What are some bizarre rumors you came across online when you were young?
I read one where the result was that when you met Saria in the Lost Woods, she would have a fish on her lap. The author seemed to think it was an intentional easter egg by Nintendo, and said it was a dirty joke by Nintendo and that he didn't want to explain it. At the time I didn't understand, but later realized maybe the fish was supposed to be sperm? The way he insisted it was vulgar joke and refused to explain it made it seem like it was true.
Anyway I just looked it up and it seems like it is a real glitch. Weird, kind of defeats the purpose of this thread, but lets still talk about weird rumors you read, true or not.
>>3306130
Pokemon Mew truck rumor.
One time the gamewinners website told me you could unlock Pichu in Mario Kart GBA.
>>3306130
>but later realized maybe the fish was supposed to be sperm?
What? No, man, it's like a common joke that vagina smells like fish. She had the fish over her crotch. I don't know if it was an intentional joke on the part of nintendo, but the author you're talking about almost certainly was implying that the joke was about pussy smelling like fish...
Thoughts on the Babylonian Castle Saga? Never played any of these, but they seem interesting. Worth my time?
There was a Zelda fan site I used to frequent in the late '90s called HTLOZ (Hyrule: The Land of Zelda), and they had a page called "It's Real! It's Real!" which was a page dedicated to obviously fake secrets in Ocarina of Time. There were things like being able to catch Pokemon, a cheese mask, and a "gender medallion" that made Link look like a transvestite. I actually remember thinking some of the secrets were real because I was a stupid kid.
I remember the days of hearing of all sorts of ways to get Mew and 2nd Gen Pokémon like "Pikablu" in the original Red and Blue.
I have an experience with someone who managed to weaponize their childhood experiences.
A few months ago I made a thread on /v/ asking: I'm look for a permanent game-altering situation in Ocarina of Time where a non-numerical piece of data changes forever depending on a certain context, a necessity to get a true 100% file. It is not:
>the cow inside Link's house.
>the fourth rule to Fishing Hole.
>sinking the Fisherman's Hat.
Have you seen this non-player flag?
/end
I eventually found it, but what happened on that day, is something I was not expecting. Lurking /v/ was a super troll. The like of which you will never see. What he did, was somehow disinter an obscure rumor from the 90's and post it in my thread in a way that made sense.
He told me to Hookshot into the secret pathway in the Kakariko windmill, and activate Nayru's Love. Then grab the Cucco, and hover down to the tree with the laughing men were, and that upon talking to them their dialogue would change. Basically, he was subtlely referring me to Ocarina of Time's most well-kept secret.There is lack of polish here because though the two men mention seeing Link surrounded by blue light, this never actually happens. Link never arrives in Kakariko after the Fire Temple because it would mess up the Bongo Bongo scene if you did fire third.
I already.knew about this, but had never considered doing that. After reverse googling the idea, I could only find posts online about it from way back, like around the release of MM or earlier.
Every so often you come across a cryptid online.
>>3306154
Underated anime desu
>>3306207
>non-numerical piece of data
Anon....
>"I have pokemon gold, my dad got it for me when he went to Japan. There's a flying cat with boxing gloves, pikablue and mewthree are real, and that egyptian lizard thing evolves into a kick ass dragon. Oh you want me to show you? Sorry, I left it in my Dad's car and he went back to Kentucky."
Fuck you Eric you god damn liar!!
>>3306130
>the fish was supposed to be sperm?
>>3306207
>non-numerical piece of data
>>3307510
I think you mean an array of characters-- known commonly as a string.
>>3306146
OH! That actually occurred to me as I was typing out my post.But that can't be true, Saria's vagina smells like fresh oak.
>>3306207
>I'm look for a permanent game-altering situation in Ocarina of Time where a non-numerical piece of data changes forever depending on a certain context, a necessity to get a true 100% file.
Can you (or someone else) explain what this means please? And what was it when you found it?
