my friend used to say that the lighthouse in diddy kong racing turns into a spaceship then flys off into space and I thought he was lying because it sounded so far fetched for the nintendos limitations but it turned out to be true and i was thoroughly impressed
Exactly, back in those early days everything and anything seemed possible. It feels like secrets in games aren't half as bold anymore: probably just because if they're not ARG levels of subtle, they'll be data mined and written about ad nauseum on every two-bit gaming -news site- blog by launch's first 24 hours
Moments like these in N64 games are why these rumours stayed afloat! Humanity's first time exploring 3D worlds inside/outside of our own, and the games of this era peppered some super cool stuff into them to keep the naturally curious mind racing (for decades to come, clearly) 💛
I think the greatest vindication of "school yard rumours" is how it ended up being true that you could get Mew in the original Pokemon blue/red. That being said, it was a glitch exploit as opposed to being intentionally programmed into the game. But the method for exploiting the glitch reads EXACTLY like the kind of nonsense you'd hear back then.
Yes, there was also an "virus" or "glitch" pokemon fight to enter. I think it was near the Mew location or it was the same one. The enemy looked exactly like a digital glitch (sounded like that too). I don't remember the name ... But you could raise up your amount of berry's(?) to improve certain stats of your pokemon. I don't remember that good... (Eh, around 20 years or more since that time) Edit: It was called "Missingno"
@@ciel87 Yes, you would Fly to Cinnabar Island then Surf along the right edge of the shoreline, eventually encountering Missingno. Catching this Pokemon would glitch out your Hall of Fame entry after you beat the Elite 4
Mew wasn't an exploit, they were actually coded into the game fully of course―only the glitchy method of obtaining them was unintended. Missingno is the _real_ glitch through and through, many kids' _first_ intentionally-sought, obviously unintentionally-created glitch. And that legend stoked the fires of schoolyard rumors as much as Mew themselves
Sorry Guys theres no mew under the truck ,virus or exploit! only way to get mew under the truck is an ACE (arbitory code execution) wich was shown at 2016 AGDQ it requieres an amount of preparation to pull this off The Code had to be written in sram by doing various Actions and then the Code was executed with the help of the glitch item "8f" Theres also a write up on pastebin and a .sav that anyone can recreate this with an emulator and any Rom of pkmn blue
The thing with Oddjob and Mayday appearing in the single player campaign is it actually says IN THE PRINTED GAME MANUAL that they appear in the single player. The manual that came with the game lied about them.
the back of the box did have earlier shots too, maybe once upon a time they were meant to appear, and considering their spots in the credits, maybe Mayday was to appear with Jaws and Oddjob with the Baron.
Was gonna mention this, the manual literally says and I quote “Try and find these four villains!” It was likely planned to have them in levels but didn’t have the time to execute during development. Supported by the manual having slightly outdated information such as calling the klobb the spyder on the weapons list.
@@milopuppypaws3108 the back of the box and the manual were very confusing! I recall there being screenshots of things that weren't in the final product and there was a screenshot of somebody using some kind of rifle that wasn't in the final product
Me and my friends spent countless hours in our childhood playing the Archive level in Goldeneye and trying to find a secret wall in order to find the unique gun that is on the back of the Goldeneye box. It was rumoured that just like on the back of the box, using this gun would make the guards bleed a lot more when they get hit.
Something that happened to me as a kid that I dont see ever discussed, is Wizpig’s first boss race when he is on foot, he fell/glitched into the water on one side or the other and we beat the race unopposed. My sister did it and I saw. We werent able to beat him legitimately for the longest time and then this happened
Wizpig was crazy hard. Here's a tip that, if you're like me, you'll wish you knew back then: Rapidly tapping A is actually _faster_ than just holding it down in Diddy Kong Racing, due to a quirk of the physics. Not sure how hard little us would have found that, and I can't say I'm not glad to have the memories with the game that I do (as I'm sure you feel as well), but isn't that kind of a little gut punch? Apparently Wizpig becomes _much_ easier using this method lol
@@chompythebeast btw the first encounter with wizpig was a little hard but the second is stupidly easy, maybe the gas thing was a technical nod to Ayrton Senna who also begin his career on a kart and tapped the gas like that on his car even during the Grand Prix events, that's what I want to believe, who knows. step on the gas like Senna and you'll beat the game!
Man, there used to be so many "do this crazy thing for a secret character" rumors back in the day. I for sure thought you could unlock Luigi in Super Mario 64 for a while
I used to think (or probably rather _hope_ is the better word) that one could unlock Yoshi as a rideable buddy, but alas. Yoshi's Island still loomed huge in my memory in those days, after all
I loved how these early rumors ranged from feasible "Get all the Stars in Mario 64 on all three files to unlock Luigi" to ludicrous "Do [long-form list of arbitrary tasks repeated to an absurd amount] to see Zelda topless!" Even at age 7 I could smell bullshit
Same, but every so often something that sounded crazy ended up being 100% true. So it was hard to know for sure, especially back then when I didn’t know as much about how video games and general computer programs work. Like I didn’t find out that the sinking lure and Hylian Loach are real until I was an adult.
I spent an embarrassing amount of time hunting for the triforce in OOT. But it was a lot of fun and I regret nothing. Great gaming memories, digging around with a gameshark and thinking I was getting closer.
I'm glad you showed the Clay video for Marty - that's genuinely my favorite piece of old UA-cam media and my brothers and I fell hook, line, and sinker for it back in the day
I remember a schoolyard rumor that you could play with Bowser's face in Mario 64's title screen... and a friend once printed out to me a supposed means to play as Yoshi from some old website that likely no longer exists, but I recall after talking to Yoshi and paying attention where he jumped off to, you were supposed to somehow fly in the *exact* spot where he jumped at, and if you pulled it off correctly, you had to "fight for the right to be Yoshi"... Of course thanks to dataminers and the gigaleak, I know for certain those rumors were outright lies.
I was born when the N64 released, never touched gaming until the PS2, never owned my own computer until 5 or so years later, and wasn't allowed to freely browse the internet until over 5 more years after that! All the "old internet" content on UA-cam fascinates me.
I think doing a video on non-Luigi rumors in Mario 64 could be interesting. I remember one time one of my cousins or someone telling me that Dorrie in Hazy Maze Cave can eat you if you ground pound her back and swim to her mouth. While it was an easily disputed rumor, I was too scared to try it and just took them on their word. I also remember one where when you first enter Peach's castle, if you somehow move the camera a certain way, you can see Bowser carrying Peach through the first star door. There are also other fairly popular ones like a secret level in the big painting before Bowser 1. A secret boss fight with Bowser in the castle. Killing the piano in Big Boo's Haunt. Riding Yoshi. Finding the Yellow Cap Switch. And of course the 121st power star.
When you beat the final Bowser, Mario collects a giant star. If you have 120 already, that's the 121st. Of course it doesn't show up in your star count. But I think that might be part of where this came from.
5:13 FYI, at least one person (me) did notice and appreciate the spoiler warning. I actually have added those movies to my "To Watch" list and I am planning to come back here afterwards. Thanks!
I find it kind of mind blowing that I played these games when I was around 8 years old in 2009 despite not having any schoolyard rumors about these I still had the same experiences as a kid despite these games being almost 10 years old when I play them
If you were falling for the rumours about getting the triforce in OoT, you didn't understand the story. Link already had it. He always had 1/3 of it. Ganon had 1/3 and Zelda 1/3. Finding the triforce as this golden treasure whole makes absolutely no sense.
I remember hearing the Obelisk rumor for Ocarina of Time. Another one I heard and attempted involved throwing a bomb into the center of the lava pool beneath Ganon's castle, since the lava was in a circular pool with a dark spot in the middle. I can't remember what this supposedly unlocked, though. Other rumors I heard about were for the Mega Man Battle Network series for GBA. Rumors about boss battles that didn't exist, fed by scraps of circumstantial instances that served as "evidence". 3 characters in particular were rumored to be fightable in Battle Network 3, those being Glyde, Roll, and Zero.EXE. Glyde was a recurring NPC who, in the story, DOES fight, and in other media like the anime adaptation had an arsenal of powerful (and expensive) weapons, but he strangely is never an opponent you can face. Roll had a bit more credence to her rumor, as she DID possess an in-battle sprite for her Summon Battle Chip, where she attacks the enemy for you, and this sprite was used in one of thr spinoff games where she was playable. She wouldn't have a boss battle until the 4th game, however. As for Zero.EXE, this comes from a number of places. There are references to the character Zero from the Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero series scattered in the game, like a poster of him on a wall in a store, a welcome mat in a house with the Mega Man Zero title screen logo on it, and the fact that Mega Man Network Transmission for Gamecube, which came out close to the same time, featured Zero as a prominent character. To make matters worse, the North American version of the Instruction Manual for Battle Network 3 goofed up and featured art from Network Transmission, which INCLUDED Zero.EXE, so people thought he was in the game. But, outside a passing mention in the Japanese version of Battle Network 6 in the post-game, Zero.EXE only fully appears in the Gamecube spinoff. It's fun to look back on these rumors of yesteryear, and reminisce fondly of more imaginative times.
