I remember playing Perfect Dark on my N64 without an expansion pack, and then I finally got an expansion pack and it was like having a next gen console.
It depended on the game being played - only games made for expansion park actually benefited. I can see how some folks would wind up thinking it did nothing if they tried old games that had no benefit.
I didn't know the expansion pack was a hidden feature. I thought it was almost a necessity. Certain games would have modes locked out entirely without one.
Be careful using Genesis controllers on other consoles. Some consoles (i.e. Vectrex) use the same connector, but are wired differently. It is possible to short out the system using a Genesis controller.
@@Nipplator99999999999 lol same i used sega controllers on mine fuck did it change the feel of gaming to me feel in love with using controllers for any game i could get to work even to this day, dam time flys ...
@@BlueYukiao there’s a third one too that appears from time to time, but don’t know his name. That’s why I didn’t want it to look bad by just naming two. Does give a bad interpretation smh
@@EikottXD I need to get a vmu and more games for it.. but I like it.. it just had so much potential. It’s cool I can burn my own games and play fan games too
@@Cubbie410 Its one of my favorite consoles now via emulation through my PS Classic mini. It has the best games! Omicron Nomad Soul, Headhunter, etc.. way ahead of it's time.
I played Snail Maze back in the days when I owned the original SMS for HOURS until I finally beat the game. It was brutal. If you didn't carry over enough extra time through the game, there is no way you can finish the last several stages. The last maze was just 2 spiral. But if you guessed wrong, you won't have enough time to back track and pick the correct path so you have to start from stage 1 all over again.
The save delete recovery thing isn't really a new discovery... I VERY distinctly recall my oldest brother showing me this feature back when I was in middle school, so like 99-2001 timeframe. He learned about it from a FAQ/Help article in an old issue of PSM Magazine. I have a VERY clear memory of seeing and using that feature on 2 occasions. I was from 10-12 years old.
Its because it was literally in some of the owners manuals. Mind you not all of them, but literally everyone of my friends that owned a ps1 knew about this.
@@GameTimeWhy Fellow LoD fan. I think if you browsed GameFaqs or similar sites back then at school..there was ways to undue these deletions. RIP your file, sorry that happened buddy, especially if you went out of your way to do all the sidequests :\
@@garybracket2355 yeah my brother and I did everything and then right before the transition to disc 4 we farmed levels for days during summer break. I felt so bad partly for me but partly for my brother. He was so excited.
5:30 I know our logo is in the background, I still would’ve appreciated a proper video credit in the corner like you did with other borrowed footage. And you didn’t even link our video that you used. Kinda sucks dude.
I yelled an involuntary "are you fu@king kidding me" when that was mentioned myself... I don't know how many years I've lost to the rage after accidentally deleting the file beside the one I wanted.
Well, most likely this feature isn't "good" enough to actually be usable with your ps1 console. it might have corrupted your save file when getting it back. or it would only work x % of the time. The devs knew it was a thing and chose not to give that information to the consumer, so i can imagine it didn't really work as intended. But i don't know, i'm just speculating here, since save file recovery is a pretty cool thing to have. So yeah, don't feel super bad about it.
@@christianrichters7922 yeah but it's like the survival rate for a surgery, I'll take any chance I can get... maybe a bit melodramatic but you get my point. I still remember, when in a sleep zombie state, I deleted my Gran Turismo 100% (including the two 24hr endurance races) instead of copying it, after a marathon session. There were actual tears and quivering lip...
This unlocked a memory for me. When I was like 5, my mother accidentally erased some game's data from the memory card. I was upset but took it like a champ. I love my mom and she always played games with me. She probably wanted to copy the data to surprise me with an advanced save file. My parents liked to do that when they didn't want to wait for me to complete the level
Thank you Andrew! I suppose you are the person that gives Falcon his body and face too, so thank you for your work on i sadly don't know haw many episodes of Gameranx.
The recover deleted saves trick for the original PlayStation is actually printed in the Japanese manual. It was for some reason not included in English versions of the manual.
Seeing the old spyro brought such a feeling of nostalgia. We never had a ps1, but we had so many ps1 games we would play on our ps2. Man i miss those days...
