Super Nintendo Hidden Factoids - SNESdrunk

Games covered:
Left-handed controller setups in Secret of Mana, Top Gear and Kid Klown in Crazy Chase
Paperboy 2
Run Saber
Wing Commander
NFL Quarterback Club
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (aka Chicken Lady)
Pop’n Twinbee
Uniracers
Star Fox
Final Fight Guy
Street Fighter Alpha 2
F-Zero
Family Feud
Brawl Brothers
Legend
Metal Warriors
Thanks to LHCGreg for pointing out that Final Fight Guy wall jump. Thanks to reddit poster Chamale for their post regarding Family Feud. Thanks to kandowantu for the Star Fox tip. Thanks to me being an idiot and not knowing how to properly land a jump in F-Zero.
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[@Nathan-rb3qp]

Here's another weird fact. In the files of Jurassic Park SNES it turns out that half of the game's sound memory is taken up by that 8 second muzak loop that plays in the elevators.

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

But why?!

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

@@TheLakabanzaichrg Probably an inside joke for anyone who discovers that.

[@Pirateyware]

@@TheLakabanzaichrg Because unlike most music in SNES games, where you have tiny instrument samples arranged into a song with MIDI-like data, the elevator songs in Jurassic Park are pre-recorded wave sound, similar to how CD audio works, only much crappier. Because each elevator song is a solid block of sound rather than a few tiny sounds that the game knows how to turn into a song, the memory usage is enormous by SNES standards. As for why they did it this way, who knows.

[@Deniki666]

I love how you started with the secret of mana village music, brought me back to the mid 90s. I would totally pay for a coffee table book of SNES drunk facts

[@DGR_Dave]

I love this idea for a video, really hoping for more of these down the road!

[@BusyMEOW]

More troll levels please! Thanks Uncle Daddy..

[@Nay089]

Can’t believe I never knew that Zelda fact for 30 years

[@gamalielshapira]

Same.

[@hezekiahramirez6965]

I am honestly surprised how many people didn't know about that. I thought everyone knew about that, the Super Mario portrait with the rupees, and the Chris Houlihan room. Maybe I'm just a big enough Zelda fan that I know almost everything about LttP and OoT

[@chaospoet]

That F-Zero one! Are you kidding me?! I've been playing it on and off since it came out and never knew that. Better late than never I suppose.

[@SnesForum]

Yes thats an extremely helpful trick. Does someone know where i can find this tipp in written form in the web?

[@uptown710]

It’s so crazy so many people didn’t know about this. I’m petty sure I found out by accident but I’ve been doing it for years.

[@TrevinAdams]

I thought that this was in the manual but it could be that someone else told me way back when and I just committed it to memory. The good old days, lol!

[@brandnewman9870]

I actually believe the trick was mandatory to get through a very large lap in one of the last courses? Or maybe I remember it wrong? Anyway, could be that I just had to rely on the trick because I wasn't that good of a F-Zero player!

[@SnesForum]

@@brandnewman9870 No i beat the game and i dont need this trick

[@vervalkon]

Loved the vid! Here's my piece of trivia I found by accident: Mario's Super Picross is a co-op game. Once you touch the second controller mid-game, another chisel appears and you can go at it together with a friend.

[@PirateDrive]

Lots of these were eye opening for me but the Family Feud one actually goes some way to explaining why the one time I put 'masturbation' as a joke answer I got 'sun bathing' as a correct answer.

[@SNESdrunk]

LOL that game is so freaking weird

[@ChibiKami]

it looks for the letters in order to allow for typos. IIRC Jeopardy on the NES did the same thing

[@spugintrntl]

It explains that one Sam O'Nella video too.

[@keithbarlow9701]

This guy scrabbles.

[@fshiruba]

Try to imagine my face when I was a kid and was playing metal warriors with my friend and we were pushing buttons randomly when we unlocked the secret versus mode! We were "Whaaaaaat?"

[@thenostalgiabusiness]

That's an awesome way to discover a secret mode. Did you guys ever figure out how to recreate it or did you not find out how to do it again until internet game websites became a thing?

[@hezekiahramirez6965]

I was just surprised John Oliver was in it

[@bennett420316]

SO you always get to wish me a great rest of my day, I wanted to return the favor for once, HAVE A GREAT REST OF YOUR DAY😅

[@teen_laqueefa]

Agree

[@DierenBrigade]

Yes :) now i must only agree my vingers thank you 😋👍

[@RUOK2000]

I don't like that sort of pressure

[@samholdsworth420]

No, have a great rest of your day

[@ChaossX77]

Have a good portion of your day. No need to get greedy.

[@pryan609]

Also on F-Zero if you push up you will force you nose downward in a jump. This is useful to cause yourself to land sooner in big jumps so you don't go flying off the course. Just remember to press down to level yourself before landing or you will take damage and slow yourself down.

[@christophlange5053]

I also did not see the blast turn getting a good use in the captured video as well.

[@fen4554]

Metal Warriors is one of my all time favorites, so that basketball mode is kinda blowing my mind.

