Stop 'n' Swop was finally solved by Sakurai. Turns out it never was for Banjo Tooie at all, it was for Smash Ultimate to give everyone Banjo and Kazooie.
The stop n' swap fanfare was re used in DK64 when unlocking a boss door. In fact, DK6e used a lot of music not used in Banjo Kazooie and Project Dream.
How do you not have more subscribers already? I think you're the only person so far to discuss the Stop N Swop content in DK64 and it pisses me off that no one brings it up.
LadyLilith64 haha thanks, it’s because my let’s plays don’t live up to this video. But yea, DK def had stop n swop. I never added to this vid but there’s also a cutscene that can be triggered that pans to the BK fridge in DK’s treehouse and takes you into Crystal Caves
Really thorough and interesting... Nothing really blows my mind more than Stop n Swop... Even before I beat banjo kazooie which was only recently. There is just so much mystery behind it all!
Absolute legend ! I love the way it excites the viewers with questioning all possibilities and mix a little of magic and humour into it , great storytelling you should do more vids !
I used to be a member of the RarewitchProject forums (ssj) and this theory is very similar to what I came up with back in the day. My idea was that Gruntilda's Lair (The Tower Room) was the transformation chamber from BK. However, instead of using the door the machines in the room themselves were used to transfer the eggs over. This was also referenced in the Banjo Tooie xbla version. When Heggy hatches all of the eggs, Kazooie specifically states that '''so this is what stop n swop has come down to, egg hatching? It'll be machines next''. Based on the fact that rare made a direct joke to this makes the whole Tower room theory much more believable.
Super Saiyajin Egor hmm that would actually be more interesting if it were the machines themselves. What I took from that xbla reference was that the “machines” referred to nuts&bolts, but I guess it’s fairly vague anyway. But the tower room seems optimal for swopping either way
You're both technically wrong. Hatching that last egg gives you an item in a menu called "Stop 'N Swop II", with both a title and an icon of some sort of machine thing. This is not the only one either, each Tooie SNS location (minus Yellow Egg) gives one, you get one for having used every transformation, another is awarded after dying a bunch of times in Boss Attack mode, and a final prize is granted for completing Boss Attack with a low enough combined time. They all do nothing in any of the three games (the N&B blueprints are for cashing the SNS 1 items in, not earning the SNS 2 items), so the mystery has yet to reach a final conclusion even still.
I won't say we weren't supposed to be able to explore gruntildas lair, but I believe the reason it says entrance, is because it IS the entrance and anyone who played the first one knows that. I don't think there was any hidden meaning behind it. But like I said, it is possible we were also supposed to explore into it once again. But I do believe the fact it said entrance is just because it is the entrance to her lair. Which we destroyed in the first one.
Nathan Pierce yes, I agree. I was more trying to emphasize the use of subtitles in the lair and the hidden code that says, “Gruntilda’s Lair (Tower Room),” as to suggest that at some point you could travel to different areas of the lair
@@Gamerbielz yes it would be a good idea personally keep it in mind in the future. but to me everything about the stop 'n' swop the eggs and the key. is pretty much clear or at least for now until magically new information apears about it which i doubt but who knows. and btw to me personally you have a lot of potential to created content, i liked how you narrated.
My biggest problem with the "fake" eggs is if they went through the trouble of programming fake eggs to prevent hackers from getting the eggs illegitimately, then why also program sandcastle codes for them too? I mean hackers wouldn't need sandcastle codes to activate them in-game or in the menu. Just seems weird to me
Well that I think was the point. The fact that they knew people would find fake eggs so when they typed them in something else would have happened. Wouldn’t surprise me with the old team at Rareware to troll players like that honestly lol
Also the Cyan egg is in a room like the Pink and Blue eggs. A room the player wouldn't normally have access to, unlike the Green, Red and Yellow eggs being in rooms the player is supposed to visit to find Jiggies and other valuables. It definitely doesn't make since for that to be one of the fake eggs.
I always wondered about that secret stuff. One of my favorite games ever. Thanks for the insight. 👍 I didnt realize you could get the key and eggs... I thought it was gonna happen in the next game. Anyway, voice is good.
Awesome video. I know there was another theory that originally the red egg would grant fire eggs, the cyan egg would ice eggs, and the green egg would grant grenade eggs...And those were the eggs that ended up originally being unused. Of course, we know that eventually, those 3 types of eggs were instead taught by Jamjars.
I may be late, i visited here to do the stop n swop but damn i got more entertained than actually looking for the egg locations! Thanks very much man, i especially loved the moment where you said "Here you go Banjo, left you a little surprise in the toilet!"
I once tried following what that Rare interview suggested: getting the four middle eggs and key (not the cyan and yellow eggs), going through that warp caldron, but the tower room door was still closed. Apparently it was supposed to open and have a corridor behind where you could walk down and then hear Grunty complain about Blackeye, then you get prompted to turn off the N64. Did anybody actually manage to find this? I know the items don’t get swapped to Tooie, but I would have thought this last part would at least still be in the first game?
Chris O'Neal idk so weird. I always thought there’d be some line of code at least in the game that someone would have found by now. I’m still convinced there’d leftover secrets in the first game
@@Gamerbielz That’s exactly what I would have thought too. If the Rare interview is correct, you would think someone could run a word search in the BK code for “Blackeye” as there can’t be too many references to him in the first game (apart from the MMM portraits)….
Hey dude im a brazilian fan of banjo kazooie and i saw this mistery today cause i only played banjo kazooie nuts e bolts on my xbox 360 years ago and now that i am older i can search some of the mysteries that i had seen on the game but at the time I didn't understand them because I didn't understand english and the game didn't support portuguese. I loved your video and i really liked your content and i want to ask you to make a video about the Stop 'n' Swop on banjo kazooie nuts bots, ik it alredy solved but i liked so much to see the theories and other things on your video style... i hope you read this and make my suggestion i would be thankful.
