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[Anyanka]

1. Blood code SNES MK II - friend claimed he knew how to enable blood. I asked him to do it and he started hitting random buttons on the controller. When we finally started fighting, I asked him, "Where is the blood?" He said, "Look, Johnny Cage is spitting white blood." (Pointing to the spit that would come out regardless of any codes entered)

Years later I read in some magazine a code for Game Shark (or whatever the thing was at the time) that changed the color of the spit from white to red (I don't know if that really worked).

There was a Game Genie code to turn the "sweat" red but it was pretty lame and you still had the weaksauce fatalities. Although I guess Raiden's and Sub-Zero's SNES fatals were kinda cool.

I always thought the sweat looked more like a dirty brown cloud. I've never quite understood how that was supposed to be sweat or blood or anything like that.

 

[bjork]

Ha, yeah... seems like there was always some kid who would claim to have a machine that could play every system's games all on one unit (mind you, this was like 1990, we didn't have FCEU/KGen/etc), and then when people would call him on it, he'd say his mom didn't let him have friends over, and that his dad would beat him if he took the machine out of the house.

Slightly related, I didn't believe console copiers existed until I saw one for SNES. Oddest thing I'd seen... fit over the cart slot of the SNES, and you fed 1.44 floppies into it. I think the guy who owned it said it was like $500 or something insane like that, too.

 

[3rdman]

This was recent...A kid I know swore up and down that he had a friend who has special copy of Halo that plays on his PS2. No matter how much I tried to explain the impossibility of it, he just wouldn't believe me. The kid is 14...Good kid, but man he's gullible.

 

[tehrik-e-insaaf]

>>.Slightly related, I didn't believe console copiers existed until I saw one for SNES. Oddest thing I'd seen... fit over the cart slot of the SNES, and you fed 1.44 floppies into it. I think the guy who owned it said it was like $500 or something insane like that, too.

Haha.. I think I have seen that... It was a CD burner though instead... It was called "Dr. Backup" or something weird like that... Maybe I am jumping into the N64 era ;-)

 

[Forgotten Ancient]

You could play as "Fire" in Mortal Kombat 2
Nudealities
Sheng Long (man, this was classic!)
Blood in MK1 for the SNES
Nude Raider (On the PSone)
hmm....I know there are others. I probably started a few

 

[Grifter]

Haha.. I think I have seen that... It was a CD burner though instead... It was called "Dr. Backup" or something weird like that... Maybe I am jumping into the N64 era ;-)

64. NES/SNES/Genny has floppies and some games required loading off of several disks.

 

[LakeEarth]

There was a Game Genie code to turn the "sweat" red but it was pretty lame and you still had the weaksauce fatalities. Although I guess Raiden's and Sub-Zero's SNES fatals were kinda cool.

I always thought the sweat looked more like a dirty brown cloud. I've never quite understood how that was supposed to be sweat or blood or anything like that.

I remember liking those made-up fatalities back in the day. The best one will always be Johnny Cages "foot in chest" move, just for its utter stupidity.

 

[Gio_CoD]

Ha, yeah... seems like there was always some kid who would claim to have a machine that could play every system's games all on one unit (mind you, this was like 1990, we didn't have FCEU/KGen/etc), and then when people would call him on it, he'd say his mom didn't let him have friends over, and that his dad would beat him if he took the machine out of the house.

Slightly related, I didn't believe console copiers existed until I saw one for SNES. Oddest thing I'd seen... fit over the cart slot of the SNES, and you fed 1.44 floppies into it. I think the guy who owned it said it was like $500 or something insane like that, too.

I knew a kid that had the exact same device. He told me his dad picked it up from China Town in NYC. It was a floppy drive that sat in the SNES slot. He had hundreds of games for the thing, but most of them were Japanese ones that I had never seen before.

 

[Gio_CoD]

I remember liking those made-up fatalities back in the day. The best one will always be Johnny Cages "foot in chest" move, just for its utter stupidity.

Didn't Kano reach in to his opponent's chest and grab absolutely nothing at all?

 

[Grifter]

I avoided the SNES version so I'm wondering what the made-up fatalities were as well.

 

[Gio_CoD]

I avoided the SNES version so I'm wondering what the made-up fatalities were as well.

