which game secret/easter egg remained hidden longest?
usually after the release of a game, the same people/magazines who review it have codes and hidden stuff within the same or next few installments. there have been times where some have remained hidden from the public for a few months. would anyone like to guess at which secret within a game took the longest to be found and brought to attention?
Wasn't there a red ring or something hidden in Zelda 2 that wasn't discovered until recently? Maybe it was a hoax....
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As least confirmed, that would be the Metroid code that Tips and Tricks kept secret unitl their anniversary issue. If memory serves me right, the designer buried a code password into the NES Metroid that allowed you to have infinite health and missile packs.
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On that thread, I suspect this code has remained unknown for a great period of time:Originally Posted by Dangerboy
FUCKME !!!!!!
!!!!!! !!!!!!
(Said code puts you in Tourian with nothing. And I mean *nothing*.)
Speaking of Metroid, how long until "Justin Bailey" was discovered?
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You can put strings of gibberish into the Metroid password screen, and you've got like a 50% chance of it doing something. "Justin Bailey" was a coincidence.
On that thread, I suspect this code has remained unknown for a great period of time:
FUCKME !!!!!!
!!!!!! !!!!!!
(Said code puts you in Tourian with nothing. And I mean *nothing*.)
Are you serious ? I thought the "fuck me code" was a Metal Gear exclusive!
For new games, all the secrets and such are discovered almost immediately after release.
I remember reading about the very first so called 'easter egg', in what I think was the VCS game Adventure. The guy who programmed it by himself created a room with his name in flashing colours, and to reach it you had to get an invisible object [a dot] and take it somewhere far off. That easter egg took several years to find, and it was discovered by a kid in Utah or somewhere.
Dunno much about that Metroid cheat though.
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I thought this was just Metal Gear as well. Are you sure about that?On that thread, I suspect this code has remained unknown for a great period of time:
FUCKME !!!!!!
!!!!!! !!!!!!
(Said code puts you in Tourian with nothing. And I mean *nothing*.)
Are you serious ? I thought the "fuck me code" was a Metal Gear exclusive!
In recent times, it was quite sometime before all the Skulls were found in Halo 2 and everyone figured out what they did. Most people still don't know they even exist.
Think you got something wrong as I'm just popped it in now to see and there's not any "!" exclamation marks selectable in the password screen.On that thread, I suspect this code has remained unknown for a great period of time:
FUCKME !!!!!!
!!!!!! !!!!!!
(Said code puts you in Tourian with nothing. And I mean *nothing*.)
Yeah my cart is on loan to a friend, but i just ROM'ed it. Tried it with all 1's instead of !'s too and i got nadda.
Good topic.
From what I can recall, the original "Rogue Squadron" N64 game by Factor 5 and Lucasarts had the "Naboo Starfighter" password hidden for nearly a year and a half, until after the 1999 "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" craziness died down by Spring 2000.
Having thought to have unlocked 'everything' in that game myself, I would have never, ever fathomed the idea that a Naboo Starfighter was even in the game.
I think Goldeneye would have to be a contender here!
So many years RARE stated that there were "NO" secret codes which could be pressed to get things. They always said that to unlock the goodies you had to earn them by playing the game well enough...
But a few years ago (A few years after they announced the proverbial death of the N64) - Lo and behold, here were some cheats which surfaced for Goldeneye which allowed you to gain the bonus's via button presses!!!!
I think there is also the "Cidetal" level which is buried deep deep down in the game's code somewhere as well... At least, it' sthere in spirit, and only years of hacking has been able to get something resembling a Cidetal level...
Here's a code for Metroid, it makes you invincible, not sure about infinite Missiles:
NARPAS SWORD0 000000 000000
Game Genie version of code: ALLGKP
I'm pretty sure most of the secrets within my SMW hack will stay secret for a very long time...
Star Wars Rogue Squadron N64, after 6 to 7 months after this game was released, they finally gave out the code for "The Naboo Fighter". Which was good timing since Episode 1 was in theatres at the same time.
These cartridges are dirty as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!
I could have sworn it had come up sooner. Soon enough that Atari encouraged other programmers to do weird stuff like that in their games.
Either way, there's like 3 games that had easter eggs beforehand that were just recently discovered. I'm willing to be that those Channel F carts went the longest without their easter eggs discovered.
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I don't think that Adventure trick took 3 years to find. I remember doing it in my youth, I just don't remember when exactly.
It's not an easter egg, but rather a code - about two years ago, I found a new code for Knuckles in Sonic 2. In Sonic 2 by itself, both the all emeralds code (4126) and the debug code (19921124) were known. However, in KiS2, the only known code was the debug code (19941018). I found that there was also an all emeralds code, and that it was 16777216. That was almost 10 years after S&K came out, so I guess it's up there in the running.
The Alcatraz course in San Fransisco Rush (N64) wasn't revealed until later, in much the same fashion...
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