Yes there was an original version of this video from last week, that was age restricted and deleted for a nude code segment. This version removes that segment, replaces it with two new hoaxes and includes an intro. Enjoy!
I just love the idea someone worked tirelessly on a character only for them to be the most hidden thing ever and only unlockable by the most absurd, impossible and downright outrageous way known to man
I especially like the idea of Nintendo adding Luigi to Mario 64, and only vaguely hinting at his existence through a blurry sign that says “L is real” and expecting kids to figure out they’d need to run 2000 laps around to unlock him.
thats what im doing kinda. imma have one of the bosses in my game be an unlockable character by doing like the most stupid thing and having like a separate save file and everything
I remember making up my own "playground rumor" that if you complete Marineland in the Jumpstart MMO twice, and select the mermaid tail both times, you'd get the gold tail an NPC had. Only this year did I learn that it was a scrapped option, to the point that if you tried loading it in, it would show as the default- despite the NPC. I also remember the Club Penguin 60 Minute Ninja rumor, thinking it was a faster way to become a ninja than the official method.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Animal Crossing City Folk rumour that if you saw Resetti 50 times, he would delete your save file forcing you to start over. Many people got scared of losing their towns, although the deletion has never been confirmed.
It's definitely fake. The closest thing I can think of that matches what you're describing is the fake-out "Resetti deleting your town" from the Gamecube Animal Crossing. @@lrgogo1517
Funny how you included a segment about Totaka's song because there is actually an unsolved mystery that is the EXACT OPPOSITE. What I'm talking about is some mysterious Commodore 64 music tracks from British video game composer, Adam Gilmore that are titled "Mad". While these C64 .SID files are easily available online, it's unknown as to what game they were in, & Adam Gilmore himself has forgotten what they were for! I myself made a Lost Media Wiki article surrounding these mysterious pieces of music.
@@bluegum6438 that’s what happened with Ocean’s Flintstones game for the SNES. The reason why tracks like the password screen and the unused tracks sound so out of place is because the were just demos by the composer that ended up in the files
Here's a rumor that I've known about since I was a kid: BLiNX: the Time Sweeper has a fake cheat that was spread onto most game cheat sites. It says that the start gate will sometimes act like the goal gate if you jump early enough. The start gate is an entirely different object from the goal in the game's code and it's literally impossible for it to suddenly start acting like the goal. Coming in contact with the start gate sets Blinx's current movement state to 1 (jumping) and plays the closing animation for it. The game also runs at 30fps and allows you to hold A during the loading screen (if you aren't already holding it before the said loading screen starts) to do a jump on the first possible frame, proving that this is fake information.
I feel like if Totaka’s Song can’t be found in the files of a game, then it’s probably not in the game at all. I mean people are pretty good at datamining games now so I find it hard to believe that no one has even found the song in the files of the games.
The issue is it might not be just on the disc as an mp3 file, it might be something like a sound effect or soundfont used elsewhere in the game being pitched up and down in real-time to play the song. To find that I believe you'd have to decompile and read through the code, which is a monumental task that's only been done for a handful of games
I remember reading a guide for Mario 3D World that said you need to beat each level with every character to unlock Rosalina and the space world. I later found out that was false when my friend told me she got it from beating the game. I wasted so much time and somehow never noticed the rocketship taking you to the last world.
Those elementary school book stores with video game cheat codes were amazing. I remember they would allow us to look through those books and I remember finding one that had a Wii Sports cheat code where you could change the color of the bowling ball if you hold a direction down on the D-pad during the loading screen. I remember coming home trying it and it actually worked, it was one of the few times I could impress my older brother who didn't know about it. Kids today won't ever experience something magical like that now that the Internet is easier to access, which is sad to see.
I remember a kid at recess telling me about missing no and the infinite item glitch. I thought it would turn out to be fake like going behind Bill's house or the Mew under the bus. I got home and tried it, ready to have it not not and tell the kid he wss a liar tomorrow, then all of a sudden I am in a battle with this new Pokemon called Missing No and the infinite item glitch worked to. It felt so good to actually have a playground rumor turn about to be true.
I rip audio, primarily music from Nintendo DS games as a hobby. I recently went through Healthy Recipe Assistant only to find there are no music sequences in the game, two music streams, and many short sequences for the sound effect bank, none of these are or contain Totaka's song. Totaka's song is not present anywhere in the game unfortunately. I'll note, like you mentioned Totaka would compose for the system menu and applications of many of Nintendo's systems. Healthy Recipe Guide is much alike to a Wii or DSi System Application in function, which do not contain Totaka's Song. It's likely absent for the same reason, whatever that is.
15:24 reading it, I think they may be referencing soft resetting the console. I would have to pull out my copy of Soulcalibur to see if that is legit or just made up, but I do know soft resetting the DC using the face buttons + Start is a real thing and works in every game.
I fell for one once. It was when Pokémon Black and White was new, someone at school told me that i could get a Pikachu if i pressed A on the Pikachu bushes near Striaton city. You can imagine how well that went...
@@kongbanana8947I read on GameFAQs that yelling "GOTTA CATCH EM ALL" into your DS mic while the pokeball was shaking increased your chances of a successful catch. I think I might have tried whispering it once, but I was too shy to actually yell that out loud like a doofus, lol. Pretty sure it isn't true anyway.
@@kongbanana8947 Ha, that's funny. That's on the level of thinking that mashing the button at pedestrian crossings will make the green man appear quicker.
Does anyone else remember reading those gameinformer magazines? I remember one issue mentioning an upcoming spin off to Mario Maker called Star Fox Maker and it even came with a screenshot. I couldn't find the screenshot that was shown, but I did find many articles about the topic
Rumor I’ve heard as a kid: the whale from Wii Sports Resort could be shot by your plane. Every time I flew by it I would try my hardest to shoot it. Obviously nothing happened, but I was convinced something was waiting for me if I succeeded like a secret cabin you get from getting all the Ipoints.
The segment on fighting game characters from more obscure titles made me think about Gameboy Color game Dragon Ball Z Legendary Super Warriors, a late release and still one of my favorites. It came out in late 2002 and despite being fresh out of high school I ate up the online discussion about three hidden characters only available in the Japanese version. To this day I'm still not even sure if it was all a hoax or not as the game had some very weird unlock methods for stuff that was most definitely in the game and the characters in question aren't hyped as being more than a glorified pallet swap.
