In Area B: Room 5, it is possible to reach the top of the building just above the teleporter that brought you there in the first place. To do this, you must go to the puzzle "Behind the Iron Curtain" and while completing it, maneuver your way so that a box and fan used in the puzzle are blown out of the puzzle's walls into the Room's map. Afterwards, take the box to a nearby hole that leads to the river until you find a connector for the fan and place it there. After going back to retrieve and place the fan, jumping into it will blast you through the air across the map and onto the top of the building, which will then suddenly teleport you to a dark cave. Walking further into the cave will reveal a glass pyramid prism with a light shining through to create a rainbow. This is a recreation of the cover art of the band Pink Floyd's 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon", and interacting with the prism will play a short cover of the instrumental opening to the first part of the song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" from Pink Floyd's 1975 album "Wish You Were Here".
One of the enemies in the "Secret of the Oracle" episode, Dopefish, was a "stupid little fish" created by the game's designer Tom Hall and described in-game as "the second-dumbest creature in the universe" (in reference to the dumbest creature in the universe, the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" franchise), and has since gone on to develop a cult following and become one of the biggest recurring in-jokes in the video game industry due to the sheer amount of games it has made appearances in (a large chunk of which having Tom Hall's involvement).
As of October 2021, Dopefish has made known appearances in Wacky Wheels, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, SiN, Descent 3, Battlezone, Kingpin, Daikatana, Anachonox, Max Payne, Hyperspace Delivery Boy, Commander Keen (2001), Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Eternal Daughter, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Red Faction, Congo Cube, The Frozen Throne expansion to Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, SiN Episodes: Emergence, Chili Con Carnage, TAGAP: The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins, Fortress Forever, OFF, Dystopia, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Pettington Park, Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken, Warsow, Bombshell, Doom (2016), Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Ion Fury, and Doom Eternal.
Beyond video games, Dopefish notably made a cameo appearance in the animated series "Tiny Toon Adventures" in the 1992 episode "Toon TV" during the song "Toon In, Toon Out", which aired less than a year after the release of Commander Keen in "Goodbye, Galaxy!". Dopefish also cameoed in "Lakewood Plaza Turbo", the pilot episode to the 2017 animated series "OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes".
In the Nyakuza Metro DLC, there is a hidden area that can be accessed in the Green Clean Station by jumping off of a moving subway train at the last second and then wall-jumping up to the top of a large, green, three-tiered LCD display above the station ledge. At the top, a cage with an egg can be found, but just near it is a Springboard that will send Hat Kid to a hidden, burning, grated area through a manhole. Upon interacting with the manhole, a message can be found on it that reads "Kiwami means extreme.". Suddenly, an eye-patched Metro Cat named Meowjima will ambush you by jumping out of the manhole and screaming:
"HAT KID-CHAAAAAAN! You've grown soft, time to bring out your fighting spirit!"
This initiates a secret mini-boss battle. The message on the manhole is a reference to the tagline of the game Yakuza: Kiwami, and this character is a parody of Goro Majima based on his appearance in that game as well as a reference to one of its side quests "Majima Everywhere", where he ambushes Kazuma Kiryu through disguised encounters as a form of training. There is no reward for completing this boss battle, and upon interacting with the manhole again you will be sent back to the Springboard you used to enter it.
Updated versions of the game were distributed online via the Satellaview service in Japan; these versions support standard controllers as well as the Super NES Mouse. The "Yuushou Naizou Ban" version of the game also adds the picture "Dreaming of the Moon" by Mizota Hiroko of Tokyo, the winner of a contest associated with an earlier updated version of the game titled "Mario Paint BS-Ban".
If your regular and animation canvases are sufficiently large and detailed that the game cannot compress them into the cartridge's 32 kilobytes of SRAM, the Save Robot will display a rarely seen "DATA OVER FLOW" error, complete with a unique animation of smoke puffing out of its "ears" with a looping explosion sound effect.
By plugging a controller into the second port on a SNES, two extra features can be accessed:
•Pressing A/B/Start at the same time will start the game without having to click on Mario. •Pressing A/B/Select at the same time will (after a short delay) load and display the currently saved drawing, animation, and music. If nothing has been saved, the message "NO SAVE DATA" will be displayed instead, and you must reset the console to return to the title screen.
