It was pretty damn soulful. Also shoryuken on X2

>>12426046
It almost is like the kind of rumor you'd hear from kids in the playground if you think about it.
>dood you can totally get the hadouken in mega man X, just kill all the bosses and get all the powerups and upgrades then go into armored armadillo's stage and get to the end but you can't take damage and you gotta do it five times, then Dr. Light wearing a Ryu costume will appear and give you the hadouken and you gotta do it just like in Street Fighter II, it's totally true my uncle told me

>>12427712
>but you can't take damage
I dunno how this part of the rumor has persisted.
I believed it for years.
Damage doesn't matter at all.
Take all the damage you want.

>>12427712
Playground rumors like that got started BECAUSE stupid shit like this actually existed in video games. Mortal Kombat's a good example. The real secrets in those games are so absurd-sounding that pretty much any crazy rumor sounds plausible.

>>12427729
>Playground rumors like that got started BECAUSE stupid shit like this actually existed in video games
Nah, I remember enough about myself at a young enough age to know this isn't true. I made shit up like this well before things like that MMX1 Hadouken dropped.

The desire to make shit up like we're ahead of the curve is part of our DNA.
It's called a fish story and they've been with us forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ny763n24s

sorry, i had to

>>12426046
That's the worst kind of secret ever. No one is ever gonna find it without a guide. But when you do find it, it's a super powerful broken weapon or ability.

>>12427729
MK always ended up feeling like a bigger game than it is because of things like this and also because of different versions of the same game. One version of MK3 has Noob Saibot, who knows if you can also unlock him on your version? Who knows if a different button combination will do a fatality or even special you've never seen? Maybe you can even find a game inside a game, like Galaga. Maybe I should replay arcade mode and only use kicks, to see if it unlocks anything. Maybe I should do it and only use punches.

>>12427732
But how do I know you're telling the truth now that you already declared yourself untrustworthy? Yeah, I don't believe that you used to make up stories back then.

>>12427729
>Playground rumors like that got started BECAUSE stupid shit like this actually existed in video games.
Very few things this obscure and crazy actually existed, at least before 1993 when MMX came out.
>>12427806
>That's the worst kind of secret ever.
He's talking about a different kind of secret than you are, mr stick-up-your-ass.
> it's a super powerful broken weapon or ability.
And there's literally nothing wrong with that in a single-player game. Something so obscure you aren't going to find it without a guide, and is kind of a pain to get anyway, but is so powerful it breaks the game. (And doesn't persist on passwords)

>>12427723
You just have to keep your life at 100% full by the final minecart ride, which is easy with all the bats dropping life pellets as you mow through them.

>>12427712
I had a friend that was pretty good at distilling shit. Not retro, but when the Wii came out we would play and he would try to figure out how to play a game while laying down, eating, with his wrist in what ever position it needed to be to woggle the controller correctly. And I would be jumping around like a spastic. It was good times. Everyone thought he was funny and generally appreciated him for being different.

>>12427712
>>12427723
>>12427894
I just thought the damage thing was referring to the use of the hadouken itself after you get it. It only fires if your health is full.

>>12427806
What if I pressed my butt against your butt, and then shat directly into your butt?

>>12427806
>That's the worst kind of secret ever. No one is ever gonna find it without a guide.
This is precisely what ruled about.
Mega Man X1 was a game I had beaten multiple times.
And then months later, at a farmhouse daycare with some friends, one of the bros brings a magazine upstairs with this PROFOUND secret in it. Of course they didn't say Hadouken back then, they said "Ryu's Fireball." Regardless, we knew what it was.

And it ruled.
Games you thought you were done with, given new life. That's what secrets do.