That Shen Long April Fool's joke is still the best one yet. I miss 90s sometimes.

You can play as Ryu in Mortal Kombat if you beat Goro with double flawless victories using Luigi. I've done it like 6 times.

The General Leo myth was responsible for me getting a joke into Lunar Eternal Blue. Back in the early 90s Compuserve had a really great game devs forum, it was mostly fans that were active, but there were many developers that spent time on the forum interacting w fans, including Victor Ireland of Working Designs. There were also many threads debating the General Leo resurrection myth. The Lunar games had a really off the wall sense of humor, especially from random NPCs, I was a huge fan and so about a year before Lunar EB released I wrote a joke about General Leo comparing the myth to Elvis sighting rumors (I forget the exact wording), submitted it to Victor, never heard back from him on it. Then months later after I got Lunar Eternal Blue I was playing the game, made my way to Ghaleon's Secret Garden and one of the fairies makes a joke about General Leo being a "two-bit entertainer". My jaw hit the floor. I immediately ran to my pc, sent Victor a message asking him if that was really my joke (bc I couldnt believe it) and he replied saying that he "took fan suggestions very seriously." 24 years later I still can't believe it.

You should add that "Sheng Long" DID make it into street fighter 4 as "Goken" and one of his win quotes is "You must defeat ME to stand a chance".

one day I was playing Metal Warriors with my friend and we had the habit of randomly mashing buttons "to find cheats" and we unlocked a secret option on the title screen that lead to a new head-to-head mode! WE SHAT BRICKS MAN

I actually saved Cid (by accident) on my first playthrough. Imagine my confusion when people kept mentioning the Celes scene that I never saw.

I hope YOU have a great rest of YOUR day SNES Drunk.

I think it's curious how we ended up with the same rumors in different countries. I'm from Central America, and we got the exact same Mortal Kombat schoolyard talks over here!!!

Los Angeles calls Oakland "Hey Al, what was Raider Rule #1 again?" "Cheating is encouraged."

If you beat Bison using Zangief with a double perfect in less that 10 seconds in each round, you can play as the shark in Jaws on the NES.

Haha still remember the naked Sonya rumours 😆

... I love how Capcom themselves seemingly drew from the Sheng Long rumors with Gouken in SF4. He looks just like the old mockups (but buffer and more badass) and I mean, he IS that same character.

At the very least, the Sheng Long hoax did eventually lead to Gouken being playable in Street Fighter IV.

A big SNES rumor for me was the existence of Schala in Chrono Trigger. I remember that I had a Game Players magazine with the "Ultra 64" on the cover circa 1995, and a snippet pertaining to Chrono Trigger made mention of Schala. Where it said something to the effect of "Not even Squaresoft knows if you can actually find Schala". I spent hours scouring the time periods seeing if she would ever show up but nada. I don't know where they got that from or if any other publications made a similar claim, but it was confirmed to not be true.

I’ll always remember the Mario kart 64 one that if you hit every mole on the farm then you unlock him as a character.....a weekend wasted proved to me it was a lie 😡😂

I remember one when I was very young about a toilet level in Ski Free. The legend went - if you can outrun the abominable snowman all the way back to the start and let him eat you he will poo you into a playable level taking place in a toilet bowl. I've never heard the rumor anywhere else, and obviously it's not real. But I wish it was.

Ever since I discovered this channel I never miss an episode, thanks to you I now know many good games I never heard of before like "Front Mission: Gun Hazard" and "Bahamut Lagoon" just to mention a couple of games I've been enjoying ever since I tried them after watching them on one of your videos. I just wanna thank you for sharing these videos and like you say I hope you have a great rest of your day SNESdrunk :)

I had a Master System when it was current. One day, I turned it on accidentally without a game in it. No big deal. I mashed some buttons on the controller and accidentally found the secret Snail Maze game built in. No one would have believed me, if there was anyone to tell, since no one had a Master System. I remember Reptile appearing once for me in the arcade with one of his hints. I don't think anyone believed me when I told them. I played that game a ton in the arcade and only ever saw him once. My favorite myths of the SNES is that everything is mode 7. For example, the foot soldiers in Turtles in Time tossed at the screen. It's not mode 7, despite so many claims that it is. It's not even scaling. It's fake scaling. And the effect is still great. Plenty of games cheat. I've played beat-em-ups where the collision detection would consistently turn off in a certain context to give bosses an extra advantage. And in Street Fighter 2(and probably other fighters), the game is programmed with CPU logic that uses your button inputs against you. When you fight the CPU, many times, you will notice that when you hit the button for an attack, the CPU will attack you at that moment with an attack that has priority. That's because the game is using your button press as the trigger for the move by the CPU. It's consistent and repeatable. To beat the CPU, you have to exploit its routines. It totally cheats.