I remember waaaaay back in the day (around 93 or 94'), there was an April fools joke in a gaming magazine claiming street fighter 2 had fatalities. In the article, they provided multiple pics(I vividly remember one of the pics had dhalsim streching his neck lol) and even ways to do some of them.😂😂😂
i remember learning about the spiny-eared pichu event in hg/ss and laughing at my friend in the face. like yeah ill get a shiny pichu and bring it to this place, and your uncle works at nintendo too right? and my jaw dropping when it worked
There is some lost media for a game I played many years ago called Epic Mickey. First of all, after the second game released the studio shut down, and there was a third game in development that was cancelled. There are currently two pieces of concept art for the game, but nothing else. There is an article on it in the lost media wiki. The other piece regarding the game was that the game director Warren Spector had pitched an Epic Mickey movie trailer to Disney, the trailer has never been revealed to the public, and it is unknown if it still exists or not. The trailer does not have a page on the LMW, as the only source came from a Reddit AMA, which has only a picture left from it. The picture is on the Epic Mickey wiki. If I could have any help finding this, it would be a dream come true
A couple of rumors that wasted my time as a kid: -Unlock Wolfen as a playable vehicle in Star Fox 64 multiplayer mode by getting some absurd high score on Expert -Encounter "Gold Weapon" in FF7 by fighting 100 cactuars on Cactus Island
It’s crazy how the internet has made it so much harder to pass rumors. Like, we spent a whole night trying to beat 20 kills in cruel man melee to unlock Sonic 😂
Those Megaton pixels looked like Leela, Bender, and possibly Fry to me. A Futurama game that came out for PlayStation and Xbox in 2003 was also supposed to come out for GameCube, but was cancelled.
I remember when the "Zelda 3" event happened, I also remember someone on a forum I frequented releasing an encrypted rar file that supposedly contained the dumped rom, but nobody there ever figured out the password
I’d never even heard rumors about him… I had just assumed he was in the game, but I hadn’t unlocked him. I hadn’t found Luigi or Wario either, so it wasn’t like he was special or anything. and if you’d asked me then, I’d have told you he was on the cover art of the game. Suffice to say, child me was disappointed after 8 years when I finally opened the last door… and all I got was one lousy star.
I had a feeling that Metroid 64 one ended up being yet another hoax. All those gaming magazine hoax’s used to tick me off so much. Still haven’t forgiven EGM for that Mushroom Kingdom Hearts one to this day, GOD was I so hyped for that one being the Kingdom Hearts fan I was at the time I saw that. That Naruto Clash of Ninja one though, I never knew about. I mean I know of Rock Lee being a playable unlockable in the first game but Nine Tailed Naruto and Shariigan Kakashi? I’m pretty sure those were never playable until the sequels unless I’ve mistaken.
Bruh, I remember the mushroom kingdom hearts one too!! I was super into Kingdom Hearts as a teenager (Was KH3 awful or have I just grown up??) and I was so hyped for that. It's easy to forget how convincing rumors used to be for kids with no internet access who just had access to magazines and stuff. How are you supposed to know better?? I guess being in the April issue is a pretty big hint, but still.
Speaking of hoaxes, I had the game based on the 2002 Spiderman movie. I read somewhere that if you beat the game on the highest difficulty, you could unlock the Green Goblin as a playable character. Since all of the other cheats and unlocks were mostly just for power-ups and player skins, my BS detectors were going off big time. Much to my shock, you do actually get to play as the Green Goblin, glider and all.
I can remember that last hoax I fell for were the 2012 Minecraft PS3 hoaxes that existed shortly after the game was released on Xbox 360 at 14 years old. I remember so many people made videos to link to .rar file downloads that supposedly contained installation files, but the websites will require you to fill out surveys that can never be submitted. I remember spending a whole year on those hoaxes along with Xbox 360 fanboys at the time leaving insulting responses to my comments made me lose hope on a PS3 port coming out until it was officially announced shortly after entering that state of mind. Luckily, I got and enjoyed the actual port, but I ended up prefering the PC version more.
there is still rampant misinformation within seemingly reputable places for video game tips. a fnaf: security breach official guidebook (the security breach files: an afk book) gets the conditions for one of the endings wrong, saying that you need every golden plush. the true win condition is to have 39 collectibles.
There is a videogame rumor from almost a decade ago. I was talking with a man who owned a game store back in the 90s and the topic of the 3DO M2 came up. Now the 3DO M2 was a console that was cancelled a few months before release in 1997 and was far more powerful than the N64, but less powerful than the Dreamcast. He said that he had good connections with a warehouse in New Jersey that was supposed to ship them and that the consoles were still stored there as recent as 2014. As far as what warehouse, he refused to answer as he didn't want people sneaking into his friend's warehouse which is understandable. I will say that the prospect of a cancelled console's new stock hiding in a warehouse is exciting and makes me want to drive the 5 hours to get there.
I have to say, having not grown up with gaming magazines, it's kinda surprising to learn just how much misinformation they spread back in the day. I mean, it makes sense, since as you pointed out the bullshit articles would often be used to pad out the magazine in time for deadlines, but still, you'd think something as seemingly trustworthy as a large scale publication would avoid such practices.
