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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
This is one of the more fourth wall breaking things I've seen in an FF game (aside from, perhaps, Gilgamesh appearing and clearly in being continuity with his previous appearances).Chev said:The game is FF9, the opponent Ragtime Mouth. It asks quiz questions which the player has to answer to win the fight. Note the quiz card he's holding:
Now, the other face of the quiz card, which is probably near-impossible to get a close look of in-game:
Texture:
It reads: "Pop Quiz! FF10's theme is GUTS! True or false?"
Several monster textures also have little doodles hidden in the alpha channel of unmapped regions but no specific message.
(crossposted from Selectbutton)
Gravijah said:
I'll forgive you this, because TIL that Monkey was not shown in the US. So you have missed out on a cultural phenomenon that eclipses DBZ for awesomeness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCfa5cyBxmM
Granger Danger
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randomlyrossy
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Glitches are cool and all but they aren't mind blowing facts. Come on guys!
Emonga said:
You didn't know a cheat mode with an emulator was possible?
This stuff is cool too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uU5CFY4wks&feature=related
But none of this is really shockingly secret
Prime Blue
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Just to clear that up before it gets spreads as the origin of the "Samus" name: Sakamoto said "nantoka" in the interview, not "samushingu".Koren said:
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Saw this the other day...
The worlds of Mario Land are all connected to aliens (thus, fitting with Tatanga being the main villain), as you have:
* Birabuto: Egypt, with the Ancient Pyramids sometimes believed to be built by aliens
* Muda: The Bermuda Triangle, another spot of speculated alien activity
* Easton: Easter Island, with the possibly alien-built Moai
* Chai: China, a bit of a stretch, the but the idea of China as the "heavenly realm", and there's also the common belief in aliens = gods you see.
The worlds of Mario Land are all connected to aliens (thus, fitting with Tatanga being the main villain), as you have:
* Birabuto: Egypt, with the Ancient Pyramids sometimes believed to be built by aliens
* Muda: The Bermuda Triangle, another spot of speculated alien activity
* Easton: Easter Island, with the possibly alien-built Moai
* Chai: China, a bit of a stretch, the but the idea of China as the "heavenly realm", and there's also the common belief in aliens = gods you see.
Bjoern the Smexy
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The Scarecrow was brainless, but Vivi is an intelligent, artificial being.Sofo said:
The Tin Man had no heart, but Steiner's heart is at least as big as his mouth.
The Lion had no courage, but Zidane is probably the single most courageous Final Fantasy hero if there ever was one.
Dorothy is just as much of a ditz as Garnet, though.
So if you don't take into consideration that Zidane is more like a monkey than a lion (still some kind of animal) it makes perfect sense to me in that the FF9 characters are the complete opposite of the Oz characters they might be representing.
And for me this makes it mind-blowing again.
Bomber Bob
Banned
GUTS??
I have a few:
You can sell the Zora Eggs in Majora's Mask to the Curiosity Shop.
Also, on Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, you can take the disc out after it loads your town. The reason for this is it's a port of the original N64 game only released in Japan. The game is so small that it's loaded entirely into the Gamecube's RAM, so it doesn't pull anything else from the disc after it boots up.
You can sell the Zora Eggs in Majora's Mask to the Curiosity Shop.
Also, on Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, you can take the disc out after it loads your town. The reason for this is it's a port of the original N64 game only released in Japan. The game is so small that it's loaded entirely into the Gamecube's RAM, so it doesn't pull anything else from the disc after it boots up.
I don't know if anyone here has noticed this (the commenters in the Youtube vid certainly did), but the track "Concerto For Philodendron And Pothos" from Mort Garson's 1976 synth album Plantasia sounds an awful lot like it may have inspired Zelda's lullaby, and I wouldn't be surprised if Koji Kondo has heard this album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49Trz5Rc_A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49Trz5Rc_A
Valjean Lafitte
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mattx5 said:
HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII--
--way, way, way too similar to be a coincidence. Someone needs to ask Koji Kondo about this; it may just be a case of cryptonesia, and not an intentional reference or blatant rip-off.
Ahoi-Brause
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That's another mgs-theme type of deal.
_Alkaline_
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Gee whiz, that is familiar.
