I made this video a while ago but never got around to releasing it. I hope you enjoy it! The thumbnail image is from the "Mario show you fun" meme video that animator NDY put out a few months back! ruclips.net/video/Uko9fF3UPwg/видео.html
"Hey Jim, we need some placeholder images to test out the face cam. Got anything?" "Yeah for sure, here's some colored lines, cute mascots, and, oh yeah, A GETTY IMAGE OF A TERRORIST ATTACK."
Since the image was in the news at the time of the game's development, it's highly likely someone just grabbed the first picture they saw on a news site when they needed photos of actual faces to use as a camera test.
I've heard that developers will sometimes use shocking images as placeholders to make absolutely sure they get replaced in the final product. Maybe that's what's going on here, and someone wasn't doing their damn job?
"XXX" holds a different term in Japanese. It just means "unknown" or "mystery", so it's essentially "Peach's Unknown Item". This fits with the localized "Peach's ???". Could it be something adult? Sure, possibility is there, but it could really be anything. Maybe Mario just doesn't know what mascara looks like, I mean, I sure have a hard time shopping for that for my Doordash orders lol That said, Peach drinks alcohol in Super Mario Kart 🤔
I almost wonder if more accurate translation would be “Peach’s…” or “Peach’s-“ contextually speaking. That being said I’m not very knowledgeable on Japanese writing conventions so I’m probably wrong
I'd say the best thing in a mario game is the "Vibe Scepter" on Super Princess Peach. When the game ends and the scepter is lost, the ending sequence says that perhaps the scepter made its way to your house and is the reason your parents have been so happy lately.
@@nikkiofthevalley It's real look up the ending, it only mentions the mother laughing happily a lot while it says the dad has been acting angrily from what I remember.
It does kind of seem like a stress test for a facial recognition algorithm. Maybe it would be difficult to pick the main subject of it with how close the kid is to the dude. Pure speculation of course, and seems like overkill for a game with a camera in a fixed position aimed at a chair. Has anyone tried feeding it to the game's camera input?
this is probably the most accurate, they were potentially considering using a wider lense and using facial recognition and then decided to just go with a more focused camera. I feel it is most likely that they just grabbed the first picture with multiple people in the frame that they found, say, from a news site.
Mario kart arcade doesn't use facial recognition. It just has a fixed camera and asks you to align yourself with the frame, and tames the picture when you push the pedal or time runs out.
5:08 shouldn't have made me laugh, but the juxtaposition of coconut mall music over the top of an image a terrorist attack is really funny. Not to mention the music peaks right as he says what it is lmao
My guess is that the xxx item is supposed to be her underwear. That is a pretty typical trope in old anime or manga like dragonball. Her reaction of scolding Mario would match that item rather than something she was purely embarrassed about or try to hide. The moniker "toadstool's xxx" could easily refer to bra. Link's awakening did a similar joke in the original game where you had to retrieve the mermaid's bra which was changed to a necklace in later games. My guess is the underwear is behind the fireplace because there isn't a lot of furniture in the room and that is one of the few places to click on. Since it was a secret joke it makes sense it was hidden where most people wouldn't look. A fireplace is not a normal place to keep any item in real life anyways, underwear or not.
Possibly they just opened their web browser and saved one of the first images they saw from the news section of their home page and used it for their test. In hindsite it looks devious but my money is on an oversight.
I was going to post exactly this. For some reason they needed a photo , someone opens the browser, the front page includes a "latest news" section, they save the image without thinking what it even is.
Not necessarily specifically named. If you went to save, and it retained the folder path, if they accidentally clicked a file in that folder, they could have overwritten an original camtest02.jpg. I mean it's more likely a very sick joke, but definitely possible.
Don't overestimate Japanese people's ability to be clueless about the rest of the world. There wasn't even Twitter back then. Some intern probably just searched for pictures of people and Google or Yahoo suggested one that was current events; also, the attack was more than a year prior to the launch of the game, it's quite possible to forget something if it wasn't blasted on repeat in their social network nor mainstream media.
It may have been used to test facial recognition functions, and then it's so obviously unfitting for the game, that if it showed up accidentally, a tester would know to note, "Hey, why the FUCK is a photo of the Belsan attack in the fucking Mario Kart game!?"
It's quite possible a Japanese programmer wasn't that caught up on current events, and just used whatever image the search engine promoted as top result (precisely because it was current events.) People were not as obsessed with constant streams of news updates back in 2005. You'd be surprised about how alienated the Japanese population is from the rest of the world.
This is my thought, I've heard about developers intentionally using shocking or vulgar images as placeholders specifically so that they are sure to be replaced and aren't accidentally forgotten about
Isabelle AnimalCrossing has given lectures about the difference between whisky and whiskey and it's kind of canon, so Princess Peach having a stash of an alcoholic beverage isn't really that absurd imo
They probably just needed any jpg. and decided to open their web browser and download the first image they could find. The homepage of their web browser was probably some sort of news feed and naturally featured on the front page, that image. The programmer probably downloaded it without a second thought.
I always figured the "Princess's ???" in SMRPG was a reference to the Bahamut Lagoon (from Square) item of the same name. It was found in the rescued princess's bedroom there too, and if you found all five of them in the same game you could make (arguably) the most powerful dragon available.
I'm kind of surprised you didn't bring up the Vibe Scepter from Super Princess Peach. It would back up the theories of what was behind Peach's fireplace with regards to adult oriented stuff.
From what I understand, it's not uncommon for certain images or graphics that are supposed to be temporary placeholders to be pretty messed up because sometimes those working on the game want to make them obviously in need of being replaced. Now while I don't understand it being a test image, I know there's examples of stuff being used as placeholders for like billboards or posters that get changed and replaced just because it's obvious it shouldn't be there post release and occasionally slip through cracks.
