Weird gaming occurences.......

[Damaramu 0]

Ok.....have you ever been playing a game and something just totally out of the blue happens and you are like "That's never happened before! What the fuck!?" and then you just sat there and tried again and again.....but that weird anomaly never happened again. Then you became like Agent Mulder searching for the truth behind this phenomenom.

Well here's mine. And please share yours.

 

Me and my brother were playing the old Royal Rumble game on the Super Nintendo. We spend a good portion of the game just beating the ever loving shit out of Ric Flair on the outside of the ring. It had to be about 45 minutes of a good ass whipping. Then he just fucking GETS UP AND LEAVES! He just walked off down the aisle never to be heard from again....we were like "WTF? Where did he go!?" and he never came back. We went back and finished off his partner and won the match.

We played many similar games but Ric Flair never headed for the hills again.....wonder what the fuck happened?

[BX 0]

I was playing Eternal Champions on the Genesis against the computer. Well, I had that wizard dude, Xavier, and the opponent was the caveman with the stompass club. Well, I kept throwing fireballs at Mr. Ogg, when all of a sudden, he fucking swings his bat, and HITS MY FIREBALL! It comes FLYING AT ME, and hits me for like 40% damage!

 

I just sat there for a second, with my jaw open. I never saw that happen again, and good God, how I tried.

 

That was a hard game.

[The Kid 0]

Creepiest glitch was back in one of the old WWF N64 games, my brother and I were playing a cage match with I believe Owen Hart vs. Triple H. Owen climbed up half the cage, zoomed up off the screen and fell to the mat. It was about a month after Owen's death so it really freaked me out.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

Ric was just tired of jobbing...

 

 

my odd occurance was jobbing to Billy Gunn in SD2 ... grrr... I still have no idea how that happened...

[Damaramu 0]

Anything incredibley creepy happen to anbody? Like that feeling you got whenever you were playing Metal Gear Solid 2 alone at 3 am in the dark and the game started going crazy and talking to you?

I know that that was supposed to be in the game.

But anything that wasn't and creeped you out? Find any satanic messages? Did the devil speak to you through your video games? Ok I know that wouldn't happen but......you know.....

[2GOLD 0]

When playing THE THING one of my partners freaked out so much he shot himself.

 

After dropping my controller, I stared at my screen for like five minutes just repeating "What the f*ck" over and over again....until my other teammate shot my character in the back of the head for apparently not moving.

God, I hated that game. Cool game, but god I hated that game.

 

As for creepy, the only thing that ever creeped me out was playing Resident Evil and right at the scene where I know the zombie comes crashing through the window, someone knocked on my window and made me scream like a little girl.

 

That's about it I think.

[Guest JacK]

Well, the only one I can remember (and I'm sure there are others) is when I was playing TOCA WTC; and was racing a championship race at Surfers Paradise, and had been forced to make a couple of unscheduled pitstops due to damage, and so was half a lap behind.

 

The weird part was I completly missed my breaking going into a corner, being blindsided by another car, and I went headfirst into the tyre barrier. INstead of being majorly damaged, I ended up going through somehow, driving around in weirdness for a bit, before ending up on the main straight, just in front of the leader, allowing me to win! Suffice to say, it was cool.

[Guest I'm That Damn Zzzzz]

Mortal Kombat 2 for the SNES would randomly announce a second player has entered the tournament and take me to the two player character select screen, even though I didn't have a second controller hooked up.

That may have been my SNES's fault (I kept the damn thing on carpet,) though no other game ever did anything like that. I blame bad programming.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

While playing No Mercy once, my CAW of Cliff Young had HHH for a Turnbuckle Powerbomb, and then HHH appeared behind Cliff and did the full Turnbuckle Powerbomb motion onto Cliff's back, which caused him to get knocked down. HHH then pinned me.

 

Even in video games, I get HHHeld down.

[{''({o..o})''} 0]

Silent Hill, at 3 am, my cat jumps through of my window onto my lamp. Mr. Piss almost lived up to his name there.

[BX 0]

When playing THE THING one of my partners freaked out so much he shot himself.

 

After dropping my controller, I stared at my screen for like five minutes just repeating "What the f*ck" over and over again....until my other teammate shot my character in the back of the head for apparently not moving.

THAT... is fucking AWESOME.

[Jingus 0]

In the SNES Star Wars game one time: I got to the final level, the trench in the Death Star/X-Wing fight. Well, it was a rental, so of course it didn't come with an instruction book; ergo, I had no idea which button fired the torpedoes. Instead, I just blazed away at the exhaust port with my ordinary lasers, which SHOULD have resulted in my failing the mission.

