GameCube Game Facts You Never Knew

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In this video, Did You Know Gaming takes a look at some facts, secrets and Easter eggs surrounding Nintendo GameCube games, this includes GCN games like Super Mario Sunshine, The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros Melee, Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door, and more!
Special thanks to Jacob Newcomb for Japanese translations, and to PushDustIn for helping us acquire the issues of Nintendo Dream.
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Wind Waker
Nintendo Dream Issue 82
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Super Smash Bros. Melee
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Mario Party 4
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Baten Kaitos 1 & 2
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tcrf.net/Baten_Kaitos_Origins
Super Mario Sunshine
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Metroid Prime
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NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
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Resident Evil (2002)
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Billy Hatcher
Nintendo Dream Issue 91
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Super Monkey Ball 2
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#gcn #nintendo #gamecube #supermariosunshine

[@bb_lou]

The gun texture in Super Smash Brothers Melee can also be found on Peach's forward special when it uses the golf stick and has been a little known fact for years now thanks to the really dedicated competitive community having dissected it to hell and back.

[@davidvkimball]

Gotta love the Melee scene lol

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

The Gamecube was the first console I ever owned. I played Double Dash until I had a gold trophy on literally everything.

[@AmazinLarry]

Sometimes I play the GameCube and I feel liquid doodoo leaking from my rectum.

[@joshuakolton9955]

Another fantastic GameCube game.

[@khrisbreezy3628]

First console I bought. Good memory

[@ALEXZAVALA2]

You a real one

[@AmazinLarry]

@@ALEXZAVALA2 I know I am

[@HeisenbergFam]

Cant believe its been 22 years since Gamecube, time flies so fast

[@pwnagenuss]

😢

[@Ziggyvu]

Why you everywhere? What bot program you running?

[@mrblackblack2802]

does not at least not anymore

[@inthefade]

It is weird

[@Ultimate_Charizard]

I was hoping they'd go into what inspirations Wind Waker did have if not European. The houses on Outset and other islands are clearly Polynesian style and there's a clear Incan inspiration for Gohdan but I don't know much more than that. Honestly Wind Waker isn't a game I thought of as being very non-European in the first place, considering that you ride around in a Viking-style boat to a soundtrack the devs themselves said came from Irish music.

[@islandboy9381]

I think they mean the artstyle and aesthetic being more ''anime'' inspired, specifically Studio Ghibli movies or that Miyazaki movie with the pirate cat.

[@SakuraAvalon]

@@islandboy9381 Man, the use of 'anime' as a style is so absurdly loose.

[@KyleVoices]

I thought the exact same thing. The dust particles remind me of Hercules which is obviously Greek. If they really wanted to avoid European references, they failed. Still, they made an amazing game and I wouldn’t change it.

[@inthefade]

It may have just been a starting point. Art often begins with a certain inspiration and then ends up somewhere entirely different, especially with collaborations on a large scale.

[@islandboy9381]

@@SakuraAvalon I know, hence my air quotes around anime style, people freaked out about the style for WW but then praised it for BOTW. But you can definitely trace some of Toei animations oldschool movies in the artstyle and character design of WW.

[@DidYouKnowGamin]

Enjoy some more exclusive GameCube facts!

[@ToyotaTacomaOfficial]

Yay 😁

[@1snivy10]

Thank you for including "(new info)" in the title because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to tell this wasn't another reupload. COUGH COUGH.

[@EmperorZelos]

You meant (51/1001)^21 I assume, because your value is way smaller than 51/1001^51

[@BananaR777]

Id change the video title to More Gamecubes facts 25/5/2023.

[@slyceth]

Your channel is very highly appreciated even if you don't see it

[@DaimoHope]

That wall riding bit for NASCAR is freaking insane!!

[@polycube868]

And it will never happen again as it's been outlawed, but no other driver has the balls to do it anyway!

[@Maswartz226]

I love how many of these are just out there already in interviews but because most people don't speak japanese they go unknown.

[@schuylervolkmuth5364]

Baten Kaitos had such a fun gimmick to the card based battle system and always made it fun to play.

