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Shovel Knight
Shovel Knight (2014)
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In the Plague of Shadows campaign, during the penultimate boss fight Spoiler:against the titular Plague of Shadows inside Plague Knight's mind, you can defeat it by standing still and doing nothing for around 40 seconds, because the boss cannot hurt you in the spot you stand in at the very start of the fight. After this time has passed, the boss (labelled as "????" in the game's text box) will say:

????:Spoiler:YOU ARE STEADFAST IN YOUR RESOLVE... MAYBE THERE'S HOPE FOR US YET...

before transforming into its second form and the campaign's final boss fight, Spoiler:the Corrupted Essence.
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Easter Egg, Hidden Message, Secret
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Company: Sega
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Attachment The Sega VR is an unreleased virtual reality headset prototype add-on for the Sega Genesis announced and worked on primarily by Sega of America throughout 1991-1994. Its release was cancelled due to development issues and younger users inducing motion sickness and severe headaches from use. Only 5 games were known to have been announced or in development before its cancellation:

• Nuclear Rush: A simulation in which users pilot a hovercraft in a futuristic war.
• Iron Hammer: A shoot 'em up piloting a helicopter gunship inspired by EA's Strike series.
• Matrix Runner: Reportedly a cyberpunk adventure game inspired by Konami's Snatcher.
• Outlaw Racing: A vehicle racing and combat game.
• Virtua Racing: A port of Sega's 1992 Formula One racing arcade game announced as a launch title for the Sega VR. It's unknown how far this port made it into development, but Virtua Racing would later be released for the standalone Sega Genesis in 1994.

In November 2020, the Video Game History Foundation announced that they had successfully emulated the Sega VR's original hardware through HTC Vive with the help of fellow preservation website Gaming Alexandria by using parts of the source code of Nuclear Rush, as well as insight on the hardware and inner-workings of the cancelled games from some of their lead programmers.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Unreleased Hardware
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (2009)
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After joining Wigglytuff's Guild, you will unlock the game's second dungeon, Drenched Bluff. If you fail your first two attempts at completing the dungeon, at the end of the second day, you and your partner will be summoned by Chatot to the Guildmaster's chamber, assuming that Wigglytuff is angry about the past two failures. After entering his room however, a chipper Wigglytuff gives you a Reviver Seed, an Oran Berry, and a Max Elixir, encouraging you to do your best to succeed tomorrow.
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Easter Egg, Secret
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Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010)
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Attachment The Whomp King, the boss of the Throwback Galaxy, will recite his original speech from his first encounter with Mario at Whomp's Fortress in Super Mario 64. If you lose the fight and then try again, he will start to recite the speech again, and then stop himself declaring he's tired of it. Excluding Bowser and Bowser Jr., the Whomp King is the only standard boss in the game with dialogue. When you deal the final blow to the Whomp King, he makes a unique face that cannot be seen normally because he is lying down when defeated.
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Easter Egg, Reference, Secret, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Victorious Boxers: Revolution
Victorious Boxers: Revolution (2007)
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When bringing the game in the west, publisher XSEED games was worried about releasing an Anime-based game during a time when the games had notoriously low sales and retailers were reluctant to stock them. To combat this, XSEED put a generic boxer silhouette on the box art. Fans of the series reacted negatively to this change.

To fix the error, XSEED changed the silhouette on the box to that of the main character, Ippo, on top of boxing glothes, and created a bonus reversible cover. To this day, XSEED Games tries to make reversible covers whenever possible.
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Release Difference, Version Difference
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Rabbids Go Home
Rabbids Go Home (2009)
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The game faced controversy around its release, as it was reported that Ubisoft initially recalled copies of the game in the UK due to a line that was considered offensive. Ubisoft refuted this however, stating the title wasn't being recalled. The game was later re-released in the UK with a PEGI 12 rating.
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General, Real Life, Rumor, Theory
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Wii Sports Resort
Wii Sports Resort (2009)
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Golf was never planned to be in the game. However, Shigeru Miyamoto incorrectly stated in an interview that golf was in the game, so Nintendo felt they had to put it in.

According to Director Takayuki Shimamura: "Right after getting back to Japan, he suddenly said: "You know we're including golf now." Apparently he'd stated in an interview that this time round golf shots would be determined by the backswing, even though at that time a golf game didn't exist in any shape or form!"
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Development, Early Idea
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Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010)
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Mario Galaxy (Game)
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Attachment The Toy Time Galaxy theme in Super Mario Galaxy and the Supermassive Galaxy theme in Super Mario Galaxy 2 may both be based on "Mario Syndrome", an alternative dance remix of the Super Mario Bros. overworld theme by Japanese act Bonus 21 that was released as a 12" and cassette single in 1986. Both themes feature similar instrumentation and compositional choices as "Mario Syndrome", though foregoes the 1986 song's dance elements.
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General, Music, Similarities, Theory
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Mario Sports Mix
Mario Sports Mix (2010)
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At the end of a match in the Japanese version, it says "GAME SET", whilst in the Western versions this message was changed to "GOOD GAME".
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Regional Difference, Version Difference
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Fortune Street
Fortune Street (2011)
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Attachment An image of a Club Penguin screen can be found in the data, which has no affiliation with Nintendo or Square Enix. This same image can also be found in the data for Club Penguin: Game Day!
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Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Strider
Strider (1989)
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Attachment In the game's third stage Flying Battleship Balrog, in the upper-leftmost corner of the first room inside the ship are two stacks of artillery shells. Destroying the shells will reveal a panda that dances briefly before disappearing. According to Strider's designer and director Kouichi Yotsui, this easter egg was snuck in without his knowledge as a joke, and the person who did this later became the wife of Mega Man character designer and later series producer Keiji Inafune.
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Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Secret
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Assassin's Creed Valhalla (2020)
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Attachment The sidequest "The Prodigy" is an extended reference to the English electropunk band of the same name:

