You can't be serious.
Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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You can't be serious.
I found this gem on Supper Mario Broth just a bit ago and it blew me away, I'm sure I won't be the only one.
Got dang.
It's like one of those music posts except without any music.
GiantEnemyGoomba
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I found this gem on Supper Mario Broth just a bit ago and it blew me away, I'm sure I won't be the only one.
Mind. Blown.
Also that hidden Mickey thing is super neat.
Professor Beef
Banned
I found this gem on Supper Mario Broth just a bit ago and it blew me away, I'm sure I won't be the only one.
It still shocks me that people don't know this tbh
That's kinda cool.
His sprite in Pokemon Yellow also looked very similar to Bart from The Simpsons.
Wee-Bey.gifI found this gem on Supper Mario Broth just a bit ago and it blew me away, I'm sure I won't be the only one.
This thread is still delivering the goods..
Like the hat?
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backflip10019
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So everybody knows about this masterpiece of a movie.
It somehow managed to pull in highly respected actors such as Dennis Hopper and to a lesser extent Bob Hoskins. But neither actors were the first choices for their respective roles. Originally Danny DeVito was approached to Mario (and direct), but wanted to see a script before he signed on. He declined. Both Arnold Schwarrzenegger,Kevin Costner and Michael Keaton were approached to play "King Koopa" but turned down the role. Before Hoskins took the role, Tom Hanks was actually signed on to play Mario. The studio got rid of him because of a string of box office bombs and they thought he wanted too much money. Harold Ramis also went to a meeting to see if he wanted to direct the movie.
I don't think any casting or directing changes could have turned the Mario Bros movie into something that can be enjoyed unironically, but it would be hilarious to peer into an alternate universe where Tom Hanks had his career destroyed by a Mario film.
There's actually a really good article on Grantland about the development hell that this movie fell into. Definitely worth the read:
http://grantland.com/features/the-strange-case-super-mario-bros-movie/
Uhh, wow. I don't think I knew that.I found this gem on Supper Mario Broth just a bit ago and it blew me away, I'm sure I won't be the only one.
Azure Dream
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Yup, used it all the time. But then people didn't seem to know about turning around with the cape, either.
I guess it didn't occur to people that, "Hey, wait, both these buttons do these actions... what if I press the other one while doing that action?" Maybe some didn't even know X did the same thing as Y normally.
Professor Beef
Banned
It was also explained in detail in the Mario Mania guide that was released after Mario World was, along with other tricks that still blow people's minds.
- Holding items while climbing
- Using Yoshi to regenerate a P-Switch after stomping it
- Yoshi standing up to extend his tongue instead of ducking
- Cape Mario being able to kill normally "invincible" things like the Sparky enemies
- Holding items while riding Yoshi
- Using L and R to scroll the screen forward in castles to make spikes fall sooner
- Various 1-up loops
It's a treasure trove of info that sadly isn't common knowledge.
Azure Dream
Member
Oh god, I read that book inside and out until my copy fell apart. It was easily the best Player's Guide of them all.
The only sad part is I think it only covered half of SMW, or something like that. I remember one of the games didn't get full coverage.
It was also one of the few rare glimpses of SMB2j (Lost Levels/for Super Players) back then.
Professor Beef
Banned
Nah, it definitely covered the entire game. I remember that much!
EDIT: Here's two 1-up tricks that still get people from time to time.
Castle 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7s9-gIr9LQ
Castle 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAfgCBJxwc
Please forgive the quality of the videos, I don't exactly have the most premium video capturing tech.
I don't know if I've ever pressed the X button while playing Super Mario World.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Final Fantasy IX: According to
this January 2003 Dengeki PlayStation interview with Hideo Minaba, Zidane's tail is supposed to be a cat's tail, not a monkey's tail. It was originally panther-black, but that didn't contrast enough the game's backgrounds so they changed it to yellow.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041228034211/http://totscqcc.hp.infoseek.co.jp/minaba.htm
me Google-translating
http://web.archive.org/web/20041228034211/http://totscqcc.hp.infoseek.co.jp/minaba.htm
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Odd.
I always thought it was a Dragon Ball reference since his
origin story is basically Goku's.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Don't you mean Super Mario Bros. 3?
