Secrets for nds games

This minus world flies in the face of all that hard work. It's a mind trip to say the least. Nintendo fans know that Super Mario Bros 2 was a game made to be a huge challenge. It was meant for those players who had mastered the original game by exploring every nook and corner in that game.

The developers knew it would be the gamer's desire to do that again, and so they hid some secrets in the game. However, not all secrets are worth finding.

If you manage to get past the goal pole in level , there is a warp zone that players can go through a pipe for but it won't lead to a new level. Instead, it will take you all the way back to the beginning of the entire game! The player goes over the exit at the end of the level by jumping perfectly onto a trampoline. Now it's time to get into the creepy territory here.

These next few factoids will definitely range on the strange and absurd side of the Nintendo world. Now usually when you are playing a video game, hitting the pause button does just that, pauses the game.

It allows players to gather their thoughts, develop a strategy or just take a much needed break. However what happens when you pause a game and not all of the characters in the game follow suit?

In Mario 64 , players may not have noticed this, but Nintendo hid the fact that when you pause the game, there are some characters that continue blinking at you, glaring into your eyes with a stare only a crazed man would have. Hidden or unused characters are nothing new in video games. Game developers go through so much work and trial and error processes that focus on what characters do and do not work for their game that there is probably a slew of characters you never even knew existed.

However, some characters that weren't used make unexpected appearances in games. Whether it's a glitch in the game that brings the image to life or a purposeful look at the game development process, these characters appear in unusual ways. Did you ever wonder if Mario or Baby Mario had a secret brother other than Luigi?

Well, in the character models of one of the games, when you select Baby Mario and the character goes off screen, his legs may get left behind, and on top of those legs is the creepy image of a Mario twin that was never born or was hidden away.

It's deeply disturbing. Something that video games have done sporadically over the years is feature bonus game features in their games much like Blu-Rays or DVDs do with films. Whether it shows concept art or cutscenes, video games like to give gamers an in-depth look at the video game development process. One thing that games have done is give viewers a look at character models.

Character models are 3-D game figures in the game itself that allow you to move and study the characters you either play as or play against. You can take full modeled skeletal figures of your favorite characters. However cool these character models can be, sometimes games can get really strange and macabre about how they display their character models.

Things get even creepier when you look at Super Mario Strikers Charged. In the game, you can take full modeled skeletal figures of your favorite characters and see their corpse in a very dark and disturbing light. Not all consoles or devices work for gamers. Sometimes they are defective or aren't as fun and exciting as the game company may have originally thought they'd be. Yet, sometimes game consoles can become much more creepy than anyone could have imagined.

They turn our perception of the gaming world and our favorite characters upside down as we see them in a new light. Nintendo fans may remember that there was an unplayable console called Virtual Boy. The console always gave players migraines and was universally unfavorable.

One of the games on the long lost system was Mario Clash , and hidden within the game's files is a dark secret. When you achieve the high score in the game, a giant Mario appears with a dark red face, congratulating the player. Then the hidden files emerge and show Mario in his "true" form, a demonic entity from another world. It's a shocking sight!

No, not the hit horror film that has scared audiences for years. However, this next item will definitely be as creepy as the film itself. The Nintendo community must remember the Nintendo Game Boy Camera , an accessory for the handheld gaming console. Players could take a picture on the camera, but if you came across an error in the game, you better look out. One of three images will appear with a stranger's face and strange markings covering their image, and will be accompanied by the question, "who are you running from?

Who are these people and what makes them think you are running from something? Was it a message from the future, or a scare tactic from a creepy game developer looking to get a few scares?

Those who advocate for paranormal evidence often turn to strange audio evidence that cannot be explained. Known as EVP, or electronic voice phenomenon, paranormal researchers see this tool as a means of getting messages or evidence of the great beyond recorded for all to hear.

While the debate still goes on in this field, these creepy messages can show up in the strangest of places, including video games. Fans expect to find creepy easter eggs in horror games like Resident Evil or Dead Space , but what happens when you hear what sounds like a ghost's voice on a Nintendo game like Jam Sessions on the Nintendo DS?

Well if you hit the A6 guitar chord and don't play any notes afterward, you might hear what sounds like a voice whispering "forgive us". Game developers claim it is actually the recording artist in the booth having been recorded saying "tsugi ikimasu," which is Japanese for "next. In the game, players can explore Lumiose City and the buildings within. However, if you go to the second floor of one building, you will be treated to the sight of a mysterious ghost girl appearing behind you in the elevator.

Your character freezes in terror, but she tells you that you aren't the one and she disappears. You encounter a girl who looks a lot like her on the fourth floor, but she won't talk to you because then she won't "hear the elevator.