 

Instead, a thing happened which nobody else has ever reported: the game suddenly stopped, and switched to a bizzaro camera view; a far-away shot of the trench, as if someone halfway around the Death Star was looking at it. A few small explosions happened around the trench, and every once in a while, a TIE fighter would fly out of it and away into the sky. It just stayed like that forever, not changing, until I finally had to reset the damn machine.

 

I called the Nintendo Help Line and asked them about it, and the guy had never even heard of it, and couldn't find any reference to it either. And I could never get the game to do it again. Weird.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Super Mario Kart, in 1993, I remember it as if it were yesterday. I was watching a replay of a time trial on the third edition of Bowser's track and my kart suddenly stopped and I had to drive it for the rest of the replay.

 

I had the Royal Rumble thing happen to me also, except it was a singles match and they lost by count-out.

[Nighthawk 0]

On Marvel vs Capcom 2, I had the game paused, and somehow managed to unpause, perform and connect with Zangief's final atomic buster by accidentally sitting on the controller.

Also, I suppose it's not really in a game, but I've thrown a controller against the wall and had it bounce right back into my hands. That's happened a couple times actually.

[Youth N Asia 0]

The first NHL faceoff game for the Playstation...played a game against the computer. And one of their players went all the way up ice just to put the puck in their own goal.

 

I was watching it just thinking "WTF..."

[The Amazing Rando 0]

When playing THE THING one of my partners freaked out so much he shot himself.

 

After dropping my controller, I stared at my screen for like five minutes just repeating "What the f*ck" over and over again....until my other teammate shot my character in the back of the head for apparently not moving.

God, I hated that game. Cool game, but god I hated that game.

 

As for creepy, the only thing that ever creeped me out was playing Resident Evil and right at the scene where I know the zombie comes crashing through the window, someone knocked on my window and made me scream like a little girl.

 

That's about it I think.

You have serious problems with The Thing don't you...geez...

[2GOLD 0]

You have serious problems with The Thing don't you...geez...

 

Nah, it's just the only real weird occurance in a video game that I can remember.

[Anakin Flair 0]

I remember seeing a cousin playing Super Mario Bros. At th end of the level (1st level I think) he jumped clear over the flag pole and ended up on the second level of the castle. Never figured out how to do that.

 

Also, my sister and I, at the last level before Bowser's castle, did a trick with kicking a turtle shell into a wall, stopping it, and kicking it over and over again so many times that we started getting extra lives. I think we eneded up with 300 extra lives.

[Ripper 0]

I was playing Eternal Champions on the Genesis against the computer. Well, I had that wizard dude, Xavier, and the opponent was the caveman with the stompass club. Well, I kept throwing fireballs at Mr. Ogg, when all of a sudden, he fucking swings his bat, and HITS MY FIREBALL! It comes FLYING AT ME, and hits me for like 40% damage!

 

I just sat there for a second, with my jaw open. I never saw that happen again, and good God, how I tried.

 

That was a hard game.

That was "THE MOVE" that I could use to walk through that game (although you really had to fight Jetta, Midnight and Larsen...they didn't throw projectiles much) and get to the final stage. The bat thing doesn't work on his projectiles.

 

I have never beaten that game. Ever. EVER. I could go the whole game without losing a round and could never finish it. Fucking Eternal Champions...

 

...

 

 

*goes to play it*

[2GOLD 0]

I was playing Eternal Champions on the Genesis against the computer. Well, I had that wizard dude, Xavier, and the opponent was the caveman with the stompass club. Well, I kept throwing fireballs at Mr. Ogg, when all of a sudden, he fucking swings his bat, and HITS MY FIREBALL! It comes FLYING AT ME, and hits me for like 40% damage!

 

I just sat there for a second, with my jaw open. I never saw that happen again, and good God, how I tried.

 

That was a hard game.

That was "THE MOVE" that I could use to walk through that game (although you really had to fight Jetta, Midnight and Larsen...they didn't throw projectiles much) and get to the final stage. The bat thing doesn't work on his projectiles.

 

I have never beaten that game. Ever. EVER. I could go the whole game without losing a round and could never finish it. Fucking Eternal Champions...

 

...

 

 

*goes to play it*

 

Did anyone on Earth ever beat that game?

 

I played that game over and over and over again but when it came to the last regular person after winning the first fight with them, I could never finish them off.

 

Did anyone actually win? And if you did, what the hell happens at the end???