From memory:

Liu Kang - the same as the arcade
Raiden - same as the arcade, but the enemy just dropped down and the head didn't explode
Johnny Cage - Shadow kick in the chest
Kano - grabs your chest but nothing comes out
Sonya - the same as the arcade
Scorpion - same as the arcade
Sub Zero - Threw an iceball at you, then ran up and uppercutted it into a million pieces.

 

[Jado]

???

I beat this game several times as a kid. If you can get past the seaweed without losing anyone, the rest of the game is a breeze.

TMNT1 was incredibly hard for most people. Most people barely believed me when I beat it at the age of 8. My friend (about 7-8 like me) had me come over because his 17-year old brother couldn't believe it himself and demanded I play through the whole game as proof.

I also heard of the Chocolate Factory one in SMB. I tried finding it for hours in the "night" stages, where I concluded it had to be since the bricks look like chocolate.

I had a friend, who only back in 1999 or 2000, swore that there was a Sonic game on SNES.

Months before the N64 was out, some kid lied about owning an Ultra 64.

Quite the opposite of making shit up: friend's brother did not believe me about Knights of the Round Table in FF VII until I showed him. He was pretty much stunned.

Shen Long, MK -alities, Tomb Raider and other games' nude codes, etc.

 

[Jim]

Building on what Anyanka was describing:

ermacs listing from the MK1 audits screen (pre T-Unit hardware):

And Midway's damn Kano Transformations joke from MKII audits:

MK rumors really were the king back in the day.

 

[Grifter]

From memory:

Liu Kang - the same as the arcade
Raiden - same as the arcade, but the enemy just dropped down and the head didn't explode
Johnny Cage - Shadow kick in the chest
Kano - grabs your chest but nothing comes out
Sonya - the same as the arcade
Scorpion - same as the arcade
Sub Zero - Threw an iceball at you, then ran up and uppercutted it into a million pieces.

Wow, great job. I recall the Sub Zero one now, that was a pretty good substitute. The Kano fatality sounds bizarre.

 

[Tech Nine]

The Acid Pit in MKII. Someoe told me thier was a way,that when you do the stage fatality,instead of falling into the acid pit,he falls on the hooks. Told me some stupid button combination you had to hold while doing it.

 

[Drinky Crow]

that animal crossing can be played and enjoyed by males

myth total

 

[radios shipping overview]

This one kid in junior high claimed that a friend of his was able to order Genesis games from Sega Visions for inflated prices before they were released. One of these was Sonic 3, supposedly. The kid claimed that the "missing" levels in Sonic 3's debug menu were present in this pre-release Sonic 3. It kind of reminds me of how Sonic 3 was split into two games prior to release, so it seems like there might be a grain of truth in it all...but it's likely all bullshit.

And there was always that one kid who claimed to know everything about the nude code in Genesis Mortal Kombat.

 

[argon]

Just a couple days ago I was discussing Zelda: Twilight Princess with a friend, and he blurts out "Yeah man.. it's going to be so awesome. especially since Zelda dies in this one"

Wonder where that one started.. Matt C?? =)

 

[Grug]

1. Blood code SNES MK II - friend claimed he knew how to enable blood. I asked him to do it and he started hitting random buttons on the controller. When we finally started fighting, I asked him, "Where is the blood?" He said, "Look, Johnny Cage is spitting white blood." (Pointing to the spit that would come out regardless of any codes entered)

The SNES MKII had full blood. I think your friend found a way to de-activate it! :lol

 

[ghibli99]

A friend said you can jump over the pole in Super Mario Bros.

:lol Oh man, I heard this one more than anything back then.

There were countless SF2 ones, too... throwing the soap in E.Honda's stage, throwing Guile's comb, etc. I'm probably butchering these, but man, did these run rampant back then.

The number of playground believers of the Sheng Long EGM joke was astounding, too.

 

[Ronabo]

While googling for Raiden's SNES MK1 fatality pic I came upon a video of a couple of dorks making fools of themselves in a music video for the Mortal Kombat techno song.

You can see it HERE

:lol

 

[LakeEarth]

From memory:

Liu Kang - the same as the arcade
Raiden - same as the arcade, but the enemy just dropped down and the head didn't explode
Johnny Cage - Shadow kick in the chest
Kano - grabs your chest but nothing comes out
Sonya - the same as the arcade
Scorpion - same as the arcade
Sub Zero - Threw an iceball at you, then ran up and uppercutted it into a million pieces.