You missed one for the N64, if you hold L+R+Start while its turning on that will reset the center of your thumb stick which was used to solve stick drift way back in the day. It's pretty sad we can't do this now with the Switch which still suffers from the same problem over time!
the stick calibration in the system settings on the Switch does the same exact thing, but JoyCons and the Pro controller use a different joystick technology than the N64 which is more compact and precise, at the cost of reliability and longevity. Unfortunately that means that just recentering the stick won't work, as the resistance readings of the potentiometers aren't consistently wrong, they jump around too much.
Ages ago the PS1 save restore command was published in PSM. That was where I learned it. Also I remember when I got a Genesis as a kid and had an Atari 2600 that mostly went unused at that point thinking the controller plugs looked the same. Atari games got so much easier to control after that experiment.
Uh, was there more to #8 for the N64 RAM? There wasn't any secret about it in the video and it was just "hey, this added RAM and made N64 did things" like...what things?? lo
Also, I'm pretty sure I saw elsewhere that the DK bug thing was true, but the expansion pak didn't fix it, it just delayed it. The bug was a memory leak that they weren't able to track down before release; without the pak, the game would crash relatively often, but with it, the game would have to play twice as long on average before crashing. I remember a video somewhere detailing the Pak itself.
Yeah, the marketing for dk64 was something along the lines about the pack being required due to increased graphics, but in reality, it just delayed the game crashing due to the memory leak by multiple hours. rare fixed the memory leak in the game engine when working on one of the banjo games, and that's why they don't require the pack.
About the memory recovery function for PS1, it was actually listed on the Japanese manual, so the feature is knowed for the Japanese for years. For some reason they remove the text from the manual for the international version. That's why English users only find it out recently.
10:01 the late dreamcast when everyone knew it was gonna die had a lot of interesting stuff. one of the developers for the dreamcast version of sonic jam left a note in the hex code explaining to pirates how to add different genesis roms.
By the mid-1990s, most personal computers had between 2 and 64 megabytes of RAM (toward the latter if you did a lot of multitasking, toward the former if you mostly had an MS-DOS system). Kilobytes of RAM were more of an 80s thing.
Do NOT plug in your Genesis controller to a Commodore 64!! This will ruin it, and can potentially ruin other machines as well. And why is the expansion pak bringing out the best of the N64 a secret console feature??
Could be worse, you could have had the TurboGrafx-16 with the CD expansion like I did. It had a capacitive memory chip that would save a fixed number of files, and if you left it unplugged for long enough that the chip lost it's charge... >POOF!< Though it seemed to take years to fail. I had mine unplugged for quite some time and it retained everything. But after a few years everything finally faded.
Meh, it's only the same thing as when you delete something on a PC. Even if you delete it from the Recycle Bin, which in theory means it's gone for good, it can still be recovered using special software.
"Deleting" a file usually means only removing it from the file table. The actual file data is still there, but is treated as free space and will get overwritten eventually. This is why the longer you wait to try to recover it the less likely it will be successful.
I know this isn't exactly the same thing, but we used the Microsoft flight simulator 2007 version to control the movement of the actual physical guns on the gunship. The AC-130U gunship. We were able to plug into the serial bus on the aircraft and control the hydraulics and aim the guns while on the ground. I always thought that must be some kind of security breech by Microsoft or something. Still though, kind of crazy
Me and my two college roommates played FFVII on PS1... I had over 80 hours into my game. My roommate asked me to beat some thing for him and my muscle memory of saving my game hundreds of times had me overwrite my spot on memory card with his campaign. I felt sick for days after that. I wish I knew the first hack you mentioned back then.
The extra RAM in the N64 was also helpful in Turok. The fog to limit render distance made the game pretty claustrophobic (similar to Silent Hill), but wasn't so bad with the expansion pack.
Great video~ Definitely took me back. Fun fact too with number one and the start up. If you hold Z on the gamecube controller and then hit the power button, it makes a different intro noise. xD
That trick with the memory card works for Computers as well. It just allows that data section to be writeable too, if nothing has written over that space you can recover it.