I remember learning about that hidden image in Mario Kart Arcade a long time ago on Did You Know Gaming. Other than that, I really really want Nintendo and Namco to bring the Mario Kart Arcade games to Switch
Mario Kart GP is a Namco game. Part of me wonders if their insistence on taking down fan games is cause of their previous ventures working with 3rd parties in official senses, leading to mistakes like this
Why? They're completely unrelated things. Don't let your annoyance at them blocking fan games make false equations. (I also find their blocking fan games irritating but I can clearly see the difference between these two things. And this could be as innocent as Toadstool's underwear. People are assuming an awful lot. But also it's not explicit, so kids wouldn't pick up on this. Other family friendly movies do this all the time.
Im pretty sure Nintendo has only taken down about 15 fan games? Yeah they dont deserve all the hate when many companies like Square are INFINITELY worse
Literally, the only times I've ever heard of copyright stuff with Nintendo is with a SM64 remake and a Mario "battle royale". Other than that, nothing.
Glad to see you repping Mario RPG to the younger generation, they really should play it. Defined part of my childhood and my dominated my imagination as a kid for a while
The XXX mark on a bottle of moonshine (Thats nearly always what it was written on historically) or just vodka in general, denotes how many times it has been distilled. triple X means triple distilled ^3^. Just an interesting fact i figured you would appreciate.
I was born in the early 2000s, but I found out about Super Mario RPG from Chuggaaconroy and immediately fell in love with the game and got it on the Wii U virtual console a good few years back and it's honestly just a blast every time I replay it
I was born in 1991 and played SMRPG exactly once when it was new when my uncle rented it. I was enthralled by the opening segment of the game with the chandelier fight but didn't have time to get past Croco afterwards. I had no idea what the game was actually titled and for years would call it Mario Castle based on the cartridge art. It wasn't until we had decent home internet years later that I figured out what the game actually was by looking through a big list of Super Nintendo games.
In regards to the terrorist picture in Mario kart, recently GameStop made an nft of a 9/11 victim falling. I at first thought it was some weird art piece since the guy was upside down, was black and white. Boy the was I wrong when I learned where the image was from. So it being used without realizing where it was from is most likely.
@@darkdoctor1915 Yeah, I think GameStop made a tweet showing off their nfts and the one nft they decided to show off was that image. To me, when I first saw it, I thought it was some strange piece of art from how it looked, and learned just how wrong I was when reading the replies to see what people thought of GS nfts. Doubt that the tweet is still there. So I can assume that the images were used without realizing the images' backstories and accidentally misused them, cause I didn't know it at first and bet that the GS employees that used that image didn't know either, and probably the Nintendo employee as well for that test image.
@@darkdoctor1915 maybe something like Supervisor: "Quick, we need to get on this nft fad while we can!" Some Employee: "I don't know sir, what would we use them for?" S: "Why to earn money of course, what else. Now take these artistic looking images and mint them to some crypto thingy." E: "Are you sure this even allowed? And some of these pictures look unfortunately familiar to me in a bad way." S: "Don't care, didn't ask. I am the supervisor and I know what I am doing, so go get it done NOW!" cue social media mess up in 3... 2... 1...
Normally i just spoil videos like this with a timestamp, for people too lazy to sit through the whole thing, but the thing this video is about was SO damn unexpected and i feel like the build up makes it even better 🤣
The 'x' on an alcoholic beverage is a reference to moonshine, when the brewers would put an "X" on the bottle to show how many times it's been distilled, thus showing its potency
2:42 made me randomly think of mushroom kingdom... liquor? for instance, the "base" mushroom that makes you grow a "level", a batch of those fermented and distilled would it work? would it even be palatable? would it still have the mushrooms effect? lessened? or just lost entirely? (affect? i forget)
i mean hypothetically going down the route of the extracts/+mixing, more than likely someone would think of a topical cream, probably could do either (or both?) for stimulation or size, since theres those rocket peppers or w/e and the base line (or mega) mushroom (wait isnt this just dr.mario now?) big brain horny hours here we go
So on case anyone didn't already know the mario mushroom is real. It is a hallucinogenic mushroom that people use to get high. In my op6thats the most crazy thing in a mario game
SWANKY, I found something that people glossed over, a detail on a game that nobody would expect to find Mario lore…. Mario and rabbids on the boo world there are tables and bookshelves with shy guy masks and on some tables it shows how they are made, with a spell book and a piece of cloth with a mask, that is what is on the tables which I haven’t seen ANYONE noticed this.
Just got home from work now tucked in bed. Your videos always makes my night! I binged-watched your videos. Learned so much stuff from games I grew up with!
My guess is that the image had been used as a profile picture cropped down to the right for a "carrying the team" look, and that's why the dev made the mental connection of using it to personally represent themself in the test. Back then we already had profile pictures and that type of humor.
There’s a hilarious irony of putting on blast how tragic this terrorist attack is and how weird this image being in the game files is: As you put coconut mall music over the image of a very sensitive tragedy.
I didn't realize that thing in Super Mario rpg, but I do recall hearing about that image being in the files of Mario Kart gp. For some reason I thought I remembered an image from a tragedy being in the files of Super smash Bros melee but maybe I was just misremembering
Perhaps they originally intended to have an algorithm to test against inappropriate content and the image was part of a test. I could imagine some kid bringing in a magazine and flashing in obscene content as a joke on some poor little kid playing a racing game in an arcade.