Raiden's, you'd turn to ash and your skull would be on top of a pile of ash. The non-blood coded Genesis had the guy just fall down.

And yeah, Kano doens't grab anything at all. In fact, if you do the fatality on Sonya in the right position, it pretty much just looks like he's squeezing a tit.

 

[bjork]

The other one I remember is "if you put a genesis cart in and pull it out with the power on, and then put another game in without turning it off, you get [wonderful prizes]" I never tried it myself, but I don't see how it could be true.

 

[Grifter]

The other one I remember is "if you put a genesis cart in and pull it out with the power on, and then put another game in without turning it off, you get [wonderful prizes]" I never tried it myself, but I don't see how it could be true.

OK, I think that this was true to some extent in that you'd get something glitchy like unlimited lives, but my mind may be playing tricks on me.

 

[ghibli99]

The other one I remember is "if you put a genesis cart in and pull it out with the power on, and then put another game in without turning it off, you get [wonderful prizes]" I never tried it myself, but I don't see how it could be true.

Wow! :lol Might've been wishful thinking on SMS owners who knew about the secret snail game in that console.

 

[[Nintex]]

Just a couple days ago I was discussing Zelda: Twilight Princess with a friend, and he blurts out "Yeah man.. it's going to be so awesome. especially since Zelda dies in this one"

Wonder where that one started.. Matt C?? =)

That one is really old.
Just after the 2000 Zelda Tech demo and just before the unveiling of the windwaker there were rumors about the next Zelda game:
Half way of the game Ganondorf kills Zelda and Link travels to hell to revive her soul with the power of the triforce. The game would be 3discs and last over 150 hours , immense battle's with ganondorfs army's and even time traveling returned according to the "facts".

IGN had its own Windwaker 2 story before the TP unveiling;
Link uses his horse poseidon to free te land hyrule from evil!

One kid at school was absolutely sure that the GBA would launch with a Mariokart 64 remake and Mario 64.

 

[slayn]

the two rumors that I wanted to be true bad enough to actually try them were the whole fighting in the forest to get Leo back in FF6, and trying to find a way to get Schala back in Chrono Trigger.

I was also once told it was possible to get Golbez from ff4 in your party in ff6.



and then of course there was always, ALWAYS, sonic and tails in smash brothers. That rumor would never fuckign die.

 

[conker]

I remember a particularly good one.

It wasnt a rumor, it was just idiocy.
It was even published in some bullshit gaming magazine.
(I don't rmemeber which one)

Basically, they told people that the N64 wasn't really 64 bits.
It was only 60 bits, and you h ad to buy the 4 meg expansion pak to have 64 bits.

Yes, that's what it said.
I hope thta article was a joke, or an April Fool's thing. But I don't think it was.
And the sad thing is everyone who saw it beleieved it.

Sigh.

Oh, I also hate the other idiocy about the Jaguar being the first 64 bit system.
2 32 bit processors = 64 bits!!1111111!~~~~

That shit was like decade ago.

It saddens me that just a few years ago I had morons telling me that Microsoft was going to make Donkey Kong games because Rare owns Donkey Kong and Microsoft bought Rare.

 

[Snaku]

You can see it HERE

:lol

:lol The kid's face when he shouts MK is great.

 

[hooded pitohui]

I remember a lot of shit revolving around the Zelda games. Some kid at school was convinced that Battle of Olympus was actually Zelda III and that they had to change the name. :lol

There was a friend of our family who was convinced that Sony was going to release a Zelda game on the PSone to compete with Zelda 64. She claimed she had seen someone playing it and that it was definitely Link onscreen. :lol :lol

I remember wanting the General Leo thing in FFVI to be real. And I admit to having called Nintendo's player's hotline specifically to ask about what happens to Schala in Chrono Trigger.

 

[the year 20XX]

The other one I remember is "if you put a genesis cart in and pull it out with the power on, and then put another game in without turning it off, you get [wonderful prizes]" I never tried it myself, but I don't see how it could be true.

These are actually true. I remember some game mag (probably EGM) printing a bunch of 'cheats' like this for first-gen Genesis games.

I, uh, wish I had any evidence at all to back this up, because the way it is I'm just perpetuating a myth.

 

[Gio_CoD]

These are actually true. I remember some game mag (probably EGM) printing a bunch of 'cheats' like this for first-gen Genesis games.

I, uh, wish I had any evidence at all to back this up, because the way it is I'm just perpetuating a myth.