DiipuSurotu
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The middle part of "Scars of Time", the opening theme from Chrono Cross, sounds suspiciously like "Gilvve Gollát (Sow Your Gold)" from Mari Boine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46RY4PU8a8
http://www.we7.com/#/song/Mari-Boine/Gilvve-Gollat
"The Wounded Shall Advance into the Light" from Xenogears sounds like it is based on the unused choir track from the Chrono Trigger alpha (only ever used at the game's V-Jump presentation in 1994):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgVdUuW9CoQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6TXpaXfgCk&t=6m41s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46RY4PU8a8
http://www.we7.com/#/song/Mari-Boine/Gilvve-Gollat
"The Wounded Shall Advance into the Light" from Xenogears sounds like it is based on the unused choir track from the Chrono Trigger alpha (only ever used at the game's V-Jump presentation in 1994):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgVdUuW9CoQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6TXpaXfgCk&t=6m41s
Diablohead
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It was done with a cheat code, nothing special.Medalion said:
Are you deaf? The bit from 0:04 to 0:09, which is reused throughout the song, is similar. The rest is completely different.brerwolfe said:
If the fact that, at some point in time, a different song has used some of the same notes as Zelda's Lullaby in a similar way, blows your mind, it's amazing you've lived this long without your head just exploding.
why would he be? i wish people would stop posting these ridiculous "comparisons". i guess if you don't know anything about music, every little arpeggio, every two chords that sound similar to an earlier piece constitute a rip-off or some sort of "inspiration".brerwolfe said:
i mean, the zelda lullaby one is ridiculous enough, but this shit here is downright hilarious:
fucking lolCeline said:
polyh3dron
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nah not even close. the mgs thing had sections of it completely lifted. This is more like the thing where that guitarist (I think it was Steve Vai) sued Coldplay for "stealing" his song.Ahoi-Brause said:
GotchaForce
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Arguments over whether your mind should be blown or not aside, I do like it when someone points out songs that sound is some ways similar to video game tunes. Sometimes I don't hear it at all but this page has some interesting ones imo.
GameplayWhore
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This is pretty minor but slightly interesting and not at all about music or Pokémon:
I noticed a post from the Old Times had a picture of a sumo wrestler from Arm Wrestling, a Nintendo game that was spun off from Punch-Out!! (which might suck for people posting in the "best franchise ever" thread). I think it was supposed to imply something about E. Honda or something, but anyway....
The incredibly mindblowing (heh) fact here is that the link between the two games is Bald Bull. Apparently, after getting beaten by Little Mac in Punch-Out!!, he took on the persona of "Mask X" and competed in the Arm Wrestling circuit.
Also of slight note: It's a dual screen game (with resolutions roughly comparable to the Nintendo DS's); one of the characters is Texas Mac, though it's unclear if he's related to Little Mac; some of the music is originally from Punch-Out!!
If you'll excuse me, now I'll go investigate the secret link between Samus Aran and Aran Ryan.
I noticed a post from the Old Times had a picture of a sumo wrestler from Arm Wrestling, a Nintendo game that was spun off from Punch-Out!! (which might suck for people posting in the "best franchise ever" thread). I think it was supposed to imply something about E. Honda or something, but anyway....
The incredibly mindblowing (heh) fact here is that the link between the two games is Bald Bull. Apparently, after getting beaten by Little Mac in Punch-Out!!, he took on the persona of "Mask X" and competed in the Arm Wrestling circuit.
Also of slight note: It's a dual screen game (with resolutions roughly comparable to the Nintendo DS's); one of the characters is Texas Mac, though it's unclear if he's related to Little Mac; some of the music is originally from Punch-Out!!
(also, I lied about this post not being at all about music)
If you'll excuse me, now I'll go investigate the secret link between Samus Aran and Aran Ryan.
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
DiipuSurotu said:
This thread keeps getting better and better (despite the best efforts of the usual joy-killers)!
Celine said:
I like the fact that the boss theme from SMB2--which scared the heck out of me as a child--is based off a song from a song called "Exorcism". Very appropriate.
There are like... 7 different notes on the musical scale. If you think of that as base-7 math, and think of five different notes in a sequence, then there are less than 17,000 possibilities for that sequence. And you can probably narrow that result some, because there are additional unwritten rules for creating things like harmony and melody. Let's call it 10,000.RockXLight said:
Now how many songs do you think exist in recorded human history? CDDB apparently has info on tens of millions. The real world might have hundreds of millions. And how many different five-note sequences can you extract from each of those songs? Call it 10?
Now divide 10,000 into a billion. If you make a five note sequence, odds are it has already been used 100,000 times. Someone found one of them. Mind blowing!
Now what if you go beyond that, and drop the requirement that notes be mathematically identical, and include notes that are just kind of similar...
There's a correct way and a wrong way to do these music posts...
Correct way:
Hey, listen to these two songs. I just noticed that they share a theme/few notes/chord progression. It's almost certainly coincidence, but I'm surprised I didn't hear it before and it's kinda cool when you detect the similarities.
Wrong way:
Hey, listen to these two songs. The later one is obviously based off the first. *Insert composer* was inspired by this earlier song for sure.
Correct way:
Hey, listen to these two songs. I just noticed that they share a theme/few notes/chord progression. It's almost certainly coincidence, but I'm surprised I didn't hear it before and it's kinda cool when you detect the similarities.
Wrong way:
Hey, listen to these two songs. The later one is obviously based off the first. *Insert composer* was inspired by this earlier song for sure.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Here's a better one:Odrion said:
Duke Nukem Forever and Batman Forever.
They're both shyte.