2:26 also who has a fire place in their bedroom? do you know how dangerous that it? your blanket can catch fire and you'll end up burning into a crisp when your asleep,sure the bed looks like it's in a safe distance but is it really? I mean fire sparks can still jump out and catch something on fire,but if that doesn't happen the smoke from the fire can kill you while your asleep smoke is that dangerous 3:26 yup,that's also true
Toadstool's ??? is probably a reference to Bahamut Lagoon, another Square RPG that came out a few months before SMRPG and had 10 ??? items belonging to Princess Yoyo that you could feed to one of your dragons to unlock their special form. Depending on what they're supposed to be that could be a little strange to an exceptionally strange thing to be feeding to anything...
Another good hidden secret in a Mario game is when in super paper Mario in the level in the underworld, if you go in the river, the sound effects are distorted voices chanting "save us please"
If you crouch in front of an NPC who is holding a clipboard in Dying Light you will discover that their fingers are like a foot long. Probably the most jarring thing I have ever seen in a game.
Speaking of messed up things found in kid's games, though I'm not sure it counts, I once found an image of a half-naked burger king mascot in a kid's game for the DS and Wii called Space Camp. (It was only in the DS version to my knowledge though.)
Holy shit, what an obscure game, I remember playing that because my mom bought a used DS copy for me because she knew I liked space but I always found it painfully boring, why tf would something like that be in such an insignificant game lol
First of all... I like your pfp 😊 Secondly... Wtf lol 😅 that's crazy! I wonder why in the world something like that would be there?! 😐 I wanna know how you found it, if you don't mind? That's wild lol.
@@justinburchette Thanks! Put simply, I was just looking around in the filesystem with tinke and happened to stumble upon some .bmp files... and one of them contained that image.
My guess is one of the guys working on it was doing a project for either a newspaper or collage, so that image just happened to be the first in their photos.
I wouldn't be surprised if Peach was stashing some booze behind her fireplace in RPG, considering the JP version of Super Mario Kart showed her chugging AN ENTIRE BOTTLE of the stuff...
If I had to guess, it's the fact there's four separate, different looking people in the image, and they needed the camera to be able to identify a variety of faces. As for why they picked that image specifically? It's probable that whoever grabbed the image just wasn't thinking about it too hard. Japan still has its isolationist qualities rooted deep, so it's most likely the guy just didn't care very much about the whole thing. Which sounds cruel, but if this happened to a school in zambia a month ago, would *you* even remember that right now? So, yea; Dev probably saw the image, didn't really give the context much thought, and tested the camera with it. After all, not like anyone was supposed to see this ever anyways, right?
How about another funny gag item? "The Tape" in Paper Mario 64. In the game, you get it as part of a side quest from Koopa Koot. You get the item from Goompa, who appears very flustered when talking about this mysterious tape.
that you can hang of the gallows really sounds like a+ creepy pasta material. "i bout this game in a dark alllyway and when i booted it up and went through the beginning parts when entering that screen mario suddenly moved towards the gallows without me inputting anything, jumped up and hanged himself after which the save game option popped up with no option to deny"
As soon as Mario Kart GP was mentioned, I knew exactly where this was going. I hate to rob half the viewtime, but I'm not really in the mood to go any further.
I have a couple of examples of messed up things in Mario games. In Thousand Year Door - just how does Mario cause Madame Flurry's gust ability? And in Super Mario RPG, jiggly Valentina boss battle in Nimbus Land
In Japan, XXX is used to substitute something unknown or mysterious, there's also an anime called XXXholic in which the main character investigates mysterious and supernatural events. In this case, it would just be "Princess Peach's... Thing? Seriously, what is that?"
I think i can come up with a reason why that particular image was used. For one, it could have been used to make it stand out as a placeholder. Most placeholder textures are intentionally jarring, or made so ridiculous or *ahem* explicit, so as to insure they aren't missed, and are replaced with their proper textures. This being a tragic and relevant event at the time would have made it stand out to the devs, so they would make sure it never cropped up during gameplay. additionally, i don't know how camera tests would work, but i'd assume the image could work as solving 2 problems. both containing a face that the camera would be able to recognize, as well as being shocking or eye catching enough to ensure it wasn't missed.
There was an old NES game, that happened to have adult images, but it was rendered in pixel, so it went over the heads of a lot of people. I can't remember what game it was, but it was a platformer. But then again they were Special Steps and things you had to accomplish while playing the game in order to unlock these images. But was it being pixelated, it was so bad you probably couldn't even tell what it was to begin with.
I would've took pics of random Mario Merch as placeholders. Mario Bobblehead? Plush-shrooms? A freaking Luigi shaped Flintstones Gummy. Anything but some random people I don't know... Also always double-vet the placeholder files. Place them, check them, check them again.
5:05 Me: oh it's just an image of a father carrying his son on his back, and i guess a soldier is there too for some reason Swanky: it is an image of a t*rrorist attack. Me: oh... *oh* .
For that last image, if that was a current event during development, they could have just searched "images of people" and that might have been one of the first results. Since Japan doesn't usually pay much attention to the outside world, and game devs are often on a time crunch, it's likely they just didn't know the source.
5:50. I know some dev will use ugly images on unfinished features as a reminder to finish and than removed it. Maybe they used this as a you need to finish this and forgot to remove the image right after.
Dude, that’s some creepy stuff. I’d like to believe people’s theories on just downloading the first image they see with understanding its meaning, but with a lot of twisted people out there, I am not sure I can.