I like the idea of polar banjo, I could see that being a thing, and doing ice damage or freezing enemies with attacks similar to how dragon kazooie had a fire attack. I can believe it!
I saw in the comments of a video of someone doing stop n swap that someone claiming to have worked on the game said that it was intended to work on 6 rare games: Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Donkey Kong 64, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark, And Jet Force Gemini.
@@Croshau Yes! Unfortunately I haven’t made a new video on this subject in awhile, but from what I’ve read the eggs would have unlocked a feature in future Rareware games. But there most definitely was an ice key connection to DK; the cutscene where the infamous BK refrigerator is/warp to crystal caves is still intact in the game
@@Croshau Yes! Unfortunately I haven’t made a new video on this subject in awhile, but from what I’ve read the eggs would have unlocked a feature in future Rareware games. But there most definitely was an ice key connection to DK; the cutscene where the infamous BK refrigerator is/warp to crystal caves is still intact in the game
hey man you have earned my sub i have to say this is a very through very smart sns video im in love with banjo kazooie it is my favorite game #1 on my list banjo tooie is #2 and banjo kazooie nuts and bolts is #3 i love the storie and all and you have earned me as a subscriber thanks man for a banjo kazooie vid
As already mentioned in another comment for sure the best video of BK Stop N Swop, complete and very clear! I have one question, what do you think about the other two little drawings in the blackboard on Grabbed by The Ghoulies? One is the Witch transformation room, but the other two? :)
MaxFabius I always had trouble deciphering. It’s been quite some time since I made this video, but I always thought the other rooms were part of the tower room near the end of the game. I tried linking them with the furnace fun area, since sources say a warp pipe was involved. Wish another rare employee would shed some light on it lol
@@Gamerbielz Thank you! Very interesting theory, Rare has joked with us for a long time with this misteries, as you already mentioned I think that was a true story behind it. I am not sure if another employee will talk about Stop N Swop after Rare Replay :D
Mr.Pikachu the Sayori fan hey thanks a lot! I’ve been thinking of rebranding this channel to more content like this than just Let’s Plays. Let me know what you think
Sad part is they could have EASILY saved the Disk Drive and Im not 100% on it but I think that one of the devs on it had a good idea for great marketing but for some reason Nintendo refused to take any suggestions regarding it almost like they wanted it to fail so they could move to the next console in production
This video makes me want the original team to come back together and finish n64 games and stop n swop. Like i think it would be easy for people now to go back fix the game and release it or make the game on current consoles with everything that was left out. Games that come to mind BK, Goldeneye an Perfect Dark
They tried that with Stop n Swop for Nuts n Bolts with the XboxLiveArcade versions, but obviously not the same lol. I'm sure Yooka Laylee will either poke fun of the idea or at least have a serious implementation of it. But I agree, I would love to see Platonic (old rare ware) working for Nintendo again.
@@ShadwSonic It was a great game on its own, I still 100% it. Not a good BK game though or what fans were expecting at the time lol. I expect a remaster of the originals at some point though like Spyro & Crash, especially with the Smash Bros. hype
Isn’t the transformation room door that might have been used the one on the left instead of on the right? The right one has nothing behind it and the left one has what appears to be a narrow pathway. I know you can’t go too far down it without voiding out, but maybe once something in the code is unlocked, a secret room would be revealed? Rather like the upstairs of Super Mario 64 is inaccessible until you unlock the upstairs door.
It’s been awhile since I made this video, but I believe I referred to the right door because the left door pathway is actually used in a cutscene when you first enter the lair where Klungo is seen walking through the left door path
What I find strange is the cyan egg being a fake egg, but the green one being real. Afterall, the cyan egg actually got its own "room" so to speak, hidden behind the X Barrel, where as the green one was just shoved on top of a toilet. How legit was that interview with the employee concerning that? Also I doubt the ice key would be used on the chests near Blackeye (at least the ones used in the final game) or that tower door. The key is huge, and neither of them really have a keyhole to satisfy a massive ice key. (On a side note:The ice chest in BT is ideal, but it still surprises me it never worked like an actual key and just slides into a slot sideways. You'd expect a fanfare and a bit more hype when collecting the mega glowbo..but they really underplay it!). I always thought the X on map in RBB was very interesting. There was totally thought put into all this, and it surprises me the kept the TTC AND Sharkfood Island portraits in Banjo Tooie. I agree though, this is probably the closest theory so far.
Ben Rai hi, thanks for the comment. Completely agree with the fake egg thing. It’s a very odd theory. I’m convinced there was more use to the ice key in DK than BT. There’s a cutscene I didn’t include in this video that’s still in the game where the camera cuts to where the BK fridge was in DK’s house, and then it cuts to the crystal caves ice area. Very strange
Here is a video of the cutscene from entering the refrigerator in donkey kong house (4:51). ruclips.net/video/kOAATfDXfuY/видео.html . Even if the refrigerator has been removed, the cutscene is still in the game. I think if you have the ice key in BJ, you would have open the refrigerator and will be warped to a ''secret room'' in crystal cave to obtain something. In a interview with the rareware devolopers, they said that stop and swop came as an idea to reward people for playing rare games. So how more rare games you play, how more rewards you will get.
