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Fake Ridley isn't actually a separate sprite. Every enemy in the NES Metroid game has a boss flag that can be either on or off. Every enemy has a regular and boss form. Fake Kraid was a clever usage of this system.
my favourite password to perform for an audience. any time I'm demonstrating the Metroid password system, I'll end with that one. the crash is just too freaking great. :)
That codes actually just breaks your cartridge or crashes your 3ds if you ever try to put in that code, apparently it sets your game to 3 million hours in game. So that is a bad code
the meltdown that the game has isnt actually from the timeroverflow(even tho that might be why it breaks the 3ds and crashes the switch nintendo online-emulator),but rather from the fact that its location is in tourian and it has the resetflag active. so basicly it just loads you into the startingroom while not being in the actual first level and that happens to be invalid data(i wonder why)
Neat fact about Narpas Sword is it actually gives you all the beams at once, long, ice, and wave. You were only meant to be able to get long and ice or long and wave together (you can actually have wave or ice with short range if you skip the long beam), and having all three results in a beam that uses wave's sprite but otherwise acts like the ice beam.
It only crashes the game. It does cause problems (forcing a hard reset on Virtual Console), but Metroid doesn't have any save battery so it's impossible to do permanent damage to a physical game. It definitely won't brick your system.
Both lies/myths. Especially Virtual Console, which will just crash, sometimes hardlocking the system forcing a manual power off (3DS) and sometimes just exiting with an error code (Switch).
One year late, but for new readers: The people above are correct. The reason it fries the game is that it both has the reset-flag active that returns the player to the starting room, but it is also set to respawn them in tourian. There is no actual nonsense going on except a simple internal gameerror, so it is physically unable to do any harm. No idea why or how it bricked the early 3DS-versions, but yeah.
I never had the chance to say this, but the mega man one that had 6 games, I appreciate that because instead of a 2 minute video, we got a full 6 game lost bits and I have huge respect! Keep on gaming, gamer!
Leaving a comment mostly for your metrics, but I loved the episode! Your videos always show a certain level of professionalism and polish and that's why I keep coming back.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio More than that. He can't move, do damage, attack in any way, he doesn't trigger boss music, no sound effects, and has no death animation (though he technically does die, the sprite just doesn't despawn). Several people have hacked the game to restore Crocomire to full functionality, to mixed success. Trunaur68's Crocomire hack is the most well known, though it's very incomplete still. Interdpth's Crocomire seems a step above, but I haven't seen enough to say for certain, and I don't think he's going to release it until his Fusion hack (ALIE) is out.
5:15 the NARPAS SWORD password Is also believed to just represent "*N*orth *A*merica *R*elease Password," hence "NAR Password." It was likely meant to help the NA translators actually understand what they were playing So there wouldn't be any kind of brutally misunderstood translations which plagued early Mega Man and various other popular NES games such as Zelda and Castlevania.
to further explain, Translators don't bother having to play through the game to try and understand wtf is going on within the confines of 8 bit space. they look at what's presented to them, and if it looks even vaguely like something else, chances are they're going to go for the most basic descriptions to save time and effort. That's why the early Mega Man games were so brutally misunderstood and games like Zelda 2 and Castlevania 2 had obscure af hints. the password was likely so translators could explore the game properly and actually understand how items and mechanics worked without having to throw darts in the darkness and hope they got it marginally right.
narpas sword nar password You decide tho i think nar passord might be it as it could be for North American Release or even Tohru NARihiro password as the video mention
Hope you get better dude and hope the moving goes well. Btw the hat in time you did earlier there is way much more found out like a whole discord deticated to it at this point
The whole thing with using the same sprite for shooting left and right makes sense for an nes game though. Metroid is a pretty large game, so saving as much memory as possible is vital. Edit: Nevermind, you already pointed that out, my bad
It may have still saved some RAM if it wasn't actively loaded, not sure exactly how that was handled on NES. Most likely they removed it planning to save cartridge space but ran out of time and didn't clean it up. They probably didn't have any convenient tools for finding unused data either (I'm not even sure modern SDK's have such a feature).
I misread the title for saying Super Metroid. Hoped to see some proper gameplay footage of the Bang (where the thing doesn't weirdly teleport across the room, so the hitbox of the blast can be looked at properly). But well, M1 it is for now.
I really appreciate that 8-bit Torvus Bog theme Edit: I feel like the password actually stands for "North American Release Password" but idk, I don't think anyone has ever confirmed anything officially
I really wish they had used the left-facing sprite correctly. It seems to have been a mistake on the developer's part. As far as "not making sense", mirrored sprites were extremely common in NES games and most kids never even noticed or, if they did, assumed it was a limitation or didn't think about it at all. Overanalyzing sprites like that wasn't really a thing when I was growing up.
