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[[File:urban-legend-of-zelda 6319.png|link=Super Mario 64|frame|A hidden clue! I think the inscription says, "L is real 2401". Or maybe "[[wikipedia:Paul is dead|Paul is dead, miss him, miss him]]".]]
{{quote|"''We added a shitload of secrets into this thing. Seriously. You thought [[Dummied Out|Hidden Palace]] was bad? This thing is gonna be like [[Who Shot JFK?|goddamn JFK]].''"
|'''Anonymous Sonic Team Member''', ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Special Edition]]''}}
Every popular game has a rumor around it that elevates into near urban legend, and perhaps due to an oversight or hanging plot thread it seems ''just'' [[Inferred Survival|plausible]]. It's not hard to believe them, since the games often have ''real'' secrets and glitches that are [[Reality Is Unrealistic|so bizarre that they sound made-up]] (such as the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' and ''[[Star Wars]]'' parodies [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOxbkuD-JZI you can unlock] in ''[[Silent Hill]] 3'', or the fact that Iggy Koopa's fireballs in ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' will turn into glitchy blobs if you slide into them). Yet no matter how much evidence is eventually against it, the rumor just won't die.
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Compare [[Wild Mass Guessing]] and [[Gannon Banned]]. For more information, check out [http://www.gametrailers.com/game/pop-fiction/13123 Pop Fiction], an excellent Mythbusters-type show on this very subject.
Subtrope of [[Urban Legends]].
{{examples}}
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** The [[Dummied Out]] Unicorn Fountain was rumored to be accessed through an underwater door in Zora's Domain. A pathway ''does'' exist down there, but it just leads to an underwater dead-end with a black wall—and you don't just make a hard-to-get-to space like '''that''' for no reason...
** There was also the "El Puerco" rumor that circulated around [[GameFAQs]] for a while, involving a strange pig-like enemy that was said to have an ''extremely'' rare chance of appearing during the graveyard race against Dampe. General consensus now is that the initial "sighting", if not a complete fabrication, was the result of a player encountering a very rare, very odd glitch with the [[Re Dead]] enemy's model.
** Several of the above rumors have been made true, as shown on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x_pqyrf9lA Games Done Quick Summer 2022], {{spoiler|where an Arbitrary Code Execution glitch allows you to beat the Running Man, melt the ice in Zora's Domain, learn the Overture of Sages and obtain the complete Triforce}}.
* What about the rumor of the ''Zelda'' movie? And that trailer was really realistic... {{spoiler|It was another famous April Fools prank.}}
* Perhaps the most insidious April Fools prank of them all: the realistic remake of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Wind Waker]]'' Electronic Gaming Monthly claimed was available with a Twilight Princess pre-order. The May issue included mocking letters from others who were fooled. Oops.
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** It's also based heavily in Rinoa's private talk with Squall aboard the Ragnarok on disc 3 where she [[Not So Different|announces Ultimecia's goals as her own]]. While it's intended to be romantic, the way she carries on about making one moment last forever makes it easy to see where the rumor came from;
{{quote|''I don't want the future. I want the present to stand still. I just want to stay here with you.''}}
* There is a myth about ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' involving a secret job class. When you ride on the submarine there is an underwater rock shaped like a human face; there are a variety of myths (beat the game, land a certain number of steps away from it etc.) that is involved in unlocking the Paladin class.
* It was popular for a time to claim that Shiva from ''Final Fantasy'' was named for a Celtic ice goddess, rather than the better-known Hindu deity. While this was untrue, there are vague similarities to the Hindu deity Shiva. Hindu deities are both male and female, and both the deity and Final Fantasy's Shiva have blue skin. (Although the former comes from ingesting poison, and the latter from connection with ice.) And the name was pretty obviously supposed to be "Shiver" anyway.