Oh, are you saying there was a piece of dialogue that permanently changes under certain conditions that you hadn't activated? How did you know you'd missed it, and what did it turn out to be?
In grade 4, I heard and believed all sorts of retarded rumours for pokemon blue/red.
I think someone told me that if you beat the elite 4 100 times, you could get 'pikablu', and I remember when yellow came out that someone told me that if pikachu fainted more then 10 times he would 'die' or leave your party and never come back... I literally believed him and was super careful to never let him faint.
>>3306207
Huh? What are you saying?
>>3306169
>>3306130
I STILL have the links for those old zelda rumor pages even though they're all dead now
but the biggest one was by someone called ARIANA who claimed she got the triforce..
damn, i miss the early 00s and those geocities/angelfire/tripod sites with priceless info that is now lost forever
>>3308490
http://maxpages.com/worldofz64
http://zso.krahs-emag.com/
thats one of them. no idea if archive.org picked it up or not.
other rumor/beta sites long dead:
http://www.yamoslair.com/
http://www.geocities.com/razor_5785/?20067
http://detstar.com/
>>3306207
the autism in this post is palatable
>>3308490
aha found one of the pictures
was this ever solved? it is just a part of the forest temple?
>>3308625
OoT is capable of doing widescreen so I'd say everything matches.
that texture is definitely not in the .ROM though, or somebody would have found it by now.
>>3306207
I literally have no idea what you're trying to say.
Being a dumb fucking homeschooled kid, I had a lot of free time to hang out and play Mario 64. I found a "code" online to unlock Luigi, that involved
>killing every boo in big boo's haunt
>circling the eternal star statue 3 times in each direction
>watching the box on the ship in jolly roger bay move back and forth SIXTY-FOUR times in a row without moving
>then ground-pounding each pedestal in the mirror room, where luigi would then appear in the mirror
And I tried that shit like 3 times in a row, wasting hours just watching the stupid box.
>mfw my braindead 8-year old self finally realized it was a lie
>>3306207
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
that star statue in OoT, aswell as the obvious ones like the bigfoot in GTA. i only found normie rumours back then
>>3308053
K.
When I initially made the post on /v/, I didn't know what I was looking for. All I knew is that there was something in the game I was forgetting.something that triggered an event flag acknowledging that you did something, given X condition. Perhaps that was a better way to word it.
The reason I forgot is because I remembered this thing being something you can only do at a "particular moment" in the game. So this sent me on a wild goose chase.
In reality, what it was is avoiding the 'illegally caught' label on your fish in the Fishing Pond with a 15 pounder, as a child. You can only do that by catching the Hylain Loach without the Sinking Lure. That was the thing and condition I was forgetting. It adds something to file completion, because the fish you catch in the future doesn't count towards the record in the past.
>>3309356
Also, this is the only way to beat the record without getting Link's fish to go in the tank (since the Fisherman will refuse to keep the loach). If you want to take it one step further.
>>3309065
>homeschooled
Off topic and a bit personal, but how did that work out for you? Been thinking of homeschooling my kid since I already work from home.
>>3306207
>Every so often you come across a cryptid online
True, I once had a heated debate with the Florida skunk ape over the best Castlevania game.
>>3309364
If only more black dealers played castlevania
>>3309361
dont do it, give your child a normal childhood. let him/her socialise with people.
>>3309361
Homeschool kids are always weird and have a hard time making friends.
>>3309361
>Been thinking of homeschooling my kid
I remember hearing that if you kill 100 000 T-rex:s in FF6, Leo would come back to life
>>3306448
flying cat with boxing gloves = gligar
>>3309393
Alright, yeah, not gonna do it.
>>3309361
Parents usually choose to homeschool for religious regions - that is, they want to indoctrinate their children with retarded anti-evolution propaganda or mold them into "God Warriors."
Although that may not be your intention at all. Either way, you're really restricting a child's world view by not allowing them to socialize with their peers. You can't shelter a child and force them to view the world from a one-sided perspective. When they step out into the real world for themselves, they're quickly going to realize how completely incompatible it is with the views you're instilled. And at that point, they may very well resent you... or become the next mall / campus / theater shooter.
