/vr/ fun facts (big dicked factoid chads only)

[Anonymous No.10840227]

Shit you didn’t know.

For example, “Blinx” wasn’t just an edgy name they picked at random. A mix between a Bobcat and Lynx is actually called a “Blynx”.

[Anonymous No.10840235]

An extinct species of bandicoot that was discovered in 2014 was given the scientific name of Crash bandicoot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_bandicoot_(species)

[Anonymous No.10840246]

This thread will most likely get deleted due to an impulsive janny failing to make the connection between this and a particular Xbox game.

[Anonymous No.10840334]

>>10840246
shit, better post cover art just in case

[Anonymous No.10840341]

>>10840334
here is also a video of a 100% run of the entire game, just in case janny thinks it's a fake cover for a made-up game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFr7LuRuVZU

[Anonymous No.10840354]

>>10840235
Interdasting…..
>>10840246
>>10840334
>>10840341
You are a gentleman and a scholar.

[Anonymous No.10840359]

>>10840227
there is a Satanic church in GTA San Andreas, it's in that small town where you do the boat driving school missions

[Anonymous No.10840928]

In Heretic there's an unfinished 6th episode that can only be accessed by typing engage61, engage62 etc.

[Anonymous No.10840940]

Namco funded a Troma movie.

[Anonymous No.10840948]

The various ports of Resident Evil add 2nd alternate costumes to the characters because, despite the og only having 1 extra costume per character, the system for 2 extra costumes was already in place, programmed in, and all they to do was edit the texture.

A prototype version has early / temp 2nd alternate costumes and there is a doodle of Mega Man in place of Chris'. Looking at the credits, most likely the dev who doodled this Resident Evil was his first job and then went on to work on some Mega Man games.

[Anonymous No.10840961]

Another interesting Resident Evil costume fact: the GameCube version of RE3 is a port of the PC version, but which also uses some data from the PSX original and gimped the PC version bonuses. Despite not being accessible in the game, the 2 extra costumes from the PC version are in the files.

On top of this is a third costume. The naming of the file indicates that it was made/intended for the PC ports, yet doesn't exist in the final retail PC versions. However the file can be used, as-in, simply by renaming it, in the PC versions of the game.

[Anonymous No.10841021]

>>10840948
Not bad

[Anonymous No.10841054]

The new character in Crash Bash was originally intended to be a big titty kangaroo called Kanga Soo. They cut her and replaced her with Rilla Roo.

[Anonymous No.10841143]

>>10841054
I don't understand why they cut her, looks like they got as far as modeling her, her design looks fine for what it was, not worse than Rilla Roo

[Anonymous No.10841259]

>>10841143
The official explanation
>Mark Cerny of Universal Interactive Studios anticipated concerns about beating up a female character, and she was cut before any further development could occur.
doesn't make any sense given that Coco is playable in the game. My guess is that Mark Cerny was just too intimidated by a kangaroo with tits.

[Anonymous No.10841495]

Mick West was the main programmer of the massively popular Tony Hawks skating games, he retired so he can make UFO believers look like chumps by debunking all their stupid theories.

[Anonymous No.10841505]

Bubsy's odd gliding ability was a remnant from earlier designs where he had a hoverboard and jet boots.

[Anonymous No.10841515]

Earthworm Jim 2 once almost had a fat-transformation level.

[Anonymous No.10841736]

Plant 42 from Resident Evil is named after Plant 42 at Edwards AFB. A bunch of black projects like the U2, SR-71, B2 bomber, etc. came out of there. It came up a lot in the whole 90s X Files/conspiracy culture that the first game drew inspiration from.

[Anonymous No.10842739]

>>10840235
Shit gets named after Pokemon all the time, doesn't it? Because those nerds grew up being fucking nerds.

[Chud Anon No.10842818]

"Doki Doki Panic" was originally developed by Nintendo as a game to tie in with the Yume Kōjō '87 event in Japan. However, when Nintendo decided to release it internationally as "Super Mario Bros. 2," they replaced the characters with Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Peach to make it fit within the Mario universe. This decision was made because the original Japanese version of "Super Mario Bros. 2" was deemed too difficult for international audiences, so "Doki Doki Panic" was adapted instead.

[Anonymous No.10842835]

>>10842818
My entire life is a lie.
I’m killing myself.

[Anonymous No.10842840]

>>10841505
that female bubsy design god damn. now I know where this fanart originated from.

[Anonymous No.10842870]

>>10842818
Source?

[Anonymous No.10843014]

Iroha, the voluptuous Ninja Maid from Samurai Spirits / Samurai Shodown, is named after a Japanese poem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha
The poem is one of the most important in Japan's history. It is a "pangram", a phrase that contains every letter in a language's alphabet, such as "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". Iroha however is a PERFECT pangram- it contains every letter exactly once.
The poem is a Buddhist prayer about not becoming distracted by fleeting beauty. The word "Iroha" means "dazzling petals".
Because it contains each letter exactly once, it was used as the alphabetical order of Japanese for centuries. Because of this, the word "Iroha" is also used to mean "ABCs" or "101"- the basics of a subject.

[Anonymous No.10844161]

Gourmet Sentai Barayaro came with a survey card and the first selectable answer to the question "Your reason of purchase:" was "It was a mistake".

[Anonymous No.10844169]

No, this thing from Astroboy Omega Factor is NOT a Mischief Makers reference but a character by Tetsu Okano called Ebiinu-kun.

[Anonymous No.10844175]

Viewtiful Joe was originally a GameCube exclusive and contained a few throwaway references here and there to Nintendo properties like ROB the Robot and the GameCube. All of this was removed once the game was ported to PS2 but Capcom forgot to take out Joe whistling the a good chunk of the Super Mario Bros theme when he uses a Shocking Pink Bomb. I'm sure that kept someone at Capcom up at night.

