The General Leo myth was responsible for me getting a joke into Lunar Eternal Blue. Back in the early 90s Compuserve had a really great game devs forum, it was mostly fans that were active, but there were many developers that spent time on the forum interacting w fans, including Victor Ireland of Working Designs. There were also many threads debating the General Leo resurrection myth. The Lunar games had a really off the wall sense of humor, especially from random NPCs, I was a huge fan and so about a year before Lunar EB released I wrote a joke about General Leo comparing the myth to Elvis sighting rumors (I forget the exact wording), submitted it to Victor, never heard back from him on it. Then months later after I got Lunar Eternal Blue I was playing the game, made my way to Ghaleon's Secret Garden and one of the fairies makes a joke about General Leo being a "two-bit entertainer". My jaw hit the floor. I immediately ran to my pc, sent Victor a message asking him if that was really my joke (bc I couldnt believe it) and he replied saying that he "took fan suggestions very seriously." 24 years later I still can't believe it.
That's really cool, though not surprising. Working Designs really was a great company and took the time to make the games relevant to Western audiences in terms of jokes. I mean, name another game where there is a reference to Clinton? I really miss that company. Lunar isn't the same without them. I think I'll go start a new game in Lunar 2 now.
You can glitch to getting general leo in in ff3 on snes gametrailer had a show called pop fiction you can use his moveset and everything th-cam.com/video/6K8QyzlE_bI/w-d-xo.html
@@mahaffer71 That was orginally from a SSLP on the Something Awful LP forum. You can view it here: lparchive.org/Breaking-Final-Fantasy-VI/ Turns out its almost as unstable as Bethesda Game Studios title.
The Sheng Long rumor actually inspired the creation of Akuma because when Akuma appears in Super Turbo he pops in the same way Sheng Long is supposed to and Shun Goku Satsus Bison before making you fight him.
rebuz87 Sheng long was a mistranslating of shoryuken but Capcom was inspired by the rumor that came from it and made Akuma, Goken was just them once again making a reference to the hoax. As stated one of his quote mentions it directly
one day I was playing Metal Warriors with my friend and we had the habit of randomly mashing buttons "to find cheats" and we unlocked a secret option on the title screen that lead to a new head-to-head mode! WE SHAT BRICKS MAN
I think it's curious how we ended up with the same rumors in different countries. I'm from Central America, and we got the exact same Mortal Kombat schoolyard talks over here!!!
come on "naked token female character cheat" how many brain cells do you need to being psychologically coerced into pretending you have any social relevance. it prolly existed in every country. i think i once made up that i had a proof that doom exploding barrels (which we were naively wondering about) were just a waste of ammo, which is nonsense, and i dont know why i even said it.
Naked sonya, 3d mario, playable reptile in mk1. Damn near no one had internet but every kid in the u.s. was having the exact same conversation on the playground. I grew up in Fort Drum NY and am in awe of the fact that I'm hearing these myths as an adult from someone that definitely didn't. Core consciousness must be a real thing!
I’ll always remember the Mario kart 64 one that if you hit every mole on the farm then you unlock him as a character.....a weekend wasted proved to me it was a lie 😡😂
Matthew Overcash that’s not the raiders. That’s the patriots #1 rule. And as Eric Cartman says. Their #2 rule is if you get caught just say I misinterpreted the rules
A big SNES rumor for me was the existence of Schala in Chrono Trigger. I remember that I had a Game Players magazine with the "Ultra 64" on the cover circa 1995, and a snippet pertaining to Chrono Trigger made mention of Schala. Where it said something to the effect of "Not even Squaresoft knows if you can actually find Schala". I spent hours scouring the time periods seeing if she would ever show up but nada. I don't know where they got that from or if any other publications made a similar claim, but it was confirmed to not be true.
After she is "swallowed" by Lavos. She disappears from the game. There were rumors that you could find her in different time periods, but she doesn't appear again, until Chrono Cross.
... I love how Capcom themselves seemingly drew from the Sheng Long rumors with Gouken in SF4. He looks just like the old mockups (but buffer and more badass) and I mean, he IS that same character.
@@drunkensailor112 yup, keep getting perfects and going to reptile, it's random because sometimes you start on a different stage and you have to get the pit twice and get reptiles to trigger both times, AND then it's random which character is glitched zombie.... Oh and then lastly they have to do a fatality... But I replicated it a few times really just chance,
The zombie Sonya fatality does half a roundhouse kick stops mid animation and green fire comes out like a fart, basically it's scorpions fatality with green, but the fact that it's her roundhouse kick animation making it look like out her ass was great at 12yr old 😂, kinda still is.... Only on Genesis version too
Ever since I discovered this channel I never miss an episode, thanks to you I now know many good games I never heard of before like "Front Mission: Gun Hazard" and "Bahamut Lagoon" just to mention a couple of games I've been enjoying ever since I tried them after watching them on one of your videos. I just wanna thank you for sharing these videos and like you say I hope you have a great rest of your day SNESdrunk :)
I remember one when I was very young about a toilet level in Ski Free. The legend went - if you can outrun the abominable snowman all the way back to the start and let him eat you he will poo you into a playable level taking place in a toilet bowl. I've never heard the rumor anywhere else, and obviously it's not real. But I wish it was.
I also remembering hearing stories like this about ski free back in the day but I can’t remember exactly what they were. Same general idea though, escape the yeti and something crazy will happen
The Mortal Kombat blood myth I always remember wasn't a code, but rather Toys-R-Us ads which had the box art mis-colored, where the dragon's "eye" was dark red, instead of yellow-orange-ish, and didn't have the "Competitor Edition" stamp in the corner. I remember this started the rumor that if there was a special Toys-R-Us edition that was uncensored. Funnily enough, whenever my brother and I actually went to Toys-R-Us, we never managed to spot this mystery edition with the red-eyed dragon, though...
@@chedarmentosbrown5922 Interesting. I'd assumed for the longest time it was a misprint (or possibly even intentionally, to actually start that rumor and get more people to buy the game at their store), but the red-eyed MK dragon was a thing in Canada. Today I learned. I assume, though, that the contents of the Canadian cart were the same, and the rumor that went around my middle school of it being a special "uncensored" edition of the game was still purely myth?
Ivan Ironman Stewart's Super Off-Road was the first game I ever saw where the computer blatantly cheated. If you got too far ahead, one of the other trucks would suddenly double in speed and start playing perfectly, so if you did too well, you would almost automatically fail.
@@CreepyUncleIdjit Do you know how boring racing games would be without rubber banding? Play any racing game that doesn't have it and they're just not exciting.
The computer also cheats in Super Baseball 2020. They can jump up and catch pop flies, especially when they would result in a home run, because they're able to jump when their characters aren't on the screen. Human players, meanwhile, can't trigger their characters to jump if they're off-screen, making such catches impossible because by time your jump reaches the height necessary to catch the ball, it's already passed over your head. Also in every single fighting game ever made, because they don't need to do button inputs for special moves. It's bullshit when you're fighting M. Bison, and he suddenly fires a Psycho Crusher from walking forward.
