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2265521 No.2265521 [Reply] [Original]

Games with awful password system. Post 'em.
Pic related: ISS Pro de Luxe

>> No.2265664

all of them

>> No.2265668

>>2265521
It's almost as if they are trying to discourage you from using using the passwords. But at the same time, if that was the case, then they could have just not had the passwords in the first place.

>> No.2265669

obligatory , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_owDUBxm7w

>> No.2265681

>>2265521
Is that password custom made or a randomly generated one that you're assigned? Because if it's all just random characters, the creators of that game are batshit insane.

>> No.2265686

Fucking Faxanadu, man. It wouldn't be that bad except that fancy archaic font made it so hard to tell the difference between a c or an e, or q or a g, and so on. I fucked up so many 'mantras' to the point that I would just give up and continue with older ones.

>> No.2265715

>>2265664
actually no. i remember batman return of the joker on nes with a sweet password system of only 4 characters.

>> No.2265716

>>2265521
Why aren't there vowels?

>> No.2265719
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2265719

>>2265669
What the fuck

>> No.2265723
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2265723

fuuuu

>> No.2265737

>>2265715
Flying Dragon on NES did that.

The final password is literally BAAA. I figured that out maybe the second time I tried to enter a legitimate password.

>> No.2265740

>>2265723
what the fuck is that??

>> No.2265745 [DELETED] 

step aside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_owDUBxm7w

>> No.2265751
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2265751

>>2265669
Came here to post this but since the video doesn't feature the "best" parts of this password system:
There is a time limit.
Both the balls and you are very slippery.
It's possible to push the balls out of bounds.
You can get crushed by the balls, in other words YOU CAN FUCKING DIE IN THE PASSWORD SCREEN.


Also pic related is the other obligatory password system for threads like this, the famicom version of Maniac Mansion features passwords that needs you to enter more than 100 characters.

>> No.2265752

>>2265669

Were they trying to make the shittiest thing anyone has ever done on purpose?

>> No.2265771

>>2265745
thats by far the stupiedest thing ive ever seen and thats saying a lot cause i browse /b/. why a password system like that? what were they fucking thinking?

>> No.2265774

>>2265740
the GBA's finest RPG

>> No.2265776
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2265776

Shit like this... v's look like u's. 8's and S's. - vs _. god forbid you wrote one down wrong.

>> No.2265778

Metal Gear comes to mind.

>> No.2265781

>>2265776
oh and if I remember correctly there wasn't a backspace. So if I put in the wrong character you just have to press something else about 20 times to start over.

>> No.2265794

>>2265778
The NES version has a password that sends you in the final area with no equipment. The password is FUCK ME with a bunch of 1s.

>> No.2265806

The Super Chinese games' passwords all piss me off. I'm pretty sure all of the games we got in English (Little Ninja Brothers, Ninja Boy, Ninja Boy 2, Super Ninja Boy) all have some ~50 character passwords due to them being action RPGs without batteries for saving.

>> No.2265818
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2265818

>>2265776
Snake's Revenge didn't have any vocals on its passwords though and not all the consonants are included either. However, it does have some annoying double exclamation marks that are hard to tell apart from the regular ones if you wrote them down exactly.

>>2265781
You could by pressing B.

>> No.2265983

>>2265521
The original game have a backup battery, that shit was add to cheaper production cost.

>> No.2266006

>>2265983
ISS also has that shitty password system. Metroid and Kid Icarus have painful passwords too.

>> No.2266016

any game with ridiculously long password combos

any game that uses pictographs and grids rather than just a password

>> No.2266024

>>2266006
The original games Perfect Eleven and Fighting Eleven, they remove the battery in the international releases.
Also I don't know if is and urban legend those titles where given in a homage to the british 1966 wc winner's.

>> No.2266053

>tfw everytime I hear someone bitching about awful long passwords
>tfw people don't understand how programming works and especially in an era that was way less sophisticated then it is now think that you should just be able to enter 4 digits and get to some incredibly specific point in the game

Please fuck off. /vr/'s threads have been getting more and more shit recently.

>> No.2266059

>>2265818
>vocals
*vowels

>> No.2266297

>>2265669

What

>> No.2266851

>>2265740
Basically Nintendo telling you to get another GBA and a link cable if you want to transfer data between a game and its sequel without having to use that password.

