If you beat Story Mode and then play through it again, the captions for Jonathan's response to Dio kicking his dog Danny in the jaw are slightly altered. Instead of reading "何をするんだ" ("What the hell are you doing?!"), it will now read "何をするだ" ("What the hell you doing!?"), which is identical in meaning, but omits the hiragana character "ん". The typo in the second playthrough is deliberate and references a mistake made in that scene when it was published in the manga's original 1987 print run. This typo stuck around in reprints for almost 15 years, becoming a meme among Japanese fans for making the intended line sound like a "country-like scream", until it was finally corrected in a paperback release in 2002.
"Meatophobia", the ominous background music that plays when approaching Pillar John and activating Pizza Time, features a timestretched version of the same hip-hop orchestral hit sample used in the Small Graffiti sound effect from Jet Set Radio.
At any time during gameplay, a cheat code can be activated as many times as needed to receive one free medicine bottle, allowing players to stock up on as many health items as they need to get through the game. This was most likely not meant to be seen by players and was possibly intended for debug purposes during development. The code involves standing still, pressing Up/Down/Left/Right and repeating this combination 16 more times in a row.
At any time during gameplay, if you press Down 100 times in a row, Rambo's combat knife will automatically gain 15 EXP points. This cheat does not have a limited use and can be activated as many times as needed, suggesting this was meant to be a code used for debug purposes during development and not to be used by players.
There are two hidden methods to obtain permanent unlimited ammo. In order for both of these methods to work, Rambo's combat knife needs to be at Level 1 (20 EXP points), which is difficult due to Level 2 being only 320 EXP points away, making the chances of the player collecting the necessary ammo before Rambo levels up slim. As such, these methods were likely only intended for debug purposes and not meant to be discovered by players. If you manage to collect exactly 2 throwing knives, 3 arrows, 4 exploding arrows, 5 machine gun rounds and 6 hand grenades, all ammo and health items will be permanently refilled. The other method to get permanent refills is to have an ammo count of exactly 77 throwing knives, 77 arrows, 77 exploding arrows, and 77 machine gun rounds.
When the title screen menu cursor points to the "START" option, press B on Controller 2, then press Up/B/Right/Left/Down/Right/Left/A/B/Right/Select/B/Down/Start on Controller 1. This code unlocks a pair of debug features that can be used on Controller 2 during gameplay by pressing either A to skip the current level (up to the ending sequence), or B to switch between the Jekyll and Hyde modes.
Naughty Dog's name was inspired by their first company mascot Morgan, a Labrador/Rhodesian Ridgeback mix born in 1989 who was the pet dog of co-founder Jason Rubin starting with the development of Rings of Power. During the development of Way of the Warrior, Morgan lived with both Rubin and co-founder Andy Gavin in poor living conditions and she was often fed some of their meals from the fast food chain McDonald's. While she first appeared in a game as a Special Thanks credit in Rings of Power, Morgan technically became part of the company when she was given her own photo ID card after Naughty Dog moved onto the Universal Interactive Studios premises for the development of Crash Bandicoot. She was credited as a member of Naughty Dog on their four Crash Bandicoot games and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. She died in 2002 at the age of 13 during the development of Jak II, and several tributes to her were put into Jak II and Jak 3.
Jak II's manual and end credits feature a standard In Memoriam dedication for Morgan, but there are two more hidden tributes in the game. There is a green neon sign spelling Morgan's name written in the Precurian language inside the Hip Hog Saloon located to the left from the door. Additionally, in the Power Station in New Haven City, a set of random scrolling Precurian messages can be found on the large computer monitor. Translating these to English will reveal the following:
• "Morgan I miss you" • "Morgan" • "Thirteen years hard time" • "There will never be another" • "Good dog" • "I will always love you"
Another message can be found on computer screens you can view at eye-level, which reads "Morgan is still missed even after a year has passed". These computer screen messages are re-used on the monitors in both the Power Station and the Freedom League buildings in Jak 3. Since Morgan's death, Naughty Dog have credited more pets as members of their team and/or company mascots, with the first successor being a Labrador puppy named Osiris who first appeared in the credits of the first Jak and Daxter game alongside Morgan.