>>3308038
Huh? Why?
>>3309065
>>circling the eternal star statue 3 times in each direction
That's a funny way of spelling L is real.
>>3306207
>I'm look for a permanent game-altering situation in Ocarina of Time where a non-numerical piece of data changes forever depending on a certain context, a necessity to get a true 100% file.
What did he mean by this?
>>3308038
>fails
>only pretended to fail
>still keeps typing
>>3306130
>When you were young
>Internet
There was only magazines.
>>3308038
>Saria's vagina smells like fresh oak
>bizarre rumor
pic related
I remember reading on Teletext (pre-Digitiser) that a cheat for some game called Elephant Antics (if memory serves) on the C64 was to type HAIRYARSEHOLES.
I don't know for sure but I suspect it was them having a laugh.
>>3310037
>sounds like complete bullshit
>it's real
Love these kind of things in games.
When I was 8 there was a really, REALLY gullible kid in my class. I told him that in Majoras Mask, if you delete your save file in the morning of the third day, then wait a real life day, your save file will be back.
he fell for it
>>3309361
its not a very good idea. kids learn social skills from real school, you just can't get that at home.
>>3306207
>>the fourth rule to Fishing Hole.
what?
Not online, but IRL:
Around the time Sonic Adventure 2 was released for the Dreamcast, there was a kid in our class who insisted he'd played a beta version of SA2 where Shadow had a gun and Sonic had a sword.
We all laughed.
After all, that's crazy, right? Sega wouldn't do that.
>>3310228
As child Link there's three rules in the fishing pond: don't use sinking lures, don't litter, walk quietly.
If you go to the fishing pond as adult Link, there's a fourth: don't cast at anyone.
Players that have been paying attention will recognize this is a clue to start casting the fishing rod at the pond owner,
who mysteriously got a hat during the 7 year gap, and hook it. Turns out he's been weaing it because he started balding.
You can give it back to him, or lose it by casting it into the water a few times, though you'll have to pay him a few rupees in the latter case.
Losing his hat will make that loss permanent though. As a bonus, the guy even shows up in the staff roll without his hat.
>>3309361
Please don't. My parents did that to me for several years for THUH RULIGON. It's bad. Maybe you don't intend to do that. Even if you're way better at teaching subjects that teachers are, and no evidence has been provided to support that assumption, I still would still strongly advise against it. Kids direly need to develop social skills so they can make friends, develop lasting relationships, do well in any vocation that requires these skills (most of them), and generally just being happy, and there's been substantial research done that shows the better you are able to make friends, the better off you are, not only psychologically, but physically as well.
A lot of the kids I dealt with once a week at church were exclusively homeschooled until HS, and they were paralyzed upon having to interact with people who were very little like them. It's not an exaggeration to say they had been retarded. Socially retarded. Their parents couldn't understand why grades were less than optimal, why they didn't have new/more friends. The school was, of course, blamed, instead of the fact that these kids had only ever interacted with a very small and homogenous group of people.
>>3310137
you guys should check out this site for a bunch of late 90s/00s internet rumors. really makes you step back in time
>>3310284
a time when it was obvious you had 10 year olds posting
>>3309361
I don't want to derail the thread further, but I just saw this now and, well, it worked out fine once I got older and I started doing things for myself outside of what my mom wanted. Being homeschooled for 10 years severely crippled my social abilities. Not beyond repair, but for the first couple years of high school I was crazy autistic.
Plus, I never learned how to write in lowercase until I ended up actually going to school at like 11. Homeschooling + coddling = dumbass.
My thoughts are, if you can find a tutor for your kid that'll make sure they actually have an education, and involve them in other kid's groups(like summer camp), they might come out alright.
>>3306448
>That kid who actually got a Japanese copy of Gold to bring to school and was god.
