Wow! This feels like a complete reference guide video to THPS2! 🍰🎞️🍿🛹 Amazing work Matt! ❤⭐ I know some of the dev members like Darren Thorne of the THPS game series are on YT every now and then and are reading comments. If you ever worked on this game and you read this.. I speak now for every kid who ever had a personal copy of this game series.. We love you! ❤ Thank you for every single one of you that made this amazing game series plus its ports happen! Thank you for all the hard work you put in (sometimes with swearing in game code, sometimes with in-office manual skateboard contests) 😂 Thank you for bringing us loser kids to a taste of the skater freedom. Amazing high energy soundtracks, unforgetable interactive levels, polished graphics and tech, fluid legendary gameplay, editor tools for skaters/levels/board graphics for a very own game experience, funny jokes/references plus comedy, easter eggs, new experimental mechanics, throwback nods for the older fans, secret bonus content to unlock, extra demos on disc! ⛱️ You dev guys, artists, sound guys and every member who worked on this series really took us under your wing and made our childhood so much more memorable. THPS games were a culture phenomenon, literal time capsules packed into game entries in the series. 👨‍🚀👩‍🚀☄️🚀 It's a shame that Neversoft went under, but we will NEVER FORGET that you really cared about us and treated us with respect. 👁️🥹 Even the PAL European versions were decently programmed. It's amazing what all of you achieved releasing some of the gaming finest while working in a tight release cycle! I can't even imagine the stress and frustration while being overworked on a mission to deliver a high quality game! 💎 WE LOVE YOU NEVERSOFT! ❤ WE LOVE TREYARCH/VV/Edge of Reality/every most obscure hidden unknown studio member crunching hours to get a fantastic almost magical game experience delivered for kids coping with life ❤❤❤

31:08 that secret tape is over the infamous Carlsbad gap. Nice little detail that shows me the devs actually cared about skating while making the game

I noticed there's a pre-made park called Montana in every game from 2 onwards, another jab at Joel Jewett, since each rendition of the map has nothing but a tree in the middle lol

I have more facts: 1. The Dreamcast didn't have a Select button, so that means you must press L, R and Start all at once to change camera views or change the split-screen settings in THPS and THPS2. 2. The taxi drivers do not speak on the Nintendo 64 version. Clashing into a taxi car means no comment from the driver. 3. The Treyarch-developed versions of THPS2 use blue-colored balance meters instead of the red-colored ones in other versions. 4. The Xbox version allows personalized music to be played in each level. It is possible to do this in Club London, but its level music will play again on your next run unless you change the level. 5. The only local multiplayer mode present on the Windows/PC version is Horse. The other multiplayer modes are either LAN modes or online play. 6. Female custom skaters are only present in the Xbox version. 7. The Xbox version is the only Tony Hawk release with 3 and 4 player split screen support. Even the 2020 remake didn't have these game modes. 8. (Xbox) During 3 and 4 player split screen modes, a third camera view can be accessed. 9. Custom Skater's ending movie uses "Guerrilla Radio" on Xbox, while "Blood Brothers" is used on other versions. 10. Tricks and decks cannot be bought in other modes on the Xbox version. However, it is possible to buy tricks and decks in other modes on the other versions of the game. 11. Blood physics were removed from the Nintendo 64 version, also affecting incomplete combo text. Blood physics can also be turned off in the other versions, but is done via pause menu button code. 12. The word "Hell" is censored in the Nintendo 64 version of THPS2, despite not being censored in THPS3's N64 port. 13. In the Korean PC version, the FIN.K.L members all use the custom skater's ending movie and first eight decks. 14. The FIN.K.L members are moveset clones of other existing skaters. As far as I know, Sung Yu Ri has Rune Glifberg's tricks and Lee Hyo Ri has Bob Burnquist's tricks. Same can be said for Ock Joo Hyun with Burnquist's tricks and Lee Jin with Campbell's tricks. 15. The GBA version of Hangar has the secret areas switched around. 16. The PlayStation version has a Create-A-Skater exploit that launches homebrew such as TonyHax from your PlayStation Memory Card. You need the modified save file and homebrew app loaded onto the memory card to make this exploit work. It also works for the Create-A-Skater modes for THPS3 and THPS4. 17. If you enable the "Always Special" cheat, 2P can perform 1P's special tricks in Horse Mode. 18. Like THPS3 and THPS4, Horse mode makes it so 2P has all of 1P's tricks. 19. Enabling "Smooth" and "Moon Physics" cheats makes all of the foreground completely white. 20. Your previously-entered High Score Initials do not get memorized on the Xbox version, always defaulting to "AAA" every time you get a new High Score. 21. Clearing Career Mode on the Xbox version forces the motion blur settings to on, even if you turned them off prior. 22. Tag mode would return for THPS3 and THPS4, but only for the PlayStation ports. THPS3 N64 has Tag if I recall correctly. 23. You can assign flip tricks to the grab button, as well as grab tricks to the flip button. This applies to THPS3 N64 and THPS3&4 for PlayStation. This is critical to getting the GameCube controllers to work properly on the PS3, as well as getting the Retro Fighters BladeGC and BattlerGC to work on original hardware or PS3. 24. This game was released on all platforms that got Spider-Man (2000), since Activision and Neversoft produced both games in the same year. 25. In the PlayStation ports, your shoulder button settings don't get updated unless you go to the Options mode and access the button configuration menu. Same applies to THPS3&4.

