Videogame "Secrets" Myths

[DrDeath3191]

When we were young and gullible, we would often hear of our friends boasting about how they know how to play as Luigi in Super Mario 64, or some other 'secret' that turned out to be utter bullcrap. What videogame myths do you know about?

Here's one I learned about recently: the Tails-doll myth. This myth originated from Sonic R, the horrible racing game with the even more terrible music (Can you feel the sunshine?). The Tails-doll was an unlockable character who basically acted as a smaller version of Tails. However, many Sonic fans would tell you to leave that character locked. It was once believed (and still is, in small subsets of the Internet) that this character would put a curse on you, doing such things as messing with the game music (which is more of a blessing than a curse), to killing you in real life. The only 'curse' brought on by the character is that the framerate of the game take a dip when you're using him. How that managed to grow into a concept that I'm surprised hasn't become a horror movie yet is beyond me.

Spoiler: But can you blame them? Look at the thing! It's creepy as fuck!

 

[Aqualung]

Apparently, people are still looking for the seventeenth colossus, in Shadow of the Colossus.

...Yeah, good luck to them.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Don't remember too many nowadays.

I do recall a friend in middle school claiming there was a glitch in Ocarina of Time that allowed Epona to ride Link.

 

[Herb sewell]

I remember trying to push that truck hidden near the water in the original pokemans. I guess Mew was supposed to be back there or behind bill's house never made any sense but neither did a lot of other stuff in that game so it seemed viable.

 

[Jameshizzle]

Pokemon Red/Blue:
Beat the elite four 40 times and Professor oak gives you a Mewtwo.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

For foolery on an epic scale, we must never forget EGM and Sheng Long [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Long].

My mind reels trying to imagine how many people wasted money trying to get that to work.

 

[whycantibelinus]

That there was a code to use the lightsaber in the first Dark Forces......I searched everywhere on the internet for that shit, and read every single thing written thing about that game that I could find and to no avail. =-(

It turns out all I had to do was wait for the sequel.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Ocaraina of Time: If you run up and down the staircase just before the fight with Ganondorf you can see Vivi (FF9) in the stained-glass window. My friend was a dickhead.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I remember a bunch of the, "I own [insert N64/PSX exclusive] on the [Playstation/N64]"

I also remember the Pikablue/ Mew myth. Apparently, in Pokemon Red/ Blue, after the S.S. Anne section, if you lose a match you get warped off of the boat without it setting sail thus allowing you to re-enter that area which is true. It is also true that there is a truck on the dock. What isn't true [or, what I could never figure out/ get concrete evidence about] is the "fact" that once you move the truck, you'll be taken to a secret area in which you are able to catch everything from level 100 safari zone Pokemon to, Mew to, Pikablue.

I tried using strength to move the truck and I even found a key item called Secret Key or something but, nothing could get the damn thing to move >.<

 

[xXyZaThEx]

Wirt's Left Leg and the secret to fighting Deckard Cain, who was a level 65 Necromancer that could use all of Diablo's and Baal's spells without any mana cost or cooldown.

It involved a Tome of Identify, fifty level 52 Necromancer ears, two Wirt's Right legs, the Horadric Cube, and four SoJ's. Turns out it was just an elaborate scam to get free SoJ's. But i didn't actually get the Necro ears, so who's the real winner here?

 

[Silvance]

The whole "You can unlock Sonic in SSBM" thing was pretty widespread.

 

[Marter]

Pretty much the only myth I tried out was the truck in Pokemon Red/Blue. I really wanted a Mew at the time.

 

[BigEaZyE]

The gem in the middle of the chat/join games list in Diablo 2

 

[Lullabye]

Apparently, people are still looking for the seventeenth colossus, in Shadow of the Colossus.

...Yeah, good luck to them.

I heard about that. guy even told me he beat it./Bullshit

Half the glitches in games my friends told me they can do. Especially GoW.
Others involve getting on the other side of the entrance to the world in Shadow of the Colossus, Getting a rainbow chocobo(in any FF) and the one I have to disprove on a regular basis: Kuja is the unbeatable In FF Dissidia if you spam ultima.

 

[hopeneverdies]

The mystical Wheat Sword in Golden Sun TLA. A long, complex, process that was ruined if you forgot one stupid item. I am not making this up. You can read the walkthrough here.

 

[chronobreak]

I did this exact same thread back in July, and got some really good responses, but my personal story, which I thought was interesting, is in there too on the first page so here's the link to it: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.125806#2629873

snip.

Edit: Reading over it, You actually posted in that thread, and pretty much copied the title of mine.

My title: Fake video game "secrets"
Yours: Video game "secrets" myths

Yep, you've been caught. Fail.

 

[Nieroshai]

The whole "You can unlock Sonic in SSBM" thing was pretty widespread.

It was a game shark code, and he was just a skin for jigglypuff.

 

[lasherman]

Don't remember too many nowadays.

I do recall a friend in middle school claiming there was a glitch in Ocarina of Time that allowed Epona to ride Link.

In Soviet Russia, horse rides you! ...Sorry

 

[DrDeath3191]

I did this exact same thread back in July, and got some really good responses, but my personal story, which I thought was interesting, is in there too so here's the link to it: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.125806#2629873

Edit: Reading over it, You actually posted in that thread, and pretty much copied the title of it.

My title: Fake video game "secrets"
Yours: Video game "secrets" myths

Yep, you've been caught. Fail.

I just caught that I had posted in the thread. Whoopsie! Oh well, these things happen.