The closest thing to a hoax I've ever experienced was back when I was friends with this girl. It was in the N64 era because Smash Bros was the hot new game that all my friends played. This girl claimed the classic "my dad works at Nintendo and I have a copy of Smash Bros 2 and you know what? Bowser's in it". And of course I'd ask, well can I come over and play it and every time she'd be like, no no no it's my dad's it's under lock and key we can't touch it but I do have it. Even as a kid I just rolled my eyes, like okay whatever lets play tag instead. Fast forward to a few years later. The GameCube comes out. The sequel to Smash, Melee, is announced. And Bowser _is_ in it. Son of a _bitch._ She was right all along.
Damn her Dad really did work at Nintendo and he broke the law to leak out an early version just for her to play the worst character in the game how sweet
16:03 This makes me think of how Marth & Roy weren't going to be in international copies of Super Smash Bros Melee. Can you imagine how many hoaxes like this would've gained traction if people could point to multiple entire characters in a Nintendo game being Japan-only?
I had a friend who was notorious for bullshitting in school. But some of his stuff was like... vaguely believable and seems like something devs would actually put in the game as a nice easter egg or something. One that really stuck with me was when he told me you can fight King Boo in Mario and Luigi Dream Team, by going to some room in one of Bowser's dreams and a message would pop up saying "You have reached the depths of Luigi's nightmares, prepare for an otherworldly battle" or something. When I got home that day I tried to get to that room, but it turns out the area that room was in, was only acsessable on your 1st trip there... so I decided to start a new save... for this thing that was in the final area of the game. And by the time I got there, I forgot what I started this new file for and just played on like I normally would when I got to the area and when I beat Giant Bowser I remembered. But I didn't reset the game this time because fuck that. The next day I bought it up to him and he added an extra thing saying that the game also had to be in hard mode, so it didn't annoy me as much since the file wasn't in hard mode. But it stuck with me. Just a few months ago I replayed the game in hard mode and I actually remembered what he told me. So I got to the room and instead of going left to progress the game. I went right to find the hidden room like he said was there and... I hit a wall. Still though. Fun memory I suppose
I remember one time when I was in elementary school, my friend told me Shadow was playable in Brawl if you chose the dark sonic color scheme, playing through all star mode without being hit once, and then after that, you’d finally unlock Shadow as a playable character with a whole new moveset and everything. I actually spent months trying this, and when I didn’t unlock shadow when I succeeded months later I told him it wasn’t true. The thing was, he was genuinely confused. A few days later I went to his house, and he asked his dad if he could play on his Wii, he boots it up, and low and behold, shadow is there on the roster. Well, he didn’t have a unique moveset and he was just a skin for sonic, but he was there I’m hindsight, I now know that what was going on was that his dad had some costume mods installed on the Wii, but that was probably the most amazing experience with a playground rumor ive ever had. I genuinely questioned if i just messed up unlocking him for a solid 2-3 years after that until I saw a RUclips video explaining brawl modding. Another thing I forgot to mention, was that he said you’d also unlock silver if you did the same thing with the lighter colored skin
Dude I was a HUGE believer of Waluigi in SM64DS. The one I always tried was: - bring Wario to Peach's room (the one with the Mario painting in it) - if you walk around/ground pound on the floor enough, the floor will break and you'll find a Waluigi painting I think the reason I believed is because that room was like the _only_ room in the castle with a creaky floor, so I thought, of course it must break. Also 6:31 I HATED this one even as a kid. I vividly remember seeing some 2008 era video where they're trying to point out that, in-game the letter M is blue but it has _hints_ of purple so it basically confirms Waluigi. Even babby me could tell that was a total bull
I've never heard of the creaky floor one but I can't lie I always found that room interesting as a kid, I always wondered if there was a way out of the balcony. Also yeah even as a kid there were a couple rumors that just annoyed me, I remember there was one that said you needed to use an action replay and cheat a lot to lure him out cause of how he's known for cheating
I remember back in the late 90's, there was this rumor at my school. You were supposed to go into the Safari Zone and throw rocks at an Exeggcute, and it would eventually 'hatch' into a Togepi. My nine year old self actually tried it. There was also this thing about how if you held B and down on the D-pad, you had a 100% chance of catching whatever you were throwing balls at. Of course whenever it didn't work, it wasn't because it was bullshit, but rather because "you timed it wrong!".
I still don't understand what they were thinking with that fourth door. How can you look at that room where you choose between Mario, Luigi, and Wario, with a mysterious 4th door after Wario, and NOT immediately think Waluigi?
Shoutouts to Edmund McMillen for getting so mad that people datamined The Lost's unlock method in Binding of Isaac: Rebirth that he sent them to the corners of America going on a literal treasure hunt for The Keeper
I loved the Mario 64 Waluigi Rumors as a kid. It almost made a lot of sense with the rabbit color in the manual not being in the game and so on. Some other RUclipsr tried saying yoshi had a purple stripe on his finger in the box art
I cannot BELIEVE you went through all that iconic Waluigi flavored crap and didn't ONCE mention that weird hole in the castle on the file select screen! That was, like, my personal white whale when it came to video game mysteries! Great video, though, I absolutely adore this kind of nostalgic retrospective look at old internet mythos.
I had dig around for a picture of the file select screen with the castle and I assume you're talking about that square panel on the right tower of the castle.
I spent hours using wing cap Mario bonking into where that hole was hoping a hidden block would break. That file select screen drove me crazy as a kid.
God, I remember believing the Pokemon Emerald hoax that said you could board the rocket in Mossdeep's space station to go to the moon and catch Deoxys. I tried all sorts of methods to get that to work, including beating the Elite Four tons of times. As sad as that made eight-year-old me, I still miss this aspect of video games that, as you brought up, is sort of dead in the modern era. It just generally felt like games had a lot more mystique with all the wild rumors that spread. These types of hoaxes are up there with PS2-style cheat codes as stuff I wish could make a comeback.
@@jouheikisaragi6075 Yep! That made me feel great when I played Alpha Sapphire for the first time, I felt vindicated. Sometimes I wonder if GameFreak was inspired by the hoax to go in that direction for the Delta Episode. Probably not, but it's fun to think about.
The version of this rumor that I heard was that if the percentage of successful launches ever became 100%, you'd be able to board the ship. It was one of my favorite rumors because of how it immediately falls apart if you just know how percentages work.
@@MechaWyvern707 Yeah, I heard that version too. I think that was part of the fun of earlier game hoaxes though. Realistically, it'd be dumb for any of it to be legit, especially some of the more absurd setup methods, like the Waluigi unlock detailed in this video. But we all chose to believe it anyway because we were kids.
I LOVED this hoax as a kid, i remember one specific version of it that even had rosalina involved but i realized "wait, no, she didnt come out for several more years" and i felt sad LMAO
Honestly the CoD Zombies easter eggs especially during the BO1 era were probably the closest to this kind of absurd shit that was real in any game. Some of the steps for the story easter eggs in maps like ascension are like a miracle that anybody figured out. Later games made them a little more explicit as the story took more and more focus and they were more expected so it wasnt as crazy.
I remember the easter eggs taking months before coming out, and most steps had such little confirmation after completing them you were just praying it was actually working
There's a lot of great videogame hoaxes out there, and there's a few I remember quite well, such as the 'Beat the Elite Four 20 times in Emerald to get on a rocket to got to space and find Deoxys one', which, in an ironic twist, ended up somewhat becoming 'real' in the remakes, minus the rocket and the beating the Elite Four that many times Possibly my favourite videogame hoax has got to be the Grinch Leak for Smash Ultimate. There was so much stuff going on with that one, blurry image, including people finding out that it was from an actual print studio that had worked with Nintendo before, the company removing videos from their RUclips page shortly after, an official Nintendo video which contained an as of yet unnamed item that looked suspiciously similar to an item one of the characters in the image was heavily associated with, a previous rumour that came out that had a lot of credibility behind it (And was later confirmed real) and even a debate on whether the characters in the mural had been moved around. Even some leakers were actually backpedalling in response to it. Weirdest thing is, a week later is was confirmed fake with the reveal of Incineroar, a character who wasn't in the image at all, but even 4 years later, nobody has come forward about creating the hoax, although there's a few people who claim to have made it without providing evidence that they did
Really was the 2000’s kid version of L is Real. And I was entrenched in both of these as a little snot nosed brat browsing RUclips in 2008 looking at every Luigi in 64 and Waluigi in 64DS video I could.
The old N64 heads of the world took over the early Internet and brainwashed everyone into thinking Super Mario 64 DS is a bad game. However, as they lose grasp on the Internet the Nintendo DS generation rises and we will prove that Super Mario 64 DS wasn't that bad of a game after all. I had 0 idea where I was going with this comment but thanks for making a video on the Mario 64 I personally experienced as a kid.
I never understood the hate for it. The first ever game I beat as a kid was the orginal, but when it came out on the DS I got it and it was amazing to play the game again with new stars and such.
i grew up with the N64 and still LOVED SM64DS. nowadays i wouldn't touch it without the analog controls mod, but the new content and characters are genuinely so good, and it's a shame Nintendo doesn't add new content of that quality to their remakes anymore
This reminds me of how the lost was originally unlocked in the binding of isaac: rebirth. You had to die in specific ways as specific characters consecutevely that it felt like your playground romour. The dev hoped it would take months for the comunity to find out but it was datamined 109 hours after release, wich is probably why we don't see these types of unlocks anymore
It actually took way longer than 109 hours, that's a myth that edmund has deconfirmed. 109 is the number of coins you could put in the greed machine before it would blow up early due to a bug in the release of afterbirth.
I think the chief Chilly fight having that random ass mushroom when you hit him enough times is proof that lies will become instantaneously more believable if there's a bit of truth in it
i was not ready to hear wwwwario’s name again after all these years. that was the first RUclips channel i was ever glued to, just waiting to see if the next upload would be the one where the mystery was finally solved. thanks for reminding me of how fun all that was :)
The Super Mario 64 DS modding community actually found an unused palette for the rabbits, but it wasn't purple but the kind of green of Rosalina's dress. We now joke about Rosalina being originally planned as the secret character, but I do wonder why there was an extra palette and why it had this colour.
@@BigYellowSilly Just checked. There's really six palettes. Pink for Mario, green for Luigi, yellow for Yoshi, orange for Wario, white (glowing rabbits) and cyan (unused).