I've heard something like this for a lot of cartridge games. It wasn't actually a cheat, in as much as you'd make the game glitch out and weird shit would happen. Apparently you could do it in Ocarina of Time to make Link invincible.

 

[Victrix]

Actually true, I can confirm that

Probably not a great idea, but it worked

Fuck if I can remember what games it worked with, but I know a friend and I used it on the Genesis. Had some funny, actually useful cheat effects in some games. Rather odd...

 

[inthegray]

- psp plays ps2 games and dvds

- there is a move in sf2 where guile pulls out a gun and shoots the other guy (source: egm talking about things that would be cool, i think)

- Bison playable in SNES SFII

he is, using the game genie. i think you can play all 4 boss characters. the colors on your character are all messed up though. there's also a code for doing moves in the air, i believe. nonstop dragon punches!

 

[Grug]

I have new respect for the Mortal Kombat guys, seems like they really get a kick out of surprising their fans.

 

[shoplifter]

That Intellivision was better than Atari.

That was a lie.

OH HELL NAW

 

[vatstep]

While googling for Raiden's SNES MK1 fatality pic I came upon a video of a couple of dorks making fools of themselves in a music video for the Mortal Kombat techno song.

You can see it HERE

:lol

I usually hate videos like these but this one is great. The editing is hilarious and the roundhouse kicks and crouch punching are awesome. :lol

 

[djtiesto]

This isn't so much a myth really but just really wierd.


When I was in kindergarden, a classmate of mine was named "Justin Bailey".

At my last company, a fellow IT worker was named Vincent Valentine. Never found out his wife's name, would be hilarious if it turned out to be Jill.

Back to the original topic: When I was in middle school, Mortal Kombat's popularity was at an all-time high. When "Ermac" was revealed in EGM, to stuff like playing as the characters fighting in the Pit background in MK2, to playing as either Jade, Smoke, Noob Saibot, Kintaro, etc.

 

[Unresponsive Bee Victim]

My one friend was quite good at coming up with these, but they added intrigue to my gaming and they are fun to look back on:

In Pokemon that one cruise ship you go into, my friend told me you would meet Misty and Brock on it and fight Team Rocket there, after the fight you'd sink the ship and you play out the events from the show.

Also, on Cinnabar Island, inside that lab, you could find Mew if you tried hard enough.

The grass to outside of the fences in the starting village was blocked of, my friend told me there Pikablue, and other secret Pokemon were, you had to get HM 07, "Jump," to get there.

In Super Smash Brothers, if you got Giant Donkey Kong to take over 1000% damage before killing him, you would unlock Toad as a secret character.

These were total bull, but I still today wish they were true, I miss being 8 and trying to unlock these.

 

[Lyte Edge]

and on an unrelated note, i had another kid in the arcade spot my FLCL t-shirt and proceed to tell me they had already released more FLCL episodes in japan. said he "saw it on the internet". when i decided to humor him and ask him why they hadnt been fansubbed, he just had a blank stare on his face.

Reminds me of the "Dragonball AF" stuff I used to get at work from kids (and even a few adults) several years back, when DBZ was huge. It wasn't just kids saying they saw it on the internet, they would go into detail about how they saw the shows, and Goku goes Super Saiyan level 17 etc. etc. They would ask me "how do YOU know there isn't a DB AF?!?," and I'd get blank stares when I explained that Dragonball was in fact an older series, and GT had stopped being produced back in 1996.

the things you'll hear when working a gamestore though. just priceless

:lol So many stories, so much crap, and so little time.

 

[Ryck]

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HAHA great name :lol

 

[Unresponsive Bee Victim]

Reminds me of the "Dragonball AF" stuff I used to get at work from kids (and even a few adults) several years back, when DBZ was huge. It wasn't just kids saying they saw it on the internet, they would go into detail about how they saw the shows, and Goku goes Super Saiyan level 17 etc. etc. They would ask me "how do YOU know there isn't a DB AF?!?," and I'd get blank stares when I explained that Dragonball was in fact an older series, and GT had stopped being produced back in 1996.

I remember that, it was some fan made thing on the internet, but people took it as another GT. I had to use the same explaination you did to the countless believers. It was annoying to deal with them, but they were idiots. I mean most of them told me GT was better than Z. That's expected when you went to middle school during the DBZ Toonami days.

