Dead or alive ultimate comes on 2 disks , one for DOA2 the other DOA1, what they dont tell you is that the disks are identical and they just renamed the XBE between the two disks, you only need one of them to play both games on a moded xbox XD
It made it look like you were getting more for your money than you really were. Not to say DOAU wasn't a great game, it's one of my favourites in the series. On the upside, it did let you play online with a friend with one copy of the game. If they were using the DOA1 disc and you invited them to a game of 2U it would launch 2U from the DOA1 disc. So there was that, at least.
While it's true that both discs contain both games and you can launch either game from either disc using the method described in the video, they actually aren't identical. The two game XBEs (not default.xbe which is just a loader) are completely different. At the time some people split the two games to separate directories/discs and deleted the DOA2 game data from the DOA1 parent directory thereby bringing it's installed size down to about 250MB. This rather neat trick saved nearly 4GB of HDD space.
HPZeta I noticed that when I ripped both to the hard drive and thought it was funny they made it 2 discs. They could have saved a lot of discs by just making a selectable menu in the game I guess XD
There's also Ninja Gaiden (Original) and Ninja Gaiden Black. Ninja Gaiden (Original) has three unlockable games, they are the NES Ninja Gaiden games. Ninja Gaiden Black has only one unlockable game, and it's the arcade version of the game. And Ninja Gaiden Sigma (Remake on PS3) removed these unlockables.
I just checked my Ninja Gaiden Black disc and it contains both the US and Japanese versions of the arcade game, named NinjaTrilogy.xbe for Ninja Gaiden and NinjaTomoe.xbe for Ninja Ryukenden respectively. Thanks for the tip.
Actually, they're SNES versions, which are inferior and were supposedly not optimized for the SNES. They play much slower (as a result, they're less difficult), music is different and some of the tracks were cut, parallax scrolling was removed and so on. Also, the trilogy can't be launched with .xbe, they have to be unlocked by beating the game.
Note: I am aware of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Terminator 3 containing unlockable games too but they cant be played with this method as they are embedded inside main game rather than a seperate executable.
Modern Vintage Gamer hey man i really love your original XB Modded videos... unfortunately i know NOTHING about coding/hacking/modding... do you or anyone you know mod XBox’s for a fee if i send it out? PLEASE let me know and keep on brother!!
If you paid for shipping both ways I would do it free, but you would need to send a hard drive (preferably IDE but you can get SATA adapters) and if you wanted an 80 pin IDE cable, I would do a soft mod and install the hard drive for you and from there you would have the menu and off you go :) (FTP over games and emulation is pretty easy.) I guess I would take a look at the clock capacitor as well (they go bad and removing them is a good idea, and they cause no problems being removed unless it's a 1.6 version Xbox.) Or just buy the USB adapter from Amazon for like 7 bucks and a copy of Splinter Cell for like 8 bucks and do the soft mod yourself. The hard drive upgrade is pretty easy you can find really good video's on how to do it on youtube. This is the cheapest option since shipping an Xbox is expensive. removing the capacitor is pretty easy too, again lots of youtube video's on it. You can do a lot of stuff with just the built in 8-10GB hard drive but if you have like a 200GB or larger IDE drive laying around, things get really fun. Look for a "Ninja Massive" and "Ninja Massive pack" so much emulation goodness. Edit: I only recently got an Xbox. so a lot of this stuff is new to me but it was so much easier than say installing a mod chip in a PS2... Even easier than installing a Wiikey in a Wii. Love the Xbox's build... very PC like inside. :)
OGXbox.com and the OGXBOX Facebook group will walk you through doing it on your own. you should be able to do it for a total of like $40 for an xbox with a controller and a mod job.
Steven Benson thank you for that link!!! @ Steven Tchorz I am in Florida inside the USA, it would probably be too expensive to ship :( They cost an arm and a leg due to the weight of the machine, it is built like a tank :)
So crazy!! Right when you said “the earliest hidden game I remember was the original Pitfall on the PC Pitfall” I was saying and answering the same thing in my mind. I was so blown away with this and thought it to be the coolest thing. Another one I remember was being able to play Maniac Mansion on the computer in the game for PC “Day of the Tentacle”. Which btw has been ported to iOS for 5$. When I bought it was so happy to play it again but I also went immediately to the computer in Ed’s room to see if Maniac Mansion was still able to be played and sure enough it was. $5 for two incredible games is well worth it.
Spy Hunter (2001) for Xbox contained the original 1983 arcade title namesake on the disc, which was unlocked by entering the profile name Ogspy when making a new file. I was surprised not to see it in your video!
I love games that come with old classics as a bonus. I bought quake 4 the other day and it freaking came with a bonus disc with a beautiful version of quake 2! It’s so awesome. I remember when I learned I could play old nes games in animal crossing. I immediately bought an action replay disc to unlock all of them.