In an era with very limited internet and no battle royale bs trying to uncover the triforce in Ocarina of Time was the best adrenaline high I had as a kid. I miss playing conker’s bad fur day with my aunt, may she Rest In Peace.
I think a lot of these came from wanting there to be more to a game you had already played the crap out of. I did EVERYTHING I could in Goldeneye, Pokemon, etc back in the day, including Gameshark stuff. But I always wanted Pikablue or Mayday/Oddjob to be real so that there was something else to do in my favorite games. So, I would do all the convoluted stuff on the internet I found with no luck :(
Ah, Pikablu... I remember that animated short of Pikachu and the other mons running around with Blu in it, and it launched a firestorm of rumors for GOld and Silver. Marill was such a let-down I don't think I ever allowed myself to believe that hard in such rumors ever again haha, or maybe I was just getting to that middle school age with internet access where the world seemed a lot less whimsical
I remember when I got the Gold PP7 in "GoldenEye 007", and I was a little bit disappointed for a brief moment that it didn't look like the Golden Gun. Then I realised that the Gold PP7 was a different weapon, and it was basically a heavily improved version of the Golden Gun, so I had a lot of fun with it. Definitely one of the most hilariously overpowered weapons in that whole game; a PP7 with the power of the Golden Gun, which uses regular PP7 ammo as bullets. Holy crap.
Thanks for covering Triforce%! One of the many purposes behind our project was to make the urban legends about the Triforce become true--not just show them on screen. There indeed did end up being some crazy set of in-game actions that would let you get the Triforce--that set of in-game actions is the ACE setup, and then injecting the data for the Triforce scene through controller input. For now this "crazy set of in-game actions" requires TAS, but there's theoretically a way to do it RTA: use ACE to disable the file select screen name length limit of 8 characters, then start typing in a very long filename that overwrites a bunch of memory. The player could use this to write in the code for an on-screen hex editor, and then use it and spend hours manually entering the data for the Triforce scene. We might work on this for some future GDQ.
Me and my friend spent days trying to find the 121st star in SM64. He was convinced he saw a Nintendo Power that said after you talk to Yoshi on the castle after collecting all 120 stars then there would be a secret final level. We never found it
My favourite video game urban legend is one Game Freak accidentally created themselves. Everytime you do an in game trade in Red and Blue, the trainer you trade to says "the pokemon you traded me went and evolved" Game Freak didn't alter this text for the Raichu/Electrode trade, leading many to believe there was a secret Raichu evolution, the often rumoured Pikablue.
God I remember so much of these. So many early 3D games had this air of mystery with either inaccessible areas, areas like the Haunted Wasteland, the one area just left in GoldenEye, etc.
man you know I love your vids, I wanna give you some more props, I love how you examine the aspect of what gaming in the 90s was actually like. you depict the picture of rumors and beliefs and the time before widespread internet very well, it's something this generation will have a hard time really understanding without having lived it. how many of us actually really went to that star statue in SM64 and really thought there was something significant about it we just hadn't unlocked yet (I know this super obv one is not in this vid). imaginations were alive and well in 1999.
Another great vid Goose, brought me back to the schoolbus ride rumors we all heard "Did you hear you can move that truck with strength and Mew will appear?"
Like with Triforce%, that urban legend became true through ACE. Look up MrCheeze "Pokemon Red/Blue Virus 2.0, and the Mew that was hiding under the truck all along."
I remember the Oddjob/Mayday rumor super clearly in high school. It was the same way of getting it as you mentioned- get rid of everyone in the level except the scientists, and return to start. No one ever actually did it that anyone saw, but everyone knew someone who knew someone who supposedly did.
I miss that rumors like this aren't as common anymore, but I think its safe to say almost everyone who grew up hearing schoolyard rumors felt a collective sense of closure when 64 Luigi was found in the Nintendo gigaleak.
Ocarina of time, blowing up a rolling rocks in death mountain with bombs and perfect timing, would reward you with the "white tunic" which would replace all three tunics and have the combined effects. There was also something about a black tunic you could unlock, once you have the white tunic, but I can't remember this part.
The myth from my childhood, that my cousin heard, was you could reach the Triforce in OoT by glitching into a special doorway in the woods either to the left or to the right of the castle down, in Hyrule Field. It would take you into a special fountain called the Unicorn Fountain, where the Triforce was located.
Didn't you feature Doak on the channel before? If you can contact him again, you might be able to ask him if he knows anything about Oddjob and Mayday being in the game.
Dude, I played this game SO much when it first came out. So many hours of entertainment and so many rumors going around my circle of friends. Love the vid and thanks! You da best!
Good lord, the amount of time I spent on deep corners of the early internet, reading tons of rumors and possible cheats, following the Ariana triforce story. Loved it all the same. There’s a certain mystery that games have now lost due to the modern inter connectivity of the internet but once in a while there comes a game like PT or early FNAF that brings that brings that air of mystery back
One thing I can add about the Hunting Knife - on the Surface levels the game will spawn guards at a different rate depending on the weapon that Bond is holding (which is one of the reasons speedrunners swap to the mine at the start of S2, as it yields the lowest chance of spawning in guards). One of the weapons that the scripts check for is to see if the Hunting Knives are equipped, which suggests that the Hunting Knives were originally going to be found on Surface 1 prior to being removed from the final cut. The other weapons that the game checks for are the Throwing Knives, PP7, PP7 Silenced, Sniper Rifle, Klobb, Grenade Launcher, and KF7 which can all be found on Surface 1, barring the Throwing Knives and PP7. The exact same weapon checks play out on Surface 2 , which suggests that the script was C&Ped over from S1; there are no checks to see if Bond is holding a Mine (which means that the Hunting Knives were probably not intended for S2 even though the script checks for them)
Nowadays we are able to datamine and dissect everything in these games. Its interesting to think back to a time when it truly felt like there could be anything hidden in these games, especially as a kid they felt so much vaster than they really are.
The knives were originally removed from regular play in goldeneye due to a recent mass child murder in japan before the games release. So they were removed for the sake of sensitivity
I think a big part of believing that you had to do a bunch of random crap to unlock a secret has to do with hearing about and actually verifying Missing No. If something that insane and elaborate can be true, then...
If I were to put Mayday anywhere in the game, then I would probably put her on Caverns, since that stage kind of resembles the caves that she appears in during several of her scenes in "A View To A Kill". Oddjob is a little bit trickier, though.
The Golden PP7 and Silver PP7 combo is great because you can shoot through guards, doors and various objects and walls with the Silver PP7 and then Golden PP7 finishes off everything else.
In the Banjo-Kazooie community we had a phrase, "Beak Bomb It". Just Beak Bomb everything. Maybe a door will open. Who knows. In hindsight, once Rare Witch Project found all the Stop n' Swop codes, there was no need to Beak Bomb random stuff anymore.
I had a magazine called Club Nintendo and I vividly remember an issue that had that picture of the Temple of Light and it said you could access it by creating a circle of bombs around Link's house or something? I remember spending MONTHS trying to do this. Didn't help that some kids at school claimed that they had done it.
Surprised you didn't mention Stop 'n' Swop from Banjo Kazooie/Tooie. I remember a ton of conversation about the ice key and the weird cutscene at the end showing all the eggs.
5:20 is how you warn for spoilers in a video the proper way; specify the time from when they are no longer mentioned, so that the viewers can skip to that part, instead of just saying that a spoiler will be brought up at a certain moment.
