Greatest false rumors of all time

Of course, what is this world without rumors that have no fact to them whatsoever, going around our minds infecting our perceptions, and all around sometimes causing chaos. In school rumors tear friends a part because some fool likes to make people's lives miserable. Really, sometimes I just have to go by the old saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

I remember the time that I got an e-mail telling me of a virus and where to find it. Of course I tracked it, and deleted it (12 at the time) and it turned out to be something for word to have longer document names or something? Oh boy did my father make fun then.

And of course, in the world of gaming, sometimes rumor about games being redone for the GC. Or something like Sega being bought out but Nintendo, you know, those good things. If you were given one second to think of a rumor that either tricked you, or just gave you something to do, what would it be?

Well I was hoping for rumored the Dreamcast Treasure Compilation.

There was also that Tri-force Zelda OOT rumor which I never figured out what that was about.

Back in High School Mortal Kombat was the game that had tons of rumors swirling around it, some true some not.

GTA 3 discontinued, well I heard that one here.

Nude codes, galore!

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Originally posted by Satsuki
Nude codes, galore!

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Not that I have ever really cared about nude codes >.>, but yeah that's something I've heard over at least 15 tries.

I can't say I've ever been amazingly interested in nude codes myself, since I can look in the mirror and see a pair of boobs without doing some infeasable task.

2 words

Sheng Long

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Originally posted by Satsuki
I can't say I've ever been amazingly interested in nude codes myself, since I can look in the mirror and see a pair of boobs without doing some infeasable task.

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Sounds reasonable enough to me. (Wow, I tried to think of a joke or something else to say in this post... but I couldn't.)

Shin: ...but I did fight him. Honest.

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Originally posted by bahn
Shin: ...but I did fight him. Honest.

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/me pats Bahn on the head



sure you did little guy...sure you did


/me motions for the men in white coats to come in

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Originally posted by Thief~Silver
Sounds reasonable enough to me. (Wow, I tried to think of a joke or something else to say in this post... but I couldn't.)

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:)

MEGATON

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Originally posted by Satsuki
I can't say I've ever been amazingly interested in nude codes myself, since I can look in the mirror and see a pair of boobs without doing some infeasable task.

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You have a Gameshark?

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Originally posted by Shin Johnpv
Sheng Long

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oh, and maybe the simon belmont in nes tmnt debacle.

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Originally posted by epmode
oh, and maybe the simon belmont in nes tmnt debacle.

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I don't remember this rumor. Was it an EGM prank? Who would be retarded enough to fall for this?

Sonic in SSBM.

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Originally posted by soundwave
I don't remember this rumor. Was it an EGM prank? Who would be retarded enough to fall for this?

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yeah it was egm. it might have been their first april fool's joke, i don't remember. i never tried the code, as i never owned the game, but i knew someone who swore that it worked.

/* he wasn't my friend, mind you. i don't associate with such riffraff. :chick: :chick: */

Yeah that was their first and best, they almost had me too until I saw the Nam: A. P. R. Phuls. Now they don't give their tricks away so obviously, well besides printing April on the cover.

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Originally posted by K3V
MEGATON

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Yesyes.

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Originally posted by Satsuki
I can't say I've ever been amazingly interested in nude codes myself, since I can look in the mirror and see a pair of boobs without doing some infeasable task.

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You must live a very charmed life, my dear.

EGM's Sheng Long April fools joke from 97 was pretty good. As was the rumor about the Xbox playing DC games.

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Back in High School Mortal Kombat was the game that had tons of rumors swirling around it, some true some not.

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I know there were boatloads, but I can't seem to remember any. Oddness.

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Originally posted by Satsuki
I can't say I've ever been amazingly interested in nude codes myself, since I can look in the mirror and see a pair of boobs without doing some infeasable task.

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So can I. But frankly, it's just not the same.

STOP N SWOP!
IT...IT...
...never...happened...
Lots o' rumors about it, though.

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Originally posted by MechDeus
I know there were boatloads, but I can't seem to remember any. Oddness.

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Reptile and Noob Saibot were the main ones I remember...big enough to actually be implemented in later installments.

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So can I. But frankly, it's just not the same.

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I knew it.

A measure of a good prank is who and how many it fools.

The Sheng-Long spoof was so damn good, that even Capcom USA (a result of crap communications between the USA and JPN divisions) had to call head office to find out if it were true.