I found out that if you do "debug mode" and go to Tourian with infinite missiles, as soon as you kill a metroid, the game would oddly crash. At least for me, anyway.
@@TheRUclipsGame i just found out why it crashes. If you go into the game with no missiles, Metroids will drop missiles but the game realises that you haven’t collected any missiles. So they game with get confused and crash.
Can you just solder a battery back on the board?, or is it completely unusable without modding the rom itself +( a possible trace needing to be completed? )
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Just make sure not to OD on those cold meds :/
Zero Suit Metroid is a very interesting character...
Samus*
Xran Plays r/woooosh
I think the more interesting thing is how smash gets the names wrong
Smh Zelda is green boy and Link is princess.
And its not samus its Metroid.
@Mr. Flash r/woooooosh
Yeah i like green mario and red luigi
Fake Ridley isn't actually a separate sprite. Every enemy in the NES Metroid game has a boss flag that can be either on or off. Every enemy has a regular and boss form. Fake Kraid was a clever usage of this system.
Oh, *Metroid* ? Yeah, *he's* my favorite Nintendo character.
Meh. My personal favorite is Zelda. I like how cool he is. I wonder what the name of the lady he saves is. No one ever tells me
@@lazykirby57 you mean sora?
LazyKirby57 I believe the princess’s name is link
@@vivianaacosta2714 ah. thanks for telling me. My biggest question is solved
@@theboy1872 hmm.. it could be that. Ill check later
"Engage Ridley Mother F**cker"
Ahh, that got me X)
my favourite password to perform for an audience. any time I'm demonstrating the Metroid password system, I'll end with that one. the crash is just too freaking great. :)
I thought Nintendo was family friendly back then
That codes actually just breaks your cartridge or crashes your 3ds if you ever try to put in that code, apparently it sets your game to 3 million hours in game. So that is a bad code
the meltdown that the game has isnt actually from the timeroverflow(even tho that might be why it breaks the 3ds and crashes the switch nintendo online-emulator),but rather from the fact that its location is in tourian and it has the resetflag active. so basicly it just loads you into the startingroom while not being in the actual first level and that happens to be invalid data(i wonder why)
I just don't buy that something like this can be an accident.
Neat fact about Narpas Sword is it actually gives you all the beams at once, long, ice, and wave. You were only meant to be able to get long and ice or long and wave together (you can actually have wave or ice with short range if you skip the long beam), and having all three results in a beam that uses wave's sprite but otherwise acts like the ice beam.
Make sure to have quite a BIT of medicine; hope you feel better soon!
Thanks brotha
Seriously Nathaniel, a tetrabitgaming pun? That one was kinda trash, no offense, you may have came up with that, but at least you aren't Ink BANDY
It's interesting how Fake Ridley's color scheme would ultimately look very similar to Ridley's later appearances. (color wise)
5:38 dont use the Engage Ridly password. It can destroy your game, and on virtual console can brick your system.
It only crashes the game. It does cause problems (forcing a hard reset on Virtual Console), but Metroid doesn't have any save battery so it's impossible to do permanent damage to a physical game. It definitely won't brick your system.
Sawyer Friend it’s definitely spooky for a little kid though haha!
I wonder if this was intentional...
Both lies/myths. Especially Virtual Console, which will just crash, sometimes hardlocking the system forcing a manual power off (3DS) and sometimes just exiting with an error code (Switch).
One year late, but for new readers: The people above are correct. The reason it fries the game is that it both has the reset-flag active that returns the player to the starting room, but it is also set to respawn them in tourian. There is no actual nonsense going on except a simple internal gameerror, so it is physically unable to do any harm. No idea why or how it bricked the early 3DS-versions, but yeah.
The Metroid series has left me with one question...
y cant metroid crawl
Because of her suit
Because he Can't!
Top 10 questions scientist still can't awnser
Sprite limitations is the legitimate reason. They were going to make her crawl, but couldn't make a cohesive sprite, so made the morph ball.
And it's not Narpa's Sword, it's Nar Password.
EDIT: You can apparently say it both ways. Who knew?
It can be said either way.
Oh. Really? Sorry.
I figured the accepted meaning of this password was North American Release Password, but I guess it isn't.
Now that you've done the Metroid game, why not go it it's sister series game that uses the same engine, Kid Icarus. When you feel better, that is.