The Mario RPG Peach's ??? Any one who is a Squaresoft/Squeenix fan would know that this is a running gag of Square putting a joke reference to adult/questionable material in it's games. Remember Tifa's orthopedic underwear In the Final Fantasy 7? In the japanese Final Fantasy 4 and later releases, you can find "smut" in the secret developers room. This was censored in the original NA release when the title was named Final Fantasy 2. Just like boing boing and bunny girls in Dragon Quest, it was kinda trendy to put that kind of stuff in classic JRPGs. Those examples are a little more blantant, but in the case of the "Peach's ???" It's pretty mild if you ask me, and the English translation of "XXX" to "???" makes it ambiguous enough that it could be anything. The ambiguity is what makes it clever! This is barely a controversy, this is no more shocking than an implied joke you'd see on SpongeBob SquarePants.
its crazier that there was a person taking photos during that time. it shouldnt matter if the photo was anywhere after that, there was wild stuff going on and a dude was just out there with a camera. i see no problem using the photo.
Multiple video games, most of them JRPGs, have potential in searching personal wardrobes usually with humorous results. Cloud's flashback in Final Fantasy VII allows you to search Tifa's room.
Hearing the bars and mascots was fine... but the moment I heard "Terrorist Attack" my eyes widened and Eyebrows spiked up. Who thought that would be a great test image and were they sacked, scolded or got away with it? I was not expecting that, as I knew of things like Toadstools ???, the dead Toad, The Hell Valley Sky Trees and the ghost in 3D Land... not an image of a Terrorist Attack!
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I made this video a while ago but never got around to releasing it. I hope you enjoy it! The thumbnail image is from the "Mario show you fun" meme video that animator NDY put out a few months back! ruclips.net/video/Uko9fF3UPwg/видео.html
Good video as always, love your content, its so intriguing
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LATE FOR UPLOAD IN GENERAL WHAT HAPPEN TO SUNDAY UPLOAD?
"Hey Jim, we need some placeholder images to test out the face cam. Got anything?"
"Yeah for sure, here's some colored lines, cute mascots, and, oh yeah, A GETTY IMAGE OF A TERRORIST ATTACK."
“Haha Jim your the funniest guy in the office!” -no one
They probably went onto Getty Images and picked one of the first non-protected images they could find that had people.
“Jim, what the fuck”
"He's right here, officer." The last words Jim heard before earning the death sentence.
Since the image was in the news at the time of the game's development, it's highly likely someone just grabbed the first picture they saw on a news site when they needed photos of actual faces to use as a camera test.
yeah i think this makes the most sense
Literally me testing things
@Lizzie Armstrong the game wasn’t developed by nintendo and also why shouldn’t they be lazy when they didn’t plan on anyone seeing it anyway.
Or someome was just fricking delusional and drunk
I've heard that developers will sometimes use shocking images as placeholders to make absolutely sure they get replaced in the final product. Maybe that's what's going on here, and someone wasn't doing their damn job?
"XXX" holds a different term in Japanese. It just means "unknown" or "mystery", so it's essentially "Peach's Unknown Item". This fits with the localized "Peach's ???". Could it be something adult? Sure, possibility is there, but it could really be anything. Maybe Mario just doesn't know what mascara looks like, I mean, I sure have a hard time shopping for that for my Doordash orders lol
That said, Peach drinks alcohol in Super Mario Kart 🤔
$6,000 in cash, several fake passports, and a loaded handgun
I remember rumors circulating back in the day that it's actually her underwear.
Wouldn't be too far of a stretch, to be fair.
Pretty sure it's her underpants
@@hammartyme4859 you hide your underwear behind fireplaces? 🤔
I almost wonder if more accurate translation would be “Peach’s…” or “Peach’s-“ contextually speaking. That being said I’m not very knowledgeable on Japanese writing conventions so I’m probably wrong
I'd say the best thing in a mario game is the "Vibe Scepter" on Super Princess Peach. When the game ends and the scepter is lost, the ending sequence says that perhaps the scepter made its way to your house and is the reason your parents have been so happy lately.
whAT
I doubt that. There's no chance that would go past QA.
@@nikkiofthevalley It's real look up the ending, it only mentions the mother laughing happily a lot while it says the dad has been acting angrily from what I remember.
It does kind of seem like a stress test for a facial recognition algorithm. Maybe it would be difficult to pick the main subject of it with how close the kid is to the dude. Pure speculation of course, and seems like overkill for a game with a camera in a fixed position aimed at a chair. Has anyone tried feeding it to the game's camera input?
this is probably the most accurate, they were potentially considering using a wider lense and using facial recognition and then decided to just go with a more focused camera. I feel it is most likely that they just grabbed the first picture with multiple people in the frame that they found, say, from a news site.
I think they just opened their browser and downloaded the first image they came across without giving it any thought.
Mario kart arcade doesn't use facial recognition. It just has a fixed camera and asks you to align yourself with the frame, and tames the picture when you push the pedal or time runs out.
dude means funny dresser, ass; pure = clean -> sheer = absolute
@@sweetmoonpigeon7469 lens, dolt
A tragedy that should be treated solemnly.
*COCONUT MALL*
xD
music's a banger tho
Welcome to the Internet lol.
King shit
5:08 shouldn't have made me laugh, but the juxtaposition of coconut mall music over the top of an image a terrorist attack is really funny. Not to mention the music peaks right as he says what it is lmao
they litterally got coconut malled 💀💀💀☠☠☠☠☠
@@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn True lmaooo
Before the video even started, I figured it'd be Peach's bedroom. I was partially right
@Hollow Screen SwankyBox already did a video on that.
@Hollow Screen that was another video
Or the description of the Vibe Scepter from Super Princess Peach. I still can't believe that got past quality control in the US.