Look at Dr. Lights karate uniform in the capsule!

Already love your videos, but I super appreciate the spoiler alerts. FF6 is one of my favourite games and I would hate to have anyone get that experience ruined

EA games cheating? No no, that can't be right, I call Miamis on it.

Ah yes, General Leo, the precursor to Aerith in so many ways.

That last segment is hilarious. It’s what Chris Smoove would call the CPU Cheese.

Once I found out I could save CID I did it everytime. Dudes too nice to die.

Oh, the computer absolutely does cheat. Especially in Mario Kart 64.

A kid I knew at school tried to convince me you could add Luigi to your party in Mario RPG. It definately seemed real at the time. Also a few years later I remember delving in to rumors i saw on the (then new to me) internet regarding the existence of the Light Temple in Ocarina of Time, people online said you could find it somewhere in Lon Lon Ranch

I thought you might mention that when Ryu/Ken's master (Gouken) DOES finally appear as a playable character in SF4, he actually DOES strangely resemble the old EGM hoax versions quite a bit. Nice touch Capcom!

the mortal kombat blood code caused lots of controversy on the school yard......hard times.......

The last one actually had me laughing with the AI calling other teams and using infinite timeouts, lol.

Found your channel a couple days ago great videos man

NBA Jam Tournament Edition had a ton of rumored characters. Some accurate, some not.

My favorite EGM April Fool's was the one from...I'm gonna say April of '91 (it's been a while). In TMNT 2: The Arcade Game on NES, there was an absolutely impossible code to enter on the title screen that would allow you to play as Simon Belmont. The fact that it was impossible didn't stop me from trying feverishly to train my fingers to input it fast. The EGM article asked you to try it several times then read the name of the person who sent it in. The name was "A.P. Rilphuuls" and he was from "Fromegem, HA". That blew my mind for years until I finally understood it. Yep, got me there.

It is actually possible to get General Leo back in your party through a very complex glitch. You essentially retrigger an event that puts Banon in your party but the game puts Leo there instead due to story flags. You can’t get him into Kefka’s Tower and its not official at all, but its not completely impossible. Look up the Airship Glitch.

at our school the biggest myth was being able to play as the bosses when SF2 WW came out. people were saying you had to beat everyone perfect lol. the game genie then came out but the boss code was pretty horrible.

Love this guys videos. Its nice to watch a videos that aren't a rant or negative for the sake of views

I remember back in high school, I perpetuated the rumor of being able to steal Ursus armor from the Ursus in FFVI.

"Sometimes the computer really does cheat" Thank you for this! 🙏

Most of the codes that appear in this video actually work so do not let SNES Drunk tell you otherwise. For any of these secret codes to work just remember that: you must be facing away from the screen, you must wear a green shirt, it must be Thursday, remember that your socks should not combine because otherwise the trick will not work. If you did it correctly you will hear the laughter of some relative of yours. Now you can play with Shen Long and save General Leo but shhhh! keep this secret between us.

Love the last one. I knew the AI cheats. Many a games I've played after all where the AI just simply go " _Nope, you're not winning._ " x3 I mean, I have a video on my channel from MK1 on Snes that I slowed down heavily just to show that that the AI grabs me out of a move right before it hits. The video is titled " _Mortal Kombat - The AI is a bloody cheater!_ " I got one that I still have no idea how I managed to do, but it was on the PS1 version of Mega Man X3 ( _JP version borrowed of a classmate_ ). On the reploid select screen, I had just been dying over and over to every single one, so I was frustrated and just started mashing the directional key to pick someone at random. And as I hit the button, the icon ended up at the bottom, between the reploids where the Doppler Stages pop up, and I had somehow managed to access the Doppler Stage 1 simply by mashing the directional key. Naturally, the stage completely destroyed me but, that was a funny glitch I encountered. Then just by playing GTA on PS1 for an extended period of time, one can encounter all sort of weird glitches in the game. Like a ghost police car that drives through you and vanishes because it was never actually _there_ according to the game.

