Obscure Facts / Trivia / Secrets

[Anonymous No.4839146]

fact #1: there's a rare chance of a fish appearing when Mario jumps in shallow water in Mario 64

[Anonymous No.4839152]

On /vr/ there's a very, very small chance this thread will be mildly interesting.

[Anonymous No.4839169]

Contrary to popular belief...

Mario's first appearance wasn't Super Mario 64.

In fact, Mario got his start battling Donkey Kong, from hit games like Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and Donkey Kong Barrel Blast.

He also wan't always a hero. He was the final boss of Donkey Kong 2. Back then, they called him King Jumper man. But that was all a dream.

[Anonymous No.4839175]

Metal Gear Solid is actually the fourth game of its franchise, not the first.

[Anonymous No.4839189]

There’s a secret 151st Pokémon in Red and Blue versions. Some say that it’s related to MewTwo.

[Anonymous No.4839193]

>>4839189
It's true. If you show it to Misty she'll show you her tits. I can't take screenshots though my Gameboy is with my dad in another state.

[Anonymous No.4839264]

>>4839189
theres actually 4

[Anonymous No.4839274]

Did you know?

The protagonist of Yo! Noid is actually the mascot of Pizza?

[Anonymous No.4839282]

Did you know?

If you don't reply to this post your mom will die in her sleep tonight!

[Anonymous No.4839290]

>>4839282
Hehehe, you've activated my trap card!

[Anonymous No.4839293]

Fun fact: OP is a faggot

[Anonymous No.4839295]

>>4839282
In MOTHER, Giygas... is actually a girl.

And she's really hot.

Just like Harley Quinn, but also like Frieza.

[Anonymous No.4839302]

In Conker Bad Fur Day, there's a random villager in the spooky chapter during the 2nd zombie part that just wanders aimlessly until he/she falls into the pit.
There's also a cutscene if you don't have $1000 to bribe the weasel guards and enter uga buga.

[Anonymous No.4839371]

[Anonymous No.4839374]

>>4839146
I learned that from Pannen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hdFG2GcNuA

[Anonymous No.4839384]

Final Fantasy 7 is actually the 7th Final fantasy game. There were three SNES games we didn't get, but two of them were just lazy remakes of 2 and 3.

[Anonymous No.4839395]

>>4839264
You do realize the first three are just the game getting confused and generating them as enemies you can encounter and the last one is literally dependent on a specific name triggering it, ergo the garble or 'glitch' is just the game interpreting your name as an image of pixels.

[Anonymous No.4839404]

>>4839282
no :(

[Anonymous No.4839412]

At this point, is there any obscure trivia left?

[Anonymous No.4839430]

In sonic 2 Tails' arms are flesh colored in the special stages

[Anonymous No.4839445]

>>4839282

[Anonymous No.4839473]

Did you Know?

You can actually unlock Pelé the soccer player in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 by pressing the A B C buttons in the book of Sega Genesis?

[Anonymous No.4839651]

>>4839371
woah

[Anonymous No.4839671]

[Anonymous No.4839674]

[Anonymous No.4839823]

>>4839674
DELETE THIS

[Anonymous No.4839875]

>>4839169
wow so obscure!

[Anonymous No.4839897]

>>4839371
Okay I legit didn't know about that, too bad they didn't put an easter egg or even some ruppees in there.

[Anonymous No.4839903]

Did you know Capcom actually made fighting games other than Street Fighter and Marvel VS Capcom?

[Anonymous No.4840082]

>>4839430
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
*maces you
*runs you over with car
*burns house down
*chops dick off

[Anonymous No.4840090]

Not really sure why the shitposting is so prevalent in this thread.

In Pulseman there appears random cipher in the game's opening cutscene. It wasn't until over twenty years after the game released in 1994 that someone found that the cipher can actually be translated and read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn7ZdDsD5p8

[Anonymous No.4840153]

>tfw i already know all of these every single time
There are no secrets left in retrogaming...

