This sounds like a debug feature. That would explain why it was so carefully hidden.

I love it when stuff gets found out in classic games.

Bizarre they left out a feature like this. Surely it would be a great selling feature? But it's eerierly similar to the hidden 2 player mode in the NES Tetris. But you need a Game Genic to access that.

This is the greatest thing I've seen in a long time. Gotta bit emotional tbh. Me and my father played Super Punch Out when I was a boy. He disliked most video games but really enjoyed this, GB Tetris and Operation Thunderbolt Arcade. We really bonded when he played SPO. I enjoyed his reactions and he would always dream up strategies that were mostly silly but funny to try and execute. I never really connected with my Dad in most subjects and in a lot of ways we are very different people. SPO was something that gave us both something special. I really felt good about my hobby around my Dad. I remember for years he would always ask if there was a versus mode or game like SNES Punch Out but two players. He didn't like any other fighting game, EA sports boxing game or otherwise. Just SPO. It was weird. Anyway sorry for the story just really stoked about this find. Nothing but respect to the folks who dedicate their lives to finding this stuff.

Jeez. Nintendo. Why do you bury things like this 😂

This is all well and good to find out now but can you imagine what it would’ve been like then? This would’ve made this one of the the greatest vs. for the SNES. If I ever can travel back in time, I know one of the things I’m doing.

This would make for a neat GVG Arcade stream

Thanks for this so much for this Steve! I'm glad you appreciated how incredible this is enough to give a rare news update!

didnt realize that this was a secret. my brother and i used to play thismode all the time.

For people wondering about why this was hidden for so long. It probably was just a debug tool used for testing and never intended to be public knowledge. I've worked on a few games that have level unlock codes and other such things that are still unknown to the public to this day.

it's definitely a debug tool like Sonic's Stage Select menus

Hm small world, it's weird that a Multiplayer mode took 28 years to find :)

I read the thumbnail as "hidden lore" at first and expected an in-depth explanation of the Punch Out timeline

Reminds me of how you could play Master Hand in Melee

Eventually a hacker will create a patch to make this mode a standard soon, that way we don't have to enter the code every time we want to fight an opponent. This and the playable Shin Akuma code (without using Game Genie) for Street Fighter Alpha 2 SNES was a good find that weren't found back then. I'm still waiting to see if anyone found a way to play as Krang's Android in TMNT Tournament Fighters for the Sega Genesis. He's in the game just not playable.

Guys I tested it, and this also works on the super punch out included on fight night round 2 for gamecube

I never knew about any of this and I've played this multiple times throughout my years. Kinda cool to see these things in old school games.

HOW HAS NO DEVELOPER MENTIONED THIS FOR 28 YEARS

It's kinda like the secert 2 player cheat in yoshi's island, I always liked playing the watermelon seed spitting one with my friend

Congratulations on 100k letssss goooo 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

You just made my day man!

Ugh, what I'd do for a new mainline punch-out title.

Fantastic video and yasss almost to 100k subs let's goooo

I'm distracted by Steve's thin side burn hairs and the neon light accentuating them in the back. :O

I knew about the character select, I thought it was common knowledge. I had no idea you could control the second boxer though.

I speedran this game a lot and now word comes out of nowhere from 28 years about the biggest feature that could be on a game from this time period, multiplayer. This is when the tournaments start being held :D

This is like getting a new game.

So Glass Joe might actually be able to defeat someone?

Put the gloves on folks, we got VS mode

Strange but cool to hear about!

OMG, I'll do this on my SNES mini

I used to play the hell out of super punch out with my little brother back when it was released, commonly holding the second controller while he played. As soon as I saw that this secret was discovered, I immediately recognized the character select screen. We had accidentally stumbled upon it one or two times while playing the game. We didn’t really know what to make of it as kids. I just thought it was some weird mode built into the game. We never explored enough to find that it actually contained a two-player mode. I’m pretty excited to find out that this was hidden in the game all along.

Yup made my day too can’t wait to play!

The control the master hand code of the SNES.

Woah!!! 🤯

Please don't tell me Mike Tyson's Punch Out had this. I think my mind will ooze out of my nose if it did.

Wow wth why didn’t they show this in 92 lol.

But how was this found?

Gonna fire up the mini!!!

That's pretty cool.

Considering how much the NES Punch out has been combed through for speed running and challenge runs, it's pretty insane this secret stayed hidden for so long on Super Punch Out. I wonder how many old games have hidden secrets like this.

That ain’t Little Mac. That’s his bootleg clone, Peter Punch.

Rock And Stone!!!

This reminds me of people discovering the bearded man secret hint in Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. Now someone needs to find a secret in Punch Out!! Wii in 2039 and the trilogy will be complete.

No way!!

That's pretty wild

DUDE THE CONTENT IS GREAT BUT GET SLEEP YOUR EYES ARE TOO BAGGY WE CAN WAIT FOR YOU

…what?!? I can’t believe this! (…and I just sold my original copy of the SNES cart as part of a big move. 😢)

Why aren't more transparent with these secrets? Especially after 20_years

And you thought the Nier Automata church was the biggest secret thing this year.

I saw someone add info about this on the Head-to-Head page on the Punch-Out!! wiki with no instructions on how to do it. After seeing it, I looked it up and have confirmation that it is real. I added how to do it on the page, and I will learn more via my own gameplay.

I have never ever been more surprised by a late game discovery in my life o_o ITS NOT EVEN HARD TO ACCESS >:O what: the actual fuck ________________ how come no-one was able to discover this in code?

Woooooow!!!!

tried this in switch. menu comes up but b+y on 2 and A on 1 doesnt do anything. :(

how did it take so long

It's wild to me that Nintendo didn't advertise this for SNES Online. They had to have known about it right? RIGHT?!

Goddamn

Does not work for me

Wait? Really?

That's cool but another random thing Nintendo did leaving me scratching my head asking why? Why????????

it isn't working

Is this possible with joy cons??

dont people go through game files? wouldnt this be in the files?

Bogus man (a nickname the community made for super macho man) is now playable

Uh, how can this be the biggest secret in a first party Nintendo game ever after we found out that L really was real 2401.

What button do you press at the character select screen?

where is john

You know? Is funny that's happening lately that when something at GVG gets posted, at GX there's something similar being posted like in a some sort of competition. Or something at GX gets done like it were rushed. Sorry it's just too coincidental that is strange....

Wait did people seriously not know about this?

so no footage no nothing? Just some person yapping about a tweet I already read? COOL

I can’t believe people will complain about OW2 not being a sequel when this is the 3rd time splatoon has done that. 3rd being the worst offender so far.