Some of this "years later" were actually very known back then, at least here in Brazil. - Hidden maze in Master System 1's bios? Check, it was even advertised on the console's box. - Genesis' controller being compatible with other 9 pins? Check, I've played a lot of Atari 2600 with my Genesis controller (it made playing Decathlon so much easier...), used it with Master System and also some other computers. - Dreamcast' s alternative bios with Puyo Puyo? Check. It was called "the last gift" back then. - Xbox's shortcuts? Most of them are listed on the manual (the virtual / guide one).
I remember my dad purchasing DK64 when we went to the shopping centre on my 6th birthday, i was super excited for this game at the time and couldn't wait to get home to play it, the place that sold it at the time i think was gamestation here in the UK and i was met with pure shock and disappointment when the game wouldnt boot as it stated "expansion pack missing/required", turns out underneath the price sticker neatly placed in the top right corner the box states "Expansion pack included", this was a brand new retail game in which gamestation were *REMOVING* the expansion packs and selling the game for *FULL RETAIL!!* . Needless to say my dad went straight back and kicked up a full storm in the store he was furious, and I was overwhelmed with joy when the manager handed me my brand new expansion pack.. happy days 😊
My cousin and I found out about that Sega controller thing with the Atari almost 20 years ago. Pretty cool controlling those games with a bit more ease. My other cousin and I found out you can practically go God mode megaman 3 on the NES by having player 2 hold left on a joystick controller while player controls megaman. Don't know why that worked but you can't jump into a hole and not die, just jump back up.
I liked in playstation when you could play a music cd in the playstation while playing a game. Like in twisted metal or vigilante 8 after a lvl would load you pause the game pop out the disc put in your music play the lvl end of lvl switch the disc back.
I personally LOVE the Gamecube menu and its music. Simple af but pleasant to experience. Nothing complicated. Nothing to figure out, and nothing intense. Have trouble sleeping? Turn your GameCube on and listen to the menu music all night 😂
The sega snail game is well documented and if it has been discovered years later, they need to get out more. That goes for the controllers being interchangeable between consoles too.
It is true that the Expansion Pak didn't fix the bug of Donkey Kong and only added memory, but it's also true that it was a solution to the bug; it was a memory leak and added memory would delay the inevitable crash.
The N64 Expansion Pak entry feels like someone whose only exposure to the thing was the one they got in their copy of DK64. The Expansion Pak was NOT released specifically for it or to simply to fix a bug in the game (which did exist, it was a memory overflow bug that exceeded the system's base amount of RAM and caused it to crash without additional memory, upping the RAM with the Expansion Pak was a bandaid for it) but was originally for the 64DD which required the additional memory to work. The devs at Iguana saw it while on a trip to visit NOJ and later begged Nintendo to release it as a separate accessory in the US. They went back and worked on a demo of Turok 2 that was designed for 8MB or RAM (versus the system's base of 4MB) to show them the potential it had, and they were so impressed they decided to release it separately, long before DK64 was released. From there it took off. And the capacity was no secret, either. It literally states on the box how much additional memory it added.
I remember the snail maze when I was a kid and my sisters and I used to enjoy it. Sadly the replacement Sega Master System my hubby got me (the original was permanently lost) doesn't seem to have it.
Amazingly Conker's Bad Fur Day on N64 did not need or utilize the ram expansion despite how advanced it was + being a late console release. It was also fully voice acted which was rare for cartridge games due to limited space.
Shoutout to Andrew for being a great editor.
Was literally just gonna say this
My thoughts exactly!
AND a great person
Fuck andrew
@@riyadh_reprise Imagine being named 'Gavin'.
When it comes to discovering secret features, it's better late than never
You are the new ray mak and justin y
hah early to a famous commenter
@@Ozzymandius1 how
@@sofacheeto844 yeah I know this guy he comments every single video
You are literally everywhere
Wow, thanks for the feature!
Huge fan here 😊
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Lol do you live up to your name?
@@iyeetsecurity922 Gross
Nice name
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I remember playing Perfect Dark on my N64 without an expansion pack, and then I finally got an expansion pack and it was like having a next gen console.
I got the 32x for my Sega and it didn't change much at all. Surprised to find out one of these things actually helped.
It depended on the game being played - only games made for expansion park actually benefited. I can see how some folks would wind up thinking it did nothing if they tried old games that had no benefit.