I thought you might mention that when Ryu/Ken's master (Gouken) DOES finally appear as a playable character in SF4, he actually DOES strangely resemble the old EGM hoax versions quite a bit. Nice touch Capcom!
I recall a stupid rumor about Mortal Kombat 3 having a "Nude-ality" specifically for Sheeva on the Genesis. Why that specifically? I have no idea. I also recall rumors about Super Mario 3 in regards to beating it so many times would give you all Hammer Man items (much like you get all P/Power wings after beating it once). Only other rumors were things that didn't matter such as people having or beating game "x" or having the high score; but they could never prove it.
There was a long running rumour of a nudity cheat for Tomb Raider. I once saw a action replay code for it for tomb raider 3 in a magazine and it took up the whole page and spilled into the next page, and me and my sister spent all day typing it in, but it never worked. Only years later did I realise that must have been the April edition of that magazine. I think it was Powerstation magazine
Well, Sheeva does have the skin-rip fatality... So technically she *does* have a "nude-ality", it's just on someone else, and more nude than you're probably looking for. I remember Orchid in Killer Instinct really does have a finisher where she flashes the opponent. The rumor around my school was that if you did the finisher in a certain way she'd turn around to show the camera after.
Already love your videos, but I super appreciate the spoiler alerts. FF6 is one of my favourite games and I would hate to have anyone get that experience ruined
A kid I knew at school tried to convince me you could add Luigi to your party in Mario RPG. It definately seemed real at the time. Also a few years later I remember delving in to rumors i saw on the (then new to me) internet regarding the existence of the Light Temple in Ocarina of Time, people online said you could find it somewhere in Lon Lon Ranch
I had a Master System when it was current. One day, I turned it on accidentally without a game in it. No big deal. I mashed some buttons on the controller and accidentally found the secret Snail Maze game built in. No one would have believed me, if there was anyone to tell, since no one had a Master System. I remember Reptile appearing once for me in the arcade with one of his hints. I don't think anyone believed me when I told them. I played that game a ton in the arcade and only ever saw him once. My favorite myths of the SNES is that everything is mode 7. For example, the foot soldiers in Turtles in Time tossed at the screen. It's not mode 7, despite so many claims that it is. It's not even scaling. It's fake scaling. And the effect is still great. Plenty of games cheat. I've played beat-em-ups where the collision detection would consistently turn off in a certain context to give bosses an extra advantage. And in Street Fighter 2(and probably other fighters), the game is programmed with CPU logic that uses your button inputs against you. When you fight the CPU, many times, you will notice that when you hit the button for an attack, the CPU will attack you at that moment with an attack that has priority. That's because the game is using your button press as the trigger for the move by the CPU. It's consistent and repeatable. To beat the CPU, you have to exploit its routines. It totally cheats.
Love the last one. I knew the AI cheats. Many a games I've played after all where the AI just simply go " _Nope, you're not winning._ " x3 I mean, I have a video on my channel from MK1 on Snes that I slowed down heavily just to show that that the AI grabs me out of a move right before it hits. The video is titled " _Mortal Kombat - The AI is a bloody cheater!_ " I got one that I still have no idea how I managed to do, but it was on the PS1 version of Mega Man X3 ( _JP version borrowed of a classmate_ ). On the reploid select screen, I had just been dying over and over to every single one, so I was frustrated and just started mashing the directional key to pick someone at random. And as I hit the button, the icon ended up at the bottom, between the reploids where the Doppler Stages pop up, and I had somehow managed to access the Doppler Stage 1 simply by mashing the directional key. Naturally, the stage completely destroyed me but, that was a funny glitch I encountered. Then just by playing GTA on PS1 for an extended period of time, one can encounter all sort of weird glitches in the game. Like a ghost police car that drives through you and vanishes because it was never actually _there_ according to the game.
Talking about interesting glitches we personally experience reminds me, one time while playing Shining in the Darkness (a Genesis dungeon crawler), I defeated a monster and leveled up. And then leveled up again. And again. I decided to see where this would go instead of resetting the game and after a few minutes of mashing through dialogue boxes I reached the natural conclusion of this bug: I had jumped from level 10-something to 99 in a single battle! Unfortunately this was before I got my other party members, so they still joined at level 1.
Yep AI cheats. I had one related to the Sheng Long fake, trying to beat SF2:SCE on the hardest difficulty first without losing a round (with no Sheng Long showing up) and then trying to win each round with a perfect, I'd inevitably face a super difficult Sagat who would just level me in one of the rounds. I'd be so pissed off that I would just wreck him afterwards. He put up such resistance the first time around only to be a pushover the next. 😠
My favorite EGM April Fool's was the one from...I'm gonna say April of '91 (it's been a while). In TMNT 2: The Arcade Game on NES, there was an absolutely impossible code to enter on the title screen that would allow you to play as Simon Belmont. The fact that it was impossible didn't stop me from trying feverishly to train my fingers to input it fast. The EGM article asked you to try it several times then read the name of the person who sent it in. The name was "A.P. Rilphuuls" and he was from "Fromegem, HA". That blew my mind for years until I finally understood it. Yep, got me there.
at our school the biggest myth was being able to play as the bosses when SF2 WW came out. people were saying you had to beat everyone perfect lol. the game genie then came out but the boss code was pretty horrible.
In reference to the Mortal Kombat "blood code" over here in the UK the magazine NMS actually published an april fool's joke for it, one part of it actually involved taping a coin to the front of the cartridge. Was funny I had a friend at the time who claimed he got it working... although that same friend also claimed he had an Ultra 64 and Killer Instinct as well as a PlayStation and Saturn converter for it that was in 1995 so he was obviously good at doing the impossible.
Most of the codes that appear in this video actually work so do not let SNES Drunk tell you otherwise. For any of these secret codes to work just remember that: you must be facing away from the screen, you must wear a green shirt, it must be Thursday, remember that your socks should not combine because otherwise the trick will not work. If you did it correctly you will hear the laughter of some relative of yours. Now you can play with Shen Long and save General Leo but shhhh! keep this secret between us.
It is actually possible to get General Leo back in your party through a very complex glitch. You essentially retrigger an event that puts Banon in your party but the game puts Leo there instead due to story flags. You can’t get him into Kefka’s Tower and its not official at all, but its not completely impossible. Look up the Airship Glitch.
Ohhh boy, how long before the comment thread gets filled with "use the early airship glitch to sequence break the game" comments telling him he missed the General Leo glitch stuff?