Yes, great vid! I have seen it before. Actually wanted to make a part 2 to this video based on that cutscene. It further proves the ice key in DK. Only question with it is now what was supposed to be in that DK Ice room...since the ice key is already in BK. Very interesting
I wonder, had anyone found the cyan egg on their own on the 360 version? I couldn't. I assumed, each egg had a pattern of being in one world only and went on the longest Easter egg hunt for just the cyan egg! I found all of them except this one! I gave up, and took an internet hint. I'm thinking, without hacking the game, no one would have been able to find this specific egg in a normal way with the process of elimination. What I mean, is that the discovery of the cheat codes via hack by Ice Mario & Alan would have been the only way to know where this egg was since the camera in game wouldn't reveal this angle to the secret location. Only pure luck or painstakingly inspecting everything would have been the only way to find this without a forced hack. This all reminds me of Kayne Quest ascension with the code inputs.
Question. In the Xbox 360 version of BK, entering the cheats too many times would delete all your save data. That doesn't happen in the N64 version, does it?
There are certain codes that'll trigger Code Vengeance (mainly codes to get rid of progression blockers and stuff like that.) With the Stop 'n' Swop codes, they're just an egg hunt- they're not needed to progress in the game in any way, so they're safe.
An addendum: In N64, the Egg codes were NOT part of the "banned" list, but in 360 they are. This is because the intended method of activating them is now simply having a Tooie or N&B save file, and thus the old codes would've messed things up.
Thanks for this! I watched the old 2011 video many years ago, but its editing was sadly unbearable. But now that I've come across this it's much more preferable.
Ahh thanks so much! I’m glad you stuck around for this one haha, the video I think you’re talking about did inspire this one though so I have to give credit where it’s due!
Yep; all the secret ways will already be open, but only if you have a Nuts & Bolts save file. Yannow; _that game none of you gave a snowball's chance?_ You'd all be forced to put in those long-ass codes all over again if Rare Replay didn't have N&B included...
Watching this video was extremely bittersweet. I learned so many things about S&S that I never knew, and I thought I knew everything. Unfortunately, now I realize that I truly know everything there is to know regarding S&S and the journey is basically over. All that being said, this was a fantastic video and I'm sad to see yet another RUclipsr with extremely quality content and only 80 subs.
The only reason I say this is because my friend recently gave me a bunch of old Nintendo Power magazines, and one particular issue (the one I stated, whose cover story was the upcoming GBA) had codes for all six eggs and the ice key. I'm wondering if this went unnoticed? Regardless great video! It was very informative and entertaining!
Brer Oswald I'm thinking it was probably after the fact when it got all hyped. I believe the codes were found in 2000. But thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it
@@Gamerbielz No problem lol. But seriously though, this is such a well constructed video. This kind of seems like the natural evolution of things like Lock-On Technology! At least it was acknowledged with the Rare Retro Replay collection. Well now that Banjo's in smash here's hoping we will see Banjo return to a Nintendo platform like Final Fantasy 7 and so forth.
Xanderoni The Painter Thanks I’d love to do more videos like this. I think the N64 DiskDrive would’ve made more sense for the actual swopping. But yea, I’m very convinced there will be remakes like Spyro & Crash for the Switch
Kevin Vandeford I’m still convinced there’s hidden dialogue triggers somewhere in the first game lol. But I would assume by now with all these hackers it would have been found years ago if that were true
Gamerbielz it's to fast to read the code for me, i would have shown the word on screen if i were you. Cuz i was to busy reading the code description :P
What if someone paid a retired rare employee to make a banjo tooie n64 game with the original stop n swap intentions and then use it on an original n64, it technically would work just could possibly break the system but who would really care
MrNugget lol I think the idea was scrapped well into the development. My only issue is surely you’d think in Banjo Kazooie there’d be some dialogue for when you did swop (nothing found through hacks)
Me personally I believe we kinda got everything for stop n swop except for the bottle revenge mode, the only thing i wish we could have were the extra level with the ice key and the dk64 connection. Also the dialogue and cutscenes would’ve been great, but my only question is if banjo kazooie was fully intended for stop n swop why isn’t there some way to get to where u were suppose to go to do the swopping, seems like the game would’ve had to have somewhere to go or else the whole thing would’ve been a complete failure.
And also responding to what u said, what If there’s a way in kazooie to get some dialogue over near the 2 transformation machines sense that is where the swapping would happen, there has to be some dialogue somewhere 🧐. I hope one day this mystery gets solved somehow or maybe a rare employee will leak an original copy of bk and then we all could play an emulator
MrNugget yes that is exactly what I mean! You’d think someone would have found that dialogue. Unless maybe they had enough time To take that out before the release
Sorry, I breezed right over the ice key. It is used to open the door in Banjo Kazooie. When you go through the warp pot, it sparkles blue and pauses before you warp. If you look at the Stop 'n Swop screen, the key will be gone. If you warp back through the pot, the door closes and you'll have no way to reopen it. That wasn't intentional, just a programming mistake that wasn't caught in testing. I found this from the interview, so basically if u have the items and go through then pot then the door should be open but there was a glitch that made it only happen once so maybe there is a way to get everything before u use the pot the first time or something
You missed one thing, but I think it's not really important: In Nuts and Bolts Bottles tells you secrets after you gave him a certain ammount of notes. However, there is a secret named "Stop & Swop Truth" which requires 6000 notes, although there are no 6000 notes in the entire game, meaning it may be just a placeholder and it's pointless. Hackers found a way to increase the maximum ammount of notes making it possible to get the last secret secret. Well, no. After you pay Bottles 6000 notes, he will tell you (something like) "I could tell you, but I would have to kill you and we can not show it in a game with this rating. Get it out of your mind have and have happy thoughts. Thanks for the notes."
