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Bravely Default II
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Attachment In December 2021, the number of shipments and digital sales of Bravely Default II surpassed one million units across both the Nintendo Switch version (which alone had sold 950,000 copies in August) and the Steam version, making it the fastest-selling entry in the series. To celebrate this achievement, the official Bravely Default Twitter account shared commemorative artwork.
person ProtoSnake calendar_month March 2, 2024
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
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Attachment When the game's logo is shown in the intro of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, the word "BATTLE" has a shining effect, which is another video file overlaid over the 3D logo. There are two versions of this video, one with Japanese kanji and another with Latin script, however due to an oversight, the shining effect will only show Japanese kanji overlaid upon the English text. This would be fixed in the 2012 rerelease, but only for the English language, so other languages with an English logo still experience the error.
The Punisher
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Attachment Guardroid, the second boss of the game, has a completely different design between the arcade and Genesis versions. The background is also slightly changed between versions, as the curtains in the background are open in the arcade version, showing a couple of moonfish inside an aquarium, whereas in the Genesis version the curtains are closed.
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month January 29, 2024
Orgamesmic video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdSsOKQYOAs#t=172
[Note: The moonfish are mistakenly referred to as "sharks" in the source video.]
Turrican
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After loading up the Commodore 64 version of the game and waiting until the title screen appears, going to address 8F40 with a memory viewer will reveal a hidden developer message. The message to discourage hackers from cracking the game is presumably from the game's creator Manfred Trenz, and reveals the date that the game began development:

"HI FOLKS, THE MANIAC IS BACK !!!
ONE QUESTION: WHY DO YOU WANT TO CRACK THIS PROGGY ???
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MUCH WORK I DID TO MAKE A GAME LIKE THIS ???

HERE SOME INFORMATIONS ABOUT: STARTING TIME: 01.02.1989 (OH YES)
ALL THE IDEAS,GAMEDESIGN,ALIENROUTINIES,GRAPHICS,PLAYBILITY,TECHNICAL
PROBLEMS AND MUCH MORE TOOK A LOT OF TIME AND WAS VERY OFTEN NERVE-RACKING!

ECHT AETZEND YOU WOULD SAY ...
SOMETIMES I WORKED MORE THEN 14 HOURS A DAY, ONLY INTERRUPTED BY ESSENTIAL
THINGS LIKE FOOD,COKE AND MTV.

I MADE THIS GAME NOT ONLY FOR TO EARN MONEY BUT NEVERTHELESS I'M SURE
YOU AGREE WITH ME, THAT I WANT TO EARN FOR MY WORK.

SO DO ME A FAVOUR AND DON'T CRACK AND SPREAD THIS GAME !! IF YOU HAVE
ANY QUESTIONS CALL: 0211/5280-0 BYE NOW AND THINK ABOUT !

PS.: DO YOU KNOW WHAT A GROELATZ IS ?? YOU BETTER DO NOT !"
Turrican
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In the Commodore 64 version of the game, there are two known messages written with destroyable blocks that are hidden out-of-bounds in two levels of the game. In Level 1-1, the year "1989", referring to the year the game began development, can be found in the middle of the map. The other message is hidden in Level 1-3, where the letters "DTE" can be found in the middle of a land mass in the bottom-right corner of the map.
Mario's Super Picross
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Attachment The Virtual Console versions of Mario's Super Picross replace three puzzles, likely due to legal issues:

• The likeness of Marilyn Monroe, which was replaced by a tortoise.
• A set of Tetrominos from Tetris, which was replaced by a hermit crab.
• The painting The Scream by Edvard Munch, which was replaced by a chameleon.

Despite The Scream and Monroe's likeness entering the public domain in 2015 and 2012 respectively, the Wii U; New 3DS; and Switch versions of the game keep the replaced puzzles.
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 26, 2023
Frogger
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The music in Frogger is taken from a variety of sources, some public domain (such as the Japanese nursery rhyme "Dog Policeman" and the minstrel song "Camptown Races") while others are stolen copyrighted music from anime (the Japanese theme songs to Rascall the Raccoon and Heidi, Girl of the Alps).