Came here to say this. Kotaku did a great article on this glitch back in 2012. Another interesting glitch of note is a variation of the '64 doors' glitch from FFIV. If you should die 64 times following some very specific circumstances you can trigger the end sequence of the game. This glitch has made it possible to easily "beat" the game in under two hours even if you're not a speedrunner. kotaku.com/how-to-break-final-fantasy-vi-5924518 Former FF6 Any% World Record (50:39): th-cam.com/video/kfAiWrZK9V8/w-d-xo.html
The design of Sheng Long from EGM's Street Fighter III preview would later become the inspiration for both Akuma and Gouken. Sheng Long later appeared as a playable character in Street Fighter IV.
Shen Long (or Gouken) appeared also in comic books in the 90's sometimes like and "old dude with ryu's appearance" other times with a Gen's (SF, SF Alpha) similar design.
Another rumor for me as a kid that sounded too good to be true. I was told that in the arcade version of Street Fighter 2 (maybe even the turbo version) if you played as Guile and were able to do 25 flash kicks in a battle, Guile would be able to pull out a service pistol and be able to fire 2 shots.
Anybody every have Sub-Zero continuously throw your character from half a screen length away in Mk1? It happened to me a couple different times, when using Scorpion. I'd continue, same thing over and over until I'd just have restart. Most blatant cpu cheating I've ever seen.
I'm really enjoying your videos mate! They're just the right duration for when I just wanna get educated with some interesting nostalgic facts while enjoying a cheeky gatorade sax at home after a busy day :) Those other 20+ minute vids I see around feel like too much of a commitment at times.. :P
The stuff about Leo reminds me of rumors about Aeris being revived by collecting "All 35 of the 1/35 Soldiers and combine it with a tissue and a super sweeper" or some horse shit lol
There were dozens of Aeris resurrection myths back in the day. The internet was established enough to spread the rumors, but not established enough to check stuff for easy debunking. The one I heard most often was "win 777 battles".
Never really spent a lot of time trying to "revive" Leo... However I spent hours and hours trying to win the Robotic Imp or Airship piece. I was much younger then.
A friend told me not to get too attached to her (it was my 1st rpg, I didnt grind much, so I needed her heavens opening with angels limit break a lot), but didnt say why. Since then, I've always ignored her. Far as I'm concerned, she can stay dead (she also took all my good accessories and materia to the grave)! I'll keep trying to get the date with barrett, since I'm terrible at tifas limit break roulettes.
You actually can! For like a 1/10th of a second. Visiting the Sector Slum church on Disc 4 will momentarily display Aerith and promptly disappear. Probably an unintended bug (and I’m not sure if it works on all versions), but it does happen (confirmed on the original PC port).
The rumor at my school was; Theres one final sword upgrade in link to the past, the platinum sword.. I can't for the life of me remember what supposedly unlocked it
i watched a video awhile back cant remember who, what or where it was, but they were running an emulator and cheating the crap out of it. 4 sword upgrades psssh they had 20 and one shot ganon they thought they broke the game it was awesome
In the arcade version of MK1 when you fight Reptile in the pit his name still says Scorpion. They clearly updated it to say Reptile for the 16-bit ports.
Fun video. We had those rumors about defeating Vile in Megaman X over here in Europe as well. I guess invincible enemies just lend themselves to such rumors. But imagine my surprise when I found out that you could actually win the first battle against Gades in Lufia 2! Back then we had no internet and gaming magazines in my country had not written about this yet. It really felt as if I had broken the game.
I vividly remember back at the time that Chrono Trigger was new, there were rumors floating around on some message boards that it was possible to unlock Janus as a party member. Yes, Janus, the little boy from the Kingdom of Zeal. So weird. Anyway, I'd love to hear more about that in one of these videos :)
I always thought it was funny when my brother or my friends would be doing bad at a game, and when i told the to do something or use something, they'd be like: they won't let me!! Like who's they? LoL
There's an equivalent trick in Mega Man X2 to unlock the Shoryuken. You need every single upgrade, head to the third X-hunter stage, pass a narrow passage way of spikes(I'd recommend a charged speed burner and air dash), slide down the left wall, and FINALLY find the room with a Doctor Light capsule. Dr. Light says "I'm not worthy!" and gives you the Shoryuken move. I'm not kidding.
Awesome, awesome episode man. Didn't know Hagane WASN'T a Blockbuster exclusive. That means there's still hope.... for now I'll cherish my reproduction.
My friend I have something for you, the General Leo rom hack rewrites the story in places and replaces Shadow with Leo. Shadow is temporary early on but later in the game Leo joins your party where you would think he would, he even has his own Ruined World story. it throws out Shadow but its worth it.
Whenever you can , and if you can you should make a video about all the Mario bros game ... maybe ranking them and looking into the secret star world in Super Mario World , or the flutes in Super Mario 3 or even the Super Mario all stars game ( love that game) ... just a suggestion I know you guys have lives and what not .. LOVE LOVE the content man! Keep it up
Megaman haduken: all upgrades + all hearts + all tanks full. Make the jump to that top part, but you can exit the stage through the menu. Repeat and on the fifth time you get the haduken. No need to die
When I was in high school, I told my best friend that if you beat Star Fox 64 three times without turning off the system, you could unlock a super boss after Andross. We took a trip to Disney with the band that year. He stayed up all night trying it. When it didn't work around dawn, he started shaking the bed and yelling at me. "I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT FOR THIS!!!" Almost 20 years later and it's still hilarious. We still joke about it.
Dude what on earth, just looked it up and they are both 99 ranked in Madden 95, they didn't enter the NFL till 96 so was this some kind of promotion they had with Madden??
I live and grew up in Alaska and I've always wondered how these rumors were so widespread back in the day. We had the exact same General Leo/FF6 rumor up here and it's not like we had internet yet.
Mana the General Leo things. That brings back sooo many memories. Like 5 of us were all talking about the ways we heard and did each and every one of them. Same with the Aerith resurrection methods. Or Zack unlocks. You missed the Reptile fight with the witch across the moon.
I can confirm the Johnny Cage fatality glitch in the arcade version of Mortal Kombat. I can also confirm that Guile in the SNES version of Street Fighter 2 could throw 2 sonic booms in a row. He literally says “Sonic Sonic Boom” and throws two.
Great video! One myth that I heard about when I was a kid involved battling the slot machine in Starfox. It was rumored that if you didn't attack the slot machine (which is accessed through the asteroid belt), it would get frustrated and would subtitle "You are not worthy for Andross" and would send you back to the beginning of the belt. It was rumored that you would have to ignore the slot machine for nearly an hour for this event to be put into motion. I've never done any extensive research on this, nor have I decided to invest an hour to try to find out. I'd rather use that hour to play super metroid, FF6, Chrono Trigger, DKC2, etc...but I've always wondered if it was true.