My favorite hoax was the Mew Truck in Red and Blue. It sounded ABSURD at the time but because Missingno. was so obscure we believed it as kids! Then some kid showed us some weirdo technique where you walk to a specific trainer then fly to fight another kid with a slowpoke, and then fight Mew afterwords. We were like *Nah it's the truck man. Mew cant come from a random thing like that trainer guy*
"hey y'all, Big Yellow here" Jokes apart I'm really liking this new kind of videos, your personality is great and pretty much anything you put out is enjoyable :D
The Waluigi rumor that got me as a kid was this idea that you had to go into the stained glass portrait of Peach while using the invisibility cap as Luigi, and you had to do so without having already beaten Bowser in the Sky. I didn't believe it until I started reading up about how to get onto the roof without the cannon as different characters. Couldn't ever do it at Luigi, but I actually managed to do it with Mario (the corner walljump method), which gave me this tiny glimmer of hope that if I could just get good enough do the early rooftop Luigi trick, I could unlock Waluigi. I was working off of a very shitty text description that said stuff like "when you think you have enough speed" so there was no way I was ever learning that trick, which allowed me to believe it was simply beyond my skill level. Similar thing happened with Luigi's Mansion, actually. I thought I could unlock E Gadd by clearing the Hidden Mansion with the maximum money in less than an hour.
On the topic of hoaxes and games adding weird easter eggs and shit, allow me to gush a bit. No game perfectly encapsulates this better IMO than Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Quire a few things are working in its favor. Among other things, it's a game released in the very early days of the internet, the game very rarely explains anything to the player, and it's filled to the brim with cool secrets. It's like they looked at the Luigi SM64 hoaxes and said "what if we got on that shit?". A few examples, avoiding major spoilers / obvious stuff: - "Yo, you know those frogs and toads in the caverns? There's a chance that when you kill them, they have a small chance of dropping motherfucking New York style pizza even though this game takes place in like 1798." This is a true fact. - "Hey, did you know that if you return to the area where Death jacks your gear after entering the Alchemy Lab and before fighting the first bosses (Slogra and Gaibon), they just appear there and you can't even defeat them, they just do a Super Metroid Ridley and flee?" Also a true fact. - "Remember that weird confessional room in the Chapel, where you could sit down in one of the chairs and either have a ghost priest or ghost lady show up to take part in a confession, except there's a 50% chance that either one of them is evil and will try to stab you in the fucking face from the other side of the confessional, except there's also a small chance that after the nice ghost priest leaves, he leaves behind some grape juice / wine?" All this is true. - "Did you know that there's this entirely skippable piece of equipment called the 'Cat-Eye Circlet' that aside from some stat buffs, it heals you for a lot of HP when you otherwise would've been dealt 'cat damage', which in practice only shows up in 2 different attacks from 1 single enemy type who can be found in 1 single location in the entire game that's entirely optional to explore, even though there are other enemies / attacks that are clearly cats or cat related?" You better fucking believe this is true. Ultimately, stuff like this is why SotN is maybe my favorite game of all time. It's the type of game that you can learn new shit about it every time you replay it
This hoax is exactly what has made me want Waluigi in smash so bad for the past few years. Fuck the memes, fuck the harassment. I just wanna be compensated for my childhood.
i feel like a big part of why video game hoaxes were so big back then as well was, most kids really only had like, the 2 or 3 games they owned that they'd play over and over and over again and eventually you start wondering if there's more to it that you just don't know about or if something you saw in its sequel was also in the original, like, i think i spent a good 500 hundred hours playing the original sonic riders and when i saw that silver was in zero gravity, i started looking up ways to unlock him in the original because silver is cool. of course that's not really the case anymore, video games are way more accessible nowadays be it mobile games or F2P games or something like gamepass, so you don't get quite as invested in the few games you own
Long comment incoming, but this mystery/hoax was a huge part for me in my elementary Years and early teenage Years. That game was Banjo-Kazooie, 'everything' around that game was a Mystery or hoax. The 'Dream Project', all the beta levels (The spanish video was a holy grail because it has footage of Giant's Lair as the fandom Called it) all those things were unveil it by Rare itself and with HD footage almost 2 decades later. But nothing compare it to Stop 'n' Swop. As a Kid, SnS was THE biggest Mystery in those years, "where can I get those Eggs?" "I can actually get the Ice Key in Freezeezy Peak! How do I reach it?" The codes were given thanks to datamining and seeing that there were 6 Eggs instead of two was amazing. But I didn't know what to do with These things. It was another screen of collectables. Then Tooie came out and in one level there was Four portraits "showing" one of the eggs, and oh boy, "what kind of tease is this?". In the end, we knew that nothing of this was used as intended, just bonuses for the game, nothing that the developers wanted to do. Until Nuts 'n' Bolts came out and finally Rare used SnS just to give cosmetic parts for your car. That was it, the biggest Mystery on my gaming Years was cosmetics... Yeah sure... Tooie in XBLA gave us more things to do and achievements... But a decade of Mystery was gone... Just an unreacheable joke in Nuts 'n' Bolts (because to get to that joke, you need in game currency that surpasses the limit) Yeah... SnS still is my favorite gaming Mystery, but man... That Ending was just... Bad...
I think one of my favorite hoaxes is this one from Banjo Kazooie called “The Real Stop ‘N Swop” where a bunch of different characters are placed through out different worlds where they shouldn’t be and you’re told once you collect all the items to insert the Banjo Tooie cartridge immediately
The most recent rumour one that I can think of that almost everyone fell for was Asmuden in Vestaria Saga I. Basically, Shouzou Kaga, the original creator of the Fire Emblem series (From 1-5) is the creator of the "Saga" games, including Vestaria Saga, which are infamous for bizarre ways to unlock characters and other odd events, so someone decided to show this really convoluted method that involved the coin pouch to recruit him. It was believable because of some of the ridiculousness of the actual recruitments in the series (Namely the 10 step process involving about 4 different characters and like 7 specific items and specific boss kills over 17 levels to recruit Lateena in Tear Ring Saga, which is a genuine thing). Spoilers for that recruitment btw below, just to show how ergigous some of the genuine ones are (This is not a joke btw, this is genuinely how you get her, and I did copy paste this from the wiki 'cause I'm not typing it all out) 1. After Map 8, put both Kreiss and Arkis in Holmes's army. 2. After Map 10, in Holmes's route, go back to Wellt Castle and select Ezekiel (alternatively, the player can select him before Map 2). Note that Sasha (recommended), Kate, Roger, Raffin, Estelle, or Norton must be in Holmes's army. 3. Go to Verge (the town between Maps 1 and 2). An event will occur. 4. After Map 13 but before Map 14, visit Marl Harbor and watch the cutscene. Afterwards, go back and visit Verge again. Make sure Kreiss has an Healing Drop in his inventory. 5. After Map 15 but before Map 16, head back to Verge. This time, make sure Kreiss has an Amulet in his inventory. 6. After Map 19, go back to Verge. 7. After Map 23, put Kreiss in Runan's army. 8. In Map 25, the Leteena Event will occur in the lower right house between Leteena and Marco, one of the Dragon Knights. 9. Make Kreiss defeat Marco, and then visit this house. Afterwards, Leteena will join instead of Rebecca. 10. After the third route split up, an event will occur between Kreiss and Leteena. From here, the player will have two options, either A) Leteena will leave, or B) both Leteena and Kreiss will leave, unless Ezekiel is recruited. With all of that, you can see why: 1. Next have Dune kill the brigand named Hooke who stands ontop of the cliff. 2. Next have Dune trade the Sack of Coin he obtained from Hooke to Zade. 3. Have Zade engage in a round of combat. Both Zade and Amundsen must survive this. Afterwards some dialogue will play and Amundsen will exit the battlefield. Sounds like a reasonable recruitment.
I love this channel. Not a huge fan of most of the fighting game stuff, but I love the random videos interspersed with the Pokemon vids. It's a really cool mix
64 DS came out in *2004?* Oh lord... Fans just really want Waluigi in a main game, and I blame the blank door for this rumor. In hindsight, It's really fun though. Wow, I did not know about the Mega Mushroom thing, that's a clever way to "legitimize" your hoax, use a secret that actually is in the game!
I always really enjoyed the ones in Generation 3 surrounding Mossdeep City, specifically the White Rock and the "Wish Tag" NPC girl one and the Mossdeep Space Center Launches. Always remember hearing if you did some absurd bullshit in the right sequence you could talk to that white rock and get a Jirachi (and I mean its the only white rock like this in the game and the NPC next to it talks about wishes cmon). Space Center one was at least less brutal on the kids lol but I remember finally getting to the amount of launches that the rumors said would trigger you getting to fly to space and fight Deoxys lmao times have changed lol lemme go boot up ORAS postgame and fly to space and fight Deoxys real quick
I remember some kid back in elementary school telling me that if you get to 100 hours in your cartridge, the old man would say it's a good day for a rocket launch, and then you could ask the scientist to go to space and fight Deoxys. I actually got the 100 hours. At least there was the Battle Frontier to burn all those hours in, but damn.
I miss the days when you could just say any shit you wanted and people would have to go and try it out. As cool as datamining and a million people documenting everything that happens in their playthrough is, there's a charm to the unknown. Elden Ring really hammered that home for me, imagine how crazy the rumours would be about that game. And how crazy it'd be to hear that the giant boss with dual greatswords who uses gravity magic to ride a tiny horse, which flies into the sky to divebomb you is actually real and not just someone bullshitting you
I think FROM tries really hard to replicate that feeling. It’s sort of accurate if you shut yourself from the larger community and just share secrets with your friends, but it’s really impratical if you use any kind of social media.
Not a single Twitter user will watch this video because of the intro, look what you've done! On another note, I always loved the whole "Pokegods" thing. I sadly understood that they were fake almost from the beginning, but hell was it cool imagining.
I remember two main hoaxes I fell for. I was convinced that catching all 28 unown in hgss and doing some bullshit would let me catch arceus. A much more recent one is the Rayman hoax from Smash 4 days which sticks with me because the artist behind it made a video showing how he did it which was super cool
Really enjoying the direction you’re taking your videos/channel. I love your fighting game and Pokémon content but I am totally down for stuff like this and the insane aquarium video. As someone who didn’t have internet in the early 2000s this is like peaking through a time portal, well done!
I'm enjoying your branching out on these videos. Honestly your delivery is so entertaining I'd probably watch you talk about pretty much anything. You don't ham it up for the camera you're just shooting the shit. You're also thorough and make the content accessible to those who don't have a lot of background knowledge on the subject.