PLOT TWIST: all the “mystery eggs” were actually stolen from banjo and Kazooie by Gruntilda because of their Extreme worth and what they deliver to the keeper of them. Why are they so RARE? Because they’re eggs that were laid by Kazooie after Banjo and her bred together. Banjo and Kazooie were just regular animals(along with tootie) but Gruntilda casted spells on all of them to have intelligence and to feel love. Why why why would Grunty do this!? Well, legend has it that in order to achieve eternal life and beauty; you need Seed from a bear to be bred into a bird and in turn will give you the magical eggs that you need to do the final spell; it takes 7 days to do the spell, adding 1 egg a day to the brew and if you do it correctly it will grant you eternal life. Now I know what you’re going to say; “well there’s only 6 eggs!” Yeah I know! God rested on the seventh day after the earth was created and this is when the key comes in... first of all, the key isn’t made of ice, it barely exists and in order for it to remain present in our universe IT NEEDS TO STAY COLD, otherwise it will vanish. This is why Gruntilda was keeping it hidden in caves, caverns and ice igloos. So, what do you do with the key? Well, at the end of the 6th day around midnight you throw the key into the brew and after this happens(if done CORRECTLY) the mix will dissipate into smoke which MUST BE INHALED BY WHOEVER IS PREPARING, ALL OF IT... and if you do this you will go into a “deep sleep” for 24 hours exactly. I suppose you could call it a trip, a trance or you could just say you die in the sleep but some people say when you go into this “sleep” you’re meeting with God to give him the the final ingredient which was the key... now, no one knows what God would want with a key but some say it’s a soul but who’s soul?... some say its Gruntildas soul which is why she was able to live under a rock for so long; because banjo kept it safe in a hidden cave where it was safe from heat? That’s one of the theory’s or maybe it was a soul of 2, maybe banjos and Kazooies soul in one? No one really knows. I also forgot about Tootie and how Grunty used her to become sexy af. Well like I said, Grunty needed another bear to use for her beauty and with human intelligence and a bear as one together, Grunty was able to transfer inner beauty in Tootie into OUTER beauty in Grunty using her machine which is why Tootie turned back into a regular fat bear. Well there you have it. Hope I didn’t forget anything
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Stop 'n' Swop was finally solved by Sakurai. Turns out it never was for Banjo Tooie at all, it was for Smash Ultimate to give everyone Banjo and Kazooie.
After yesterday’s reveal I was honestly going to make a video and say exactly what you just said haha
@@Gamerbielz Honestly, I love that idea hehe
Awesome
The stop n' swap fanfare was re used in DK64 when unlocking a boss door. In fact, DK6e used a lot of music not used in Banjo Kazooie and Project Dream.
+Phantom Drags yessir! I guess by then they figured no one would hear the original fanfare in BK so why not reuse it lol
How do you not have more subscribers already? I think you're the only person so far to discuss the Stop N Swop content in DK64 and it pisses me off that no one brings it up.
LadyLilith64 haha thanks, it’s because my let’s plays don’t live up to this video. But yea, DK def had stop n swop. I never added to this vid but there’s also a cutscene that can be triggered that pans to the BK fridge in DK’s treehouse and takes you into Crystal Caves
Really thorough and interesting... Nothing really blows my mind more than Stop n Swop... Even before I beat banjo kazooie which was only recently. There is just so much mystery behind it all!
I'm just waiting for RareReplay to put up a video of the whole thing lol
Absolute legend ! I love the way it excites the viewers with questioning all possibilities and mix a little of magic and humour into it , great storytelling you should do more vids !
Notorious Celtic Thanks so much!! I’m always open to gaming mystery suggestions for similar video like this!
I used to be a member of the RarewitchProject forums (ssj) and this theory is very similar to what I came up with back in the day. My idea was that Gruntilda's Lair (The Tower Room) was the transformation chamber from BK. However, instead of using the door the machines in the room themselves were used to transfer the eggs over. This was also referenced in the Banjo Tooie xbla version. When Heggy hatches all of the eggs, Kazooie specifically states that '''so this is what stop n swop has come down to, egg hatching? It'll be machines next''. Based on the fact that rare made a direct joke to this makes the whole Tower room theory much more believable.
Super Saiyajin Egor hmm that would actually be more interesting if it were the machines themselves. What I took from that xbla reference was that the “machines” referred to nuts&bolts, but I guess it’s fairly vague anyway. But the tower room seems optimal for swopping either way
You're both technically wrong. Hatching that last egg gives you an item in a menu called "Stop 'N Swop II", with both a title and an icon of some sort of machine thing. This is not the only one either, each Tooie SNS location (minus Yellow Egg) gives one, you get one for having used every transformation, another is awarded after dying a bunch of times in Boss Attack mode, and a final prize is granted for completing Boss Attack with a low enough combined time. They all do nothing in any of the three games (the N&B blueprints are for cashing the SNS 1 items in, not earning the SNS 2 items), so the mystery has yet to reach a final conclusion even still.
I won't say we weren't supposed to be able to explore gruntildas lair, but I believe the reason it says entrance, is because it IS the entrance and anyone who played the first one knows that. I don't think there was any hidden meaning behind it. But like I said, it is possible we were also supposed to explore into it once again. But I do believe the fact it said entrance is just because it is the entrance to her lair. Which we destroyed in the first one.
Nathan Pierce yes, I agree. I was more trying to emphasize the use of subtitles in the lair and the hidden code that says, “Gruntilda’s Lair (Tower Room),” as to suggest that at some point you could travel to different areas of the lair
one of the best videos about the Stop 'n' Swop
very well done and what you say about it makes a lot of sense.