• The central character of the sidequest is a bard named and designed after Prodigy frontman Keith Flint. Keith can be found in the kingdom of Essex, the real Flint's homeland.
• Keith explains that the Bishop of Ruins has condemned his music as immoral, referencing the Prodigy's controversial reputation in their native UK.
• Keith states that Eivor's appearance is "surely an omen," referencing the Prodigy's 2009 single "Omen".
• During and after the fistight with the Bishop of Ruins, Keith sings "smack my bishop," playing on the Prodigy's 1997 single "Smack My Bitch Up".

Kristen McGorry, one of the game's writers, confirmed on Twitter that the allusions were an intentional tribute to Flint, who died the year before the game's release.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Persona 3
Persona 3 (2006)
subdirectory_arrow_right Persona 3 Portable (Game), Persona 3 FES (Game), Persona 3 Portable (Game)
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If the protagonist has not entered Tartarus once within the first 10 days, upon returning to the Iwatodai Dormitory that evening, Mitsuru will confront and scold him/her for slacking off and forcibly bring him/her to Tartarus just before the first Full Moon Operation. She will also stop the protagonist from leaving until S.E.E.S has started exploring Block 1 of the tower.
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Easter Egg, General, Hidden Message
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Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure
Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure (1994)
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During the final boss fight with the Booger Meister, after Boogerman flushes him down the toilet, hold A/B/C/Start (Sega Genesis version) on a second controller plugged into the console before he picks up the stolen rod of Snotrium 357. This will cause two live-action people (most likely two of the game's developers) to walk out and wave to the player as the credits roll, as well as playing a different music track. This ending can also be accessed in both releases of the game under the name "Ending 2" by using their respective level select cheat codes, but the code to normally access this Easter egg during the boss fight in the SNES version is unknown.
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Easter Egg, Music, Secret
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006)
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Room 49 of the Cave of Ordeals contains 3 Darknuts to defeat the first time around. If you play through the Cave of Ordeals a second time and reach this room, a 4th Darknut will be added as an additional challenge.
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Easter Egg, Secret
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Beyond Good & Evil
Beyond Good & Evil (2003)
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Attachment In Jade's bedroom, a nearby radio presents announcements including one that promotes a Hillyan News website. To help promote the game around its release in 2003, Ubisoft launched an official Hillyan News website full of short articles and blurbs pertaining to the planet of Hillys and the in-game universe, presumably published weekly between October 2 and December 1, 2003. The website is no longer hosted by Ubisoft, but can be found on the Internet Archive.
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Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Website
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Beyond Good & Evil
Beyond Good & Evil (2003)
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Attachment In the Laboratory within Nutripils Factory, a bug worth 800 units can be photographed under the scientific name "Aedes raymanis". This bug is a direct homage to the species of Mosquitoes featured in Rayman, another Ubisoft series that director Michel Ancel created.
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Cameo, Easter Egg, Reference
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Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing (2003)
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The maximum speed the trucks cap off at when driving in reverse amounts to 12.3 undecillion miles per hour (for perspective, this number is 1.8341329e+28 times the speed of light), because no upper limit was implemented by the developers to cap off the speed for driving in reverse at a more realistic limit. After this speed is reached, the speedometer displays a value of -001.$ and causes you to win the race despite having driven in reverse practically infinitely. This is because as a truck travels faster in reverse, it will gradually travel along more of the surface area of the race track until it covers every pixel on the map simultaneously including all of the race track's checkpoints, meaning that the truck won the race because it was everywhere at once.
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General, Glitch
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Pokémon Ruby Version
Pokémon Ruby Version (2002)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Sapphire Version (Game)
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In May 2020, a Japanese livestreamer began a lengthy series using his two pet Siamese fighting fish to play through Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire using a system involving several programs connected to the game's emulator. These programs rely on a webcam to track the fish's movements and determine what actions to perform by where it swims over a map placed behind the fish tank, so wherever the fish swims, it blocks a map square with a picture of a controller input on it and the system performs said input in-game.

On October 3, 2020, during a stream playing through Pokemon Sapphire, one of the fish named Mutekimaru was working on a boulder puzzle in the Seafloor Cavern on Route 128 when it performed a glitch that appeared to have not been widely known in the past. The fish used Strength on a boulder, which moved it and additionally created a duplicate boulder in its place, soft-locking the puzzle until the room is reset. The streamer later figured out how to trigger the glitch himself, and uploaded a step-by-step guide to YouTube on how to perform it.
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Emulation, General, Glitch, Livestreaming, Real Life
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Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto (1997)
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In an interview with DMA Design creative director Gary Penn in 2011, he revealed that the police in the game turned out the way they did because of a supposed bug where police cars in pursuit tried to ram through the center of the player's car rather than a specific side, causing their driving to become extremely aggressive and seemingly insane. Penn cited this as the point in Grand Theft Auto's development where it stopped being boring to the developers and became more "dramatic", and they started to focus on general play and "being able to piss around" more than the game's missions.
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Development, General, Glitch, Inspiration
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