I remember the infamous Broken Antenna and Gutsy Bat in Earthbound. Everyone who bought the game brand new got a player's guide for free, so we all had it in Elementary School. The guide listed Jeff's ultimate weapon as the Gaia Beam and said you needed to fix the Broken Antenna to get it, but the guide left out how to get the Broken Antenna. The guide also said you could get the Gutsy Bat from the Kraken in Ness's dreamworld and had a special section on it and everything, making it seem official. Both weapons were myths to us because nobody ever got them. Some of us spent hours trying to get the Gutsy Bat from the Kraken and some people lied saying they got it. I do not think anyone ever claimed to have found the Broken Antenna. I did not learn until later after High School that both weapons were in the game after all. The Broken Antenna is a 1/128 drop from a monster in the 7th Sanctuary (that the guide neglected to mention even existed) and the Gutsy Bat is a 1/128 from the Bionic Kraken just before the Giygas fight, not the Sea of Eden Kraken.
The General Leo thing always bugged me, and I'd heard the rumors from somewhere. Glad to know I'm not crazy, but I did not know you could save Cid!!! Brilliant! I think it was EGM that put out an April Fool's joke article that talked about unlocking Akuma in Resident Evil 2? But he would be named Tofu? It drove me wild for years until my dad asked what month that issue was from and I put it together.
I remember back in grade school that a friend of mine told me he could actually turn Liu Kang into a dragon in the first Mortal Kombat game by pressing down forward back back High Kick when he won and bite the opponent's body off. I try this several times in multiple versions of MK1 and it never work that is until I realize he actually meant Liu Kang in MKII and not MK1.
I've saved Cid before, but I usually just end up killing him because it can take way too long for the good fish to keep appearing, and the scene with Celes when he dies just has so much more emotional impact.
I remember one about continually hopping on a koopa troopa descending some steps to get dozens of extra lives in Super Mario. Wasted so much time trying to get it work . . . . until it did.
Cursed Ring to Paladin Ring has some truth to it because of the Cursed Shield to Paladin Shield, but no. Cursed Ring does teach Banish though at a 5x rate so it does have some use. Combine it with Lich Ring to make the wearer undead and you'll auto-revive when the Doom timer runs out.
The General Leo myth was responsible for me getting a joke into Lunar Eternal Blue. Back in the early 90s Compuserve had a really great game devs forum, it was mostly fans that were active, but there were many developers that spent time on the forum interacting w fans, including Victor Ireland of Working Designs. There were also many threads debating the General Leo resurrection myth. The Lunar games had a really off the wall sense of humor, especially from random NPCs, I was a huge fan and so about a year before Lunar EB released I wrote a joke about General Leo comparing the myth to Elvis sighting rumors (I forget the exact wording), submitted it to Victor, never heard back from him on it. Then months later after I got Lunar Eternal Blue I was playing the game, made my way to Ghaleon's Secret Garden and one of the fairies makes a joke about General Leo being a "two-bit entertainer". My jaw hit the floor. I immediately ran to my pc, sent Victor a message asking him if that was really my joke (bc I couldnt believe it) and he replied saying that he "took fan suggestions very seriously." 24 years later I still can't believe it.
That's an awesome story, dude. Lol Elvis, fucking two-bit entertainer.
thats pretty cool - Huge fan of FF3 (6) and Lunar also ^_^
That's really cool, though not surprising. Working Designs really was a great company and took the time to make the games relevant to Western audiences in terms of jokes. I mean, name another game where there is a reference to Clinton? I really miss that company. Lunar isn't the same without them. I think I'll go start a new game in Lunar 2 now.
You can glitch to getting general leo in in ff3 on snes gametrailer had a show called pop fiction you can use his moveset and everything th-cam.com/video/6K8QyzlE_bI/w-d-xo.html
@@mahaffer71 That was orginally from a SSLP on the Something Awful LP forum. You can view it here: lparchive.org/Breaking-Final-Fantasy-VI/ Turns out its almost as unstable as Bethesda Game Studios title.
You should add that "Sheng Long" DID make it into street fighter 4 as "Goken" and one of his win quotes is "You must defeat ME to stand a chance".
yeah, but I'm pretty sure Gouken was always canon if you ever see any of the manga/comics. "sheng Long" is definitely a translation error.
The Sheng Long rumor actually inspired the creation of Akuma because when Akuma appears in Super Turbo he pops in the same way Sheng Long is supposed to and Shun Goku Satsus Bison before making you fight him.
@@Anomaly188 yup Goki, and then later Goken. His brother and the master of Ken and Ryu
rebuz87 Sheng long was a mistranslating of shoryuken but Capcom was inspired by the rumor that came from it and made Akuma, Goken was just them once again making a reference to the hoax. As stated one of his quote mentions it directly
Its interesting to note that Gouken looks like the Shen Long they made up
You can play as Ryu in Mortal Kombat if you beat Goro with double flawless victories using Luigi. I've done it like 6 times.
Yeah but only if u don’t use nipple magic in the final fight!
@@Ramjet164 OBVIOUSLY THERE'S NO NIPPLE MAGIC NOOB!......... you're thinking of punch out
You forgot to mention how you need to use the Sega Genesis 6 button controller for this to work.
@@jonathanmarois9009 you mean the 14 button controller? Obvs... and when it says "finish her!" You have to press triangle 37 times.
6 times? you mean 60
That Shen Long April Fool's joke is still the best one yet. I miss 90s sometimes.
I miss the 90s all the time.
one day I was playing Metal Warriors with my friend and we had the habit of randomly mashing buttons "to find cheats" and we unlocked a secret option on the title screen that lead to a new head-to-head mode! WE SHAT BRICKS MAN
Metal Warriors!! I love that game. No one talks about it!
I think it's curious how we ended up with the same rumors in different countries. I'm from Central America, and we got the exact same Mortal Kombat schoolyard talks over here!!!
come on "naked token female character cheat" how many brain cells do you need to being psychologically coerced into pretending you have any social relevance. it prolly existed in every country. i think i once made up that i had a proof that doom exploding barrels (which we were naively wondering about) were just a waste of ammo, which is nonsense, and i dont know why i even said it.
Naked sonya, 3d mario, playable reptile in mk1. Damn near no one had internet but every kid in the u.s. was having the exact same conversation on the playground. I grew up in Fort Drum NY and am in awe of the fact that I'm hearing these myths as an adult from someone that definitely didn't. Core consciousness must be a real thing!
Unlocking Luigi in Super Mario 64 was a fun one. Or the truck from Pokémon Red/Blue
I actually saved Cid (by accident) on my first playthrough. Imagine my confusion when people kept mentioning the Celes scene that I never saw.
Me too. I just thought he liked fish, then after a while, he got out of bed.
That Celes scene was the darkest point in the whole franchise to this date, imo
I’ll always remember the Mario kart 64 one that if you hit every mole on the farm then you unlock him as a character.....a weekend wasted proved to me it was a lie 😡😂
N64 Glenn Plant Most of my life has been wasted in that pursuit. Now I take the shambles that remain and move on.
A weekend invested.. for science!
Los Angeles calls Oakland "Hey Al, what was Raider Rule #1 again?" "Cheating is encouraged."
