Rubrica Cose che non sai sui Retro Giochi

[Geddoe]

Un'altra ragione per odiare la Pocket station

In the Beetle Forest during the capture training tutorial with Koris, the Blue Cocoon Master, the player will normally receive an Arpatron as their starter minion. However, if a PocketStation is plugged into Memory Card Slot 1, the exclusive starter minion called Vatolka will be caught instead.



The element of the Vatolka is determined by finding the unique ID provided by the PocketStation's serial number represented by "XXYYYYYY" (with "XX" referring to the hexadecimal ASCII value of the PocketStation's letter on the serial number, and "YYYYYY" referring to the result when converting the numbers on the serial number from decimal to hexadecimal), then performing modulo 4 on it. Based on that result, your Vatolka's element can turn out to be either Fire with a 0, Air with a 1, Earth with a 2, or Water with a 3.



Through the use of transferring saves between the ePSXe and Xebra/Arbex emulators, it is possible to have captured both Vatolka and Arpatron in the same save file. Furthermore, they count as having captured two different minions, despite them sharing the same in-game slot in the Minion List.

 

[Vincent 86]

Wario ubriaco:

Wario Land 2

A penguin enemy in the English version throws bowling balls at Wario. If they hit, he becomes dizzy, burps, and needs to splash himself off with water to go back to normal. In the Japanese version, the penguin actually throws pints of beer. This explains the out of place animations and why Wario needs water. The beer was censored for obvious reasons.

 

[Geddoe]

Asbel il rubacuori

In one skit, Asbel reads a couple of marriage proposals sent to him, written and sent by "Anise Tatlin" (from Tales of the Abyss) and "Nanaly Fletcher" (from Tales of Destiny 2)

 

[Geddoe]

Una piccola grande panoramica su The Revenge of Shinobi e le varie modifiche che ha subito negli anni.

 

[Akurello]

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[Vincent 86]

Biografia:

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure

In the Library Room, you can find Adolf Hitler's biography, Mein Kampf. In the German version, it was given the generic title of Biographie (Biography), though it is still attributed to Hitler.

 

[Geddoe]

Il leggendario Tsuchinoko

If Naked Snake does not set off any alerts, his codename will be "Tsuchinoko". If the player beats Portable Ops Plus on any difficulty without setting off alert mode at all throughout the game, they will receive a feather for their picture, and Tsuchinoko for their codename.The Tsuchinoko (ツチノコ) is a legendary snake-like cryptid from Japan. The name tsuchinoko is prevalent in Western Japan, including Kansai and Shikoku; the creature is known as bachi hebi in Northeastern Japan.

 

[Vincent 86]

Le monete di Baby Bowser e Baby Wario:

Yoshi's Island DS

Although Baby Wario and Baby Bowser don't have Character Coins in the game itself, graphics for them still exist in the game's code.

 

[Geddoe]

Cambio di programma

The mini-fridge in Travis' room at Motel "NO MORE HEROES" can be used to heal him, even though it's impossible to lose health outside of ranking matches and assassination gigs and Travis' health is always restored after completing or failing a gig. Both the game and its instruction manual still point out this feature regardless. This suggests that there were either plans for enemies to appear in the overworld of Santa Destroy that could harm Travis outside of his missions, or it was implemented purely for creative effect.

 

[Vincent 86]

Riferimenti a Sonic:

Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg

It's thought that the four characters playable in the multi player and story mode games are based on four of the main Sonic the Hedgehog characters - Billy is Sonic, Chick Poacher is Tails, Bantam Scrambled is Knuckles and Rolly Roll is Amy. The Hatcher characters use similar colors and copy poses as well. For example, on the game's box art, Billy is in the same pose as Sonic from official Sonic Adventure 2 artwork.

 

[Geddoe]

Ingiustamente tagliato

Skull Man is the only Robot Master from Mega Man 4 to not appear in the 1994 animated Mega Man series.

 

[Geddoe]

Una collocazione estremamente specifica

In the Japanese version of the game, several direct quotes refer to Tetra being Princess Zelda's grandmother.

 

[Strider]

Da 13 livelli a 2... di parallasse.

I tredici livelli a scorrimento parallattico, caratteristica del gioco precedente, sono scomparsi lasciando il passo a un'unica ed enorme area polidirezionale con due soli livelli di parallasse

 

[Vincent 86]

Canzoni natalizie:

Yakuza 2

The first Yakuza game features a recording of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace", and Yakuza 2 features the Christmas carol "Silent Night, Holy Night". Each song is played during their respective game's end credits. Both games were set around December which is probably why the songs were chosen.

 

[Geddoe]

Nome ricorrente

"Steve" was the name of a talking Slingshot in Dark Cloud and the name of a robot from Dark Chronicle. Those games also developed by Level 5, developer of Rogue Galaxy.

 

[Geddoe]

The Legend

The Meadow Mage is known for having some of the best drops in the game, such as "Meteor B. Dragon".

 

[Vincent 86]

Chun-Li stona:

Resident Evil

According to the game's planner Hideki Kamiya in an interview published in the June 1998 issue of The PlayStation (JP) magazine, the pin-up poster in the laboratory originally featured a picture of Chun-Li from the Street Fighter series, but she was ultimately replaced with a different woman due to Kamiya thinking her appearance clashed too much with the world of Resident Evil.

 

[Strider]

Chun-Li stona:

Chun-Li non stona mai.

 

[Geddoe]

Gli ultimi saranno i primi, letteralmente.

The first level in Doom was actually created last. This is because John Romero wanted experience in level designing so he could make the first level his best.

 

[Geddoe]

Dove tutto ebbe inizio

Princess Crown is an Action RPG created by Atlus and co-developed by SEGA, it's the first game created by the team that would become Vanillaware, the creators of Odin Sphere and Muramasa: The Demon Blade (In fact, these games were once referred in-development as Princess Crown 2 and Princess Crown 3, respectively).