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[Mike M]

Sonic Jam on saturn had wallpaper when stuck in a pc drive too.

http://info.sonicretro.org/Category:Sonic_Jam_Wallpaper

As did NiGHTS.

 

[John Rabbit]

I just watched it; congratulations on your first view and first 'like' for that video!

After successfully playing the Castlevania CD, I remember doing this for the Toshinden games long ago; borrowing them from a friend who was apoplectic that I'd try putting them in a CD player -- "You're going to mess them up!"

I can still see the look on his face when the "trick" worked!

lol and 1 "dislike". who would dislike that?

 

[BlazeHedgehog]

Tails is kidnapped by Robotnik in Sonic 2 GG/MS, not Metal Sonic What deleted scene in the Sonic CD ending are you thinking of, BTW?

As for PS1 games with music that was listenable via a CD player, Duke 3D had that too. And it had some really good remixes of the music from the PC version.

Well, it's more that you fight a version of Metal Sonic at the end of Sonic 2 GG. You see Robotnik do it, but technically Metal Sonic in Sonic CD is working under Robotnik anyway so whatever.

As for the deleted scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIWYU3xDcFw#t=56s

 

[Gravijah]

Lords of Lunar on the "Making of" disc that came with Lunar SSS?

yes, that was definitely it. i knew i had accessed that feature before, and i definitely didn't own Arc as a kid.

 

[CorvoSol]

I bet Hironobu is kicking himself for not making just ONE main character for FF1, because he would've been a legendary gaming name on par with Link and Erdrick/Loto and, yeah, probably even Belmont and Megaman.

Meh, the warrior and black mage are pretty well known, even if they're not on par with Link.

 

[The Awesomest]

I think I already posted this somewhere in this thread, but Paper Mario for N64 foreshadows Luigi's Mansion.

Excerpts from Luigi's diary:

Page 2

"..........Because you're my secret diary, I'll tell the truth: Yaaaah! I
hate ghosts!! What will I do if it appears at night! Come back, Mario! I'm
scared! Yikes! I can feel something behind me. Ahhh! I'm sure it's there,
but I can't look back! No! No! Get away! I think I'll be safe if I don't
freeze with fear. I'll just shut my eyes and take five steps back, and then
I'll jump and dash into bed. Here I go!"

Page 7

"I heard a rumor that I actually have lots of fans. Wow! What great news!
To live up to their expectations, I want to play the lead in an adventure!
Of course, my name would have to be in the title. That'd be sweet... But I
know it'll never happen..."

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

The music that plays in Paper Mario's intro is based on the classic children's song "Inchworm".

Paper Mario Intro (resemblance becomes really obvious at 0:42): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4QUkMS41DnY#t=14s

Inchworm (Sesame Street version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=W0lQ0bdcjfY#t=26s



I've held back on posting for quite a long time because it seems that every time someone posts a half-decent music comparison in this thread, people tear it to shreds for not being a note-for-note duplicate. So let me say first that this is not a note-for-note carbon copy of the same song. Obviously Yuka Tsujiyoko played with the melody a bit. But seeing as how Paper Mario begins with a children's book, it's a safe bet that a famous children's song like Inchworm was the inspiration for it's opening music.

EDIT: Youtube Doubler for extra proof: http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=h...v=W0lQ0bdcjfY&start2=27&authorName=meahwahwah

I always thought the famous Route 1 Music from Pokemon Red and Blue was meant to be Polly Wolly Doodle.

I know that the unfittingly creepy Sailor/Fisherman theme from Diamond and Pearl is actually an old Enka song called Misoji Misaki. The only versions on Youtube apart from this is from Lucky Star, though, as the song was famously sung on it or something.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

Well, it's more that you fight a version of Metal Sonic at the end of Sonic 2 GG. You see Robotnik do it, but technically Metal Sonic in Sonic CD is working under Robotnik anyway so whatever.