[@PeterDahu]

Yep. Can't want for the HD remakes. Shame Origins was such a great game but came out so late in the Cube life cycle that no one played it.

[@BBWahoo]

@@PeterDahu There's a remake!? Wow this went under the radar

[@MarquisdeL3]

@@BBWahoo set to release this summer for the Switch! I'm very excited for it.

[@BBWahoo]

@@MarquisdeL3 Now I am too!!

[@mystikx2205]

@@BBWahoo Not...really? It was featured on last month's Direct.

[@joshjager5831]

I remember watching that race with my brother on tv, and is was crazy when he did that! Absolutely insane, literally balls the to wall move. Never expected to see it pop up in a DYKG video, a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

[@StrokeMyDiglett]

11:47 my monkey brain saw a naked lady, took me a second to realize it's just the mesh meeting at a single point.

[@Phatbroom]

Just something funny to point out: the example of "skinning" they had around 11:47 is actually an example of weight painting, where a 3d mesh is given control weight data from its skeleton, either automatically or manually.

[@Ginrikuzuma]

yeah i was confused when they started talking about skinning i was like I don't know it by that name lol

[@ChaoticHoly]

That NASCAR factoid was bleeding hilarious!

[@KeebeThePlush]

It’s pretty funny how Nintendo used moji moji kun to test out damage in the wind waker as opposed to a goblin

[@j.k.4479]

*Moblin.

[@Deddshot]

Boblin**

[@delsinconklin2324]

@DidYouKnowGaming The rifle texture used on plums golf club also appears on peaches golf club in super smash bros brawl as a reused asset

[@IdentifiantE.S]

At the same time, Smash Bros is based on references from all Nintendo games, so it's not surprising 😄

[@jmnlprz]

Dang, thank you! I've always wondered what those statues in Super Monkey Ball's Expert's 41-50 were, seriously since I was a kid. Legit was bothering me, not finding any info about it. I've never felt so grateful for actually watching an entire 20 min video.

[@judastheman]

11:47 NICE

[@BlazeHeartPanther]

We seriously need more Billy Hatcher DYKG vids. That game is severely underrated.

[@SilentRuth10]

I agree! I wouldn't mind seeing Sega bring Billy and his friends back. The had cool character and monster designs, and the multiplayer was lots of crazy fun!

[@yannve8546]

Putting Mario Sunshine and Paper Mario TYD on the thumbnail, and beginning the video with Zelda TWW... Thank you 💛

[@ejc5105]

The Metroid Prime translation error reminds of me playing Ogre Battle 64 as a kid. I don't remember that game at all, but I entered a random town somewhat later in the game, and was expecting some quick dialogue skit as you often get. I did get a dialogue skit, but... it was totally in Japanese. I re-entered the town, but could never repeat it. This was on the US version

[@tristancrumpler400]

I'm sure the crossover between DYKG fans and NASCAR fans is slim. It cant be understated how wild that Chastain move really was y'all

[@the54car]

I dont like Chastain for a single second... but I wont deny how cool it was to realise how that event can intersect with gaming beyond our little bubble lol

[@Weatherman4Eva]

​@@the54car what he do?

[@the54car]

@@Weatherman4Eva He has a reputation, practically wrecks another driver every single race at this point. And this is at a time where drivers are getting injured a lot more easily from wrecks that used to not be very dangerous. Ross junks good race cars and puts other drivers in danger, and he isn't *reeeeally* sorry about it.

[@TheBetterGamer]

As someone who doesn't even like NASCAR, when it showed up on my feeds I was still impressed AF by it.

[@inthefade]

I think anyone who has been in a car at any point can understand how impressive and scary it is.

[@SplitScreamOFFICIAL]

Featuring Medical Skull Image 3 From Devil May Cry

[@Big_Dai]

@11:47 WOAH THERE!!

[@oetproductions8101]

11:47 AAAOOOOOGAAAH

[@JeskidoYT]

oh boy part 5 of the gamecube facts! Gotta love that console!