Not a bad idea! Maybe one day!
the music playing at the start sounds just like the atual game! cool
I never had the chance to say this, but the mega man one that had 6 games, I appreciate that because instead of a 2 minute video, we got a full 6 game lost bits and I have huge respect! Keep on gaming, gamer!
if you're sick then why are you making this video we can wait you know
I adooore this game, that music is soooo haunting and nostalgic *siiiigh*.... thanks for the upload brother!!
I absolutely love the intro theme
@@TetraBitGaming riiiiight??
Huh. I just started playing Metroid 2 on an emulator and this comes out. Cool
Metroid is honestly my favorite Smash Bros fighter. Change my mind.
Metroid super fan: ITS A HER AND HER NAME IS SAMUS!!
George boi
I thought Samus was the green dude with the sword and bow
@@Chris-mc2dt no its the pink blob. Duh.
@@Chris-mc2dt He's clearly the plumber.
@@Chris-mc2dt I thought he was that hedgehog who likes to run?
Leaving a comment mostly for your metrics, but I loved the episode! Your videos always show a certain level of professionalism and polish and that's why I keep coming back.
I appreciate the kind words and comment!
Metroid Zero Mission has unused sprites of Crocomire.
His AI is partially complete too.
@@alexman2598 Only thing missing is a defeat condition, it seems.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio More than that. He can't move, do damage, attack in any way, he doesn't trigger boss music, no sound effects, and has no death animation (though he technically does die, the sprite just doesn't despawn).
Several people have hacked the game to restore Crocomire to full functionality, to mixed success. Trunaur68's Crocomire hack is the most well known, though it's very incomplete still. Interdpth's Crocomire seems a step above, but I haven't seen enough to say for certain, and I don't think he's going to release it until his Fusion hack (ALIE) is out.
Another really great lost bits video on one of my favourite video games of all time, thanks for making this metroid lost bits.
Another retro game with lost bits
Thanks for showing us unused things in the original metroid, TetraBit. Keep on finding unused bits
I hope you feel better! I also hope that nothing falls out of your moving truck, trailer, thing.
Thanks!
2:41 Comic Book Guy: This is Snagglepuss, drawn by Hic Heisler. It is worth something. This is a foot, which was drawn by nobody. It is worth NOTING.
The Smart-Casual Gamer. I purposely changed it to “foot” in order to fit the context of the video.
Sorry, I hadn't got to that part of the video yet at the time I wrote the comment.
You should do a lost bits with beta 64
I like this idea. :)
5:15 the NARPAS SWORD password Is also believed to just represent "*N*orth *A*merica *R*elease Password," hence "NAR Password." It was likely meant to help the NA translators actually understand what they were playing So there wouldn't be any kind of brutally misunderstood translations which plagued early Mega Man and various other popular NES games such as Zelda and Castlevania.
to further explain, Translators don't bother having to play through the game to try and understand wtf is going on within the confines of 8 bit space. they look at what's presented to them, and if it looks even vaguely like something else, chances are they're going to go for the most basic descriptions to save time and effort. That's why the early Mega Man games were so brutally misunderstood and games like Zelda 2 and Castlevania 2 had obscure af hints. the password was likely so translators could explore the game properly and actually understand how items and mechanics worked without having to throw darts in the darkness and hope they got it marginally right.
It’s a disgrace that there are no unused content of waluigi as a playable character
Because Mr. Sakurai hates him. Some people think that
Wow, you're doing one of my favorite games. Cool!
Tried Narpas Sword cheat on the NES classic. And it works! I forgot what to write so thank you Tetra! 😃
Glad it worked !
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The Binding of Isaac Lost Bits
3:01
That eye....
It seems very familiar.
Sudsy Diamond uhhh Zero From Kirby’s dreamland3?
narpas sword
nar password
You decide tho i think nar passord might be it as it could be for North American Release or even Tohru NARihiro password as the video mention
Comment to help the channel, going to watch this once I get home!
Can you do Lost Bits on Shovel Knight next? But no worries if you're sick! I'm sick right now too so I know how you feel
The unused fake Ridley enemy just intrigue me, but I didn't understand the code to enable it 😱
Hope you feel better soon!
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The concept art for the reakas is the black hole picture
Great video! Would love to see you tackle Enter the Gungeon!
Hope you get better dude and hope the moving goes well.
Btw the hat in time you did earlier there is way much more found out like a whole discord deticated to it at this point
Thanks!
Do you have a link to the discord?
The whole thing with using the same sprite for shooting left and right makes sense for an nes game though. Metroid is a pretty large game, so saving as much memory as possible is vital.