You mentioned being able to play classic arcade games in Yakuza 0 but don't forget that in Yakuza 6 it's possible to play the arcade/PS3 game *Virtua Fighter 5!* :)
Playable arcade games are a standard thing in Yakuza games. No need to really talk about them much as they are not hidden, as he said you just go to Club Sega in game.
The more I watch your channel, the more I am impressed with what the Original Xbox could do and I'm also glad that I bought because I felt nostalgic after watching your videos.
Project Gotham Racing 2 (for the Original Xbox) contained the game: Geometry Wars and could be played via the in-game garage. Also, I'm not sure if it would count in this case, but Jade Empire had a playable demo of Conker: Live & Reloaded (as well as another game that escapes me) that was playable via the main menu.
I freakin' love it when developers include such little old titles! They won't gain anything from these anymore anyway, so it's a good idea to include them to raise the value of the new game!
Great video man. Actually, everything I've watched on your channel so far today has been great. I don't know why I held off on watching your stuff for so long. Keep it up!
Great video! There's definitely a few games I need to add to my library soon. It's really cool that House of the Dead 2 and 3 are on the same disc for Xbox. I've only played the Wii version and I must say 2 is oodles tougher than 3, so it's only appropriate to include the prior as an unlock.
Thanks for the awesome rundown of these titles! I only knew of Panzer Dragoon Orta but I never looked into any of the others, I do own Shenmue 2 so I'm happy to know I have 4 more games I can play in that :D
That Prince of Persia game is interesting, it looks like it's the Mega CD port of the game (as he wears all white in the original (and the Mega Drive version)) how bizarre :S
the unlockable house of the dead 2 game was a great sorprise for me back in the day. i am a huge fan of that game, and seeing it running as an extra on the xbox was mind blowing
Yeah getting it set up on both a chipped xbox with a modded bios and a softmodded xbox with a bios loader is a fun process it would make a good video.... Never tried it on a flashed TSOP xbox but that's probable not a wise idea anyways :P
your perspective is very close to my own, in regards to retro gaming.Thanks for the vids, MVG, they are a fantastic reference tool and very interesting/informative. I've been enjoying your work thoroughly :)
Glad to see all the Xbox videos. Got me motivated to get my OG Xbox out and playing. It's back in my living room right next to my current gen systems. So happy that the new Hdmi adapter/cable works on my 4K TV. Keep the videos coming! thank you.
Pitfall remake for xbox includes the original one too.Doom 3 has doom 1 and 2.The second bonus disc of the special edition of halo 2 has halo flash based games.
New viewer here. I don't own an Xbox but this video came up in my suggestions. Interesting stuff. It's always nice when developers put hidden games in like that.
@@Agret No it doesn't. It had SUPPORT for the NV1, but worked with virtually anything. It has a software renderer. Source: own the Win95 PD, never owned an NV1.
I am a huge fan of playing Saturn and Dreamcast ported games on the Xbox because of the similar control scheme and to many of us Dreamcast fans, it is a spiritual successor and our Dreamcast 2. That being said, I know there is a Midway Hits compilation out there with great games like San Francisco Rush 2049, 4X4 Thunder, Hydro Thunder and more. I think somebody in the comments below mentioned the Saturn ports of Dead or Alive 1 as well. But also Crazy Taxi 3 kind of also has the first 2 Dreamcast games available inside of it as well. I had no idea about HOTDII being on HOTDIII, sure it was an arcade port but the Dreamcast was an Arcade based machine.
There is one noticeable con, given that it's the same game from the Midway Arcade Treasures 2 compilation, it has the problem which maps the Start button as the pause button as well, which makes Random Select, and the ability to fight Smoke (by pressing start at the Portal Stage after you do an uppercut that reveals Dan Forden shouting Toasty) very impossible.
This is great because I'm only now at a point where I can start modding my old consoles. Thanks for all the work you did on the emulators back in the day and please keep up the good work!
All these xbox videos are sure to bring attention to xlink and the console anyway.... love it keep it up, got a few mates to buy an og because of xlink!
I know this is a 2 year old video but it just appeared in my recomendations and I have to say two things about the turtles in time port. 1- Konami didn't own the rights for the music anymore 2- It's a port from the original arcade so it's not missing what level. What happens is that in the Snes port of Turtles in Time they added one level.
I find all your content really high quality and rather interesting to watch. I've often 'liked' your content, but only just realised I've never subscribed - that's now fixed!
I'm pretty sure that the sound issues in the TMNT games come from the fact Konami probably had the rights to the characters & the prior games they made based on them, but they didn't have rights to the famous theme song used in the cartoon show. Many level themes use variations on that melody, so it was just easier to replace the music.
The original Sega Master System has a hidden game inside the console, you can play it without any cartridge, it's a snail in a maze, I got really excited when I randomly found it as a kid, played it for hours.