Matthew Overcash that’s not the raiders. That’s the patriots #1 rule. And as Eric Cartman says. Their #2 rule is if you get caught just say I misinterpreted the rules
I hope YOU have a great rest of YOUR day SNES Drunk.
Here's to a great rest of his many days. And yours as well.
@@cormano64 And to yours!
Hail Hydra!
I actually really like when he says that because it feels like 90's cheese but he is being genuine about it
all for me? jeez, thanks, little pushy today, are we?
EA games cheating? No no, that can't be right, I call Miamis on it.
A big SNES rumor for me was the existence of Schala in Chrono Trigger. I remember that I had a Game Players magazine with the "Ultra 64" on the cover circa 1995, and a snippet pertaining to Chrono Trigger made mention of Schala. Where it said something to the effect of "Not even Squaresoft knows if you can actually find Schala". I spent hours scouring the time periods seeing if she would ever show up but nada. I don't know where they got that from or if any other publications made a similar claim, but it was confirmed to not be true.
After she is "swallowed" by Lavos. She disappears from the game. There were rumors that you could find her in different time periods, but she doesn't appear again, until Chrono Cross.
For me it was a rumor Melchior could give you a rainbow sword in chrono trigger.
@@kevingeorge5159 thats not a rumor
I remember falling for a lot of these, I was so desperate for more CT content that I tried any and every rumour to no avail
Tvtropes used to call its "Urban Legend of Zelda" category "Schala Lives" in reference to that rumour.
... I love how Capcom themselves seemingly drew from the Sheng Long rumors with Gouken in SF4. He looks just like the old mockups (but buffer and more badass) and I mean, he IS that same character.
They created Akuma first based on the rumor. Gouken came later after years of comics and manga.
At the very least, the Sheng Long hoax did eventually lead to Gouken being playable in Street Fighter IV.
If you beat Bison using Zangief with a double perfect in less that 10 seconds in each round, you can play as the shark in Jaws on the NES.
Haha still remember the naked Sonya rumours 😆
They're is a zombie Sonya
@@bennett420316 what the fuck is they're?
@@drunkensailor112 yup, keep getting perfects and going to reptile, it's random because sometimes you start on a different stage and you have to get the pit twice and get reptiles to trigger both times, AND then it's random which character is glitched zombie.... Oh and then lastly they have to do a fatality... But I replicated it a few times really just chance,
The zombie Sonya fatality does half a roundhouse kick stops mid animation and green fire comes out like a fart, basically it's scorpions fatality with green, but the fact that it's her roundhouse kick animation making it look like out her ass was great at 12yr old 😂, kinda still is.... Only on Genesis version too
Ever since I discovered this channel I never miss an episode, thanks to you I now know many good games I never heard of before like "Front Mission: Gun Hazard" and "Bahamut Lagoon" just to mention a couple of games I've been enjoying ever since I tried them after watching them on one of your videos. I just wanna thank you for sharing these videos and like you say I hope you have a great rest of your day SNESdrunk :)
Found your channel a couple days ago great videos man
I remember one when I was very young about a toilet level in Ski Free. The legend went - if you can outrun the abominable snowman all the way back to the start and let him eat you he will poo you into a playable level taking place in a toilet bowl. I've never heard the rumor anywhere else, and obviously it's not real. But I wish it was.
I also remembering hearing stories like this about ski free back in the day but I can’t remember exactly what they were. Same general idea though, escape the yeti and something crazy will happen
the mortal kombat blood code caused lots of controversy on the school yard......hard times.......
Don't forget the classic fight: which version of MK2 is better, SNES or Genesis mega drive?
The Mortal Kombat blood myth I always remember wasn't a code, but rather Toys-R-Us ads which had the box art mis-colored, where the dragon's "eye" was dark red, instead of yellow-orange-ish, and didn't have the "Competitor Edition" stamp in the corner. I remember this started the rumor that if there was a special Toys-R-Us edition that was uncensored. Funnily enough, whenever my brother and I actually went to Toys-R-Us, we never managed to spot this mystery edition with the red-eyed dragon, though...
@@IWasCaptainPanda That's the Canadian version.
@@chedarmentosbrown5922 Interesting. I'd assumed for the longest time it was a misprint (or possibly even intentionally, to actually start that rumor and get more people to buy the game at their store), but the red-eyed MK dragon was a thing in Canada. Today I learned.
I assume, though, that the contents of the Canadian cart were the same, and the rumor that went around my middle school of it being a special "uncensored" edition of the game was still purely myth?
Renebean so many kids said it was real and they did it. Spent hours trying to make it work. Liars lol
Oh, the computer absolutely does cheat. Especially in Mario Kart 64.
Ivan Ironman Stewart's Super Off-Road was the first game I ever saw where the computer blatantly cheated. If you got too far ahead, one of the other trucks would suddenly double in speed and start playing perfectly, so if you did too well, you would almost automatically fail.
@@zordran3843 Or the one car in rc pro-am coming from a half lap behind and blowing right by you 🤨
@@CreepyUncleIdjit Do you know how boring racing games would be without rubber banding? Play any racing game that doesn't have it and they're just not exciting.
The computer also cheats in Super Baseball 2020. They can jump up and catch pop flies, especially when they would result in a home run, because they're able to jump when their characters aren't on the screen. Human players, meanwhile, can't trigger their characters to jump if they're off-screen, making such catches impossible because by time your jump reaches the height necessary to catch the ball, it's already passed over your head.
Also in every single fighting game ever made, because they don't need to do button inputs for special moves. It's bullshit when you're fighting M. Bison, and he suddenly fires a Psycho Crusher from walking forward.
@@3800scgp RC Pro-Am definitely cheated.
NBA Jam Tournament Edition had a ton of rumored characters. Some accurate, some not.
Clintons and Kennedys. Kennedy obviously not a thing.
Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Reptile & Raiden were unlockable in the arcade version
I thought you might mention that when Ryu/Ken's master (Gouken) DOES finally appear as a playable character in SF4, he actually DOES strangely resemble the old EGM hoax versions quite a bit. Nice touch Capcom!
I recall a stupid rumor about Mortal Kombat 3 having a "Nude-ality" specifically for Sheeva on the Genesis. Why that specifically? I have no idea. I also recall rumors about Super Mario 3 in regards to beating it so many times would give you all Hammer Man items (much like you get all P/Power wings after beating it once).
Only other rumors were things that didn't matter such as people having or beating game "x" or having the high score; but they could never prove it.
I heard that one too.
Same, but for Baraka
There was a long running rumour of a nudity cheat for Tomb Raider. I once saw a action replay code for it for tomb raider 3 in a magazine and it took up the whole page and spilled into the next page, and me and my sister spent all day typing it in, but it never worked. Only years later did I realise that must have been the April edition of that magazine. I think it was Powerstation magazine
Well, Sheeva does have the skin-rip fatality... So technically she *does* have a "nude-ality", it's just on someone else, and more nude than you're probably looking for.