I was elementary when someone said Haunter can evolve through leveling up, 100 levels later . . . Also that stupid patterned bush in PKMN FRLG, someone on the net said that it you cut in the center, Hooh/Lugia would appear. Non-Pokemon Wise, My classmates told me you can unlock Jinpachi in T5DR by beating the game with the least used character in the arcade. . . . and that might be one of the reasons why I mained Marduk and Xiaoyu
I was really interested in Pokemon glitches and secrets back in the day, and I still am now. I have a lot of fond memories of messing around with the walk through walls glitch from Pokemon Blue and seeing what kinds of cool stuff I could find. I ESPECIALLY wanted to get in the inaccessible grass in Pallet Town with that glitch. It was very sad to learn that stepping into it just crashes your game instantly lmao
The big gaming hoax for me as a kid was the Luigi’s Mansion Beta content where everyone made creepypastas about that lighting glitch and the weird face at the end of the first trailer
I grew up watching FNAF become massive (around 4th and 5th grade for me) and the hoaxes/rumors around the 1st and 2nd games (and to a lesser extent the 3rd one) absolutely can *not* be understated. It wasn't just online discussions, but at school, on the playground talk with friends. To me, that proves that even though we're balls deep in the era of the Internet, the magic of video game hoaxes isn't dead. I hope some day a game comes around that captures that feeling again.
I remember when I was in school, a friend of mine (a known liar who would made stuff up to sound cool) told me that Super Sonic and Hyper Sonic aren't the only super form in sonic 3 and knuckles. You could also get Super Tails and Hyper Knuckles. I absolutely did not believe him, that just made no sense to me. Hyper Knuckles? That sounds so stupid. Only Hyper Sonic was real to me because he already had a sprite, so obviously he would get something out of collecting all the super emeralds. Tails and Knuckles didn't get super forms for collecting the chaos emeralds. And this was like 2001, 2002, so checking on the internet was just not an option for 11-12 year olds. I sure felt egged on when later we would get all the super emeralds and unlock Hyper Knuckles for the first time. I was so sure it was a hoax, but then it turned out to be true.
To be fair tails harnessing the power of the chaos and super emeralds to make nature's creatures bend to his will and create a permanent AOE attack field around him made of flickies sounds like a crackpot lie
@@laneplain107 yes, but because he was only playable in Sonic 3 and Knuckles, I fully assumed he wouldn't get a super form. Especially because he was the "hard mode", basically.
I had a "friend" in elementary school who was the "my uncle works at nintendo" guy of legend. I remember right around Ocarina pf times first couple of years he told me that the Japanese version was alot darker. You would watch the kokiri kids get killed by deku babas and there was more blood and kakariko village was massacared and shit like that.
I actually grew up with another waluigi hoax in super smash brothers brawl where i believe you had to beat all star brawl on cruel mode without taking damage, and i have no clue but i was making progress and i remember seeing waluigi on the screen and then i died and i was devastated, its because one of the cpus grabbed an assist trophy and got waluigi, and i looked up more of it online and it says if you fail you'll never get another chance to unlock him again
I always forget that there are content creators on RUclips that are YOUNGER than I am so it was a bit of a "wait, WHAT?" moment when you mentioned being young when FNAF came out. I was already in college then... So going on that, I'd have to say the time I was convinced that it was possible to get Mew only in the Japanese version of Pokemon and I somehow pestered my parents enough to import me a copy of Green sometime around 04 or 05. I was already pretty invested in the glitch hunting scene thanks to Team Rocket's Rockin's Tales of the Glitch pages but back then it was pretty hard sifting through what was legit and what was bullshit. Of course, the specific method (which I don't even recall at this point) of getting Mew didn't work on Green either, but it wasn't very much longer until the Trainer Fly glitch became widespread anyways. And even back in elementary school I was a bit of a dork so I was just happy owning the "lost" fourth Pokemon game. Honestly, nothing really compares to growing up RIGHT in the middle of that first wave of Pokemania. I do miss the rumors and other nonsense people used to come up with for the first two generations, and the general "mysteriousness" of the early internet, but those things have been replaced by actual wild glitch discoveries and data leaks showing what could have been. It still boggles my mind that we had actual prototype Pokemon sprites and demos leak a few years ago! For the longest time the only thing I knew of Spaceworld 97 were some old drawings someone made of those early designs and blurry magazine scans.
One of my friends in kindergarten told me that the guy on the news said Dinosaur Mario would the be the new power up in the next Mario game. I am 19 years old, so this was nowhere near Mario Odyssey. I believed him completely, until the next day when I asked about it again and he told me he lied.
I remember the Waluigi hoax, but I remember hearing a completely different BS means to unlock him. Follow me on this: You still had to get all 150 stars, only there was actually a point to it this time, because the Wing Cap on the castle roof was part of the unlock method. You then had to get that cap and fly into a specific part of the castle wall. This is my favorite part of this hoax, since, though not as solid as the Mega Mushroom thing, there is still evidence in the actual game for this. You’re supposed to know what spot to hit by looking at the file select screen; the secret passage you’ll enter is only visible in the reflected image of the castle on the bottom screen. And sure enough, though the passage itself isn’t real, the opening that only shows up in that reflection is. However, this also meant this was easy to disprove; no vague six hour BS, most people would probably give up after bonking that spot to no avail like I did. And yeah, the rest of the method went just as off the rails past there as the one you’re familiar with. I think you hit a switch in that passage, which caused a portal to form on or in front of the big stained glass window that Peach emerges from in the ending. Flying into that would bring you to another secret room with another switch, and for some reason it would also completely flood the outside area? Don’t ask me, I have no answers. In any case, flipping this switch would let you return to the castle, and if you then checked the character swap room, the blank door would now be replaced with a Waluigi door. Anyway, that’s it. Just figured, if you were fascinated by the hoax you heard as a kid, you might be interested in an alternate version. I know I was with your story. Even when debunked, these rumors remain interesting.
Great vid the craziest one I’ve heard was a rumour of a secret digimon chimeramon in digimon world 2 on the games gamefaq board. it wasn’t even like a random guy who said it it was a guy who created a website on the game for how strong attacks were and locations for everything. I think the best part was is that it got a bunch of people either into the game or back into it to start modding and kept the board for an obscure 20 year old rpg alive
16:27 To be fair, this is what Nintendo intended to do with Melee, as Roy and Marth were originally supposed to be removed because they never localized Fire emblem in the west. (Instead, now we got my favorite Nintendo series localized, so good thing they didn't go through with it) So, like, this actually isn't insane to believe that they'd do think for a functionally identical character when they'd do it to functional unique ones.
Growing up near an arcade, I had a few silly friends who, in the midst of anxious puberty and fighting games still being our favorites, had a few weird rumors about the cabs. One friend interpreted Morrigan's victory sprite in MVC1 to show that her opposite side from the camera was totally bare, you guys, and if you could get her to turn around with a special move you'd totally be able to see all of it. At least one of us mained Morrigan from then on trying to find that. Another friend firmly believed that there were specific sprites in Street Fighter Alpha 3 that showed defeated characters landing directly on their heads and breaking their necks like a very toned-down Mortal Kombat. Supposedly each character had a specific move and you'd have to land the killing blow with it as a counter-hit. I think there was also the idea that you had to be in a specific -ism or something. There were audible "ooooh?" as we watched Cody or Birdie fly away and then disappointment when they just transitioned from falling headfirst to laying down. We hated Mortal Kombat's gameplay but our stupid adolescent brains just wanted the gore in a better game I guess.
I remember some of this. I also remember rumors of unlocking OG Mega Man in MMX: Command Mission, Since the game does have legit concept art of him in the game. Or unlocking Jinpachi in Vanilla Tekken 5, or Metal Sonic being playable in Sonic Heroes.
I'm glad to see you branching out in your content. I'd like to see you continue with your usual content and dive into shit like this now and again too. It varies the content up nicely.
Dude, I actually believed this. I tried various methods which didn't work, eventually wound up on a website that said you could unlock him by using Invisible Luigi and cannoning into the Princess Peach stained-glass, tried it myself, but it didn't work, and after that I just gave up. After that, a friend told me he was exclusive to Japan, and I was like "baaahhh"
Had a friend who convinced me that Shadow the Hedgehog was a secret unlockable character in Brawl. You "unlocked" him by entering a 4-player time match on Green Hill Zone with every character set to Link or Ike. When the timer hit halfway, the match would freeze and a black void would open up in the middle of the stage - only the current winner of the match would be able to hop in and challenge Shadow. When the strat failed to work with 3 CPUs, he told me that all four players needed to be human. He knew that I didn't have enough friends for a four person match :(
I'm so glad I found this video. You hit the nail on the head on everything that made the Waluigi in Super Mario 64 DS rumor so memorable. The Arceus2401 part with the mega mushroom is 100% iconic, I think it's one of the only video game rumors I can remember that had an actual, obscure feature in the game as part of the method. Seeing that mega mushroom appear on my DS screen way back, was such a shocking moment. Also I agree, that white door HAD to have been more than just for a star at one point, especially when considering the lengths it took in the game just to unlock it.
This rumor left such an impression on me. To the extent that, years after the fact, I had a whole dream about it. In it, Waluigi’s door was located in a room with a purple carpet in the middle surronded by black floor and walls on each side. The floors and walls were decorated with stars, red on one side and blue on the other. It reminded me of the night sky painting on the upstairs floor that you never actually enter. It was years since I had played the game too, it inspired me to browse the Cutting Room Floor and whatnot to learn more about the game in general. I think the rumors were part of my fondness for the game. The idea that there was something hidden deep in the castle waiting to be found gave it a sense of discovery and wonder, even if it wasn’t really there.
The one time I got into what seemed like probably a hoax was the Mew Glitch in Gen 1 Pokemon, and that sense of wonder when things started actually happening as it described it would matches up exactly with how you felt after Chief Chilly, and the fact that it actually ended up working and getting me a Mew made me feel like a fucking magician
Mew Glitch was insane because it wasn't discovered (or at the very least documented) until 2003, in which some guy on Gamefaqs posted the glitch and how to execute it only to be told "fuck off, this is an obvious hoax" by people who probably still had war flashbacks about the truck. And then someone -actually- tried the glitch and they were like "No, no. He's right. It fuckin works" And the Trainer Fly glitch is SO specific. It has to be an out-of-sight Long Range Trainer. You have to press this button on this specific frame to activate the glitch and then fly/teleport away. You need to fight this specific trainer BUT YOU CANNOT walk in front of him, he has to walk up to you and then after you fly back to the place where you flew away from the first trainer the start menu pops up and when you exit it a Mew battle happens" When shit like that is actually real how could you blame some kid for also believing in the Mossdeep Space Center hoaxes/urban legends?
Waluigi´s Island is my favorite Mario Party board even in 2022. pretty good not only in design but in the context of Waluigu being "the final character you beat" using the traps of his island to fght for him.
I used to live in a small community so those kinds of video game rumors weren't being spread back then but I distinctly remember my sister making one up. She convinced me that fierce deity link was in smash 64 and that, to unlock him, you needed to beat all very hard stages in under 20 seconds without losing a stock. I had total blind faith in her so I ended up spending hours trying over and over despite the fact it was clearly impossible. Fast forward a couple years later and I ask her about that thing again and she tells me the only reason she told me about it was because I was constantly annoying her to play smash with me and she wanted to be left alone. I'll always remember that memory really fondly.