One of your best videos yet. Loved the ending about the computer cheating!

I recall a stupid rumor about Mortal Kombat 3 having a "Nude-ality" specifically for Sheeva on the Genesis. Why that specifically? I have no idea. I also recall rumors about Super Mario 3 in regards to beating it so many times would give you all Hammer Man items (much like you get all P/Power wings after beating it once). Only other rumors were things that didn't matter such as people having or beating game "x" or having the high score; but they could never prove it.

Thank you for always these fun interesting videos. I feel like I learn something each time about my all time favorite video game console. :’D

I love how these in game cheats involve near impossible measures in already really hard games to beat. This makes sure nobody ever really knows.

Another rumor for me as a kid that sounded too good to be true. I was told that in the arcade version of Street Fighter 2 (maybe even the turbo version) if you played as Guile and were able to do 25 flash kicks in a battle, Guile would be able to pull out a service pistol and be able to fire 2 shots.

In reference to the Mortal Kombat "blood code" over here in the UK the magazine NMS actually published an april fool's joke for it, one part of it actually involved taping a coin to the front of the cartridge. Was funny I had a friend at the time who claimed he got it working... although that same friend also claimed he had an Ultra 64 and Killer Instinct as well as a PlayStation and Saturn converter for it that was in 1995 so he was obviously good at doing the impossible.

The design of Sheng Long from EGM's Street Fighter III preview would later become the inspiration for both Akuma and Gouken. Sheng Long later appeared as a playable character in Street Fighter IV.

LA calling Oakland to say "don't let the Raiders go to Vegas! Send them down here instead"

I remember back in grade school that a friend of mine told me he could actually turn Liu Kang into a dragon in the first Mortal Kombat game by pressing down forward back back High Kick when he won and bite the opponent's body off. I try this several times in multiple versions of MK1 and it never work that is until I realize he actually meant Liu Kang in MKII and not MK1.

Megaman haduken: all upgrades + all hearts + all tanks full. Make the jump to that top part, but you can exit the stage through the menu. Repeat and on the fifth time you get the haduken. No need to die

The rumor at my school was; Theres one final sword upgrade in link to the past, the platinum sword.. I can't for the life of me remember what supposedly unlocked it

The classics never gets old

Can't tell you how grateful I am for the spoiler warning right before the FFVI myths. I'm playing it for the first time and really enjoying it so far.

You don't need to kill yourself in Mega Man X to get the hadoken. You can just exit the stage through the menu five times.

Anybody every have Sub-Zero continuously throw your character from half a screen length away in Mk1? It happened to me a couple different times, when using Scorpion. I'd continue, same thing over and over until I'd just have restart. Most blatant cpu cheating I've ever seen.

One thing also with General Leo: the guest characters all share the same character slots as the permanent ones. Even the moogles that help in one section all coincide with a specific character. In order for Leo to be a permanent member, another character would have to be replaced.

I got Mortal Kombat for Snes as a kid and called Nintendo Power hotline and asked for the blood code. The counselor sounded genuinely sympathetic as he informed me that there was no blood code for the Snes version, I think he even apologized. He probably could hear the soul crushing disappointment and resignation in my voice after he told me.

Yeah, maybe that Leo thing is bunk, but my uncle works at Square and he told me you can totally bring Aeris back in FF7!

The subtitles interpreted snnnnesss drunk as "nice trunk" hahhahahahahaha

I've saved Cid before, but I usually just end up killing him because it can take way too long for the good fish to keep appearing, and the scene with Celes when he dies just has so much more emotional impact.

don't know why, but I keep rewatching this series every few weeks.

I vividly remember back at the time that Chrono Trigger was new, there were rumors floating around on some message boards that it was possible to unlock Janus as a party member. Yes, Janus, the little boy from the Kingdom of Zeal. So weird. Anyway, I'd love to hear more about that in one of these videos :)

The stuff about Leo reminds me of rumors about Aeris being revived by collecting "All 35 of the 1/35 Soldiers and combine it with a tissue and a super sweeper" or some horse shit lol

Computer: Wait, SNES Drunk is winning? Imma have to call Jaguars on that shit.