I remember Orchid in Killer Instinct really does have a finisher where she flashes the opponent. The rumor around my school was that if you did the finisher in a certain way she'd turn around to show the camera after.
I think I vaguely remember that
Already love your videos, but I super appreciate the spoiler alerts. FF6 is one of my favourite games and I would hate to have anyone get that experience ruined
About the cid Easter eggs,i dunno it was one ,i get cid alive and he stuck in the island like it wasn't supposed to happen
A kid I knew at school tried to convince me you could add Luigi to your party in Mario RPG. It definately seemed real at the time.
Also a few years later I remember delving in to rumors i saw on the (then new to me) internet regarding the existence of the Light Temple in Ocarina of Time, people online said you could find it somewhere in Lon Lon Ranch
That last segment is hilarious. It’s what Chris Smoove would call the CPU Cheese.
I had a Master System when it was current. One day, I turned it on accidentally without a game in it. No big deal. I mashed some buttons on the controller and accidentally found the secret Snail Maze game built in. No one would have believed me, if there was anyone to tell, since no one had a Master System.
I remember Reptile appearing once for me in the arcade with one of his hints. I don't think anyone believed me when I told them. I played that game a ton in the arcade and only ever saw him once.
My favorite myths of the SNES is that everything is mode 7. For example, the foot soldiers in Turtles in Time tossed at the screen. It's not mode 7, despite so many claims that it is. It's not even scaling. It's fake scaling. And the effect is still great.
Plenty of games cheat. I've played beat-em-ups where the collision detection would consistently turn off in a certain context to give bosses an extra advantage. And in Street Fighter 2(and probably other fighters), the game is programmed with CPU logic that uses your button inputs against you. When you fight the CPU, many times, you will notice that when you hit the button for an attack, the CPU will attack you at that moment with an attack that has priority. That's because the game is using your button press as the trigger for the move by the CPU. It's consistent and repeatable. To beat the CPU, you have to exploit its routines. It totally cheats.
Love the last one. I knew the AI cheats. Many a games I've played after all where the AI just simply go " _Nope, you're not winning._ " x3
I mean, I have a video on my channel from MK1 on Snes that I slowed down heavily just to show that that the AI grabs me out of a move right before it hits.
The video is titled " _Mortal Kombat - The AI is a bloody cheater!_ "
I got one that I still have no idea how I managed to do, but it was on the PS1 version of Mega Man X3 ( _JP version borrowed of a classmate_ ).
On the reploid select screen, I had just been dying over and over to every single one, so I was frustrated and just started mashing the directional key to pick someone at random.
And as I hit the button, the icon ended up at the bottom, between the reploids where the Doppler Stages pop up, and I had somehow managed to access the Doppler Stage 1 simply by mashing the directional key.
Naturally, the stage completely destroyed me but, that was a funny glitch I encountered.
Then just by playing GTA on PS1 for an extended period of time, one can encounter all sort of weird glitches in the game. Like a ghost police car that drives through you and vanishes because it was never actually _there_ according to the game.
Talking about interesting glitches we personally experience reminds me, one time while playing Shining in the Darkness (a Genesis dungeon crawler), I defeated a monster and leveled up. And then leveled up again. And again. I decided to see where this would go instead of resetting the game and after a few minutes of mashing through dialogue boxes I reached the natural conclusion of this bug: I had jumped from level 10-something to 99 in a single battle!
Unfortunately this was before I got my other party members, so they still joined at level 1.
Yep AI cheats. I had one related to the Sheng Long fake, trying to beat SF2:SCE on the hardest difficulty first without losing a round (with no Sheng Long showing up) and then trying to win each round with a perfect, I'd inevitably face a super difficult Sagat who would just level me in one of the rounds. I'd be so pissed off that I would just wreck him afterwards. He put up such resistance the first time around only to be a pushover the next. 😠
My favorite EGM April Fool's was the one from...I'm gonna say April of '91 (it's been a while). In TMNT 2: The Arcade Game on NES, there was an absolutely impossible code to enter on the title screen that would allow you to play as Simon Belmont. The fact that it was impossible didn't stop me from trying feverishly to train my fingers to input it fast. The EGM article asked you to try it several times then read the name of the person who sent it in. The name was "A.P. Rilphuuls" and he was from "Fromegem, HA". That blew my mind for years until I finally understood it. Yep, got me there.
Hmm... OH!
A.P. Rilphuuls = April fools
Fromegem, HA = from EGM. HA!
I get it.
at our school the biggest myth was being able to play as the bosses when SF2 WW came out. people were saying you had to beat everyone perfect lol. the game genie then came out but the boss code was pretty horrible.
Thank you for always these fun interesting videos. I feel like I learn something each time about my all time favorite video game console. :’D
The last one actually had me laughing with the AI calling other teams and using infinite timeouts, lol.
Love this guys videos. Its nice to watch a videos that aren't a rant or negative for the sake of views
He also doesnt ask for your money. It's like he's a responsible dude who only does this for the love of the games!
I remember back in high school, I perpetuated the rumor of being able to steal Ursus armor from the Ursus in FFVI.
In reference to the Mortal Kombat "blood code" over here in the UK the magazine NMS actually published an april fool's joke for it, one part of it actually involved taping a coin to the front of the cartridge. Was funny I had a friend at the time who claimed he got it working... although that same friend also claimed he had an Ultra 64 and Killer Instinct as well as a PlayStation and Saturn converter for it that was in 1995 so he was obviously good at doing the impossible.
Yeah they did that same joke in the Netherlands too
Most of the codes that appear in this video actually work so do not let SNES Drunk tell you otherwise.
For any of these secret codes to work just remember that: you must be facing away from the screen, you must wear a green shirt, it must be Thursday, remember that your socks should not combine because otherwise the trick will not work.
If you did it correctly you will hear the laughter of some relative of yours. Now you can play with Shen Long and save General Leo but shhhh! keep this secret between us.
I forgot to say that this is a trick that has been in my family for more than 20 generations so you can trust me
How do you know this? Did your uncle work for Nintendo or something?
@Micah Mcgaffin Please don't swear on this thread as this is a good clean Christian thread. Thank you.
If I don't have a green shirt can I paint my torso green?
It is actually possible to get General Leo back in your party through a very complex glitch. You essentially retrigger an event that puts Banon in your party but the game puts Leo there instead due to story flags. You can’t get him into Kefka’s Tower and its not official at all, but its not completely impossible. Look up the Airship Glitch.
So I'm not crazy, I've played as him. I somehow triggered the glitch and he was OP..... never knew how I got him for a short time.
Ohhh boy, how long before the comment thread gets filled with "use the early airship glitch to sequence break the game" comments telling him he missed the General Leo glitch stuff?
@@levilamont8005 He is temporarily playable in a short part of the game. To glitch him in permanently is a pretty elaborate process.
Good work, you spoony bard!
