Aside from Bugged Roxas, two other secret bosses nobody talks about are the Anti fights from 358/2. In Mission Mode, Anti/Heartless versions of Saix and Riku can be fought, replacing their original fights from the base game, and they’re a good deal harder than their counterparts.

Fun fact: I feared the Eliminator so much as a kid that he gave me nightmares about his encounter. and the system sector battle theme gives me PTSD thanks to him.

For the avatar menu I remember if you just left it idle for many hours, eventually balloons would spawn on their own. That was how I did it years ago. Getting to floor 100 was like a week long process. This video brings back memories. I haven't thought about these fights in a long time. It also reminds me how much of a nightmare the secret ending was to unlock. You had to get most of the in game trophies.

The secret boss that always sticks with me is Phantom from the original game. That thing actually caused me physical pain. The night after I discovered him, I had a nightmare where he was floating outside my room carrying a huge scythe. He doesn't have one in game, of course, though maybe he should. Anyway, in the nightmare, Phantom slashed me through the stomach with his scythe. The entire next day, I had intense psychosomatic stomach pains.

I'll never not love Lingering Will as a secret boss. It was satisfying to finally best him.

Data Riku in Re:Coded. Floor 100 in the Avatar Menu. Bought a separate copy and a separate DS to experience it. 6 hours to progress to the 100th in one go😂. A lot of people know about the Data Roxas Fight, but not about the Data Riku fight locked behind the Avatar Menu.

If memory serves, the Roxas secret fight is a precursor to obtain the Ultima Weapon. Though I could be wrong

I’m a massive ff15 fan and i delved deep into versus 13 before playing kh3. Seeing yozora in toybox then again in the secret ending had peaked my intrigue and god loading into yozora and instantly getting bodied left me speechless. His fighting style , cinematics and dms ooze a new beginning for the next saga. The cherry on the top was Yokos ost. A secret boss I hold dear to my heart and will never forget

You'd think after like the 5th attempt of getting bodied by guys 31 levels ahead of you, you'd go back and train up lol

I did remember fighting Debugged Data Roxas years ago as beating him and that System Sector with enough SP was the only way to get the Ultima Weapon in this game. But I have no idea how anyone was able to find Debugged Data Riku casually since it was locked behind a non-StreetPass mode. They both looked incredibly hard, but it might’ve been a bit more manageable when you’re at the proper level.

I remember playing this as a kid just watching him have this challenge makes me feel valid I think that's also how you unlock the old last keyblade in the game but you have to get everything perfect

Actually, I found a totally different method to unlock Data Riku when I was revisiting the game a couple years ago! I love this game - it was my first Kingdom Hearts game, actually - and after beating Data Roxas (which was a bit easier knowing Main Roxas' attack patterns and all the data effects - red data Roxas was terrifying with context), I wanted to try and complete my 100 floor sector. What I discovered online? If I left my 3DS on the "waiting for a balloon" screen for about *two hours*, a randomly-generated balloon appears! No other person needed. It took weeks and weeks of afk-ing my 3DS and bringing it to school to get the AI-generated characters necessary, but I did eventually get to fight Data Riku! I had an advantage with the Ultima, but it was still an incredibly fun challenge.

I would argue that the hardest boss in Recoded is the camera.

4:57 Ah yes, that is the Eliminator. Skyward comparing it to the Persona Grim Reaper is very apt…mostly; while I know the GR appears from hanging around too long on one Tartarus/Mementos floor, I’m not entirely certain what summons the Eliminator, I think he might be scripted to show up in certain rooms when a floor is fully cleared. Still, super tough, causes all the status effects, you’re meant to just run…but like the Reaper, it’s so satisfying to take him down.

I beat Data Roxas but never knew about Data Riku since I didn’t know anyone else that had the game. Re: Coded was ahead of its time imo. It had fun challenges like this and multiple different gameplay styles for the worlds that kept me on my toes

Dude that command deck the save file gave you was criminally not suited to beating those floors Having triple pursuit, judgment triad, eruption, etc. would've helped a ton

So, the thing with the NFC connection is that you weren't connecting to your Days DS, but that after a while, random characters would pop up. This was by design for those that may not have friends with the game to pass by, so you could still get Avatar Parts and dungeon floors even by yourself.

My favorite, is the one in days where one mission in twilight town you have to defeat 6 separate giant heartless and before leaving for the castle, a final even tougher boss pops up, the dustflier. This thing was tough especially taking into account the fact you have to take down the other six enemies before even unlocking it. It was tough but fun.

I remember doing this. Had to switch to the Oblivion keyblade and make use of that auto-block combined with the all-round block accessory to get by. It's insanely useful against Bugged Riku's dark aura attack.