[Anonymous No.4840286]

When Toad is hit with a lightning bolt, and shrunken down, in Super Mario Kart for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, his engine sounds exactly like the sound a Gossip Stone makes when you hit it, in the Legend of Zelda, Majora's Mask.

This confirms Nintendo's 20 year plan to construct a cohesive Nintendo timeline, and by this, they were saying that Toad is a character doomed to die every three days. Sad.

[Anonymous No.4840452]

Little known fact. The "N" in NES is for Nintendo

[Anonymous No.4840508]

In the first Ninja Gaiden (NES), you can hold down on the d-pad while attacking in the air to prevent Ryu from using the spin slash if you have it. Holding down also allows you to slash-cancel in the air, so you can use regular attacks very quickly.

In Sword Master (NES), you can press the jump button while in the air to perform an additional jump. However, there's a catch. It requires very specific timing, and with the proper timing, you can actually perform multiple jumps in mid-air, launching you all the way to the top of the screen. Mashing the jump button generally works, while auto-fire works every time.

[Anonymous No.4840526]

>>4840090
>Not really sure why the shitposting is so prevalent in this thread.
/v/ + reddit invasion

Here's one more:
Some owners of Super Mario All Stars reported they had a debug mode activated that scrolls through different costumes (including Goomba's shoe) and many people tried to replicate it without success. It was thought to be a rare first revision with some code left in by mistake by Nintendo, but it wasn't. The code is in all regions, but whether it's triggered or not depends on the CONSOLE, not the game.
The code only triggers when a specific memory variable has a very specific value. The game just leaves it uninitialized. By sheer coincidence, some SNES consoles happen to consistently make it take that very specific value, and the debug code works again.

[Anonymous No.4840546]

Mega Man X
Capcpom tried to do an antipiracy check. The game normally has no backup memory and is a specific size so it checks for that and... triggers various nasty effects.

>You may lose all your upgrades (including sub-tanks) upon starting a stage.
>The 128th time you take damage, the game will start adding random input to yours, and your charged X-Buster shots will be locked in place.
>If the code that does this appears to be tampered with, this will occur immediately after picking up health instead.

>You may be teleported to the beginning of the level when you pick up a power-up or go through the boss door.
>You may have to repeat the introductory stage when an enemy drops an extra life.
>After 128 explosions, enemies that repel bullets may kill you when they do. Power-ups will quickly vanish, and shooting while dashing will cause you to have to repeat the introductory stage.
>If the code that does this appears to be tampered with, and the code that detects said tampering also appears to be tampered with, this will occur about half of the time as soon as the level starts (alternating between on and off every 128 frames).

>After falling down 128 times, the next 127 jumps you make will alternate between normal jumps and small hops instead. You will also take damage while climbing walls and will be unable to use the Ride Armor. Firing shots will teleport you back to the start of the stage.
>If the code that does this appears to be tampered with, this may occur after jumping 128 times, jumping a single time, and/or firing a single shot, depending on which parts of the code have been modified.

Only problem... lots of rom locations checked trigger the antipiracy ALWAYS even on legit carts. Capcom had to do a massive recall of the initial japanese print and rewire those cartridges to partially disable this. The next print had a software fix.

Speaking of buggy jp vidya, did you know Square included with Romancing SaGa (SNES) an apology letter for the glitches?

[Anonymous No.4840559]

>>4839897
Way things go, they probably were going to put something there, but forgot the area existed entirely. Another possibility is that the cavern once contained loot but it was deleted for whatever reason and then they didn't also remove the area.

[Anonymous No.4840598]

[Anonymous No.4840602]

i still dont know what this is

[Anonymous No.4840629]

>>4839146
Super Mario 2 was just a reskin of a Famicom game, Doki Doki Panic.

Common sense aside, RC Revenge was originally a Re-Volt sequel, but undergo some different names.
Re-Volt 2: Pocket Rockets
Re-Volt 2
Re-Volt 2: RC Revenge

Many, many years later, we have a Re-Volt 2 & 3. Guess what? It fucking sucked.