I remember all those RUclips videos abot trying to unlock Waluigi. I loved searching all over RUclips for 15 fps camcorder footage of someone trying different convoluted string of events to unlock him.
A hoax that always stuck with me as a kid was the time while me and my family were camping out. There was another older kid there at the time that told me in his Pokemon Emerald, that once beating the elite four, instead of fighting Wallace, he was declared the champion on the spot and gained the ability to get challenge other stronger trainers instead. Never showed me any of it of course, and never told me how he suddenly got that, but I'll always remember it as it sounded cool as hell and it actually did become a thing in a much later gen.
One of my favorite "hoaxes" was the April Fools prank from an old Nintendo Power article about Yoshi being in Pokémon Red/Blue. For those unaware, in 1999, an article was published in Nintendo Power, an official magazine that covers many things Nintendo-related, that detailed how you could obtain Yoshi in Pokémon Red and Blue that went something like this: - You need two devices and one copy of Red and Blue each that both have all 150 Pokémon obtained - Initiate a trade between the game copies via link cable and trade over a Dratini from Pokémon Red to Pokémon Blue - The Blue player evolves the trade-obtained Dratini into Dragonite and then trades it back to the Red player - The Red player then heads to the Unknown Dungeon and Surfs as close as they can to the area where Mewtwo was - The Red player uses a Fire Stone on Dragonite (they even mention that selecting the Fire Stone will show "Not Available" on Dragonite but to still do it) And then the screen supposedly glitches and Dragonite evolves into Yoshi, keeping all the stats as Dragonite but having an ID number of 999 and the sprite and name becoming Yoshi. They even had a couple fake pictures "proving" the Yoshi's existence, and this was back in 1999 when it was nigh impossible to get gaming info from sources other than friends and game magazines such as this. I don't remember if it explicitly mentioned in that article that it was an April Fools joke either, so the whole thing was very convincing at the time.
This video was a great trip down memory lane, thanks! I personally had a horse in the race back then, on one of my old channels I made a video of me walking into the white door and proving its just Boo sounds and it got like 50k views :)
This video unlocked a memory I had forgotten. I started to use the internet when I was 9 or 10 years old, it was thw year 2008, Smash Bros Brawl had just been released, and I searched on google how to unlock all the secret characters after some time with the game. There was a guy saying it was possible to unlock who I think was Banjo (I dont even remember which character it was, but it was one that I wanted a lot to be in smash) if you played classic mode on expert, damaged Master Hand to leave it with 1% health and survived for like half an hour. I believed it, but I only managed to get to Master Hand on expert once, and as Fox, I was able to leave it with exactly 1% using his blaster. However, I didnt manage to survive for half an hour. Later I realized it was a hoax
Yoo i remember every teaser in fnaf being broken down to pixels like literally every blob of colour, every reflection it all meant something, especially the cupcake for some reason
@@BigYellowSilly I always remember how people saw crying child's face in between one nightmare's belly theeth or the reflections of the puppet in the faces of SL animatronics in the trailer for that game. Every pixel counts huh?
I was actually talking about this with my friend the other day. I mentioned how I look all over the internet to try to find out if Waluigi was in the game and apparently he did too.
So I have a habit of liking videos whenever I hear something that I like a whole lot and you sir had me wanting to like this one four times in the first 2 minutes. How does he keep getting me like this?
Seeing how the first finished build of Super Mario 64 DS is the United States version, it makes even less sense that he'd be in a Japanese copy only. It would mean he'd have to be ADDED not removed. Great video.
fun fact: In japan Purple is associated with death. Meaning that you have to lose a life in the 6 hours in order to unlock Waluigi's door to the inverted world.
one of my favorite modern "sounds bullshit but is real" thing is in MGSV they patched in the ability to rerecruit Quiet after she dies by playing her bossfight 7 times in a row, which will change [REPLAY] to [REUNION]. That sounds like a "revive Aerith" scenario but it's 100% real and of course it's in a fucking Metal Gear game.
I still remember seeing that weird black square on the right side of the castle in the file select screen. I thought it had something to do with unlocking Waluigi lol
My older brother had me convinced that Waluigi was in the game and to get him you had to go in the stained glass window with Peach on it at the front of the castle. He said it was like another painting to go in and I spent hours trying to get up there (was a dumb kid and didn't get all 150 stars so I had to do this from the bridge) and I think I remember getting up there one time (thanks Luigi) just to discover it was...solid... I was heartbroken.
The internet really did drastically change just about everything on a fundamental level, we’re probably never getting these kinda secrets with anything ever again because you can just find it on RUclips. I think my favorite has to be Shen Long just because of how much that spiraled out of control. One magazine prank gave us one of the most iconic fighting game characters of all time who even showed up in Tekken canonically, which would (for the worse) retroactively change the storyline of street fighter forever, would have that character be used for a similar joke in re2 that inspired kamiya to make the secret missions of dmc to reward that obtuse secret hunting, create an entire archetype in fighting games with the glass cannon, the concept of air fire balls which would serve to be the catalyst for capcom inventing parries and air blocking to get around zoning, would as serve midway’s inspiration for reptile and all their secrets and on top of all that simply give us the raging demon; a super so iconic even discord has an Easter egg for it. One hoax about a fake street fighter character unironically influenced gaming incredibly and I think it’s just amazing how much we legitimately owe a prank about a mistranslation.
I think the hoax that stuck with me the most was that if you collected every single coin in every single level of Yoshi's Story, you unlocked a purple yoshi from the game intro. (Always with the purple characters, huh.) Of course I tried, and it was all well and good until I found out there's a coin in 3-1 that just falls off the side of the screen and despawns before you can even have a chance to grab it after uncovering it. Even though I know it's fake now and purple yoshi was just cut / changed to a different color, it was still a pretty fun challenge to try for. And I still want that damn coin that lives rent-free in my head.
I don't recall what hoaxes I fell for (although my cousin tried to convince ne you could access the Orange Islands in Pokemon RBY by surfing into a specific rock in one the ocean routes) but I remember the most memorable ones were on "cheat" sites where kids could post bonkers, usually edgy, "secrets" with no proof whatsoever. The one I remember the most fondly is basically a proto-creepypasta. Someone claimec that in GSC, if you did a specific series of events in the Goldenrod Department Store, Silver (the character) would appear on the roof, and if you talked to him he would jump off to his death. Even at the time I thought it was total horseshit, but it makes me smile to think that even in the 90s kids were coming up with edgy ghost stories about video games. Some things never change!
Back in like 2009 or so I remember 2 videos about How to catch Celebi and Jirachi in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl which just boiled down to go to either the Solaceon ruins or the Iron Islands and KO 100 Pokémon without leaving and the next encounter would be Celebi or Jirachi respectively. It's only natural that when it didn't work to get Celebi I tried it for Jirachi after too..
great video honestly, love this one and the insaniquarium one and would be so down to just listen to you talk about literally any random thing at this point LOL
When I was like 8 my one friend, who may or may not have ended up getting diagnosed with some mental disorder, kept telling me that Mewtwo and Batman were in Sm4sh, and then when Mewtwo actually did get announced I didn’t believe him until I got home and saw for myself.
My personal favorite old fashion video game hoax is Dragonite Yoshi. Where Nintendo themselves revealed an alleged method of evolving Dragonite a 3rd time in order to get Yoshi. The best part was that Dragonite's shiny ended up being a similar shade of green, which is just really fitting to me
here's a modern example of a thing that sounds like a hoax, but is actually real. in the new 3d kirby game, there's a boss rush level on an icy bridge. there's actually a way to get on top of the bridge, and there's harder versions of the bosses up there. first, you go to the hidden maxim tomato at the start. if you jump around a bit you can find a hidden ledge which brings you to a bit of platforming and then a ladder. once you climb the ladder, you'll be on a platform with some collectables. you will see an open window, which you can enter to find a room with a fireplace and a warp star. taking the warp star will bring you to the first miniboss, except it will be a bit harder. defeating it will bring you to the next, and so on, until you beat the level. oh also all the normal secret areas are available from this route. why is this real.
the harder bosh rush door has always been a thing in kirby if i remember correctly, in return to dreamland in one of the tower levels you could just fly up and there was a door leading to a harder set of mini bosses
this fooled me so hard as a kid. I even had an action replay and it still got me. you would think not seeing an "unlock waluigi" code would convince me he wasn't in the game but it still got me lmao. I still remember trying the most random bs to unlock him with cheats and it was a lot of fun. always felt like there was way more to the game then there actually was with the waluigi rumors and the black box on the title screen
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Also to get footage for this vid I had to play SM64DS with a Gamecube Controller D-Pad I may never recover
jesus christ
FUCKING hell man. Sheer devotion, I respect it.
When the Gamecube D-Pad is so bad it even taunts you in other games
at that rate just use the control stick lol
Another point for the rectangle users
The closest thing to a hoax I've ever experienced was back when I was friends with this girl. It was in the N64 era because Smash Bros was the hot new game that all my friends played. This girl claimed the classic "my dad works at Nintendo and I have a copy of Smash Bros 2 and you know what? Bowser's in it". And of course I'd ask, well can I come over and play it and every time she'd be like, no no no it's my dad's it's under lock and key we can't touch it but I do have it. Even as a kid I just rolled my eyes, like okay whatever lets play tag instead.
Fast forward to a few years later. The GameCube comes out. The sequel to Smash, Melee, is announced. And Bowser _is_ in it.
Son of a _bitch._ She was right all along.
Damn her Dad really did work at Nintendo and he broke the law to leak out an early version just for her to play the worst character in the game how sweet
With Smash Remix, Bowser now actually is in the game
Plot Twist, her father was Sakurai.
Girls didn't game back then so story kinda suspect
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That god damn "Purple Prizes" picture was absolutely iconic to me as a kid. I didn't even learn it was confirmed fake I was just SURE it was real.
16:03 This makes me think of how Marth & Roy weren't going to be in international copies of Super Smash Bros Melee. Can you imagine how many hoaxes like this would've gained traction if people could point to multiple entire characters in a Nintendo game being Japan-only?
I had a friend who was notorious for bullshitting in school. But some of his stuff was like... vaguely believable and seems like something devs would actually put in the game as a nice easter egg or something.
One that really stuck with me was when he told me you can fight King Boo in Mario and Luigi Dream Team, by going to some room in one of Bowser's dreams and a message would pop up saying "You have reached the depths of Luigi's nightmares, prepare for an otherworldly battle" or something. When I got home that day I tried to get to that room, but it turns out the area that room was in, was only acsessable on your 1st trip there... so I decided to start a new save... for this thing that was in the final area of the game. And by the time I got there, I forgot what I started this new file for and just played on like I normally would when I got to the area and when I beat Giant Bowser I remembered. But I didn't reset the game this time because fuck that.