It's a surreal feeling, unlocking Skate Heaven and having it be strikingly similar to my local park, which I frequented to skate. Turns out, it's one of Tony's favorite places to skate in the 80s.

Here's another fun fact: Tony Hawk is also an unlockable character in Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX.

Just to add to an early point. Wallows is a real spot in Hawaii, so makes sense they re-used it and kept the name.

33:30 "100 Bucks! You're Rich!" oh what a time

THPS2 was peak THPS for me. PS1 tech kinda makes it underwhelming these days but there were LOTS of levels, tons of secret stuff and areas to discover... I think THUG is my favorite Tony Hawk game overall but THPS 2 was the best out of the first 4

LIGHTS OUT! GURRILA RADIO!

Theres a lot i didn't know about THPS 2x, even though i play it often. The dog on the roof is so funny to me. 2X is so great, I still play online on OG Xbox. I have multiple videos on my page of us playing it. Truly a perfect port. Great video 👍🛹

In Asian countries, blood type is treated the same as astrological sign. It helps fingerprint the type of personality you tend to have. This can also be seen in games like early Resident Evil games and such. And if you want to follow up on this video, I suggest booting up THPS 2X again, because on any custom map or in the exclusive maps, if you go over a quarter pipe gap into another quarter pipe, and time a manual as you land on the next quarter pipe, you can actually land into a manual. I personally referred to this as the pre-revert, as at the time THPS2X was released, THPS3 had already been announced, and the revert move was known to be the new ability. Finding this to work in THPS2X makes me wonder how much that game's code borrows from THPS3.

This game is my whole childhood. Thanks for covering it! ♥️

Interesting fact about the School II gym back door; they're open and usable in the remake! Perhaps Beenox took a page out of the beta's playbook? I'm pretty sure beta New York's giant pillar was supposed to be an exhaust chute of some kind. They have a lot of those in Manhattan, at least.

7:25 I was convinced for all these years the gym opens at some point after you complete the game, because I only ever managed it WELL after I had completed saves, as if it was step one in some kind of process. Never figured out what the other "steps" would have been but it's amazing to learn how to actually do it, thank you.

Thank you again for covering such a wonderful piece of my childhood, Matt! Skate Heaven is still a magical, mystical place for me and my heart was full when I unlocked and played it again on THPS 1+2 recently! I absolutely LOVE that level and it was the place I played the most as a kid on the original.

10:28 Yes, taking a blow to the groin hurts no matter what (if anything) is between one's thighs. It's a sensitive area. 13:24 Ah, yes; memory limitations. Or laziness. Both, mayhaps. 🤷🏻‍♀ ... Imagine you're boardsliding a rail, your deck snaps in two. You're going down, and the first thing to impact the rail is going to be the groin. That's going to hurt, going to bruise, going to injure, no matter what. #CrawlAwayInjuries

Just to add to the "Wallows" thing, Wallows is an actual skate spot, hence why it was added to Skater Heaven, all of the spots in Skater Heaven are real places

Just a fact about South Korean exclusive skaters: in Asia they relate blood type to personalities, with good and bad traits of each type, horoscopes etc.

The scream in Beta New York was not used in the final build, as a completely different scream, though muffled, is used. On the PC version, you don't hear the gunshots, though it's unused.

You are the greatest hidden game secrets and facts presenter, ever!