Speaking of Re-Volt, this was going to have an expansion dubbed Re-Volt GOLD, which contains some tracks that was originally going to be in the original game. The reason being is that Acclaim themselves doesn't want any involvement.

[Anonymous No.4840649]

>>4840602
Isn't that the redead room under Kakariko Village? Not the one in the grave yard but the one you can only find with the stone of agony?

[Anonymous No.4840685]

>>4840649
i think its under the sacred forest. but its the only one with that prism walls and its got wolfos

[Anonymous No.4840696]

>>4840090
>Not really sure why the shitposting is so prevalent in this thread
20 something year olds from /v/. School's over, lots of kiddies

[Anonymous No.4840714]

In Japan, Kirby's last name is Hoshino.

[Anonymous No.4840719]

[Anonymous No.4840794]

>>4839175
>counting the American knockoff

[Anonymous No.4840805]

>>4840794
Snake's Revenge? It was developed in Japan.

[Anonymous No.4840814]

Luigi is Mario's brother.

[Anonymous No.4840816]

>>4840546
What's the point of doing all this instead of just locking out pirated carts?

[Anonymous No.4840825]

>>4840814
dyk that mario 2 is actually donkeys picnic in japan?

[Anonymous No.4840881]

can anyone help me figure out what this reflection map is supposed to be?

[Anonymous No.4840898]

>>4840881

[Anonymous No.4840908]

>>4840898
thanks. still hard to tell. looks like 2 people and a flag on the left. looks like based off a photo

[Anonymous No.4841014]

>>4840602
Isn't this leftovers from the beta? Early 3D games always have these strange, vestigial artifacts from the development cycle that makes you wonder what could have been.

[Anonymous No.4841124]

>>4840881
>>4840898
>>4840908
Haha, holy fuck, did they actually take a picture of a mirror to make a "mirror" effect?

[Anonymous No.4841189]

>>4840881
*le sigh* everyone knows its metroid are you really going to try and larp in this thread like youre just discovering it for the first time

[Anonymous No.4841238]

anything from http://www.suppermariobroth.com/

[Anonymous No.4841251]

>>4840816
Because they want to "teach pirates a lesson".

[Anonymous No.4841281]

[Anonymous No.4842378]

[Anonymous No.4842457]

>>4842378
>Game Play Counselor

[Anonymous No.4842478]

[Anonymous No.4842483]

>>4842457
In the 90s, I desparately wanted to be a counselor. They got to play video games and help out scrubs for a living. They got bomb ass Nintendo Jackets to wear and cheesy early 90s pictures immortalized in Nintendo Power.

It just isn't fair, bros. I was born too late to tell stupid 10 year olds how to beat Mega Man 4.

[Anonymous No.4842484]

why?

[Anonymous No.4842489]

>>4842483
God I miss Nintendo Power, I used to love picking them up at K-Mart every month.

[Anonymous No.4842509]

>>4840908
Safe as Milk

[Anonymous No.4842540]

>>4842478
Well it's not clear if his head is damaged. He might be a zombie.

[Anonymous No.4842608]

>>4840602
I believe it's the hole found at the entrance to the forest maze. I found it last year with the stone of agony it was pretty wild to see a different texture after all these years.

[Anonymous No.4842635]

>>4840602
You find this by bombing the middle of area when you first walk into the labyrinth to get to Saria. It seems really obvious in hindsight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYJlCU4XOBQ

You can see the hole in the beginning of this video here.

[Anonymous No.4842824]

[Anonymous No.4842854]

>>4839374
I can understand nine words in that video

[Anonymous No.4843181]

>>4842824
BULLSHIT

[Anonymous No.4843194]

Kirby 2 Red Canyon.

[Anonymous No.4843197]

>>4843181
Bro, in those times you always got misinformation, e.g., Luigi because my dad works at Nintendo or the fact that the lochness monster might eat you in Super Mario 64. Still funny AF to see instances of it.