in the style of the time, i played pokemon blue and in my 1 hour blocks of using the local libraries computer (default search engine yahoo on internet explorer) i had days of reading fansites and rumors and real cheats and fake cheats. all sorts of ones about raising a certain pokemon without rare candies, the magazine one where i was never quite sure Yellow had a Yoshi sprite because I fudged some of the steps. pikablu and 4th evolutions and "oaks secret garden" and mewthree (with the armor) were all things I tried. there was something about raising a starter then renaming it at mr fuji to evolve it to its 4th form, charcolt or sapisaur, or unlocking venustoise (from the anime)
I remember one about using the item finder 100 times on different tiles in Mt Moon to unlock something, I tried it of course haha I also remember something about a secret hm called Blast or something to get into Oak's garden, where you could catch any Pokemon
Sonic no doubt has had so many rumors over the decades. Plenty forgotten at this rate. One example is Sonic Genesis: The Origin of Chaos. There was never much about this game. All there is that Sonic would have traveled back into the past (again). This time to see the creation of the emeralds. Ironically, the mutated chao wasn't to have any involvement despite the name Chaos in the game's title. Eggman wants the emeralds at their strongest (guess we're going to ignore the existence of Super Emeralds; although they technically are the Chaos Emeralds). There was a supposed futuristic casino stage. This one likely hasn't become truly obscure yet; but there's Sonic Unlimited (or Sonic Rose). Sonic and Amy Rose would be the main characters. Amy would have more vertical originated stages; while Sonic would have occasional "situational" parkour. This game would apparently tie into Sonic Prime. There'd be a large focus on the two characters exploring relatively open areas to discover the true history of the hedgehog species. Tails built a flying base just to look for an artifact that ties into this lost history. Ironically, something that did technically come true was that the final boss in Frontiers resembles a moon to Sonic (or in the game rumored game's case it was supposed to be a reoccurring antagonist that is connected to the moon). Believe it or not, it was also claimed that the Sonic Prime cast would completely replace the current cast...despite the fact the reason for Sonic Prime having a drastically different cast is due to it being a Canadian production and there's a law in that country that ensures they mainly hire Canadian talent due to fears of American voice actors and actresses driving out competition. There are a couple of reboot rumors that went nowhere in the long run. One reboot rumor claims Sonic was supposed to get a new start in 2014. The main thing to note would be the focus on toys to life model. An official magazine (Electronic Gaming Magazine) talked about a Sonic Sega CD game different from Sonic CD that was to be called Sonic 2: Escape from Ring Zone. It was to feature graphical effects that are never seen in Sonic CD or even the actual Sonic 2. It's possible that plans for Sonic CD changed over time; like how there seemingly seems to be earlier story material for Mega Man X. However, it's more likely this one was made up. Other rumors that seemed to have been forgotten can be found on a SonicStadium forum called 'What rumors/false info from past Sonic games do you remember?'. A couple of highlights for me are include an old Unleashed rumor claiming that it would occur on a new world called Mubuz; with the new villain being a dragon named Immarius. Sonic would become a werehog to take on the infected inhabitants turned beast. Something else that was refereed to as Sonic Excursion. Apparently there was a rather old rumor to rival PokeGods and that was the claim you could unlock a chaos chao garden. Which doesn't even make sense since there's a large focus on hero and dark unlike in Adventure 1 and the neutral garden is basically the starting garden. Another but less crazy one is Hawaiian shirt Shadow in Sonic Boom. A forgotten Sonic Heroes cheat code that required you to input in a rival fight just to have playable Super Sonic. There was Sonic Dimensions; which was a big rumor back then. You'd basically play as multiple Sonics that had different colored fur and they would lose different amount of rings. The last one I'm willing to mention is just silly; Eggman was going to evolve into a walrus at the end of Unleashed. Whoever came up with that last one must have been laughing their butts off.
I remember I relived that rumor of Super Mario 64 having Luigi, cause yea he was in the game as show on the box but there was required text saying "Did you pound the two columns? better save Luigi!" and that made me think I unlocked him another secret way meaning there was another level. I also thought that since I unlocked Luigi a secret way that bypassed the text alluding to how to Save Wario.
I remember an article in EGM that said you could unlock Sheng Long in Street Fighter 2. Was that just a hoax or real? I honestly can’t remember, it was SO long ago…
I remember I fell for the hoax in EGM that you could unlock Sonic in Super Smash Bros Melee by some ridiculously hard challenge. I don't remember what the challenge was, but I tried it for weeks and never unlocked sonic.
I love your videos, man. Both the lost media videos and not. I just wanted to say that. Also 0:20 What a coincidence I see Mega Man there, since I'm playing Mega Man XDiVE Offline as of typing. Going great there, by the way, I just unlocked all of my mains from the original version.
Hey LSupersonicQ I know this video is diffrent from your lost media videos, but the Blues clues pilot blue prints was found about 2 weeks ago, I was wondering what your thoughts on it are.
3:56 So in terms of Metriod 64, the two companies could have been RareWare or DMA (aka Rockstar) because of their success in the industry at the time of the rumors. A member of the youtube channel DidYouKnowGaming was able to get ahold of anonymous low-level devs from Rare and Jamie King who cofounded Rockstar. They all said that they heard about the rumors and that they were just rumors and weren't part of the game's supposed development. I have originally watched it all in a compilation video, but I found the original DYKG video here: ruclips.net/video/ZQ8xa4drduQ/видео.htmlsi=XwWgGJJKsFTBlSXc?t=1299 (timestamp included regarding what was mentioned before). I just thought about sharing this since I the idea of Metriod 64 is still in my mind.
back in the gta san andreas days, i was super invested in the conspiracies online. bigfoot, leatherface, aliens, ghosts in the woods, etc. i tried so many things to try to capture anything strange with the camera lol.
I seem to recall a rumor from years ago involving Pokemon Snap 2. No, not New Pokemon Snap. Instead, it was a bogus rumor that claimed you would literally be hunting Pokemon. Not sure if it was meant to be satire or if the person who created it really was trying to trick people. I tried looking for it recently, but either the website that had that small snippet of text is long gone or the rumor was effectively buried deep away once New Pokemon Snap became a thing. I don't believe it was ever a particularly big rumor.
I remember falling for a fake Animal Crossing: Wild World cheat on GameWinners back in the day. It said to visit Nook's shop on the dead of night and knock on the back of his store with a shovel until a wall broke. Then Nook would let you in to do some late night shopping. I had no idea at the time that this cheat was distorted from the actual secret in one of the JP-exclusive AC titles. Plus my young self didn't want to mess with the DS clock, so I actually stayed up late to try out the cheat and ended up going to be feeling stupid.
Actually, there is another instance of "Rankles". In Sonic Archie comics, where Knuckles fused with The Master Emerald. That way, for quite a few issues, Knuckles was just green, empowered by the Master Emerald energy.
im not sure if its lost media but i believe there was one "unlockable character" rumor i may have saw in a magazine yet haunts me to this day (then again it could have been my young child mind imagining what's in rusty bucket bay). basically the rumor was that there was a hooded person in rusty bucket bay. if you go to them and interacted with them you would have been able to switch to a blonde bear character with spiky hair that had none of kazooies abilities. i thought it was neat as a kid but i later realize that blonde spiky bear is just a recolor of banjo made to look a bit like cloud (witch is odd cause i NEVER played final fantasy at all). so maybe it was from a magazine or guide or something? im not sure
Not sure if this constitutes as forgotten as it's still easy to find "information" on this fake Fire Emblem game. However, the Fire Emblem fanbase understandably stopped talking about it for years now. The rumored title was Fire Emblem: Blue Sacred Sword and Red Demon Lance. It was meant to take place in the same continent as Blazing Sword and Binding Blade. The main characters were to be the princess of Bern and prince of Lycia. It was meant for the 3DS. Ironically, there was a Fire Emblem announced for the 3DS. However, it wasn't the blatantly false rumored title. It was instead Fire Emblem Awakening; which in itself takes place long after a previous Fire Emblem game (New Mystery of the Emblem).
Soul Calibur was called Soul Edge on the Dreamcast (and Saturn, or Playstation, or both. I owned it for DC). I remember when the name was changed to Soul Caliber, when the games moved on to multi console releases.
