/vr/ - Retro Games

In the original Pokemon games, attacks that do damage and have a chance to apply a status condition (PSN, PRZ, ect) will never apply the special condition if the enemy is the same type as the move. For example, Twin Needle will never poison bug types. However, this doesn't apply to attacks that do no damage, like Sleep Powder.

in level 2 of Double Dragon on the NES, you could max out your exp and gain all moves by hitting an invisible enemy with a baseball bat over and over again

>>4905646
Poison is the only status effect it doesn't work with. It does work with Paralyze, though. Thunder will never Paralyze electric types, Lick will never Paralyze ghosts, Body Slam will never Paralyze normal types, ect.

>>4905668
I thought poison types were straight-up immune to the poison status in gen 1, anyway.

>>4905394
vectorman cheats were call a cab and calldad

DKC has a bonus level within a bonus level. It’s the first one in Oil Drum Alley, and it’s one of the ones you have to jump at roulette barrels and match 3. You have to match three single-banana barrels, which causes a real physical barrel to appear. Then, you have to pick it up and straddle the breakable wall to the right in a way that makes DK or Diddy automatically enter the new passage instead of celebrating the bonus “win.” Then you will enter the 2nd room.

This counts for a percentage point on your file and can only be done the very first time you do that bonus area.

>>4905394
On selected Konami games such as Contra if you type up c down c left c right c b a start at boot up you get infinite lives

If you smash your face against the television you unlock additional stars in mario 64 but u cant actually get them.

>>4905646
twin needle.. is Normal type in red/blue tho with no poison chance.

>>4905394
Ask your mom.

Which game was it again where you unlocked a secret cheat by rubbing your wet finger against the controller port because it fucked with the current and the computer detected that or some shit?

>>4905892
The built-in cheat in Creatures II is unorthodox. To gain infinite lives, the player must wait for the credits screen to appear, then wet his finger and quickly rub it across Joystick Port One. A big picture of Maximus Mouse (from the games Summer Camp and Winter Camp byThalamus) will appear, waving his arms every time the player rubs his finger across the port. The player must repeatedly rub the port until Maximus Mouse turns grey, at which point the Fuzzy fountain will also flash to confirm that the cheat is now active.[2]

>>4905771
Twineedle is Beedrill's signature move. It's always been a bug-type attack that can poison, even back in gen 1 where there were only a couple of bug moves.

DKC3 has music with Nintendo 64 in mind, and some tracks in the game are titled with 64 at the end of the title. As you probably know, Wrinkly also has an N64 hooked up to her TV.

>>4905720
>can only be done the very first time you do that bonus area

But that's wrong. I remember retrying that trick over and over until I got it right.

I've never understood why those Toad's tool retards make Luigi so damn lanky in their hacks, have they ever actually looked at artwork of the character?

>>4905646
I never knew about the same type attack bonus (STAB) back in the day. I always wondered why my Raticate could one-shot a lot of pokemon with Hyper Fang, but the Mew that I gamesharked the move on to couldn't do near as much damage with it.

>>4905894
what the actual fuck

Super Mario Bros 2 was actually a re skinning of Doki Doki Panic in Japan

>>4906309
Heh beat me to it. Thought I was the only one that knew

>>4905894
this can't be real can it

>>4906309
I'm kind of surprised it took this long for someone to post this

>>4906309
>Super Mario Bros 2 was actually a re skinning of Doki Doki Panic in Japan

I call bullshit anon, I don't believe you.

>>4906294
My friends and I figured out the STAB, but we were never totally sure about the physical / special split. Our assumption was that move types that generally inflict status effects would be counted as special, while those that don't are physical.

We assumed that normal, fighting, flying, rock, ground, grass, and bug were physical, while fire, water, ice, electric, psychic, ghost, and poison were special. We were wrong about ghost (wtf), poison, and grass, but the others were right, I think.