>>4842824
where was this from?

[Anonymous No.4843234]

>>4842484
in WHAT?

[Anonymous No.4843290]

Apparently, obsessing over outdated gamea for children lead to an empty meaningless life which tends to end in suicide. Isn't that crazy?

[Anonymous No.4843721]

>>4843234
https://www.mariowiki.com/Over_the_Rainbows

[Anonymous No.4843735]

>>4840090
Damn that's some good shit. I love Pulseman and never even thought twice about that sequence.

[Anonymous No.4843740]

>>4840816
It's more effective to trigger random events than it is to completely lock out pirates.

If the game simply refuses to start, they'll know something's up and work on fixing it immediately.
With something cryptic and confusing, the anti-piracy measures won't be noticed until they occur, and they'll likely be written off as a bug 9 times out of 10. In the event that a hacker does realize what's happening and decides to fix it, they'll have a hard time figuring out where to start because the triggers are so difficult to determine.

Plus, game programmers often liked to have a bit of fun with their code.

[Anonymous No.4843752]

>>4839146
Sting has websites for all of their games still up, as far back as Treasure Hunter G.
http://www.sting.co.jp/game/index.htm
http://www.sting.co.jp/www/THG/THG.html

Also one of their games, Evolution: The World of Sacred Device, started life as a Sega Saturn game. The game was even initially revealed in the Japanese Sega Saturn Magazine (though it appears close to the final game). There's also a DevDiary on the site (in Japanese, of course) and concept art that's wildly different than even the Sega Saturn build.

[Anonymous No.4843764]

Both Crash Bandicoot and Sonic the Hedgehog have subtle environmental details that were lost due to the level orders being mixed up. In both cases the games were supposed to progress from natural environments to the man-made areas. In Crash's case, elements of this can be seen in the final game, as the level Cortex Power begins with Crash entering the power plant, despite taking place after a level showing Crash already inside the plant.

On a similar note, the scrapped level Stormy Ascent was originally a parallel to Slippery Climb: just as Crash climbed the castle wall to reach N. Brio, he would have done so again to face Cortex.

[Anonymous No.4844494]

>>4840908
>dinosaur puking up pink stuff

[Princess Sevenleaf !IT2uZpX.Ic No.4844506]

So Super Mario 64 has a piano in it, and a fish. Could this be a reference to the iconic line from Dragon Ball Z, "you can tune a piano but you can't tune a fish?" Made ya think!

[Anonymous No.4844513]

>>4840526
This happened to me once when I was playing Super Mario 3 All Stars. I still have no clue whether that was an emulator bug or a glitch in the software.

[Anonymous No.4844539]

>>4839274
Also, Cool Spot is the mascot for 7up

[Anonymous No.4844562]

>>4839371
holy shit. i had no clue that was there. why is it empty? is it empty in master quest and the 3ds versions too?

[Princess Sevenleaf !IT2uZpX.Ic No.4844563]

>>4842483
Being a video game hotline counselor isn't as fun as you think it is. It's the same as any other call center job; you follow scripts and flowcharts to answer the most frequently asked questions, and consult with a chat team if the caller asks about a game you aren't familiar with. Zero actual gaming knowledge is required.

>T. call center employee
>T. never make your hobby your job

[Anonymous No.4844602]

>>4844563
Please leave and don't come back.

[Anonymous No.4844672]

>>4839384

[Anonymous No.4844731]

>>4843197
The mad piano picture is from the official Nintendo Power Super Mario 64 player's guide.

[Anonymous No.4844784]

>>4844602
And this is him being less obnoxious than usual.

[Anonymous No.4844805]

>>4844784

I almost reported him. Twice.

[Anonymous No.4844832]

>>4844784

Meaning "not at all"?

Is someone triggered by his childhood rose tinted glasses dreams of being a Nintendo counselor being shattered?