My favorite one that's real that sounds fake as fuck... Starfox: In level 2, you have to shoot three rock pillars in a row dead center RIGHT before they hit you, and then a floating head will appear that you have to shoot. It will turn into a black hole, where you can then warp to different routes
Except that one is technically true. In NES Metroid; she'll either be wearing her armor, regular clothes, or in her undies and bra depending on how much time you spent. In Fusion and Zero Mission, you get to see her wearing civilian clothing on some endings. Factors are time, difficulty, and item collection percentage.
When I was a kid I bought rumors about Waluigi in Super Mario 64 DS hook line and sinker, to the point where it’s probably my most completed game in the series just because I would hardfocus every theory I heard, which often included getting all the stars. It got to the point where I started taking ‘advice’ on it from a special needs kid I’d sit next to on the bus who would tell me that there’s a hidden cannon in Tall Tall Mountain that would shoot me to where I could unlock him. Kept me busy at least.
I remember spending hours searching about secrets and cheats for Zelda games in the mid 00s, most notably Ocarina of Time and at least half of them were completely false (good old Overture of Sages, Beta Quest, Unicorn Fountain under Zora's Domain, Biggoron's Dungeon in TMC, permanent Fierce Deity Link in MM without glitches, etc.), but it's funny nowadays because a lot of them were only fun glitches that became extremely important years later for speedrunning, like Ocarina Items, Forest Escape (usually with cartridge tilting, but I remember reading about Navi Dive), Swordless Link, even some minor things that helped discover Item Manipulation a lot later. Magazines were such a shitshow for hoaxes at the time, I'm too young to have read any of them myself, but I've read a lot about these online, from Sheng Long in SF2, Ermac in MK, Nuder Raider, Luigi in Mario 64 (L is real, of course), Peach in SSBM, All Bonds in GoldenEye 007, resurrecting Aerith, all that "good" shit. I understand they had to publish something and if they had an "exclusive" news, it would attract readers, but that's so deceptive, it's kinda incredible that nobody cared. It's also kinda funny that those rumours persisted into the 10s, with things like Herobrine in Minecraft, all those fake Pokémon leaks or hell, even Polybius in a certain way. They're nowhere near as common as in the 90s / 00s, but they're still here, people are still falling for fake rumours becasue they want to believe.
i remember all the way back in 2000, my uncle and his friends were playing Driver 2, and there was a rumor about a hidden switch at the church, he and his friends never found it nor did i when i tried xD found out it was a rumor that spread all the way back then. dunno how they found out about it but i guess he had the internet back then XD
Why is no one talking about the Luigi with teeth in thumbnail? He looks like he’s wearing old peoples gums in his teeth, they are so wide and uncanny. He’s trying to show them off like this pictures in the dentist. It just feels weird Lol.??
Pretty well known at this point that Metroid 64 became the GameCube Metroid game because the development cycle of the 64 ended and rather than scrapping all of their progress they moved it over to the GameCube platform.
I think the first rumor that someone told me that was actually true was MISSINGO. It just sounds so fake and arbitrary, but at least it's easy to try out and doesn't waste a lot of your time like a lot of rumored secrets.
"fake cheat codes" *God dammit dude, those things were ruining me when i was younger,* i wasn't even able to trust anything that could give me infinite rare candies or master balls from legit sources
Yes there was an original version of this video from last week, that was age restricted and deleted for a nude code segment. This version removes that segment, replaces it with two new hoaxes and includes an intro. Enjoy!
A new piece of LSSQ lost media 😳😳😳
Hey that means i saw lost media lol
Good thing I downloaded it.
@@TravelingCoder release it
It's weird how many nude code hoaxes there were considering how often I watch odd header and see that there actually was nude codes in some games
I just love the idea someone worked tirelessly on a character only for them to be the most hidden thing ever and only unlockable by the most absurd, impossible and downright outrageous way known to man
Yes... they clocked in. Worked on it. Clocked out. Just like anyone else at work.
@@TheSultan1470😂😂😂😂😂😂
I especially like the idea of Nintendo adding Luigi to Mario 64, and only vaguely hinting at his existence through a blurry sign that says “L is real” and expecting kids to figure out they’d need to run 2000 laps around to unlock him.
thats what im doing kinda. imma have one of the bosses in my game be an unlockable character by doing like the most stupid thing and having like a separate save file and everything
Are you the Overini?
I remember making up my own "playground rumor" that if you complete Marineland in the Jumpstart MMO twice, and select the mermaid tail both times, you'd get the gold tail an NPC had.
Only this year did I learn that it was a scrapped option, to the point that if you tried loading it in, it would show as the default- despite the NPC.
I also remember the Club Penguin 60 Minute Ninja rumor, thinking it was a faster way to become a ninja than the official method.
I remember following the Club Penguin Ninja rumors before Ninjas were added to the game.
Club Penguin had so many hoaxes and rumors you could probably write an entire book about it.
I'm surprised neither of you commented on the "self made rumor" half, goes to show the fame of funny Penguin MMO.
Lmaoooo if there was a rumor I remembered from Club Penguin was that penguins could have an egg (a child) on their own 😂
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Animal Crossing City Folk rumour that if you saw Resetti 50 times, he would delete your save file forcing you to start over. Many people got scared of losing their towns, although the deletion has never been confirmed.
I remember watching video footage of it. Was that fake? I can’t seem to recall any obvious tells in retrospect…
It's definitely fake. The closest thing I can think of that matches what you're describing is the fake-out "Resetti deleting your town" from the Gamecube Animal Crossing. @@lrgogo1517
I don't fully remember, but I think he already mentioned it in a previously
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Funny how you included a segment about Totaka's song because there is actually an unsolved mystery that is the EXACT OPPOSITE. What I'm talking about is some mysterious Commodore 64 music tracks from British video game composer, Adam Gilmore that are titled "Mad". While these C64 .SID files are easily available online, it's unknown as to what game they were in, & Adam Gilmore himself has forgotten what they were for! I myself made a Lost Media Wiki article surrounding these mysterious pieces of music.
there's a good chance they were just demos. Are we sure they were for games?
@@noaht2005 Honestly at this point it's anyone's guess as to what they were for.
@@ExtremeWreck It wasn’t uncommon cor C64 devs to make music for the sake of making music
@@noaht2005 It seems like good sense to make a tune when you're in the mood and figure out what to put it in later
@@bluegum6438 that’s what happened with Ocean’s Flintstones game for the SNES. The reason why tracks like the password screen and the unused tracks sound so out of place is because the were just demos by the composer that ended up in the files
Here's a rumor that I've known about since I was a kid:
BLiNX: the Time Sweeper has a fake cheat that was spread onto most game cheat sites. It says that the start gate will sometimes act like the goal gate if you jump early enough. The start gate is an entirely different object from the goal in the game's code and it's literally impossible for it to suddenly start acting like the goal. Coming in contact with the start gate sets Blinx's current movement state to 1 (jumping) and plays the closing animation for it. The game also runs at 30fps and allows you to hold A during the loading screen (if you aren't already holding it before the said loading screen starts) to do a jump on the first possible frame, proving that this is fake information.
