One of these games were released here eventually: Mario 2 was released in “Super Mario All-Stars” and later in its original form on Wii/3DS Virtual Console. Others were released here in other forms than the NES. Quarth’s Game Boy port was released here. Goonies 1's arcade version came here as “Vs. The Goonies”.

“2 of the UK version with boot disks” - what boot disks?

Video games are the only software that never goes obsolete.

Interestingly enough, eventually a way to keep General Leo was actually found. If someone back then had told you to play through half the game without saving or dying, you’d have thought it preposterous, but it’s real.

While that’s funny, I just wanted to note that Donald Trump is well-known to be a teetotaler. It would’ve been a lot simpler to explain him if he were getting sloshed on the job like Nixon.

Is it like Echochrome and Fez, where you move on the 2D image created by the 3D rotation?

I got the FF9 reference, but I don’t know what the joke is >.<

“He”? How do you know?

I’m the reverse engineer who did the fan translation in 1997 with two friends of mine. I know you think that Butz is a silly name, and I agree, but that’s what it is. His name in Japanese is バッツ (battsu), not バーツ (ba-tsu) as it would be if Bartz were intended. Various Japanese documents also showed his name in Latin…

Problem: Konami.

Problem: Konami.

Things like this don’t fly as much as they used to. Such rumors are often dismissed because people reverse engineer the games and find all the hidden content that the game may have to offer somewhere.

Cybersex. There’s a reason that Second Life is banned from streaming on Twitch.

Bisqwit is a well-known TAS maker and reverse engineer, so he wouldn’t report such passwords if they were merely artifacts of the password algorithm (as happened with JUSTIN BAILEY in Metroid).

In 2013, I found a password in the SNES game Breath of Fire that had stayed hidden for almost 20 years:

Yes, the Secret Service will take it seriously--as they should--and review the game. Then they’ll find that it is not a threat.

In other words, Twitch just raised the price by $2/month. Yay.

Does FIFA 17 come with a bribery simulator to enhance its realism?

Famicom Disk System. The bug was fixed in the American version by limiting the number of on-screen ghosts to 8. The American version was then un-translated to Japanese to release on cartridge, so the bug fixes and other tweaks from the American version are in the Japanese cartridge version.

Certain parts of the system’s internals call the system “PS-X”. For example, open any PS1 executable in a hex editor or Notepad and the file will begin with “PS-X EXE”. Some debugging strings in the BIOS also use this designation.