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Traccia nascosta:

Wario Land 4

The final level of Wario Land 4, Golden Passage, begins with Wario touching the frog switch, causing the entire stage to play the generic hurry up theme - if a player pauses the game before landing on the switch (or alternatively hacks the game), a unique Golden Passage stage theme can be heard.

 

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Riciclato

The unlockable post-game dungeon is called Xeyon Castle. Fans of the franchise may recognize its layout, as it was the actual final dungeon of the predecessor game, Shining Force NEO, where it was referred to as the Dark Castle.

 

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Uno dei trivia più famosi

The two protagonists, Jonathan Ingram and Ed Brown, are heavily based on the Lethal Weapon duo Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, played by Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.

 

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Errore di stampa:

Strider 2

When the game was released on the Playstation, it was packaged alongside the Playstation port of the original Strider.

However, in the North American release, the games were printed to the wrong discs. Strider 2 was printed to disc 2 (labelled "Strider"), and Strider was printed to disc 1 (labelled "Strider 2"). This affects all North American copies of the game.

 

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Errore di stampa:

Ciarlatani. Devo mandargli contro qualche pantera e acquile robot per svegliarli un pò.

 

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Sandwich

If you close your Nintendo DS system during a specific radio/cutscene moment involving Barry Burton, the device tricks the game into activating a secret "Jill Sandwich" Easter egg.

 

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Passione Star Wars:

Bomberman Hero

The game's plot has multiple elements that parallel with the first Star Wars movie, although it's unclear whether this was intentional or not. Both involve:
• A princess being captured in her space ship by an evil empire while she is carrying vital data. The princess then gives the data to a robot to send help.
• The robot with the data proceeds to crash land on the planet below in the desert.
• Also, later in the game, upon first encountering Princess Milian in her cell, she is laying in the same pose as Princess Leia in Star Wars: A New Hope when she is rescued from her prison cell by Luke Skywalker.

 

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NONSENSE

The controversy was primarily ignited by a misinformed article published in an Italian magazine, in which a journalist falsely claimed the game featured graphic child abuse. The actual ratings boards—like the UK's Video Standards Council and the BBFC—played the game and dismissed the outrage as nonsense.

 

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Beyond any help

If you dial 573 (a Japanese wordplay/goroawase for "Konami") on Harry's cell phone, you will reach Konami Customer Support. The operator will eventually inform you that since your caller ID shows you are in Silent Hill, you are "beyond even our help".

 

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Contenuti di gran classe:

Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia

After you clear Misha and Aurica's Cosmospheres, you can access the special 'Level E' world. These worlds are based on the games Atelier Marie and Atelier Elie, respectively. After you complete the Cosmosphere, Aurica will unlock the 'Marlone' costume, and Misha the 'Elfir' costume, which are based on the Atelier heroines' outfits.

Finally, while not an unlockable costume, there is art of Shurelia in Lita's outfit from Atelier Iris; you can unlock it by getting one of her endings.

 

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Un triste primato

In Europe, this is the final Nintendo game released during the lifetime of former Nintendo President Satoru Iwata.

 

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L'unico:

Final Fantasy X

Lulu's starting weapon, a Moogle Doll, is the only appearance of a Moogle in the game, a massive difference from all previous titles in the series. Her other weapons are references to previous characters in the series, including her final weapon of the Onion Knights from Final Fantasy III.

 

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Lawsuit

Shortly before the game's release, Snowblind Studios sued publisher Interplay for unsanctioned use of their game engine. Snowblind eventually won in 2005. As part of the settlement, Interplay was banned from ever using the Dark Alliance brand or Snowblind engine again, immediately killing plans for a Dark Alliance III.

 

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Spiegazione:

Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII

The opening cutscene of Dirge of Cerberus explains why Vincent and Yuffie weren't present in the final battle with Sephiroth at the end of Final Fantasy VII (besides them being optional characters). They were both in Midgar helping evacuate the city at the time of the final battle with Sephiroth.

 

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Game Breaking

While the North American publisher fixed several Japanese glitches, they also introduced an infamous game-crashing bug during the final stages of the game. The game notoriously freezes during the third round of one of the final battles. Players discovered the only way to avoid this hard lock-up was to defeat the boss as quickly as possible before the crash could trigger

 

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Riferimento:

Toy Story 2

In Andy's Room, board game boxes of "TT-GAMES" & "More Tales" can be found. These reference the game's developer, Traveller's Tales.

 

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Debug Mode

Pressing Select on the pause screen exactly 16 times will open up the game's debug mode. This will display a cursor that allows the player to change the timer, heart count and coin count as well as cycle through Wario's various power-ups.

 

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Un altro geco

The game was built using a modified version of the engine used for Gex: Enter the Gecko.

 

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Trasferito

The game was originally planned for the Sega Saturn before transitioning to the Dreamcast. Early concept art featured a larger hub town on a hillside and showed Mag using his Airacomet in vastly different ways to repel airships.