Also inb4 the predictable accusation of me being him

[Anonymous No.4844848]

>>4842378
Isn't the Boo laughter just Bowser's laugh sped up?

[Anonymous No.4844875]

>>4840546
I thought that was bullshit but thats pretty neat

The Bomberman NES box art was borrowed from a different game

[Anonymous No.4844893]

>>4840546
Reminds me of Earthbound's anti-piracy measures, which causes shit like enemy numbers to go through the roof and the game freezing when you get to giygas, which then results in your file being erased

[Anonymous No.4845386]

>>4839146
In FF7, on the original PSX version, the Magic Defense stat on armor doesn't actually work.

[Anonymous No.4845415]

>>4839371
;o

[Anonymous No.4845426]

>>4840090
There's no "obscure" trivia left in the age of Google and Wikipedia, specially for old games like this. Anyone asking for it comes off as underage or even worse, a lazy person fishing for content for their shitty gaming YT channel.

[Anonymous No.4845503]

>>4840286
>This confirms Nintendo's 20 year plan to construct a cohesive Nintendo timeline, and by this, they were saying that Toad is a character doomed to die every three days.
Good. I wouldn't have it any other way.

[Anonymous No.4845694]

Did you know?

When you place first in a race in Star Wars Episode I Racer, the game considers the race won and rewards you with a certain amount of credits dependent upon the difficulty of the tournament which the track is a part of. Many people miss this hidden feature, as it will only happen the first time one places first in any given race.

[Anonymous No.4845698]

A little known fact about the Nintendo 64 is that the console's functionality could be greatly expanded by the addition of modular units known as "cartridges". Back in the day, may such cartridges were in circulation which allowed players to misuse the console for playing video games!

[Anonymous No.4846285]

DONKEY DONKEY PICNIC

[Anonymous No.4846303]

>>4845426
That secret in the post you replied to was literally found last year.

[Anonymous No.4846310]

>>4839193
I showed my dad in another state my tits and he gave misty a gameboy.

[Anonymous No.4846314]

>>4840546
Would it even be possible to complete the game at this rate? If so, I would love to see someone make a TAS out of a pirated Megaman X game.
Got any videos showing these effects?

[Anonymous No.4846326]

>>4846303
1 or 2 new facts every decade are not enough to justify a full thread.

[Anonymous No.4846328]

>>4843290
Before you call it a life, can you toss your stuff on ebay for dirt cheap prices. You know as well as I do your mom is just tossing all your shit when you are gone from her basement.

[Anonymous No.4846342]

>>4846326
Be upset elsewhere. Handfuls of things are found, only some are cared about enough to be shared. You forget how few people care about anything older than ps2/xbox/cube, and even those consoles are losing their care.

[Anonymous No.4846845]

>>4844506
Is that a self portrait?

[Anonymous No.4846871]

>>4844494
Mystery solved.

[Anonymous No.4846908]

>>4844506
>>4844563

[Anonymous No.4846936]

>>4844506
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.4846939]

>>4846845
>>4846908
>>4846936
Threadly reminder

[Anonymous No.4847001]

So, it's well known that Donkey Kong 64 had a memory leak glitch that Rare "fixed" by including the Expansion Pak.
Except the Pak didn't actually fix the glitch. The leak still happens, just at a much slower rate so that it happens after 10 hours of non-stop playtime. People seemingly only discovered this after the Wii-U release because that version has save states.

[Anonymous No.4847889]

>>4847001
what the fuck lmao
In this day and age, not even ROM hackers have figured out where the leak is coming from?

[Anonymous No.4847896]

>>4844563

[Anonymous No.4848013]

>>4847001
>>4847889

[Anonymous No.4848147]

>>4848013
spooky

[Anonymous No.4848648]

[Anonymous No.4849420]

>>4839146
If you punch a butterfly sometimes they'll become a big black ball that follows you and explode, scared the shit out of me as a child.

[Anonymous No.4849495]

>>4847001
I thought they only allowed for save sates on gen 5 and lower, plus GBA?