The next day I bought it up to him and he added an extra thing saying that the game also had to be in hard mode, so it didn't annoy me as much since the file wasn't in hard mode. But it stuck with me.
Just a few months ago I replayed the game in hard mode and I actually remembered what he told me. So I got to the room and instead of going left to progress the game. I went right to find the hidden room like he said was there and... I hit a wall. Still though. Fun memory I suppose
That'd honestly be a fun battle to have.
At least you get to fight King Boo in Paper Jam.
I don't know if you're the person I think you are but they have the same pfp as you and that's interesting to me
I remember one time when I was in elementary school, my friend told me Shadow was playable in Brawl if you chose the dark sonic color scheme, playing through all star mode without being hit once, and then after that, you’d finally unlock Shadow as a playable character with a whole new moveset and everything.
I actually spent months trying this, and when I didn’t unlock shadow when I succeeded months later I told him it wasn’t true. The thing was, he was genuinely confused. A few days later I went to his house, and he asked his dad if he could play on his Wii, he boots it up, and low and behold, shadow is there on the roster. Well, he didn’t have a unique moveset and he was just a skin for sonic, but he was there
I’m hindsight, I now know that what was going on was that his dad had some costume mods installed on the Wii, but that was probably the most amazing experience with a playground rumor ive ever had. I genuinely questioned if i just messed up unlocking him for a solid 2-3 years after that until I saw a RUclips video explaining brawl modding.
Another thing I forgot to mention, was that he said you’d also unlock silver if you did the same thing with the lighter colored skin
Dude I was a HUGE believer of Waluigi in SM64DS. The one I always tried was:
- bring Wario to Peach's room (the one with the Mario painting in it)
- if you walk around/ground pound on the floor enough, the floor will break and you'll find a Waluigi painting
I think the reason I believed is because that room was like the _only_ room in the castle with a creaky floor, so I thought, of course it must break.
Also 6:31 I HATED this one even as a kid. I vividly remember seeing some 2008 era video where they're trying to point out that, in-game the letter M is blue but it has _hints_ of purple so it basically confirms Waluigi. Even babby me could tell that was a total bull
I've never heard of the creaky floor one but I can't lie I always found that room interesting as a kid, I always wondered if there was a way out of the balcony. Also yeah even as a kid there were a couple rumors that just annoyed me, I remember there was one that said you needed to use an action replay and cheat a lot to lure him out cause of how he's known for cheating
I have run out of clever things to say
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@@BigYellowSilly Never heard of it, but I like the cheating one
I remember back in the late 90's, there was this rumor at my school. You were supposed to go into the Safari Zone and throw rocks at an Exeggcute, and it would eventually 'hatch' into a Togepi. My nine year old self actually tried it.
There was also this thing about how if you held B and down on the D-pad, you had a 100% chance of catching whatever you were throwing balls at. Of course whenever it didn't work, it wasn't because it was bullshit, but rather because "you timed it wrong!".
Lol I remember the same catch idea but it was time your A presses to the wobbles
I still don't understand what they were thinking with that fourth door. How can you look at that room where you choose between Mario, Luigi, and Wario, with a mysterious 4th door after Wario, and NOT immediately think Waluigi?
Shoutouts to Edmund McMillen for getting so mad that people datamined The Lost's unlock method in Binding of Isaac: Rebirth that he sent them to the corners of America going on a literal treasure hunt for The Keeper
I loved the Mario 64 Waluigi Rumors as a kid. It almost made a lot of sense with the rabbit color in the manual not being in the game and so on. Some other RUclipsr tried saying yoshi had a purple stripe on his finger in the box art
I cannot BELIEVE you went through all that iconic Waluigi flavored crap and didn't ONCE mention that weird hole in the castle on the file select screen! That was, like, my personal white whale when it came to video game mysteries! Great video, though, I absolutely adore this kind of nostalgic retrospective look at old internet mythos.
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Yes! This was the theory I was most on-board with as a kid
I had dig around for a picture of the file select screen with the castle and I assume you're talking about that square panel on the right tower of the castle.
I spent hours using wing cap Mario bonking into where that hole was hoping a hidden block would break. That file select screen drove me crazy as a kid.
THIS!
God, I remember believing the Pokemon Emerald hoax that said you could board the rocket in Mossdeep's space station to go to the moon and catch Deoxys. I tried all sorts of methods to get that to work, including beating the Elite Four tons of times.
As sad as that made eight-year-old me, I still miss this aspect of video games that, as you brought up, is sort of dead in the modern era. It just generally felt like games had a lot more mystique with all the wild rumors that spread. These types of hoaxes are up there with PS2-style cheat codes as stuff I wish could make a comeback.
And wonderfully, the rumour became true in the Remake. Though Ray's your rocket
@@jouheikisaragi6075 Yep! That made me feel great when I played Alpha Sapphire for the first time, I felt vindicated. Sometimes I wonder if GameFreak was inspired by the hoax to go in that direction for the Delta Episode. Probably not, but it's fun to think about.
The version of this rumor that I heard was that if the percentage of successful launches ever became 100%, you'd be able to board the ship. It was one of my favorite rumors because of how it immediately falls apart if you just know how percentages work.
@@MechaWyvern707 Yeah, I heard that version too. I think that was part of the fun of earlier game hoaxes though. Realistically, it'd be dumb for any of it to be legit, especially some of the more absurd setup methods, like the Waluigi unlock detailed in this video. But we all chose to believe it anyway because we were kids.
I remember trying to get to the rocket in Mossdeep too. The fact that Deoxys existed made me so sure it must be real, lol
I love the implication that due to a lack of effort and problem solving, Sonic MUST be in Melee somewhere
I LOVED this hoax as a kid, i remember one specific version of it that even had rosalina involved but i realized "wait, no, she didnt come out for several more years" and i felt sad LMAO
That's crazy. That sound like the super mario gaxaly ds hoax somewhat
Honestly the CoD Zombies easter eggs especially during the BO1 era were probably the closest to this kind of absurd shit that was real in any game. Some of the steps for the story easter eggs in maps like ascension are like a miracle that anybody figured out. Later games made them a little more explicit as the story took more and more focus and they were more expected so it wasnt as crazy.
I remember the easter eggs taking months before coming out, and most steps had such little confirmation after completing them you were just praying it was actually working
There's a lot of great videogame hoaxes out there, and there's a few I remember quite well, such as the 'Beat the Elite Four 20 times in Emerald to get on a rocket to got to space and find Deoxys one', which, in an ironic twist, ended up somewhat becoming 'real' in the remakes, minus the rocket and the beating the Elite Four that many times
Possibly my favourite videogame hoax has got to be the Grinch Leak for Smash Ultimate. There was so much stuff going on with that one, blurry image, including people finding out that it was from an actual print studio that had worked with Nintendo before, the company removing videos from their RUclips page shortly after, an official Nintendo video which contained an as of yet unnamed item that looked suspiciously similar to an item one of the characters in the image was heavily associated with, a previous rumour that came out that had a lot of credibility behind it (And was later confirmed real) and even a debate on whether the characters in the mural had been moved around. Even some leakers were actually backpedalling in response to it.
Weirdest thing is, a week later is was confirmed fake with the reveal of Incineroar, a character who wasn't in the image at all, but even 4 years later, nobody has come forward about creating the hoax, although there's a few people who claim to have made it without providing evidence that they did
Really was the 2000’s kid version of L is Real. And I was entrenched in both of these as a little snot nosed brat browsing RUclips in 2008 looking at every Luigi in 64 and Waluigi in 64DS video I could.
The old N64 heads of the world took over the early Internet and brainwashed everyone into thinking Super Mario 64 DS is a bad game. However, as they lose grasp on the Internet the Nintendo DS generation rises and we will prove that Super Mario 64 DS wasn't that bad of a game after all.
I had 0 idea where I was going with this comment but thanks for making a video on the Mario 64 I personally experienced as a kid.
It's not "that bad" if it isn't bad to begin with
I never understood the hate for it. The first ever game I beat as a kid was the orginal, but when it came out on the DS I got it and it was amazing to play the game again with new stars and such.
i grew up with the N64 and still LOVED SM64DS. nowadays i wouldn't touch it without the analog controls mod, but the new content and characters are genuinely so good, and it's a shame Nintendo doesn't add new content of that quality to their remakes anymore
The controls suck ass, but when you're a child and suck at N64 Mario 64 anyway (like I was) it's a very fun version!
This reminds me of how the lost was originally unlocked in the binding of isaac: rebirth. You had to die in specific ways as specific characters consecutevely that it felt like your playground romour. The dev hoped it would take months for the comunity to find out but it was datamined 109 hours after release, wich is probably why we don't see these types of unlocks anymore
It actually took way longer than 109 hours, that's a myth that edmund has deconfirmed. 109 is the number of coins you could put in the greed machine before it would blow up early due to a bug in the release of afterbirth.
I think the chief Chilly fight having that random ass mushroom when you hit him enough times is proof that lies will become instantaneously more believable if there's a bit of truth in it
i was not ready to hear wwwwario’s name again after all these years. that was the first RUclips channel i was ever glued to, just waiting to see if the next upload would be the one where the mystery was finally solved. thanks for reminding me of how fun all that was :)
The Super Mario 64 DS modding community actually found an unused palette for the rabbits, but it wasn't purple but the kind of green of Rosalina's dress. We now joke about Rosalina being originally planned as the secret character, but I do wonder why there was an extra palette and why it had this colour.
Maybe it could've been for the shiny rabbits? Just a guess but cool nonetheless
@@BigYellowSilly Just checked. There's really six palettes. Pink for Mario, green for Luigi, yellow for Yoshi, orange for Wario, white (glowing rabbits) and cyan (unused).
My favorite hoax was the Mew Truck in Red and Blue. It sounded ABSURD at the time but because Missingno. was so obscure we believed it as kids!
Then some kid showed us some weirdo technique where you walk to a specific trainer then fly to fight another kid with a slowpoke, and then fight Mew afterwords.
We were like *Nah it's the truck man. Mew cant come from a random thing like that trainer guy*
"hey y'all, Big Yellow here"
Jokes apart I'm really liking this new kind of videos, your personality is great and pretty much anything you put out is enjoyable :D
The Waluigi rumor that got me as a kid was this idea that you had to go into the stained glass portrait of Peach while using the invisibility cap as Luigi, and you had to do so without having already beaten Bowser in the Sky. I didn't believe it until I started reading up about how to get onto the roof without the cannon as different characters. Couldn't ever do it at Luigi, but I actually managed to do it with Mario (the corner walljump method), which gave me this tiny glimmer of hope that if I could just get good enough do the early rooftop Luigi trick, I could unlock Waluigi. I was working off of a very shitty text description that said stuff like "when you think you have enough speed" so there was no way I was ever learning that trick, which allowed me to believe it was simply beyond my skill level.