When the game came out I unlocked several floors since you can also get the Square Enix avatars by connecting to a Wii but I ran into the problem you did where I got them all so I had no idea floor 100 had a secret boss. Since I stopped getting balloons I thought I had everything so great find and dedication!

With the Eliminator, whenever they showed up during my first playthrough when I was... I wanna say 12? I was friggin terrified. They followed you from room to room, dealt way too much damage, and I could never beat them.

imagine the ultimate finale you'd have to face both of them LMAO.

I certainly didn't know about these fights. Might replay-recoded for debugged roxas, but I'm not even gonna attempt that 100 floor stuff. Though the technology behind it is crazy.

Man, I remember doing this way back when Re:Coded came out and having that same exact situation with the corrupted Wizard. Absolute nightmare of a challenge.

for anyone wondering about the 100 floors: 1) even after getting all the preset balloons, the game will randomly give you a "pity" balloon as well. this will include a fully random result. 2) you can get the accessories of the avatars you meet by beating their floor. 1 every time you beat it. It's always a new one. the game tracks % collection of accessories and will even give you a trophy chip for it (used in stats grid. about as good as a level up.) 3) The scratch tickets not only give moves, but also give you accessories for you avatar, and also have the dalmations from kh1. and getting 99 dalmations gives you an exclusive super finishing move that sucks lmao. 4) at the end of every data sector (including the level 80 data roxas and the 100 floor gauntlet) there's a shop that allows you to spend points you've earned. 5) At the start of every floor, you wager 10%, 30%, or 50% of your current points (getting double back on win) on whether or not you can beat a specific extra challenge. these can range from "play during day" to "floor is lava" to "finish in X time" they're really interesting, and of course, to get the best and rarest things you'll need to wager 50% on every floor and succeed all of them. also, sometimes a floor is "infected" and will force you to wager 100% of your points instead. There's more data heartless to fight, too. really high risk, really high reward. really, recoded had SO MUCH going for it, it's just that it's story sucked so bad. Really wanna see recoded and days ported off ds at some point.

The Bugged bosses are a nightmare to reach and defeat. This is made even harder if you try to complete the wager challenges each floor offers. I think I spent days, maybe week just grinding to level 100, experimenting with different commands. I remember using Triple Pursuit and Judgment Triad a lot.

This is the most entertaining Kingdom Hearts video I've ever seen. I am so sorry that many a time I laughed at your pain and suffering. I think once I'm finished this video I'm going to see what other videos you have! :D (busting a gut over here! omgggg)

I know this is meant to be about the secret Roxas/Riku fights but man, I can't get enough of the Eliminator segments lmao, they truly encapsulate the Recoded experience.

Omg the back in business with sora donald and goofy hopping around you are such a good editor.

didn't realize both of these were secret bosses and i just ran thru them all when i first had the game. luckily i had brothers who played their own versions so we were all able to just change the avatar menu but i was also able to bring my DS around and got the balloons thru that so i never thought it was anything unusual.

This was stuff in the game I never had any clue about. thank you for bringing it to light and sharing it with us :D

Always love seeing new kingdom hearts content that have been lost in time. Thank you very much

Fun fact: the avatar mode has a feature where if you wait I believe roughly 5 to 10 minutes, the balloon will spawn for those who couldn't find anyone with a copy. It was how I got my 100 floors, I fought debug Roxas and debug Riku, Riku was easier than Roxas. Honestly Re:coded was my favorite game for a really long time, the 50 floors in Olympus was super fun, I remember being so close to getting every trophy, but that last thing I needed was a singular command, but before I could ever unlock that command, both my DSi and copy of the game stopped working, and now tragically the copy sits in the DS holder for memories sake. So many memories, almost like a Chain of memories

found you while I was at work, been watching your kh videos to pass the time. As someone who played Re:coded on the ds, I lucked out, I spent almost a week riding the transit bus in portland to different parts of town. It was a slog, and riku and roxas took forever because my ds would start to overheat in the busier parts of games

You're a trooper, dude. Digging through all of this abandonware to get to those bosses.

I'm glad to see others discovering these fights. So far I've not missed a single secret fight except any possibly in union cross as I didn't play that. They're all hard and fun and so satisfying when you get it.

I went against the debugged riki and roxas it was a challenge but I was lucky I had 6 friends that were a huge KH fans and we always brought our DS's to lunch in school. We all got to the fights just by us being around each other and always changing our avatars once we got new features. Seeing all this footage just took me back to being a teenager and talking boss strategies in between classes and lunch. Thank you for that.