My guess is that the xxx item is supposed to be her underwear. That is a pretty typical trope in old anime or manga like dragonball. Her reaction of scolding Mario would match that item rather than something she was purely embarrassed about or try to hide. The moniker "toadstool's xxx" could easily refer to bra. Link's awakening did a similar joke in the original game where you had to retrieve the mermaid's bra which was changed to a necklace in later games.
My guess is the underwear is behind the fireplace because there isn't a lot of furniture in the room and that is one of the few places to click on. Since it was a secret joke it makes sense it was hidden where most people wouldn't look. A fireplace is not a normal place to keep any item in real life anyways, underwear or not.
i am suprised that the underwear didnt well burn
Its kinda effective to dry up your clothes after theyve been washed.
Oh no its defenitly meant to be a sexual it literally says xxx that means something bad
Possibly they just opened their web browser and saved one of the first images they saw from the news section of their home page and used it for their test. In hindsite it looks devious but my money is on an oversight.
I was going to post exactly this. For some reason they needed a photo , someone opens the browser, the front page includes a "latest news" section, they save the image without thinking what it even is.
My thoughts exactly.
Not necessarily specifically named. If you went to save, and it retained the folder path, if they accidentally clicked a file in that folder, they could have overwritten an original camtest02.jpg. I mean it's more likely a very sick joke, but definitely possible.
Don't overestimate Japanese people's ability to be clueless about the rest of the world. There wasn't even Twitter back then. Some intern probably just searched for pictures of people and Google or Yahoo suggested one that was current events; also, the attack was more than a year prior to the launch of the game, it's quite possible to forget something if it wasn't blasted on repeat in their social network nor mainstream media.
@@dkosmari that's why I said equally likely. I can see either of those scenarios happening easily.
It may have been used to test facial recognition functions, and then it's so obviously unfitting for the game, that if it showed up accidentally, a tester would know to note, "Hey, why the FUCK is a photo of the Belsan attack in the fucking Mario Kart game!?"
It's quite possible a Japanese programmer wasn't that caught up on current events, and just used whatever image the search engine promoted as top result (precisely because it was current events.) People were not as obsessed with constant streams of news updates back in 2005. You'd be surprised about how alienated the Japanese population is from the rest of the world.
yeah someone got fired that day XD
And that's why watching Two Brothers One Mushroom will always be one of my Pixel Portals.
What?
@@davisvoelzke8011 you don’t want to know, like really
Oh no
I know enough about the internet to know that I do not want to know what that is
I need to unsee that comment.
i feel like it was used during testing because if you see a terrorist attack instead of a picture of your face, you'd assume something went wrong
This is my thought, I've heard about developers intentionally using shocking or vulgar images as placeholders specifically so that they are sure to be replaced and aren't accidentally forgotten about
@@Junipart that uh makes sense but like NO those kinda companies probaly need some therapy
Isabelle AnimalCrossing has given lectures about the difference between whisky and whiskey and it's kind of canon, so Princess Peach having a stash of an alcoholic beverage isn't really that absurd imo
In what game
@@t0biascze644 it wasn't a game, it was some kind of videotaped presentation with a person in an Isabelle mascot costume
Peach did drink alcohol in the original Japanese Mario Kart.
you forgot that isabelle also said she likes whiskey in the same presentation?
The whole mario cast also drank alcohol in mario party 2
it was just changed to milk in the north american releases
They probably just needed any jpg. and decided to open their web browser and download the first image they could find. The homepage of their web browser was probably some sort of news feed and naturally featured on the front page, that image. The programmer probably downloaded it without a second thought.
Daisy's Extra Eye from Super Smash Bros. Melee (Trophy) was pretty disturbing.
True, but it wasn't inappropriate in anyway, simply a texturing issue.
I can very easily see that as a texture or render issue. It’s a early GameCube era game, I’m not surprised.
I always figured the "Princess's ???" in SMRPG was a reference to the Bahamut Lagoon (from Square) item of the same name. It was found in the rescued princess's bedroom there too, and if you found all five of them in the same game you could make (arguably) the most powerful dragon available.
Probably
So what was it in Bahamut Lagoon?
Similarly in another Square game FFVII finding Tifa's orthopedic underwear in her bedroom during Cloud's flashback.
@@kricku Not sure, but the English fan translations strongly implied it was a hair. And not the head kind.
2:49 Good LORD that is the most cursed image I've seen in a while!
I'm kind of surprised you didn't bring up the Vibe Scepter from Super Princess Peach. It would back up the theories of what was behind Peach's fireplace with regards to adult oriented stuff.
From what I understand, it's not uncommon for certain images or graphics that are supposed to be temporary placeholders to be pretty messed up because sometimes those working on the game want to make them obviously in need of being replaced. Now while I don't understand it being a test image, I know there's examples of stuff being used as placeholders for like billboards or posters that get changed and replaced just because it's obvious it shouldn't be there post release and occasionally slip through cracks.
I remember learning about that hidden image in Mario Kart Arcade a long time ago on Did You Know Gaming.
Other than that, I really really want Nintendo and Namco to bring the Mario Kart Arcade games to Switch
Surprisingly it didn’t seem that messed up back then, just like “oh yea a picture of a terrorist attack, man I wonder why that’s there”
it could have been part of a test image library.
SwankyBox shouting out to Boundary Break is the crossover of a lifetime.
What's messed up is how Nintendo is always throwing copyright lawsuit threats around on fan games when they go and do stuff like this.
Mario Kart GP is a Namco game. Part of me wonders if their insistence on taking down fan games is cause of their previous ventures working with 3rd parties in official senses, leading to mistakes like this
wait, how does having hidden inappropriate images relate to fan games?