Similar thing happened with Luigi's Mansion, actually. I thought I could unlock E Gadd by clearing the Hidden Mansion with the maximum money in less than an hour.
On the topic of hoaxes and games adding weird easter eggs and shit, allow me to gush a bit. No game perfectly encapsulates this better IMO than Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Quire a few things are working in its favor. Among other things, it's a game released in the very early days of the internet, the game very rarely explains anything to the player, and it's filled to the brim with cool secrets. It's like they looked at the Luigi SM64 hoaxes and said "what if we got on that shit?". A few examples, avoiding major spoilers / obvious stuff:
- "Yo, you know those frogs and toads in the caverns? There's a chance that when you kill them, they have a small chance of dropping motherfucking New York style pizza even though this game takes place in like 1798." This is a true fact.
- "Hey, did you know that if you return to the area where Death jacks your gear after entering the Alchemy Lab and before fighting the first bosses (Slogra and Gaibon), they just appear there and you can't even defeat them, they just do a Super Metroid Ridley and flee?" Also a true fact.
- "Remember that weird confessional room in the Chapel, where you could sit down in one of the chairs and either have a ghost priest or ghost lady show up to take part in a confession, except there's a 50% chance that either one of them is evil and will try to stab you in the fucking face from the other side of the confessional, except there's also a small chance that after the nice ghost priest leaves, he leaves behind some grape juice / wine?" All this is true.
- "Did you know that there's this entirely skippable piece of equipment called the 'Cat-Eye Circlet' that aside from some stat buffs, it heals you for a lot of HP when you otherwise would've been dealt 'cat damage', which in practice only shows up in 2 different attacks from 1 single enemy type who can be found in 1 single location in the entire game that's entirely optional to explore, even though there are other enemies / attacks that are clearly cats or cat related?" You better fucking believe this is true.
Ultimately, stuff like this is why SotN is maybe my favorite game of all time. It's the type of game that you can learn new shit about it every time you replay it
I swear that game was deliberately made to engineer playground rumours. The inverted castle stuff must have been legendary back then.
Don't get me started on the shmoo drop table
This hoax is exactly what has made me want Waluigi in smash so bad for the past few years. Fuck the memes, fuck the harassment. I just wanna be compensated for my childhood.
i feel like a big part of why video game hoaxes were so big back then as well was, most kids really only had like, the 2 or 3 games they owned that they'd play over and over and over again and eventually you start wondering if there's more to it that you just don't know about or if something you saw in its sequel was also in the original, like, i think i spent a good 500 hundred hours playing the original sonic riders and when i saw that silver was in zero gravity, i started looking up ways to unlock him in the original because silver is cool.
of course that's not really the case anymore, video games are way more accessible nowadays be it mobile games or F2P games or something like gamepass, so you don't get quite as invested in the few games you own
Long comment incoming, but this mystery/hoax was a huge part for me in my elementary Years and early teenage Years.
That game was Banjo-Kazooie, 'everything' around that game was a Mystery or hoax.
The 'Dream Project', all the beta levels (The spanish video was a holy grail because it has footage of Giant's Lair as the fandom Called it) all those things were unveil it by Rare itself and with HD footage almost 2 decades later. But nothing compare it to Stop 'n' Swop.
As a Kid, SnS was THE biggest Mystery in those years, "where can I get those Eggs?" "I can actually get the Ice Key in Freezeezy Peak! How do I reach it?"
The codes were given thanks to datamining and seeing that there were 6 Eggs instead of two was amazing. But I didn't know what to do with These things. It was another screen of collectables.
Then Tooie came out and in one level there was Four portraits "showing" one of the eggs, and oh boy, "what kind of tease is this?". In the end, we knew that nothing of this was used as intended, just bonuses for the game, nothing that the developers wanted to do.
Until Nuts 'n' Bolts came out and finally Rare used SnS just to give cosmetic parts for your car. That was it, the biggest Mystery on my gaming Years was cosmetics... Yeah sure... Tooie in XBLA gave us more things to do and achievements... But a decade of Mystery was gone... Just an unreacheable joke in Nuts 'n' Bolts (because to get to that joke, you need in game currency that surpasses the limit)
Yeah... SnS still is my favorite gaming Mystery, but man... That Ending was just... Bad...
I think one of my favorite hoaxes is this one from Banjo Kazooie called “The Real Stop ‘N Swop” where a bunch of different characters are placed through out different worlds where they shouldn’t be and you’re told once you collect all the items to insert the Banjo Tooie cartridge immediately
I love pretty much everything around Stop n Swap honestly it's so interesting
It’s also interesting seeing it come to fruition even if what you got was a “gamer pic” for Xbox 360
The most recent rumour one that I can think of that almost everyone fell for was Asmuden in Vestaria Saga I.
Basically, Shouzou Kaga, the original creator of the Fire Emblem series (From 1-5) is the creator of the "Saga" games, including Vestaria Saga, which are infamous for bizarre ways to unlock characters and other odd events, so someone decided to show this really convoluted method that involved the coin pouch to recruit him.
It was believable because of some of the ridiculousness of the actual recruitments in the series (Namely the 10 step process involving about 4 different characters and like 7 specific items and specific boss kills over 17 levels to recruit Lateena in Tear Ring Saga, which is a genuine thing).
Spoilers for that recruitment btw below, just to show how ergigous some of the genuine ones are (This is not a joke btw, this is genuinely how you get her, and I did copy paste this from the wiki 'cause I'm not typing it all out)
1. After Map 8, put both Kreiss and Arkis in Holmes's army.
2. After Map 10, in Holmes's route, go back to Wellt Castle and select Ezekiel (alternatively, the player can select him before Map 2). Note that Sasha (recommended), Kate, Roger, Raffin, Estelle, or Norton must be in Holmes's army.
3. Go to Verge (the town between Maps 1 and 2). An event will occur.
4. After Map 13 but before Map 14, visit Marl Harbor and watch the cutscene. Afterwards, go back and visit Verge again. Make sure Kreiss has an Healing Drop in his inventory.
5. After Map 15 but before Map 16, head back to Verge. This time, make sure Kreiss has an Amulet in his inventory.
6. After Map 19, go back to Verge.
7. After Map 23, put Kreiss in Runan's army.
8. In Map 25, the Leteena Event will occur in the lower right house between Leteena and Marco, one of the Dragon Knights.
9. Make Kreiss defeat Marco, and then visit this house. Afterwards, Leteena will join instead of Rebecca.
10. After the third route split up, an event will occur between Kreiss and Leteena.
From here, the player will have two options, either A) Leteena will leave, or B) both Leteena and Kreiss will leave, unless Ezekiel is recruited.
With all of that, you can see why:
1. Next have Dune kill the brigand named Hooke who stands ontop of the cliff.
2. Next have Dune trade the Sack of Coin he obtained from Hooke to Zade.
3. Have Zade engage in a round of combat. Both Zade and Amundsen must survive this. Afterwards some dialogue will play and Amundsen will exit the battlefield.
Sounds like a reasonable recruitment.
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To be honest I don't even particularly care what your video topic is about I could watch it for ages. Love your content!
I love this channel. Not a huge fan of most of the fighting game stuff, but I love the random videos interspersed with the Pokemon vids. It's a really cool mix
64 DS came out in *2004?* Oh lord...
Fans just really want Waluigi in a main game, and I blame the blank door for this rumor. In hindsight, It's really fun though.
Wow, I did not know about the Mega Mushroom thing, that's a clever way to "legitimize" your hoax, use a secret that actually is in the game!
I always really enjoyed the ones in Generation 3 surrounding Mossdeep City, specifically the White Rock and the "Wish Tag" NPC girl one and the Mossdeep Space Center Launches. Always remember hearing if you did some absurd bullshit in the right sequence you could talk to that white rock and get a Jirachi (and I mean its the only white rock like this in the game and the NPC next to it talks about wishes cmon). Space Center one was at least less brutal on the kids lol but I remember finally getting to the amount of launches that the rumors said would trigger you getting to fly to space and fight Deoxys lmao times have changed lol lemme go boot up ORAS postgame and fly to space and fight Deoxys real quick
I remember some kid back in elementary school telling me that if you get to 100 hours in your cartridge, the old man would say it's a good day for a rocket launch, and then you could ask the scientist to go to space and fight Deoxys.
I actually got the 100 hours. At least there was the Battle Frontier to burn all those hours in, but damn.
I miss the days when you could just say any shit you wanted and people would have to go and try it out.
As cool as datamining and a million people documenting everything that happens in their playthrough is, there's a charm to the unknown. Elden Ring really hammered that home for me, imagine how crazy the rumours would be about that game. And how crazy it'd be to hear that the giant boss with dual greatswords who uses gravity magic to ride a tiny horse, which flies into the sky to divebomb you is actually real and not just someone bullshitting you
I think FROM tries really hard to replicate that feeling. It’s sort of accurate if you shut yourself from the larger community and just share secrets with your friends, but it’s really impratical if you use any kind of social media.
Imagine the situation around the Placidusax fight in a game from the early 2000s
Not a single Twitter user will watch this video because of the intro, look what you've done!
On another note, I always loved the whole "Pokegods" thing. I sadly understood that they were fake almost from the beginning, but hell was it cool imagining.
Got to love random videos from big yellow, especially when their nail polish is on point
I loved the lil scene with Miyamoto-San and John Game Designer thanks that was great.
I hope they continue to have a meaningful relationship
You mentioning wwwwario really unlocked some hidden section of my brain that I havent had access to since I was a kid. The nostalgia is real
I remember two main hoaxes I fell for.
I was convinced that catching all 28 unown in hgss and doing some bullshit would let me catch arceus.
A much more recent one is the Rayman hoax from Smash 4 days which sticks with me because the artist behind it made a video showing how he did it which was super cool
Looks like you didn't get the week long event arcuas distribution (you can get a diagla,palkia and gyratina from that event
Really enjoying the direction you’re taking your videos/channel. I love your fighting game and Pokémon content but I am totally down for stuff like this and the insane aquarium video. As someone who didn’t have internet in the early 2000s this is like peaking through a time portal, well done!
I'm enjoying your branching out on these videos. Honestly your delivery is so entertaining I'd probably watch you talk about pretty much anything. You don't ham it up for the camera you're just shooting the shit. You're also thorough and make the content accessible to those who don't have a lot of background knowledge on the subject.
I was elementary when someone said Haunter can evolve through leveling up, 100 levels later . . .