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** On the note of ''Street Fighter II'', a quite persistent rumor when the SNES port came out was that of a "Boss Code" that let you play as the four boss characters. Some felt this justified because there ''was'' a code that let both players use the same character in their ''Champion Edition'' colors, something not possible in the arcade version of ''World Warrior''; plus, the CPU (including the bosses) would always use their character's alternate color if the code was entered. There's no actual way to play as the bosses in the game short of using a game enhancer and replacing your character's sprite. They did became playable in ''Street Fighter II Turbo''.
** Theories abounded as to how to perform Ryu's "Red Hadoken" in ''Hyper Fighting''... Which was actually a random bug that was kept in the game. Then in ''Super Street Fighter II'', it was actually possible to deliberately perform a Red, fiery fireball...
** There was also the mythical (probably) 10-0 Zangief versus E. Honda matchup, which means that Zangief simply cannot lose to E. Honda if the player enacts a specific combo. Supposedly, in such a matchup, if the player uses Zangief and manages his Spinning Pile Driver, he can then do a safe jump and repeat the move again, spamming it over and over until he wins the round; since there are no combo breakers in this game (as combos in general were new at the time, and combos were discovered by accident) it’s inescapable and irreversible. This means E. Honda literally cannot win a fight with Zangief, as his lack of reach means he cannot block the initial SPD. Problem is, nobody has ever witnessed this, nor recorded it, and nobody with the arcade hardware has managed to replicate it. It might have existed in a beta version of the game, so while this has not been debunked, it has never been proven either.
* ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'', a veritable Urban Legend Of Zelda factory, claimed that ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Melee'' featured Sonic and Tails as unlockable characters, and gave a nearly (''very'' nearly) impossible method of unlocking them. Naturally, none of it was true, but not many gamers could find out for themselves before EGM confirmed that this method was actually their annual April Fool's Joke. To a lesser extent, someone online also said that Toad was unlockable. (The believability of the original rumor was enhanced by the fact that Sega had stopped producing its own game systems not long before, and the GameCube hosted the first Sonic game on a Nintendo system.) This rumor then moved to the game's sequel, ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl'', and eventually proved to be true.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcPyf8-uE4k This suggests] if you make Kirby suck up Mewtwo and then jump off a cliff, you'll get Mewthree. This version is adorable.
** Same with playing as Giant DK and Metal Mario in the original ''Super Smash Bros''., which were eventually acknowledged by the addition of Super Mushrooms and Metal Boxes in ''Melee''. If you use a Gameshark to play as either of them (or Master Hand, or any of the Fighting Polygon Team, for that matter), the game freezes at the end of the match, because none of those characters have an animation for the post-match "applause" screen. The same thing happens in ''Melee'' if you use the [[Debug Mode]] to play as any of its normally unplayable enemy characters (Giga Bowser, the Wire Frames and the Hands).
** IGN recently joked that an [[Expansion Pack]] for ''Brawl'' would be offered as part of a faux service called "Wii Expand". The supposed expansion in question is called ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl X: Extreme'', and it was said to be geared towards an adult audience, with gore and decapitations abound. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090408144100/http://video.ign.com/dor/articles/969169/ign-april-fools-videos/videos/supersmashexx_bc_spc_jpn.html Here is the footage of the supposed expansion pack in action], as well as [https://web.archive.org/web/20100405083554/http://wii.ign.com/dor/articles/968498/smash-bros-goes-hardcore-video/videos/supersmashexx_spc_jpn.html an offscreen version].
** When it was announced that there were non-Nintendo characters in ''Brawl'' (and were pretty much instantly identified as Sonic and Solid Snake), the rumors instantly started that there would be a third character from [[Capcom]] in the mix ([[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] being the most popular guess). When the full roster was announced, with no Capcom characters, scuttlebutt was (and still is) that there was some sort of falling out between Nintendo and Capcom that led to the proposed Capcom entry getting left out.
*** [[The Other Wiki]] shot down ''almost-''legitimate screen shots of the full select screen (the picture of [[Star Fox (series)|Wolf]] was wrong, though Wolf really is in the game) shortly after the game was released in Japan... due to the fact that Bomberman wasn't on it. Seen [[wikipedia:Talk:Super Smash Bros. (series)/Archive 9#Japanse screen shot of Charcter Select|here.]]