You can also get games like Panzer Dragoon original to boot without the CD too. However you need to copy the whole Panzer Dragoon Orta game to your Xbox HDD into a new folder (preferably within the 'Games' or Homebrew' folder on your F drive). Open up that folder once the files have been copied, rename the default.xbe to something else (doesn't matter what). And then rename the 'PD1.xbe' to 'default.xbe', the game can then be launched automatically without the need for the disc or using file manager. Neat trick but be aware that it does take up a fair amount of disc space but if you've got a large HDD installed then it's something to consider.
I had an original Xbox with the Xecuter3 modchip installed. It was 3 years before I decided to install a custom dashboard. Wow, was I hooked. I installed the EvolutionX dashboard that came packed with numerous other programs. A region free DVD player, a disc ripper and the ability to use game trainers, plus a few others. I had every game for the original Xbox ever released in the USA. I think it totaled close to 840 games. I wound up giving it to my son due to getting a modded XBox360. Now I don't own a console at all.
The Doom 3 Collector’s Edition for Xbox contains Ultimate Doom and Doom 2. The ports are a bit janky and not sure if they are easily copied to hard drive, but they exist and are pretty playable.
TheScreaminGoat they also have split screen local multiplayer, which is always nice! It’s always in quarter screen sections, though, so if you don’t have 4 people, part of the screen is just black. Like I said: janky. They’re also on the standalone Resurrection of Evil release, along with the Master Levels for Doom 2.
Damn man! Thanks so much for this :) I've recently bought my modded Xbox, Green Halo limited edition cough cough :p, and thoroughly enjoying it. Got a few road blocks but slowly getting around them. I'm actually burning a copy of Hypervision n roms from Iso Zone into an Iso file onto a double layered DVD disk and preying it works cause my FTP isn't crackin'. Mad respect! PEACE!!!
very unique content. I usually just watch videos by American users because I don't want to see all the good stuff that I'm missing out on which is come out overseas and not over here. Something like that at least but these videos are really cool and I am subscribing to your Channel. Don't worry I don't expect to see more of these. But I'm sure whatever you come out with in the future has the potential to be really cool as well. Cheers
The two that I remember were 1.) Pitfall Lost Expedition had the original pitfall 1 and 2 as unlockables 2.) Doom 3 had Doom 2 and Ultimate Doom but only on the COLLECTORS EDITION disc, not the standard edition.
Timmer Ratajczyk I remember hearing about the Star Wars arcade games in Rogue Squadron 3: Rebel Strike, and by the time I heard about them being in Rogue Squadron 3, I had unlocked two of them. I just didn’t know they were on the disc.
Nice guide... actually have a modded Xbox kicking around and a bunch of random games bought for a pound a throw at an exchange shop.. not used it much because the HDD is just the original 10gb one almost completely filled with a not particularly good arcade emulator and I've no idea how to upgrade it or remove the emulator without losing it forever, and burning other emulators with ROM or disc collections to CDR (or finding working ISOs of anything I care about for the system) turned out to be a massive and somewhat unreliable PITA, but I think I have a new game to play now... putting all of those random official discs into it and using the file browser to see what hidden goodies they might have!
My favorite hidden game was not on the xbox, but the sega saturn. It was called Death Tanks. It was on the Duke Nukem 3d version of the saturn and there were two ways to unlock it. One way was to destroy every toilet in the game as you beat it. The other way was You had to also own Quake on the Saturn and have a saved game on the saturn's hardrive from each game, Duke Nukem and Quake. Then the game would be unlocked. Death Tanks was a 7 player game that was like Scorched Earth or Worms but instead of taking turns to shoot each other, it was an all out shoot fest! They remade on Xbox live back in 2007 with updated graphics.
Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil, yeah that strange standalone expansion have Doom and Doom 2 as portsm, they are not hidden or unlockeable however, they are just on the extras section of the main menu. but if i recall, they are separate executables
Well, I’m not sure if this counts, but the original Geometry Wars is available in Project Gotham Racing 2 (or was it the original?) when you walk up to the arcade machine in your garage. Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is also available in Project Gotham Racing 3 this way, but Bizzarre Creations had the foresight to also make it an Xbox LIVE Arcade title.
Doom 3 Collector's Edition has The Ultimate Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth unlocked right away. Not sure if those are separate .xbe files or not though.
Sweet, I didn't know you could do that, I thought it would be a lot more integrated in to the games than that. Will have to look through my collection and see if there's any sneaky secrets :)
Unlockable games have been out before the Xbox, I find it more fascinating on weaker hardware: Donkey Kong 64 - Donkey Kong arcade. Mortal Kombat Trilogy - Pong and Galaga Animal Crossing 64 - Assortment of Famicom games Pacman 2 - Arcade Pacman 1 Space Invader Gameboy - Space Invaders Arcade (when played on the SNES super gameboy)
I still have this Xbox, because it's modded. Remembering in the old days that you can have a disk copy from your friend and overwrite /download the game on your Xbox.
