Gaming myths

[chopemon]

in SF2 champion edition (not sure if it was in the others) ryu would sometimes do a red fireball. everyone said this was a real move and there were various ways to do it. capcom later said it was a bug

[Geoff D]

EGM used to have great April Fool's japes.

A few years back they told us how to unlock Sonic & Tails in Smash Bros Melee - you had to win 20 fights in cruel melee, then you received a message saying 'A dream's been cast' & voila, Sonic & Tails playable (complete with screenshots of course).

Annoyed a lot of people that did

[112]

im sure i read it in one of the gaming mags i used to buy many moons ago that, you could play ridge raceron the PSX and play your own audio tunes in it whilst playing the game. How that could be achived is beyond me! I guess, you would load the entire ridge gameinto the PSX's err temporary memory and play yah Audio CD's in the CD tray after. Man that had me fooled for a bit.

Thouh these stories are more like Hoax's than myths. I think there is a difference, or am i lying?

A major myth is that video games make you go on violent rampages, ala GTA and manhunt.

112

[capcom_suicide]

EGM used to have great April Fool's japes.

A few years back they told us how to unlock Sonic & Tails in Smash Bros Melee - you had to win 20 fights in cruel melee, then you received a message saying 'A dream's been cast' & voila, Sonic & Tails playable (complete with screenshots of course).

Annoyed a lot of people that did

When I bought my master system, I was told there was a secret maze game hidden, if I held down the buttons and turned it out sans cart.

To my surprize there was. Complete with little snail.

So I supose that doesn't count as a myth. Damn. I'll be quiet.

[Kubrick]

im sure i read it in one of the gaming mags i used to buy many moons ago that, you could play ridge raceron the PSX and play your own audio tunes in it whilst playing the game. How that could be achived is beyond me! I guess, you would load the entire ridge gameinto the PSX's err temporary memory and play yah Audio CD's in the CD tray after. Man that had me fooled for a bit.

That one is actually true

[C']

That's the first thing that sprang to mind with me. I used to read EGM and it became a running joke for them to print it every April issue and each year it got more and more ludicrous but people still believed it. The all time classic was when one of the UK magazines (might have been CVG, actually) printed it where part of the code was to press a button to the tune of an All Saints song that hadn't been released when Tomb Raider came out.

Actually you?re getting your CVG April Fool?s mixed up. April 1997 was the original Tomb Raider one where they said you had to make Lara dance to the beat of Spice Girl?s Wannabe (I think they may have also had another 2 April Fool?s in that issue too).

The following year they basically repeated the fool for Tomb Raider 2 but changed the song to the All Saints one.

And yes Kubrick is spot on, the Ridge Racer thing is true. The entire game is loaded into the Playstation?s 2MB of RAM and therefore requires no loading and only uses the disc for music. This meant you could put your own CD in and play the music from that. It wasn?t perfect. You couldn?t choose all the tracks on the disc, it just took tracks 2-7 off the CD and used them to tie in with the 6 original music of the normal CD. I also found that all the music would commence partway through the track anyway and would miss out the opening minute or so).

[mid]

Wasent there a old elite myth about finding the thargoids?

You could enter witchspace fairly reliably with a cheat on the Spectrum release, and it did happen randomly on the others as well. You're probably thinking of the old myth about finding a Generation Ship.

[Bleeders]

Back in the day, my friends were convinced Guile could do a "Hopping Flash Kick" (basically one flash kick after another) in Street Fighter 2 on the SNES, many of us scoffed at the idea at the time, but it did turn out to be true.

[Widegoat]

Back in the day, my friends were convinced Guile could do a "Hopping Flash Kick" (basically one flash kick after another) in Street Fighter 2 on the SNES, many of us scoffed at the idea at the time, but it did turn out to be true.

In all my Streetfightering days I never even heard about that one! How is it achieved?

Also, that myth about driving through the wall on Ridge Racer that was posted - while you couldn't do it on Ridge Racer - you could (can) do it on Sega's Rad Mobile during the section of track with the metalic barrier that leads up to checkpoint at the end of the first level (I think). You can drive through the barrier on the left - and as I recall it takes you straight to stage 4 or 5.

Shat myself the first time I saw that.

[Light]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned one of the (if not THE) biggest gaming myth of all time: getting across to the island opposite the dam (from which you bungee jump to end the level) in Goldeneye 007. Apparently, you had to shoot the boat near the docks, so that it would come and pick you up and take you to the island, where Oddjob and Mayday were both waiting to be confronted.

How did I first come to hear of that? It was 1998, and I was sitting in a small french restaraunt in Paris with some french friends, who spent the majority of the evening (much to the amusement of my school mates) persuading me that one of them actually managed to get across to the island (the rest of the time was allocated to playing around with matches for some reason ). However he never really set foot on it, because at that time, rather conveniently, the power went out in his house, so he didn't know what lay ahead. After that, he never tried again. Unfortunately, seeing as how I was pretty naiive (I was 14 at the time) and obsessed to the point of insanity with the game to begin with, I believed that french bastard, so imagine my disappointment when I found out (some time later in some magazine) that it was all just a rumour. This of course was after I spent at least 10 seperate attempts on trying to make it to that mysterious locale.

Actually, Goldeneye was subject to a number of popular rumours at the time... I remember there being a whole lot of speculation regarding the "all bonds cheat", which initially was in fact supposed to be featured in the game, but due to licensing issues, Rare had to scrap the idea. Many people still believed it was left in the game though, so that's something that took a while to die off.

[MattyD]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned one of the (if not THE) biggest gaming myth of all time: getting across to the island opposite the dam (from which you bungee jump to end the level) in Goldeneye 007.

A lot of GoldenEye hacking sites have screens of the island but you need an Action Replay or similar device to get there.

That game is almost as legendary for its bugs and loose ends as for its gameplay

[Goemon]

I remember years ago reading the The Sun newspaper (instant indication of b0ll0x) that there was a "97th world" in Super Mario World.

You had to do the Sunken Ship level collecting all Yoshi coins and when you got to the end you had to sink down into the water in the very centre of the screen and off the bottom. You would then be warped to your house (the first level), it would be Autumn and all the characters would be there.

[Gruce]

When Tekken 3 was coming out I got a demo of the game on the PSX. Not a normal demo with a few games on, just a Tekken 3 demo. A friend told me that you could enter in a code and unlock the whole game!

How long did this code take to enter in? - A week.

[Yaka]

want the tekken 3 demo unlockable so you had few more charectors to play with?

[Brats]

One of the first myths I can remember was the trailer in Lunar Jetman. One person sent a very good fake photo into Crash and re-ignited the whole debate. Only years later was the photo de-bunked.