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Originally posted by K3V
MEGATON

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What was the game that was the "MEGATON" announcement? I remember hearing that some Shonen Jump series was coming to gamecube, but no site bothered to say which one.

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Originally posted by Tain
Yesyes.

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yeah, that's probably the most recent uhge rumor.

What about the Gamecube originally being called "StarCube"?

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Originally posted by FuryFox
Reptile and Noob Saibot were the main ones I remember...big enough to actually be implemented in later installments.

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I couldn't remember if Reptile was actually playable in MK1 and I had completely forgotten about Noob Saibot.

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I knew it.

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:eek: *flees*

Konix Multi-system was going to come out.... hehe, not the greatest, but certainly one of the more obscure one! :D

...that daikatana was to be the fps to end all fps's...

Megaton wasn't a false rumor. The Naruto fighting game for the GameCube(which looks mighty sweet) was the game they were referring to. Its "megaton" because Naruto is the most popular anime in Japan, or something like that.

The 3d glasses/Mario sunshine rumor was pretty good.

The no Capcom All Stars rumor was a dousy.

The Sega Neptune. Then EGM went so far, as to post a false website with a recently found wharehouse full of un-distributed units. Classic!


The Dreamcast was going to be backwards compatible with Saturn.


The Project Reality Console (N64) was going to harness the power of an SGI workstation.


Though not a rumor, but it should be, Sony's announcement, that the PS2 can push over 100 million polygons per second. I'm waiting.

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Originally posted by Videodrone
...that daikatana was to be the fps to end all fps's...

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It almost was. I'm sure it killed off the genre as far as some people were concerned.

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Originally posted by Tragic
yeah, that's probably the most recent uhge rumor.

What about the Gamecube originally being called "StarCube"?

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I don't think that was a rumor, as I recall that was what NOJ had originally wanted to call it, but NOA said "No way."

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Originally posted by Masters
I don't think that was a rumor, as I recall that was what NOJ had originally wanted to call it, but NOA said "No way."

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If true, that gives something else to be thankful for about NOA. StarCube brings to mind old cartoons like Rainbow Brite.

Although it would be humorous to spout off lines like, "So I was playing Eternal Darkness on my StarCube..."

Mortal Kombat did indeed have it's fare share of crappy rumors.

- Did you know you can play as that dude on fire in the background of the pit 2 MK2, or those floating monks?

- You can make the trees eat your opponent in the living forrest, etc, etc.

GTA3 had a shit load of rumors about the full wing dodo, the maibatsu monstrosity, darkel. I'm sure Vice City is just as bad, but I haven't been keeping track.

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Originally posted by gamevet
The Project Reality Console (N64) was going to harness the power of an SGI workstation.

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Umm... Im sorry, but thats not a rumor. Nintendo talked it up. Constantly. SGI talked it up. Constantly. In fact, what was supposed to be so special about the N64 was that it did in fact harness the power of an SGI workstation. If you have access to any old Nintendo Powers, or really, any magazines from about 1994-1995 (when the N64 was being announced) you could see it, plain as day.

I know I have an old NextGeneration, #14 or something, that has an interview with an SGI guy. He says basically that very thing, and this was right around the time the N64 and Super Mario 64 were first unveiled (at Shoshinkai! Remember that business?).

Sure, maybe its a horrible, ugly mistruth, but its no rumor. Nintendo pounded that "fact" into our brain like no other.

Sure Nintendo and SGI announced it, but during that announcement, most games for the N64 were being developed on SGI workstations. Some of the early demo shots of the Project Reality test screens, were nothing but a pox. They later admitted in those magazines of the past, that the console that hit the market, was not as powerful as the top of the line SGI workstations available to market back then. The demo's did not show the real hardware in action, but what an SGI workstation was capapable of.


For that reason, it was speculation on both Nintendo and SGI's part, of what they thought the hardware was going to be, when they finished the chipsets. Project Reality, was really Project Speculation. A rumor as far as I'm concerned.

Actually the CHip in the N64 is a toned down version of the chip that is in the SGI Indy workstation

ive worked on those old Indys and even the full speed one isnt all that impressive for interactive 3d work

even using Power Animator or Softimage which many N64 games would be made on they werent that great

granted you also have to realise the Indy's had a shitload more ram than an N64 but its really not that off base of what they said

it just wasnt up to the scale of SGI workstations of that day

for what it was based off of the N64 wasnt that bad


IMHO its not much different from what MS has done in this day and age, claiming the Xbox uses a PIII and bassicaly a geforce 3 its really a celeron and more like a geforce 2.5

I almost totally forgot that the N64 started out as "Project Reality". Thats a pretty good code word, considering its graphics are as far from realistic as possible.