Goose, I think you really hit on something deep for a lot of people with that comment at the beginning about childhood imagination wondering about different parts of the house/property where they live and how that ties into finding secrets in beloved games. You sort of nailed it for me, it's a bit revelatory. Also, I'm unintentionally gleaning through your videos recently that you and Ace are good buddies, which is heartwarming.
Dude forreal! I have a hole in the wall in my basement that reveals the support structure and always wanted to know if there was anything else in there. I finally managed to do it last year with my older brother and found a Commodore 64, Dot Matrix printer for it, a disk system and a box full of programs. Which included the game Dragster. So crazy thinking about it
I was so glad for those last five myths, thank you to the somewhat worringly-named "Butcher" for sending that email. After the fifth main myth entry I was like "aww, the video's over already? I want more!" I got more, and I am appreciative of that. Great video, so fun to go back and revisit some of these myths and playground rumours I heard as a kid. I genuinely think that those of us who grew up in that era, with N64s but just before truly widespread internet usage, had a really unique experience with this type of stuff. I have no doubt that most of those rumours came from various websites and forums that lacked real authentication systems, allowing these false but compelling claims to propagate, spreading like a game of video game secrets telephone, changing slightly with each iteration, but generally maintaining an appearance of believability. And let's be honest, even if the vast majority of them ended up being downright false, they tended to be really fun to explore and try out. It added an additional method of interacting with out favourite games, attempting to reach, achieve or earn or experience various things that were rumoured to be in the game, but wouldn't appear during a normal playthrough. Essentially resulting in us getting to spend more time with these fantastic games that we might have otherwise missed, and there's a decent chance it helped at least some of us learn more about these games for future gameplay. Great video, thanks for the trip down memory lane. I hope to see more like these in the future!
Wow. All these years have passed and this is the first time I've heard/seen that bombing the gossip stones makes them fly off. I can't believe I never tried that as a kid
Never heard the Tri-force rumor for OoT until MANY years later. But I did hear a rumor about the OoT gold cart having the game Zelda 1 unlocked at the end of the credits. I own that cart, so... I could definitively say that it wasent true. I forget if there was a part of the rumor like having to do it was 000 deaths or something, but pretty sure I got that as well. I remember searching for that rumor online, and never found it. So it's basically something the person who told me it, made up.
The big rumor I remember hearing as a kid was: this other dude in my class in 4th grade told me that in A Link to the Past, there was a way to parachute off the back of Death Mountain to find a "shadow land." I had the game and I tried for hours. I thought maybe my game was broken so I rented another copy and started all over to try again just to be extremely disappointed 😩
I was told in order to unlock the annihilator class Goliath in Battletanx Blobal Assault, you had to unlock a secret level, can't remember being told how, where you could get out of your tank, then had to climb into a back hoe and destroy your tank with it's excavator and you'd unlock the Annihilator Goliath I was also told that you fight the moon itself in MM and had to shoot it's craters with arrows to damage it honestly, the Annihilator unlock would actually be pretty cool way to unlock a secret tank to me, definitely would be a unique unlock method
i remember the "temple of light" image being so famous, it end up on club nintendo (the oficial nintendo magazine here in Mexico) with the editor being so obsesed for uncovering the truth... i also came up with different ideas on how to unlock or discover a little bit more, like thinking shoting a light arrow at the triforce mark on the temple of time... just to realize you're not able to use items there... i think these rumors just extended the life on games, and with non-believers being ignored we fall for it each time... nowadays people will fight to death just to prove their truth is the only truth, and being able to dissasemble even the more recent games, these urban legends truly are a product of their time, magical time to be alive
Another fact of that era was the unusual combination of quality and scarcity. Mario 64 was a launch title in 1996 and we had little else for a very long time. (Goldeneye was a year later and Ocarina was a year after that.) The good games were replayed over and over.
Regarding missing Goldeneye single player characters... the multiplayer was a last-minute addition, right? So it makes sense the models were repurposed and not created specifically for that mode. Given they appear in the game credits it's possible they were made for more bonus single player levels that were never finished or shipped.
I once read that in the N64 game Body Harvest there was a way to unlock another Time period, taking place in Turkey in twenty-twenty something. All you would have to do is clear the game in Hero Difficulty and not let a single human die in all other time periods. The game locks you out of the final Level if you play on the easy difficulty, so there being more Levels didn't seem too far fetched. It was grueling to not let a single man die to the Aliens or accidently kill one yourself, and the controls don't make it any easier either. Of course it was just a hoax, and I don't know why I thought there would be another Level after wiping out the alien threat. But at least I still have that perfect save file lying around somewhere.
I remember that there was this one rumor about OoT triforce where if you looked at the sky in an exact position in Hyrule Field, you'd be teleported to the Temple of Light and... you know the rest. Of course, it's all BS lol.
You can absolutely mix rocket launcher + sniper in english version in 1st level. Use 2x rocket launchers cheat and pick up sniper from first tower. Then use the mix weapons clitch. It was my favourite thing to do as a child, as you can aim with sniper and launch rockets with ridiculous accuracy.
I used to spend hours on Majora's Mask in the beginning lost woods area frantically trying to clip through the wall and get back to OOT. I just didn't understand that it was a completely separate game and that there was literally nothing back there.
At my school we had a rumour you could get into marty's cell by hitting it at the right spot with mushrooms or a star, clipping through the gaps. Many hours were spent lol
Our schoolyard rumor was that the triforce was under hyrule castle and you could only access it as adult link by jumping to just the right spot. I must have jumped into the lava a thousand times.
I remember trying the Zelda 64 Beta Quest gameshark codes trying to find anything from the beta or the triforce lol Man memories, takes me back to like 1999/2000 visiting the Zelda Power site frequently.
My brother and I were told by a friend that in Mario Kart 64 you could get into the castle on Royal Raceway. We tried different characters, using lightning, using stars, trying on different laps, etc 😂
known rumours I grew up with that I can remember ATM: - doing a specific manip on Tomb Raider to undress Lara or to make her explode (it's was something silly like 2 half turns, to step forwaard, backflip) - transform a pokeball into a masterball in pokemon Red/Blue by holding UP + A (or DOWN + A, I heard several combinations).
Nude raider was a semi real code. It was spread as real enough for them to take the most common sequence and then have that make her gib in the second game. I think thats also why you can lock the butler in the walk in freezer though
It's amazing how simply putting someone behind the bars of a cage can turn them into a monster, even immediately in the eyes of those on the other side. There's something there about the innate inhumanity and barbarity of incarceration
@@chompythebeast I mean, and he was green. And he was the only thwomp I could really watch the face of as he manically laughed behind bars, the other ones constantly moving making it harder to really stop and watch. I'm sure if I _had_ stopped and looked at the other thwomps with the same exact animations, I would have stopped playing Bowser's Castle altogether. lol
One rumor was of Purple Yoshi being unlockable in Yoshi's Story via collecting every single coin possible in the game. Least it was one I remember most and knew it was bull at the time
I remember a gameshark rumor from that era. Supposedly there was an Ocarina of Time gameshark code that would swap Epona with Godzilla, and it would let you crush houses etc. The catch was that if you dismounted the game would freeze. Obviously it was fake because that’s a hell of a cheat to introduce demolition physics to OOT. But little me kept trying to find the code (not helped by a local kid claiming to have had the code written down but lost it).
Another rumor I remember was the mario 64 triple cap. You could unlock an endless metal/wing/vanish cap. All you had to do was go to the first bowser level, not pick up a single coin, and get to bowser. Then you had to collect 1000 coins only from the coins that occasionally appeared after bowser’s fire breath. A real test of endurance. Also if you died, you had to exit the level and re-enter, not just go back in the pipe.
When I was really small, my cousin used to say that the Yoshi in Super Mario World was the child of the original Yoshi, who had died. ....Of course, I came to later learn that SMW is actually Yoshi's first appearance XD
The Triforce myth was so believable because the previous 3 Zelda Games had you collect pieces of the triforce, get an entire third of the triforce, or find the entire triforce at the end of the game. Logically it'd be expected for Zelda 4/OOT to follow suite.
I've always wondered if there were rumors about a possible playable Skedar in Perfect Dark But I guess in vanilla PD, the closest to that is shooting the first Skedar in Attack Ship level with a Psychosis Gun, making it friendly towards you, which is interesting since other skedars do not turn friendly. I know Perfect Dark Plus exists, but the dying animation feels wrong 😅
can i also just say how dumb we were back then about the triforce thing? the game explicitly shows that the triforce was split up amongst the three characters, ganon, zelda, and link, each character even shows each piece on their hand in game.