Why? They're completely unrelated things. Don't let your annoyance at them blocking fan games make false equations. (I also find their blocking fan games irritating but I can clearly see the difference between these two things.
And this could be as innocent as Toadstool's underwear. People are assuming an awful lot. But also it's not explicit, so kids wouldn't pick up on this. Other family friendly movies do this all the time.
Im pretty sure Nintendo has only taken down about 15 fan games? Yeah they dont deserve all the hate when many companies like Square are INFINITELY worse
Literally, the only times I've ever heard of copyright stuff with Nintendo is with a SM64 remake and a Mario "battle royale". Other than that, nothing.
Glad to see you repping Mario RPG to the younger generation, they really should play it.
Defined part of my childhood and my dominated my imagination as a kid for a while
Geno is the best. Geno in Smash! Geno in Smash!
@@onijester56 he is. The outfit got in. Its the best you'll get
I played it on the Wii U in 2018
I tried to find it for an emulator once and it was impossible.
The XXX mark on a bottle of moonshine (Thats nearly always what it was written on historically) or just vodka in general, denotes how many times it has been distilled. triple X means triple distilled ^3^. Just an interesting fact i figured you would appreciate.
I was born in the early 2000s, but I found out about Super Mario RPG from Chuggaaconroy and immediately fell in love with the game and got it on the Wii U virtual console a good few years back and it's honestly just a blast every time I replay it
I was born in 1991 and played SMRPG exactly once when it was new when my uncle rented it. I was enthralled by the opening segment of the game with the chandelier fight but didn't have time to get past Croco afterwards. I had no idea what the game was actually titled and for years would call it Mario Castle based on the cartridge art. It wasn't until we had decent home internet years later that I figured out what the game actually was by looking through a big list of Super Nintendo games.
In regards to the terrorist picture in Mario kart, recently GameStop made an nft of a 9/11 victim falling. I at first thought it was some weird art piece since the guy was upside down, was black and white. Boy the was I wrong when I learned where the image was from. So it being used without realizing where it was from is most likely.
I'm sorry what?
@@darkdoctor1915 Yeah, I think GameStop made a tweet showing off their nfts and the one nft they decided to show off was that image. To me, when I first saw it, I thought it was some strange piece of art from how it looked, and learned just how wrong I was when reading the replies to see what people thought of GS nfts. Doubt that the tweet is still there. So I can assume that the images were used without realizing the images' backstories and accidentally misused them, cause I didn't know it at first and bet that the GS employees that used that image didn't know either, and probably the Nintendo employee as well for that test image.
@@gamerzan953, I'm not sure they thought about when doing those NFTs
@@darkdoctor1915 maybe something like
Supervisor: "Quick, we need to get on this nft fad while we can!"
Some Employee: "I don't know sir, what would we use them for?"
S: "Why to earn money of course, what else. Now take these artistic looking images and mint them to some crypto thingy."
E: "Are you sure this even allowed? And some of these pictures look unfortunately familiar to me in a bad way."
S: "Don't care, didn't ask. I am the supervisor and I know what I am doing, so go get it done NOW!"
cue social media mess up in 3... 2... 1...
@@gamerzan953, ummmmm.....
Normally i just spoil videos like this with a timestamp, for people too lazy to sit through the whole thing, but the thing this video is about was SO damn unexpected and i feel like the build up makes it even better 🤣
Item number 69 in Paper Mario: The Origami King. The model of "Desert Tower".
Coincidence? I think not!
And it says luigi likes it
@@bewearstar9462 I don't know about that one.
@@bewearstar9462 SMG4 lore?
The 'x' on an alcoholic beverage is a reference to moonshine, when the brewers would put an "X" on the bottle to show how many times it's been distilled, thus showing its potency
Which explains why sometimes it’s depicted with a triple x (XXX).
@@robbiewalker2831 Precisely--thrice distilled.
The alcoholic peach one makes me wonder if the Mushroom Kingdom has some sort of prohibition going on
2:42 made me randomly think of
mushroom kingdom... liquor? for instance, the "base" mushroom that makes you grow a "level", a batch of those fermented and distilled
would it work?
would it even be palatable?
would it still have the mushrooms effect? lessened? or just lost entirely? (affect? i forget)
You just gave me a horrible idea. What if... They use the mushrooms for... Viagra?
i mean
hypothetically going down the route of the extracts/+mixing, more than likely someone would think of a topical cream, probably could do either (or both?) for stimulation or size, since theres those rocket peppers or w/e and the base line (or mega) mushroom
(wait isnt this just dr.mario now?)
big brain horny hours here we go
Probably does something new, a whole extra powerup
So on case anyone didn't already know the mario mushroom is real. It is a hallucinogenic mushroom that people use to get high. In my op6thats the most crazy thing in a mario game
SWANKY, I found something that people glossed over, a detail on a game that nobody would expect to find Mario lore…. Mario and rabbids on the boo world there are tables and bookshelves with shy guy masks and on some tables it shows how they are made, with a spell book and a piece of cloth with a mask, that is what is on the tables which I haven’t seen ANYONE noticed this.
Swanky
I have a request for your next Luigi’s mansion video
Do a challenge
How many portrait ghost can be packed into a room and can it be beaten?
Honestly a good idea, like the beating all bosses
At the same time video for sm64
Just got home from work now tucked in bed. Your videos always makes my night! I binged-watched your videos. Learned so much stuff from games I grew up with!
Mario did it himself. He's become sentient and is rewriting code
Luigi gently opened the door…
That’s definitely one way to ensure debug files are removed before release. Too bad it didn’t work.