:chick:

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Originally posted by rezo
I remember hearing that some Shonen Jump series was coming to gamecube, but no site bothered to say which one.

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One Piece: Treasure Battle

http://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepa...=1623&showMe=1

MK: "I've never seen a Kano trasformation!" had to be the worst.

PS2: "Teh PS2 can launch teh nuckear missiles!!11!one! OMG WTF!11!1"

Nintendo Power:

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Nintendo is all about fun and affordability.

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Than why is it I have to buy a seperate piece for my GBA SP to hear sound?

The "super secret thing" in JSRF.

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Than why is it I have to buy a seperate piece for my GBA SP to hear sound?

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Because it's SO much more fun to buy needless shit, duh. As a sidenote, the nickname of the N64 (The Fun Machine) was completely true. I had tons of fun blowing dust off of it during the first year of owning it, post-Mario 64.

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Originally posted by Shin Johnpv
IMHO its not much different from what MS has done in this day and age, claiming the Xbox uses a PIII and bassicaly a geforce 3 its really a celeron and more like a geforce 2.5

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Not so fast there smart guy.

The NVidia chip is actually closer to a Geforce 3.5 than 2.5

Here's the source

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Unlike the IGP by nFORCE, which uses a graphics processor derived from the GeForce 2 MX, the Xbox's XGPU uses a derivative of the graphics processor GeForce 3. The architecture of the NV2A is situated between the NV20 (GeForce 3) and the NV25 (GeForce 4). It actually has a four-pixel pipeline and two vertex shaders. By comparison, the NV20 offers four pixel pipelines and one vertex shader, and the NV25 also has two vertex shaders. The graphics chip probably consists of about sixty million transistors (NV 20:57 / NV 25:63). This 233 MHz Northbridge chip is connected to 64 MB of 200 MHz DDR memory. Be careful, the 64 MB has to be shared with the rest of the system, as we have already explained.

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Didn't George Lucas say that all the special effects in the new Star Wars movie could be done with a PS2? Now THAT is pre-launch hype.

Sony: The shortage of PS2 8MB memory card during the christmas season, all because the slowed down production to work on their 16MB card. So where is it?

speaking of games with tons of rumors, anyone remember the NBA Jam days?

Yeah but most of those were true.

The phantom rumors that are currently going around are kinda neat... fakest thing ever!

Who can forget the Zelda 2 "chip shortages?"

The rumors that SNK was working on a sequel to Crystalis were spread around for years and years and it seems that the project was just a myth.

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Originally posted by Hoahmaru
The rumors that SNK was working on a sequel to Crystalis were spread around for years and years and it seems that the project was just a myth.

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I never knew of that one, but I would have to say if I had been around at the time of that rumor, I would have left it with a broken heart. Tantalizing my desires can lead to a monstrous downfall of the last standing thread of my soul.

Seems a lot of these rumors I don't know, just my way of knowing what I never knew, and what had no point I guess.

Question: Is there a common source of these false rumors, that leads to a company losing all credibility? OR do you just pick them up randomly on the net?

Alot of rumors come from the very same section in a magazine, or they're just random shit some ass hat comes up with and somehow or other they spread. The NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat rumors came left and right, IIRC. The Shen Long thing and the SImon Belmont in TMNT were damn good because no one knew any better, and Photoshop probably didn't exist at the time. Was hilarious to see guys like Mike Doughty spending hours at the arcade trying to fight Shen Long.

Would you say the PS3 being extremely powerful as a rumor? Or just a massive Exageration?

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Originally posted by Thief~Silver
Would you say the PS3 being extremely powerful as a rumor? Or just a massive Exageration?

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It was until the other systems came out, now its an underpowered box o' ugly.

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Originally posted by 88mph
It was until the other systems came out, now its an underpowered box o' ugly.

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Damn, it was beaten to the punch by a good three years, and it's not even out yet.

Regarding the PS3 power, it's all speculation and hype at this point. Not really a rumor, but it doesn't hold any more truth then one.

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Originally posted by diffusionx
Not so fast there smart guy.