Also that stupid patterned bush in PKMN FRLG, someone on the net said that it you cut in the center, Hooh/Lugia would appear.
Non-Pokemon Wise, My classmates told me you can unlock Jinpachi in T5DR by beating the game with the least used character in the arcade. . . . and that might be one of the reasons why I mained Marduk and Xiaoyu
I was really interested in Pokemon glitches and secrets back in the day, and I still am now. I have a lot of fond memories of messing around with the walk through walls glitch from Pokemon Blue and seeing what kinds of cool stuff I could find. I ESPECIALLY wanted to get in the inaccessible grass in Pallet Town with that glitch. It was very sad to learn that stepping into it just crashes your game instantly lmao
The big gaming hoax for me as a kid was the Luigi’s Mansion Beta content where everyone made creepypastas about that lighting glitch and the weird face at the end of the first trailer
I grew up watching FNAF become massive (around 4th and 5th grade for me) and the hoaxes/rumors around the 1st and 2nd games (and to a lesser extent the 3rd one) absolutely can *not* be understated. It wasn't just online discussions, but at school, on the playground talk with friends.
To me, that proves that even though we're balls deep in the era of the Internet, the magic of video game hoaxes isn't dead.
I hope some day a game comes around that captures that feeling again.
I remember when I was in school, a friend of mine (a known liar who would made stuff up to sound cool) told me that Super Sonic and Hyper Sonic aren't the only super form in sonic 3 and knuckles. You could also get Super Tails and Hyper Knuckles.
I absolutely did not believe him, that just made no sense to me. Hyper Knuckles? That sounds so stupid. Only Hyper Sonic was real to me because he already had a sprite, so obviously he would get something out of collecting all the super emeralds. Tails and Knuckles didn't get super forms for collecting the chaos emeralds. And this was like 2001, 2002, so checking on the internet was just not an option for 11-12 year olds.
I sure felt egged on when later we would get all the super emeralds and unlock Hyper Knuckles for the first time. I was so sure it was a hoax, but then it turned out to be true.
To be fair tails harnessing the power of the chaos and super emeralds to make nature's creatures bend to his will and create a permanent AOE attack field around him made of flickies sounds like a crackpot lie
But Knuckles does get a Super form for collecting the Chaos Emeralds. Only Tails doesn't get a Super form with just the Chaos Emeralds
@@laneplain107 yes, but because he was only playable in Sonic 3 and Knuckles, I fully assumed he wouldn't get a super form. Especially because he was the "hard mode", basically.
Sega likes to pretend they're not real too.
I had a "friend" in elementary school who was the "my uncle works at nintendo" guy of legend. I remember right around Ocarina pf times first couple of years he told me that the Japanese version was alot darker. You would watch the kokiri kids get killed by deku babas and there was more blood and kakariko village was massacared and shit like that.
wtf that's not even cool new content that's just kinda fucked up lmao
I actually grew up with another waluigi hoax in super smash brothers brawl where i believe you had to beat all star brawl on cruel mode without taking damage, and i have no clue but i was making progress and i remember seeing waluigi on the screen and then i died and i was devastated, its because one of the cpus grabbed an assist trophy and got waluigi, and i looked up more of it online and it says if you fail you'll never get another chance to unlock him again
I always forget that there are content creators on RUclips that are YOUNGER than I am so it was a bit of a "wait, WHAT?" moment when you mentioned being young when FNAF came out. I was already in college then...
So going on that, I'd have to say the time I was convinced that it was possible to get Mew only in the Japanese version of Pokemon and I somehow pestered my parents enough to import me a copy of Green sometime around 04 or 05. I was already pretty invested in the glitch hunting scene thanks to Team Rocket's Rockin's Tales of the Glitch pages but back then it was pretty hard sifting through what was legit and what was bullshit. Of course, the specific method (which I don't even recall at this point) of getting Mew didn't work on Green either, but it wasn't very much longer until the Trainer Fly glitch became widespread anyways. And even back in elementary school I was a bit of a dork so I was just happy owning the "lost" fourth Pokemon game.
Honestly, nothing really compares to growing up RIGHT in the middle of that first wave of Pokemania. I do miss the rumors and other nonsense people used to come up with for the first two generations, and the general "mysteriousness" of the early internet, but those things have been replaced by actual wild glitch discoveries and data leaks showing what could have been. It still boggles my mind that we had actual prototype Pokemon sprites and demos leak a few years ago! For the longest time the only thing I knew of Spaceworld 97 were some old drawings someone made of those early designs and blurry magazine scans.
Yeah FNAF hit me at just the right time to get stupidly wrapped up in all of it tbh
One of my friends in kindergarten told me that the guy on the news said Dinosaur Mario would the be the new power up in the next Mario game. I am 19 years old, so this was nowhere near Mario Odyssey. I believed him completely, until the next day when I asked about it again and he told me he lied.
was this before or after mario world? if it was before it was kinda half right...
@@binarycat1237 I was in kindergarten for the 2008/2009 school year so yeah, it was definitely after super Mario world lmao
I remember the Waluigi hoax, but I remember hearing a completely different BS means to unlock him. Follow me on this:
You still had to get all 150 stars, only there was actually a point to it this time, because the Wing Cap on the castle roof was part of the unlock method. You then had to get that cap and fly into a specific part of the castle wall. This is my favorite part of this hoax, since, though not as solid as the Mega Mushroom thing, there is still evidence in the actual game for this. You’re supposed to know what spot to hit by looking at the file select screen; the secret passage you’ll enter is only visible in the reflected image of the castle on the bottom screen. And sure enough, though the passage itself isn’t real, the opening that only shows up in that reflection is. However, this also meant this was easy to disprove; no vague six hour BS, most people would probably give up after bonking that spot to no avail like I did.
And yeah, the rest of the method went just as off the rails past there as the one you’re familiar with. I think you hit a switch in that passage, which caused a portal to form on or in front of the big stained glass window that Peach emerges from in the ending. Flying into that would bring you to another secret room with another switch, and for some reason it would also completely flood the outside area? Don’t ask me, I have no answers. In any case, flipping this switch would let you return to the castle, and if you then checked the character swap room, the blank door would now be replaced with a Waluigi door.
Anyway, that’s it. Just figured, if you were fascinated by the hoax you heard as a kid, you might be interested in an alternate version. I know I was with your story. Even when debunked, these rumors remain interesting.
I love this format,I’d honestly enjoy you just talking about these crazy things in your life with the added descriptions with these Stock image edits
Great vid the craziest one I’ve heard was a rumour of a secret digimon chimeramon in digimon world 2 on the games gamefaq board. it wasn’t even like a random guy who said it it was a guy who created a website on the game for how strong attacks were and locations for everything. I think the best part was is that it got a bunch of people either into the game or back into it to start modding and kept the board for an obscure 20 year old rpg alive
16:27 To be fair, this is what Nintendo intended to do with Melee, as Roy and Marth were originally supposed to be removed because they never localized Fire emblem in the west.
(Instead, now we got my favorite Nintendo series localized, so good thing they didn't go through with it)
So, like, this actually isn't insane to believe that they'd do think for a functionally identical character when they'd do it to functional unique ones.
This was a fun video idea. If this ever became a series about hoaxes/fake secrets I'd watch it.
Growing up near an arcade, I had a few silly friends who, in the midst of anxious puberty and fighting games still being our favorites, had a few weird rumors about the cabs.
One friend interpreted Morrigan's victory sprite in MVC1 to show that her opposite side from the camera was totally bare, you guys, and if you could get her to turn around with a special move you'd totally be able to see all of it. At least one of us mained Morrigan from then on trying to find that.
Another friend firmly believed that there were specific sprites in Street Fighter Alpha 3 that showed defeated characters landing directly on their heads and breaking their necks like a very toned-down Mortal Kombat. Supposedly each character had a specific move and you'd have to land the killing blow with it as a counter-hit. I think there was also the idea that you had to be in a specific -ism or something. There were audible "ooooh?" as we watched Cody or Birdie fly away and then disappointment when they just transitioned from falling headfirst to laying down. We hated Mortal Kombat's gameplay but our stupid adolescent brains just wanted the gore in a better game I guess.
Thank you for making this video, I used to spend so many hours looking for waluigi when i was dumb kid
I remember some of this. I also remember rumors of unlocking OG Mega Man in MMX: Command Mission, Since the game does have legit concept art of him in the game. Or unlocking Jinpachi in Vanilla Tekken 5, or Metal Sonic being playable in Sonic Heroes.
I'm glad to see you branching out in your content. I'd like to see you continue with your usual content and dive into shit like this now and again too. It varies the content up nicely.
I swear I remember grabbing his hat and swimming real fast. This memory is why I like him so much. I even had a costume of him I wore all the time
Dude, I actually believed this. I tried various methods which didn't work, eventually wound up on a website that said you could unlock him by using Invisible Luigi and cannoning into the Princess Peach stained-glass, tried it myself, but it didn't work, and after that I just gave up. After that, a friend told me he was exclusive to Japan, and I was like "baaahhh"
Had a friend who convinced me that Shadow the Hedgehog was a secret unlockable character in Brawl. You "unlocked" him by entering a 4-player time match on Green Hill Zone with every character set to Link or Ike. When the timer hit halfway, the match would freeze and a black void would open up in the middle of the stage - only the current winner of the match would be able to hop in and challenge Shadow. When the strat failed to work with 3 CPUs, he told me that all four players needed to be human. He knew that I didn't have enough friends for a four person match :(
I'm so glad I found this video. You hit the nail on the head on everything that made the Waluigi in Super Mario 64 DS rumor so memorable. The Arceus2401 part with the mega mushroom is 100% iconic, I think it's one of the only video game rumors I can remember that had an actual, obscure feature in the game as part of the method. Seeing that mega mushroom appear on my DS screen way back, was such a shocking moment. Also I agree, that white door HAD to have been more than just for a star at one point, especially when considering the lengths it took in the game just to unlock it.
This rumor left such an impression on me. To the extent that, years after the fact, I had a whole dream about it. In it, Waluigi’s door was located in a room with a purple carpet in the middle surronded by black floor and walls on each side. The floors and walls were decorated with stars, red on one side and blue on the other. It reminded me of the night sky painting on the upstairs floor that you never actually enter. It was years since I had played the game too, it inspired me to browse the Cutting Room Floor and whatnot to learn more about the game in general.
I think the rumors were part of my fondness for the game. The idea that there was something hidden deep in the castle waiting to be found gave it a sense of discovery and wonder, even if it wasn’t really there.