Game cheat sites were always full of complete nonsense written by children side-by-side with true information, it was wild
@@bluegum6438my favorite one was holding down+B to increase chances of catching a Pokémon.
I misremembered it as A+B.
@@lmno567 it was Down+B for me but yeah for sure, that's a classic
@@bluegum6438 you are correct, I misremembered that one.
Or shadow lugia in pokemon rumble
I feel like if Totaka’s Song can’t be found in the files of a game, then it’s probably not in the game at all. I mean people are pretty good at datamining games now so I find it hard to believe that no one has even found the song in the files of the games.
The issue is it might not be just on the disc as an mp3 file, it might be something like a sound effect or soundfont used elsewhere in the game being pitched up and down in real-time to play the song. To find that I believe you'd have to decompile and read through the code, which is a monumental task that's only been done for a handful of games
I wonder if anyone's tried just asking him if the song is in those games or not
I remember reading a guide for Mario 3D World that said you need to beat each level with every character to unlock Rosalina and the space world.
I later found out that was false when my friend told me she got it from beating the game. I wasted so much time and somehow never noticed the rocketship taking you to the last world.
There is actually a reward for beating every stage with every character, it's just incredibly minor
Those elementary school book stores with video game cheat codes were amazing. I remember they would allow us to look through those books and I remember finding one that had a Wii Sports cheat code where you could change the color of the bowling ball if you hold a direction down on the D-pad during the loading screen. I remember coming home trying it and it actually worked, it was one of the few times I could impress my older brother who didn't know about it.
Kids today won't ever experience something magical like that now that the Internet is easier to access, which is sad to see.
I remember a kid at recess telling me about missing no and the infinite item glitch. I thought it would turn out to be fake like going behind Bill's house or the Mew under the bus.
I got home and tried it, ready to have it not not and tell the kid he wss a liar tomorrow, then all of a sudden I am in a battle with this new Pokemon called Missing No and the infinite item glitch worked to.
It felt so good to actually have a playground rumor turn about to be true.
I rip audio, primarily music from Nintendo DS games as a hobby. I recently went through Healthy Recipe Assistant only to find there are no music sequences in the game, two music streams, and many short sequences for the sound effect bank, none of these are or contain Totaka's song. Totaka's song is not present anywhere in the game unfortunately.
I'll note, like you mentioned Totaka would compose for the system menu and applications of many of Nintendo's systems. Healthy Recipe Guide is much alike to a Wii or DSi System Application in function, which do not contain Totaka's Song. It's likely absent for the same reason, whatever that is.
15:24 reading it, I think they may be referencing soft resetting the console. I would have to pull out my copy of Soulcalibur to see if that is legit or just made up, but I do know soft resetting the DC using the face buttons + Start is a real thing and works in every game.
@LSuperSonicQ
Please try this
I fell for one once.
It was when Pokémon Black and White was new, someone at school told me that i could get a Pikachu if i pressed A on the Pikachu bushes near Striaton city.
You can imagine how well that went...
There was one where mashing buttons supposedly upped your chance of catching a pokemon
@@kongbanana8947 I know.
Never believed it tho.
@@kongbanana8947I read on GameFAQs that yelling "GOTTA CATCH EM ALL" into your DS mic while the pokeball was shaking increased your chances of a successful catch. I think I might have tried whispering it once, but I was too shy to actually yell that out loud like a doofus, lol. Pretty sure it isn't true anyway.
@@kongbanana8947 Ha, that's funny. That's on the level of thinking that mashing the button at pedestrian crossings will make the green man appear quicker.
Does anyone else remember reading those gameinformer magazines? I remember one issue mentioning an upcoming spin off to Mario Maker called Star Fox Maker and it even came with a screenshot. I couldn't find the screenshot that was shown, but I did find many articles about the topic
Rumor I’ve heard as a kid: the whale from Wii Sports Resort could be shot by your plane. Every time I flew by it I would try my hardest to shoot it. Obviously nothing happened, but I was convinced something was waiting for me if I succeeded like a secret cabin you get from getting all the Ipoints.
The segment on fighting game characters from more obscure titles made me think about Gameboy Color game Dragon Ball Z Legendary Super Warriors, a late release and still one of my favorites. It came out in late 2002 and despite being fresh out of high school I ate up the online discussion about three hidden characters only available in the Japanese version. To this day I'm still not even sure if it was all a hoax or not as the game had some very weird unlock methods for stuff that was most definitely in the game and the characters in question aren't hyped as being more than a glorified pallet swap.
I remember waaaaay back in the day (around 93 or 94'), there was an April fools joke in a gaming magazine claiming street fighter 2 had fatalities. In the article, they provided multiple pics(I vividly remember one of the pics had dhalsim streching his neck lol) and even ways to do some of them.😂😂😂
i remember learning about the spiny-eared pichu event in hg/ss and laughing at my friend in the face. like yeah ill get a shiny pichu and bring it to this place, and your uncle works at nintendo too right? and my jaw dropping when it worked
the New Segments.
10:48: Rankles the Otter Story
22:18: The Megaton Rumor
There is some lost media for a game I played many years ago called Epic Mickey. First of all, after the second game released the studio shut down, and there was a third game in development that was cancelled. There are currently two pieces of concept art for the game, but nothing else. There is an article on it in the lost media wiki. The other piece regarding the game was that the game director Warren Spector had pitched an Epic Mickey movie trailer to Disney, the trailer has never been revealed to the public, and it is unknown if it still exists or not. The trailer does not have a page on the LMW, as the only source came from a Reddit AMA, which has only a picture left from it. The picture is on the Epic Mickey wiki. If I could have any help finding this, it would be a dream come true
My Space was around & VERY POPULAR during the early to mid 2000’s before RUclips & Facebook took off.
A couple of rumors that wasted my time as a kid:
-Unlock Wolfen as a playable vehicle in Star Fox 64 multiplayer mode by getting some absurd high score on Expert
-Encounter "Gold Weapon" in FF7 by fighting 100 cactuars on Cactus Island
It’s crazy how the internet has made it so much harder to pass rumors.
Like, we spent a whole night trying to beat 20 kills in cruel man melee to unlock Sonic 😂
I love gaming rumors and hoaxes, please make more videos like these!