Idk what it is about n64 and urban legends. There was always so many being passed between kids at the lunch table. My favorite one that my friends would always say is that you can unlock waluigi in mario kart 64 if you jump through the star on rainbow road. I always wanted this to be true. I know we also tried unlocking Marty many times with no success.
@@GamerFolklore It was so odd. Like I had this distinct memory of my friends always talking about it but it must have just been a local thing that we would talk about or I had it in a dream or something I honestly don't know.
I remember seeing that Marty Hoax video when it was less than a few months old. I nearly crapped my little kid pants thinking such a thing was possible (of course I was to naive to look at the upload date) and spent weeks trying to do the same thing. Only ever reaching the second step and kicking myself over my lack of skill. It's one of my more bitter sweet N64 memories. And I'm glad we finally got to play as him in a hack later as it felt like a sort of reward for my efforts as a kid. There's a part of my that wishes there was a community of romhackers who added all these insane theories to make them a reality. Like what if we created unique models and efforts to make Unicorn Fountain in OoC a reality? It would be a really neat thing to add if not ultimately a novel idea. It just feels like making your imagination you had for the games a reality, that the games were more deep than they really were. I always like the idea that sometimes a game has insanely hidden secrets. Stuff that can't even be found by people who can literally tear open the games code. It's just one of those concepts I wish developers could somehow implement.
The only n64 era rumors that i remember are: getting to unlock Luigi in sm64 and being able to unlock polygon frame versions of the Smash Bros. characters
I actually have a false memory of Pokemon Snap where I knocked the Psyduck out into the round tree thing and later while looking backwards saw a Golduck straddling in the water. I even remember taking the photo of Golduck from far away, basically seeing a blue spot and Prof. Oak gave a really bad rating, but it did count to the pokedex and it was the 64th pokemon. Never could replicate this later in life.
About Star Fox 64: I remember "one mithy" about the appearence of James McCloud in the alternative ending of Star Fox 64, when Andross trying to end with Fox by "auto destruction", but then, Fox was saved by the spirit of his father. But there was a lot of stories saying that, actually, James was not dead, but trap in a differente dimension who was temporarily "free" during the explosion, free enough to save his son and get back to this alternative dimension. And the passage to this dimension was the result of the fight between James and Andross, when James was not really dead, but captured and transported to another time and place. This blow my mind when I was young!
pokemon had endless number of rumors. I was big into it for ruby saphire emerald generation, so when my child brain finds out about one of the regi pokemon, anything else becomes easily believable.
This one happened in a PSone game but I think it falls in the umbrella of Urban Legend/Myth, the only difference is that this one was true. My friend who lived far away from me had the game Digimon Rumble Arena for the PSone, and everytime our parents met in his house we would play the game for hours. Sometimes the neighbour kids joined us and we played winner stays on. It was lots of fun. Anyway, we thought it was impossible for two people to use the same digimon, so we always had to swap amongst ourselves, sometimes getting mad because someone was using the strongest one and we had to go with the second strongest. I only had access to internet at school, and we were forbidden to use the computers for anything else other than school work, but one day I secretly searched a cheat code to enable us to use the same digimon in the fights, and I found it! Apparently you just had to press SELECT+X when selecting the fighter and we could play with the same Digimon. I waited weeks to meet up with him, and 1 month later I went to his birthday party. We tried to press SELEC+X and IT WORKED. We spent the rest of the day playing with the other guests and I remember I had to be dragged out of the TV by my parents when they wanted to leave.
A popular rumor from my childhood was that you could unlock the Master Hand in Super Smash Bros 64 if you could beat the entire story mode on hard with just 1 life. Kid me tried so many times but could just not manage it.
Here's one that I've never heard about or seen anyone discuss. This guy at my elementary school, Ben, told me that in the forest temple in ocarina of time, there's a part where you have to go underground for like a minute or two, go through the passage, and then climb up a ladder at the very end. On the right side there's like a drainage ditch and on either end of the drainage ditch there are sewer grates. This guy told me that if you run back and forth in the drainage ditch long enough then alligators would come out and fight you. I spent about 2 hours trying this before finally giving up but this guy swore it was true
The rumor I heard concerning Ocarina and the triforce was to 100% the game, take Epona to the beginning of the desert wasteland, warp to the Spirit Temple, then walk backwards through the desert. Epona would transform into a Pegasus and fly you to the Temple in the Sky
I miss schoolyard rumors back in the day because we didn't have UA-cam, etc., to easily see a bunch of debunked rumors. Mew under the truck is a classic for a reason...
My best friend growing up always tried to feed me a line that you could get all of the masks the happy mask salesman carried on majors mask (like the Mario mask) after beating the game and trading him masks. I then, and still to this day pick on him for it from time to time lol.
My friend told me that in donkey Kong 64 you could unlock a 6th Kong and you could find him in angry Aztec behind a secret wall in the corridor near crankys. Supposedly he was a special Kong and he had rainbow color as his colored bananas. You could imagine the time I put in trying to find that
Back in like 2000 when I was around 6 years old and playing Mario Kart 64 my older sister told me she 'heard' that if you have the effects of both a power star and boo's invisibility at the same time you can get through the doors and enter Peach's Castle in the Royal Raceway course. I actually Believed that but couldn't get lucky enough with the item blocks to get them both. Years later I thought she probably made that story up. 😅 As an adult I once decided to test it in 2 player mode just for fun, but turned out if you are under the effects of invisibility and steal a star and then press Z nothing happens (you stay invisible only and don't use up your star).
OH SHIT THE NINETAILS THING!!!!!!!!! I just got a 64 again last month with snap and I STILL recalled ninetails!!! I was still wrong in my mid-30’s til I googled it lol. HELL YEAH
While back in the day, I tried bombing all the Gossip Stones, I was doing it for fun and to see if anything would happen. Never heard the rumor of the Triforce. Also never noticed there was no Triforce in OoT
Man everyone is getting sponsored by Yahaha lately. I tried out the software though and its awful lol. It's like an unpopulated roblox rip off. Feels like playing Timmy's First Unity Project but with lag because it's always-online.
Is there a single example of a good product/company sponsring creators on UA-cam? If anything, based on the track record, being featured as a sponsor in a video on this platform makes me automatically associate the advertised product with garbage.
@@anwiseru9064 It's not really anything like second life. It feels like a worse version of newgrounds flash portal except instead of flash games it's badly made 3d games.
@@anwiseru9064 In this context; The selling point or quality of a product that would increase the individual responding's likelihood to spend their money on it. Or something to that effect.
my friend used to say that the lighthouse in diddy kong racing turns into a spaceship then flys off into space and I thought he was lying because it sounded so far fetched for the nintendos limitations but it turned out to be true and i was thoroughly impressed
Definitely true hehe
Wtf wow🤣
Exactly, back in those early days everything and anything seemed possible. It feels like secrets in games aren't half as bold anymore: probably just because if they're not ARG levels of subtle, they'll be data mined and written about ad nauseum on every two-bit gaming -news site- blog by launch's first 24 hours
Moments like these in N64 games are why these rumours stayed afloat! Humanity's first time exploring 3D worlds inside/outside of our own, and the games of this era peppered some super cool stuff into them to keep the naturally curious mind racing (for decades to come, clearly) 💛
That game had a elephant on a magic carpet and a monkey in a plane racing a giant pig, I don’t see how a flying lighthouse would be a stretch.
I think the greatest vindication of "school yard rumours" is how it ended up being true that you could get Mew in the original Pokemon blue/red. That being said, it was a glitch exploit as opposed to being intentionally programmed into the game. But the method for exploiting the glitch reads EXACTLY like the kind of nonsense you'd hear back then.
Yes, there was also an "virus" or "glitch" pokemon fight to enter. I think it was near the Mew location or it was the same one. The enemy looked exactly like a digital glitch (sounded like that too). I don't remember the name ... But you could raise up your amount of berry's(?) to improve certain stats of your pokemon. I don't remember that good... (Eh, around 20 years or more since that time)
Edit: It was called "Missingno"
@@ciel87 Yes, you would Fly to Cinnabar Island then Surf along the right edge of the shoreline, eventually encountering Missingno. Catching this Pokemon would glitch out your Hall of Fame entry after you beat the Elite 4
Mew wasn't an exploit, they were actually coded into the game fully of course―only the glitchy method of obtaining them was unintended. Missingno is the _real_ glitch through and through, many kids' _first_ intentionally-sought, obviously unintentionally-created glitch. And that legend stoked the fires of schoolyard rumors as much as Mew themselves
The problem is that it didn't involve the truck.
