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Damn_Underscore
01/25/23 11:42:27 AM
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Like Nintendo easily could have hidden Luigi in SM64 and announced the convoluted way to unlock him years later

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SenlinDescends
01/25/23 11:44:35 AM
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Some do

LTTP had a secret room for a contest winner that wasn't discovered until over a dozen years later

Arkham Asylum had a secret hinting at the plot of Arkham City, and the dev had to leak it because City was about to come out and nobody had found it

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crayola555
01/25/23 11:50:47 AM
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It would be so awesome if the rumors were true on FF7 that there was a way to revive Aeris and there was another weapon boss, after all those years

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DipDipDiver
01/25/23 11:50:52 AM
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There most definitely are things like this but if it were to become commonplace then that would make it way less cool
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KalimariX8
01/25/23 11:57:56 AM
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The fact that people can access game files and codes makes this much harder for game developers.

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cadcrafter
01/25/23 12:00:37 PM
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KalimariX8 posted...
The fact that people can access game files and codes makes this much harder for game developers.
This, its easier if people dont care about your game but if they do I dont really see how secrets like this are possible anymore without some kind of web based/real life ARG

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Unknown5uspect
01/25/23 12:00:48 PM
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People are still finding things in SM64 and DK64

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The_Yahtz09
01/25/23 12:02:49 PM
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There could be plenty that just havent been publicly found yet.

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viewmaster_pi
01/25/23 12:14:12 PM
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can't tell if this is a joke topic, because easter eggs and their discovery are more popular than ever before

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ViewtifulGrave
01/25/23 12:19:07 PM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
Like Nintendo easily could have hidden Luigi in SM64 and announced the convoluted way to unlock him years later
People found Luigi in the game code.

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Foppe
01/25/23 12:24:38 PM
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SenlinDescends posted...
LTTP had a secret room for a contest winner that wasn't discovered until over a dozen years later
The Chris Hooligan Room was discovered in the early 90s by mistake, and GWS Zoma was one of the first ones to be able to replicate it, still in the first half of the 90s.

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badjay
01/25/23 12:34:16 PM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
Like Nintendo easily could have hidden Luigi in SM64 and announced the convoluted way to unlock him years later
Data miners take that possibility out eventually at some point.

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Uta
01/25/23 12:35:20 PM
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Things like this have been done, but a big problem with trying to do it nowadays is that data-mining and boundary breaking are very common tools used to explore games outside their limits, so secrets and hidden details get caught super quick more often than not.

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ZeroCredibility
01/25/23 12:36:31 PM
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crayola555 posted...
It would be so awesome if the rumors were true on FF7 that there was a way to revive Aeris and there was another weapon boss, after all those years
likely this...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/6/5/AAdNOaAAEHz1.jpg

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Jupiter
01/25/23 12:38:05 PM
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In God of War (2018), when you throw the stranger off the cliff in the beginning of the game, he flips you off. The only to see it though is with a camera hack.

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WellKnownNomad
01/25/23 12:39:54 PM
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I mean people just recently found that you can play 2 player in Super Punch Out, like the 2nd player can actually the bosses and you can do this with the original hardware or just use Switch online

https://youtu.be/KIOgSAwI4Us

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Jupiter
01/25/23 1:57:55 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Here's a video of it lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgzzOUME-i0

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ZeroCredibility
01/27/23 1:50:10 AM
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FC4 easter egg ftw...
https://primagames.com/tips/far-cry-4-easter-egg-beat-game-15-minutes

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Aridi
01/27/23 2:04:59 AM
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I'll never forget all the shit kids in school used to make up about Mortal Kombat. Every week someone heard a new method for unlocking Noob Saibot or Smoke for MKII and it was always some extreme Rube Goldberg nonsense.

But yet, we all tried it lol.

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KaZooo
01/27/23 2:05:48 AM
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GTA SA UFO

It's out there

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kirbymuncher
01/27/23 2:08:03 AM
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Aridi posted...
it was always some extreme Rube Goldberg nonsense.
this is why I love missingno and item duplicataion glitches in the 1st gen pokemon games, they're extreme rube goldberg nonsense but then somehow they actually work

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ellis123
01/27/23 2:12:07 AM
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They don't have to be secret to take players years to find them. That one side quest in FFIX comes to mind as it wasn't hidden from the player at all + you were practically required to start it as a part of the story.

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MICHALECOLE
01/27/23 2:15:26 AM
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Still lookin for that final meteorite piece in rdr2
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SparkMark1
01/27/23 2:17:09 AM
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I still swear there are some secret desperation like attacks in the original Smash Bros. that deal 999% damage to opponents.
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GameGodOfAll
01/27/23 2:17:52 AM
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Check out Oddheader on youtube. Lots of secrets like that. Good amount unsolved to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgcHH4v0DjQ

(this video is 3 years old and some of these were actually solved)

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Foppe
01/27/23 3:30:23 AM
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ellis123 posted...
They don't have to be secret to take players years to find them. That one side quest in FFIX comes to mind as it wasn't hidden from the player at all + you were practically required to start it as a part of the story.
And it was mentioned in the official PlayOnline guide that nobody used.