We see you Andrew. No more being hidden in the shadows xD
@Fuzzy Movieclips get a life you pesky bot!
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@Shatter The hell?
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Lol
I didn't know the expansion pack was a hidden feature. I thought it was almost a necessity. Certain games would have modes locked out entirely without one.
Majora's Mask required one lol
Yeah that one seemed like a weird inclusion. Nothing hidden or secret about it?
@@idoldevThat’s probably why they didn’t even mention anything about it other than it existed.
Like wut?
Cool… I guess?
@@freshstat1csnow Same with DK64
Starcraft 64's entire Brood War campaign was locked out without the expansion pack. Just to be clear, that's about half of the game.
Be careful using Genesis controllers on other consoles. Some consoles (i.e. Vectrex) use the same connector, but are wired differently. It is possible to short out the system using a Genesis controller.
⬆️ don't listen to him he's on drugs............also if you stick a knife into the wall electric socket you'll get a cash prize.
Came here to say this. Do not use an unmodified Genesis/Megadrive controller on a C64, it can damage your computer.
@@fuzzybad lol kióô⁸⁸⁰⁰⁰0§~~~∆∆~§~~
ig that's what they did back then to not use the competition's controller on different consoles lol.
They do, however, work perfectly with the Commodore Amiga. Same connector and same pin mapping.
I laughed so hard when Andrew was like m a person and my name's Andrew, u don't find such things everyday lmfao
Just seeing the Gamecube menu is making me feel nostalgic.
@Ayunk Ara wot?
Wot the fuck?
Me too
My age is showing, I felt nostalgic seeing the VIC-20 and Commodore 64...
90% of this video had me feeling nostalgic.
@@Nipplator99999999999 lol same i used sega controllers on mine fuck did it change the feel of gaming to me feel in love with using controllers for any game i could get to work even to this day, dam time flys ...
We love you Andrew! Props to all the editors out there!
Thank you ANDREW "THE NEW GUY"
Who’s that
@@notacat7127 his name
@@Wooldrog what he do?
@@notacat7127 he’s the editor for the videos
Forever the new guy xD
I think by tapping the Mario Theme rhythm you actually affect your Bowser history...
this comment has not received the recognition it deserves.
@@z3rotollranc3 Thanks!
Took me some time to get it
@@JonatasAdoM Ahahah! Hope you liked it.
I don’t get it
High five to the youtube editors out there. You guys don't get enough love :)
/highfive to Andrew
/another highfive to Andrew, good work you great person!
Another one!
You’re not getting a heart
10:47 - Ok, since I'm sure he doesn't get anywhere near the love he deserves, everyone needs to THANK ANDREW!
Dude falcon is rude as heck
😂
Just bought a 64 for the kids with No Mercy, Goldeneye, Mario Kart and WCW VS NWO Revenge...I can't believe how much they love it.
2:57 Best Datting Click 🔽
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說到食物，不要以為那些被拒絕的人只吃垃圾。相反，他們學會了在被忽視的肉類和蔬菜中尋找營養。他們學會了清潔，切塊，調味和慢燉慢燉的野菜和肉類，在食品市場上被忽略的部分家用蔬菜和肉類，並且學會了使用芳香的木煙（如山核桃，山核桃和豆科灌木
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@@mohdazlan3888 I've seen more convincing messages from Nigerian Princes
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@@someinterneter9372 they beat it on the 3ds.
Thank you Andrew for bringing us Falcon’s and the other’s work!
Who thé hell is Andrew?
@@diiii_mond editor
"The other's"??? He is a person and his name is Jake.
@@BlueYukiao there’s a third one too that appears from time to time, but don’t know his name. That’s why I didn’t want it to look bad by just naming two. Does give a bad interpretation smh
@@Raxaex Don't edit it. Feels like a nod to Falcon called Andrew editor.
I always loved the dreamcast, so glad it's getting a lot of love now. It was so good!
I just scored a Dreamcast on eBay.. it’ll be my first time owning that system
@@Cubbie410 how have you enjoyed it?
@@EikottXD I need to get a vmu and more games for it.. but I like it.. it just had so much potential. It’s cool I can burn my own games and play fan games too
@@Cubbie410 Its one of my favorite consoles now via emulation through my PS Classic mini. It has the best games! Omicron Nomad Soul, Headhunter, etc.. way ahead of it's time.
