Current Events > List game Easter Eggs found long after release. (potential spoilers)

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Always intrigued by how these things can fly under the radar so long or be so obscure and found in the first place.

Secret of Mana: You can get the stamina bar to display a programmers initials with a very obscure set of button presses. Found about 16 years after the games release.

RE4: Apparently just found last year. After Mike and his chopper kick the bucket you can look out into the far distance with a scope and see a weird texture an image of a person standing out there.
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Arkham Asylum: Secret room with Arkham City clues.
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LoZ: LttP

the secret room with that kids name with ruppees.
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Those Ed Boon secret menus in the original three Mortal Kombat arcade games that are only found a couple years ago.

KILBOTz posted...

LoZ: LttP

the secret room with that kids name with ruppees.

I'm sure I read that in Super Nintendo magazines at the time.

Punch-Out!!

A fan in the crowd signals when to deliver the knockout punch against Bald Bull.

F-Zero GX came out in 2003, and in 2013 hackers figured out that F-Zero AX (the F-Zero arcade game) data was hidden away on the disc. Its fully playable via an Action Replay code.
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Not really an Easter egg but it was recently discovered Silent Hill was modeled after things from Kindergarten Cop.

Or maybe that was fake. Never confirmed it.
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Can you elaborate on that RE4 Easter egg, TC?
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The heart refill behind the lava fall in Dodongo's Cavern.
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Sonic23004 posted...

Can you elaborate on that RE4 Easter egg, TC?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q59gd5EeW9Q
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Resident Evil 2: Film D.
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Not exactly "long after" but someone found a hidden "you weren't supposed to get here" message in GTA V like 3 or 4 years after release I think.

It's a one sided texture that's only visible if you go just beyond the height limit in a specific spot I think.
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Not certain on how long it took to find, but I imagine the easter egg in Riven that leads to Gehn singing took a long time when you consider the convoluted steps it takes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9XmMp6h628
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Wasn't there a creature in a FF game (or some other RPG series) that was discovered like 20 years after the game's release?

Kyle1022 posted...

F-Zero GX came out in 2003, and in 2013 hackers figured out that F-Zero AX (the F-Zero arcade game) data was hidden away on the disc. Its fully playable via an Action Replay code.

I assumed it was, it's only surprising that they didn't know for sure till a decade later.
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Oh yeah, in the Japanese version of Paper Mario (N64) they found hidden messages if you sequence break. Talking to Toad NPCs in Toad Town will result in them saying stuff along the lines of Youre not supposed to be here, if you are reading this then please report this to the game devs. This was found in I think 2015 or 2016.
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LockeMonster posted...

Not really an Easter egg but it was recently discovered Silent Hill was modeled after things from Kindergarten Cop.

Or maybe that was fake. Never confirmed it.

That isn't recent, I remember reading about it 10+ years ago
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Goldeneye has a ZX Spectrum emulator hidden in the code.

Goldeneye also had button codes that weren't discovered until the early 2000's IIRC.

There was some side quest or cutscene that wasn't discovered in Final Fantasy IX for a long time

I feel like that youtube channel boundary break found a bunch recently but I don't really remember them off the top of my head, but they had a video about it.
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It took 22 years to find out that the game tells you when to counter the Bull Charge.
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The Mew Glitch in the original Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow wasn't discovered until 2003, five years after the US release of Red/Blue and seven after the original Japanese release. People have been discovering new ways to glitch the everliving fuck out of those games ever since.
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NadYobWoc posted...

LockeMonster posted...

Not really an Easter egg but it was recently discovered Silent Hill was modeled after things from Kindergarten Cop.

Or maybe that was fake. Never confirmed it.

That isn't recent, I remember reading about it 10+ years ago

Recent as in 5-6 years ago when it was discovered compared to 19 years since the game.
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Calwings posted...

The Mew Glitch in the original Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow wasn't discovered until 2003, five years after the US release of Red/Blue and seven after the original Japanese release. People have been discovering new ways to glitch the everliving fuck out of those games ever since.

wasn't a new glitch (I think it was called 8f or something) found after the VC releases?
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Kyle1022 posted...

F-Zero GX came out in 2003, and in 2013 hackers figured out that F-Zero AX (the F-Zero arcade game) data was hidden away on the disc. Its fully playable via an Action Replay code.

I'm pretty sure this was discovered earlier than 2013.
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l Dudeboy l posted...

I'm pretty sure this was discovered earlier than 2013.

Nope.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/03/f_zero_ax_found_hidden_in_gamecube_f_zero_gx
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The Waverace Blue Storm sarcastic announcer
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It took 14 years for players to find a secret pirate ship level in Blood Omen
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Oh God I love stuff like this. They recently found a monster in bloodborne that was seen in the E3 trailer a long time ago.
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Oh God I love stuff like this. They recently found a monster in bloodborne that was seen in the E3 trailer a long time ago.