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GuerrillaSoldier
01/27/23 3:36:07 AM
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it's always hilarious to think how many of them were because features were ripped out, or games were cut down on scope during development, so things are just either partially in there or some kind of weird placeholder.

i mean, of course they intend to leave these things in for people to find like secret treasures.

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DuneMan
01/27/23 9:41:23 AM
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ZeroCredibility posted...
FC4 easter egg
I think you mean 'the best ending'.

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Psyloshsr
01/27/23 10:26:05 AM
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I forget if it was the original Rogue Squadron or the sequel but it came out a year or two before Phantom Menace and they hid the Naboo star fighter in the game and nobody found it before they leaked it in a magazine after the movie was out. That was one of the games that still had a cheat code screen, but nobody found it because you had to enter two different codes and both would give you the sound that youd entered a wrong code. Then it turned out to be the best ship in the game.

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PowerOats
01/27/23 10:29:46 AM
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Didnt Elden Ring have like a fake wall the stirred the community?

Or that fake/ modded door that guy pulled in nier automata
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Foppe
01/27/23 11:28:47 AM
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Dark Souls had a bonefire behind a fake walk that many people missed.

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UnfairRepresent
01/27/23 11:33:06 AM
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It's harder now with the internet, data mining and communities dedicated to games as well as youtube videos showcasing things even the devs didn't realize

But some old console games still have secrets.

There was a whole FFIX sidequest (a shitty one) that there is no record of anying discovering until after 13 years.

Doom 2 had a secret for over 20 years.

Hell the Shadow of the Colosus remake added a secret that didn't exist in the original purely because the fanbase had rumors about it and looked for it

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Foppe
01/27/23 12:01:49 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
There was a whole FFIX sidequest (a shitty one) that there is no record of anying discovering until after 13 years.
And it was discovered by reading the then 11+ years old Final Fantasy IX Ultimania.

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viewmaster_pi
01/27/23 12:09:23 PM
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Foppe posted...
bonefire


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ZeroCredibility
01/27/23 11:43:10 PM
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Foppe posted...
fake walk
... like MJ?

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Gobstoppers12
01/28/23 12:03:35 AM
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Remember when somebody discovered a way to spawn a fully modeled and functional Arwing (from Star Fox) in Ocarina of Time without any gameshark codes or anything?

That was pretty freaking cool.

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Crazyman93
01/28/23 12:06:39 AM
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Job Simulator hid an Easter egg teasing Vacation simulator, which wasn't discovered until after Vacation Simulator released

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dave_is_slick
01/28/23 12:24:27 AM
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Psyloshsr posted...
I forget if it was the original Rogue Squadron or the sequel but it came out a year or two before Phantom Menace and they hid the Naboo star fighter in the game and nobody found it before they leaked it in a magazine after the movie was out. That was one of the games that still had a cheat code screen, but nobody found it because you had to enter two different codes and both would give you the sound that youd entered a wrong code. Then it turned out to be the best ship in the game.
I'm not sure that's true. I know I was definitely using the Naboo Starfighter in the first Rouge Squadron. I don't recall putting in two codes at any point for it and if I did put in two, I didn't have to wait years to find out how to do that.

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Virgalyssa
01/28/23 12:37:11 AM
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GameGodOfAll posted...
Check out Oddheader on youtube. Lots of secrets like that. Good amount unsolved to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgcHH4v0DjQ

(this video is 3 years old and some of these were actually solved)
His videos are good but unfortunately he sponsored a known scam (the forest lordship thingy), after it came out that it was a scam and that it wasnt helping the environment at all. So not exactly the most morally sound youtuber

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GameGodOfAll
01/28/23 1:10:21 AM
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Virgalyssa posted...
His videos are good but unfortunately he sponsored a known scam (the forest lordship thingy), after it came out that it was a scam and that it wasnt helping the environment at all. So not exactly the most morally sound youtuber
Thought that was before it came out as a scam? He also had the unfortunate luck of doing a video with Justin Roiland a few weeks before the news broke about him.

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pokedude900
01/28/23 1:18:42 AM
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Regarding data mining, that only really lets people find things like models, map data, and menu options easily. It's not like you can easily analyze the raw code. Hence things like Nier Automata's "final secret" taking a long time to find.

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Foppe
01/28/23 1:21:15 AM
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ZeroCredibility posted...
... like MJ?
...meant wall >_>

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