The original Japanese version of the game was partially inspired by the films by Hong Kong action star and martial artist, Bruce Lee. The creator combined elements from Lee's Enter the Dragon with that of his own life to create the game's concept.
Takuma's ability to combo off of his desperation move was originally a glitch:
"Takuma is able to combo off his Super Strike Gale, but originally this was a bug. We tried taking it out, but he was too weak without it: 'I don’t know… if Takuma doesn’t have this, he’s kind of… um…' So we re-added it again! Thanks to that decision though he became a pretty cheap character. So I kind of regret it now."
Though K9999 isn't playable, the data for his character is still in the arcade version and can be selected using external cheat devices. Here, he uses Kyo's icon on the select screen and Kula's while in battle. In battle, his color palette is bugged but is otherwise fully functional.
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.
Prior to the game's console release, SNK celebrated the series' 15-year anniversary by updating the official King of Fighters website to feature images of K' and Mai Shiranui in the game's art style. This led to speculation that the two characters would be playable on the console versions of the game. This ended up being false, with both K' and Mai becoming absent from the final roster, with Elisabeth and Mature substituting as console-exclusive characters.
On the system's Memory Card menu, after deleting data for a game, pressing the four shoulder buttons at the same time will cause the menu to reset and bring back the just-deleted save data. This feature was not carried over to the PlayStation 2.
The Four Heavenly Kings of Shadaloo are named after the Buddhist gods of the same name who rule over each cardinal direction: north, south, east, and west.
According to series composer Yoko Shimomura in a KH Ultimania interview with the game's sound team, they believed the operatic song "Destati" was "cursed":
"In the beginning and ending of the game, there is a song with a chorus. That chorus is a phrase that expresses the dark side of Kingdom Hearts, and it was used in several songs. However, once we tried loading the chorus data in when we were creating the songs, something bad would happen. The worst thing that happened was when the electricity to the building was cut off. (laugh)"
According to a 1999 interview with the Capcom team published in the game's official Japanese guide book, the team stated that the code for the locker with the shotgun parts was written on the memo next to the dying researcher was out of necessity for how the game needed to flow after they experimented with her holding several different things in that scene. Originally, she was going to be clutching a memo with Kirk's employee ID number written in her blood, as a hint to the player about who killed her.
In the Nintendo 64 version of the game, two cheat codes can be activated on the pause menu that will each cause a picture of an unknown woman to appear in the top-right corner of the screen. Both pictures only get cleared from the screen upon returning to the main menu or changing levels, and inputting each code will cause one picture to overwrite the other:
•Holding L and pressing C-Left/C-Down/C-Right/C-Left/C-Down/C-Right will cause a monochrome picture of a blonde woman to appear. •Holding L and pressing Down on the D-Pad/C-Left/C-Up will cause a color picture of a brunette woman to appear.
In the Nintendo 64 release of the game, there is a list of 2,170 names that when entered to save your high score will cause all menu text to be replaced with a string of gibberish unique to each name. Attempting to complete a Competition after doing this will likely cause the game to crash. The most popular example of this glitch is entering the name "TYR" which causes the menu text to instead display "RXJP Y HMB". The last two characters of names entered (including blank characters) that trigger this glitch act as a checksum of the preceding characters, suggesting that this glitch is a remnant of an early password system that was scrapped in favor of Controller Pak saves.
According to a 1997 The PlayStation magazine interview with the game's director Hideo Yoshizawa, he explained the story of how Klonoa's development began:
"The honest truth is that I simply wanted to make an action game. When I sat down to think seriously about how to do that, and I looked at the PlayStation market, there weren’t a lot of games that were playable for both children and adults at the same time. I wanted to make something that would fill that void."
"Also, there were a lot of Playstation games with 3D fields you could freely walk around in, and those games tended to be confusing; players often don’t know what they’re supposed to do. That’s why we decided to retain 2D controls, but with a 3D-ish feel."
"The idea for 3D backgrounds was there from the beginning, but I didn’t want it to be only for show—I wanted the 3D to have a purpose in the game. That’s where I got the idea for “information depth”. For example, in a 2D sidescroller you’ve got to keep moving forward (to the right) to see what’s next. But with a 3D screen, if we place something interesting deeper in the visual field, it prompts players to consider what’s there in the background, and explore whether it can be interacted with."