Press “F” to pay respects to Editor Andrew lol
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I played Snail Maze back in the days when I owned the original SMS for HOURS until I finally beat the game. It was brutal. If you didn't carry over enough extra time through the game, there is no way you can finish the last several stages. The last maze was just 2 spiral. But if you guessed wrong, you won't have enough time to back track and pick the correct path so you have to start from stage 1 all over again.
such a hard game to play lol I remember this but never got past the 2nd level
The save delete recovery thing isn't really a new discovery... I VERY distinctly recall my oldest brother showing me this feature back when I was in middle school, so like 99-2001 timeframe. He learned about it from a FAQ/Help article in an old issue of PSM Magazine. I have a VERY clear memory of seeing and using that feature on 2 occasions. I was from 10-12 years old.
I mean I didn't know about it and owned a ps1 for years so
Its because it was literally in some of the owners manuals. Mind you not all of them, but literally everyone of my friends that owned a ps1 knew about this.
I have my PS1 from before the dual shock era, and only learned this a year or two ago.
The biggest secret we’ve learned today is that there is a person names Andrew who is the editor for game ranks and does great work.
Wait, my name is Andrew. Is it me?
*gameranx
Man imagine all the stress rage and sadness that could have been avoided as kids if people knew they could regain the saves in a ps1
I deleted my save on legend of dragoon right at the transition to disc 4. Wish I knew there was a way to fix it.
@@GameTimeWhy Fellow LoD fan. I think if you browsed GameFaqs or similar sites back then at school..there was ways to undue these deletions. RIP your file, sorry that happened buddy, especially if you went out of your way to do all the sidequests :\
@@garybracket2355 yeah my brother and I did everything and then right before the transition to disc 4 we farmed levels for days during summer break. I felt so bad partly for me but partly for my brother. He was so excited.
Oh God, if I knew about that save recover from the ps1 back in the day...
It doesn’t work. Neither do any of the Xbox ones
5:30 I know our logo is in the background, I still would’ve appreciated a proper video credit in the corner like you did with other borrowed footage.
And you didn’t even link our video that you used. Kinda sucks dude.
I also went to look for a credit as soon as I saw your footage. Come on gameranx, some proper respect here.
Yea
Don’t Worry! Be Happy Video Game Nerd!
Love you man, sorry to hear dude
Did you already cry or you gonna wait and do it later ?
Ah yes,gameranx and falcon's voice,let's go
His voice is perfect for this line of work.
That first secret... Damn! You could've told me 20 years ago. 😭
The fact I never knew I could recover a lost save on my old ps1 makes me wanna headbutt a fucking cinderblock
I yelled an involuntary "are you fu@king kidding me" when that was mentioned myself...
I don't know how many years I've lost to the rage after accidentally deleting the file beside the one I wanted.
Well, most likely this feature isn't "good" enough to actually be usable with your ps1 console. it might have corrupted your save file when getting it back. or it would only work x % of the time. The devs knew it was a thing and chose not to give that information to the consumer, so i can imagine it didn't really work as intended. But i don't know, i'm just speculating here, since save file recovery is a pretty cool thing to have. So yeah, don't feel super bad about it.
@@christianrichters7922 yeah but it's like the survival rate for a surgery, I'll take any chance I can get...
maybe a bit melodramatic but you get my point. I still remember, when in a sleep zombie state, I deleted my Gran Turismo 100% (including the two 24hr endurance races) instead of copying it, after a marathon session. There were actual tears and quivering lip...
@@Nipplator99999999999 i felt that :(
The first one must have been found by someone raging after accidentally deleting
"Oh fuck! NOOOOO!!"
*panicked control pressing*
"Huh? It's back! A miracle from God!!!"
This unlocked a memory for me. When I was like 5, my mother accidentally erased some game's data from the memory card. I was upset but took it like a champ. I love my mom and she always played games with me. She probably wanted to copy the data to surprise me with an advanced save file. My parents liked to do that when they didn't want to wait for me to complete the level
That is cool!!
Thank you Andrew!