I made all of the HP 1 HP. It's one of the adjustments you can do and I killed everything in one hit, but if I remember right it didn't work on the debugged Roxas, so I just equipped a bunch of elixirs and then used my limit over and over.

Why is my head canon with Debugged Data Roxas is that’s what you get when you mix Roxas and Zion’s data into one boss? Props to you man for even getting to the Debugged Data Riku tho definitely takes the cake for hardest Riku fight ever

Im just revisiting your channel after a while and i forgot how funny you are lol time to head back to all the videos i missed lol

Thanks. Very informative

Re:Coded is suffering every single second of the way. I remember beating it. Realizing I had 40 levels to gain for the post and gave up

jeez dude, props to you for grinding that out. I fought data roxas way way back but I didn't know about this boss

I had no idea these two bosses were that secret. I learned right away that you want to have Oathkeeper equipped when going up against enemies who love inflicting status ailments on you. You can survive Eliminators MUCH easier that way.

Out the many secret bosses in the series I think the most out there one was Julius. Not only he’s a reference to a short that Disney tries to shove under the rug but it’s the only way to get the Ultima Weapon in Dream Drop Distance.

Me(a re:coded fan): *sees the thumbnail* immediately knows which boss hes talking about and how to get there

I played Kingdom Hearts Re:coded when I was younger and loved it for the fun game mechanics. I was really upset when they turned it into a cutscene movie for the remix.

Love your content G. Keep up the great work. 💯

I’ve never faced Debugged Data Roxas and had no idea the Riku one even existed. Great job on beating them both dude 👍

I had a feeling I knew what bosses you were talking about, but I didn't realize Re:Coded didn't sell that well. I owned, played, and beat the DS version, and though I knew about these bosses, I never faced them because I could never get enough floors with the Street Pass system, because you had to sit there, keeping an eye on it to pop the balloons as they came, you couldn't just leave it be. EDIT: Nevermind, I didn't know about that special debug sector, I thought it was the bugged Data Riku and Bugged Data Roxas you get from doing 50 floors and 100 floors respectively for the Street Pass.

I don't think I ever knew about that secret area with debugged Roxas, and I certainly didn't know about the avatar stuff! Loved played this game as a kid, so thank you!

The true final boss that nobody talks about: Defeating Anti-Debug Tetsuya Nomura. How to unlock this: Dive into Tetsuya Nomura's heart, through the use of an IRL Keyblade. You're not a true Keyblade Master, until you've defeated it.

Man’s really tight he could go from barely playing the game to doing the hardest part at only level 50

Fun fact for Lingering Will: If you unequip all combo abilities and just jump and swing once, he gets stun locked. Its kinda hilarious.

I love how this is just a video showcasing your figurative and literal descent into madness

This was literally enjoyable to watch lmao! Suffering is content but the fact you forgot about mysterious figure is the icing on the cake because THAT DUNGEON WAS LITERALLY MADE BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CODED(lol pun intended) MYSTERIOUS FIGURE! That's why the end game dungeon in coded was so fun for many of us ha ha! Anyways, love your content! Gonna sub and like

This find is Incredible!!! I had no idea this existed when I played this years ago

I actually knew about this debug segment, it was a pain in the ass to beat. The avatar one I never knew about

My FIRST KH Game. A Classic in my book.

Amazing! I knew about Buggy Data Roxas, but never knew about the Avatar Menu thing! Awesome!

I knew about these. I actually liked Re:Coded and put a lot of hours into it. I found for the harder areas sometimes putting on the 1 HP setting actually helped getting to the bosses, I think I remember it working on the Eliminators. For the first, I lost at the final phase and had to give up. The second one, I used my brother's copy and DS to cheese getting to it, and actually beat it.

I thought we were going to talk about the Dustflier from Days, and that not a single person online seemed to have figured out that using shadows to proc static on it to delete a whole bar of health was a thing.

This was mad cool, this kh content is awesome

for re-coded the recommended level requirement is more stat based than actual level 1 lvup chip on the status board gives 1lv 1 strength 1 magic 1 defence and i dont remember how much hp however the game lets you swap out chips whenever you want and if you replace all your level chips with +8 stat chips you can have max stats while being considered lv 1.

I definitely remember trying to beat Bugged Roxas (Even with an action replay I couldn't do it) and I vaguely remember fighting Bugged Riku somehow too, but still could never beat either. May be time to bust the ol Ds out and try again!

Ayyy. Dope video I have best every game in the series except the mobile game. And I have never known about these. Cool fights man. I appreciate the hard work

Great to see the finished product🔥

I've never yelled go level up at my phone before so you win the honor of getting me to do that.