Came here to say this. Kotaku did a great article on this glitch back in 2012. Another interesting glitch of note is a variation of the '64 doors' glitch from FFIV. If you should die 64 times following some very specific circumstances you can trigger the end sequence of the game. This glitch has made it possible to easily "beat" the game in under two hours even if you're not a speedrunner.
kotaku.com/how-to-break-final-fantasy-vi-5924518
Former FF6 Any% World Record (50:39): th-cam.com/video/kfAiWrZK9V8/w-d-xo.html
The design of Sheng Long from EGM's Street Fighter III preview would later become the inspiration for both Akuma and Gouken. Sheng Long later appeared as a playable character in Street Fighter IV.
Shen Long (or Gouken) appeared also in comic books in the 90's sometimes like and "old dude with ryu's appearance" other times with a Gen's (SF, SF Alpha) similar design.
Akuma was first in Super SF2 Turbo and Street Fighter Alpha.
The is no "Sheng Long" in SFIV, but Gouken can be considered the rumored Sheng Long.
@@janlentan892 That would be very funny, I only had the Ultra SFIV but I'll check it
"Sometimes the computer really does cheat" Thank you for this! 🙏
Ah yes, General Leo, the precursor to Aerith in so many ways.
One of your best videos yet. Loved the ending about the computer cheating!
You don't need to kill yourself in Mega Man X to get the hadoken. You can just exit the stage through the menu five times.
Another rumor for me as a kid that sounded too good to be true.
I was told that in the arcade version of Street Fighter 2 (maybe even the turbo version) if you played as Guile and were able to do 25 flash kicks in a battle, Guile would be able to pull out a service pistol and be able to fire 2 shots.
Once I found out I could save CID I did it everytime. Dudes too nice to die.
The pause music in Madden 95 was amazing. The bass line still pops into my head from time to time.
Anybody every have Sub-Zero continuously throw your character from half a screen length away in Mk1? It happened to me a couple different times, when using Scorpion. I'd continue, same thing over and over until I'd just have restart. Most blatant cpu cheating I've ever seen.
MK always had TERRIBLE reactive AI. It just reads your inputs. Even in the PS2 games they still did things like that
I'm really enjoying your videos mate! They're just the right duration for when I just wanna get educated with some interesting nostalgic facts while enjoying a cheeky gatorade sax at home after a busy day :)
Those other 20+ minute vids I see around feel like too much of a commitment at times.. :P
The stuff about Leo reminds me of rumors about Aeris being revived by collecting "All 35 of the 1/35 Soldiers and combine it with a tissue and a super sweeper" or some horse shit lol
There were dozens of Aeris resurrection myths back in the day. The internet was established enough to spread the rumors, but not established enough to check stuff for easy debunking. The one I heard most often was "win 777 battles".
You can get her back I did it once, it’s a glitch called Yuffie warping I believe it’s a pc only glitch.
th-cam.com/video/plHhDBMcDJo/w-d-xo.html here’s a video of a dude doing it.
Never really spent a lot of time trying to "revive" Leo...
However I spent hours and hours trying to win the Robotic Imp or Airship piece. I was much younger then.
Yeah, maybe that Leo thing is bunk, but my uncle works at Square and he told me you can totally bring Aeris back in FF7!
A friend told me not to get too attached to her (it was my 1st rpg, I didnt grind much, so I needed her heavens opening with angels limit break a lot), but didnt say why. Since then, I've always ignored her. Far as I'm concerned, she can stay dead (she also took all my good accessories and materia to the grave)! I'll keep trying to get the date with barrett, since I'm terrible at tifas limit break roulettes.
@Most Deadest Pool of em All. Hahahaha, right?
You actually can! For like a 1/10th of a second. Visiting the Sector Slum church on Disc 4 will momentarily display Aerith and promptly disappear. Probably an unintended bug (and I’m not sure if it works on all versions), but it does happen (confirmed on the original PC port).
@@AkaiAzul Haha, I don't think I ever knew that, but I'm not sure that really counts.
If you could bring Aerith back, wouldn't that lead to a bad ending, logically?
You need to do another one of these. They are awesome.
The rumor at my school was;
Theres one final sword upgrade in link to the past, the platinum sword..
I can't for the life of me remember what supposedly unlocked it
Haha I remember hearing about this one, I think it was addressed in a magazine?
i watched a video awhile back cant remember who, what or where it was, but they were running an emulator and cheating the crap out of it. 4 sword upgrades psssh they had 20 and one shot ganon they thought they broke the game it was awesome
In the arcade version of MK1 when you fight Reptile in the pit his name still says Scorpion. They clearly updated it to say Reptile for the 16-bit ports.
The subtitles interpreted snnnnesss drunk as "nice trunk" hahhahahahahaha
Fun video. We had those rumors about defeating Vile in Megaman X over here in Europe as well. I guess invincible enemies just lend themselves to such rumors. But imagine my surprise when I found out that you could actually win the first battle against Gades in Lufia 2! Back then we had no internet and gaming magazines in my country had not written about this yet. It really felt as if I had broken the game.
I vividly remember back at the time that Chrono Trigger was new, there were rumors floating around on some message boards that it was possible to unlock Janus as a party member. Yes, Janus, the little boy from the Kingdom of Zeal. So weird. Anyway, I'd love to hear more about that in one of these videos :)
It's true actually
@@Oringiri Technically it's like one of the easiest things in the game since Janus shows up pretty early in the game xD
Only the adult form
he does join your party, only he changed his name, starts with an m ends with an agus. it is cleary pointed out, if you let him join you
holy moly peeps, no, this was specifically supposed to be Janus, not Magus.
Hey, Drunk! Love the content, so happy to have this to watch this morning. Thanks and have a great day!
I always thought it was funny when my brother or my friends would be doing bad at a game, and when i told the to do something or use something, they'd be like: they won't let me!!
Like who's they? LoL
That evil computer!
Makes me think of ReBoot!
Wow, 25 years and I didn't realize you could save Cid till today. Makes me want to replay the game.
Oh man, I had no clue about that Hadoken trick in Mega Man X. WOW!!!!!!!!!!
There's an equivalent trick in Mega Man X2 to unlock the Shoryuken. You need every single upgrade, head to the third X-hunter stage, pass a narrow passage way of spikes(I'd recommend a charged speed burner and air dash), slide down the left wall, and FINALLY find the room with a Doctor Light capsule. Dr. Light says "I'm not worthy!" and gives you the Shoryuken move. I'm not kidding.
Awesome, awesome episode man. Didn't know Hagane WASN'T a Blockbuster exclusive. That means there's still hope.... for now I'll cherish my reproduction.
Instead of Evil Ryu and Violent Ken Ultra SFII on Switch should’ve had Sheng Long
You mean Gouken
@@hansweiss469 no shen long
@@sus4644 do ppl not realize that gouken is shen long?
I'm so happy that the whole Sheng Long thing has been put to rest thanks to you.
You deserve your 100k sub. And way more. Keep up the good work drunk.