It isn't just video game consoles that have hidden games. Much digital lab equipment has hidden games. For example, the HP 54600 Oscilloscope plays Tetris.
I really enjoy the topics of your videos, but wish that you didn't sound like you were reading from a script most of the time! Your outro is natural, and hope to see more of that. :) ps- really does suck that the Turtles Konami games had changed soundtracks.. very odd. Thankful that I picked up the Classic ver on XBLA, way before it was delisted.
Only recently got into the Xbox and wow was I missing out, I was more into the PS2 back at the time but damn... I feel like I picked the wrong system lol (I enjoyed Kotor 1 and 2 on the PC but I would have loved it on a console) I always love your video's but these Xbox ones are amazing!!! Thank you!!! (It also helps my appreciation that the Xbox is like a new system to me right now lol)
The reason Mortal Kombat II runs slightly too fast is because the Game was actually designed for a 54.9Hz refresh common on arcade displays at the time. Since the Xbox doesn't support that refresh rate, the game is sped up accordingly.
I've never noticed this before but Panzer Dragoon is basically Space Harrier (and a bit of After Burner) on dragons. It's taken me this long to figure out. Wow.
Dead or alive ultimate comes on 2 disks , one for DOA2 the other DOA1, what they dont tell you is that the disks are identical and they just renamed the XBE between the two disks, you only need one of them to play both games on a moded xbox XD
yes thank you! how did i forget about this one
It made it look like you were getting more for your money than you really were. Not to say DOAU wasn't a great game, it's one of my favourites in the series. On the upside, it did let you play online with a friend with one copy of the game. If they were using the DOA1 disc and you invited them to a game of 2U it would launch 2U from the DOA1 disc. So there was that, at least.
While it's true that both discs contain both games and you can launch either game from either disc using the method described in the video, they actually aren't identical. The two game XBEs (not default.xbe which is just a loader) are completely different. At the time some people split the two games to separate directories/discs and deleted the DOA2 game data from the DOA1 parent directory thereby bringing it's installed size down to about 250MB. This rather neat trick saved nearly 4GB of HDD space.
you should come join up with the xbox mod scene. we're on Facebook OG xbox group. We greatly appreciate everything you did with xbox.
HPZeta I noticed that when I ripped both to the hard drive and thought it was funny they made it 2 discs. They could have saved a lot of discs by just making a selectable menu in the game I guess XD
There's also Ninja Gaiden (Original) and Ninja Gaiden Black. Ninja Gaiden (Original) has three unlockable games, they are the NES Ninja Gaiden games. Ninja Gaiden Black has only one unlockable game, and it's the arcade version of the game. And Ninja Gaiden Sigma (Remake on PS3) removed these unlockables.
I just checked my Ninja Gaiden Black disc and it contains both the US and Japanese versions of the arcade game, named NinjaTrilogy.xbe for Ninja Gaiden and NinjaTomoe.xbe for Ninja Ryukenden respectively. Thanks for the tip.
Actually, they're SNES versions, which are inferior and were supposedly not optimized for the SNES. They play much slower (as a result, they're less difficult), music is different and some of the tracks were cut, parallax scrolling was removed and so on. Also, the trilogy can't be launched with .xbe, they have to be unlocked by beating the game.
Do u know if any of those can be played on the xbox one since the game is backward compatible?
Note: I am aware of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Terminator 3 containing unlockable games too but they cant be played with this method as they are embedded inside main game rather than a seperate executable.
Modern Vintage Gamer hey man i really love your original XB Modded videos... unfortunately i know NOTHING about coding/hacking/modding... do you or anyone you know mod XBox’s for a fee if i send it out? PLEASE let me know and keep on brother!!
If you paid for shipping both ways I would do it free, but you would need to send a hard drive (preferably IDE but you can get SATA adapters) and if you wanted an 80 pin IDE cable, I would do a soft mod and install the hard drive for you and from there you would have the menu and off you go :) (FTP over games and emulation is pretty easy.) I guess I would take a look at the clock capacitor as well (they go bad and removing them is a good idea, and they cause no problems being removed unless it's a 1.6 version Xbox.)
Or just buy the USB adapter from Amazon for like 7 bucks and a copy of Splinter Cell for like 8 bucks and do the soft mod yourself. The hard drive upgrade is pretty easy you can find really good video's on how to do it on youtube. This is the cheapest option since shipping an Xbox is expensive. removing the capacitor is pretty easy too, again lots of youtube video's on it.
You can do a lot of stuff with just the built in 8-10GB hard drive but if you have like a 200GB or larger IDE drive laying around, things get really fun. Look for a "Ninja Massive" and "Ninja Massive pack" so much emulation goodness.
Edit: I only recently got an Xbox. so a lot of this stuff is new to me but it was so much easier than say installing a mod chip in a PS2... Even easier than installing a Wiikey in a Wii. Love the Xbox's build... very PC like inside. :)
RoboTronix i have NO idea what u just said! Hahahaha im willing to pay shipping and such however. Where do u live (country)
OGXbox.com and the OGXBOX Facebook group will walk you through doing it on your own. you should be able to do it for a total of like $40 for an xbox with a controller and a mod job.