Blown away i've never seen the basketball hoops in NY fall over before, and I have 100%d THPS2 multiple times now

The o.g. thps2 on ps1's school level is a take on my alma mater Rancho Buena vista high school in the city of vista. Our school logo is the longhorn logo you see in the Quad. The school use to have pink walls, but was painted white due to grafiti...the dude in the cart is also is a take on the noon guards in our school that rode those carts. One of them tried sueing activision

2:37 The text on this slope was taken out of the Xbox version. Not only that, this "Wallows" marking was referenced by T.O.M. 2 in a Toonami review for the PlayStation port of THPS2.

I 100% ‘ed this game and only remember the hanger and papa roach. My memory is fading.

Pro Skater 2 is Still in my Top 5 favourite Tony Hawk games ever! Along with American Wasteland, Project 8 and THUG 1

6:57 If you played the PC, Dreamcast or Xbox version the picture clarity becomes clearer since they all run at higher resolutions. Not to mention the Dreamcast version allows the use of a VGA setup, allowing for much higher resolution and video quality than S-Video.

Thanks for taking the time to make these!

I've been watching a lot of thps content and playing it recently - perfect timing

Fantastic vid as always. I remember this being the first tony hawks my dad introduced me to

2023, 23 years after this game came out its still legendary.

@20:20 looks like a reminder for a dev to finish texturing something. Fin as in finish and then their initial

I read somewhere that there was a 2 player mode planned for THPS2, the telltale named "Crash Test Dummy", where the goal was to perform the most spectacular and painful bails possible. Also, various challenge modes were planned (longest manual, longest grind, most air time in a session, etc.).

I can't believe I ever though I knew everything about THPS2, thanks for the video :O

Star signs and blood types are actually a big thing in asian cultures. So no wonder the Korean version includes them. If anything, it showed that who ever did the Korean version knew what they were doing.

I did know about that path on Venice, but I found it from the other side. Same skater, though, she had the most rounded stats. Never noticed the auditorium, that made me laugh Montana still doesn't exist.

16:12 first ever 9 trillion spin

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 was my first Tony Hawk game.

I love this game so these facts were so cool to see! :)

i had just watched the one about thps4 earlier, what good timing bc i was looking to see if there was a vid for thps2

Love those vids. It would be awesome if you made two free cam videos on THPS 2 and 3, just showing background scenery up close. Things like the far ends of Venice Beach or Canada always mystified me, and I remember doing all kinds of crazy tricks to reach the edges of the maps just to see the backdrop objects closer.

thank you matt for the facts

def needa continuted series going through all the games. 2x is one of my favorites but im one of the weirdos whos top 3 are AW, P8, and PS4

I can’t remember what you do, but in Skate Heaven in the 2X version, you do something where that weird yellow bowl where Tony’s House is in the OG version, turns into a floating bowl.

Venice Beach hidden spot is the Venice muska ledge plus wallows is a real spot that is actually skated in animal chin as well

This game on Dreamcast was incredible.

Wallows is a real place in Hawaii and was featured in animal chin

I really miss when the Tony Hawk games were about skating lol

nice 👍🏽

"Never Mind The Bollocks" Lol

Blood type and star signs are indicators of personalities in Asian cultures. which is why they are typically included in basically everything with their name and face on it.

The blood type thing is an Asian personality a lot like star Signs. Different personalities are associated with different blood types

Epicness

It's interesting which facts you find interesting, if that really is how they're ordered.

Pretty sick seeing the early beta stuff.

His name became Ollie because I think people thought that was his name even me

Like I said before, if you ever want to do a video like his for thps4, I can explain that glitch I found and some missions it has been used on

Yes please.

Can’t begin to count the number of hours I put into 2 X

SECRET TUNNEL!

Tell me you're not a skater without telling me you're not a skater. Wallows was the most famous sake spot in Hawaii. Its in the animal chin movie and was destroyed. That's why it's in skate heaven. The level is a compilation of destroyed skate spots.

2x supremacy 🙌

Fun fact: In 2X you can see developer faces in the stands of the THPS1 skatepark Chicago level. There's also a secret room in the subway level. Awesome video!

can you do the 50 facts about tony hawk's pro skater 4 ?

Enema = Animal Enema Chen = Animal Chin

Mind being blown that we can play a Mat Hoffmann level

# If you like Pina Colonics... # and Bollocks are the balls themselves not the sack - Scrotum is the sack.

K pop does not fit in The Tony Hawk series

Here's 1 fact you forgot.. It sucks! SKAT3 (SKATE 3 🤴

Not sure if it went through, but I went ahead and sent the discord request

andythps

Aside from Korean release THPS4 later on had a similar polish release with a bunch of popular at the time polish rap songs added. No characters though

What a game and what an amazing and thorough video! 🩵