I suppose you are the person that gives Falcon his body and face too, so thank you for your work on i sadly don't know haw many episodes of Gameranx.
Imagine your boss coming up and being like "I need you to program a game, but only like 1/1,000,000 people will see it". XD
usually those types of hidden gems are programmed into the software without bosses knowing, mostly for fun
Shout out to Andrew! Good job, man!
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說到食物，不要以為那些被拒絕的人只吃垃圾。相反，他們學會了在被忽視的肉類和蔬菜中尋找營養。他們學會了清潔，切塊，調味和慢燉慢燉的野菜和肉類，在食品市場上被忽略的部分家用蔬菜和肉類，並且學會了使用芳香的木煙（如山核桃，山核桃和豆科灌木 來調味g食物煮的時候 1618964242
The recover deleted saves trick for the original PlayStation is actually printed in the Japanese manual. It was for some reason not included in English versions of the manual.
Thank you for your editing service, Andrew.
Is it a coincidence that Falcon sounds high(er) as a kite today?
Was going to comment about this. He does have these quirks to his narration, but he sounds especially drunk in this one xD
I wasn't sure if it was him sounding baked or just a projection of my own mental status for him...
I was going to say he either sounds drunk or high as fuck lol
@@LunarShuriken1 why not both
I was so concerned I was the only one who thought this. Took me a while to find this comment. Lol. I hope Falcon’s ok!
2 videos in 1 hour? Is this a dream in the Matrix?
I was also thinking about that
Factsssss
Seeing the old spyro brought such a feeling of nostalgia. We never had a ps1, but we had so many ps1 games we would play on our ps2. Man i miss those days...
You missed one for the N64, if you hold L+R+Start while its turning on that will reset the center of your thumb stick which was used to solve stick drift way back in the day. It's pretty sad we can't do this now with the Switch which still suffers from the same problem over time!
the stick calibration in the system settings on the Switch does the same exact thing, but JoyCons and the Pro controller use a different joystick technology than the N64 which is more compact and precise, at the cost of reliability and longevity. Unfortunately that means that just recentering the stick won't work, as the resistance readings of the potentiometers aren't consistently wrong, they jump around too much.
@@boomers_pb Compact and precise joysticks that are reliable do exist, they just cost an extra half a penny and Nintendo doesn't want them
4:40-4:50 you can't tell me this guy aint wasted. Numerous other examples in this video alone, working on gameranx must sure be fun
Man this video made me have a hankering for some snail maze action
Ages ago the PS1 save restore command was published in PSM. That was where I learned it. Also I remember when I got a Genesis as a kid and had an Atari 2600 that mostly went unused at that point thinking the controller plugs looked the same. Atari games got so much easier to control after that experiment.
Uh, was there more to #8 for the N64 RAM? There wasn't any secret about it in the video and it was just "hey, this added RAM and made N64 did things" like...what things?? lo
Also, I'm pretty sure I saw elsewhere that the DK bug thing was true, but the expansion pak didn't fix it, it just delayed it.
The bug was a memory leak that they weren't able to track down before release; without the pak, the game would crash relatively often, but with it, the game would have to play twice as long on average before crashing.
I remember a video somewhere detailing the Pak itself.
Yeah, the marketing for dk64 was something along the lines about the pack being required due to increased graphics, but in reality, it just delayed the game crashing due to the memory leak by multiple hours. rare fixed the memory leak in the game engine when working on one of the banjo games, and that's why they don't require the pack.
About the memory recovery function for PS1, it was actually listed on the Japanese manual, so the feature is knowed for the Japanese for years.
For some reason they remove the text from the manual for the international version. That's why English users only find it out recently.
I'm thinking "hey! I know this Dreamcast thing!" and there it was, Stop Skeletons From Fighting!! Awesome channel! Highly recommended!!
Hey sans and papyrus STOP FIGHTING!!!!!
10:01 the late dreamcast when everyone knew it was gonna die had a lot of interesting stuff. one of the developers for the dreamcast version of sonic jam left a note in the hex code explaining to pirates how to add different genesis roms.
“You’re in for some serious snail maze action” lol 😂
By the mid-1990s, most personal computers had between 2 and 64 megabytes of RAM (toward the latter if you did a lot of multitasking, toward the former if you mostly had an MS-DOS system). Kilobytes of RAM were more of an 80s thing.