[Anonymous No.4849936]

>>4849495
Nope. Restore Points are available for the N64 games too.

[Anonymous No.4850317]

[Anonymous No.4850365]

>>4846285
Who does he this he is, Jeeeeeezus?

[Anonymous No.4850382]

>>4844875
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twSMR8X2AXY

[Anonymous No.4850445]

>>4850365
But is it kewl, or karp?

[Anonymous No.4851870]

>>4839146
it's not rare lol i've seen it hundreds of times.

[Anonymous No.4851895]

>>4840714

Underrated

[Anonymous No.4851928]

Galerians has two bosses in the game named Rainheart and Rita. Rainheart has fire powers and is immune to the Red drug (pyrokinesis) and will throw it right back at Rion if the players uses it on him. However, in the Galerians: Rion OVA adaption, Rion kills Rainheart using Red. Later on when he fights Rita, he uses Red again but Rita is unharmed by the flames despite being vulnerable to it in the game. For whatever reason. Rainheart and Rita's fire immunity/vulnerability was switch around.

[Anonymous No.4851942]

>>4840908
Looks like they took a picture of a reflective bowl, just outside of a building.

[Anonymous No.4851950]

>>4844875
Oh so just like SD Valis (aka "Syd Valis")

> we need some cover art for the genesis version of this
> let's use the cover of this completely unrelated PC Engine game we have no intention to release outside japan
> Naritore the Sugoroku '92.. hmm just overlay it
> those characters that don't appear ingame? just leave em be, they're all cartoon blobs, ain't nobody got time for noticing this
> just ship the game already, leave the credits untranslated

[Anonymous No.4851956]

>>4845386
Luck stat is useless in Final Fantasy 6 and Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow

[Anonymous No.4851963]

>>4840082
Sonichu forever.

[Anonymous No.4851980]

You can find the Ice Man in Banjo Tooie.

[Anonymous No.4851986]

>>4839395
Is this bait

[Anonymous No.4852000]

>>4841189
>*le sigh*

[Anonymous No.4852026]

>>4852000

[Anonymous No.4852072]

>>4851956
Not true at all for DoS
Hacking Luck value and setting it high enough (I don't remember how high, did it a long time ago) gives you 100% item and soul drop chance, making every enemy that has a drop/soul guarantee the drop.

[Anonymous No.4852184]

>>4839189

This one guy in my class asked me how I got mine and I made up some absurd story about catching 10 Abras or doing something absurd. Every other day he'd come back to me, "I did it and I still can't find it!". "Ohhh you have the Red verison! I thought you said Blue. What you really have to do is..." followed by more absurd shit. I'm not kidding when I say he probably spent 100 hours looking for it before he figured out I used Game Shark. Should I feel bad?

[Anonymous No.4852209]

Zangief can grab you by using a grapple on your fireballs in Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting

[Anonymous No.4852280]

>>4843194
holy shit no way

[Anonymous No.4852308]

>>4840881
I heard the texture map is someone in a pink shirt playing Nintendo back in the day.

[Anonymous No.4852318]

>>4850365
>>4846285
>>4850445
for old times sake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSB9SZvtP2I
bonus MARIO ATARIO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44MyrH4jwOQ

[Anonymous No.4852321]

>>4852318
just what the fuck is a knuckle?

[Anonymous No.4852402]

>>4844893
>>4840546
Was piracy even such a big concern in SNES days?

[Anonymous No.4852628]

It's weird how this is one of those topics that oldflags fly into a passive-aggressive rage over and they feel like they have to mock it. It doesn't do much for the stereotype that young people are angsty and think they know everything.

[Anonymous No.4853326]

>>4852402
Yes. People copied games before you were born.

[Anonymous No.4853351]

>>4839903
>still no fucking powerstone 3 or even a port
I hate you so much capcom...all of these games are goat but you fuckers made one of the best party fighting games that could of competed with smash, but no you have to ruin yet another good thing. Fuck you capcom.