Sorry Guys theres no mew under the truck ,virus or exploit!
only way to get mew under the truck is an ACE (arbitory code execution) wich was shown at 2016 AGDQ it requieres an amount of preparation to pull this off
The Code had to be written in sram by doing various Actions and then the Code was executed with the help of the glitch item "8f"
Theres also a write up on pastebin and a .sav that anyone can recreate this with an emulator and any Rom of pkmn blue
The thing with Oddjob and Mayday appearing in the single player campaign is it actually says IN THE PRINTED GAME MANUAL that they appear in the single player. The manual that came with the game lied about them.
the back of the box did have earlier shots too, maybe once upon a time they were meant to appear, and considering their spots in the credits, maybe Mayday was to appear with Jaws and Oddjob with the Baron.
Was gonna mention this, the manual literally says and I quote “Try and find these four villains!” It was likely planned to have them in levels but didn’t have the time to execute during development. Supported by the manual having slightly outdated information such as calling the klobb the spyder on the weapons list.
@@milopuppypaws3108 the back of the box and the manual were very confusing! I recall there being screenshots of things that weren't in the final product and there was a screenshot of somebody using some kind of rifle that wasn't in the final product
@@FIDEL_CASHFLOW_ Correct the beta KF7 that was far more square than the pencil shape that made it into the game!
It didn't say anything in the manual that came with my original copy of GoldenEye because it somehow mistakenly came with a banjo kazooie manual. Lol.
Me and my friends spent countless hours in our childhood playing the Archive level in Goldeneye and trying to find a secret wall in order to find the unique gun that is on the back of the Goldeneye box. It was rumoured that just like on the back of the box, using this gun would make the guards bleed a lot more when they get hit.
@@GamerFolklore Looking at images of the box online (I've long since lost mine) I think it's the older KF7 Soviet model.
Maybe that was the missing cheat
Yep I remember the original beta KF7 model, and the extra blood. The lies were right on the box !!
Something that happened to me as a kid that I dont see ever discussed, is Wizpig’s first boss race when he is on foot, he fell/glitched into the water on one side or the other and we beat the race unopposed. My sister did it and I saw. We werent able to beat him legitimately for the longest time and then this happened
Wizpig was crazy hard. Here's a tip that, if you're like me, you'll wish you knew back then: Rapidly tapping A is actually _faster_ than just holding it down in Diddy Kong Racing, due to a quirk of the physics. Not sure how hard little us would have found that, and I can't say I'm not glad to have the memories with the game that I do (as I'm sure you feel as well), but isn't that kind of a little gut punch? Apparently Wizpig becomes _much_ easier using this method lol
@@chompythebeast btw the first encounter with wizpig was a little hard but the second is stupidly easy, maybe the gas thing was a technical nod to Ayrton Senna who also begin his career on a kart and tapped the gas like that on his car even during the Grand Prix events, that's what I want to believe, who knows.
step on the gas like Senna and you'll beat the game!
Man, there used to be so many "do this crazy thing for a secret character" rumors back in the day. I for sure thought you could unlock Luigi in Super Mario 64 for a while
I used to think (or probably rather _hope_ is the better word) that one could unlock Yoshi as a rideable buddy, but alas.
Yoshi's Island still loomed huge in my memory in those days, after all
It's Mah-Dry-Bread! :D
Yep me too😂 and I remember thinking " by the time I finally unlock Luigi I'm not gonna want to even play the damn game anymore 😅 "
I loved how these early rumors ranged from feasible "Get all the Stars in Mario 64 on all three files to unlock Luigi" to ludicrous "Do [long-form list of arbitrary tasks repeated to an absurd amount] to see Zelda topless!"
Even at age 7 I could smell bullshit
Same, but every so often something that sounded crazy ended up being 100% true. So it was hard to know for sure, especially back then when I didn’t know as much about how video games and general computer programs work.
Like I didn’t find out that the sinking lure and Hylian Loach are real until I was an adult.
I spent an embarrassing amount of time hunting for the triforce in OOT. But it was a lot of fun and I regret nothing. Great gaming memories, digging around with a gameshark and thinking I was getting closer.
Mew is under the truck.
I'm glad you showed the Clay video for Marty - that's genuinely my favorite piece of old UA-cam media and my brothers and I fell hook, line, and sinker for it back in the day
I remember a schoolyard rumor that you could play with Bowser's face in Mario 64's title screen... and a friend once printed out to me a supposed means to play as Yoshi from some old website that likely no longer exists, but I recall after talking to Yoshi and paying attention where he jumped off to, you were supposed to somehow fly in the *exact* spot where he jumped at, and if you pulled it off correctly, you had to "fight for the right to be Yoshi"... Of course thanks to dataminers and the gigaleak, I know for certain those rumors were outright lies.
I was born when the N64 released, never touched gaming until the PS2, never owned my own computer until 5 or so years later, and wasn't allowed to freely browse the internet until over 5 more years after that! All the "old internet" content on UA-cam fascinates me.
The old internet was free and fragmented, nowadays people spend all their time online in like ten platforms.
I think doing a video on non-Luigi rumors in Mario 64 could be interesting.
I remember one time one of my cousins or someone telling me that Dorrie in Hazy Maze Cave can eat you if you ground pound her back and swim to her mouth. While it was an easily disputed rumor, I was too scared to try it and just took them on their word.
I also remember one where when you first enter Peach's castle, if you somehow move the camera a certain way, you can see Bowser carrying Peach through the first star door.
There are also other fairly popular ones like a secret level in the big painting before Bowser 1. A secret boss fight with Bowser in the castle. Killing the piano in Big Boo's Haunt. Riding Yoshi. Finding the Yellow Cap Switch. And of course the 121st power star.
Ah the early UA-cam classic of 121 stars in Mario 64
When you beat the final Bowser, Mario collects a giant star. If you have 120 already, that's the 121st. Of course it doesn't show up in your star count. But I think that might be part of where this came from.
1 rumor a friend of mine told me in the 90s was that with the gold gauntlets in OOT, Link can pick up the castle.
5:13 FYI, at least one person (me) did notice and appreciate the spoiler warning. I actually have added those movies to my "To Watch" list and I am planning to come back here afterwards. Thanks!
You're welcome! Hope you enjoy the films!
I find it kind of mind blowing that I played these games when I was around 8 years old in 2009 despite not having any schoolyard rumors about these I still had the same experiences as a kid despite these games being almost 10 years old when I play them
If you were falling for the rumours about getting the triforce in OoT, you didn't understand the story. Link already had it. He always had 1/3 of it. Ganon had 1/3 and Zelda 1/3. Finding the triforce as this golden treasure whole makes absolutely no sense.
I remember hearing the Obelisk rumor for Ocarina of Time. Another one I heard and attempted involved throwing a bomb into the center of the lava pool beneath Ganon's castle, since the lava was in a circular pool with a dark spot in the middle. I can't remember what this supposedly unlocked, though.
Other rumors I heard about were for the Mega Man Battle Network series for GBA. Rumors about boss battles that didn't exist, fed by scraps of circumstantial instances that served as "evidence". 3 characters in particular were rumored to be fightable in Battle Network 3, those being Glyde, Roll, and Zero.EXE. Glyde was a recurring NPC who, in the story, DOES fight, and in other media like the anime adaptation had an arsenal of powerful (and expensive) weapons, but he strangely is never an opponent you can face.
Roll had a bit more credence to her rumor, as she DID possess an in-battle sprite for her Summon Battle Chip, where she attacks the enemy for you, and this sprite was used in one of thr spinoff games where she was playable. She wouldn't have a boss battle until the 4th game, however.
As for Zero.EXE, this comes from a number of places. There are references to the character Zero from the Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero series scattered in the game, like a poster of him on a wall in a store, a welcome mat in a house with the Mega Man Zero title screen logo on it, and the fact that Mega Man Network Transmission for Gamecube, which came out close to the same time, featured Zero as a prominent character. To make matters worse, the North American version of the Instruction Manual for Battle Network 3 goofed up and featured art from Network Transmission, which INCLUDED Zero.EXE, so people thought he was in the game. But, outside a passing mention in the Japanese version of Battle Network 6 in the post-game, Zero.EXE only fully appears in the Gamecube spinoff.