As for the deleted scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIWYU3xDcFw#t=56s

Yeah, Metal Sonic (or Silver Sonic/Mecha Sonic, if we're gonna be anal about names ) is the penultimate boss in Sonic 2 GG provided that you have all five chaos emeralds. Silver Sonic then drops the sixth emerald, and you proceed to Crystal Egg Zone, where you fight Robotnik at the end. If you have less than five emeralds when fighting Metal Sonic, you get the bad ending where it's implied that Tails is dead.

 

[BGBW]

I always thought the famous Route 1 Music from Pokemon Red and Blue was meant to be Polly Wolly Doodle.

Never noticed that Route 1 sounds like Route 1. MIND BLOWN!

 

[jmdajr]

RedBook audio rules. I have Wipeout, Ridge Racer, and Street Fighter games all ripped.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

The Arc the lad directory viewing thing is neat.

Well, if we are talking about Red Book Audio, I can at least give one silly Easter egg thing I found out when I was ripping a bunch of music from PS1 games a few years back

The MP3 tagging metadata being imperfect issue aside...this reminds me of a classic PS1 game easter egg. This is old news for this thread probably but anyway...

In order to fill up the Tiger Woods '99 disc (to push game data to the outside of the disc=faster loading I guess) the developers decided to stick a file in the root directory called ZZDUMMY.DAT. This is a copy of the South Park Pilot "Jesus Vs. Santa". The game was recalled and I think alter versions have a proper ZZDUMMY.DAT that is just an empty file (thats no fun).

Googling that made me find this thread. Shame this is the only good post:

On Beatmania Best Hits (a Japanese game), there is a file,named DUMMY. If you rename it to *.lzh and unzip it you will,find the
source code to Beatmania 5th Mix (a different Japanese game).

Not PS1 related neat files. Some PC Engine CD games have RAM dumps containing source code and bits of operating systems. Link's Awakening DX is a cartridge based example (EPROM being used as RAM) of this.

Didn't some Shining Force 3 disc (the premium disc?) have a developers diary in the root directory. Google doesn't seem to be helping me here

This has got me onto yet another rerun. Various old games Famicom game Pachi-Com has a rant for you to see if you use a hex editor on the ROM and also the Erika to Satoru no Yumebōken hidden text rant that is accessible in-game through some crazy chain of events.

 

[nintendoman58]

Did a search and nothing came up:

Did anyone realize that Pokemon DPt's Route 209 bears a striking resemblence to that Green Day song 21 guns?

Resemblence starts at about 1:05

 

[BGBW]

Did you know that this Parodius song sounds like In The Mood?

 

[Jucksalbe]

Did you know that this Parodius song sounds like In The Mood?

Maybe you should take a closer look at the rest of Parodius's music.

 

[BY2K]

 

[MNC]

I think it also works for Driver, at least on PC. Or that was a special thing done by the gaming magazine, I don't know. I liked that soundtrack, but I can't find the disc anymore.


And one small thing here, about the Composer Brothers that appear in Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask,

Sharp the Elder


Flat the Younger


Are very likely based on Mario and Luigi. Flat, the younger one, is larger than Sharp and wears green, just like Luigi.
Sharp, the older ghost, wears red and is the smaller one, like Mario.
I like that one because these two were the more memorable characters in Ocarina of Time for me.

I think it hit me harder they're called Flat and Sharp, like those musical things of # and something (lol i can do music things me)

 

[Septimius]

I think it hit me harder they're called Flat and Sharp, like those musical things of # and something (lol i can do music things me)

D# would be a semitone above D, Db would be a semitone below D.

I've played OOT so many times, including 3D not long ago, but I've never encountered these poes. How queer.

 

[Roto13]

D# would be a semitone above D, Db would be a semitone below D.

I've played OOT so many times, including 3D not long ago, but I've never encountered these poes. How queer.

So you just never got the Sun Song?

 

[Muskweeto]

So you just never got the Sun Song?