>>4906334
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9udGtExc498
Starts at 1:22

>>4905698
and ABRACADABRA

RE1 has an alternative scene with the first zombie if you attempt to leave the dining room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KN_LvL2voM

>CALL APOGEE SAY "AARDWOLF"

>>4906397
Yeah, there were a lot of false rumors about that scene, mostly stemming from misunderstandings in Director's Cut. A lot of people seemed to think that triggering the alternate version of that scene allowed you to get random headshots with the handgun, but that's not the case; headshots were due to the silver M92F, which worked the same way in RE2, I believe. Too bad there's no legit way to get that gun on Leon or Claire. I don't even know if it works properly when they use it.

There's a complete beta ROM for an unreleased Panel De Pon game hidden inside Pokemon Puzzle Challenge. To access it, you have to put the game into a regular Gameboy so you get the "this game can only be played on a Gameboy Color" error screen, then input a button code.

>>4906384
fuck off with your autismo shit

>>4906409
RE2 has decapitation shots in hard mode. Zombie HP in hard mode is so high it's more likely to get decapitated than killed normally. The strongest zombies in normal are half as sturdy as the weakest ones in hard mode. Pic related.

>>4906446
Did you get these values yourself, or are they on a site? If someone's already compiled all this stuff, I finally have an excuse to stop.

>>4906480
RAM watching, it's a work in progress, a very slow WIP because I suck at Resident Evil.

>>4906492
I was doing the same thing, but using Cheat Engine to keep track of the values in ePSXe was a colossal pain.

>>4905394
Wut?

Bullshit!

>>4905894
>the player must repeatedly rub his wet finger over the hole until Maximus finishes

>>4906440
Not mine, I just found it, and how is what I posted disagreeable or offensive?

>>4905394
In Damocles: Mercenary II, you can pick up the Author's Chair and Computer through the window.

Until I posted this, nobody else knew this. It can shave almost 25 minutes off a speedrun.

some say there's a way to get eaten by her(him)

>>4906709
dorrie is a qt. she wouldn't do that

i'm guessing in the late beta there was a zelda cucco-esque mechanic where maybe she'd bite you or throw you off or something if you punched or ground pounded her head/neck

>>4906702
Until you posted this, nobody remembered this game existed for 20 years

>>4906309
those bastards!

In Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, you can start as a merfolk abyss knight with a trident and kite monsters to water, jump in, and attack from a couple squares away where they can't get to you. Killing one monster gets you like 7 levels. I've never seen anyone ever talk about this exploit anywhere.

STALKER's P90 Walther on the second story of Kordon-Garbage exit, silencers in the container on the farm's roof, at the north side of Kordon

>>4907042
thats fucking stupid min max shit is why.

>>4906309
The European edition was called Donkey Kong Literature Club

>>4907160
They are weird folks in Europre, aren't they

>>4906321
well since the pins in the c64 joystick port are exposed and easily accessible by a finger, I can believe that creating connections between them in this way could cause some fucked up inputs that the game could read

>>4906702
wrong I remembered that. pretty sure all the three people who remember the game are aware of that 'secret'

In The Wind Waker, you can instakill the second boss (Kale Demos) by pouring forest water over him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3QqNHELmaY

>>4905394
in star ocean 2 I figured that if you change your limit/special skills when you enter a dungeon room it lowers the encounter rate drastically. helped me escape in the cave of trials a few times.

>>4909696
Probably forces the RNG to reroll or resets the encounter rate. Using items and the like probably has the same effect.

>>4905646
theres tons of move glitches and oddities in the original pokemon blue and red. For example the way how Slash with Charizard has something like a 106 % chance of being a critical hit, lol.

I have a question about Pokemon red/blue though. I'm so sure that with Clefairy's Metronome move, i have seen a move called Super Beam (like a weaker version of Hyper Beam)
can anyone clarify this exists?

>>4905394
also my input to the thread is in Perfect Dark, knock out (don't kill) the first two guards in G5 Building, and they will drop a Crossbow... weird!