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Jaded Alyx
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ReyVGM
Member
SM All Stars has music for its own title screen, but not for the SMB3 title screen.
I was talking about Super Mario Bros 2 and no one was talking if the one in All Stars is more memorable or not.
The point is the SMB2 title screen music is a remix of the SMB1 underwater music (which I never made the connection). And now that you posted the SMAS title screen music, I also hadn't made the connection it was the same song.
Weird that Nintendo keept reusing that same song.
Jaded Alyx
Member
That is not the SMAS title screen music. What I posted is the Super Mario Bros. 3 title screen music from SMAS. It DOES have music.
The only reason I said it was more memorable to me was because it was the music I immediately thought of, whereas I struggled to recall the SMB2 music until I went to youtube. That's why I initially thought you had made a mistake.
EDIT: This is the SMAS title screen music, btw.
hikarutilmitt
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Porn?
Oddly enough, the first one I've been using more or less since the game came out. I found the points kept adding up after "stomping" a couple of them while still hanging onto the fence and decided to try for some 1ups. You can also technically stomp on them when not hanging to the fence, but obviously there's little point.
The beanstalk thing is more or less the same principle, but I never used it because it just took too long.
eternalblue
Member
Yeah, I thought the same, although since Dragon Ball and Goku's character were inspired by it, I would take it back to being a reference to the Chinese novel Journey to the West.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_media_adaptations_of_Journey_to_the_West
DiipuSurotu
Banned
I don't think it's contradictory. There can easily be multiple inspirations.
Professor Beef
Banned
Yes, the tail is prehensile.
Sometimes I think those Squenix guys just make stuff up so they have something to say in interviews and Ultimanias.
Square-Enix is not one person, it's a team of people. Sometimes as development goes on over years, little things get changed on the fly because they look neat or fit better. Same as directing movies or writing books.
So it's not a surprise that Zidane's tail may have been designed in a director's notebook somewhere as a cat's tail, and then as the animators created the character, funny little scenes like him hanging over Steiner were added. Poof, change from the original design, and no one cares until 10 years later when an Ultimania researcher is given that director's notebook and finds a lost factoid that everyone forgot.
So it's not a surprise that Zidane's tail may have been designed in a director's notebook somewhere as a cat's tail, and then as the animators created the character, funny little scenes like him hanging over Steiner were added. Poof, change from the original design, and no one cares until 10 years later when an Ultimania researcher is given that director's notebook and finds a lost factoid that everyone forgot.
SoulUnison
Banned
The World Ends With You (DS)
If you pause the game during combat, you can drag your pins around to any position on the screen you want. This includes the Fusion Pin. The layout will stay consistent between battles and decks.
I'm just finishing up my 2nd 100% playthrough, 3rd playthrough overall, and I had never realized this before.
The level of little touches polish on Nomura games is unreal Him and Sakurai are unmatched in that regard.
If you pause the game during combat, you can drag your pins around to any position on the screen you want. This includes the Fusion Pin. The layout will stay consistent between battles and decks.
I'm just finishing up my 2nd 100% playthrough, 3rd playthrough overall, and I had never realized this before.
The level of little touches polish on Nomura games is unreal Him and Sakurai are unmatched in that regard.
This was new to me:
In the japanese version of super mario world you can eat the dolphins while riding Yoshi.
thats not possible in the us or eu version
http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=27256
... at least its accurate
In the japanese version of super mario world you can eat the dolphins while riding Yoshi.
thats not possible in the us or eu version
http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=27256
... at least its accurate
SneakyStephan
Banned
So apparently Mario Kart: Double Dash's world is connected like Mario Sunshine's, in that you can see landmarks from other tracks in the game.
http://youtu.be/PnRm-w4fikA
I knew about a few of them, but I had no idea there were so many.
lol@ the helicopter and ships thing, only a mario fan would spin reusing assets into some kind of story like this
DiipuSurotu
Banned
LOL, is that due to censorship?
If you have to ask, the answer is probably yes. Gotta protect the innocent children.
this is likely the reason. Mario 3 also had some minor changes in it where you could accidently screw yourself so Nintendo fixed it for the NA release.
There's also a 1up loop in Cheese Bridge.