Finding out that your favorite game was nearly a completely different game is a strange thing. It completely changes your perception of the game you've come to know and love. Although it appears he might have been intended to be fought in the original script of the game, or made as the Champion or a high-ranking trainer in the game, fighting Professor Oak is now only possible with these two glitches.

There's one thing that no one ever expects to find in any family-oriented video game: brutal crimes. Especially for the Nintendo brand and the character of Mario, no one ever expects to see an image of a serious crime having been committed. However, in this next example, we see what that looks like exactly. In the Japanese version of Paper Mario , fans may come across a chalk outline of a toad and red stained furniture, indicating a brutal crime has been committed.

It shows the outline of what appears to be a Toad, having been hurt so bad that it destroyed them and left behind a disturbing scene to behold. However, in the American version, that is all missing, making it appear Nintendo tried to hide this scene from players in the US. It's always interesting to see the cultural differences between countries translate to video games. Another serious subject family audiences don't really ever expect to find in the video games they buy their children is the end of the world.

Yes, finding a game about ink-based life forms and paint doesn't really translate into the destruction of mankind and the end of all human life on the planet, but that's what this next example does. In the Nintendo franchise Splatoon , there is an easter egg in the form of an artifact known as the Sunken Scrolls, which depicts the extinction of mankind and all land animals as sea levels rose, leaving room for the Inklings to emerge onto land and claim it as their own.

What I'm trying to figure out is why we needed such a dark backstory to a game about living Ink and paint? It's such a family fun type of game that it baffles me that we now have to contemplate the end of the world.

Exploring Japanese mythology is no new feature in gaming. This visual novel has the player solve a variety of puzzles and make their way through the game in order to try to figure out who put them all together and how they can make it out alive before time runs out. Visual novels come in all different formats. Some are really serious and intense while others are a little more on the humorous side.

Sprung is definitely a game that falls into that second category. In the game, the character controls either Brett or Becky, a pair of friends who are on a vacation with all their friends to a mountain ski resort. The player has to complete a variety of tasks and puzzles to advance through the game. The puzzles involve everything from figuring out how to escape from bad dates to waiting on tables to make some extra cash.

It received a re-release on the Nintendo Switch in , helping to raise its popularity some, but it's still definitely a game that has largely flown under the radar of many gamers. This game is set in modern-day Shibuya, a district in Tokyo. The game is known for its unique art style and for the really engaging battle mechanics that are used in the game. Despite also being released on the Nintendo Switch, the DS version is still unique because of the dual screens on the console.

Corpse Party is a terrifying visual novel and the first game in a series of survival horror visual novels. It was created in and has been released and re-released on a variety of different platforms over the years.

The game follows a group of students in Japan who unknowingly do a dark, magical ritual that locks them in a bizarre world, filled with puzzles and ghosts and all kinds of scary things.

The game has the player control these characters and try to get out of the school alive before it's too late. Tokyo Beatdown was released in and is a side-scrolling beat 'em up-style game. It was only released on the Nintendo DS, unlike some other games on this list that got ports to other consoles. This game takes place in Yaesu and focuses on a group of "Beat Cops. In the game, the player controls these Beat Cops as they go after the criminals. This game is one of only a few that supports the Nintendo DS Rumble Pak, meaning that it's become a special one for collectors, but one that largely flew under the radar for other gamers.

The game follows a former detective in Los Angeles who travels to a hotel room in order to solve an unusual mystery. The game uses the DS touch screen in order to let the player interact with their surroundings to find clues and solve the mystery.

Elite Beat Agents is a music game in which the player uses the touch screen at specific moments in order to complete dance moves and complete sections of the game.

The game relies on timing and precision and is a really unique game as far as the mechanics go. This game was released in and was received positively by game critics and was nominated for and won a number of game awards in the year that it was released.

Despite this, it suffered from low sales and is definitely a hidden gem on the DS. A lot of the games released on this console are puzzle games because of the fact that the handheld nature made it really easy for players to take it with them and play these brain teasers while out and about. This game is one in which players would mark squares on the board as either "empty" or "full" and eventually, solving the puzzle of that board would reveal a picture through the different patterns of blocks marked.

Ivy the Kiwi? This game has also been released on other platforms like iOS, but the touch screen controls definitely make the DS version the most fun to play. This game is unique because the player doesn't actually control the main character, a baby bird trying to make its way home to its mother. Instead, the player's job is to try to get the bird home safely by guiding it through the world over and through a variety of obstacles. Share Share Tweet Email.

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