>>4905656
real one: if you beat up player 2 you take his lives

>>4907208
Sounds like a fantastic way to blow your 6526

Move the cursor over a file with over 100 hours of play in Wave Race 64 and wait until the music loops. As it loops, delete the file. Instead of the normal sound effect, Totaka's Song will play. The Wave Race TAS discord found this a few days ago.

If you get all 20 seashells before beating catfishes maw in LA, you skip the ghost

>>4908889
Not retro.

>>4911230
has totaka's song been found in wii sports yet?

You can get all 75 Koins in DKC2 in the first level. I forget exactly how to do it, I think It goes something like this though
>Begin level
>Go through the level, don't kill or collect anything
>Get to first banana bunch, collect it
>Go back to the captain's quarters with the note and life
>Enter, immediately walk back out
>Again, don't touch anything and go back to the banana bunch mentioned above, collect it
>Go back to the captain's quarters
>There should be a floating koin above the note
>Collect it, and you have all 75 koins in the game

>>4911230
>The Wave Race TAS discord
fuck I hate speedfags

In Final Fantasy 5, if one of your characters is a zombie and their level is divisible by 5, if they get hit by a reflected Lv5 Death they... die.
They fall down dead and then stand back up to attack before falling down dead again

>>4912047
I think you have to jump over K. Rool’s note and back as part of it. DKC3 has a similar but less convoluted thing involving the waterfall on the left edge of the map.

>>4909762
I think the Slash glitch is universal. I have a vague memory of Persian being a monster because of this.

My guess at the other thing is that you confabulated something based on Solar Beam.

>>4905753
Underrated

>>4909762
Crits were based on agility in gen 1. Persian (or any fast mon) was basically guaranteed a crit if it used a move that had a high base crit

>>4912242
Keep in mind that the Pokemon's base speed stat is what's used for critical calculations, and not their actual speed.

Regular attacks have a critical rate of Base Speed / 512, while high critical rate attacks are Base Speed / 64. Anything with a base speed of 64 or higher has a 255/256 chance of landing a critical hit with high crit rate attacks, since there's always a 1/256 failure rate, due to how the game runs calculations.

>>4912253
The famicom ports kind of smell like yoshi

>>4912267
haha

>>4906638
not him but you fell for bait a while back

The main character of Diddy Kong Racing is Timber.

the final battle in diddy kong racing is pisseasy if you use the mouse character

>>4912253
Were instant KO moves (horn drill etc.) calculated the same way?

In Jurassic Park rampage edition if you jump while using hand grenades when close to the helicopter on the savanna level, the bottom half of it disappears.

>>4912203
I think you're right, actually

There is totally, definitely a naked photo of, get this, Jenny Mcarthy in Mario Kart 64, according to everyone at my middle school in 1997.

>>4912462
My best friend's dad worked at Nintendo, he confirmed this.

>>4912462
It's Pamela Anderson
It came up when I was playing N64 in only my boxers while laying with my frontside to the couch and moving my pelvis when mom my walked in

>>4905394
I temember in the late 90s, my friends uncle showed us a bunch of sevrets on smw and dkc. The dkc one wasnt well known till recently. You press start or y as you move along a bend in the path while choosing a level. The glitch skips you ahead quite a few levels if used between levels 1 and 2

>>4906429
So you have to break a gameboys cartridge holder thing, to play this??? Bullshit!

>>4912485
Or you could just play on a Pocket.

>>4906709
I suppose people could be mixing it up with memories of Bubba but I'm pretty sure it bit/ate me once. I can see very clearly in my mind it lowering its head and opening its mouth. Then again, imagination is a powerful thing. I was scared of witches, werewolves and trolls when I was younger so I don't know how reliable little anon's "memory" really is.

>>4912047
DKC2:
start level
enter door
exit
jump over first two bananas, go collect first banana bunch on line of barrels
go back to door, jumping over the two bananas
enter, collect life, leave
jump over two bananas and get banana bunch again and come back again, jumping over the two bananas
enter cabin and 75 kremkoins will appear over the note.