Yeah been following this. The bosses look 90% complete too. Kind of a shame.
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Oh yeah the Chris Houlihan room in link to the past
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mehmeh1 posted...

Calwings posted...

The Mew Glitch in the original Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow wasn't discovered until 2003, five years after the US release of Red/Blue and seven after the original Japanese release. People have been discovering new ways to glitch the everliving fuck out of those games ever since.

wasn't a new glitch (I think it was called 8f or something) found after the VC releases?

http://forums.glitchcity.info/index.php?topic=6638.0

Looks like the 8F glitch (used in arbitrary code execution) goes back to 2013, which would pre-date the VC release of the games.
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The Atari 400 port of Donkey Kong have an easteregg showing the programmers initials that took 26 years to find.
Serious Sam got a secret level that got a puzzle which allows you to complete the level without killing a single enemy, which took 14 or so years to discover.
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Foppe posted...

The Atari 400 port of Donkey Kong have an easteregg showing the programmers initials that took 26 years to find.
Serious Sam got a secret level that got a puzzle which allows you to complete the level without killing a single enemy, which took 14 or so years to discover.

Never heard of that.

I also recently saw a glitch in DK where you like jump a certain way on the lowest girder and it pops you up top. Only reason I found out was because of these absurdly quick time scores in NES Remix people were getting.
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The Naboo Starfighter hidden in the original Rogue Squadron. Even developed a way to keep people from finding it with an Action Replay.

"During Rogue Squadron's development, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menacethe first new Star Wars film in more than 15 yearswas less than one year from its scheduled release date. To take advantage of this marketing opportunity, Factor 5 included content from the upcoming film in Rogue Squadron. LucasFilm provided the developers with design art for the Naboo Starfighter, a ship prominently featured in the new film. These designs were used to create an in-game model. Because the game was scheduled to be released six months before the film, Factor 5 was required to keep the ship's inclusion a secret. As a result, most of the game's development team at Factor 5 and LucasArts were not informed of its inclusion. A complex scrambling system was also developed to help hide the ship's code from gamers using cheat cartridges such as GameShark or Action Replay. More than six months after the release of Rogue Squadron, LucasArts unveiled the code to unlock the Naboo Starfighter as a playable craft. The code has been named the Nintendo 64's most well-hidden code because of the length of time before its discovery."
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FF9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYMDCuS_lA

I dont remember the story behind it but I dont think it was discovered for like 12 years.
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if we're counting glitches, there was one discovered in ocarina of time not even a month ago that allows you to completely skip the goron and zora tunics by preventing the timer from ever showing up in heated/underwater areas. The trick? It only works when you have exactly 1/16 of a heart remaining, in a game where the smallest increment it actually displays in your health bar is 1/4. Considering how big OoT is with the glitch hunting / speedrunning community it's amazing an actually useful glitch went unnoticed for so long
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Halo 3

Released in 2007, in 2014 it was discovered that if you press both thumbsticks on December 25 (or set your internal clock to that date) a new loading screen will popup with "Happy Birthday Lauren" engraved on the ring. Only found after the dev gave the community a hint.

CapnMuffin posted...

Foppe posted...

The Atari 400 port of Donkey Kong have an easteregg showing the programmers initials that took 26 years to find.
Serious Sam got a secret level that got a puzzle which allows you to complete the level without killing a single enemy, which took 14 or so years to discover.

Never heard of that.

I also recently saw a glitch in DK where you like jump a certain way on the lowest girder and it pops you up top. Only reason I found out was because of these absurdly quick time scores in NES Remix people were getting.

Which one?
The first one was revealed by the programmer, but he had forgot how to trigger it so people reverse engineered the game to find it.
The second one was discovered by a programmer that started to work there, and he asked his bosses if the game still had some secrets. He only got hints of it and had to figure it out himself.
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Fenrimis posted...

FF9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYMDCuS_lA

I dont remember the story behind it but I dont think it was discovered for like 12 years.

@KainWind
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Fenrimis posted...

FF9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYMDCuS_lA

I dont remember the story behind it but I dont think it was discovered for like 12 years.

KainWind

I did that quest last time I played it.
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KainWind posted...

I did that quest last time I played it.

ya i saw you in the topic the guy made about finding it
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Elder Scrolls games usually have a hint to the next game. In Morrowind, there is a cult called the End of Times and a prophet from the cult tells other members to kill themselves before the gates of Oblivion open. In Oblivion, a shopkeeper in Bruma says that only a Dragonborn can save Skyrim from civil war.
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Oh wow. I was wondering why you tagged me.
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