After you get a feather you can keep bouncing off of the flying koopa's, as long as you have the cape to control your descent, you can rack up the 1-ups. I used to have a video on my youtube, but I can't find it anymore (it's not showing up in my uploads).
Maybe, but the game generates so many of them so fast, this could barely be a problem.
It would have been less work to not reuse the assets lol...
How is that reusing assets when it's technically not the same asset?
UnluckyKate
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seen on reddit :
Sonic the Hedgehog 1 used shifting time of day from level to level to evoke a feeling of progression.
Sonic the Hedgehog 1 used shifting time of day from level to level to evoke a feeling of progression.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
seen on reddit :
Sonic the Hedgehog 1 used shifting time of day from level to level to evoke a feeling of progression.
This one is a case of GAF > Internet > GAF. I remember reading it a while ago in this thread.
SolidChamp
Banned
Everyone knows about the boss secrets of Metal Gear Solid 3, particularly in the case of The End. But did you know (you probably do):
The hunger/stamina system also applies to enemy soldiers.
Every large section (several small quadrants put together) usually has an enemy base of some sort. If you search around, you'll find a food storage shed or pantry where you can usually grab instant noodles or rations.
BUT, if you set C4 inside the food storage room, you can blow up the enemy's supply of food. When you enter the next area that connects to that base, you'll hear soldiers walking around complaining, saying "I'm so hungry!" You can even hear their stomach growling.
You can use this as a trap to your advantage. For example, if Snake has killed a poison dart frog, or any other poisonous flora or fauna, you can equip that as a ration and toss it out into the open. If the enemy spots the ration his reaction will be "Huh? OH MAN, FOOD!"
He'll quickly run to it, grab it, and either die from the poisoning or walk around completely ill (this will be indicated above his head) and be rendered completely useless.
This same strategy applies to enemy ammo caches. If you destroy an ammo cache, when you become engaged in open conflict and are getting shot at, the enemy will run out of ammo after they empty their first magazine.
So, yeah, MGS3 is a masterpiece. In case anyone ever doubted that.
The hunger/stamina system also applies to enemy soldiers.
Every large section (several small quadrants put together) usually has an enemy base of some sort. If you search around, you'll find a food storage shed or pantry where you can usually grab instant noodles or rations.
BUT, if you set C4 inside the food storage room, you can blow up the enemy's supply of food. When you enter the next area that connects to that base, you'll hear soldiers walking around complaining, saying "I'm so hungry!" You can even hear their stomach growling.
You can use this as a trap to your advantage. For example, if Snake has killed a poison dart frog, or any other poisonous flora or fauna, you can equip that as a ration and toss it out into the open. If the enemy spots the ration his reaction will be "Huh? OH MAN, FOOD!"
He'll quickly run to it, grab it, and either die from the poisoning or walk around completely ill (this will be indicated above his head) and be rendered completely useless.
This same strategy applies to enemy ammo caches. If you destroy an ammo cache, when you become engaged in open conflict and are getting shot at, the enemy will run out of ammo after they empty their first magazine.
So, yeah, MGS3 is a masterpiece. In case anyone ever doubted that.
TheRedSnifit
Member
Doesn't Zero tell you this in-game? And I'm pretty sure that this is the only way to beat The Fear non-lethally.
KittenMaster
Member
There is a strange mechanic that allows you to
beat The Fear non-lethally by throwing a stun grenade and then lethal weapons will deal stamina damage.
TheRedSnifit
Member
Now that is something I didn't know.
SolidChamp
Banned
Pretty sure Zero doesn't tell you this directly. Not that I can remember, at least. I could be wrong.
Is there a better picture of the wind dragon, as in that pic it looks NOTHING like the MH monter.
I loved those kind of things back in the day when I actually needed the 1-Ups.
While we're on topic: You can actually completely and utterly break the scoring system of the game (the score and coin counter will spaz out) by jumping off wigglers e.g. in the Forest of Illusion 1 without touching the ground. Since they only enrage when you jump on them and lose their rage once they're off screen you can just keep on jumping back and forth while racking up points until the floating score numbers become gibberish and "infect" your coin/score counter. This also gives a nice boost in 1-Ups, obviously.
Example (not mine): Forest of Illusion 1
Still one of my more beloved levels in the game, just because of that bug. Not really mindblowing, I'll admit. Still, a neat little trick.