DKC3
Have cursor over your save file in the safe select screen
L R R L R R L R L R
input WATER
swim to waterfall in world map, don't use a vehicle
You'll be met with a banana bird cave minigame, clearing it will get you 85 bonus coins.

>>4912540
Yep, well there you have it, thanks anon.

>>4912546
Any time anyone needs any obscure DKC2-3 knowledge you can come straight to me

>>4905836
She told me you'll tell me tomorrow night when you come visit her, whatever that means.

>>4912548
>ask me anytime about thing.

>is anonymous.

Deplorable!

>>4912548
Thanks man, I hope to hear from you whenever DKC is discussed in detail here
>I know this is anonymous, but I will remember that "DKC trivia guy" nonetheless

>>4905394
Jurrassic Psrk on the SNES, there's a section of wall that you can glitch through into a black abyss full of raptors in the Visitor Center dungeon...it's in one of those dungeons, maybe the raptor nest...it's been like 20 years since I played it, but it's there.

>>4912591
You've discovered my Nefarious Plot
>>4912602
This is actually the first time i ever come to /vr/

You can move these three statues here with the axe. You need to hit them each once, and then you will be rewarded with a hidden bag of gold. Kind of an obscure secret I discovered that I never saw anyone else mention anywhere.

>>4912629
Oh, well welcome!

>>4912548
>>4912629
is there a keyword we can use to summon you? like chanting the DK rap for example.

>>4912036
>has totaka's song been found in wii sports yet?
I seem to remember something about the sound of ball bounces in tennis being it, but I also remember it being bullshit.

I had to try this myself to believe it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-aV-T55dvQ

>>4912506
So it can only be done on a pocket unless you take apart a gameboy and remove the power switch. Gee thats stellar man.

FF7 actually contains emulated versions of all the previous FF games, but unlocking them is really hard.

>>4905394

In the C64 port of "Wonder Boy in Monster Land", go to the top of the right-most house in Baraboro Village, and hit the wall with your sword.

A message flashes on the screen: Something wonderful has happened.

Health raised to 10 hearts, the maximum. I found a video of it in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnXJ6_PW8ts&t=13m40s

>>4905394
Getting past the spike room as Richter.

>>4911247
that or steal the bow

>>4906429
>If using a non-GBC Game Boy,Panel de Pon GBcan accessed from the GBC-only screen by pressingA (24x), B (24x). (You will hear a chime after pressing each button the required amount of times.) If on a Game Boy Color or a newer handheld, the GBC-only screen must first be triggered from the title screen by enteringUp (2x), Right (4x), Down, Left (10x), Up (4x), Right, Down (6x), B. Once the screen is displayed, pressingA (24x), B (24x)will launchPanel de Pon GB.

Okay anon I actually did not know that, I'll have to try that it at some point.

This there's just brings back nostalgia for playground bullshit loves would tell you

>"my uncle who works at Nintendo said that if you reset your NES right as you kill Bowser in super Mario and on world 1-2 press up 500 times and then press a+b+up+down+start that you can play Sonic"
>"Nuh uh you're lying"
>"Yeah huh for real I did it myself it was so cool"
>"Wow! So, do you wanna trade Pokemon or pogs?"

Simplier times

This Thread reminds me of when kids used to tell you bullshit on the playground and it sounded retarded but maybe could be possible because old games are cryptic sometimes.

>"Hey my uncle who works at Nintendo said that if you reset your NES right as you kill Bowser in super Mario and on world 1-2 press up 500 times and then press a+b+up+down+start that you can play Sonic!"
>"Nuh uh you're lying."
>"Yeah huh for real I did it!"
>"Woah, well do you wanna go play pogs or Pokemon?
>"Not yet, I let me finish my Capri sun and gushers my mom packed me."