When traversing the drainage pipe that leads to Barnsworth, the player can spot graffiti that reads "PAY NO POLL TAX" and "DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!" These reference slogans from opponents of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
The former references the Community Charge, a controversial policy of the Thatcher administration that resulted in her 1990 resignation following widespread protests (it was ultimately replaced by the Council Tax three years later). The latter message references a campaign by anti-Thatcherites following her death in 2013 to inflate the chart position of "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead", a song from the 1939 film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, under the pretense that the BBC would be forced to play it over the radio. The network ultimately compromised by including a brief snippet in a news report about the campaign. The presence of both references ties in with the game's setting in Northern England, where anti-Thatcherism is particularly pronounced.
After obtaining the map from the karaoke bar, if the player selects the "じっとみつめる" ("Stare") option and waits on the resulting screen for an hour, a text box will appear mimicking the sign-off messages used by Japanese TV channels before the screen goes black. Waiting an additional three hours brings up a series of SMPTE color bars, and waiting one more hour brings up a second text box which simply reads "おはようございます" ("good morning"). Following this, the player is returned to the karaoke bar, with their progress reverted to before obtaining the map.
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On the title screen, if you press the Run button at the exact moment when Momo changes from her civilian form to her powered-up form, a hidden options menu will appear that functions as both a sound test and a level select. The top half of this screen depicts Momo lounging in a bathtub, with a caption below reading "MOMO IZIRI". The latter is a play on words referencing the screen's contents, as it can be translated as either "tinkering with Momo" (i.e. playing around with in-game settings) or "groping Momo."
All the playable characters were originally intended to have heartstruck expressions where they blush with hearts in their eyes, but only Bean's expression is used in the final game as a rare random object which Amy can drop using the special move "Heads Up!"
The New World script seen throughout the game is a cipher for the Latin alphabet. While this is most visible with the subtitles for "Welcome to the New World", which are provided in both scripts, all other instances are just as easily translatable, producing coherent English-language messages.
In an interview for Nintendo's "Ask the Developers" column, series director Shinya Kumazaki and associate producer Kei Ninomiya revealed that they deliberately designed and utilized the New World script in a way that would allow players to translate it themselves, with Kumazaki describing it as a way to make the game more immersive for curious audiences.
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In the Japanese release of the Sega CD version, if the player beats the game on Hard difficulty and waits ten minutes after the credits, the game will display a bonus image depicting Reika topless, with the screen cropped to just barely hide her nipples from view. This Easter egg is removed in the international release.
As a sort of call-back to Super Paper Mario, the opening scene of The Thousand-Year Door remake features portraits of Mario's partners from Paper Mario. At the end of the game, Spoiler:a new second portrait of the partners from The Thousand-Year Door can be seen alongside it, lining up with the beginning of Super Paper Mario.
In an intro dialogue with Geras and Johnny Cage, the former will ask, "You want a sports almanac from the future?" to which Cage will respond "Forget it. It was just an idea."
This is a reference to the film "Back to the Future Part II" where the main antagonist, Biff Tannen, gives his younger self a sports almanac from the future so that he can become rich by betting on future sports outcomes.
In the American House, Pappas and Mamas' room features a shelf that when examined lists off the names of three comic manuscripts Pappas wrote: "Platinum Surfer", "Z-Men", and "SCAWN". These are references to the Marvel Comics and Image Comics properties Silver Surfer, X-Men, and Spawn respectively.
In the original release of the game, attempting to quit during the scene where Spoiler:the player character walks in on the aftermath of Sayori's suicide would open a modified version of the exit prompt. The text in this version of the window is heavily distorted, and a rapidly flashing GIF portrait of Sayori appears in the leftmost region. This Easter egg was removed in the Version 1.1.1 update due to concerns that audiences would interpret this as the game mocking them for feeling distressed at Spoiler:a realistic depiction of suicide; another likely factor for its removal is the risk that the flashing could pose to epileptic or photosensitive players. Despite this, the prompt's assets are still present in the game's files.
At the end of the game's manual is a page demonstrating how to save your progress with an 8-digit passcode, with the pilot in the manual showing his own passcode: #1BC3904. Trying to use this passcode in the game will deliver the following message:
"USAF REGULATIONS DO NOT PERMIT SAVE CODES TAKEN FROM GAME MANUALS."
However, if you enter this code backwards as 4093CB1#, Invincibility will be enabled and every mission in Theater mode will be available to select.