[Ripper 0]

I was playing Eternal Champions on the Genesis against the computer. Well, I had that wizard dude, Xavier, and the opponent was the caveman with the stompass club. Well, I kept throwing fireballs at Mr. Ogg, when all of a sudden, he fucking swings his bat, and HITS MY FIREBALL! It comes FLYING AT ME, and hits me for like 40% damage!

 

I just sat there for a second, with my jaw open. I never saw that happen again, and good God, how I tried.

 

That was a hard game.

That was "THE MOVE" that I could use to walk through that game (although you really had to fight Jetta, Midnight and Larsen...they didn't throw projectiles much) and get to the final stage. The bat thing doesn't work on his projectiles.

 

I have never beaten that game. Ever. EVER. I could go the whole game without losing a round and could never finish it. Fucking Eternal Champions...

 

...

 

 

*goes to play it*

 

Did anyone on Earth ever beat that game?

 

I played that game over and over and over again but when it came to the last regular person after winning the first fight with them, I could never finish them off.

 

Did anyone actually win? And if you did, what the hell happens at the end???

It pissed me off because all of the backstories were so kickass that you wanted to win. Then you would fight the eternal champion. You could beat him. Then he would get the fuck back up and change to another animal. Then you would beat him again. And he would GET THE FUCK BACK UP and change to ANOTHER animal. Then, just once, I beat him again and he actually stops and says something, thus making me think I finally beat the asshole, and he GOT THE FUCK BACK UP and changed into another animal and beat me. So basically, you have to beat at least 4 times, maybe 5(I know he has the regular mode ,the tiger, the shark, bird of some kind, and I am sure that I saw a dragon on that wall too) to beat the game.

 

I put it in the battletoads, no body beat this catagory.

[2GOLD 0]

They should re-release that game on PS2 with enhanced graphics of course. The same game with the same stories, just advanced graphics.

 

Cause I KNOW I can kick his rear on PS2! I KNOW I CAN!

[Ripper 0]

They should re-release that game on PS2 with enhanced graphics of course. The same game with the same stories, just advanced graphics.

 

Cause I KNOW I can kick his rear on PS2! I KNOW I CAN!

It was 2d anyway, so it wouldn't be WORLDs better. The Sega CD version kicked all kinds of ass(no one ever beat that one either. I am starting to wonder if there is an end to that game).

[tetsubeav 0]

I think we eneded up with 300 extra lives.

Probably not. If I recall right, SMB only let you get 99 extra lives. If you hit 100, you died.

[Renegade 0]

I was playing Eternal Champions on the Genesis against the computer. Well, I had that wizard dude, Xavier, and the opponent was the caveman with the stompass club. Well, I kept throwing fireballs at Mr. Ogg, when all of a sudden, he fucking swings his bat, and HITS MY FIREBALL! It comes FLYING AT ME, and hits me for like 40% damage!

 

I just sat there for a second, with my jaw open. I never saw that happen again, and good God, how I tried.

 

That was a hard game.

That was "THE MOVE" that I could use to walk through that game (although you really had to fight Jetta, Midnight and Larsen...they didn't throw projectiles much) and get to the final stage. The bat thing doesn't work on his projectiles.

 

I have never beaten that game. Ever. EVER. I could go the whole game without losing a round and could never finish it. Fucking Eternal Champions...

 

...

 

 

*goes to play it*

 

Did anyone on Earth ever beat that game?

 

I played that game over and over and over again but when it came to the last regular person after winning the first fight with them, I could never finish them off.

 

Did anyone actually win? And if you did, what the hell happens at the end???

It pissed me off because all of the backstories were so kickass that you wanted to win. Then you would fight the eternal champion. You could beat him. Then he would get the fuck back up and change to another animal. Then you would beat him again. And he would GET THE FUCK BACK UP and change to ANOTHER animal. Then, just once, I beat him again and he actually stops and says something, thus making me think I finally beat the asshole, and he GOT THE FUCK BACK UP and changed into another animal and beat me. So basically, you have to beat at least 4 times, maybe 5(I know he has the regular mode ,the tiger, the shark, bird of some kind, and I am sure that I saw a dragon on that wall too) to beat the game.

 

I put it in the battletoads, no body beat this catagory.

I could always knock him down to his thrid form (which has claws I think). I picked shadow and went into shadow mode and just beat the crap out of him. When the shadow mode ran out I just pounded the pad like crazy and hoped I could actually hit the bastard.

 

 

You know what? I'm going to donwload the rom, find a cheat and beat him right now.

[Damaramu 0]

I think we eneded up with 300 extra lives.

Probably not. If I recall right, SMB only let you get 99 extra lives. If you hit 100, you died.