Did anyone know a kid like that? None of us, including him could read Japanese so we'd just come up with personal names for all the new Pokemon and shout suggestions about how to get past whatever obstacle he was stuck with at the time.
It was pretty magical. Actually looking at Pokemon Gold during the Pokemon craze was like having a window into a future where flying cars were real.
some kid told me you could unlock extra levels in certain games by putting a 4-leaf clover on your console.
I am super embarrassed I believed this, but then again I was a kid with ZERO idea of how technology worked and it was pretty much magic to me anyway,
>>3309361
Well he got fooled by a really obvious lie on the internet. On the one hand he was only eight years old, but on the other hand I sincerely don't think I or anybody I'm friends with would have still been falling for that tall of a tale at age eight.
>>3306154
I want to fuck Ki
Druaga was fun.
>>3308494
http://www.oocities.org/razor_5785/
Horray for archives
geocities is dead, long live geocities!
>>3306130
...isn't that just the ocorina of time?
>>3306130
Not online but I remember grabbing one of those 192013921048219084219 CHEATS!!! books at Wal-Mart once and it had a bunch of weird nonsense like unlocking Pikachu in MK Trilogy.
>>3309361
Homeschooling is an absolutely terrible idea.
As others have said, if for nothing else, school provides a mechanism by which children learn to socialize which is arguably one of the most important skills for an individual to develop. I'd also argue that, especially as one reaches higher grades, there exists more specialization of effort in terms of subjects taught by each individual teacher. There's no way that one individual can properly teach every higher level subject by themselves especially when pedagogy isn't even something they're practiced in.
>>3314974
Yeah, because tumblr and reddit churn out so many fine examples.
>>3306130
read when i was young that if i ran for a million steps and biked for i think 10 million i would hatch a special egg (didn't matter the egg) into a special god pokemon.
>>3308494
>Gess what the zelda mask of maoras is updated with more info and the release date.!!!!!!!!
this is fucking gold
>>3309361
Homeschooling tells my conscious that it would fuck with the child's social development. It also helps if they have friends when they move onto Middle School and suddenly people are talking about sex and drugs and dealing with class schedules.
Charter schools, private schools may be a better idea if you are looking for alternative education. But that's up to you. I just know that I hated my time in High School after every class I was interested in ended up being taught by some coach who didn't know the material.
>>3309427
I went to a private school and I would have rather been home schooled, honestly. Most of my teachers were those "God Warriors" you're complaining about.
>>3306146
Err, isn't she holding an ocarina? Maybe it's just a bad screenshot, but I have a really hard time seeing that as a fish.
>>3308490
>>3308502
>but the biggest one was by someone called ARIANA who claimed she got the triforce..
Holy shit, at first your description wasn't ringing a bell, but then I saw the picture and it all came flooding back to me. I seem to remember her being vague on the details and that she was uploading the info piece by piece or something? It's been YEARS. It's possible I even tried to contact her but didn't get a response.
Playing as Robotnik in Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast. I remember going insane each time performing the cheat to unlock it. It had some tight requirements.
>>3314974
hahahaha
never have children
If you post on /vr/ at exactly 3:57PM in your time zone while including the word "tiddlebutts" in your post, a ghost will reply to your post and tell you when you will die.
>>3313104
I got a Pokemon Silver around two months before the european release.
I was in Uppsala, Sweden with my dad (he was a boxing trainer, and was bringing one of his boxers to the swedish championships) I was 10 years and had to kill some time, so I found a weird little game store, and they had a single copy of Pokemon Silver on the shelf. I couldn't believe it. Of course I begged my dad to buy it.
I was the fucking king for those two months until april. Some people accused me of having a fake game, some tried to grab my Game Boy right out of my hand if I wouldn't show it to them. I even caught some kids rummaging through my backback trying to find it.
>>3313206
When you're 8 and you want shit to be true, there is no such thing as logic.
>>3316353
damn it! missed it.