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*** On the SNES version of MK, it actually was possible to use a Game Genie code to [[Palette Swap]] the "sweat" back into blood. However, there never was any way of restoring the original fatalities, since the necessary animation frames simply didn't exist in the ROM.
** That there's a hidden character named "Hornbuckle". In ''[[Mortal Kombat 2]]'', Jade would sometimes appear on the screen and say "Hornbuckle who?" Fans gave the name to the unnamed warrior fighting the fiery warrior in the background of The Pit 2 (Ed Boon claims that was supposed to be Liu Kang). Jade's comment is, in fact, a reference to one Leanne Hornbuckle, whose name appears in the game's end credits.
** Many fans insist there's a scene in ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deception]]'' Konquest Mode where Reptile tells the player, "Make like a tree and leaf me be", a rather old joke. This seems to be a "Mandela Effect" sort of thing; it's not true, but then, it does indeed seem like the type of corny joke the developers would put in a Konquest Mode.
* Fighting games seem to attract these sorts of things. In ''[[Killer Instinct]]'', one of Orchid's finishing moves was flashing her opponent (though of course the player couldn't see anything). Reportedly, on one stage, if you positioned her in front of a mirror and performed the finisher, you could see her breasts. The developer's response? "I don't recall a mirror in that stage."
* There is a cheat that was in some early FAQs of the first ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' for the [[PlayStation]] that would unlock Justice, Testament and Baiken without having to beat the game all the way through. Turns out it really just increased the game's difficulty in Normal Mode.
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== Shoot 'Em Up ==
* Proving that this Trope is [[Older Than They Think]], the first example might come from way, ''way'' back in 1980 with the arcade game ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game) Battlezone]''. The rumor claimed it was possible to drive to the end of the zone and climb the mountains in the background with the tank, and if you did, you'd find some sort of castle you could explore. Of course, the developers couldn't have put such a feature in it if they wanted
* Almost as old, there was the "triple ship" rumor in ''[[Galaga]]''. In this game, certain ships can capture your fighter with a tractor beam; then, assuming that isn't your last ship, you can shoot the enemy holding your previous ship and combine them into a more powerful double-ship. The rumor claimed that the double-ship could be captured and you could create an even stronger triple-ship, but alas, you could not. This
* ''[[Star Control]] II'' had an extremely persistent myth of a cloaking device for the main flagship. Despite [[Word of God]] that such a device was not in the final game, screenshots of it were actually printed on the back cover of the game, and it wasn't until the source was released that it was confirmed to be absent. Likewise for the secret code that made the Pkunk Fury ship immortal.
** There was also the legendary Black Spathi Squadron, a splinter faction of the Spathi composed of brave warriors who fly Eluders painted jet black and fight bravely throughout the universe! They're not actually in the game, of course.
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* In the past decade a legend surfaced of a game known simply as ''[[Polybius]]'' a mysterious arcade game that surfaced sometime in 1981 in a suburban Oregon neighborhood. Legend has it the game created [[Brown Note|adverse side effects]] including nausea, dizziness, even sleep disturbance and aversion to video games. Other claims surfaced that the side effects were more violent, selective amnesia, horrifying nightmares, suicidal tendencies and "the inability to become sad." The game was said to have vanished without a trace which has lead to speculation that the game was a secret government prototype created by the [[CIA]] and that shady [[The Men in Black|Men in Black]] agents would come to the arcades that housed the stations to collect information. The legend has been debunked as being simply a [[Game Breaking Bug|glitchy]] prototype of ''Tempest'' which was known to trigger mild reactions to those who were already photosensitive, but there are still those on YouTube who claim to possess authentic videos of gameplay, which are in actuality recreations of the rumors. The alleged game even made an appearance in [[The Simpsons]] after Bart enters an old arcade shop.
* Back in the Coin-Op days, there were rumors surrounding the old ''[[Missile Command]]'' game that the Pentagon kept track of high scorers, just in case.
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