Do NOT plug in your Genesis controller to a Commodore 64!! This will ruin it, and can potentially ruin other machines as well.
And why is the expansion pak bringing out the best of the N64 a secret console feature??
idk? everyone who played Majora's Mask, DK64, or Perfect Dark on N64 had one
My genesis controller worked fine on my c64 back in the day. It wasn't as good as my c64 controller though
Virtua tennis was such a good game, I miss the Dreamcast
The thumbnail is priceless.
This is such a great channel! thanks for continuing to pump out interesting stuff for me to watch while going to the bathroom or avoiding work duties!
the dreamcast really was under appreciated
gameranx using songs I've used years ago in videos makes me feel good in my choices
*chanting at fight club* his name is andrew the editor
his name is Andrew the editor
his name is Andrew the editor
His name is andrew the editor
His name is Andrew the editor
So Andrew is the reason I keep clicking on these.. thanks man, you rock ✊🏼
Memory Cards the bane of my back then Young Existence
Me wishing we could go back to them sweet days bringing memory cards over to friends but not remembering the pain that comes with it
Could be worse, you could have had the TurboGrafx-16 with the CD expansion like I did. It had a capacitive memory chip that would save a fixed number of files, and if you left it unplugged for long enough that the chip lost it's charge... >POOF!< Though it seemed to take years to fail. I had mine unplugged for quite some time and it retained everything. But after a few years everything finally faded.
thanks Andrew for the editing
hey Andrew, hope you're having a great day.
Knew about all of these back then. You are once again behind the curve.
The one that brings back deleted save feels like necromancy.
Meh, it's only the same thing as when you delete something on a PC. Even if you delete it from the Recycle Bin, which in theory means it's gone for good, it can still be recovered using special software.
"Deleting" a file usually means only removing it from the file table. The actual file data is still there, but is treated as free space and will get overwritten eventually. This is why the longer you wait to try to recover it the less likely it will be successful.
I know this isn't exactly the same thing, but we used the Microsoft flight simulator 2007 version to control the movement of the actual physical guns on the gunship. The AC-130U gunship. We were able to plug into the serial bus on the aircraft and control the hydraulics and aim the guns while on the ground. I always thought that must be some kind of security breech by Microsoft or something. Still though, kind of crazy
Hey Andrew, keep up the good work
Me and my two college roommates played FFVII on PS1... I had over 80 hours into my game. My roommate asked me to beat some thing for him and my muscle memory of saving my game hundreds of times had me overwrite my spot on memory card with his campaign. I felt sick for days after that. I wish I knew the first hack you mentioned back then.
Shoutout to Andrew. You tha MVP!
Last time I watched one of Gameranx’s videos was back when the Xbox One hack vid came out... it’s good to see you again old friends
Loved playing the little snail maze game on the SMS
I love seeing the game cube and dream cast start up screen after all these years.
The extra RAM in the N64 was also helpful in Turok. The fog to limit render distance made the game pretty claustrophobic (similar to Silent Hill), but wasn't so bad with the expansion pack.
Great video~ Definitely took me back.
Fun fact too with number one and the start up. If you hold Z on the gamecube controller and then hit the power button, it makes a different intro noise. xD
Yeah! You tell them, Andrew!
That trick with the memory card works for Computers as well. It just allows that data section to be writeable too, if nothing has written over that space you can recover it.
I'm pressing the shoulder buttons on my Playstation but everything is still in my recycle bin.
John glasscock : my time has come
That's a good last name ngl
knight of pie pie oh yeah
Thank you Andrew for editing!
Some of this "years later" were actually very known back then, at least here in Brazil.
- Hidden maze in Master System 1's bios? Check, it was even advertised on the console's box.
- Genesis' controller being compatible with other 9 pins? Check, I've played a lot of Atari 2600 with my Genesis controller (it made playing Decathlon so much easier...), used it with Master System and also some other computers.
- Dreamcast' s alternative bios with Puyo Puyo? Check. It was called "the last gift" back then.
- Xbox's shortcuts? Most of them are listed on the manual (the virtual / guide one).