>fish
SHE'S HOLDING AN OCARINA
YOU KNOW
THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT THAT'S IN THE TITLE OF THE FUCKING GAME
>>3309361
I was homeschooled and there wasn't a single day afterwards that I didn't regret it. I became incredibly socially awkward because I never got out of the house.
Whenever I see people talk about their high school experience all I can do is shrug because I never had a high school experience.
![1+i+hope+that+s+the+roof+of+his+own+car+_bef365114903faca36d895b4c62588f1[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/rQ9It0n.png "1+i+hope+that+s+the+roof+of+his+own+car+_bef365114903faca36d895b4c62588f1[1].png")
>>3309361
My cousin was home schooled, we call him Brenda instead of Brian these days.
>>3306130
>but later realized maybe the fish was supposed to be sperm
OP confirmed for virgin. Can't wait for september so we can ditch these summerfags.
>>3308038
On an anonymous imageboard you are actually able to pretend you're not OP.
>>3306146
Thank you..
![hqdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ikP35z3.jpg "hqdefault[1].jpg")
>ywn find mew under a truck
>ywn catch a pikablu
>ywn unlock yoshi in sm64
>ywn resurrect aeris
>ywn find lara crofts nudes
>mfw
>>3306130
>online when you were young
More like calling 1 900 numbers for tips and tricks and getting in shit by your parents, am i right? Where my pre 1990 anons at?
>>3310208
>kids learn social skills from real school
Actually, kids can learn social skills at church just fine.
The modern education system is basically church for liberals.
>>3316265
Here you go friend:
First of all I want to say that I'm really upset with most of the people who think that the picture I took is a fake, some sort of photo composition or something like that.
Thats why because youre all losers, sorry to say this but you don't have the guts to go and find it for yourself, you need my help. And this guy that claims to have found it before me... C'mon boy,
you just want me to reveal the secret. And I will never reveal it unless you treat me with the respect I deserve. I found it and I deserve something, maybe Nintendo should give me a prize or at least a disscount for the next game.
And you still believe that Dark Link has something to do with this!!!! DARK LINK? Something else... it is not DARUNIA, its RAURU the SAGE WHO KEPT THE TRIFORCE SAFE FROM EVIL MINDS INSIDE THE TEMPLE OF LIGHT!!!!!! WHICH IS SEALED THANKS TO THE TEMPLE OF TIME!!!!!!
Unfortunatelly, Link opened the seal and Ganondorf entered the sacred realm....BUT.... if you can skip this step you can GET INSIDE THE TEMPLE OF LIGHT AND SEE THE TRIFORCE FLYING IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES.
STEP 1) first of all you should know that KAEPORA GAEBORA is RAURU incarnated. The OWL is RAURU helping you at the beginning of the game. If you want to know from where I get this information go to the SACRED FOREST MEADOW at the LOST WOODS and talk to the two GOSSIP STONES in there. They don't say that RAURU is the OWL , but they suggests this theory, and in fact RAURU IS KAEPORA GAEBORA. Ok, now....
STEP 2) .... ( I WILL NOT INLCUDE STEP 2, YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND THIS PART OF THE CHAIN BY YOURSELVES, OR WAIT A MONTH UNTIL I REVEAL EVERYTHING)
>>3317037
STEP 3) SOMEWEHERE, SOMETIME, KAEPORA GAEBORA ( that is RAURU) will teach you a song. A song that you MUST LEARN ( Like the Scarecrow song) , so write it down on a paper or try to remember it.
"THE OVERTURE OF SAGES" is called and goes like this
C(up) + C(down) + A + C(right) + C(left) + C(up)
OF COURSE, you MUST LEARN the song in the game , therefore nothing will happen if you play the OCARINA, so don't be fool and say that the melody doesn't work.
By the way, You will learn this melody when youre child. ( what else do you need?)