I'm so happy that the whole Sheng Long thing has been put to rest thanks to you.

Oh man, I had no clue about that Hadoken trick in Mega Man X. WOW!!!!!!!!!!

I always thought it was funny when my brother or my friends would be doing bad at a game, and when i told the to do something or use something, they'd be like: they won't let me!! Like who's they? LoL

Also heard: - You could play Frogfucius in Mario RPG - You could turn the cursed ring into the paladin ring in FF6

Video game rumors I semi-believed back in the day: -The console version of Morrowind had a secret unlockable co-op mode. Got this from a friend who claimed he talked with a cat-man that mentioned something about it in its text. -Captain Falcon and Samus are brother and sister. When Smash 64 came out, friend of mine claimed he read an official Nintendo comic that stated this as a fact. I honestly would like this to be true, or at least establish both series in the same universe. -There was a Star Fox movie that came out in Japan when the SNES game came out. Friend of mine claimed his dad saw a VHS copy of it somewhere and the reason the official art for the SNES game uses puppets, is because those were the props used in the movie. -a more recent one, but I remember multiple sites listing secret additional games you could unlock in one of the Taito Classics arcade compilations on PS2 with a secret code. As far as interesting things I discovered myself, most sites and guides for the N64 version of Duke Nukem 3D, only listed the secret stages you could unlock with the level select code, however, going off the players guide for the PC version, I was able to discover that at least 2 of the stages from the PC version can still be accessed in the game via their normal unlock methods, even when the level select code wouldn't list them. Maybe this isnt that unknown, but it was pretty interesting to me back when this came out.

Instead of Evil Ryu and Violent Ken Ultra SFII on Switch should’ve had Sheng Long

When I was in high school, I told my best friend that if you beat Star Fox 64 three times without turning off the system, you could unlock a super boss after Andross. We took a trip to Disney with the band that year. He stayed up all night trying it. When it didn't work around dawn, he started shaking the bed and yelling at me. "I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT FOR THIS!!!" Almost 20 years later and it's still hilarious. We still joke about it.

Wow, 25 years and I didn't realize you could save Cid till today. Makes me want to replay the game.

Awesome, awesome episode man. Didn't know Hagane WASN'T a Blockbuster exclusive. That means there's still hope.... for now I'll cherish my reproduction.

Myth?: The computer cheats to win. Me: Uh have you ever played a racing game?!

You deserve your 100k sub. And way more. Keep up the good work drunk.

The funny thing is, I lived in Japan @ the time SNES came out, plus four more years, and we heard all the same rumours! That must mean, most of those rumours had to have been started by the Video game mags.

The pause music in Madden 95 was amazing. The bass line still pops into my head from time to time.

Letting Cid die was never an option. Calling Jaguars or Carolina is solid strategy, those teams are stacked!

Ff6 is my favorite game. Leo would be amazing as a regular playable character.

You actually totally can glitch general Leo into your party after his death in Final Fantasy 6. It is pretty involved, you have to never save after you leave the first town, then game over after doing some specific things on the floating continent to manipulate the flag of whether you are supposed to have an airship, which has the effect of sending you to the last save with your levels and equipment still intact but back at the beginning story state. But because of the flag you manipulated you have the airship next to you which works for one flight before the glitch corrects itself. You use that to do some sequence breaking shenanigans, and also do a glitch later to leave south Figaro without getting Celes, the game fills in her slot with one of the random moogles from the opening cave in Narshe. But because you broke sequence earlier the game loads in Leo from his event because that's the current event state. You have to do a crap ton more weird glitches to get him into the party in a stable state in the world of ruin without soft locking, but it is actually possible! It's a lot more detailed than what I just listed though.

Here's one... back in the NES days my friend INSISTED that if you killed enough of any enemy in any world area of Crystalis a note would eventually appear on screen announcing that enemy was now extinct.

I knew it all this time. The computer does cheat! Lol

More Turbo and Sega reviews please! 😣

You actually can “beat” Vile, though, sort of in the same sense you can beat Ridley at the opening of Super Metroid.