No I believe you can get more than 100. But it starts giving you a funny graphic to represent the lives since they didn't go into 3 digits.

[Guest I'm That Damn Zzzzz]

I think we eneded up with 300 extra lives.

Probably not. If I recall right, SMB only let you get 99 extra lives. If you hit 100, you died.

No I believe you can get more than 100. But it starts giving you a funny graphic to represent the lives since they didn't go into 3 digits.

http://classicgaming.com/tmk/stuff/smb_lives.txt

 

Summary: 128 to 257 extra lives = game over

258 extra lives = game not over (but the life counter resets to one)

 

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How the Super Mario Bros. extra lives system works  (I think)

MEGAߥTE  05.24.2000  [email protected]  http://kontek.net

 

##h represents Hexadecimal.

The extra lives information is stored in byte offset 106Ah

(Add 10h for ROM header and 200h if the trainer is present)

 

Value    Mario x      Extra life

00h      1            0

01h-08h  2-9          1-8

09h-12h  [crown]0-9  9-18

 

The crown appears after Mario x 9

The CHR data for the numbers 0-9 are stored in 00h-08h of the

second CHR table.

After this comes letters (09h-23h) and the rest of the second

CHR table.

Therefore, to find out which character will appear for each

value,

subtract 0Ah (because 0-9 are repeated) and look on the table.

 

Value    Mario x                Extra life

13h-2Dh  [crown]A-Z              19-45

2Eh-7Fh  [crown][tile 23h-75h]  46-127

 

This continues up until 7Fh.  However, after you obtain 128

1-ups,

you will get Game Over if you lose a life.  The reason for this

is that

the extra life data is stored as a signed byte.  This means

that for values

where the first bit is 0, the value is positive (00h-79h)

Where the first bit is 1, the value is negative (80h-FFh)

When you obtain a 1-up, the game simply adds 1 to the byte

value.

However, when the game checks to see if your extra life count

is greater than 0,

values past 127 will result in a value less than 0. (FFh=-1,

80h=-127)

This results in Game Over.

If you managed to get 257 1-ups, the counter resets to 00h,

and if you get 258+ 1-ups, the counter will be at 01h+,

and you won't get Game Over after you die.

Since 00h resulted in tile 01h, FFh +1 results in tile 00h,

so Mario x 0 would result.

 

Value    Mario x                Extra life

80h-FEh  [crown][tile 76h-F4h]  0 (-127 - -2)

FFh      0                      0 (-1)

 

Of course you could not get a reading of greater than 7Fh since

you would

automatically die, so to get this result, an emulator or game

enhancer must be

used.

 

To change the extra life value with the Game Genie,

you must use the base code: 12TOZ6

0 extra lives is AATOZA

To add    Change value

1          1 to P

2          1 to Z

3          1 to L

4          1 to G

5          1 to I

6          1 to T

7          1 to Y

8          6 to E

16        2 to P

32        2 to Z

48        2 to L

64        2 to G

80        2 to I

96        2 to T

112        2 to Y

128 (-127) 1 to E

129 (-126) 1 to O

130 (-125) 1 to X

131 (-124) 1 to U

132 (-123) 1 to K

133 (-122) 1 to S

134 (-121) 1 to V

135 (-120) 1 to N

etc.

255 (-1) = NYTOZE

 

I think that covers it.

EoF.

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[Renegade 0]

Bah I finished EC with Shadow just now and you get a paragraph saying what happens. Not really worth the effort.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

--Playing NHL '94 (I think, one of the ones for SNES) against my brother. Game is in OT, he's got the puck directly behind my net. He shoots (while still behind the net), and the puck goes through the back of the net (I'm assuming, since he never skated to the front) for a goal. I lose.

 

--SMB3 - my brother's playing, and has Tanooki Mario. He drops into a pipe that has a Hammer Brothers suit. I tell him to jump & turn into a statue right before getting the Hammer Bros. suit. He does it, but he then becomes a totally gray Hammer Bros. Mario. Not only that, but he also can only jump 1/2 the normal height of a jump, and can't get out of the pipe. Since time doesn't run in the pipe, he has to reset the game.

 

--This one I didn't witness 1st hand, but my buddies made sure to tape it on the VCR. The 1 guy is playing Triple Play '98 (I think, maybe it was '99) against the computer. His batter gets hit by a pitch, and then proceeds to stand perfectly still and "slide" up the 1st base line backwards (while still holding the bat). Then, after reaching 1st, he cuts across the infield (while still stiff as a statue and the bat in his hands) directly to 3rd base, where's he's tug out, and then suddenly springs to life & jogs back to the dugout.