Re:Coded was my first KH game and I vividly remember playing those floors and getting to the end as a kid

I knew of one secret heartless shield boss you have to run away from in the multiplayer challenge version of the game, but one that is coming up recently that I never ran into, and thankfully never will since I lost my copy of the game, but apparently you fight a tougher data fight against Roxas?

Wow its been so long that I forgot about the NFC avatar feature needed to unlock 100 floors😯😲! That was pretty cool! Thanks for sharing this!

Watching this reminded me why I absolutely DESPISED playing through recorded lol kudos cuz I dont think I would EVER have the patience to attempt this myself lmao

There's also the Avatar Matrix, and that one has its own Final Boss, but getting there is... Getting there is... ... no.

This was a fun trip down memory lane with playing recoded back on my DS lite. that Debug data roxas fight was insane and required alot of youtube guides and game faqs, but the moment i saw that snake like one that you had to hit its head while getting stunned by its shock block body brought back memories! I should boot it up sometime!

If I remember correctly, you had to beat all of the enhanced versions of the regular heartless to unlock all the abilities. And then it was some ability that made this a bit easier after while I just forgot what it was cuz I haven't played in so long

It has been a LONG time since I did this so I might have the details wrong, but if you put your DS into sleep mode and do not encounter another player after 10 minutes or so, it gives you a free balloon. I did this MANY times so I don't think it was subject to the "one balloon per preset avitar" rule. I don't remember if I ever beat data riku, I was doing it trying to get all 99 Dalmatians off the scratch cards.

Ill give it to ya, ive been a fan of the game since the day it came out,played most of the games over and over, but this was the only kingdom hearts game i skipped. And now i must play it on my pc, and also yes i have never heard of these bosses. Well done brother

THAT RIKU JUGGLING SCENE, GAVE ME FLASHBACKS TO THE GBA VERSION OF ONE OF THE COM:RIKU FIGHTS.

The yeah science clip is so underrated bro. You are a mad genius. And so were the first people to synthesize methamphetamine.

Re:Coded is my favorite game of the franchise and I had no idea those bosses were there. Great video, thank you.

"no one knows about" me, apparently the one re:coded defender in the entire fandom: lol (i say that but i don't think i've ever bothered with avatar menu, i just know it exists)

Ugh, I remember that hassle... I was playing on an actual NDS, and had to rig up my PC to broadcast the signal for my NDS to pick up so I could get those Debug Dungeons. And I had to keep refreshing things so it was constantly detecting the computer as a different DS. That was hell.

I do remember attempting this fight, I gave up rather quickly as I was 99 and I still struggled.

I totally forgot about those Monster Octopus custom avatars in Re: Coded. I remember having a blast exchanging avatars with my friends back in high school!

10:08 Thats exactly what i said when i saw this move for the first time in my run as well although it was on the actual ds itself and i was young

I had this game when I was a kid I remember buying another copy just to unlock all 99 floors and I always wondered what happened when you got all 101 Dalmatians but that seems impossible since it was completely random

The courage graphic. Perfect

This is really interesting stuff, im trying to do a big video on the series with melon ds as well. This stuff is gonna be super helpful thank you.

yelling im confused when your afflicted with confuse is hilarious

Just so you know you didn't have to pass other people to use avatar mode. As long as you had the wireless active and left the ds in sleep mode you could get the floor balloons yourself while you slept or did other things so I did 100 percent this game when I had it

Though I never experience the detamined riku fight I remember when this game came out a lot of people in my school there was a kingdom heart fan club and everyone worked together to get the 100 floors to do this fight, I only ever got to floor 87

Fought both of them and the floors between had me on the edge of giving up but I pulled through it gave me war flashbacks when I saw your video lol but you did good

Re:Coded is unironically my favorite game in the series and I feel like it low-key explained how the mobile game characters will connect to the current timeline.

6:39 The same person who made that MF room before you fight Ansen in KH1, and the same person who put that whack gauntlet before reaching the GoA in KH2

I remember this back in the day and I did this on ds. The 100 floors took me forever and beating Riku made me cry. It only took 10 tries. I also made sure I was maxed out.

I remember doing this since I had two DSes back in the day. It took forever.

Honestly clicked on this with reservations and incredulous thoughts but to my surprise definitely bosses I've actually never encountered this was dope

I played the fuck out of re:coded and did all this stuff. I'm pretty sure that there were automatic balloons that popped up if you waited long enough. It took me so long as a kid. This game was honestly a treasure for me as a kid with how much hidden stuff there was. This vid unlocked so many memories for me honestly.

Saying this boss hasn't been fought by only 90% of the kingdom hearts community is such an understatement. I honestly believe there have been less than 100 people *total* on earth that have fought this boss.

I need you to open a playthrough channel bro that tower clips were hilarious 😂