Thank you I’m glad to hear! I may have to do an update video since this one’s old now and the theories still haunt me haha
@@Gamerbielz yes it would be a good idea personally keep it in mind in the future.
but to me everything about the stop 'n' swop the eggs and the key.
is pretty much clear or at least for now until magically new information apears about it which i doubt but who knows.
and btw to me personally you have a lot of potential to created content, i liked how you narrated.
Hey man thanks for the vid. Much higher quality than anything found on youtube. you've earned yourself a sub.
Thanks so much! I should do more videos like this since the feedback is generally positive. Thanks for the sub!
What about SNS 2? Sure it's not part of the original plan, but as something that exists, it IS part of the history.
My biggest problem with the "fake" eggs is if they went through the trouble of programming fake eggs to prevent hackers from getting the eggs illegitimately, then why also program sandcastle codes for them too? I mean hackers wouldn't need sandcastle codes to activate them in-game or in the menu. Just seems weird to me
Well that I think was the point. The fact that they knew people would find fake eggs so when they typed them in something else would have happened. Wouldn’t surprise me with the old team at Rareware to troll players like that honestly lol
Also the Cyan egg is in a room like the Pink and Blue eggs. A room the player wouldn't normally have access to, unlike the Green, Red and Yellow eggs being in rooms the player is supposed to visit to find Jiggies and other valuables. It definitely doesn't make since for that to be one of the fake eggs.
Excellent video finally explained fully. Knew there was more to it everyone skims through it.. keep it up!!
Lou Adipietro Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the feedback on this interesting topic
I always wondered about that secret stuff. One of my favorite games ever. Thanks for the insight. 👍
I didnt realize you could get the key and eggs... I thought it was gonna happen in the next game. Anyway, voice is good.
100% Stratusfied Thank you! Such an interesting gaming mystery
Awesome video.
I know there was another theory that originally the red egg would grant fire eggs, the cyan egg would ice eggs, and the green egg would grant grenade eggs...And those were the eggs that ended up originally being unused. Of course, we know that eventually, those 3 types of eggs were instead taught by Jamjars.
IamCanadian3333 hmm, interesting theory as well. I really wish RareReplay would release the real concept
Gamerbielz Yes agreed! And no, not from some anonymous Rare employee (though tbh, I did like the idea of Polar Bear Banjo).
I may be late, i visited here to do the stop n swop but damn i got more entertained than actually looking for the egg locations! Thanks very much man, i especially loved the moment where you said "Here you go Banjo, left you a little surprise in the toilet!"
shit video reposter haha thank you! Def have to check out some of my let’s plays for more random commentary!
I once tried following what that Rare interview suggested: getting the four middle eggs and key (not the cyan and yellow eggs), going through that warp caldron, but the tower room door was still closed. Apparently it was supposed to open and have a corridor behind where you could walk down and then hear Grunty complain about Blackeye, then you get prompted to turn off the N64. Did anybody actually manage to find this? I know the items don’t get swapped to Tooie, but I would have thought this last part would at least still be in the first game?
Chris O'Neal idk so weird. I always thought there’d be some line of code at least in the game that someone would have found by now. I’m still convinced there’d leftover secrets in the first game
@@Gamerbielz That’s exactly what I would have thought too. If the Rare interview is correct, you would think someone could run a word search in the BK code for “Blackeye” as there can’t be too many references to him in the first game (apart from the MMM portraits)….
Great educational video with some humor! Thank you for making this!
+Cody Damron Hey thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Bro this Beats game theory by a mile good vid
Thanks a lot man! It’s been some time since I made this, would love to update even a few more things with it!
Your victory screech made a subscriber outta me
Lmao it compliments the stop n swop fanfare. Thanks!
Hey dude im a brazilian fan of banjo kazooie and i saw this mistery today cause i only played banjo kazooie nuts e bolts on my xbox 360 years ago and now that i am older i can search some of the mysteries that i had seen on the game but at the time I didn't understand them because I didn't understand english and the game didn't support portuguese. I loved your video and i really liked your content and i want to ask you to make a video about the Stop 'n' Swop on banjo kazooie nuts bots, ik it alredy solved but i liked so much to see the theories and other things on your video style... i hope you read this and make my suggestion i would be thankful.
Excellent video I was too wondering why god these mysteriouses eggs will use... But you explained it so goog, thanks
Awesome Video. Absolutely one of my favorite games 💯🤩
Pichu Monster best platformer adventure games of all time!
That ice key as a kid was the biggest blue balls I ever got
I like the idea of polar banjo, I could see that being a thing, and doing ice damage or freezing enemies with attacks similar to how dragon kazooie had a fire attack. I can believe it!
That would have been a cool feature!
I saw in the comments of a video of someone doing stop n swap that someone claiming to have worked on the game said that it was intended to work on 6 rare games:
Banjo Kazooie,
Banjo Tooie,
Donkey Kong 64,
Conkers Bad Fur Day,
Perfect Dark,
And Jet Force Gemini.
@@Croshau Yes! Unfortunately I haven’t made a new video on this subject in awhile, but from what I’ve read the eggs would have unlocked a feature in future Rareware games. But there most definitely was an ice key connection to DK; the cutscene where the infamous BK refrigerator is/warp to crystal caves is still intact in the game
@@Croshau Yes! Unfortunately I haven’t made a new video on this subject in awhile, but from what I’ve read the eggs would have unlocked a feature in future Rareware games. But there most definitely was an ice key connection to DK; the cutscene where the infamous BK refrigerator is/warp to crystal caves is still intact in the game
This video is incredible
U Knighted hey thanks! I really appreciate that!
hey man you have earned my sub i have to say this is a very through very smart sns video im in love with banjo kazooie it is my favorite game #1 on my list banjo tooie is #2 and banjo kazooie nuts and bolts is #3 i love the storie and all and you have earned me as a subscriber thanks man for a banjo kazooie vid
johnathan mohler wow thanks so much! Love the series. One of video game’s greatest mysteries it’s too good to pass up!