Oof for simplier times

God that depresses me thinking back at how fun those times were

>>4912379
Oh you decided to keep using that trip. No problem ill just filter you and wont have to ever read your awful posts again

>>4912629
>this is the first time ive come to /vr/
Go back to r/gamecollectors

>>4917042
this asshole kid in my school used to tell everyone that you can see yoshi on the roof if you got 120 stars in Mario 64.

if you idle on the title screen of phantasy star online episode 3 card revolution there is some scrolling text written in the unique pso font that appears briefly

if you are autistic enough to translate it its actually a dying letter from principal tyrell, the leader of pioneer 2 in pso episode 1&2. the letter provides missing lore detailing how he dies and reveals that he fucked his secretary irene.

>>4905394
>younger brother
>one year after yoshis island

Triggered.

>>4905646
and body slam can't paralyze normal types

>>4917278
I received news that my daughter Rico was lost
almost certainly by the monsters lurking
in the underground ruins of Ragol
After much contemplation
I decided to leave
behind my responsibility to my ship, my people.
To save my daughter I left for Ragol.
Defeating monsters as I encountered them
I frantically searched for Rico
Then while in battle with several enemies
A blast of light engulfed me
I watched in silence
as the creatures ran for their lives
my body started to slowly disintegrate
And now only my soul remains
Some entity has started to eat away at my body
I am no longer what I once was.
Since I can no longer do this so I ask of you
save my daughter Rico and tell
Irene and my unborn son that I love them.

>>4912379

>>4917007
What? The ghost still appears if you steal the bow.

>>4905394
>have played super mario bros the lost levels so many times I know by memory every level's layout perfectly
>including where every secret pipe/vine goes
>and the exact path for all looping levels
>and the contents of every single block
>this all holds true for worlds 9 & A-D as well
only things I don't know are the time limit for each level but that is always either 400, 300 or 200 and the exact level theme (ie snow, day/night, fall, etc...) which I only know the more notable ones like 3-3 (snow) and 5-1 (fall)
It's too bad the back side of the disk didn't have a 3rd set of worlds once you got 24 stars

>>4905394
This is such bullshit. Luigi is not in SMW64

>>4913763
Dude, what the fuck?

>>4913763
this is the greatest video i've ever seen.

Pikable in front of cerulean cave. The item finder went off so it must be true. I just didn't press the button hard enough.

>>4905646
In the vein of obscure Pokemon faggotry that shocked me when I discovered it:

>A lot of people know that Stomp doubles damage done to pokemon who've used Minimize. However, at various points, different moves have also done extra damage; this includes Body Slam, Flying Press, and Heavy Slam, and formerly Needle Arm, Shadow/Phantom Force, and Extrasensory.
>Most of the gen 7 pokemon trainers don't have pokemon that know four moves. All of the Elite 4 have at least one mon that doesn't know four (in Sun and Moon at least). Hala has three of his five pokemon who only know two moves.
>In all of his rematches in Emerald, Juan (the eighth gym leader) has absolutely no way of killing a Shedinja besides Struggle.
>Only one pokemon has had two different signature abilities at two completely separate times: Drifblim.
>A lot of abilities have bizarre out-of-battle effects. Keen Eye and Intimidate have a 50% chance of stopping would-be encounters with low-level pokemon; Quick Feet, White Smoke and Stench have a 50% chance of stopping any encounters. Some, like Lightning Rod, increase the chance of encountering a certain type (in this case electric).
>The move Cut will cut down not only trees, but also (if manually selected) patches of tall grass.
>If you have a pokemon with the ability Hyper Cutter in the front of your party you can cut double the area of grass.
>Only three pokemon have access to the move Octazooka: by level-up, Octillery; by breeding, Seadra; and by event... Sableye.

n the PSX game B Movie aka Invasion from beyond in a mission you have to escort Agent Armstrong the titular character of the developers last game.... anyway halfway into the mission it turns out Armstrong is dead killed by an alien imposter

>>4906309
Dude it’s “Donkey Donkey Picnic”. Literally everyone knows this.