I remember my dad purchasing DK64 when we went to the shopping centre on my 6th birthday, i was super excited for this game at the time and couldn't wait to get home to play it, the place that sold it at the time i think was gamestation here in the UK and i was met with pure shock and disappointment when the game wouldnt boot as it stated "expansion pack missing/required", turns out underneath the price sticker neatly placed in the top right corner the box states "Expansion pack included", this was a brand new retail game in which gamestation were *REMOVING* the expansion packs and selling the game for *FULL RETAIL!!* .
Needless to say my dad went straight back and kicked up a full storm in the store he was furious, and I was overwhelmed with joy when the manager handed me my brand new expansion pack.. happy days 😊
My cousin and I found out about that Sega controller thing with the Atari almost 20 years ago. Pretty cool controlling those games with a bit more ease.
My other cousin and I found out you can practically go God mode megaman 3 on the NES by having player 2 hold left on a joystick controller while player controls megaman. Don't know why that worked but you can't jump into a hole and not die, just jump back up.
I actually didn't know a single one of these and I'm old enough to remember all these systems. Great video guys!
My ex has a "cheating" feature I discovered years later.
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hilarious thing is i just watched john glasscock's video just before yours! been a fan for years love your content keep up the good work!
Thank you for all your work Andrew! You're the true star of Gameranx!
Shout-out Andrew, editors getting spicy 🤣🤣
That last fact was actually awesome. Along with everything else you guys do of course!
Am I the only one who had to pause on the Snail Maze screen and complete the maze? 2:25 is a good point for anyone who now feels the need to do so.
I can't tell which is more appealing:
Those facebook ad games, or SNAIL MAZE
I liked in playstation when you could play a music cd in the playstation while playing a game. Like in twisted metal or vigilante 8 after a lvl would load you pause the game pop out the disc put in your music play the lvl end of lvl switch the disc back.
Falcon, and the team around you are excellent. Coming from an old gamer this stuff is amazing.
Don't use your mega drive pad on a commodore. You will break the chip that manages the keyboard map.
I personally LOVE the Gamecube menu and its music. Simple af but pleasant to experience. Nothing complicated. Nothing to figure out, and nothing intense. Have trouble sleeping? Turn your GameCube on and listen to the menu music all night 😂
i love watching this channel when im bored or whatever
The sega snail game is well documented and if it has been discovered years later, they need to get out more. That goes for the controllers being interchangeable between consoles too.
The Sega 6 button controller is underrated. I loved that thing. The d-pad was so smooth.
Even the VIC 20 got a mention, my first computer.
This video bought back so many memories from childhood.
It is true that the Expansion Pak didn't fix the bug of Donkey Kong and only added memory, but it's also true that it was a solution to the bug; it was a memory leak and added memory would delay the inevitable crash.
The N64 Expansion Pak entry feels like someone whose only exposure to the thing was the one they got in their copy of DK64. The Expansion Pak was NOT released specifically for it or to simply to fix a bug in the game (which did exist, it was a memory overflow bug that exceeded the system's base amount of RAM and caused it to crash without additional memory, upping the RAM with the Expansion Pak was a bandaid for it) but was originally for the 64DD which required the additional memory to work. The devs at Iguana saw it while on a trip to visit NOJ and later begged Nintendo to release it as a separate accessory in the US. They went back and worked on a demo of Turok 2 that was designed for 8MB or RAM (versus the system's base of 4MB) to show them the potential it had, and they were so impressed they decided to release it separately, long before DK64 was released. From there it took off. And the capacity was no secret, either. It literally states on the box how much additional memory it added.
Andrew, you are loved and recognized 🥺❤️
I remember the snail maze when I was a kid and my sisters and I used to enjoy it. Sadly the replacement Sega Master System my hubby got me (the original was permanently lost) doesn't seem to have it.
That last secret was very impressive nice video !
Amazingly Conker's Bad Fur Day on N64 did not need or utilize the ram expansion despite how advanced it was + being a late console release. It was also fully voice acted which was rare for cartridge games due to limited space.
you are in for some serious snail actions really lured me into snail maze
Hello person that is named Andrew, your a great editor. Just wanted to let you know. Good day
Andrew you are awesome. Keep on making these videos great. You are the real MVP!
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