Everytime I watch a SNESDrunk video the rest of my day is always nice. :)
Ff6 is my favorite game. Leo would be amazing as a regular playable character.
My friend I have something for you, the General Leo rom hack rewrites the story in places and replaces Shadow with Leo. Shadow is temporary early on but later in the game Leo joins your party where you would think he would, he even has his own Ruined World story. it throws out Shadow but its worth it.
Apparently there is a convoluted way to actually get leo in the base game but it hecks the game up some
Whenever you can , and if you can you should make a video about all the Mario bros game ... maybe ranking them and looking into the secret star world in Super Mario World , or the flutes in Super Mario 3 or even the Super Mario all stars game ( love that game) ... just a suggestion I know you guys have lives and what not .. LOVE LOVE the content man! Keep it up
Megaman haduken: all upgrades + all hearts + all tanks full. Make the jump to that top part, but you can exit the stage through the menu. Repeat and on the fifth time you get the haduken. No need to die
The classics never gets old
Naked code on mortal kombat.
NES ADDICT I remember hearing that Mortal Kombat 2 had 'Nudalities' on the school yard. I also remember hearing that Asian girls had sideways vaginas.
I remember the naked code that circulated when Dead or Alive Volleyball came out
LA calling Oakland to say "don't let the Raiders go to Vegas! Send them down here instead"
I knew it all this time. The computer does cheat! Lol
I have a game for Saturn that's famous for cheating.
Computer: Wait, SNES Drunk is winning? Imma have to call Jaguars on that shit.
When I was in high school, I told my best friend that if you beat Star Fox 64 three times without turning off the system, you could unlock a super boss after Andross. We took a trip to Disney with the band that year. He stayed up all night trying it. When it didn't work around dawn, he started shaking the bed and yelling at me. "I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT FOR THIS!!!" Almost 20 years later and it's still hilarious. We still joke about it.
I mean there is another stage of the andross fight you only get doing certain routes
don't know why, but I keep rewatching this series every few weeks.
More Turbo and Sega reviews please! 😣
I love how these in game cheats involve near impossible measures in already really hard games to beat. This makes sure nobody ever really knows.
Letting Cid die was never an option. Calling Jaguars or Carolina is solid strategy, those teams are stacked!
Dude what on earth, just looked it up and they are both 99 ranked in Madden 95, they didn't enter the NFL till 96 so was this some kind of promotion they had with Madden??
They were included via sEcReT cOdE to promote the new expansion teams. As there weren't any relevant stats, they just got 99s across the board.
Crazy
I live and grew up in Alaska and I've always wondered how these rumors were so widespread back in the day. We had the exact same General Leo/FF6 rumor up here and it's not like we had internet yet.
No your thinking that Madden cheats is 100% right on. That games cheats the player all the time.
The "nude code" for every game that had a woman in it. That's gotta be the most common rumored code in the 80s and 90s.
Myth?: The computer cheats to win.
Me: Uh have you ever played a racing game?!
Great video Drunk! I like these little informative mini series. And nice thumbnail Daria!
Did you just call Leo an NPC?? He may not be around as long as Banon, but let us not relagate him to the same rank as Gau's freaking dad.
Mana the General Leo things. That brings back sooo many memories. Like 5 of us were all talking about the ways we heard and did each and every one of them. Same with the Aerith resurrection methods. Or Zack unlocks. You missed the Reptile fight with the witch across the moon.
Reptile was also in the Mortal Kombat movie... he fights Liu kang right before the final fight with Shang tsung
Loved that ending music. Gotta admit I get a real nostalgic feeling when I hear it.
I can confirm the Johnny Cage fatality glitch in the arcade version of Mortal Kombat.
I can also confirm that Guile in the SNES version of Street Fighter 2 could throw 2 sonic booms in a row. He literally says “Sonic Sonic Boom” and throws two.
Can't tell you how grateful I am for the spoiler warning right before the FFVI myths. I'm playing it for the first time and really enjoying it so far.
Great video! One myth that I heard about when I was a kid involved battling the slot machine in Starfox. It was rumored that if you didn't attack the slot machine (which is accessed through the asteroid belt), it would get frustrated and would subtitle "You are not worthy for Andross" and would send you back to the beginning of the belt. It was rumored that you would have to ignore the slot machine for nearly an hour for this event to be put into motion. I've never done any extensive research on this, nor have I decided to invest an hour to try to find out. I'd rather use that hour to play super metroid, FF6, Chrono Trigger, DKC2, etc...but I've always wondered if it was true.
I remember the infamous Broken Antenna and Gutsy Bat in Earthbound. Everyone who bought the game brand new got a player's guide for free, so we all had it in Elementary School. The guide listed Jeff's ultimate weapon as the Gaia Beam and said you needed to fix the Broken Antenna to get it, but the guide left out how to get the Broken Antenna. The guide also said you could get the Gutsy Bat from the Kraken in Ness's dreamworld and had a special section on it and everything, making it seem official. Both weapons were myths to us because nobody ever got them. Some of us spent hours trying to get the Gutsy Bat from the Kraken and some people lied saying they got it. I do not think anyone ever claimed to have found the Broken Antenna. I did not learn until later after High School that both weapons were in the game after all. The Broken Antenna is a 1/128 drop from a monster in the 7th Sanctuary (that the guide neglected to mention even existed) and the Gutsy Bat is a 1/128 from the Bionic Kraken just before the Giygas fight, not the Sea of Eden Kraken.
The General Leo thing always bugged me, and I'd heard the rumors from somewhere. Glad to know I'm not crazy, but I did not know you could save Cid!!! Brilliant!
I think it was EGM that put out an April Fool's joke article that talked about unlocking Akuma in Resident Evil 2? But he would be named Tofu? It drove me wild for years until my dad asked what month that issue was from and I put it together.
I remember back in grade school that a friend of mine told me he could actually turn Liu Kang into a dragon in the first Mortal Kombat game by pressing down forward back back High Kick when he won and bite the opponent's body off. I try this several times in multiple versions of MK1 and it never work that is until I realize he actually meant Liu Kang in MKII and not MK1.
I've saved Cid before, but I usually just end up killing him because it can take way too long for the good fish to keep appearing, and the scene with Celes when he dies just has so much more emotional impact.
Beautiful. It was great being a kid before internet and believing this things. Do more videos like this, please :)
I remember one about continually hopping on a koopa troopa descending some steps to get dozens of extra lives in Super Mario. Wasted so much time trying to get it work . . . . until it did.
That subtle Spaceballs reference... Thank you for that!
This video "series" is pretty cool! Keep 'em coming!
Also heard:
- You could play Frogfucius in Mario RPG
- You could turn the cursed ring into the paladin ring in FF6
Cursed Ring to Paladin Ring has some truth to it because of the Cursed Shield to Paladin Shield, but no. Cursed Ring does teach Banish though at a 5x rate so it does have some use. Combine it with Lich Ring to make the wearer undead and you'll auto-revive when the Doom timer runs out.