"Also, once we started playing around with camera angles, like tilting the camera upwards so players can get a clear view around them, it turned out to be really interesting. Some of these weirder camera angles have never been featured before in an action game, I think, so it was definitely something we were excited about doing."
"As I thought more about how to appeal to a wider demographic, I decided that the character shouldn’t be too serious, but should instead evoke gentle, nice feelings. That idea came, by the way, after soliciting the different developers at Namco for drawings of the character, in an informal in-house contest we held."
During the fight against Spoiler:Spamton NEO in Chapter 2, a sped-up voice can be heard at the end of his battle theme, "BIG SHOT", muttering phrases such as "they've come for me" and "please pick up the phone" before laughing. On the official soundtrack album, however, this voice is absent; it is unknown whether this is a deliberate omission or an oversight.
According to creator and director Toby Fox, the idea for Deltarune originated in 2011, when he had a literal fever dream about witnessing the ending to a game that didn't exist; upon waking up, he became determined to make that game a reality.
Development originally started the following year, but was put on hold before designing even a single room before the project resumed after Undertale's release; two of the songs originally composed during that initial stage would later be reused in Undertale as "Bonetrousle" (previously the main battle theme before being replaced with "Rude Buster") and "Heartache" (previously titled "Joker Battle", apparently being Spoiler:Jevil's early battle theme before being replaced with "THE WORLD REVOLVING").
In Area B: Room 5, it is possible to reach the top of the building just above the teleporter that brought you there in the first place. To do this, you must go to the puzzle "Behind the Iron Curtain" and while completing it, maneuver your way so that a box and fan used in the puzzle are blown out of the puzzle's walls into the Room's map. Afterwards, take the box to a nearby hole that leads to the river until you find a connector for the fan and place it there. After going back to retrieve and place the fan, jumping into it will blast you through the air across the map and onto the top of the building, which will then suddenly teleport you to a dark cave. Walking further into the cave will reveal a glass pyramid prism with a light shining through to create a rainbow. This is a recreation of the cover art of the band Pink Floyd's 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon", and interacting with the prism will play a short cover of the instrumental opening to the first part of the song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" from Pink Floyd's 1975 album "Wish You Were Here".
One of the enemies in the "Secret of the Oracle" episode, Dopefish, was a "stupid little fish" created by the game's designer Tom Hall and described in-game as "the second-dumbest creature in the universe" (in reference to the dumbest creature in the universe, the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" franchise), and has since gone on to develop a cult following and become one of the biggest recurring in-jokes in the video game industry due to the sheer amount of games it has made appearances in (a large chunk of which having Tom Hall's involvement).
In the Nyakuza Metro DLC, there is a hidden area that can be accessed in the Green Clean Station by jumping off of a moving subway train at the last second and then wall-jumping up to the top of a large, green, three-tiered LCD display above the station ledge. At the top, a cage with an egg can be found, but just near it is a Springboard that will send Hat Kid to a hidden, burning, grated area through a manhole. Upon interacting with the manhole, a message can be found on it that reads "Kiwami means extreme.". Suddenly, an eye-patched Metro Cat named Meowjima will ambush you by jumping out of the manhole and screaming:
Updated versions of the game were distributed online via the Satellaview service in Japan; these versions support standard controllers as well as the Super NES Mouse. The "Yuushou Naizou Ban" version of the game also adds the picture "Dreaming of the Moon" by Mizota Hiroko of Tokyo, the winner of a contest associated with an earlier updated version of the game titled "Mario Paint BS-Ban".
If your regular and animation canvases are sufficiently large and detailed that the game cannot compress them into the cartridge's 32 kilobytes of SRAM, the Save Robot will display a rarely seen "DATA OVER FLOW" error, complete with a unique animation of smoke puffing out of its "ears" with a looping explosion sound effect.
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.
In the Nintendo 64 version of the game, two cheat codes can be activated on the pause menu that will each cause a picture of an unknown woman to appear in the top-right corner of the screen. Both pictures only get cleared from the screen upon returning to the main menu or changing levels, and inputting each code will cause one picture to overwrite the other:
During the fight against Spoiler:Spamton NEO in Chapter 2, a sped-up voice can be heard at the end of his battle theme, "BIG SHOT", muttering phrases such as "they've come for me" and "please pick up the phone" before laughing. On the official soundtrack album, however, this voice is absent; it is unknown whether this is a deliberate omission or an oversight.