Those Megaton pixels looked like Leela, Bender, and possibly Fry to me. A Futurama game that came out for PlayStation and Xbox in 2003 was also supposed to come out for GameCube, but was cancelled.
I remember when the "Zelda 3" event happened, I also remember someone on a forum I frequented releasing an encrypted rar file that supposedly contained the dumped rom, but nobody there ever figured out the password
It was probably malware anyway.
Luigi is so awesome i wish italians were real
Me too 😔
Yea
You're not gonna talk about Waluigi in Mario 64 da are you? The guy actually made an article about how they faked it.
He Did In A Older Video
@@Potatoanything which video was it?
@@kekcrocgod6731 let me look
I’d never even heard rumors about him… I had just assumed he was in the game, but I hadn’t unlocked him. I hadn’t found Luigi or Wario either, so it wasn’t like he was special or anything. and if you’d asked me then, I’d have told you he was on the cover art of the game.
Suffice to say, child me was disappointed after 8 years when I finally opened the last door… and all I got was one lousy star.
He said lesser known ones
These are all true, my dad works at nintendo/sony/xbox/sega/steam/mobile
@EverhadoneofthosedaysGoogle play
I had a feeling that Metroid 64 one ended up being yet another hoax. All those gaming magazine hoax’s used to tick me off so much. Still haven’t forgiven EGM for that Mushroom Kingdom Hearts one to this day, GOD was I so hyped for that one being the Kingdom Hearts fan I was at the time I saw that.
That Naruto Clash of Ninja one though, I never knew about. I mean I know of Rock Lee being a playable unlockable in the first game but Nine Tailed Naruto and Shariigan Kakashi? I’m pretty sure those were never playable until the sequels unless I’ve mistaken.
Bruh, I remember the mushroom kingdom hearts one too!! I was super into Kingdom Hearts as a teenager (Was KH3 awful or have I just grown up??) and I was so hyped for that. It's easy to forget how convincing rumors used to be for kids with no internet access who just had access to magazines and stuff. How are you supposed to know better?? I guess being in the April issue is a pretty big hint, but still.
Wait, was this hoax the reason Sora was added to Smash Ultimate?
15:25 Your first mistake was believing CheatCC was a valid source for cheats.
Speaking of hoaxes, I had the game based on the 2002 Spiderman movie. I read somewhere that if you beat the game on the highest difficulty, you could unlock the Green Goblin as a playable character. Since all of the other cheats and unlocks were mostly just for power-ups and player skins, my BS detectors were going off big time. Much to my shock, you do actually get to play as the Green Goblin, glider and all.
I can remember that last hoax I fell for were the 2012 Minecraft PS3 hoaxes that existed shortly after the game was released on Xbox 360 at 14 years old. I remember so many people made videos to link to .rar file downloads that supposedly contained installation files, but the websites will require you to fill out surveys that can never be submitted. I remember spending a whole year on those hoaxes along with Xbox 360 fanboys at the time leaving insulting responses to my comments made me lose hope on a PS3 port coming out until it was officially announced shortly after entering that state of mind. Luckily, I got and enjoyed the actual port, but I ended up prefering the PC version more.
there is still rampant misinformation within seemingly reputable places for video game tips. a fnaf: security breach official guidebook (the security breach files: an afk book) gets the conditions for one of the endings wrong, saying that you need every golden plush. the true win condition is to have 39 collectibles.
NES prototypes can absolutely be played in retail NES consoles.
I still can’t believe that the Mew truck rumour managed to reach six year old me in school in Sweden in 2000. None of us used the internet
That render of luigi with realistic teeth will be engraved in my mind until the end of time
That might be the worst Luigi render I ever seen (Thank God he got better and attractive overtime)
@@mariajimenafigueroa233 “attractive” pardon me but what do you mean by that?
@@_smb4568_ Oh, nothing
@@_smb4568_ Oh, nothing! Te-he-he!
There is a videogame rumor from almost a decade ago. I was talking with a man who owned a game store back in the 90s and the topic of the 3DO M2 came up. Now the 3DO M2 was a console that was cancelled a few months before release in 1997 and was far more powerful than the N64, but less powerful than the Dreamcast. He said that he had good connections with a warehouse in New Jersey that was supposed to ship them and that the consoles were still stored there as recent as 2014. As far as what warehouse, he refused to answer as he didn't want people sneaking into his friend's warehouse which is understandable. I will say that the prospect of a cancelled console's new stock hiding in a warehouse is exciting and makes me want to drive the 5 hours to get there.
I have to say, having not grown up with gaming magazines, it's kinda surprising to learn just how much misinformation they spread back in the day. I mean, it makes sense, since as you pointed out the bullshit articles would often be used to pad out the magazine in time for deadlines, but still, you'd think something as seemingly trustworthy as a large scale publication would avoid such practices.
Who cares
@@TheSultan1470me.
The original version is not the first LSuperSonicQ lost media, and certainly not the last
Guess I now have my own lost media: my comment on the original video
@@emirvmendoza Me too.
I had those cheat codes books for the PSP in 2007. Good times
in the style of the time, i played pokemon blue and in my 1 hour blocks of using the local libraries computer (default search engine yahoo on internet explorer) i had days of reading fansites and rumors and real cheats and fake cheats.
all sorts of ones about raising a certain pokemon without rare candies, the magazine one where i was never quite sure Yellow had a Yoshi sprite because I fudged some of the steps.
pikablu and 4th evolutions and "oaks secret garden" and mewthree (with the armor) were all things I tried. there was something about raising a starter then renaming it at mr fuji to evolve it to its 4th form, charcolt or sapisaur, or unlocking venustoise (from the anime)
I remember one about using the item finder 100 times on different tiles in Mt Moon to unlock something, I tried it of course haha
I also remember something about a secret hm called Blast or something to get into Oak's garden, where you could catch any Pokemon
Oh my god, Pikablu. That unlocked so many memories.
Sonic no doubt has had so many rumors over the decades. Plenty forgotten at this rate.
One example is Sonic Genesis: The Origin of Chaos. There was never much about this game. All there is that Sonic would have traveled back into the past (again). This time to see the creation of the emeralds. Ironically, the mutated chao wasn't to have any involvement despite the name Chaos in the game's title. Eggman wants the emeralds at their strongest (guess we're going to ignore the existence of Super Emeralds; although they technically are the Chaos Emeralds). There was a supposed futuristic casino stage.
This one likely hasn't become truly obscure yet; but there's Sonic Unlimited (or Sonic Rose). Sonic and Amy Rose would be the main characters. Amy would have more vertical originated stages; while Sonic would have occasional "situational" parkour. This game would apparently tie into Sonic Prime. There'd be a large focus on the two characters exploring relatively open areas to discover the true history of the hedgehog species. Tails built a flying base just to look for an artifact that ties into this lost history.