Steven Benson thank you for that link!!! @ Steven Tchorz I am in Florida inside the USA, it would probably be too expensive to ship :( They cost an arm and a leg due to the weight of the machine, it is built like a tank :)
Remember when you could unlock things in games and not pay for them.
teddybeddy123 Too painful to remember the good old days.
...that'll be 29.99 to "DLC" something on the disc
Animal Crossing had all those NES games built in. I loved that.
Gaming in 10 years: Congrats you found an easter egg! Pay $5.99 rn to open it.
Turns around and looks at EA
man
you're the only person who has shown that you can do a lot with the Xbox than it was designed to do
So crazy!! Right when you said “the earliest hidden game I remember was the original Pitfall on the PC Pitfall” I was saying and answering the same thing in my mind. I was so blown away with this and thought it to be the coolest thing.
Another one I remember was being able to play Maniac Mansion on the computer in the game for PC “Day of the Tentacle”. Which btw has been ported to iOS for 5$. When I bought it was so happy to play it again but I also went immediately to the computer in Ed’s room to see if Maniac Mansion was still able to be played and sure enough it was. $5 for two incredible games is well worth it.
Great stuff MVG. I think my faves were Maniac Mansion inside Day of the Tentacle and the magic carpet style flight sim hidden in Excel 97 :D
RetroManCave Right! DOTT came out in 1993 and was the first game I remember having a secret game inside.
Super cool. The original Xbox really is a system that keeps on giving.
Hidden and Unlockable Games
EA: $60 DLC.
Right.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Spy Hunter (2001) for Xbox contained the original 1983 arcade title namesake on the disc, which was unlocked by entering the profile name Ogspy when making a new file. I was surprised not to see it in your video!
damn good catch - i totally forgot about this one. Have the game too!
Sounds like you've got enough suggestions here for a part 2 video.
I love games that come with old classics as a bonus. I bought quake 4 the other day and it freaking came with a bonus disc with a beautiful version of quake 2! It’s so awesome. I remember when I learned I could play old nes games in animal crossing. I immediately bought an action replay disc to unlock all of them.
You mentioned being able to play classic arcade games in Yakuza 0 but don't forget that in Yakuza 6 it's possible to play the arcade/PS3 game *Virtua Fighter 5!* :)
Krock dude really??!!!! Can’t you play other modern arcade games too? Like tyko drum master?
Anthony And The Machine Taiko Drum Master is in Yakuza 5, don't know if it's in Yakuza 6
No, there's just Virtua Fighter 5 and Puyo Puyo (as well as the games already in 0).
Playable arcade games are a standard thing in Yakuza games. No need to really talk about them much as they are not hidden, as he said you just go to Club Sega in game.
Really? Thanks for the info.
I remember in "Full Spectrum Warrior", you could unlock the official army training version with a code. That was also a separate .xbe on the disc.
Namco Museum and Pac Man World 2 also contain hidden and unlockable arcade games.
The more I watch your channel, the more I am impressed with what the Original Xbox could do and I'm also glad that I bought because I felt nostalgic after watching your videos.
Am I the only one who wants to go back to being a kid and having all these systems with the knowledge you have now
Project Gotham Racing 2 (for the Original Xbox) contained the game: Geometry Wars and could be played via the in-game garage. Also, I'm not sure if it would count in this case, but Jade Empire had a playable demo of Conker: Live & Reloaded (as well as another game that escapes me) that was playable via the main menu.
I freakin' love it when developers include such little old titles!
They won't gain anything from these anymore anyway, so it's a good idea to include them to raise the value of the new game!
First hidden game I found was the awesome snail game when I got my UK Master System when I was a kid.
Was on original American SMS as well.
Does this same method work for Doom 1+2 on Doom 3's disk?
Great video man. Actually, everything I've watched on your channel so far today has been great. I don't know why I held off on watching your stuff for so long. Keep it up!
likewise my friend. your content is A+++. keep it up !
Modern Vintage Gamer Aw, thanks!
Great video! There's definitely a few games I need to add to my library soon.
It's really cool that House of the Dead 2 and 3 are on the same disc for Xbox. I've only played the Wii version and I must say 2 is oodles tougher than 3, so it's only appropriate to include the prior as an unlock.
I knew these games existed on these games.... But I had no idea you could rip and play these with such ease. This was a fantastic video. Thank you.
Thanks for the awesome rundown of these titles! I only knew of Panzer Dragoon Orta but I never looked into any of the others, I do own Shenmue 2 so I'm happy to know I have 4 more games I can play in that :D
Same thing to me!!