The NVidia chip is actually closer to a Geforce 3.5 than 2.5

Here's the source

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same difference


did it perform like it was promised to no it didnt


way to miss the point completely

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Originally posted by Shin Johnpv
same difference


did it perform like it was promised to no it didnt


way to miss the point completely

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Uh... no, I didnt miss the point. "did it perform like it was promised to"? I dunno, thats subjective. I personally think it did. Technically, though, its not like a 2.5. Its not even close to that. Here's what you said.

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IMHO its not much different from what MS has done in this day and age, claiming the Xbox uses a PIII and bassicaly a geforce 3 its really a celeron and more like a geforce 2.5

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So, its not "more like a 2.5". Its more powerful than a 3. It doesnt take a lot of math knowledge to know that 3 > 2.5.

you are wrong

yay diffusion you continue to miss the point a pick out one mistake yay your so special diffusion can i be a petty bitter jadded little man like you please or please cant i be

Sure, if you want. Its all up to you man. The power is yours. Good luck with that. Tell me how it goes.

And no, I didnt miss the point. You were wrong. :)

nope wasnt wrong

MS promised bassicaly a highend workstation as a console they delivered an E-machine

at least Nintendo actually used the chip they promised its the same one as in the Indy which was a SGI workstation of the time just clocked a few MHZ down from the Indy

if you call that a rumor then i call MS's claims a rumor

good job at missing the point

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Originally posted by Shin Johnpv

MS promised bassicaly a highend workstation as a console they delivered an E-machine

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:lol:

I find that line hilarious for some reason.

I can't understand a damn thing John just said.

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Originally posted by MechDeus
Damn, it was beaten to the punch by a good three years, and it's not even out yet.

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Duh... thats how bad Sony suxorz.

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Originally posted by Jeremy
I can't understand a damn thing John just said.

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Get used to it.

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Originally posted by Shin Johnpv
nope wasnt wrong

MS promised bassicaly a highend workstation as a console they delivered an E-machine

at least Nintendo actually used the chip they promised its the same one as in the Indy which was a SGI workstation of the time just clocked a few MHZ down from the Indy

if you call that a rumor then i call MS's claims a rumor

good job at missing the point

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Punctuation, syntax, spelling, and capitalization-- your arguments and responses would hold SO much more gravity if you finally adopted these very simple elements.

Don't bring the man down...

oh come on Crafter, its not that big of a deal...

Actually, I did sound like a pompous a$$. Sorry about that. I teach English, reading papers all day and all night-- it's my job to think it's a big deal, and sometimes I forget my role.

Grammar Nazi's piss me off. Right 88? ;)

Anyone remember the fabled alternate Disc 3 for FF:VII? I still want Aeries to live damnit

Crafter, your an english teacher? do your students know you're a gamer?

Quite the wide arrange of people here at TNL.

The other day that I was talking to my teacher, and she pointed out that it appears a lot of gamers and just "Nerds" so called, seem to have a great ability to write. She said that she noticed that "The creativity level, grammar, and overall talent in their writing is just incredible." Some times I guess I can't disagree, but it's still a bit of a general observation.

Yeah-- they know I'm a gamer, and I've had a lot of students-- especially male-- ask to write essays about their favorite games. I don't mind as long as they're position or analytical essays. I'm an assistant professor, actually, and a publishing poet. Gaming is just my "passive" way to escape.

ShineAqua-- there's no reason to make "Nazi" possessive, and there needs to be a comma after "Right"; plus, you need a comma between "live" and "damnit" [sic]-- and of course the obligatory period. (asshole mode off)

You know Super Mario invented Grammer. Thats just a rumor I heard at EB.

Um...Sony claiming the Playstation 2 was going to be a really powerful and well designed piece of hardware. I'm still waiting to jack into the matrix, order a pizza, movie, then play a million people in a game online.

All video game system have been over hyped, and always will be. It all has to do with what the hardware creator believes it can do, and what the developer can actually create using the hardware.

EGM's newest April fools joke is pretty funny. They show that in DOA Volleyball you actually CAN go topless.

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Originally posted by Kinopio
Megaton wasn't a false rumor. The Naruto fighting game for the GameCube(which looks mighty sweet) was the game they were referring to. Its "megaton" because Naruto is the most popular anime in Japan, or something like that.

The 3d glasses/Mario sunshine rumor was pretty good.

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I didn't say it was false, it was just damn annoying.

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