[Anonymous No.10844190]

You know Garr from Breath of Fire? "Gar" is an Old English word for "spear", which still lives in words such as garlic ("spear leek").

[Anonymous No.10844205]

>>10840359
Paloma? Wait, where's the church exactly?

[Anonymous No.10844215]

>>10843014
The lyrics of that poem were also used for a very famous Touhou vocal arrangement by Yuuhei Satellite.
The melody comes from Mountain of Faith released in 2007, so it's /vr/.

[Anonymous No.10844282]

In Super Robot 2's NES ROM there are graphics and data for an unused original battleship called Normandia, along with portraits of two characters named Dan Geppetto and Hook.
Neither of those ever appeared in any of the later games, either.

[Anonymous No.10844284]

>>10844282
*Super Robot Wars

[Anonymous No.10844465]

>>10841143
because furries are faggots

[Anonymous No.10844478]

>>10844205
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8tvqkhDRT8

[Anonymous No.10844516]

>>10840235
>>10842739
There's also an important animal gene called "Sonic hedgehog" because it makes embryos spiky when malfunctioning, among other things. A potential inhibitor of its activity was called "Robotnikinin".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog_protein

[Anonymous No.10844921]

>>10844161
>>10843014
King of Demons 2024 cartridge had devil man homage

[Anonymous No.10845068]

>>10844516
There's even one for Pikachu, interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin

[Anonymous No.10845078]

>>10842840
Wasn't tranny bubsy after the fact was known?
Also apparently the creator of the character suddenly had a meltdown over canon female Bubsy.

[Anonymous No.10845907]

In the Ruby Spears Mega Man cartoon, Proto Man rewires a mechanical T-rex to run amok and tells it to "watch out for Bambi".

[Anonymous No.10845917]

>>10840227

Why the fuck is there not a Blinx remaster on Steam or at least Windows Store? Why in 2024 do I still need to emulate it in Xemu, in 4*3 at multiples of VGA resolution?

[Anonymous No.10845920]

Plok was going to be voiced by Chris Sievey before the arcade version of his game was cancelled

[Anonymous No.10845927]

>>10840246
>This thread will most likely get deleted due to an impulsive janny failing to make the connection between this and a particular Xbox game
The fact that you're 100% right is very sad

[Anonymous No.10845953]

>The PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 was originally going to be released as the Neo Famicom/Neo NES and the only differences between Hudson's pitch to Nintendo and what got released by NEC was that the DAC was separate from the PPU so it had a proper 21-Bit address bus so rom carts (not Hu-Cards, actual battery back up rom cartridges) can be 4MB (2MB PNG and 2MB CHR), 2 background layers (up from the PC Engine's 1), 1 window layer (PC Engine had no window layer), 128 16x16 sprites (double that of the PC Engine) and more ram (256KB work ram (PC Engine was severely cut down to 8KB unless you're using the Super CD-Rom2 format) and 128KB video ram (double that of the PC Engine)); Nintendo ended up rejecting Hudson's hardware in favor of continuing working on their own 16-Bit hardware so NEC got the PC Engine instead; also alot of pin of the pins on the Hu6280 were left unused because they were designed for Nintendo's own controller/hardware standard.
https://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=hu6280_netlist
https://wiki.console5.com/wiki/Hu6280
>The Miracle Piano was going to see a release in Japan as the Miracle Famicom but this never got a Japanese release due to low sales in the west.
>A Famicom with wireless RF controllers was planed known as the Air/Wave Famicom was planed but was rejected.
>A Super NES with NES backwards compatibility known as the Multi Famicom was made and used a first party NOAC chip with proper RGBS support, this never came out due to no PAL version of the chip was made but it would've cost a extra $100 more then the base Super NES.
>Strip down cost reduced Famicoms known as One's Famicom (a Famicom with the built in controllers removed and everything relied on the 15-Pin expansion port, even removing the audio pin in favor of Player 1 D0 so that all Famicom games can work with the 15-Pin expansion port) and My Famicom (A Famicom with built in controllers) were made to combat the PC-Engine but they were rejected in favor of focusing on the Super Famicom.

[Anonymous No.10846503]

>>10845953
Stop LARPing, these are all early Wii names.

[Anonymous No.10847336]

>>10846503
The one in yellow are mostly early Wii names, the ones in pink were used in other planed products before being rejected (Neo Famicom, Multi Famicom) or were renamed into something else (Ultra Famicom/Ultra NES became the N64 while Global Famicom became the North American/European NES).

[Anonymous No.10847383]

>>10845953
I love the idea of a middle step between the NES and SNES. Would've been fucking cool.

[Anonymous No.10847387]

>>10847383
Same.

[Anonymous No.10847757]

>>10847383
>>10847387
Now that I think about it, the GBC is basically that. Yes it still used an 8-bit processor, but it was more capable than the NES. It just needed to do 224p video out.

[Anonymous No.10847794]

Cassandra actually made her first appearance in Soul Edge/Blade, as a 2D drawing. It was just obfuscated in English-language releases by weird romanization and straight up bad translation (the latter is also included in the Japanese release, believe it or not!)

[Anonymous No.10848136]

>>10847757
And a way to play those games (GBC only/clear carts) on a TV retail wise before the Game Boy Advance was released.

[Anonymous No.10848148]

>>10845953
>window layer
what is this

[Anonymous No.10848242]

>>10848148
It's a non scrollable layer for statuses that may or not be a bar, The Genesis had 1 of them while the Super NES had 2 of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRjf8ZP6rs8