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Hey it's MrMario :)
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That Prince of Persia game is interesting, it looks like it's the Mega CD port of the game (as he wears all white in the original (and the Mega Drive version)) how bizarre :S
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How bizarre, how bizarre. Ooh baby it's driving me crazy every time I turn around
Yep, love finding hidden games. Death Tank on the Saturn version of Duke Nuk'em 3D was the first I found out about.
the unlockable house of the dead 2 game was a great sorprise for me back in the day. i am a huge fan of that game, and seeing it running as an extra on the xbox was mind blowing
hey, i vote for an xdk setup video for the original xbox, pleeeease?
Yeah getting it set up on both a chipped xbox with a modded bios and a softmodded xbox with a bios loader is a fun process it would make a good video.... Never tried it on a flashed TSOP xbox but that's probable not a wise idea anyways :P
I'd love that, given that there are a bunch of things I'd like to develop for the OG Xbox, and I have a dual-boot softmod
I remember that Shenmue 1 on Dreamcast had 2 games too. I think it was Hang On and Space Harrier, and other arcade games like QTE events, and Darts.
Loving the xbox related videos!
Loving the shitbox videos.
in COD WW2 if you go down to the beach in the HQ area, there is an arcade system with all Activision titles on it from the 80s
Great video MVG! I recall Doom3 BFG Edition has the Original Doom and Doom 2 on it :) Although you can play anytime as I recall no need to unlock
I love that you use UnleashX, it was always my favorite. I used to play these games like this, too. Specifically, the arcade games on Shenmue 2.
This wasnt exactly hidden, but blades of steel had a mini game shmup in between periods sometimes, just reminded me of it, great vid!
your perspective is very close to my own, in regards to retro gaming.Thanks for the vids, MVG, they are a fantastic reference tool and very interesting/informative. I've been enjoying your work thoroughly :)
You are my current favorite TH-camr.
And I feel like it's not going to change.
Glad to see all the Xbox videos. Got me motivated to get my OG Xbox out and playing. It's back in my living room right next to my current gen systems. So happy that the new Hdmi adapter/cable works on my 4K TV. Keep the videos coming! thank you.
Not technically a game in a game but Doom on DVD unlocks a demo for Doom 3 when put into an original Xbox
Brisk Guy Same with some of the Star Wars DVD's.
Same thing if u put Van helsing on the OG xbox u get to play the demo of the game. I think with King Arthur too
Chronicles of Riddick too
And Hulk
Pitfall remake for xbox includes the original one too.Doom 3 has doom 1 and 2.The second bonus disc of the special edition of halo 2 has halo flash based games.
This is a great video. I didn't know about any of these.
Classic Gaming Quarterly Agreed. Great video.
New viewer here. I don't own an Xbox but this video came up in my suggestions. Interesting stuff. It's always nice when developers put hidden games in like that.
Had no idea about the Panzer Dragoon secret, and it looks a lot better than the PS2 port I have! Very nice video as usual, thanks.
its actually much better than the pc port runs smoother and good controls
PC Port also requires a very specific graphics card to run
@@Agret No it doesn't. It had SUPPORT for the NV1, but worked with virtually anything. It has a software renderer.
Source: own the Win95 PD, never owned an NV1.
Great video! It’s great there’s a way to play the hidden games without the need to play through the mundane main game 😅
One of the most impressive parts of this video to me is that you have an original Xbox that still works
If you remove the clock capacitor it should last for years to come. Those caps leak and ruin the board over time.
My Xbox was revived thanks to AWSOME guides!
I think this is an amazing series to start. If you get more titles make another one of these. super cool.
I am a huge fan of playing Saturn and Dreamcast ported games on the Xbox because of the similar control scheme and to many of us Dreamcast fans, it is a spiritual successor and our Dreamcast 2.
That being said, I know there is a Midway Hits compilation out there with great games like San Francisco Rush 2049, 4X4 Thunder, Hydro Thunder and more.
I think somebody in the comments below mentioned the Saturn ports of Dead or Alive 1 as well. But also Crazy Taxi 3 kind of also has the first 2 Dreamcast games available inside of it as well.
I had no idea about HOTDII being on HOTDIII, sure it was an arcade port but the Dreamcast was an Arcade based machine.
That Mortal Kombat ports on the original XBOX are better than the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection
There is one noticeable con, given that it's the same game from the Midway Arcade Treasures 2 compilation, it has the problem which maps the Start button as the pause button as well, which makes Random Select, and the ability to fight Smoke (by pressing start at the Portal Stage after you do an uppercut that reveals Dan Forden shouting Toasty) very impossible.
This is great because I'm only now at a point where I can start modding my old consoles. Thanks for all the work you did on the emulators back in the day and please keep up the good work!
All these xbox videos are sure to bring attention to xlink and the console anyway.... love it keep it up, got a few mates to buy an og because of xlink!
Xlink was always pretty dodgy for me, used to use XBConnect to play Halo 2 mods :)
I know this is a 2 year old video but it just appeared in my recomendations and I have to say two things about the turtles in time port.
