>>12420645
>>Half-Life is so realistic you can destroy anything, even the walls, piece by piece
kid mixed up half-life with red faction

Lion man you talk to in Morrowind that hints at a secret unlockable coop mode.

By plugging in a second controller or more, you can play as the enemies in Buffy

>roller coaster tycoon 4 exists and my uncle worked on it and has it at home
Literally believed that

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You know the whole "holding down + B increases your rate of a pokeball working" thing? Our school's version of that was that you had to enter a half-circle on the top part of the D-Pad while the ball was wiggling. The idea was that you were mimicking pressing down on the top of the ball to keep the monster inside.

The entire gesture had to be done exactly at the right time during the wiggling animation to work. Whenever we saw someone try it and it failed, we justified it by saying they'd either done it too early or too late.

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that you can go inside the ship in Corneria if you stand on the bottom part and do some bullshit

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>kill 100 enemies in slash mode without dying to unlock katze
mfw it wound up being true

>>12420645
No

Fuck you

I was friends with a classic autistic Nintendo kid in elementary school. Not like a dork but someone with a real problem. I lied to him about secret unlockable characters in Double Dash called Starry and Moony and he called me a liar until high school about it. I would run into him in town here and there. Tried to get him into emulation but he flatly told me "I wouldn't do that." He died in a car accident on his way to work a year ago. RIP. We saw Agent Cody Banks in theaters together.

>>12420645
Nudalities and Sexualities (Kitana squirts you with milk from her boobs, Johnny Cage bites off his opponent's ear) in MK II

In second grade a kid claimed that in the ending of Punch Out, there was a cutscene where Mac is doing his running cutscene but Mike Tyson drives up and challenges you to a street fight and the final match is in the middle of the road. I feel like this kid might have just seen Rocky V or something.

>>12420645
Some kid down the street told me to get Chimecho in gen 3 you had to save and reset a few times and then run in front of a gravestone and it'd spawn. The funny thing is despite being obvious bullshit, i lucked out.

Just the classic
>I've got a PlayStation 3
back when rumours of the PlayStation 2 were just starting
and
>I've got a computer at home but if you visit you can't see it, it's out for repairs since I accidentally poured Coke on the keyboard

>>12420645
Not /vr/ but this might be close enough. My friend told me you could fuck Roman in GTA 4 and I believed him.

>>12421651
Roman is fuckable

>>12421664
Im not going through this shit again

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>>12420645
Literally any game that had turn-based multiplayer
>it's player 1's turn
>player 2 pressing buttons on his controller at random for no reason other than just to do something
>player 1 does something stupid and dies
>DUDE WHY DID YOU MOVE MY CHARACTER IT'S YOUR FAULT I DIED FUCK YOU

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>>12420645
>the dreamcast uses pc technology so it can run pc games!
possibly because of the windows ce thing
wouldn't be surprised if this was actually reported by some games magazines at the time

>>12421825
Resident Evil 2 and 3 on Dreamcast LITERALLY are the Windows versions running in WindowsCE and they're not the only ones.

>>12420645
-Rainbow Road from MK64 is a secret stage in Mario 64
-Cloud Strife is a secret GF in FF8

>You can play Sega CD games on a Dreamcast using an official swap disc that was released exclusively in Japan.
>Tengen ported Sonic to the SNES, but the cartridge is incredibly rare.
>My uncle uses an Xbox as his office PC. He works at a Microsoft subsidiary, and they are testing Windows X-XP, which is like XP but designed exclusively for Xbox.
>The Nintendo GameCube can boot Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, which is why it doesn’t have a hard drive so people wouldn’t exploit it, since an NGC is cheaper than a Mac.

>>12420645
You could unlock Ganondorf in Soul Calibur 2.

>>12420936
>he doesn't know
Anon, I...

>>12421651
But this is gay, the only reason he would make that up is if he was gay and trying to see if you're receptive to gayness

>>12421916
All of these are too reasonable to be believable for made up rumours, especially with the technical detail

>>12422701
I heard most of these rumors from CS nerds. I'd hang out with them--most of the time their stuff was legit, but they'd mix wild theories in with real facts and pass it all off as proven.
>You can play Sega CD games on a Dreamcast using an official swap disc that was released exclusively in Japan.
They told me about Bleem, and I called bullshit until this one guy showed Tekken 3 running on Dreamcast at a LAN party. That same day he mentioned some official disc for Sega CD backward compatibility on Dreamcast.
>The Nintendo GameCube can boot Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, which is why it doesn’t have a hard drive so people wouldn’t exploit it, since an NGC is cheaper than a Mac.
One of us was a huge Apple fanboy. During one of our "console war" arguments, he went off about how the NGC crushed because of its PowerPC chip. Said Nintendo used iMac G3s as dev kits--showed us a magazine article claiming they developed GameCube games on Macs. Then he claimed the NGC skipped an HDD bay because its PPC was Mac OS compatible and could've booted Leopard, and Nintendo wanted to stay tight with Apple instead of matching Xbox's HDD or PS2's add-on drive.
>Tengen ported Sonic to the SNES, but the cartridge is incredibly rare.
The Sonic on SNES by Tengen came from a church buddy. He had Shinobi and After Burner on NES, swore they ported Sonic to SNES but it was ultra-rare since Sega never approved it but Tengen just did it anyway.
>My uncle uses an Xbox as his office PC. He works at a Microsoft subsidiary, and they are testing Windows X-XP, which is like XP but designed exclusively for Xbox.
The Xbox-as-office-PC thing felt kinda real. We met our buddy's uncle--he was an engineer (can't remember where), super chill, let us use his garage for LANs, and played StarCraft and Diablo II with us. We never asked him straight about the Windows XP fork for Xbox 'cause our friend said it was NDA-locked and could get him in trouble if it leaked.

>>12422694
We were like 12 years old bro. I just remember him reading cheats off a website and laughing then turning away. When I asked him whats so funny he said you can fuck Roman. I kept asking him to show me but he said "im not doing that bro".

There was that kid in my neighborhood who would constantly tell all kinds of ridiculous lies, like
>I unlocked weapons and a driveable tank in Driver 2, sorry you can't see it because I accidentally deleted that save
>My brother has a PS2 that also plays PC games. Wanna see it? Oh jeez sorry, he sold it just yesterday!
>You can walk around your city in first-person view in SimCity 2000, but I won't tell you how
>I can do a kickflip, but I just don't want to right now
and similar stuff.
So naturally, when he told me that an unchipped PS1 can play burned discs if you just switch CDs in the exact right moment, I didn't believe him. Especially after he didn't manage to do it when he wanted to show it to me.
Just a few years ago when the chip of my old PS1 died and I looked that trick up, I realized that this is actually true. Kinda funny that I thought for about 20 years that this was just another one of this dude's bullshit stories.
Does anyone else have similar stories where you thought something is bullshit, but realized years afterwards that it's actually true?