Ironically, something that did technically come true was that the final boss in Frontiers resembles a moon to Sonic (or in the game rumored game's case it was supposed to be a reoccurring antagonist that is connected to the moon). Believe it or not, it was also claimed that the Sonic Prime cast would completely replace the current cast...despite the fact the reason for Sonic Prime having a drastically different cast is due to it being a Canadian production and there's a law in that country that ensures they mainly hire Canadian talent due to fears of American voice actors and actresses driving out competition.
There are a couple of reboot rumors that went nowhere in the long run. One reboot rumor claims Sonic was supposed to get a new start in 2014. The main thing to note would be the focus on toys to life model.
An official magazine (Electronic Gaming Magazine) talked about a Sonic Sega CD game different from Sonic CD that was to be called Sonic 2: Escape from Ring Zone. It was to feature graphical effects that are never seen in Sonic CD or even the actual Sonic 2. It's possible that plans for Sonic CD changed over time; like how there seemingly seems to be earlier story material for Mega Man X. However, it's more likely this one was made up.
Other rumors that seemed to have been forgotten can be found on a SonicStadium forum called 'What rumors/false info from past Sonic games do you remember?'. A couple of highlights for me are include an old Unleashed rumor claiming that it would occur on a new world called Mubuz; with the new villain being a dragon named Immarius. Sonic would become a werehog to take on the infected inhabitants turned beast. Something else that was refereed to as Sonic Excursion. Apparently there was a rather old rumor to rival PokeGods and that was the claim you could unlock a chaos chao garden. Which doesn't even make sense since there's a large focus on hero and dark unlike in Adventure 1 and the neutral garden is basically the starting garden.
Another but less crazy one is Hawaiian shirt Shadow in Sonic Boom. A forgotten Sonic Heroes cheat code that required you to input in a rival fight just to have playable Super Sonic. There was Sonic Dimensions; which was a big rumor back then. You'd basically play as multiple Sonics that had different colored fur and they would lose different amount of rings. The last one I'm willing to mention is just silly; Eggman was going to evolve into a walrus at the end of Unleashed. Whoever came up with that last one must have been laughing their butts off.
I am the eggman, I am the walrus, goo-goo-gajoob
The fact this vid reminded me of the Mew under a truck hoax and other hoaxes is pretty telling how often this sticks in the mind.
I remember I relived that rumor of Super Mario 64 having Luigi, cause yea he was in the game as show on the box but there was required text saying "Did you pound the two columns? better save Luigi!" and that made me think I unlocked him another secret way meaning there was another level. I also thought that since I unlocked Luigi a secret way that bypassed the text alluding to how to Save Wario.
I remember an article in EGM that said you could unlock Sheng Long in Street Fighter 2. Was that just a hoax or real? I honestly can’t remember, it was SO long ago…
I swear we had one of those cheat code books, but I think for the most part my dad just printed off cheats from the internet for my siblings.
21:41
Seeing that wii main menu honestly dragged me straight back to 2007. Colours just seemed more vibrant on TV's back then
OMG.... Rancles in the thumb nail. I DO remember him. :D I was obsessed with him as a kid & it really pissed my friends off.
“GRRR The Lion King, wild cat or pussy ?” Had me dead💀
I remember I fell for the hoax in EGM that you could unlock Sonic in Super Smash Bros Melee by some ridiculously hard challenge. I don't remember what the challenge was, but I tried it for weeks and never unlocked sonic.
1:48 lol those screens are just Half-Life with a samus model added in
14:06 I haven't gone on GameWinners in AGES and I completely forgot it existed. It's good to see it again after all these years
I totally forgot about those Cheat Code books 😂 nostalgia af
Only True fan have seen the original video
I love that one of the Metroid 64 "screen shots" is a half-life mod
I love your videos, man. Both the lost media videos and not. I just wanted to say that.
Also 0:20 What a coincidence I see Mega Man there, since I'm playing Mega Man XDiVE Offline as of typing. Going great there, by the way, I just unlocked all of my mains from the original version.
RANKLES THE OTTER. 🤣
Holy crap, that is brilliant
The Luigi in the thumbnail is plain terrifying... I know it's an official render, but where does it come from?
A magazine cover i think
Electronic gaming monthly or nintendo power i think
Who remembers the old thumbnail?
How was the old thumbnail?
That Nintendo difference thing made me think of the Triforce Arcade board made by SEGA, Capcom and Nintendo
Gamefaqs was my cheat code source as a kid, also animal crossing fishing guide.
Rankles, the original Graggle Simpson
11:37, "Graphic design is my passion"
1:49 bruh I think these are Half-Life screenshots with samus modded in XD
Yoo that's me in the Totaka's Song part there 👀We gotta find more of this guy's easter egg songs
Hey LSupersonicQ I know this video is diffrent from your lost media videos, but the Blues clues pilot blue prints was found about 2 weeks ago, I was wondering what your thoughts on it are.
Oh god those PokeFactory dex entries... memory recovered
_Game Devs_ : *makes a game that never got released*
_Lost Media_ : We're gonna find you 😈
3:56 So in terms of Metriod 64, the two companies could have been RareWare or DMA (aka Rockstar) because of their success in the industry at the time of the rumors. A member of the youtube channel DidYouKnowGaming was able to get ahold of anonymous low-level devs from Rare and Jamie King who cofounded Rockstar. They all said that they heard about the rumors and that they were just rumors and weren't part of the game's supposed development.
I have originally watched it all in a compilation video, but I found the original DYKG video here: ruclips.net/video/ZQ8xa4drduQ/видео.htmlsi=XwWgGJJKsFTBlSXc?t=1299 (timestamp included regarding what was mentioned before). I just thought about sharing this since I the idea of Metriod 64 is still in my mind.
the screen shots at 1:48 are from a modded version of Half-Life 1
back in the gta san andreas days, i was super invested in the conspiracies online. bigfoot, leatherface, aliens, ghosts in the woods, etc. i tried so many things to try to capture anything strange with the camera lol.
One of my favorite video topics
I seem to recall a rumor from years ago involving Pokemon Snap 2. No, not New Pokemon Snap. Instead, it was a bogus rumor that claimed you would literally be hunting Pokemon. Not sure if it was meant to be satire or if the person who created it really was trying to trick people. I tried looking for it recently, but either the website that had that small snippet of text is long gone or the rumor was effectively buried deep away once New Pokemon Snap became a thing.
I don't believe it was ever a particularly big rumor.