Re-releases of Frogger tend to replace all of the music in the game, including certain public domain songs, with original tracks (though "Camptown Races" tends to remain intact).
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 15, 2023
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
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Attachment Due to the limited amount of space on the Sega Game Gear screen, the title screen for Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine on that platform is spelled as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machin.
Um Jammer Lammy
subdirectory_arrow_right Um Jammer Lammy Now (Game)
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Stage 1 of Um Jammer Lammy was incomplete in the original PlayStation version, not being accessible in either multiplayer or PaRappa's story. With a GameShark code, a US player can access an unfinished version of PaRappa's stage 1, which has no animations and only uses triangle buttons. Stage 1 would eventually be finished for Um Jammer Lammy NOW!, released 9 months after the PlayStation version, with Rammy and PaRappa support.

Stage 1 is the only PaRappa stage to use the instrumental of the Lammy version.
PaRappa the Rapper
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In the US PSP and PS4 versions of PaRappa the Rapper, PJ Berri and Katy Kat's Chunky Burger orders in the intro are censored - in the PS1 version they ask for a "giant vanilla frosty" and a "large chocolate frosty" respectively, but in the remastered version they instead ask for a "giant vanilla" and "large chocolate". The subtitles for PJ's order completely omit any drink from his order. This is due to "Frosty" (in the context of a drink) being trademarked by Wendy's. Despite this copyright issue, the claim from Katy Kat that Jet Baby could defeat Superman goes uncensored.
Hell's Kitchen: The Game
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Hell's Kitchen censors the profanity that made its source material famous - developer Ludia temporarily provided a more vulgar version of the PC game on its website as a limited time release, which was timed to be taken down following the finale of Season 4.
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 25, 2023
Pac-Land
subdirectory_arrow_right Pac-Man Museum+ (Game)
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Attachment The wheels on the ghost cars in Pac-Land feature a Manji, a symbol used in Buddhism to represent eternal cycling. In the Pac-Man Museum+ version of Pac-Land, the wheel design was changed to avoid resemblances to modern Swastikas associated with Nazism.
Mario Bros.
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario Bros. (Game)
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Mario Bros. was intentionally designed to be less graphically intensive than other games coming out at the same point so its Famicom conversion would seem more authentic to the arcade version.
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person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 24, 2023
Original ScrewAttack version:
https://youtu.be/_9UaFGZBuow?t=30

7 Grand Dad version
https://youtu.be/jkRRlqDmChk?t=18
Pac-Man Championship Edition
subdirectory_arrow_right Namco Museum Archives Volume 1 (Game)
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The NES demake of Pac-Man Championship Edition, featured in 2020's Namco Museum Archives Volume 1, was originally created as an unauthorized fan project by homebrew developer coke774 in 2008.
M&M's Minis Madness
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M&M's Minis Madness had a one-level demo for personal computers released on the M&M's official website which used a proprietary emulator. It does not feature the opening cutscene.
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 27, 2023
https://www.gamezone.com/news/m_amp_m_s_mini_madness_gbc_demo_on_pc/
The Demo ROM has been preserved and can be found on piracy websites
Crazy Frog Racer
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Puschel the Squirrel is named after Puschel, das Eichhorn, the German title for the anime Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel, and her character design resembles a squirrel character from the series named Sue.
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 21, 2023
Crazy Frog Racer
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Attachment Despite the Crazy Frog's defining ability being the use of an invisible motorcycle, and him being seen riding it on the box art, he drives a car in the Game Boy Advance version of Crazy Frog Racer
Crazy Frog Racer
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Attachment Despite the Game Boy Advance version of Crazy Frog Racer being rated 3+, Rasta Dog's model has what appears to be a joint of marijuana resting in his mouth - this is just barely visible in-game due to sprite compression.
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 20, 2023
Metroid Prime
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When you are locked onto a target in Metroid Prime, pressing the jump button does a sideways dash. This lets the player easily strafe around a target and dodge incoming fire. This sideways strafe jump sets a horizontal velocity on the player that continues to circle around the target while locked on, but if you unlock the target just as the strafe jump starts, Samus keeps the horizontal momentum without the lock-on pull. This trick, which the game's speedrunning community called the Scan Dash, allows for a larger horizontal distance traversal than a normal jump. Using this momentum can let Samus catch the edge of the cliff beside her ship in the Landing Site and get the Space Jump Boots early upon landing.

According to programmer Zoid Kirsch, creative use of the game physics and movement that results in acquiring items out of order allows for creative exploration of the game world. While sequence breaks like this are a crucial part of the Metroid series, this trick would actually be patched out in later releases of the game.
person MehDeletingLater calendar_month September 16, 2023
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