It's fun to look back on these rumors of yesteryear, and reminisce fondly of more imaginative times.
In an era with very limited internet and no battle royale bs trying to uncover the triforce in Ocarina of Time was the best adrenaline high I had as a kid. I miss playing conker’s bad fur day with my aunt, may she Rest In Peace.
I think a lot of these came from wanting there to be more to a game you had already played the crap out of. I did EVERYTHING I could in Goldeneye, Pokemon, etc back in the day, including Gameshark stuff. But I always wanted Pikablue or Mayday/Oddjob to be real so that there was something else to do in my favorite games. So, I would do all the convoluted stuff on the internet I found with no luck :(
Ah, Pikablu... I remember that animated short of Pikachu and the other mons running around with Blu in it, and it launched a firestorm of rumors for GOld and Silver. Marill was such a let-down I don't think I ever allowed myself to believe that hard in such rumors ever again haha, or maybe I was just getting to that middle school age with internet access where the world seemed a lot less whimsical
I remember when I got the Gold PP7 in "GoldenEye 007", and I was a little bit disappointed for a brief moment that it didn't look like the Golden Gun.
Then I realised that the Gold PP7 was a different weapon, and it was basically a heavily improved version of the Golden Gun, so I had a lot of fun with it.
Definitely one of the most hilariously overpowered weapons in that whole game;
a PP7 with the power of the Golden Gun, which uses regular PP7 ammo as bullets.
Holy crap.
Thanks for covering Triforce%! One of the many purposes behind our project was to make the urban legends about the Triforce become true--not just show them on screen. There indeed did end up being some crazy set of in-game actions that would let you get the Triforce--that set of in-game actions is the ACE setup, and then injecting the data for the Triforce scene through controller input. For now this "crazy set of in-game actions" requires TAS, but there's theoretically a way to do it RTA: use ACE to disable the file select screen name length limit of 8 characters, then start typing in a very long filename that overwrites a bunch of memory. The player could use this to write in the code for an on-screen hex editor, and then use it and spend hours manually entering the data for the Triforce scene. We might work on this for some future GDQ.
Me and my friend spent days trying to find the 121st star in SM64. He was convinced he saw a Nintendo Power that said after you talk to Yoshi on the castle after collecting all 120 stars then there would be a secret final level. We never found it
My favourite video game urban legend is one Game Freak accidentally created themselves. Everytime you do an in game trade in Red and Blue, the trainer you trade to says "the pokemon you traded me went and evolved" Game Freak didn't alter this text for the Raichu/Electrode trade, leading many to believe there was a secret Raichu evolution, the often rumoured Pikablue.
God I remember so much of these. So many early 3D games had this air of mystery with either inaccessible areas, areas like the Haunted Wasteland, the one area just left in GoldenEye, etc.
man you know I love your vids, I wanna give you some more props, I love how you examine the aspect of what gaming in the 90s was actually like. you depict the picture of rumors and beliefs and the time before widespread internet very well, it's something this generation will have a hard time really understanding without having lived it. how many of us actually really went to that star statue in SM64 and really thought there was something significant about it we just hadn't unlocked yet (I know this super obv one is not in this vid). imaginations were alive and well in 1999.
Another great vid Goose, brought me back to the schoolbus ride rumors we all heard
"Did you hear you can move that truck with strength and Mew will appear?"
Like with Triforce%, that urban legend became true through ACE. Look up MrCheeze "Pokemon Red/Blue Virus 2.0, and the Mew that was hiding under the truck all along."
I remember the Oddjob/Mayday rumor super clearly in high school. It was the same way of getting it as you mentioned- get rid of everyone in the level except the scientists, and return to start. No one ever actually did it that anyone saw, but everyone knew someone who knew someone who supposedly did.
I miss that rumors like this aren't as common anymore, but I think its safe to say almost everyone who grew up hearing schoolyard rumors felt a collective sense of closure when 64 Luigi was found in the Nintendo gigaleak.
gooses n64 collection: 20 copies of goldeneye, 2 copies of OOT, 1 copy of pokemon snap, 1 copy of Waveracer 64
and 300 broken controllers
no Super Bowling?
Ocarina of time, blowing up a rolling rocks in death mountain with bombs and perfect timing, would reward you with the "white tunic" which would replace all three tunics and have the combined effects. There was also something about a black tunic you could unlock, once you have the white tunic, but I can't remember this part.
The myth from my childhood, that my cousin heard, was you could reach the Triforce in OoT by glitching into a special doorway in the woods either to the left or to the right of the castle down, in Hyrule Field. It would take you into a special fountain called the Unicorn Fountain, where the Triforce was located.
Didn't you feature Doak on the channel before? If you can contact him again, you might be able to ask him if he knows anything about Oddjob and Mayday being in the game.
Dude, I played this game SO much when it first came out. So many hours of entertainment and so many rumors going around my circle of friends. Love the vid and thanks! You da best!
Good lord, the amount of time I spent on deep corners of the early internet, reading tons of rumors and possible cheats, following the Ariana triforce story. Loved it all the same. There’s a certain mystery that games have now lost due to the modern inter connectivity of the internet but once in a while there comes a game like PT or early FNAF that brings that brings that air of mystery back
One thing I can add about the Hunting Knife - on the Surface levels the game will spawn guards at a different rate depending on the weapon that Bond is holding (which is one of the reasons speedrunners swap to the mine at the start of S2, as it yields the lowest chance of spawning in guards).
One of the weapons that the scripts check for is to see if the Hunting Knives are equipped, which suggests that the Hunting Knives were originally going to be found on Surface 1 prior to being removed from the final cut.
The other weapons that the game checks for are the Throwing Knives, PP7, PP7 Silenced, Sniper Rifle, Klobb, Grenade Launcher, and KF7 which can all be found on Surface 1, barring the Throwing Knives and PP7.
The exact same weapon checks play out on Surface 2 , which suggests that the script was C&Ped over from S1; there are no checks to see if Bond is holding a Mine (which means that the Hunting Knives were probably not intended for S2 even though the script checks for them)
Nowadays we are able to datamine and dissect everything in these games. Its interesting to think back to a time when it truly felt like there could be anything hidden in these games, especially as a kid they felt so much vaster than they really are.
The knives were originally removed from regular play in goldeneye due to a recent mass child murder in japan before the games release. So they were removed for the sake of sensitivity
I think a big part of believing that you had to do a bunch of random crap to unlock a secret has to do with hearing about and actually verifying Missing No.
If something that insane and elaborate can be true, then...
If I were to put Mayday anywhere in the game, then I would probably put her on Caverns, since that stage kind of resembles the caves that she appears in during several of her scenes in "A View To A Kill".
Oddjob is a little bit trickier, though.
After watching the Goldfinger movie, I'd put Oddjob in Control, sort of similar to the Fort Knox bank vault if you squint real hard.
I love your content RWG, especially this type of videos. Thanks!!!
The Golden PP7 and Silver PP7 combo is great because you can shoot through guards, doors and various objects and walls with the Silver PP7 and then Golden PP7 finishes off everything else.
In the Banjo-Kazooie community we had a phrase, "Beak Bomb It". Just Beak Bomb everything. Maybe a door will open. Who knows.
In hindsight, once Rare Witch Project found all the Stop n' Swop codes, there was no need to Beak Bomb random stuff anymore.
I really enjoy these school yard talk styled videos. Nice addition to the channel, Goose.
A video like this for other consoles too would be rad. I remember schoolyard chats around the NES as early as 1988
I had a magazine called Club Nintendo and I vividly remember an issue that had that picture of the Temple of Light and it said you could access it by creating a circle of bombs around Link's house or something? I remember spending MONTHS trying to do this. Didn't help that some kids at school claimed that they had done it.
Surprised you didn't mention Stop 'n' Swop from Banjo Kazooie/Tooie. I remember a ton of conversation about the ice key and the weird cutscene at the end showing all the eggs.
Blew my mind a few years ago when one of the French programmers from rare did a q&a on some forum that explained what it was
Probably because that is a very commonly known one and he went for more personal ones.
But that's not a rumor, that was a cut mechanic, that was partially implemented
interesting thing about the Japanese version not having throwing knives ,also i think the japan version has less blood
One I read on cheatplanet was that beating Super Smash Bros on very-hard with one life would unlock some kind of alternate model for the character.