1- Konami didn't own the rights for the music anymore
2- It's a port from the original arcade so it's not missing what level. What happens is that in the Snes port of Turtles in Time they added one level.
Awesome! My original pd1 game for Saturn got broken while listening to the bgm in a CD player, now I can try the Xbox version in Orta!
xbox vids are the best. we need more emus. maybe Sega Saturn?
MarcoLoves360gamer It's a very tricky system to emulate. There was a bit of a breakthrough over a year ago but I've not heard anything since.
Awesome! I had no idea games I already have like Panzer Dragoon Orta or Prince of Persia had unlockable games!
I find all your content really high quality and rather interesting to watch. I've often 'liked' your content, but only just realised I've never subscribed - that's now fixed!
Reminds me of making my own multi disc games with MxM back in the day. Searching for the correct .xbe. to launch the games. Good video
I'm pretty sure that the sound issues in the TMNT games come from the fact Konami probably had the rights to the characters & the prior games they made based on them, but they didn't have rights to the famous theme song used in the cartoon show. Many level themes use variations on that melody, so it was just easier to replace the music.
Great video! I always loved copying these to my internal hdd and trying to make legit cover arts and stuff for them. great memories!!!
The original Sega Master System has a hidden game inside the console, you can play it without any cartridge, it's a snail in a maze, I got really excited when I randomly found it as a kid, played it for hours.
You can also get games like Panzer Dragoon original to boot without the CD too. However you need to copy the whole Panzer Dragoon Orta game to your Xbox HDD into a new folder (preferably within the 'Games' or Homebrew' folder on your F drive). Open up that folder once the files have been copied, rename the default.xbe to something else (doesn't matter what). And then rename the 'PD1.xbe' to 'default.xbe', the game can then be launched automatically without the need for the disc or using file manager. Neat trick but be aware that it does take up a fair amount of disc space but if you've got a large HDD installed then it's something to consider.
Panzer Dragoon blew me away when I was young!! Such a great gaming experience
man your channel has bought me so much joy and nostalgia from my childhood! :')
I had an original Xbox with the Xecuter3 modchip installed. It was 3 years before I decided to install a custom dashboard. Wow, was I hooked. I installed the EvolutionX dashboard that came packed with numerous other programs. A region free DVD player, a disc ripper and the ability to use game trainers, plus a few others. I had every game for the original Xbox ever released in the USA. I think it totaled close to 840 games. I wound up giving it to my son due to getting a modded XBox360. Now I don't own a console at all.
The Doom 3 Collector’s Edition for Xbox contains Ultimate Doom and Doom 2. The ports are a bit janky and not sure if they are easily copied to hard drive, but they exist and are pretty playable.
TheScreaminGoat they also have split screen local multiplayer, which is always nice! It’s always in quarter screen sections, though, so if you don’t have 4 people, part of the screen is just black. Like I said: janky. They’re also on the standalone Resurrection of Evil release, along with the Master Levels for Doom 2.
Damn man! Thanks so much for this :) I've recently bought my modded Xbox, Green Halo limited edition cough cough :p, and thoroughly enjoying it. Got a few road blocks but slowly getting around them. I'm actually burning a copy of Hypervision n roms from Iso Zone into an Iso file onto a double layered DVD disk and preying it works cause my FTP isn't crackin'. Mad respect! PEACE!!!
Great stuff! Quality entertainment for any game enthusiast.
Cool video man, I never realised this was possible. Thanks for keeping the og xbox love alive!
Awesome! I already have Orta on my Xbox's HDD, & though I have Zwei on my saturn I didn't have PD1, so sweet to find out this sweet ass hack!
On Pac-Man World 2, you can unlock some of the older Pac-Man games in the arcade.
Fantastic video. I didn't know about a lot of these, thanks for shedding light on them and the tutorials to access them was very informative as well!
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection has separate xbes for the two SF games, allowing you to skip the menu for selecting which game you want to play.
very unique content. I usually just watch videos by American users because I don't want to see all the good stuff that I'm missing out on which is come out overseas and not over here. Something like that at least but these videos are really cool and I am subscribing to your Channel. Don't worry I don't expect to see more of these. But I'm sure whatever you come out with in the future has the potential to be really cool as well. Cheers
The two that I remember were
1.) Pitfall Lost Expedition had the original pitfall 1 and 2 as unlockables
2.) Doom 3 had Doom 2 and Ultimate Doom but only on the COLLECTORS EDITION disc, not the standard edition.
Love Monday cause we get a new MVG vid!!!! This channel rocks!
First hidden game I ever found was Snails on SmS. xD
Timmer Ratajczyk I remember hearing about the Star Wars arcade games in Rogue Squadron 3: Rebel Strike, and by the time I heard about them being in Rogue Squadron 3, I had unlocked two of them. I just didn’t know they were on the disc.