As already mentioned in another comment for sure the best video of BK Stop N Swop, complete and very clear! I have one question, what do you think about the other two little drawings in the blackboard on Grabbed by The Ghoulies? One is the Witch transformation room, but the other two? :)
MaxFabius I always had trouble deciphering. It’s been quite some time since I made this video, but I always thought the other rooms were part of the tower room near the end of the game. I tried linking them with the furnace fun area, since sources say a warp pipe was involved. Wish another rare employee would shed some light on it lol
@@Gamerbielz Thank you! Very interesting theory, Rare has joked with us for a long time with this misteries, as you already mentioned I think that was a true story behind it. I am not sure if another employee will talk about Stop N Swop after Rare Replay :D
makes enough sense for me to not question it
I really should make an update video, as more information has been brought to light on the matter
@@Gamerbielz if you make it, i will watch it
3:22 That killed me.
Wait the Breegul Bash (I know I spelled it wrong) is a Stop'n'swap exclusive? surprising, seeing how it's one of their most iconic moves
Sandwich Bubbles yeup! You get it from the pink egg
Hell, it's arguably the Only Stop 'n' Swop thing to have any real use in a future game, as it's Banjo's Forward Smash in Smash Ultimate.
"My 14 subscribers who watched my let's play"
It really do be like that
Dylan Nguyen we’re working on it lol
More subs are incoming which includes yours truly
Mr.Pikachu the Sayori fan hey thanks a lot! I’ve been thinking of rebranding this channel to more content like this than just Let’s Plays. Let me know what you think
Sad part is they could have EASILY saved the Disk Drive and Im not 100% on it but I think that one of the devs on it had a good idea for great marketing but for some reason Nintendo refused to take any suggestions regarding it almost like they wanted it to fail so they could move to the next console in production
This video makes me want the original team to come back together and finish n64 games and stop n swop. Like i think it would be easy for people now to go back fix the game and release it or make the game on current consoles with everything that was left out. Games that come to mind BK, Goldeneye an Perfect Dark
They tried that with Stop n Swop for Nuts n Bolts with the XboxLiveArcade versions, but obviously not the same lol. I'm sure Yooka Laylee will either poke fun of the idea or at least have a serious implementation of it. But I agree, I would love to see Platonic (old rare ware) working for Nintendo again.
+Gamerbielz yeah I was stoked to see nuts an bolts but the stop n swop was a joke. never was able to play the game though
Yeaaa we don't really talk about that game lmao
@@Gamerbielz Why not? It's quite fun! Not really the right time for the franchise, but on its own merits?
@@ShadwSonic It was a great game on its own, I still 100% it. Not a good BK game though or what fans were expecting at the time lol. I expect a remaster of the originals at some point though like Spyro & Crash, especially with the Smash Bros. hype
Thank you SO much for making this.
Cynthia Lusk Thank you SO much for watching! Lol
Isn’t the transformation room door that might have been used the one on the left instead of on the right? The right one has nothing behind it and the left one has what appears to be a narrow pathway. I know you can’t go too far down it without voiding out, but maybe once something in the code is unlocked, a secret room would be revealed? Rather like the upstairs of Super Mario 64 is inaccessible until you unlock the upstairs door.
It’s been awhile since I made this video, but I believe I referred to the right door because the left door pathway is actually used in a cutscene when you first enter the lair where Klungo is seen walking through the left door path
This video is awesome! I loved it!
This guy needs more subs
Small Round Boi hey thanks! I’m thinking of rebranding to more videos like this instead of the let’s plays
Gamerbielz i think it was good that you did gameplay of where they are, and the theories
What I find strange is the cyan egg being a fake egg, but the green one being real. Afterall, the cyan egg actually got its own "room" so to speak, hidden behind the X Barrel, where as the green one was just shoved on top of a toilet. How legit was that interview with the employee concerning that? Also I doubt the ice key would be used on the chests near Blackeye (at least the ones used in the final game) or that tower door. The key is huge, and neither of them really have a keyhole to satisfy a massive ice key. (On a side note:The ice chest in BT is ideal, but it still surprises me it never worked like an actual key and just slides into a slot sideways. You'd expect a fanfare and a bit more hype when collecting the mega glowbo..but they really underplay it!). I always thought the X on map in RBB was very interesting. There was totally thought put into all this, and it surprises me the kept the TTC AND Sharkfood Island portraits in Banjo Tooie. I agree though, this is probably the closest theory so far.
Ben Rai hi, thanks for the comment. Completely agree with the fake egg thing. It’s a very odd theory. I’m convinced there was more use to the ice key in DK than BT. There’s a cutscene I didn’t include in this video that’s still in the game where the camera cuts to where the BK fridge was in DK’s house, and then it cuts to the crystal caves ice area. Very strange
Here is a video of the cutscene from entering the refrigerator in donkey kong house (4:51). ruclips.net/video/kOAATfDXfuY/видео.html . Even if the refrigerator has been removed, the cutscene is still in the game.
I think if you have the ice key in BJ, you would have open the refrigerator and will be warped to a ''secret room'' in crystal cave to obtain something. In a interview with the rareware devolopers, they said that stop and swop came as an idea to reward people for playing rare games. So how more rare games you play, how more rewards you will get.
Yes, great vid! I have seen it before. Actually wanted to make a part 2 to this video based on that cutscene. It further proves the ice key in DK. Only question with it is now what was supposed to be in that DK Ice room...since the ice key is already in BK. Very interesting
When i was little i had a gameshark and did stop n swop
Great video. Subbed. You deserve a lot more subs for this.