You don't actually have to talk to them to get the song. I usually skip them when I replay it. Just play Zelda's lullaby at the grave and don't read the other gravestones.

 

[-KRS-]

Wait, what? Those guys were in OoT as well?! Either I completely missed them or I just don't remember. I only distinctly remember them from MM. And I always get the Sun Song so they're in no way important to getting that.

 

[Platy]

Sorry for the offtopic ... but ..

http://didyuoknowgaming.tumblr.com/

LOL

 

[Anteo]

Did a search and nothing came up:

Did anyone realize that Pokemon DPt's Route 209 bears a striking resemblence to that Green Day song 21 guns?

Resemblence starts at about 1:05

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRJQLzc-bco#t=118s
=)

 

[Clipper]

Sorry for the offtopic ... but ..

http://didyuoknowgaming.tumblr.com/

LOL

Which one do you want us to see? You just linked to the home page, which will always show the most recent one.

 

[abstract alien]

I think I already posted this somewhere in this thread, but Paper Mario for N64 foreshadows Luigi's Mansion.

Excerpts from Luigi's diary:

Page 2


Page 7

I love this thread

 

[Anteo]

Sorry for the offtopic ... but ..

http://didyuoknowgaming.tumblr.com/

LOL

Holy Shit at the way the ds was born

Edit : Yeah I got that was a joke, I mean the ds one. But is all the page just jokes?

Edit 2 : Yeah, they all are. lol

 

[Infernal Monkey]

Which one do you want us to see? You just linked to the home page, which will always show the most recent one.

I think he's pointing out that this is a parody account of the actual 'Did you know gaming' thing.

 

[jediyoshi]

Sorry for the offtopic ... but ..

http://didyuoknowgaming.tumblr.com/

LOL

Brilliant.

 

[The Awesomest]

Did you know that this Parodius song sounds like In The Mood?

Just in case you're not joking, that is In the Mood.

 

[MisterLuffy]

My older brother showed me a video of Super Mario Bros 3 secrets, there are some that I know, however there are others I never knew. I was mind blown by those secrets I never seen before.

 

[Clipper]

I think he's pointing out that this is a parody account of the actual 'Did you know gaming' thing.

Ah, of course. I guess this is an example of Poe's Law as I thought the fact checking of the normal site had actually just gotten that bad recently...

 

[ThatObviousUser]

I think I already posted this somewhere in this thread, but Paper Mario for N64 foreshadows Luigi's Mansion.

Excerpts from Luigi's diary:

Page 2


Page 7

That's kind of always been Luigi's character though. In the shadow of his brother, and always a scaredy cat.

 

[BocoDragon]

That's kind of always been Luigi's character though. In the shadow of his brother, and always a scaredy cat.

I would say that Paper Mario would be about the time that Luigi developed that character. Can you think of a single game before then that had Luigi with any kind of personality at all?

 

[ThatObviousUser]

...SMB 2 USA?

 

[bomma_man]

I would say that Paper Mario would be about the time that Luigi developed that character. Can you think of a single game before then that had Luigi with any kind of personality at all?

Plus Paper Mario was released right at the end of the N64's life

 

[The Awesomest]

That's kind of always been Luigi's character though. In the shadow of his brother, and always a scaredy cat.

Yeah, but an explicit mention of ghosts and a game starring him with his name in the title? And like others have said, this was about the time he actually began to develop his own personality, and Luigi's Mansion and Paper Mario would've been in development at about the same time.

 

[Metal-Geo]

Luigi was also aways a scaredy cat in the Super Mario Brothers Super Show.
Not like it's canon or anything.

 

[MrCunningham]

I think I already posted this somewhere in this thread, but Paper Mario for N64 foreshadows Luigi's Mansion.

Excerpts from Luigi's diary:

Page 2


Page 7

That sort of reminds me of Zelda: Links Awakening for the GB...

When you sprinkled this guy with Magic Powder, he had these things to say:

"Hey mon!"
"You know me, I like short names the best..."
"It can display millions of polygons!"
"I definitely need it, as soon as possible!"

