
The game renames you THIEF if you do it, and the shopkeeper kills you with lightning magic the first time you return to the store after stealing.
It even renames you that? That's so good, how can players even come up with trying something like that out tho, it's crazy. It sounds like an easter egg they'd put in the manual or something, I don't believe someone trying it out on their own
It even renames you that? That's so good, how can players even come up with trying something like that out tho, it's crazy. It sounds like an easter egg they'd put in the manual or something, I don't believe someone trying it out on their own
You should check out the original Link's Awakening speedruns if you want to see some crazy nonsense.
Finale Fireworker
Member
It even renames you that? That's so good, how can players even come up with trying something like that out tho, it's crazy. It sounds like an easter egg they'd put in the manual or something, I don't believe someone trying it out on their own
The shop works by you physically picking up an item and carrying it over your head to the shop keeper. Naturally players would try to walk out the door with it, just to see what happens.
When you do, he will tell you that you can't leave without paying for it. But if you walk around him instead of straight to the door, it's yours.
Then he murders you for stealing and you are branded THIEF forever.
ipukespiders
Member
Does the intro to Metric's Satellite Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F_Y0qNjfhI and Gold Guns Girls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLjHhSOE7s sound like music from DOOM to anyone else?
Fantasies always make me think of DOOM.
Fantasies always make me think of DOOM.
It even renames you that? That's so good, how can players even come up with trying something like that out tho, it's crazy. It sounds like an easter egg they'd put in the manual or something, I don't believe someone trying it out on their own
I figured it out no problem as a kid. I was amused that the shop keeper followed you but sometimes he lagged behind so I was curious if I tried to leave while he lagged behind if I could leave with the item, and then I did so.
sadly I stole like a 10 pack of arrows after I grinded forever to get the money for the most expensive item lol.
Bubba_Sparks
Member
I just want to chime in and say that I remember when this thread first came out eight (8!) years ago! It's crazy to think that it has been going this long!
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
The Lamonster
Member
Wow.The guy on the famous Doom cover actually uses only one gun.
I always thought he uses two. My life is a lie.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
The guy on the famous Doom cover actually uses only one gun.
I always thought he uses two. My life is a lie.
The guy on the famous Doom cover actually uses only one gun.
I always thought he uses two. My life is a lie.
I always thought that too.. I think it's because I saw Duke 3D's cover first and it's closely associated in my mind:
Tye The Czar
Member
The artist for One Punch Man, Murata Yusuke, who often draws stuff like this:
Twice.
won a contest for designing a Mega Man Robot Master.
Twice.
Teuoxton
Member
This made my day! Thank you.The artist for One Punch Man, Murata Yusuke, who often draws stuff like this:
won a contest for designing a Mega Man Robot Master.
Twice.
One day Mega Man might get to fight One-punch Man!
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I wonder though, the only source I see about that on the Wikipedia page links to Gamefaqs---and with the way Japanese names work, are we sure it's the same Yusuke Murata? And the same Yusuke Murata between both games even? Anyone have the Kanji used in the Rockman 4/5 credits?
Aaron Strife
Banned
Wait am I missing something here?In Super Mario World getting all the secret exits in the Valley of Bowser makes the map look like this:
81 is the amount of exits in the game, minus the front door, back door, and the Star world levels.
There are 96 exits in SMW. 10 of those come from Star World and 8 of those come from Special World. That would only make 78 exits (the Front Door/Back Door don't count in the in-game total and you'd be one short anyway).
Tye The Czar
Member
Good luck lasting 5 seconds against Saitama.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
So umm what is the big secret on page 70?
I may have my settings such that page numbers dont match...
I may have my settings such that page numbers dont match...
Cloudbush, aka "the clouds and the bushes in Super Mario Bros use the same sprite, only with a different palette".
bobawesome
Member
As if Mega Man wasn't dead enough already.
Post 70.
Are there any other examples you know of fun gaming shortcuts like this?
BossDarkseid
Member
Might have been mentioned but in Mass Effect 1 there are 3 versions of the Normandy and the pre Eden prime version exists at the bottom of every map in the game. Also all areas of the citadel exist on the same map, though that's not much.
I remember another small one:
There is the cutscene in Majoras Mask where Skull Kid gets Majoras Mask by stealing it from the bag of the unconcious mask salesman. Instead of creating a bag model just for these few seconds, they simply had another model of the salesman positioned under the ground so that only the bag would stick out.
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
I'd like to know too
DiipuSurotu
Banned
ratcliffja
Member
I remember another small one:
There is the cutscene in Majoras Mask where Skull Kid gets Majoras Mask by stealing it from the bag of the unconcious mask salesman. Instead of creating a bag model just for these few seconds, they simply had another model of the salesman positioned under the ground so that only the bag would stick out.
That reminds me of a certain game I helped program at WayForward where we had to move a certain wall once you blew up a wall. The problem was that the wall was level art and not a regular sprite, so I just covered it with explosions and then moved the entire environment layer containing the wall up a full screen. Of course, this also required making invisible entities inside the wall, which ended up leading to a speedrun skip when somebody despawned them, making a wall that could just be walked through.
Pokémon Crystal added a storyline about Suicune and Unown as well as online connectivity through a mobile phone adapter to Pokémon Gold and Silver. The mobile phone connectivity stuff was cut outside of Japan because mobile phones in the rest of the world were way behind Japan's crazy early 2000s mobile phones. In Gold and Silver, it's implied the radio tower is bothering the Unown because they communicate with radio waves. In Crystal, everyone outside of Japan lost out on the part of the storyline where your real life mobile phone signals were bothering the Unown in the game because of the mobile phone adapter:
Huh. I knew about the Celebii event, but not this one. Which is weird, since Gen 2 of Pokemon probably ranks among my Top 10 favorite games of all time. I thought I knew about every event that game had to offer, but here we are!
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Well shit
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Dragon's Breath was in Halo 3
Dragon's Breath is a reference to the Halo 1 flamethrower. Halo 3 's flamethrower is reference the Halo 1 flamethrower.
This rabbit hole goes much deeper. The design is a reference to the Curtis P40 warhawk which saw extensive use by allied forces in WW2.
The proper name for the Flamethrower is the M7057/Defoliant Projector. The 7057 is a call back to the Marathon Flame thrower called the TOZT 7 Backpack Napalm Unit
TOZT is leet/1337 for Toast
Here is Dragons Breath for those who don't play Destiny