Marco Oros Castillo thank you so much, really appreciate it! Can’t get enough of Stop n Swop haha
Fantastic video, enjoyed the commentary
Thank you I appreciate it!
I wonder, had anyone found the cyan egg on their own on the 360 version? I couldn't. I assumed, each egg had a pattern of being in one world only and went on the longest Easter egg hunt for just the cyan egg! I found all of them except this one! I gave up, and took an internet hint. I'm thinking, without hacking the game, no one would have been able to find this specific egg in a normal way with the process of elimination. What I mean, is that the discovery of the cheat codes via hack by Ice Mario & Alan would have been the only way to know where this egg was since the camera in game wouldn't reveal this angle to the secret location. Only pure luck or painstakingly inspecting everything would have been the only way to find this without a forced hack.
This all reminds me of Kayne Quest ascension with the code inputs.
Question. In the Xbox 360 version of BK, entering the cheats too many times would delete all your save data. That doesn't happen in the N64 version, does it?
Nick B If you’re talking about regular cheats, yes Grunty deletes your game in the N64 version. But Stop n Swop doesn’t count towards that “deletion”
There are certain codes that'll trigger Code Vengeance (mainly codes to get rid of progression blockers and stuff like that.)
With the Stop 'n' Swop codes, they're just an egg hunt- they're not needed to progress in the game in any way, so they're safe.
An addendum: In N64, the Egg codes were NOT part of the "banned" list, but in 360 they are. This is because the intended method of activating them is now simply having a Tooie or N&B save file, and thus the old codes would've messed things up.
Thanks for this! I watched the old 2011 video many years ago, but its editing was sadly unbearable. But now that I've come across this it's much more preferable.
Ahh thanks so much! I’m glad you stuck around for this one haha, the video I think you’re talking about did inspire this one though so I have to give credit where it’s due!
In XBOX ONE/360 version you don't need cheats
Yep; all the secret ways will already be open, but only if you have a Nuts & Bolts save file. Yannow; _that game none of you gave a snowball's chance?_
You'd all be forced to put in those long-ass codes all over again if Rare Replay didn't have N&B included...
Watching this video was extremely bittersweet. I learned so many things about S&S that I never knew, and I thought I knew everything.
Unfortunately, now I realize that I truly know everything there is to know regarding S&S and the journey is basically over.
All that being said, this was a fantastic video and I'm sad to see yet another RUclipsr with extremely quality content and only 80 subs.
Hey! Thanks a lot I really appreciate that. I’m glad this video still makes its rounds and educates and entertains people!
SNS 2 is still unresolved though...
Love it.!
I like how freestyle you are whilst talking, very unprofessional, and very pleasing.
Hahaha hopefully that’s a good thing😅 I haven’t done a video like this in a very long time
@@Gamerbielz it is good, yes. You don't see much of it now-a-days.
Ummm, weren't the codes to get the eggs in Nintendo Power volume 143?
Brer Oswald hmm, I don't think so. But the codes were found from hacking way before a public release
The only reason I say this is because my friend recently gave me a bunch of old Nintendo Power magazines, and one particular issue (the one I stated, whose cover story was the upcoming GBA) had codes for all six eggs and the ice key. I'm wondering if this went unnoticed? Regardless great video! It was very informative and entertaining!
Brer Oswald I'm thinking it was probably after the fact when it got all hyped. I believe the codes were found in 2000. But thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it
Gamerbielz No problem. And yeah, it was hacked around the late 90s correct? Then it would've been published after the fact.
That magazine article could have been fan submitted too. So still not publicly released officially.
This is the N64 version because mumbos text box head model is different to the xbla version
AngryMickey55 yea all of this footage is from N64
Loved the video :)
Eggcellent video!
Xanderoni The Painter Thanks a lot! That’s punny lol
@@Gamerbielz No problem lol. But seriously though, this is such a well constructed video. This kind of seems like the natural evolution of things like Lock-On Technology! At least it was acknowledged with the Rare Retro Replay collection. Well now that Banjo's in smash here's hoping we will see Banjo return to a Nintendo platform like Final Fantasy 7 and so forth.
Xanderoni The Painter Thanks I’d love to do more videos like this. I think the N64 DiskDrive would’ve made more sense for the actual swopping. But yea, I’m very convinced there will be remakes like Spyro & Crash for the Switch
Would be nice if we got Dragon Kazooie as a possible costume swap
Kaihedgie in Smash? Or Tooie lol
Your a real g 👌 you make me humble 🦈🌝🎈
But did you actually try hot swapping the cartridges to see what would happen? :p
Gamefreak924 When I was younger lol. It didn’t end very well
How dare you be under 10k Subsribers
Story of my life haha
Up until Microsoft Blow it
I have an idea: Rare Replay.
William M. Powell I thought they would have done something for it, after all, we did get first gameplay footage of Project Dream from that
What song plays at 4:05?
Zephyr Cat That’s the DK Isle theme song from DK64. I believe it was actually a demo song from Project Dream
@@Gamerbielz That was a quick reply! Thank you
Zephyr Cat haha no problem. I don’t get many other video comments so no reason I can’t respond to these comments lol
i wonder if the swap feature could be used in a emulator somehow
Kevin Vandeford I’m still convinced there’s hidden dialogue triggers somewhere in the first game lol. But I would assume by now with all these hackers it would have been found years ago if that were true
why not use the n64 transfer pack and make a free gameboy game to with banjo twooie
What
@@kaihedgie1747 you know Pokemon stadium it used the the n64 transfer pack to send data to the n64 of your Pokemon team.