[@fartlord111]

Ever since yall been hacked the vids been non-stop. Im not happy it happened im just glad you guys are pumping out so much quality

[@tom.c.a.d]

Man I loved the GC so much. That nintendo summer vibes. Tales of symphonia. Samua in 3D. So iconic.

[@roxorsoxor]

11:47 you are welcum

[@GottaFistDemAll]

Samus's boing boing size confirmed.

[@BrentMalice]

They used the gun sprite because it looked good and they had it laying around. There are a lot of times in lighting that you use a wrong/random image because it looks good enough and takes infinitely less effort. really doesnt matter for n64, but even in modern games, unless your doing realistic reflections/lighting then often times a random image wwith somewhat similar features (a forest is rectangles, a gun is rectangles) then itll probably look fine. I think there was an instance of an image of actual dog poop being used in a spongebob game for a lamp or something like that. sometimes you just click a few buttons and see what stuff looks like and it just works well enough ya dont put in effort.

[@TheRealBlazingDiamond]

As someone who's studying 3D modeling and animation, this is extremely accurate and probably was exactly what happened. Now, onto the final question: _where does this texture come from?_

[@the-NightStar]

this is pretty much correct, yes. The only reason fans think this is even remotely interesting because they look at the image and go "LOL GUN HAHAHA FUNNY", but a developer absolutely doesn't think like that. To them it is 100% just a random asset. It really shows a clear divide of thinking between how a creator sees things and how an audience does.

[@justyumi4410]

Oh that's dog poop. That's dog poop being used as a texture for the lamp in Battle for Bikini Bottom. 🚽

[@mikemath9508]

you're*

[@LeSimpLetv]

yep, they looked through their assets for something gray with some variation

[@ArcRay20]

the only thing more i know about that gun sprite in Plum's trophy texture data is that it is reused in Brawl for possibly the same purpose as its in Peach's texture map albeit the sprite is altered in size a little.

[@joshuakolton9955]

The GameCube was the first console I’d ever had since I was about 5 when it came out. Mario sunshine and the wind water are the reasons why Mario and Zelda are 2 of my most favorite franchises.

[@MysticBlueFox]

This video made me unreasonably nostalgic for playing my Gamecube when I was on the cusp of becoming a teenager.

[@RVViLL]

I forget how much I miss the GameCube being a young teen when I got it. So much of my nostalgia lies with the SNES and 64 but god what a console

[@forkrunner2208]

There has now been a picture of MC Ride in a party hat displayed on the DYKG channel. Astounding.

[@cc3230]

I think the flood thing is a cool attention to detail. Flood, I imagine, isn’t light, so it causes damage when jumping long distances? Idk

[@nullvoid7188]

11:47 someone put alot of work on this wireframe model.

[@polycube868]

Especially the tits

[@NickyvMLP]

Almost jumped out of my seat when he mentioned Ross Chastain, this was the coolest thing to happen to NASCAR in the last decade or so, and I'm glad its popping up here.

[@user-rk8pu8dh4d]

That “(new info)” was a good choice I already know basically every trivia fact there is to know with Nintendo

[@RaditzSayian]

Right when I needed it. Love the channel. Amazing work as always.

[@EthanPeters-hb2jg]

The gun image is also used on the reflection of peach’s golf club and I believe frying pan. I assume the dev team just liked the specific texture of that gun stretched

[@arin4395]

fantastic work as always , thank you very much !!

[@jennhernandz3912]

Chastain, doing the video game move of huggy in the wall in real life was beautiful. It was wonderful to see a gamer bring some thing from our gaming life into the regular day today experience.

[@jordan_dc4268]

God I wish Billy Hatcher got more legacy recognition and references, or even a revival/remaster someday. Such an underrated game.

[@thecianinator]

Could the gun sprite in Melee have anything to do with the early plans to include James Bond as a playable character?

[@PrinceVegetaBrief]

Probably not. Development on a character doesn't begin before a licensing agreement is made

[@Toast_94]

If I recall right, there is a similar gun sprite used in Peach's golf club (or was it her frying pan?) used in her forward smash as well

[@pikajade]

for the gun in melee, i would guess that the texture was originally a stock icon for a cut character, and either they didn't want the texture to go to waste or the texture was already being used for the club when the character was cut

[@GabePuratekuta]

I was thinking it was an icon sprite for a shooter like Resident Evil.

