Random Gaming Discoveries

[Shadowruls]

Few months back, I stumbled upon the name Jon Burton. The guy programmed Sonic 3D Blast on Genesis after he founded Traveller's Tales. Does that company name sound familiar? Thats because they are the guys that made the LEGO games, from LEGO Star Wars onwards, a whole host of which he directed.

This guy shaped a massive portion of my childhood, and I never even knew his name until recently

 

[Smiley Cat]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Burton started programming with Sonic 3D Blast. Traveller's Tales has existed since the eighties. I remember playing one of their games on the Commodore Amiga (Leander).
Maybe Sonic 3D Blast was his first time programming a Genesis title? Idk, but I'm pretty sure he was programming other games before that.

 

[Shadowruls]

I think you are correct, and I'd forgotten a detail or two.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Not sure if this counts, but I learned that you could fly every plane (even the ones reserved for AI) on Combat Flight Simulator 1 by simply coping over the sound and cockpit files from any of the available planes.

Felt like a hacker lol

 

[DunkeyKong]

Crazy Taxi doesn't make me crazy

 

[Shadowruls]

Not sure if this counts, but I learned that you could fly every plane (even the ones reserved for AI) on Combat Flight Simulator 1 by simply coping over the sound and cockpit files from any of the available planes.

Felt like a hacker lol

so you just straight up downloaded planes, because downloading cars wasn't punk enough for you

 

[It's Thinking 2]

If you hit down on the d-pad in any Sonic game as soon as you hit a sloped hill, you can roll faster and gain a ton of momentum and shoot into the air.

 

[Adrastia]

Gryz from Phantasy Star 4 has a knife attack animation. I discovered this many many years ago while messing around with a hex editor. Normally he can only equip axes. But if you force him to equip a knife via code the animation works perfectly.

I guess either they decided to give him a unique weapon or decided that he didn't need a secondary weapon type because he's only with you a short time and is an optional character for the end boss.

 

[SuperSampleStar]

Zunou Senkan Galg

Everyone writes it off as that shooting game that's on every bootleg cart, but there's more to it than meets the eye.

I only discovered recently that there's an actual goal and kinda-sorta RPG mechanics to it. Basically you have to find 100 parts in 30 areas and beat the boss in order to win the game. If you don't have all the parts by the 30th area, you loop back to the 1st area.

Once i learned that, I got the motivation to pick this thing back up again and actually attempt to finish it

 

[Michael Frank]

I discovered the secret message in Contra by holding select+start after almost a decade and a half, i played the game since i was 8 and i never knew of the secret message.

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On another topic, because i felt like doing a little speedrunning in Assault Suit Valken, i ran past every enemy of the first level and just aimed for the boss, little i knew that´s how you unlock the Napalm gun, AKA the most OP weapon in the game.

 

[RetroLaw]

I never knew TMNT 4 on the snes was actually a port until I got access to arcade emulation about 15 years later.

 

[Michael Frank]

I never knew TMNT 4 on the snes was actually a port until I got access to arcade emulation about 15 years later.

Honestly i was really suprised with some arcade titles made by konami, they even made a Aliens game that´s basically contra but without platforming and more difficulty (basically a more elevated enemy count, like a HORDE).

 

[Faerie]

Soft reseting games by pressing and holding certain buttons. Can't remember when excatly, but learned as a kid on accident.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Soft reseting games by pressing and holding certain buttons. Can't remember when excatly, but learned as a kid on accident.

I’ve done it accidentally with tekken 5, and one other game that I can’t remember. Was freaky! But also hella convenient.

 

[Parasite_Steve]

Soft reseting games by pressing and holding certain buttons. Can't remember when excatly, but learned as a kid on accident.

Yeah the good old L1+L2+R1+R2+select+start on the ps1 Final Fantasy games. If you did it too often in 8 it would get stuck before the main menu and you had to hard reset.
Iirc the Namco fighting games were much simpler like plain Start+Select. Much easier to find by accident for better or worse.

I was blown away by the fact you could play many ps1 games as an audio cd on your stereo (Saturn too but I didn't get one until 2009). I always loved game soundtracks but for the longest time I couldn't figure out how to get them on tape so I could listen to them on my walkman at school.

 

[Dodgykebaab]

I want to share this that I made with you guys, and I think you'll enjoy it.

But I also want to keep in with the spirit of the forum so I'll write up the major point here so you don't all think I'm just some YouTube dick just out for clicks!

1) Do you know some Japanese arcade machines had ports for Dual Shock PS2 controllers? Winning 11 has a port:

I saw these myself while in Tokyo in 2007 when I was in a Club Sega and was watching someone play a Bullet Hell game which also had Dual Shock connectors.

2) Also a Japanese Cabinet called Cyber Lead II had something called a "Slot Link System"

This one allowed you the insert PS1 Memory cards and controllers. Games like Namco's World Baseball 99 allowed for Arcade-PlayStation Cross saving. It also had Sega Dreamcast VMU slots for a Wrestling game that used the same system.

3) Did you know that the PS1 actually had two different ways to connect to the internet?

In the USA they actually prototyped a modem for use with this disc:

In Japan they actually had a special lead that did get released to the public that used users mobile phones to allow internet access with certain games:

One game that used it was the PocketStation Sony mascot game that featured Toro Inoue imode Mo Issho:

 

[Cosmiken]

Liked and subscribed my dood. Also, it kind of sucks we never got any Toro stuff in the US... frikken love that lil guy.

 

[fake-chan]

Liked and subscribed my dood. Also, it kind of sucks we never got any Toro stuff in the US... frikken love that lil guy.

Yeah, but he wasn't "cool" and "edgy" enough for the Americans.

 

[MemeAlert]

ok

 

[Setge]

Just subscribed. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Dodgykebaab]

Cheers everyone.

I won’t spam this forum with my stuff. I’m a few weeks if I post another video, I’ll make sure I follow this same format of putting it in writing here too so people who don’t/can’t click the video can see the content

 

[DunkeyKong]

Cheers everyone.

I won’t spam this forum with my stuff. I’m a few weeks if I post another video, I’ll make sure I follow this same format of putting it in writing here too so people who don’t/can’t click the video can see the content

I love this format man, I'm looking forward to the next one

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

That's really cool

 

[Zerohour2k12]

Cool Stuff!

 

[ciro64]

"Look at this cool thing I found out" kind of thread. You don't need to have played the game for yourself.

This is a fps interpretation of Zombies ate my Neighbors, originally a top down game.