I imagine the reason they chose an image of a terrorist attack for a placeholder image is so it would easily be recognized as a placeholder.
My guess is that the image had been used as a profile picture cropped down to the right for a "carrying the team" look, and that's why the dev made the mental connection of using it to personally represent themself in the test. Back then we already had profile pictures and that type of humor.
*Life being created*
RUclips: NOPE that is BAD
*Life being destroyed*
RUclips: THE KIDS WILL LOVE THIS
That long legged toad is cursed beyond hilarious 😂
😂
There’s a hilarious irony of putting on blast how tragic this terrorist attack is and how weird this image being in the game files is:
As you put coconut mall music over the image of a very sensitive tragedy.
I didn't realize that thing in Super Mario rpg, but I do recall hearing about that image being in the files of Mario Kart gp. For some reason I thought I remembered an image from a tragedy being in the files of Super smash Bros melee but maybe I was just misremembering
Perhaps they originally intended to have an algorithm to test against inappropriate content and the image was part of a test. I could imagine some kid bringing in a magazine and flashing in obscene content as a joke on some poor little kid playing a racing game in an arcade.
Looks like your "SMRPG never made the leap to Switch" comment will not be a thing anymore.
" An attack where three-hundred and thirty-three people died "
video: *Coconut Mall* 🎶🎉
2:26 also who has a fire place in their bedroom? do you know how dangerous that it? your blanket can catch fire and you'll end up burning into a crisp when your asleep,sure the bed looks like it's in a safe distance but is it really? I mean fire sparks can still jump out and catch something on fire,but if that doesn't happen the smoke from the fire can kill you while your asleep smoke is that dangerous
3:26 yup,that's also true
My best guess is someone on the MK arcade testing team has a sick sense of humor...?
“Just get a random image to test the image feature, just the first one you see”
“Uhhh ok… it’s a picture of a t-“
“Cool use it”
Swanky: "Most disturbing thing in a Mario Game"
Me: "Ah, so Legend Of The 7 Stars then"
"Mario Rpg never made it to the switch"
Me: *"Dear god this aged like spoiled milk that was left out for 3 years..."*
Toadstool's ??? is probably a reference to Bahamut Lagoon, another Square RPG that came out a few months before SMRPG and had 10 ??? items belonging to Princess Yoyo that you could feed to one of your dragons to unlock their special form. Depending on what they're supposed to be that could be a little strange to an exceptionally strange thing to be feeding to anything...
Heh, I just commented the same thing before I saw this.
Another good hidden secret in a Mario game is when in super paper Mario in the level in the underworld, if you go in the river, the sound effects are distorted voices chanting "save us please"
If you crouch in front of an NPC who is holding a clipboard in Dying Light you will discover that their fingers are like a foot long. Probably the most jarring thing I have ever seen in a game.
Speaking of messed up things found in kid's games, though I'm not sure it counts, I once found an image of a half-naked burger king mascot in a kid's game for the DS and Wii called Space Camp. (It was only in the DS version to my knowledge though.)
Holy shit, what an obscure game, I remember playing that because my mom bought a used DS copy for me because she knew I liked space but I always found it painfully boring, why tf would something like that be in such an insignificant game lol
@@isaiahromero9861 The more insignificant, the better hidden.
First of all... I like your pfp 😊
Secondly... Wtf lol 😅 that's crazy! I wonder why in the world something like that would be there?! 😐
I wanna know how you found it, if you don't mind? That's wild lol.
do u have proof i cant find this anywhere
also yes this game was so fucking boring
@@justinburchette Thanks! Put simply, I was just looking around in the filesystem with tinke and happened to stumble upon some .bmp files... and one of them contained that image.
My guess is one of the guys working on it was doing a project for either a newspaper or collage, so that image just happened to be the first in their photos.
I wouldn't be surprised if Peach was stashing some booze behind her fireplace in RPG, considering the JP version of Super Mario Kart showed her chugging AN ENTIRE BOTTLE of the stuff...
It's probably just underpants. A lot of Japanese games from the 90s or so had that sort of things. (Live-a-Live SNES does it twice)
Looks like SMRPG is getting a remake on Switch...
I have to be honest, that image immediately makes me think of Hong Kong 97's truly _delightful_ game over screen.
If I had to guess, it's the fact there's four separate, different looking people in the image, and they needed the camera to be able to identify a variety of faces. As for why they picked that image specifically?
It's probable that whoever grabbed the image just wasn't thinking about it too hard. Japan still has its isolationist qualities rooted deep, so it's most likely the guy just didn't care very much about the whole thing. Which sounds cruel, but if this happened to a school in zambia a month ago, would *you* even remember that right now?
So, yea; Dev probably saw the image, didn't really give the context much thought, and tested the camera with it. After all, not like anyone was supposed to see this ever anyways, right?
I think for that picture he just picked the first picture he saw on the internet.
Video: Here's a picture of an awful thing that happened irl
Music: Let'sa go racing!
There are disturbed people everywhere. Even at Nintendo.
How about another funny gag item? "The Tape" in Paper Mario 64. In the game, you get it as part of a side quest from Koopa Koot. You get the item from Goompa, who appears very flustered when talking about this mysterious tape.
that you can hang of the gallows really sounds like a+ creepy pasta material. "i bout this game in a dark alllyway and when i booted it up and went through the beginning parts when entering that screen mario suddenly moved towards the gallows without me inputting anything, jumped up and hanged himself after which the save game option popped up with no option to deny"
Thats my favorite videogames channel, always showing bizarre things
Probably just a tired developer finding whatever photo they can for a test
As soon as Mario Kart GP was mentioned, I knew exactly where this was going. I hate to rob half the viewtime, but I'm not really in the mood to go any further.