5:20 is how you warn for spoilers in a video the proper way;
specify the time from when they are no longer mentioned, so that the viewers can skip to that part, instead of just saying that a spoiler will be brought up at a certain moment.
Goose, I think you really hit on something deep for a lot of people with that comment at the beginning about childhood imagination wondering about different parts of the house/property where they live and how that ties into finding secrets in beloved games. You sort of nailed it for me, it's a bit revelatory. Also, I'm unintentionally gleaning through your videos recently that you and Ace are good buddies, which is heartwarming.
Dude forreal! I have a hole in the wall in my basement that reveals the support structure and always wanted to know if there was anything else in there. I finally managed to do it last year with my older brother and found a Commodore 64, Dot Matrix printer for it, a disk system and a box full of programs. Which included the game Dragster. So crazy thinking about it
I was so glad for those last five myths, thank you to the somewhat worringly-named "Butcher" for sending that email. After the fifth main myth entry I was like "aww, the video's over already? I want more!"
I got more, and I am appreciative of that. Great video, so fun to go back and revisit some of these myths and playground rumours I heard as a kid. I genuinely think that those of us who grew up in that era, with N64s but just before truly widespread internet usage, had a really unique experience with this type of stuff. I have no doubt that most of those rumours came from various websites and forums that lacked real authentication systems, allowing these false but compelling claims to propagate, spreading like a game of video game secrets telephone, changing slightly with each iteration, but generally maintaining an appearance of believability.
And let's be honest, even if the vast majority of them ended up being downright false, they tended to be really fun to explore and try out. It added an additional method of interacting with out favourite games, attempting to reach, achieve or earn or experience various things that were rumoured to be in the game, but wouldn't appear during a normal playthrough. Essentially resulting in us getting to spend more time with these fantastic games that we might have otherwise missed, and there's a decent chance it helped at least some of us learn more about these games for future gameplay.
Great video, thanks for the trip down memory lane. I hope to see more like these in the future!
Always liked these old rumor/game mysteries vids 👍
Wow. All these years have passed and this is the first time I've heard/seen that bombing the gossip stones makes them fly off. I can't believe I never tried that as a kid
The best video game content creator is back with another banger!!!
Keep it up Goose
Never heard the Tri-force rumor for OoT until MANY years later.
But I did hear a rumor about the OoT gold cart having the game Zelda 1 unlocked at the end of the credits.
I own that cart, so... I could definitively say that it wasent true. I forget if there was a part of the rumor like having to do it was 000 deaths or something, but pretty sure I got that as well.
I remember searching for that rumor online, and never found it. So it's basically something the person who told me it, made up.
The big rumor I remember hearing as a kid was: this other dude in my class in 4th grade told me that in A Link to the Past, there was a way to parachute off the back of Death Mountain to find a "shadow land."
I had the game and I tried for hours. I thought maybe my game was broken so I rented another copy and started all over to try again just to be extremely disappointed 😩
I was told in order to unlock the annihilator class Goliath in Battletanx Blobal Assault, you had to unlock a secret level, can't remember being told how, where you could get out of your tank, then had to climb into a back hoe and destroy your tank with it's excavator and you'd unlock the Annihilator Goliath
I was also told that you fight the moon itself in MM and had to shoot it's craters with arrows to damage it
honestly, the Annihilator unlock would actually be pretty cool way to unlock a secret tank to me, definitely would be a unique unlock method
i remember the "temple of light" image being so famous, it end up on club nintendo (the oficial nintendo magazine here in Mexico) with the editor being so obsesed for uncovering the truth...
i also came up with different ideas on how to unlock or discover a little bit more, like thinking shoting a light arrow at the triforce mark on the temple of time... just to realize you're not able to use items there...
i think these rumors just extended the life on games, and with non-believers being ignored we fall for it each time... nowadays people will fight to death just to prove their truth is the only truth, and being able to dissasemble even the more recent games, these urban legends truly are a product of their time, magical time to be alive
Another fact of that era was the unusual combination of quality and scarcity. Mario 64 was a launch title in 1996 and we had little else for a very long time. (Goldeneye was a year later and Ocarina was a year after that.) The good games were replayed over and over.
Regarding missing Goldeneye single player characters... the multiplayer was a last-minute addition, right? So it makes sense the models were repurposed and not created specifically for that mode. Given they appear in the game credits it's possible they were made for more bonus single player levels that were never finished or shipped.
I once read that in the N64 game Body Harvest there was a way to unlock another Time period, taking place in Turkey in twenty-twenty something. All you would have to do is clear the game in Hero Difficulty and not let a single human die in all other time periods. The game locks you out of the final Level if you play on the easy difficulty, so there being more Levels didn't seem too far fetched. It was grueling to not let a single man die to the Aliens or accidently kill one yourself, and the controls don't make it any easier either. Of course it was just a hoax, and I don't know why I thought there would be another Level after wiping out the alien threat. But at least I still have that perfect save file lying around somewhere.
Body Harvest has got to be one of the most underrated games ever!
Reminds me of all the super hard stuff you had to do to unlock fake characters in melee
My friends, I always love discovering when Goose has uploaded a new video
I remember that there was this one rumor about OoT triforce where if you looked at the sky in an exact position in Hyrule Field, you'd be teleported to the Temple of Light and... you know the rest. Of course, it's all BS lol.
You can absolutely mix rocket launcher + sniper in english version in 1st level. Use 2x rocket launchers cheat and pick up sniper from first tower. Then use the mix weapons clitch. It was my favourite thing to do as a child, as you can aim with sniper and launch rockets with ridiculous accuracy.
I used to spend hours on Majora's Mask in the beginning lost woods area frantically trying to clip through the wall and get back to OOT. I just didn't understand that it was a completely separate game and that there was literally nothing back there.
At my school we had a rumour you could get into marty's cell by hitting it at the right spot with mushrooms or a star, clipping through the gaps. Many hours were spent lol
We used to have a group of people just to test out every type of rumor about getting the triforce, we even had a name.
Our schoolyard rumor was that the triforce was under hyrule castle and you could only access it as adult link by jumping to just the right spot. I must have jumped into the lava a thousand times.
I remember trying the Zelda 64 Beta Quest gameshark codes trying to find anything from the beta or the triforce lol Man memories, takes me back to like 1999/2000 visiting the Zelda Power site frequently.
My brother and I were told by a friend that in Mario Kart 64 you could get into the castle on Royal Raceway. We tried different characters, using lightning, using stars, trying on different laps, etc 😂
known rumours I grew up with that I can remember ATM:
- doing a specific manip on Tomb Raider to undress Lara or to make her explode (it's was something silly like 2 half turns, to step forwaard, backflip)
- transform a pokeball into a masterball in pokemon Red/Blue by holding UP + A (or DOWN + A, I heard several combinations).
Nude raider was a semi real code. It was spread as real enough for them to take the most common sequence and then have that make her gib in the second game.
I think thats also why you can lock the butler in the walk in freezer though
When I was a kid Marty the Thwomp scared me so bad. I'd have never let him out of that cage even if there was a way to do it. lol
You should have seen what he did to get locked up in there
It's amazing how simply putting someone behind the bars of a cage can turn them into a monster, even immediately in the eyes of those on the other side. There's something there about the innate inhumanity and barbarity of incarceration
@@chompythebeast I mean, and he was green. And he was the only thwomp I could really watch the face of as he manically laughed behind bars, the other ones constantly moving making it harder to really stop and watch. I'm sure if I _had_ stopped and looked at the other thwomps with the same exact animations, I would have stopped playing Bowser's Castle altogether. lol
One rumor was of Purple Yoshi being unlockable in Yoshi's Story via collecting every single coin possible in the game.
Least it was one I remember most and knew it was bull at the time
Yup I remember that one: I think I did it for one level and then gave up lol
I remember a gameshark rumor from that era. Supposedly there was an Ocarina of Time gameshark code that would swap Epona with Godzilla, and it would let you crush houses etc. The catch was that if you dismounted the game would freeze.
Obviously it was fake because that’s a hell of a cheat to introduce demolition physics to OOT. But little me kept trying to find the code (not helped by a local kid claiming to have had the code written down but lost it).