Edit: Nevermind, you already pointed that out, my bad
It may have still saved some RAM if it wasn't actively loaded, not sure exactly how that was handled on NES. Most likely they removed it planning to save cartridge space but ran out of time and didn't clean it up. They probably didn't have any convenient tools for finding unused data either (I'm not even sure modern SDK's have such a feature).
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Glad you enjoy it!
Great vid man
Thanks for watching!
Can you do a Portal Lost Bits?
yay, new lost bits video
I misread the title for saying Super Metroid. Hoped to see some proper gameplay footage of the Bang (where the thing doesn't weirdly teleport across the room, so the hitbox of the blast can be looked at properly). But well, M1 it is for now.
Hey TetraBitGaming I love your videos
Thanks Donna!
Interesting vid. You got yourself a new sub
Always good! Keep up the works!
Thanks for watching!
Oh thank you! You really made my day by responding
I really appreciate that 8-bit Torvus Bog theme
Edit: I feel like the password actually stands for "North American Release Password" but idk, I don't think anyone has ever confirmed anything officially
Not A Real Password, would make more sense since it was added to the game and was probably meant for testing purposes but never taken out
I never hear when people are sick on recordings. Their voices sound normal.
I think the out of bounds rooms are just the game code loaded as map data
Do a lost bits of little nightmeres.: )
I got the horse in the back
I think the unused foot was for if Samus didn't have high jump boots
Nice vid bro!!!👋😀
Thank you !
i just got the NES classic
I really wish they had used the left-facing sprite correctly. It seems to have been a mistake on the developer's part.
As far as "not making sense", mirrored sprites were extremely common in NES games and most kids never even noticed or, if they did, assumed it was a limitation or didn't think about it at all. Overanalyzing sprites like that wasn't really a thing when I was growing up.
I found out that if you do "debug mode" and go to Tourian with infinite missiles, as soon as you kill a metroid, the game would oddly crash. At least for me, anyway.
Collecting a missile tank before killing any Metroids will solve the issue.
@@TheRUclipsGame i just found out why it crashes. If you go into the game with no missiles, Metroids will drop missiles but the game realises that you haven’t collected any missiles. So they game with get confused and crash.
Good video.
Thanks!
Keep doing a great man
Sonic 3 and knuckles please
You have a great channel
Thanks !
A little more to the password for invincibility and everything, it can also be seen as "Nar Password".
That honestly, makes more sense haha
HYPE FOR METROID PRIME 4
I wonder if there's any lost bits on the "Earthworm Jim" series.
Yes finally a Metroid video! Any Metroid fans out here
i am an metroid fqn
fan
@@thundere.b2314 Nice
I would like to see the first TMNT game
please do cave story!
I don't think that "Relax" and "Grab a missile tank" should be in the same sentance
He could've just say "Go grab a missile tank"
sounds more like a bug with the arm thing
Went to get missile tank, got a revolver instead
I'm kinda hoping he does a Kid Icarus lost bits
3:09
Did Metroid predict the first black hole?
Heyyyyy nice channel I watch a lot of your vids
Thanks !
Np 😊
My fav smash character is zero suit sanus
3:22. in kraids lair you can find kraids fake ridley equivalent. Fake kraid. Blue fur and orange skin. Fake kraid returns in the sequel
P L A N T B O ! !
Can you just solder a battery back on the board?, or is it completely unusable without modding the rom itself +( a possible trace needing to be completed? )
As far as I know there's no programming for it to utilize the battery at all
Waiting for THE HEX lost bits
Hey I wonder if you could do
Sonic unleashed lost bits
Its not narpas sword. Its
nar
password.
Lmao how did I not see that
Samus isn't a robot??? Nani?????? :O
Please do super metroid next!
Fake Ridley’s colors looks oddly similar to one of Ridley’s Smash alts...
Do a lost bit on super Metroid please!
Do Metroid Prime 1!
Has anyone ever made a metroid hack restoring the original animation sprites?
It's obvious that foot was Samus' third leg that they dropped when they made the decision to make her a girl!
SUPER METROID LOST BITS PLZ
Can you do a lost bits video on Marvels Spider-Man
First
Btw I’m a huge fan of your vids and I can watch them for hours
bruh
Who still does this?
You didn't show off the completely unused rooms. You could by re-assigning rooms in Editroid, or just showing them in there.
Can you do a lost bits for the Sims 4 or splatoon?
Splatoon = WOOMY, Sims 4 = OH HELL NO
Get better soon
Shesez stop making accounts to dislike his videos jk. Love you both!
N I C E 1:08
Narpas sword is North American password