My theory of why the images were put in there is that they haphazardly grabbed some random images off an employee’s computer and then renamed them
Hey SwankyBox did you know they are putting Guardian Tales on the Nintendo Switch? I remember when you played that! So fun!
Well that mario rpg comment aged like milk
I have a couple of examples of messed up things in Mario games. In Thousand Year Door - just how does Mario cause Madame Flurry's gust ability? And in Super Mario RPG, jiggly Valentina boss battle in Nimbus Land
SwankyBox uploads Mario stuff? Finally.
Mario "MomaMia! What the heacka is this??!"
Toad "Ha! Mines bigger."
I was personally expecting the Hell Valley Sky Tree, but ummmm yeah this is more messed up
Perhaps that thing that Peach wants to hide in Super Mario RPG was her Diary.
In Japan, XXX is used to substitute something unknown or mysterious, there's also an anime called XXXholic in which the main character investigates mysterious and supernatural events.
In this case, it would just be "Princess Peach's... Thing? Seriously, what is that?"
Her diary.
I think i can come up with a reason why that particular image was used. For one, it could have been used to make it stand out as a placeholder. Most placeholder textures are intentionally jarring, or made so ridiculous or *ahem* explicit, so as to insure they aren't missed, and are replaced with their proper textures. This being a tragic and relevant event at the time would have made it stand out to the devs, so they would make sure it never cropped up during gameplay.
additionally, i don't know how camera tests would work, but i'd assume the image could work as solving 2 problems. both containing a face that the camera would be able to recognize, as well as being shocking or eye catching enough to ensure it wasn't missed.
The fact Mario RPG it isn’t for switch, I guarantee it will get a remake. Amazing video! The paper Mario noose!!! Wow!
There was an old NES game, that happened to have adult images, but it was rendered in pixel, so it went over the heads of a lot of people. I can't remember what game it was, but it was a platformer. But then again they were Special Steps and things you had to accomplish while playing the game in order to unlock these images. But was it being pixelated, it was so bad you probably couldn't even tell what it was to begin with.
I would've took pics of random Mario Merch as placeholders.
Mario Bobblehead? Plush-shrooms? A freaking Luigi shaped Flintstones Gummy.
Anything but some random people I don't know... Also always double-vet the placeholder files. Place them, check them, check them again.
5:05
Me: oh it's just an image of a father carrying his son on his back, and i guess a soldier is there too for some reason
Swanky: it is an image of a t*rrorist attack.
Me: oh... *oh* .
For that last image, if that was a current event during development, they could have just searched "images of people" and that might have been one of the first results.
Since Japan doesn't usually pay much attention to the outside world, and game devs are often on a time crunch, it's likely they just didn't know the source.
5:50. I know some dev will use ugly images on unfinished features as a reminder to finish and than removed it. Maybe they used this as a you need to finish this and forgot to remove the image right after.
Dude, that’s some creepy stuff.
I’d like to believe people’s theories on just downloading the first image they see with understanding its meaning, but with a lot of twisted people out there, I am not sure I can.
Camtest02 was getting use to train Facial Modeling Data, and was paid for according to their interview at a game expo back then.
Maybe peach is stealing the toads’ tax dollars and running a money laundering scheme, but who knows?
The Mario RPG Peach's ??? Any one who is a Squaresoft/Squeenix fan would know that this is a running gag of Square putting a joke reference to adult/questionable material in it's games. Remember Tifa's orthopedic underwear In the Final Fantasy 7? In the japanese Final Fantasy 4 and later releases, you can find "smut" in the secret developers room. This was censored in the original NA release when the title was named Final Fantasy 2. Just like boing boing and bunny girls in Dragon Quest, it was kinda trendy to put that kind of stuff in classic JRPGs.
Those examples are a little more blantant, but in the case of the "Peach's ???" It's pretty mild if you ask me, and the English translation of "XXX" to "???" makes it ambiguous enough that it could be anything. The ambiguity is what makes it clever! This is barely a controversy, this is no more shocking than an implied joke you'd see on SpongeBob SquarePants.
2:08 wow, didn't expect a reference to Super Princess Peach, they brought back the vibe wand finally
Super Mario RPG was released in the late 90's.Or is it a joke?
@@numbskull_justashinyfuecoco (it's a joke lmao sry, but thx for the info i had no idea)
@@tovi3280 Oh ok.Weird how they didnt mention that in the vid the "vibe wand being hidden in your house"joke.
@@numbskull_justashinyfuecoco super princess peach was an obscure game, i'm not surprised he didn't come up with the joke lol
its crazier that there was a person taking photos during that time. it shouldnt matter if the photo was anywhere after that, there was wild stuff going on and a dude was just out there with a camera. i see no problem using the photo.
somewhere out there, a former employee is watching this video and laughing their ass off at their prank.
The coloured bars remind me of something. The first 3 colours from the top used to be the German flag. Black, white, red
Sounds like they needed any placeholder images and just grabbed whatever was on their desktop.
3 days till mario steal your liver
*wahoo*
Multiple video games, most of them JRPGs, have potential in searching personal wardrobes usually with humorous results. Cloud's flashback in Final Fantasy VII allows you to search Tifa's room.
Hearing the bars and mascots was fine... but the moment I heard "Terrorist Attack" my eyes widened and Eyebrows spiked up. Who thought that would be a great test image and were they sacked, scolded or got away with it? I was not expecting that, as I knew of things like Toadstools ???, the dead Toad, The Hell Valley Sky Trees and the ghost in 3D Land... not an image of a Terrorist Attack!