@@kaihedgie1747 ruclips.net/video/QbRkBTMRxZQ/видео.html here the history perfect dark made by rare used this transfer pack.
but why didn't you tell us what the cheat codes are?
wariolandgoldpiramid did you miss the whole dedicated section of me doing that?? lol
Gamerbielz it's to fast to read the code for me, i would have shown the word on screen if i were you. Cuz i was to busy reading the code description :P
wariolandgoldpiramid it is written on the screen lol. Pause the video for each one
Gamerbielz those are the codes? I thought those were just the descriptions of the codes, and the actual codes would be one word long
wariolandgoldpiramid nope lol. Literally letter for letter is what you type in the floor. The gameshark codes are a different story
What if someone paid a retired rare employee to make a banjo tooie n64 game with the original stop n swap intentions and then use it on an original n64, it technically would work just could possibly break the system but who would really care
MrNugget lol I think the idea was scrapped well into the development. My only issue is surely you’d think in Banjo Kazooie there’d be some dialogue for when you did swop (nothing found through hacks)
Me personally I believe we kinda got everything for stop n swop except for the bottle revenge mode, the only thing i wish we could have were the extra level with the ice key and the dk64 connection. Also the dialogue and cutscenes would’ve been great, but my only question is if banjo kazooie was fully intended for stop n swop why isn’t there some way to get to where u were suppose to go to do the swopping, seems like the game would’ve had to have somewhere to go or else the whole thing would’ve been a complete failure.
And also responding to what u said, what If there’s a way in kazooie to get some dialogue over near the 2 transformation machines sense that is where the swapping would happen, there has to be some dialogue somewhere 🧐. I hope one day this mystery gets solved somehow or maybe a rare employee will leak an original copy of bk and then we all could play an emulator
MrNugget yes that is exactly what I mean! You’d think someone would have found that dialogue. Unless maybe they had enough time
To take that out before the release
Sorry, I breezed right over the ice key. It is used to open the door in Banjo Kazooie. When you go through the warp pot, it sparkles blue and pauses before you warp. If you look at the Stop 'n Swop screen, the key will be gone. If you warp back through the pot, the door closes and you'll have no way to reopen it. That wasn't intentional, just a programming mistake that wasn't caught in testing. I found this from the interview, so basically if u have the items and go through then pot then the door should be open but there was a glitch that made it only happen once so maybe there is a way to get everything before u use the pot the first time or something
When you're getting the eggs.. the random loud voice screaming/ whining is super distracting.
R You’d probably hate my singing then
@@Gamerbielz I'll kick u
You missed one thing, but I think it's not really important: In Nuts and Bolts Bottles tells you secrets after you gave him a certain ammount of notes. However, there is a secret named "Stop & Swop Truth" which requires 6000 notes, although there are no 6000 notes in the entire game, meaning it may be just a placeholder and it's pointless. Hackers found a way to increase the maximum ammount of notes making it possible to get the last secret secret. Well, no. After you pay Bottles 6000 notes, he will tell you (something like) "I could tell you, but I would have to kill you and we can not show it in a game with this rating. Get it out of your mind have and have happy thoughts. Thanks for the notes."
1847 ת yeaaa i know about that one. Just another tease from Rareware haha. I believe in Banjo Pilot there’s a similar interaction with Cheato
It was something like "Could you STOP and SWOP the game to read a book?" Oh, I forgot to mention you made a really good work with the video. (:
1847 ת right that’s it! And thank you!
PLOT TWIST: all the “mystery eggs” were actually stolen from banjo and Kazooie by Gruntilda because of their Extreme worth and what they deliver to the keeper of them. Why are they so RARE? Because they’re eggs that were laid by Kazooie after Banjo and her bred together. Banjo and Kazooie were just regular animals(along with tootie) but Gruntilda casted spells on all of them to have intelligence and to feel love. Why why why would Grunty do this!? Well, legend has it that in order to achieve eternal life and beauty; you need Seed from a bear to be bred into a bird and in turn will give you the magical eggs that you need to do the final spell; it takes 7 days to do the spell, adding 1 egg a day to the brew and if you do it correctly it will grant you eternal life. Now I know what you’re going to say; “well there’s only 6 eggs!” Yeah I know! God rested on the seventh day after the earth was created and this is when the key comes in... first of all, the key isn’t made of ice, it barely exists and in order for it to remain present in our universe IT NEEDS TO STAY COLD, otherwise it will vanish. This is why Gruntilda was keeping it hidden in caves, caverns and ice igloos. So, what do you do with the key? Well, at the end of the 6th day around midnight you throw the key into the brew and after this happens(if done CORRECTLY) the mix will dissipate into smoke which MUST BE INHALED BY WHOEVER IS PREPARING, ALL OF IT... and if you do this you will go into a “deep sleep” for 24 hours exactly. I suppose you could call it a trip, a trance or you could just say you die in the sleep but some people say when you go into this “sleep” you’re meeting with God to give him the the final ingredient which was the key... now, no one knows what God would want with a key but some say it’s a soul but who’s soul?... some say its Gruntildas soul which is why she was able to live under a rock for so long; because banjo kept it safe in a hidden cave where it was safe from heat? That’s one of the theory’s or maybe it was a soul of 2, maybe banjos and Kazooies soul in one? No one really knows. I also forgot about Tootie and how Grunty used her to become sexy af. Well like I said, Grunty needed another bear to use for her beauty and with human intelligence and a bear as one together, Grunty was able to transfer inner beauty in Tootie into OUTER beauty in Grunty using her machine which is why Tootie turned back into a regular fat bear. Well there you have it. Hope I didn’t forget anything
Curtis huh, you learn something new every day
Gamerbielz after some gin and tonic I was able to figure all this stuff out