I was a baby in late 2002 so I definitely never heard of megaton before this video
1:15, We really just living the same life, huh?? Bro even mentioned the cheat code booK!!
I remember falling for a fake Animal Crossing: Wild World cheat on GameWinners back in the day. It said to visit Nook's shop on the dead of night and knock on the back of his store with a shovel until a wall broke. Then Nook would let you in to do some late night shopping.
I had no idea at the time that this cheat was distorted from the actual secret in one of the JP-exclusive AC titles. Plus my young self didn't want to mess with the DS clock, so I actually stayed up late to try out the cheat and ended up going to be feeling stupid.
Real chads remember the sexy version.
One of the most obscure rumor i know of is the purple gauntlets in zelda ocarina of time 3d
Actually, there is another instance of "Rankles". In Sonic Archie comics, where Knuckles fused with The Master Emerald. That way, for quite a few issues, Knuckles was just green, empowered by the Master Emerald energy.
im not sure if its lost media but i believe there was one "unlockable character" rumor i may have saw in a magazine yet haunts me to this day (then again it could have been my young child mind imagining what's in rusty bucket bay). basically the rumor was that there was a hooded person in rusty bucket bay. if you go to them and interacted with them you would have been able to switch to a blonde bear character with spiky hair that had none of kazooies abilities. i thought it was neat as a kid but i later realize that blonde spiky bear is just a recolor of banjo made to look a bit like cloud (witch is odd cause i NEVER played final fantasy at all). so maybe it was from a magazine or guide or something? im not sure
Not sure if this constitutes as forgotten as it's still easy to find "information" on this fake Fire Emblem game. However, the Fire Emblem fanbase understandably stopped talking about it for years now. The rumored title was Fire Emblem: Blue Sacred Sword and Red Demon Lance. It was meant to take place in the same continent as Blazing Sword and Binding Blade. The main characters were to be the princess of Bern and prince of Lycia. It was meant for the 3DS.
Ironically, there was a Fire Emblem announced for the 3DS. However, it wasn't the blatantly false rumored title. It was instead Fire Emblem Awakening; which in itself takes place long after a previous Fire Emblem game (New Mystery of the Emblem).
"Tried for 20 minutes" BLAZE IT!
To reset the game in soulcalibur the command is A+X+Y+B+start
Soul Calibur was called Soul Edge on the Dreamcast (and Saturn, or Playstation, or both. I owned it for DC). I remember when the name was changed to Soul Caliber, when the games moved on to multi console releases.
Soul Calibur is the sequel to Soul Edge. If anything, Soul Edge is known as Soul Blade on the PlayStation overseas.
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Yeah. That was what I was saying, but you explained it better. Thanks.
Luigi with human teeth is cursed
He is human though, unless you want to argue that he's not the New Donk City kind of human.
My favorite one that's real that sounds fake as fuck... Starfox: In level 2, you have to shoot three rock pillars in a row dead center RIGHT before they hit you, and then a floating head will appear that you have to shoot. It will turn into a black hole, where you can then warp to different routes
the faster you beat Metroid, the less clothing Samus had on at the end.
Except that one is technically true. In NES Metroid; she'll either be wearing her armor, regular clothes, or in her undies and bra depending on how much time you spent.
In Fusion and Zero Mission, you get to see her wearing civilian clothing on some endings. Factors are time, difficulty, and item collection percentage.
I mean, that wasn't a rumor, that's fact. Everyone who finished the game knew it.
1:37 anyone know the song that plays here?
How did gaming magazines get away with just lying to customers point blank??
When I was a kid I bought rumors about Waluigi in Super Mario 64 DS hook line and sinker, to the point where it’s probably my most completed game in the series just because I would hardfocus every theory I heard, which often included getting all the stars.
It got to the point where I started taking ‘advice’ on it from a special needs kid I’d sit next to on the bus who would tell me that there’s a hidden cannon in Tall Tall Mountain that would shoot me to where I could unlock him.
Kept me busy at least.
0:50 Thought for a sec you were gonna talk about Metroid Prime 4 being a hoax at this point😂
I remember spending hours searching about secrets and cheats for Zelda games in the mid 00s, most notably Ocarina of Time and at least half of them were completely false (good old Overture of Sages, Beta Quest, Unicorn Fountain under Zora's Domain, Biggoron's Dungeon in TMC, permanent Fierce Deity Link in MM without glitches, etc.), but it's funny nowadays because a lot of them were only fun glitches that became extremely important years later for speedrunning, like Ocarina Items, Forest Escape (usually with cartridge tilting, but I remember reading about Navi Dive), Swordless Link, even some minor things that helped discover Item Manipulation a lot later.
Magazines were such a shitshow for hoaxes at the time, I'm too young to have read any of them myself, but I've read a lot about these online, from Sheng Long in SF2, Ermac in MK, Nuder Raider, Luigi in Mario 64 (L is real, of course), Peach in SSBM, All Bonds in GoldenEye 007, resurrecting Aerith, all that "good" shit. I understand they had to publish something and if they had an "exclusive" news, it would attract readers, but that's so deceptive, it's kinda incredible that nobody cared.
It's also kinda funny that those rumours persisted into the 10s, with things like Herobrine in Minecraft, all those fake Pokémon leaks or hell, even Polybius in a certain way. They're nowhere near as common as in the 90s / 00s, but they're still here, people are still falling for fake rumours becasue they want to believe.
Plus one for mentioning scholastic
i remember all the way back in 2000, my uncle and his friends were playing Driver 2, and there was a rumor about a hidden switch at the church, he and his friends never found it
nor did i when i tried xD found out it was a rumor that spread all the way back then. dunno how they found out about it but i guess he had the internet back then XD
Why is no one talking about the Luigi with teeth in thumbnail? He looks like he’s wearing old peoples gums in his teeth, they are so wide and uncanny. He’s trying to show them off like this pictures in the dentist. It just feels weird Lol.??
Those old 64 era renders of mario and his friends were weird
@@klonoafan2012 ikr, they feel uncanny at times😖
Pretty well known at this point that Metroid 64 became the GameCube Metroid game because the development cycle of the 64 ended and rather than scrapping all of their progress they moved it over to the GameCube platform.
Rankles was intended to be added, but the developers feared that if they gave him a form, he would become too powerful and escape into the real world.
I think the first rumor that someone told me that was actually true was MISSINGO. It just sounds so fake and arbitrary, but at least it's easy to try out and doesn't waste a lot of your time like a lot of rumored secrets.
This video is amazing.
"fake cheat codes"
*God dammit dude, those things were ruining me when i was younger,* i wasn't even able to trust anything that could give me infinite rare candies or master balls from legit sources