[@polycube868]

Ross Chastain is the most exciting driver in NASCAR right now, every weekend the headline is what Ross Chastain did, he's an aggressive driver and he gives 110% every lap.

[@militantpacifist4087]

Game Cube has the best titles of all time in my opinion.

[@mariokart8054]

That’s pretty much how I feel. Like in how the SNES perfected 8 bit concepts and added to them with high fidelity graphics, the GameCube took the first 3D try for many concepts and ironed them out to make them even better, and look good while doing it. I think every Nintendo franchise that has an entry on the GameCube - the GameCube entry is my favorite in the series.

[@mrblackblack2802]

dreamcast?

[@mrblackblack2802]

@@mariokart8054 why not dreamcast

[@mariokart8054]

@@mrblackblack2802 The dreamcast way way ahead of its time in 1999, but that didn't last long and its library of "must play" games compared to ps2 or gamecube is small

[@syrup3299]

i caught a cold out of nowhere last night so i've just spent most of today in bed binging your content so i really appreciate this surprise drop of more stuff ❤

[@BananaR777]

That stinks hope you feel better.

[@wakko1337]

Fuck yeah NASCAR mention on DYKG I feel represented. Also it was dubbed the "Hail Melon" moreso than a "wall ride." His main family sponsor is a watermelon farm.

[@polycube868]

Ross the Boss!

[@lightbluesquid]

I'm a simple guy. I see a new DYKG video, I immediately watch it. 😎👍

[@davidn90]

So excited to see some baten kaitos origins lore

[@Inforza]

i remember that scene in resident evil like it was yesterday... i am not able to recal all the details, but i knew it was a very sad story where Lisa just wanted to be with her mother.. Monkey ball was imo one of the best games ever on the cube.. i probably played that game the most.. I owned atleast most of the games in this video.. except for nascar and baiten and that hatcher game just before monkeyball.

[@RedDev1l757]

Another fantastic video. Such an interesting channel

[@robbyrobot3303]

I have two Slashout Naomi Carts! One day I'll set up two cab to play multiplayer, that tidbit of trivia is very appreciated

[@ZeHamberglar]

Wild. I knew about Chastain's now-banned nascar maneuver but had no idea he got it from playing video games.

[@TheCreepypro]

always happy to learn more about this console

[@henke37]

4:25 It's been proven that the minigame just decides how far you get to go. Your door choice doesn't matter. The probability calculation is based on a faulty assumption.

[@frankcaggiano8282]

The Baten Kaitos games are absolutely amazing, I usually don't enjoy card-based systems but the way they're done is masterful and very fun to execute, especially in Origins. It takes a bit of getting used to, but they are so much fun. I highly recommend for any rpg fans who haven't played them yet.

[@PeterDahu]

Me too. Can't wait for HD remaster!

[@gishigoshi]

No one: British people: “ocariener of time”

[@Jesterman501]

Wake up honey, a new DYKG video just dropped

[@Steeziii47]

Hearing the Mario Party 4 music makes me sad with nostalgia. Simple times of being up late in my room at like age 6/7 just playing the "story mode" trying to get all the collectible items for the little house 🥲

[@Reed_QT]

We got Paper Mario: Hero Mode footage up in here! Let's goooo

[@blais6905]

I was a bit surprised there ngl

[@joshmuecke85]

Never did i expect to hear about nascars hail melon wall pass in a video game video, but yet here i am lol.

[@joelikespotatoes8321]

Not a nascar fan but that wall ride was the most badass thing I've seen.

[@dispater101]

Still my favorite console ever..just the sheer amount of hours i've put into the Gamecube completely trumps my time with any other console

[@AJFay77]

Way to roast Nascar for being "boring" and telling people to try to stay awake only to follow it up with how exciting and insane your factoid is

[@the-NightStar]

I mean it WAS pretty amazing and Nascar IS pretty shit. So I see nothing wrong here.

