/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10564905]

In theory you could accidentally type in a password that takes you to completely hidden worlds in Metroid.

Did any of you ever come upon some secret you have no answers? There's a couple people on reddit claiming they accessed areas that there's no evidence of even existing anywhere online, with special bosses or enemies, and they swear they go there as kids using bombing or wall tricks. One guy has been trying to find answers for years.

[Anonymous No.10564908]

>>10564905
You’re an idiot.

[Anonymous No.10564915]

>>10564905
>people on reddit claiming
stopped reading there

[Anonymous No.10564930]

>>10564905
Yes, my friend had this game on a Famicom cart and after I typed random letters and numbers, I got transported into this world where cats (?) were stealing ancient paintings and TVs. Samus also glitched into what appeared to be a mouse in a police outfit. It was really odd, not sure what the code was though. Will message him and update when I find out.

[Anonymous No.10564960]

I typed a potty word in a mario and the cartridge started smoking and popped out

[Anonymous No.10565097]

>>10564905
Not in Metroid, but password searching lead to one of the most freaky gaming moments of my life.

>playing Ecco the Dolphin
>stuck on the Asterite fight for like a week
>notice the level passwords have repeating letter patterns and try to guess a password to a later level
>try over and over, get working passwords for earlier levels but none for later levels
>upstairs my brother is blasting Pink Floyd music this whole time which is starting to grate on my nerves
>out of frustration just mash NNNNNNNN
>screen turns black
>David Gilmore cries out "welcome my son"
>exactly in time he says "Welcome to the machine"
>my dolphin who had previously been swimming in cool oceans and coral reefs is suddenly in a crazy space ship thing instantly killed by Geiger aliens

I thought I was losing my mind

[Anonymous No.10565331]

>>10564905
>In theory you could accidentally type in a password that takes you to completely hidden worlds in Metroid.

Is that so? I seem to remember the game always starting in the same hallway no matter what password you entered. So... I don't think it's so.

I do remember being told (probably by Nintendo Power) how to abuse a glitch in order to make Samus leave the normal areas of the game and enter a glitchy chaos zone. I think the instructions were to go to some single-screen passage between two doors in Ridley's hideout, open the left door, stand in it until it reformed, and then do some kind of rolling/unrolling shimmy to slowly rise through the closed door and then through the ceiling above it. (It seems like a general thing that could be done in many places in the game, but maybe that hallway was a place where it would reliably take you to a mildly interesting glitch zone.) Once you're through the ceiling, you can run around in the glitchy area until you get sick of it and reset. I don't think there was anything very interesting to do or see there though.

[Anonymous No.10565371]

>>10565097
>try it out
>it's real
If your story is true, that's cool as fuck.

[Anonymous No.10565429]

No. /Thread

[Anonymous No.10565432]

There was a movie about this in the '80s if monkeys jumped up and down on a typewriter what are the chances that they would write the emancipation proclamation let's just say the chances are pretty God damn slim

[Anonymous No.10565440]

>>10564930
omg the same happened to me, even the cartridge changed after I turned the console off! Crazy how many secrets are still unearthed so many years later.

[Anonymous No.10565464]

>>10565097
>my dolphin
his name is ecco, homie. and he ain’t yours

[Anonymous No.10565549]

>>10564905
These older NES games were incredibly rudimentary so a lot can go wrong and they can still technically function. Those people are probably either mistaken or lying but I wouldn't doubt the possibility that if you were playing Metroid and something jostled the NES or whatever it could corrupt the game in such a way that dropped you in a completely random area akin to the Minus World and it's many variants.

[Anonymous No.10565550]

>>10565331
check out a glitched speedrun to see oob in action

[Anonymous No.10565558]

>>10565097
wtf you weren't baiting.

[Anonymous No.10565583]

>>10564905
the entire ROM is 72 kilobytes. there is nothing hidden.

[Anonymous No.10565643]

It is an interesting convo because there is a lot of mystery to these and a lot of secrets , even speedrunners right now are still figureing out new ways to break them.

[Anonymous No.10565691]

>>10565583
Why the fuck did people act like Justin Bailey was some real intentional thing and not just a result of these random passwords

[Anonymous No.10565795]

>>10565550

Haha you're right, dude uses it repeatedly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLgnmBnW3vw
No adventures in glitch zones there, though. He only uses the glitch to slip through barriers he can't break and to (I guess) teleport from one room to another occasionally.

[Anonymous No.10565875]

>>10564905
I want to say that this game is awesome for a 1986 game, I finished it the day before christmas, it was hard but worth it. Now im playing prime, at first I thought it was shit compared with metroid1 because of the slow passing but after a fews hours I got the swing of it

[Anonymous No.10566018]

>>10565691
Because it sounds like a name when most passwords were random nonsense. If you didn't understand the nuances of the Metroid password system (which none of us did back then) you wouldn't think that it was just happenstance. My favorite example of a password that does something (sort of) is ENGAGE RIDLEY MOTHER FUCKER.

[Anonymous No.10566281]

>>10565558
>>10565371
Totally real, one of the freakiest things even not game related I ever had happen. The levels all have passwords thar follow some kind of pattern I never figured out but they're not just level passwords because they also carry over which powers you have aquired. So for say Marble Sea there are at least 4 working passwords, one with no additional abilities, one with just charge sonar, one with death sonar and one with both. So I'd figured that out but what I had no idea at the time there are two base passwords, AAAAAAAA and NNNNNNNN that are for the first and last levels. Fuck I love that game.