Another rumor I remember was the mario 64 triple cap. You could unlock an endless metal/wing/vanish cap. All you had to do was go to the first bowser level, not pick up a single coin, and get to bowser. Then you had to collect 1000 coins only from the coins that occasionally appeared after bowser’s fire breath.
A real test of endurance. Also if you died, you had to exit the level and re-enter, not just go back in the pipe.
This is amazing.
When I was really small, my cousin used to say that the Yoshi in Super Mario World was the child of the original Yoshi, who had died. ....Of course, I came to later learn that SMW is actually Yoshi's first appearance XD
I remember doing the Ocarina of Time triforce hunt back then even trying to do the "Temple of Light" as well haha. good times
The Triforce myth was so believable because the previous 3 Zelda Games had you collect pieces of the triforce, get an entire third of the triforce, or find the entire triforce at the end of the game.
Logically it'd be expected for Zelda 4/OOT to follow suite.
I distinctly remember some sort of dozen-step process to unlock Luigi in sm64, maybe originating on gamefaqs.
I've always wondered if there were rumors about a possible playable Skedar in Perfect Dark
But I guess in vanilla PD, the closest to that is shooting the first Skedar in Attack Ship level with a Psychosis Gun, making it friendly towards you, which is interesting since other skedars do not turn friendly.
I know Perfect Dark Plus exists, but the dying animation feels wrong 😅
You actually _do_ play as the Skedar in the bonus mission _Mr. Blonde's Revenge!_ Though of course, you're not in your alien form there
can i also just say how dumb we were back then about the triforce thing? the game explicitly shows that the triforce was split up amongst the three characters, ganon, zelda, and link, each character even shows each piece on their hand in game.
An early legend/myth i read as a kid for Goldeneye was, you were able to jump into the back of the truck on Dam,
Idk what it is about n64 and urban legends. There was always so many being passed between kids at the lunch table.
My favorite one that my friends would always say is that you can unlock waluigi in mario kart 64 if you jump through the star on rainbow road. I always wanted this to be true. I know we also tried unlocking Marty many times with no success.
@@GamerFolklore It was so odd. Like I had this distinct memory of my friends always talking about it but it must have just been a local thing that we would talk about or I had it in a dream or something I honestly don't know.
I remember seeing that Marty Hoax video when it was less than a few months old. I nearly crapped my little kid pants thinking such a thing was possible (of course I was to naive to look at the upload date) and spent weeks trying to do the same thing. Only ever reaching the second step and kicking myself over my lack of skill. It's one of my more bitter sweet N64 memories. And I'm glad we finally got to play as him in a hack later as it felt like a sort of reward for my efforts as a kid.
There's a part of my that wishes there was a community of romhackers who added all these insane theories to make them a reality. Like what if we created unique models and efforts to make Unicorn Fountain in OoC a reality? It would be a really neat thing to add if not ultimately a novel idea. It just feels like making your imagination you had for the games a reality, that the games were more deep than they really were. I always like the idea that sometimes a game has insanely hidden secrets. Stuff that can't even be found by people who can literally tear open the games code. It's just one of those concepts I wish developers could somehow implement.
Great vid as always Goose. Thanks for doing what you do! Look forward to the next one always.
The only n64 era rumors that i remember are: getting to unlock Luigi in sm64 and being able to unlock polygon frame versions of the Smash Bros. characters
I actually have a false memory of Pokemon Snap where I knocked the Psyduck out into the round tree thing and later while looking backwards saw a Golduck straddling in the water.
I even remember taking the photo of Golduck from far away, basically seeing a blue spot and Prof. Oak gave a really bad rating, but it did count to the pokedex and it was the 64th pokemon.
Never could replicate this later in life.
About Star Fox 64:
I remember "one mithy" about the appearence of James McCloud in the alternative ending of Star Fox 64, when Andross trying to end with Fox by "auto destruction", but then, Fox was saved by the spirit of his father.
But there was a lot of stories saying that, actually, James was not dead, but trap in a differente dimension who was temporarily "free" during the explosion, free enough to save his son and get back to this alternative dimension.
And the passage to this dimension was the result of the fight between James and Andross, when James was not really dead, but captured and transported to another time and place.
This blow my mind when I was young!
pokemon had endless number of rumors. I was big into it for ruby saphire emerald generation, so when my child brain finds out about one of the regi pokemon, anything else becomes easily believable.
This one happened in a PSone game but I think it falls in the umbrella of Urban Legend/Myth, the only difference is that this one was true. My friend who lived far away from me had the game Digimon Rumble Arena for the PSone, and everytime our parents met in his house we would play the game for hours. Sometimes the neighbour kids joined us and we played winner stays on. It was lots of fun. Anyway, we thought it was impossible for two people to use the same digimon, so we always had to swap amongst ourselves, sometimes getting mad because someone was using the strongest one and we had to go with the second strongest. I only had access to internet at school, and we were forbidden to use the computers for anything else other than school work, but one day I secretly searched a cheat code to enable us to use the same digimon in the fights, and I found it! Apparently you just had to press SELECT+X when selecting the fighter and we could play with the same Digimon. I waited weeks to meet up with him, and 1 month later I went to his birthday party. We tried to press SELEC+X and IT WORKED. We spent the rest of the day playing with the other guests and I remember I had to be dragged out of the TV by my parents when they wanted to leave.
A popular rumor from my childhood was that you could unlock the Master Hand in Super Smash Bros 64 if you could beat the entire story mode on hard with just 1 life. Kid me tried so many times but could just not manage it.
Here's one that I've never heard about or seen anyone discuss. This guy at my elementary school, Ben, told me that in the forest temple in ocarina of time, there's a part where you have to go underground for like a minute or two, go through the passage, and then climb up a ladder at the very end. On the right side there's like a drainage ditch and on either end of the drainage ditch there are sewer grates.
This guy told me that if you run back and forth in the drainage ditch long enough then alligators would come out and fight you. I spent about 2 hours trying this before finally giving up but this guy swore it was true
The rumor I heard concerning Ocarina and the triforce was to 100% the game, take Epona to the beginning of the desert wasteland, warp to the Spirit Temple, then walk backwards through the desert. Epona would transform into a Pegasus and fly you to the Temple in the Sky
I miss schoolyard rumors back in the day because we didn't have UA-cam, etc., to easily see a bunch of debunked rumors. Mew under the truck is a classic for a reason...
My best friend growing up always tried to feed me a line that you could get all of the masks the happy mask salesman carried on majors mask (like the Mario mask) after beating the game and trading him masks. I then, and still to this day pick on him for it from time to time lol.
My friend told me that in donkey Kong 64 you could unlock a 6th Kong and you could find him in angry Aztec behind a secret wall in the corridor near crankys. Supposedly he was a special Kong and he had rainbow color as his colored bananas. You could imagine the time I put in trying to find that
Back in like 2000 when I was around 6 years old and playing Mario Kart 64 my older sister told me she 'heard' that if you have the effects of both a power star and boo's invisibility at the same time you can get through the doors and enter Peach's Castle in the Royal Raceway course. I actually Believed that but couldn't get lucky enough with the item blocks to get them both. Years later I thought she probably made that story up. 😅
As an adult I once decided to test it in 2 player mode just for fun, but turned out if you are under the effects of invisibility and steal a star and then press Z nothing happens (you stay invisible only and don't use up your star).
OH SHIT THE NINETAILS THING!!!!!!!!! I just got a 64 again last month with snap and I STILL recalled ninetails!!! I was still wrong in my mid-30’s til I googled it lol. HELL YEAH
im very sure i heard about the ninetails rumor on some forum.
While back in the day, I tried bombing all the Gossip Stones, I was doing it for fun and to see if anything would happen. Never heard the rumor of the Triforce.
Also never noticed there was no Triforce in OoT
Man everyone is getting sponsored by Yahaha lately. I tried out the software though and its awful lol. It's like an unpopulated roblox rip off. Feels like playing Timmy's First Unity Project but with lag because it's always-online.
it looks like a worse second life
Is there a single example of a good product/company sponsring creators on UA-cam? If anything, based on the track record, being featured as a sponsor in a video on this platform makes me automatically associate the advertised product with garbage.
@@anwiseru9064 It's not really anything like second life. It feels like a worse version of newgrounds flash portal except instead of flash games it's badly made 3d games.
@@Apanblod define good
@@anwiseru9064 In this context; The selling point or quality of a product that would increase the individual responding's likelihood to spend their money on it. Or something to that effect.