In 1993, it sounded like gibberish. But he was talking about the development of the N64 (aka: Project Reality). This screen shot is from Links Awakening DX, but it's still the same dialogue that was used in the original game.

 

[Valjean Lafitte]

I always thought the famous Route 1 Music from Pokemon Red and Blue was meant to be Polly Wolly Doodle.

Argh! It always drove me crazy how familiar that music was, but I could never put my finger on it. Well now I know. Nice find!

Never noticed that Route 1 sounds like Route 1. MIND BLOWN!

Does someone have to make a "Video game music that sounds like real world music" thread, or can we have nice things in this one?

 

[BHZ Mayor]

Argh! It always drove me crazy how familiar that music was, but I could never put my finger on it. Well now I know. Nice find!



Does someone have to make a "Video game music that sounds like real world music" thread, or can we have nice things in this one?

Well to be fair, when he quoted the post, both links led to the same page.

 

[Valjean Lafitte]

Well to be fair, when he quoted the post, both links led to the same page.

Ah. My bad then.

 

[ReyVGM]

I always thought Luigi was supposed to bro-fist jump, just like Mario, but in the version of Super Mario World included in Super Mario All Stars (which contains a different Luigi character) Luigi doesn't bro-fist when he jumps. He breaks blocks with his head instead.

-----

And did anyone stop to think just what the hell is going on between Bowser and the Princess in Super Mario World's last battle? I mean, the princess is inside Bowser's flying machine... in a cramped space... and Bowser doesn't wear any pants...

 

[Roto13]

And did anyone stop to think just what the hell is going on between Bowser and the Princess in Super Mario World's last battle? I mean, the princess is inside Bowser's flying machine... in a cramped space... and Bowser doesn't wear any pants...

Spoiler

I'm like 90% sure that this guy has a woman hidden in his moon in at least one of the Cho Aniki games.

 

[ReyVGM]

Spoiler

I'm like 90% sure that this guy has a woman hidden in his moon in at least one of the Cho Aniki games.

Spoiler

You mean a woman?

 

[LakeEarth]

That sort of reminds me of Zelda: Links Awakening for the GB...
When you sprinkled this guy with Magic Powder, he had these things to say:

"Hey mon!"
"You know me, I like short names the best..."
"It can display millions of polygons!"
"I definitely need it, as soon as possible!"

In 1993, it sounded like gibberish. But he was talking about the development of the N64 (aka: Project Reality). This screen shot is from Links Awakening DX, but it's still the same dialogue that was used in the original game.

That's a good one. I remember him saying that, but at the time ya, made no sense.

 

[lobdale]

Excuse the self-promotion, but I stumbled on one of my own recently...

http://www.n-sider.com/blog/2012/06/earthbound-and-evangelion-separated-at-birth

EarthBound reference in an episode of Evangelion (more information at link).

 

[Easy_D]

Well, Bowser DOES have a pretty weird facial expression..

 

[The Boat]

Excuse the self-promotion, but I stumbled on one of my own recently...

http://www.n-sider.com/blog/2012/06/earthbound-and-evangelion-separated-at-birth



EarthBound reference in an episode of Evangelion (more information at link).

Wow, good find!

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

Argh! It always drove me crazy how familiar that music was, but I could never put my finger on it. Well now I know. Nice find!

Yeah, I always recognized it as a child (because it always plays in that Shirley Temple commercial that STILL airs), but never connected them really.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Not sure if it's pointed out...

I just realized how awkward Mario is running in SMB3 and World. In idle, SMB3 Mario is fine, but when he starts to move he suddenly shifts his angle that it feels like he's running in a slanted position. Same with World. Yoshi suffers the same thing in World 2.

 

[mclaren777]

I just learned that the Xbox 360 has a QWERTY keyboard layout.

To change it: simply go to the Language settings and select the appropriate option.