 

[Senretsu]

Tons of MKII ones. This was the pinnacle of the US arcade scene since the big craze of the 80s died out.

1) Ermac.
2) Another one I vividly remember was that in the stage where you could knock people into the acid in the background as a stage Fatality, you could also knock them through the steel door by pressing certain buttons while uppercutting "excellent!"


In Super Mario 64, You could get on top of the castle without using the cannon. Turned out to be true.

 

[Hermit]

A friend of mine claimed to have Super Mario 6 and 7 for the SNES. Obviously I didn't believe him, but it turned out to be somewhat true. The guy owned a copybox (you know, the device that used floppydiscs to play copied SNES games) and had a game called 'Super Mario 6' which was actually a Tiny Toons game in which you started out as Mario and later on transformed into a Tiny Toons character.

Super Mario 7 was something completely different, it was an actual platformer in which you played as Mario and could transform into different animals, for instance a kangaroo. Supposedly, this was an extension of the whole Tanooki-Mario thing from Mario Bros. 3. I was really intrigued by this game and never got to figure out what the fundaments for this game were. Unfortunately, my friend wasn't really fond of this game and we only played it once.

 

[vatstep]

A friend of mine claimed to have Super Mario 6 and 7 for the SNES. Obviously I didn't believe him, but it turned out to be somewhat true. The guy owned a copybox (you know, the device that used floppydiscs to play copied SNES games) and had a game called 'Super Mario 6' which was actually a Tiny Toons game in which you started out as Mario and later on transformed into a Tiny Toons character.

Super Mario 7 was something completely different, it was an actual platformer in which you played as Mario and could transform into different animals, for instance a kangaroo. Supposedly, this was an extension of the whole Tanooki-Mario thing from Mario Bros. 3. I was really intrigued by this game and never got to figure out what the fundaments for this game were. Unfortunately, my friend wasn't really fond of this game and we only played it once.

:lol

 

[TheJollyCorner]

FFVI had some:

-Seigfried/Zigfried was another hidden, playable character.
-Shadow's 7th (I think) dream
-Resurrection of General Leo
-some ridiculous side-quest to find out Gogo's identity (rumors of it being Daryl <sp>)

-FFVII was to be released on the SNES in winter 1995 and use the Super FX Chip for Donkey Kong Country '3D' graphics. I think GameFan had this in their 'rumor' section.

-Kid Icarus 2 for SNES in development. This one was ongoing.

-Getting the ambulance to work in Silent Hill 1, which also involved a bunch of other crap like taking one of the boats in the dock by the amusement part, and more stuff that I can't remember.

 

[bjork]

Reminds me of the "Dragonball AF" stuff I used to get at work from kids (and even a few adults) several years back, when DBZ was huge. It wasn't just kids saying they saw it on the internet, they would go into detail about how they saw the shows, and Goku goes Super Saiyan level 17 etc. etc. They would ask me "how do YOU know there isn't a DB AF?!?," and I'd get blank stares when I explained that Dragonball was in fact an older series, and GT had stopped being produced back in 1996.

I *STILL* get this shit from kids. It will never die.

 

[hobbitx]

You know another old one I remember was Street Fighter Vs. Mortal Kombat. I'd always hear people bring up how they saw it on a computer at school or a friends house. I was kind of skeptical, but then all my friends and even my sister and her friends got to come inside this one kids house whose mom normally never let him have company and they all say they saw and played it. This was in like 93 or 94 I believe, does anyone remember any homebrewed games like this?

 

[DJ_Tet]

Without reading the thread yet,

I helped spread the -1 world rumors around my playground. Of course I had already visited -1 on SMB, and was trying to tell my friends how to do it. However, my cascade of lies from K-5th grade caught up to me and they all thought I was full of shit.


HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW TRIPP?

-1 is real, and so is the method to get there ya bastard.

off to read the thread now, should be a good one

 

[DJ_Tet]

- A blood/full fatality code for SNES Mortal Kombat

- Bison playable in SNES SFII

And two of the OP's legends were true too, Im sure it's been covered in the thread but all you needed was a game genie and you had bloody (if not weak fatalities) in SNES MK, and you could 'play' as all the bosses in SFII. Good times, gaming's changed so much since those days, we've lost something in the translation.


edit---I guess the blood code only worked for MKII, damn it's been a long time.


edit II--I knew I wasn't going insane. MK II had full blood, and MK I needed the GG, SNES only obviously.