STEP 4) Ok, now this is pretty simple, go to the TEMPLE OF TIME BEFORE YOU GET THE SWORD. IF YOU GET THE SWORD AND BECAME AN ADULT THEN THIS WILL NEVER WORK. STAND IN FRONT OF THE MASTERSWORD ( don't get it please!!!!!! ) and play the "Overture of Sages"
STEP 5) Just watch the Cinema display showing Link travelling to the TEMPLE OF LIGHT. If you followed the story you'll see that this time you'll not be sealed inside the temple just as the regular way. And therefore Ganondorf will not be able to get the triforce because the SEAL IS STILL INTACT because you DIDN'T MOVE THE SWORD.
NEXT STEPS) RAURU will talk and talk about you, him, Hyrule, The triforce and so on. He will ask you if you want to see the sacred relic ( its very funny to see the different dialogues, so don't worry, say no, say yes.... eventually he will show it to you inside a dark room or something like that.
Rauru stands in front of you. The camera moves to an angle from behind Link. Rauru will move his arms and a hole will open in the ceiling. You'll see a light beam. The Room will turn blue. And one by one the triforces will come out from the hole and will get together. Then theres a rotation of the camera around the whole scene. You can even see the triforce from behind and inside the triangle that is formed you can see Link looking at it.
>>3317040
Then Link will move forward as if he would like to touch it but Rauru will tell you that its not the time for you to get it. So I'm sorry to dissapoint all of you but YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY GET THE TRIFORCE, YOU CAN ONLY WATCH IT FOR ABOUT THREE MINUTES, NO MORE.
Later Link will be returned to the Temple of Time and everything will be just as before, as if nothing had happened. So I'm sorry but , the mark among the medallions in the status screen is just that, a mark and will never hold the triforce icon in it because its only a decorative element. ( but IN FACT IT GIVES THE CLUE.... notice that the image with the medallions and the triforce in the quest status screen looks identical to the pedestal where the mastersword is kept)
So as you can see it was not that difficult. You don't need to do stupid and silly quests like exploding the gossip stones or talking to Dark Link... Or that GLITCH in the wasteland that everybody thinks is a temple!!!!!
BUT OF COURSE, I'm not telling the most important part... how to get the "Overture of Sages". Do you think I'm stupid? I'm sorry , this is my little secret and believe me, You'll suffer, you'll suffer a lot. ;-P
PS: Falco, the picture is real. I took the picture with a Kodak Gold film inside my room in complete darkness. Obviously I didn't use flash. ( I'm not stupid, I don't know how to use pictureshop or painter but I DO KNOW HOW TO TAKE A GOOD PICTURE!!!!)
And let me say something If you don't like Link's cap then go complain with Nintendo. Link is looking up to the triforce, the angle is different as the one in the actual game. Also, its not easy to take a picture to a screen, I was luky that its possible to see the triforce.
ah good times
>>3309361
Don't listen to those other people. School does nothing for your social skills. I went to school, made one friend in elementary school, moved schools, made no friends in middle school, made 2 friend in high school, then later one of them killed himself, made 0 friends in college, and now I only have the one friend from high school who I talk to sometimes online.
School does not teach social skills. You will not learn social skills in school. It is extremely possible to go through school without making friends or developing good social skills.
>>3317037
>STEP 2) .... ( I WILL NOT INLCUDE STEP 2, YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND THIS PART OF THE CHAIN BY YOURSELVES, OR WAIT A MONTH UNTIL I REVEAL EVERYTHING)
literally Underpants Gnomes
>>3306130
How old are you
>>3309361
I was homeschooled and there isn't a day of my life which passes where I don't mourn for the normal, socially integrated life I could have had. It is a selfish choice; your children are not an extension of yourself. Don't even do it for a year. I know three other kids who were home schooled , and they're all wrecks as adults. The other home schooled kids I knew back then are human tragedies now.
Just don't do it. Do the right thing for your kids. They deserve a shot at a normal life.
>>3317176
damn i love these. so painfully obvious they were done by kids who just discoved how easy it was to make a website
>>3317208
I can't do it, school is too much of a wreck now