Nice guide... actually have a modded Xbox kicking around and a bunch of random games bought for a pound a throw at an exchange shop.. not used it much because the HDD is just the original 10gb one almost completely filled with a not particularly good arcade emulator and I've no idea how to upgrade it or remove the emulator without losing it forever, and burning other emulators with ROM or disc collections to CDR (or finding working ISOs of anything I care about for the system) turned out to be a massive and somewhat unreliable PITA, but I think I have a new game to play now... putting all of those random official discs into it and using the file browser to see what hidden goodies they might have!
My favorite hidden game was not on the xbox, but the sega saturn. It was called Death Tanks. It was on the Duke Nukem 3d version of the saturn and there were two ways to unlock it. One way was to destroy every toilet in the game as you beat it. The other way was You had to also own Quake on the Saturn and have a saved game on the saturn's hardrive from each game, Duke Nukem and Quake. Then the game would be unlocked. Death Tanks was a 7 player game that was like Scorched Earth or Worms but instead of taking turns to shoot each other, it was an all out shoot fest! They remade on Xbox live back in 2007 with updated graphics.
Really cool video!!! I have all these games and a modded xbox, started loading up these disc, right after this video!!!
Doom 3 Resurrection of Evil, yeah that strange standalone expansion have Doom and Doom 2 as portsm, they are not hidden or unlockeable however, they are just on the extras section of the main menu. but if i recall, they are separate executables
System Shock 1, way back in 1994 had a few games you could find in cyberspace. One was Pong, and the other was a Wing Commander type game.
The first Geometry Wars was a playable arcade machine in the car garage in Project Gotham Racing 2.
Great informative video. I personally love seeing posts like this!
Well, I’m not sure if this counts, but the original Geometry Wars is available in Project Gotham Racing 2 (or was it the original?) when you walk up to the arcade machine in your garage.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is also available in Project Gotham Racing 3 this way, but Bizzarre Creations had the foresight to also make it an Xbox LIVE Arcade title.
Doom 3 Collector's Edition has The Ultimate Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth unlocked right away. Not sure if those are separate .xbe files or not though.
I think there are, I mean I saw "DOOMLAUNCHER.XBE" the other day and I think that's for doom 1 and doom 2
Sweet, I didn't know you could do that, I thought it would be a lot more integrated in to the games than that. Will have to look through my collection and see if there's any sneaky secrets :)
Unlockable games have been out before the Xbox, I find it more fascinating on weaker hardware:
Donkey Kong 64 - Donkey Kong arcade.
Mortal Kombat Trilogy - Pong and Galaga
Animal Crossing 64 - Assortment of Famicom games
Pacman 2 - Arcade Pacman 1
Space Invader Gameboy - Space Invaders Arcade (when played on the SNES super gameboy)
I still have this Xbox, because it's modded. Remembering in the old days that you can have a disk copy from your friend and overwrite /download the game on your Xbox.
It isn't just video game consoles that have hidden games. Much digital lab equipment has hidden games. For example, the HP 54600 Oscilloscope plays Tetris.
What a good video! Love the Games console stuff you do!
Loved getting spy hunter on the Xbox, you could unlock the original game.
The original Xbox is an awesome piece of kit. They're also not old enough to be considered 'retro' so they're very cheap and easy to find.
not on xbox, but I still remember fondly playing the hidden space invaders minigame for hours one sleepless night in MK3 (SNES)
I really enjoy the topics of your videos, but wish that you didn't sound like you were reading from a script most of the time! Your outro is natural, and hope to see more of that. :)
ps- really does suck that the Turtles Konami games had changed soundtracks.. very odd. Thankful that I picked up the Classic ver on XBLA, way before it was delisted.
Only recently got into the Xbox and wow was I missing out, I was more into the PS2 back at the time but damn... I feel like I picked the wrong system lol (I enjoyed Kotor 1 and 2 on the PC but I would have loved it on a console) I always love your video's but these Xbox ones are amazing!!! Thank you!!! (It also helps my appreciation that the Xbox is like a new system to me right now lol)
A game in this genre that has to be mentioned, Anaconda in TimeSplitters 2, great fun in multiplayer.
Cool I didn’t know about this. A new reason to collect some of these games. Thanks!
The reason Mortal Kombat II runs slightly too fast is because the Game was actually designed for a 54.9Hz refresh common on arcade displays at the time. Since the Xbox doesn't support that refresh rate, the game is sped up accordingly.
Surprised you didn't mention Ninja Gaiden Trilogy inside Ninja Gaiden. Had no idea about the Panzer Dragoon being inside Orta.
Second Sight and Timesplitters 2 both had collectible items you could use to play arcade minigames like Asteroid.
I've never noticed this before but Panzer Dragoon is basically Space Harrier (and a bit of After Burner) on dragons. It's taken me this long to figure out. Wow.
Splatter house ps3/360 progress through game to unlock original S-H 1.2.3, decent topic enjoyed!