[Anonymous No.10566385]

>>10565097
You’re lucky you didn’t beat that level and get to the final boss. That shit is traumatising

[Anonymous No.10566536]

Secret worlds in Metroid are what happens when you bypass the loading trigger and the game starts using room layouts for one area in another area.
As an example, here's what the entire game map looks like when using only Brinstar's rooms.
There's no way to use the password system to load in an area with another area's layouts active. It's not a function the password system even handles in the first place.

[Anonymous No.10566829]

>implying I haven't watched .hack//Sign to not know this is a veiled allusion to the Worlds keyword combinations

ISSYSGTTDY

[Anonymous No.10567083]

>>10566385
At the time I left it there but actually that enticed me to redouble tackling the Asterite normally so I could see what else happened in the game. Now Vortex queen is my bitch, I still hate The Machine but she's a fun fight at least.

[Anonymous No.10567372]

>>10566536
shaftroid

[Anonymous No.10567391]

>>10564905
Are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.10567717]

>>10566536
So crazy how there are probably still unexplored areas in that game that people have never got to. It becomes metaphysical at a certain point.

[Anonymous No.10567865]

wait, the chozo released the metroids on purpose? why?

[Anonymous No.10567868]

>>10567865
X parasites were a huge problem.

[Anonymous No.10567871]

>>10567868
so they created a threat to the galaxy to save the galaxy from another threat

[Anonymous No.10567878]

>>10567871
Yes, it's a little bit of an allegory for nuclear annihilation, a common theme in Japanese media in case you hadn't noticed

[Anonymous No.10567881]

smart birds...

[Anonymous No.10567885]

>>10567871
To be fair, they weren't expecting them to go haywire.

[Anonymous No.10567891]

>>10567871
Yes. Though it's technically a little better because Metroids are angry life-stealing jellyfish that can be frozen, whereas the X are like the Thing except it's like an instant absorption.

[Anonymous No.10567902]

>>10564905
Not exactly related, but my lil bro put a random password into Metal Gear when we were young and it got me far enough into the game that i was able to finish it. That game filtered the fuck outta me as a kid in the days before Internet. Had no idea what to do in that game...

[Anonymous No.10567989]

>>10565097
One time I was playing SMB1 at a neighbors house. Ran out of lives somewhere along the line, and mashed buttons. I accidentally input the continue code and was suddenly back on the level I died on. We both had no idea what the fuck just happened, and were convinced the game just glitched.
The only other thing I remember finding by accident like that was the reset feature the GB had. Who knew pressing all buttons in anger would reset you back to the title screen? From what I've read, it's actually software controlled, and Link's Awakening is one of the games that doesn't reset the console when you press all buttons, but I found it annoying as hell back then.

[Anonymous No.10568050]

>>10564905
Finished the remake for the first time last week(was in fact the last game of the year, super Metroid being the first of this year). It was a nice game but they made it extremely easy and I didn't really like the extra part where you play as Samus without wearing the power suit. Running away the whole time was fucking boring. That whole part was unnecessary in my opinion. I was going to replay Fusion but I dropped as soon as all that dialogue started, every ten steps Samus would be in some kind of computer wasting my time talking. Really hated that shit. I think only the first 3 games and the first prime game I really liked. I have not played the other two primes game, though. Other M sucked and I have no means of playing Dread right now.

[Anonymous No.10568062]

>>10564905
Rented Sonic 3D blast from blockbuster and by some stupid lucky miracle was able to unlock level select. Was awesome because I was a kid and sucked at the game so actually was able to play all levels. Had no idea how I activated it and was so blown when I had to turn off the Sega. Never understood how until many years later when I looked up you had to type in a certain button combination.

[Anonymous No.10568092]

>>10568050
I feel pretty much the same way as you. Metroid II, Super Metroid, and Prime 2 are my favorites.
A ton of people seem to like Zero Mission, but it doesn't feel like Metroid to me.

[Anonymous No.10568227]

>>10564905
Playground rumours were full of bullshit, stuff like "how to play as Sonic and Tails in Super Smash Bros Melee".

With Metroid, there's a slither of truth though. The game has a lot of unintended behaviour that results from funky password entry. Loading enemies or screens from the incorrect map produces unhandled results and will look graphically incorrect.

Links Awakening DX and the doghouse glitch is a prime example of this, albeit easier to recognize that you're exploring a map with incorrect tile sets.

[Anonymous No.10568283]

>>10568227
The password system can't do that. It is incapable of doing that.

[Anonymous No.10568914]

>>10567989
That reminds me of another weird thing that happened once. Me and my brother had rented Ikari Warriors for NES and were taking turns playing as usual. I have no clue whether the game glitched or one of us accidentally put a code in, but for whatever reason the dude stopped taking damage from enemies. But then as I remember you could only get more bullets from killing enemies but we ran out so were stuck in a situation where they couldn't kill us because we were invulnerable be we couldn't kill them because no bullets. So we just kept walking up for what seemed like forever. First my brother was playing, he got bored and passed it to me. We just kept walking up past more enemies and stuff, got bored turned it off and I don't think either of us played it again.