[@AJFay77]

@@the-NightStar *cue Lebowski, "That's, like, your opinion man" I mainly commented because I don't recall much pre-amble or opinion mixed into these videos in the past. Usually they just present the facts and if you find the topic boring or exciting it doesn't matter to them.

[@rcghalohell]

interesting discovery about mario party 4, for left and right decisions, there is no choice, both results are the same, the door is already set, the mushroom is already set, i checked with save states

[@carlosfer2201]

11:47, god damn!

[@Mystic-Aidan]

At this point “did you know gaming?” isn’t even a question, considering we can’t know the trivia beforehand now. Though, I’m not complaining. I love it.

[@NintendoRuns]

Chastain's move at Martinsville wasn't actually the first time it was done as Kyle Larson tried it the year prior. It's just that it worked with Chastain while Larson ended up crashing into the back of Denny Hamlin

[@cosmicXtropics]

11:47 rawr 😏

[@billtree52]

Seeing that wireframe Samus packing them massive sweater puppies wasn't something I knew I needed. Got-damn

[@Nintendude.]

Yeah remember the news about the Nascar moves. It was wild.

[@GhostrareStardust]

6:01 shiny hunters eat your heart out now for a dedicated community to figure out rng manipulation

[@theMOCmaster]

new info is good to put in the title

[@No-onesgayformoleman]

Photoshopper here The machine gun probably has no meaning nor reference to anything Nintendo related. As a photoshopper myself, I've used countless of stretched out images to give a reflection or change the color of an image appropriately to give a more natural look to an image. Most plausible answer, developers looked at a similar image and adjusted the colors and saved time by stretching an image instead of having to do it themselves which most likely wouldn't have come out as natural. Probably don't bother in trying to make sense or think it's an Easter egg. It's just to save time since stretching an image is ALOT easier and faster than having to color it themselves. Specially with 300 trophies to render.

[@BananaR777]

True

[@vishalkalicharan7710]

Do a video on Twisted Metal trivia!

[@andrew_edwards]

2:07 THE CUTTER ROOM FLOOR!!!!! 😱😱😱🤯🤯

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

Sweet. 👍

[@ArcRay20]

thank you for denoting a difference with the (New Info) in the title.

[@jimmyrobinson6185]

So if Plum became playable in Smash, would her Neutral Special be a gun?

[@nullvoid7188]

Gun club.

[@reeyees50]

11:45 Excuse me 😳 DidYouKnowGaming ???

[@ChaoProfessor]

Grow up.

[@igotskilll]

doors of doom is predetermined when you start the minigame. there is no RNG per room

[@Mr.Foxhat]

Could you guys pleeeease do an episode on Fable. That series has such an interesting development history.

[@dominicjannazo7144]

With the upcoming Baten Kaitos 1+2 remake, i wonder if origins will use the original japanese balance and gender choice.

[@johngore3364]

I wish I can relive this time over and over. Great memories and great games.

[@mrblackblack2802]

dreamcast

[@eman_not_avaspritefusionce8700]

I like how it said The Cutter Room Floor user instead of "Cutting"

[@Nodder]

Best skinning data 11:47

[@heterodoxagnostic8070]

2:08 "cutter room floor"

[@geosan312]

I love NASCAR!

[@TKdaFox1]

What was that music playing during the Mario party explanation? I know I know it and I know it's not the little river band.

[@BasVoet]

16:11 Still more chance than winning the lottery.

[@TheDuffy5678]

Why does mario look blue like that in the TTYD clip?

[@johnspartan6352]

How do you know if your gamecube has one of those faulty cpus?

[@dzappa7778]

5:55 The odds are correct but your percentage is missing 2 zeros

[@raxadian]

Time to dust out my Gamecube again and play some Kirby.

[@manoftheusajones5147]

Have you scene the NGC's Switch Releases?

[@MooseEatsBears]

6:12 FUCK YEAH BABY LOST KINGDOMS 2 LET'S GOOOOO

[@lpnp9477]

I love facts and fact culture

[@Slyder68]

I wonder if the metroid prime projectile description is the same in the remake