At the start of Bayonetta, a funeral is held for a notorious criminal known as "Eggman the Destroyer". This, to a Western audience, seems like a very obvious reference to Sonic the Hedgehog's main antagonist Dr. Eggman, as Bayonetta was published by Sega. However, series creator Hideki Kamiya claimed that he randomly chose the name Eggman and was not aware that there existed a popular Sega character with the name, choosing to leave it as is in the hopes that fans would "get a kick out of that".
If you beat Story Mode and then play through it again, the captions for Jonathan's response to Dio kicking his dog Danny in the jaw are slightly altered. Instead of reading "何をするんだ" ("What the hell are you doing?!"), it will now read "何をするだ" ("What the hell you doing!?"), which is identical in meaning, but omits the hiragana character "ん". The typo in the second playthrough is deliberate and references a mistake made in that scene when it was published in the manga's original 1987 print run. This typo stuck around in reprints for almost 15 years, becoming a meme among Japanese fans for making the intended line sound like a "country-like scream", until it was finally corrected in a paperback release in 2002.
"Meatophobia", the ominous background music that plays when approaching Pillar John and activating Pizza Time, features a timestretched version of the same hip-hop orchestral hit sample used in the Small Graffiti sound effect from Jet Set Radio.
Naughty Dog's name was inspired by their first company mascot Morgan, a Labrador/Rhodesian Ridgeback mix born in 1989 who was the pet dog of co-founder Jason Rubin starting with the development of Rings of Power. During the development of Way of the Warrior, Morgan lived with both Rubin and co-founder Andy Gavin in poor living conditions and she was often fed some of their meals from the fast food chain McDonald's. While she first appeared in a game as a Special Thanks credit in Rings of Power, Morgan technically became part of the company when she was given her own photo ID card after Naughty Dog moved onto the Universal Interactive Studios premises for the development of Crash Bandicoot. She was credited as a member of Naughty Dog on their four Crash Bandicoot games and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. She died in 2002 at the age of 13 during the development of Jak II, and several tributes to her were put into Jak II and Jak 3.
When traversing the drainage pipe that leads to Barnsworth, the player can spot graffiti that reads "PAY NO POLL TAX" and "DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!" These reference slogans from opponents of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
After obtaining the map from the karaoke bar, if the player selects the "じっとみつめる" ("Stare") option and waits on the resulting screen for an hour, a text box will appear mimicking the sign-off messages used by Japanese TV channels before the screen goes black. Waiting an additional three hours brings up a series of SMPTE color bars, and waiting one more hour brings up a second text box which simply reads "おはようございます" ("good morning"). Following this, the player is returned to the karaoke bar, with their progress reverted to before obtaining the map.
All the playable characters were originally intended to have heartstruck expressions where they blush with hearts in their eyes, but only Bean's expression is used in the final game as a rare random object which Amy can drop using the special move "Heads Up!"
The New World script seen throughout the game is a cipher for the Latin alphabet. While this is most visible with the subtitles for "Welcome to the New World", which are provided in both scripts, all other instances are just as easily translatable, producing coherent English-language messages.
As a sort of call-back to Super Paper Mario, the opening scene of The Thousand-Year Door remake features portraits of Mario's partners from Paper Mario. At the end of the game, Spoiler:a new second portrait of the partners from The Thousand-Year Door can be seen alongside it, lining up with the beginning of Super Paper Mario.
In the original release of the game, attempting to quit during the scene where Spoiler:the player character walks in on the aftermath of Sayori's suicide would open a modified version of the exit prompt. The text in this version of the window is heavily distorted, and a rapidly flashing GIF portrait of Sayori appears in the leftmost region. This Easter egg was removed in the Version 1.1.1 update due to concerns that audiences would interpret this as the game mocking them for feeling distressed at Spoiler:a realistic depiction of suicide; another likely factor for its removal is the risk that the flashing could pose to epileptic or photosensitive players. Despite this, the prompt's assets are still present in the game's files.
At the end of the game's manual is a page demonstrating how to save your progress with an 8-digit passcode, with the pilot in the manual showing his own passcode: #1BC3904. Trying to use this passcode in the game will deliver the following message:
By standing idle in the mobile version of Episode I, Sonic will pull out an iPhone, hold it up to his ear and spin around in place.