The one time I got into what seemed like probably a hoax was the Mew Glitch in Gen 1 Pokemon, and that sense of wonder when things started actually happening as it described it would matches up exactly with how you felt after Chief Chilly, and the fact that it actually ended up working and getting me a Mew made me feel like a fucking magician
Mew Glitch was insane because it wasn't discovered (or at the very least documented) until 2003, in which some guy on Gamefaqs posted the glitch and how to execute it only to be told "fuck off, this is an obvious hoax" by people who probably still had war flashbacks about the truck.
And then someone -actually- tried the glitch and they were like "No, no. He's right. It fuckin works"
And the Trainer Fly glitch is SO specific. It has to be an out-of-sight Long Range Trainer. You have to press this button on this specific frame to activate the glitch and then fly/teleport away. You need to fight this specific trainer BUT YOU CANNOT walk in front of him, he has to walk up to you and then after you fly back to the place where you flew away from the first trainer the start menu pops up and when you exit it a Mew battle happens"
When shit like that is actually real how could you blame some kid for also believing in the Mossdeep Space Center hoaxes/urban legends?
Waluigi´s Island is my favorite Mario Party board even in 2022. pretty good not only in design but in the context of Waluigu being "the final character you beat" using the traps of his island to fght for him.
When I saw the pixelated “wugi” in the video I genuinely started laughing so hard that I had to pause and recuperate
I used to live in a small community so those kinds of video game rumors weren't being spread back then but I distinctly remember my sister making one up. She convinced me that fierce deity link was in smash 64 and that, to unlock him, you needed to beat all very hard stages in under 20 seconds without losing a stock. I had total blind faith in her so I ended up spending hours trying over and over despite the fact it was clearly impossible.
Fast forward a couple years later and I ask her about that thing again and she tells me the only reason she told me about it was because I was constantly annoying her to play smash with me and she wanted to be left alone. I'll always remember that memory really fondly.
Thank you for not showing the pfp in 8:31, i regret looking it up
I remember all those RUclips videos abot trying to unlock Waluigi. I loved searching all over RUclips for 15 fps camcorder footage of someone trying different convoluted string of events to unlock him.
A hoax that always stuck with me as a kid was the time while me and my family were camping out. There was another older kid there at the time that told me in his Pokemon Emerald, that once beating the elite four, instead of fighting Wallace, he was declared the champion on the spot and gained the ability to get challenge other stronger trainers instead. Never showed me any of it of course, and never told me how he suddenly got that, but I'll always remember it as it sounded cool as hell and it actually did become a thing in a much later gen.
One of my favorite "hoaxes" was the April Fools prank from an old Nintendo Power article about Yoshi being in Pokémon Red/Blue. For those unaware, in 1999, an article was published in Nintendo Power, an official magazine that covers many things Nintendo-related, that detailed how you could obtain Yoshi in Pokémon Red and Blue that went something like this:
- You need two devices and one copy of Red and Blue each that both have all 150 Pokémon obtained
- Initiate a trade between the game copies via link cable and trade over a Dratini from Pokémon Red to Pokémon Blue
- The Blue player evolves the trade-obtained Dratini into Dragonite and then trades it back to the Red player
- The Red player then heads to the Unknown Dungeon and Surfs as close as they can to the area where Mewtwo was
- The Red player uses a Fire Stone on Dragonite (they even mention that selecting the Fire Stone will show "Not Available" on Dragonite but to still do it)
And then the screen supposedly glitches and Dragonite evolves into Yoshi, keeping all the stats as Dragonite but having an ID number of 999 and the sprite and name becoming Yoshi. They even had a couple fake pictures "proving" the Yoshi's existence, and this was back in 1999 when it was nigh impossible to get gaming info from sources other than friends and game magazines such as this. I don't remember if it explicitly mentioned in that article that it was an April Fools joke either, so the whole thing was very convincing at the time.
I had no idea what you were talking about on Twitter but this is really cool
This video was a great trip down memory lane, thanks! I personally had a horse in the race back then, on one of my old channels I made a video of me walking into the white door and proving its just Boo sounds and it got like 50k views :)
Goddamnit why are all of my favorite RUclipsrs uploading when I'm trying to do homework??
Oh well.
This video unlocked a memory I had forgotten. I started to use the internet when I was 9 or 10 years old, it was thw year 2008, Smash Bros Brawl had just been released, and I searched on google how to unlock all the secret characters after some time with the game. There was a guy saying it was possible to unlock who I think was Banjo (I dont even remember which character it was, but it was one that I wanted a lot to be in smash) if you played classic mode on expert, damaged Master Hand to leave it with 1% health and survived for like half an hour. I believed it, but I only managed to get to Master Hand on expert once, and as Fox, I was able to leave it with exactly 1% using his blaster. However, I didnt manage to survive for half an hour. Later I realized it was a hoax
Yoo i remember every teaser in fnaf being broken down to pixels
like literally every blob of colour, every reflection it all meant something, especially the cupcake for some reason
God I miss early FNAF theorycrafting
@@BigYellowSilly I always remember how people saw crying child's face in between one nightmare's belly theeth or the reflections of the puppet in the faces of SL animatronics in the trailer for that game. Every pixel counts huh?
I was actually talking about this with my friend the other day. I mentioned how I look all over the internet to try to find out if Waluigi was in the game and apparently he did too.
So I have a habit of liking videos whenever I hear something that I like a whole lot and you sir had me wanting to like this one four times in the first 2 minutes. How does he keep getting me like this?
Seeing how the first finished build of Super Mario 64 DS is the United States version, it makes even less sense that he'd be in a Japanese copy only. It would mean he'd have to be ADDED not removed. Great video.
fun fact: In japan Purple is associated with death. Meaning that you have to lose a life in the 6 hours in order to unlock Waluigi's door to the inverted world.
one of my favorite modern "sounds bullshit but is real" thing is in MGSV they patched in the ability to rerecruit Quiet after she dies by playing her bossfight 7 times in a row, which will change [REPLAY] to [REUNION].
That sounds like a "revive Aerith" scenario but it's 100% real and of course it's in a fucking Metal Gear game.
I still remember seeing that weird black square on the right side of the castle in the file select screen. I thought it had something to do with unlocking Waluigi lol
My older brother had me convinced that Waluigi was in the game and to get him you had to go in the stained glass window with Peach on it at the front of the castle. He said it was like another painting to go in and I spent hours trying to get up there (was a dumb kid and didn't get all 150 stars so I had to do this from the bridge) and I think I remember getting up there one time (thanks Luigi) just to discover it was...solid... I was heartbroken.
The internet really did drastically change just about everything on a fundamental level, we’re probably never getting these kinda secrets with anything ever again because you can just find it on RUclips.
I think my favorite has to be Shen Long just because of how much that spiraled out of control. One magazine prank gave us one of the most iconic fighting game characters of all time who even showed up in Tekken canonically, which would (for the worse) retroactively change the storyline of street fighter forever, would have that character be used for a similar joke in re2 that inspired kamiya to make the secret missions of dmc to reward that obtuse secret hunting, create an entire archetype in fighting games with the glass cannon, the concept of air fire balls which would serve to be the catalyst for capcom inventing parries and air blocking to get around zoning, would as serve midway’s inspiration for reptile and all their secrets and on top of all that simply give us the raging demon; a super so iconic even discord has an Easter egg for it.
One hoax about a fake street fighter character unironically influenced gaming incredibly and I think it’s just amazing how much we legitimately owe a prank about a mistranslation.
Personally idm this not being fighting game or pokemon related. I just love the humour and trivia in these videos
I think the hoax that stuck with me the most was that if you collected every single coin in every single level of Yoshi's Story, you unlocked a purple yoshi from the game intro. (Always with the purple characters, huh.) Of course I tried, and it was all well and good until I found out there's a coin in 3-1 that just falls off the side of the screen and despawns before you can even have a chance to grab it after uncovering it.
Even though I know it's fake now and purple yoshi was just cut / changed to a different color, it was still a pretty fun challenge to try for. And I still want that damn coin that lives rent-free in my head.
I don't recall what hoaxes I fell for (although my cousin tried to convince ne you could access the Orange Islands in Pokemon RBY by surfing into a specific rock in one the ocean routes) but I remember the most memorable ones were on "cheat" sites where kids could post bonkers, usually edgy, "secrets" with no proof whatsoever.
The one I remember the most fondly is basically a proto-creepypasta. Someone claimec that in GSC, if you did a specific series of events in the Goldenrod Department Store, Silver (the character) would appear on the roof, and if you talked to him he would jump off to his death. Even at the time I thought it was total horseshit, but it makes me smile to think that even in the 90s kids were coming up with edgy ghost stories about video games. Some things never change!
Back in like 2009 or so I remember 2 videos about How to catch Celebi and Jirachi in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl which just boiled down to go to either the Solaceon ruins or the Iron Islands and KO 100 Pokémon without leaving and the next encounter would be Celebi or Jirachi respectively.
It's only natural that when it didn't work to get Celebi I tried it for Jirachi after too..
great video honestly, love this one and the insaniquarium one and would be so down to just listen to you talk about literally any random thing at this point LOL
When I was like 8 my one friend, who may or may not have ended up getting diagnosed with some mental disorder, kept telling me that Mewtwo and Batman were in Sm4sh, and then when Mewtwo actually did get announced I didn’t believe him until I got home and saw for myself.
My personal favorite old fashion video game hoax is Dragonite Yoshi. Where Nintendo themselves revealed an alleged method of evolving Dragonite a 3rd time in order to get Yoshi. The best part was that Dragonite's shiny ended up being a similar shade of green, which is just really fitting to me
My heart when that Cacodemon hat for Ultimate turned out to be fake...
here's a modern example of a thing that sounds like a hoax, but is actually real.
in the new 3d kirby game, there's a boss rush level on an icy bridge. there's actually a way to get on top of the bridge, and there's harder versions of the bosses up there.
first, you go to the hidden maxim tomato at the start. if you jump around a bit you can find a hidden ledge which brings you to a bit of platforming and then a ladder. once you climb the ladder, you'll be on a platform with some collectables. you will see an open window, which you can enter to find a room with a fireplace and a warp star. taking the warp star will bring you to the first miniboss, except it will be a bit harder. defeating it will bring you to the next, and so on, until you beat the level. oh also all the normal secret areas are available from this route.
why is this real.
the harder bosh rush door has always been a thing in kirby if i remember correctly, in return to dreamland in one of the tower levels you could just fly up and there was a door leading to a harder set of mini bosses
This was my first game hoax
9:52 bro I would 100% do that just to fuck with people and potentially start a stupid gaming legend
this fooled me so hard as a kid. I even had an action replay and it still got me. you would think not seeing an "unlock waluigi" code would convince me he wasn't in the game but it still got me lmao. I still remember trying the most random bs to unlock him with cheats and it was a lot of fun. always felt like there was way more to the game then there actually was with the waluigi rumors and the black box on the title screen