Not really /vr/, and not really a major requirement in the game, but it's still a terrible password system

>> No.2266862

>>2265669
Never seen this before. I get what they were trying to do, but that's completely insane.

>>2265751
>YOU CAN FUCKING DIE IN THE PASSWORD SCREEN.
There are no words. God bless.

>> No.2266893
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2266893

Awful save system in general.

>> No.2267073

>>2265818
>>2266059
Vowels in passwords were actually prohibited by Nintendo, by the time the SNES launched.

>> No.2267118

>>2266893
I never thought it was that bad. You get a password like every other level and this game doles out so many lives its only a challenge to beat levels if you're going for the gems.

>> No.2267140

>>2267073
Probably because of the aforementioned Fuck Me password in the NES Metal Gear. The PAL versions of Metal Gear and Castlevania II removed vowels from their passwords too.

>> No.2267147

>>2267140
>Fuck Me password in the NES Metal Gear.

Holy shit, where was the public uproar over that?!

Was Kojima or Konami behind this or some lousy staff member from the localization team?

>> No.2267152

>>2267147
>Holy shit, where was the public uproar over that?!
I seriously there was any real public uproar. Most likely Nintendo noticed that people could use profanities for password after the fact and order game companies to make their passwords more PG-friendly.
>Was Kojima or Konami behind this or some lousy staff member from the localization team?
Kojima was not involved in the NES version and the password works in the Famicom version.

>> No.2267159

>>2265669
I made it 30 seconds. What the fuck were they thinking?

>> No.2267168

>>2265669
This has got to be a muthafucking joke from the devs or something to that effect...

>> No.2267394

I asked this in the previous password thread but here it is again:

Are there any games that have passwords similar to NES Metal Gear's FUCK ME? As in passwords that literally fucks you over and/or makes the game impossible to beat? The only example somewhat similar I can think of is from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves on NES, one of the passwords starts you after the point you get druid's dagger (a weapon you need to beat certain enemy late in the game) but without you having it in your inventory. You get this item in your inventory with all the passwords that start you off later in the game through.

Speaking of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves it's password system is hidden (you need to press A 8 times and B 8 times on title screen to get in the password screen in the first place) and the game doesn't directly give you any of the passwords but they aren't very hard to figure out.

>> No.2267427
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2267427

>>2265686
This and pic related drove me up the wall when i was a kid.

Funny thing with Battle of Olympus was that passwords with typos sometimes worked regardless, with the added benefit of having random, sometimes late-game, items in your inventory, e.g. starting the game with the Staff of Fennel or the Salamander Shield or 99 olives.

>> No.2267446

>>2265521
reminds me of Super Hang On

>> No.2267450

>>2267394
>the password system is hidden
>and they never actually GIVE you a password so you figure it out

That's a fairly roundabout way of describing a cheat code, isn't it?

>> No.2267454

>>2267394
There's the original Metroid's ENGAGE RIDLEY MOTHER FUCKER

>> No.2267479

>>2267454
all that does is crash the game to a black screen. Pretty boring

>> No.2267567

>>2267140
fvck that sh1t

>> No.2267754

>>2265737
fun fact, that game only has 3 passwords total.

>> No.2269891

>>2265521
Batman Return of the Joker on NES had a password with only 4 letters. I still remember GPZT as the one who sends you right to the last level. Those were the days..

>> No.2272392

>Faery Tale Adventure for Genesis
>big world with stats and weapons and whatnot, even if it all looks the same
>have to enter a giant fucking matrix password to get what you want, even though you'll probably get killed in ten seconds by a single skeleton right after

>> No.2272452

>>2266053
>people don't understand how programming works
Including you, it looks like. Hell, you could implement a 4-character password system in ASSEMBLY. Given that the passwords generally took you to the beginning of a level, it's not like you'd have to add much to get there.

The long passwords existed to keep people from just guessing blindly and getting to later levels, not because of any programming difficulties.

>> No.2272920

>>2272452
As far as I know most of the long password systems were for games with inventory systems and/or stat growth mechanics. There's no way to represent all the states the game could be in with a four character password. Of course there were a few exceptions where the makers were just being shitters but that's beside the point.