What I love about aeris from ff 7 and leo from ff6, is that both can be bugged or glitched into the game. After so many years, the yuffie warp glitch became more widely known ect. They were truly tinkerbelled back to life by a true believing dedicated fan base.

Did you just call Leo an NPC?? He may not be around as long as Banon, but let us not relagate him to the same rank as Gau's freaking dad.

No your thinking that Madden cheats is 100% right on. That games cheats the player all the time.

I thought that Cid’s health was rather apparent, with his changing dialogue depending on the types of fish you bring him. You can also check the quality of fish you pick up in your key item inventory, looking to get “just a fish” or a “yummy fish” if you want his health to improve. Even though it doesn’t change much past the “leaving the island” scene, I’m glad that they didn’t pull their punches here and had it so you could actually fail.

Never really spent a lot of time trying to "revive" Leo... However I spent hours and hours trying to win the Robotic Imp or Airship piece. I was much younger then.

Naked code on mortal kombat.

I remember the infamous Broken Antenna and Gutsy Bat in Earthbound. Everyone who bought the game brand new got a player's guide for free, so we all had it in Elementary School. The guide listed Jeff's ultimate weapon as the Gaia Beam and said you needed to fix the Broken Antenna to get it, but the guide left out how to get the Broken Antenna. The guide also said you could get the Gutsy Bat from the Kraken in Ness's dreamworld and had a special section on it and everything, making it seem official. Both weapons were myths to us because nobody ever got them. Some of us spent hours trying to get the Gutsy Bat from the Kraken and some people lied saying they got it. I do not think anyone ever claimed to have found the Broken Antenna. I did not learn until later after High School that both weapons were in the game after all. The Broken Antenna is a 1/128 drop from a monster in the 7th Sanctuary (that the guide neglected to mention even existed) and the Gutsy Bat is a 1/128 from the Bionic Kraken just before the Giygas fight, not the Sea of Eden Kraken.

One joke that floated around when i was a kid in the 80's , is that you could get a machine gun in Pro Wrestling (NES) if you never get beat down on your back and beat the game. Hilarious but actually many many believed that and tried and tried 😂😂

Back near the end of elementary I had a friend who insisted there was a legendary 5th sword in The Legend of Zelda : A Link To The Past that you had to find the pieces to by digging for them on Death Mountain. We spent so much time going through each and every last bit of dirt. Later he admitted that he'd been inspired by Dave Morris' Blood Sword choose your own adventure series of books.

You need to do another one of these. They are awesome.

I'm really enjoying your videos mate! They're just the right duration for when I just wanna get educated with some interesting nostalgic facts while enjoying a cheeky gatorade sax at home after a busy day :) Those other 20+ minute vids I see around feel like too much of a commitment at times.. :P

When I was still a kid, I used to play Mega Man X with a Game Genii code that made everything die in 1 hit from X's "lemons" and Vile STILL couldn't die. If that doesn't bust the Vile myth, I don't know what would. I'd love to see more of these.

I can confirm the Johnny Cage fatality glitch in the arcade version of Mortal Kombat. I can also confirm that Guile in the SNES version of Street Fighter 2 could throw 2 sonic booms in a row. He literally says “Sonic Sonic Boom” and throws two.

Great video! One myth that I heard about when I was a kid involved battling the slot machine in Starfox. It was rumored that if you didn't attack the slot machine (which is accessed through the asteroid belt), it would get frustrated and would subtitle "You are not worthy for Andross" and would send you back to the beginning of the belt. It was rumored that you would have to ignore the slot machine for nearly an hour for this event to be put into motion. I've never done any extensive research on this, nor have I decided to invest an hour to try to find out. I'd rather use that hour to play super metroid, FF6, Chrono Trigger, DKC2, etc...but I've always wondered if it was true.

I remember one about continually hopping on a koopa troopa descending some steps to get dozens of extra lives in Super Mario. Wasted so much time trying to get it work . . . . until it did.

I laughed at the part where the computer kept calling time out in Madden 95 lol

Dude, you totally took me back to 5th grade when you mentioned the rumor about the naked Sonya blade code 😂😂😂