[@LAVERTUEG]

same. I thought first itnwas a joke or a mod but nope, seems real

[@reyvgm]

In case you do another one, here's something I realized about the SNES version of Prince of Persia 2 that I haven't seen anyone mention before. If you play the US version of PoP2 you might notice you barely have a proper time to react to enemies and obstacles because the game feels and runs a bit too fast. I believe I know the reason for that. You know that back then, PAL games ran slower than the NTSC versions of the games. In other words, the NTSC games ran at a "normal" speed, and the PAL ones ran slower. In the case of PoP2, it's reversed. The game was apparently made with the European market in mind, so to accommodate to the 50hz PAL speed, the game was made to internally run faster so when you played it on the Euro SNES, the game would run at what the rest of the world would call a "normal" speed. But, when the game was released in the US, the internal speed was kept the same, so when played with the faster 60hz NTSC speed, the game would ran even faster than intended! Prince of Persia 2 is a beautiful game, but I could never get into the NTSC version because of its difficulty due to how fast it ran. But the European version is much better because it runs at a manageable speed that is not the usual slow-as-molasses PAL speed.

[@alves7th]

That is a great one! And the exact same goes for Gods. The NTSC version of that game is ridiculously fast and pretty unplayable, while the slower PAL version is much more manageable and closer to the Amiga and DOS versions of the game.

[@kekeke8988]

That thing with the chicken in ALTTP blew my mind.

[@gameandwinetime]

I have replayed LttP more times than I can count, and I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE CHICKEN LADY 🐓 nor did I know about the flipped control options in SoM, another of my favorite and most replayed SNES games. I came to this video expecting either facts I already knew or useless trivia and you surprised me with some cool new facts I never knew… def. looking forward to a pt.2!! 👍

[@BusyMEOW]

In Super Mario World hold L & R and press A to re-enter a destroyed castle stage. In Donkey Kong Country's Minecart Madness level, jump over the first cart and hold left to find a warp barrel that takes you to the end of the level. In Unirally (Uniracers) rename the white unicycle to "DMG North" and select it for constand speed

[@WhitePointerGaming]

DKC actually has a fair chunk of levels with a warp barrel: Minecart Carnage (not Madness), Stop and Go Station (go back through the entrance to the stage), Millstone Mayhem (need to bounce off a tyre in a certain spot with Donkey), Vulture Culture (only appears when playing as Donkey and disappears if you are too slow to reach it), Tree Top Town (at the top of the screen near the start), Slipside Ride (above the first bonus room, actually camouflaged blue) and finally Trick Track Trek (hidden completely off the top of the screen near the start). DKC2 and DKC3 also have hidden warp barrels in various levels.

[@ktak2811]

Ten years? Holy crap. You're amazing.

[@elgatofelix8917]

Holy crap. You're easily impressed.

[@mightyfilm]

That Family Feud game footage with the weird answers reminds me of the time Richard Karn was the host, and anytime they gave an answer that was clearly too stupid to be on the board, he'd sarcastically prefix the term "the old..." before repeating the answer and pointing to the board. I can hear him saying "the old trusting elephant" in the back of my mind.

[@Slowgroovin]

I miss having cheat codes and easter eggs in most games. They added so much replayability.

[@RobbyRaccoon]

That left-handed thing is weird. I'm left handed and it never even occurred to me that having the D-Pad on the other side would be helpful.

[@thecunninlynguist]

lefty too...and same. only times playing left handed was helpful was during the DS era and games that were supposed to be held like a book, like Brain age or Hotel Dusk.

[@TVans-vs3gn]

I loved to play "Legend" with Turbo mode on and I'd rate it above average for sure.

[@ArchGeek]

Don’t feel bad about F-Zero, lots of people have no clue about controlling the ducks in Duck Hunt.

[@BusyMEOW]

Second controller! Top Sneaky stuff back then..

[@foxtonstreet]

I had no idea about this in F Zero either.

[@ValkyrieTiara]

@@BusyMEOW YOU. CGP Grey liker.

[@BusyMEOW]

@@ValkyrieTiara I have no idea what that means sorry, could you please tell me more?

[@mugsofmirth8101]

Wtf does duck hunt have to do with f zero ?

[@kylebarnette8277]

This is such an underrated, hidden gem of a channel.

[@ExoCade]

Also being a left handed person, I was actually forced to learn to be ambidextrous when I was a kid. I had no idea there were different ways to play by putting your controller upside down

[@Nordlicht05]

In can relate but in a different way. I drive my RC car only with inverted steering. I can't drive normally anymore. It's in the brain 😂

[@ExoCade]

@@Nordlicht05lmfao yup. I remember I had to learn how to use arcade sticks correctly. My brain was like what?

[@Nordlicht05]

@@ExoCade i'am glad i can drive my real car normally 😂

[@ExoCade]

@@Nordlicht05 right??? There are so many things right handed people take for granted.

[@Nordlicht05]

@@ExoCade I mean not inverted 😂 For the right right yes many I may not know.

[@Marine_Dynamite]

Speaking Guy's wall jump, I remember you could also do wall jumps off barrels and crates so there's a bit more place to do it

[@corgibuttz2550]

Wow. I've played Metal Warriors for 20 years and I never knew about the basketball mode! lolol

[@MrClawt]

I can't believe I didn't know about the Uniracers color codes. My brother and I played it so much that we simply memorized the tracks.

[@Banana_DjMakaBM]

Fun fact, on F- Zero it's possible to color swap if you hit Start when crossing the finish line. So you can turn blue Samurai Goroh vehicule for exemple. 😊

[@jwill7998]

That Family Feud trick allows you to try multiple answers in one attempt.

[@jenyhuis]

That hilarious Family Feud factoid is why I love this channel.

[@GBTwelveSixteen]

For another Star Fox game (not on SNES but n64), if you shoot down Slippy at the beginning of a stage (it can be done) or allow him to be shot down, the boss's energy meter will not show up for the boss battle since Slippy's job is to "analyze enemy shields" or see how much damage you need to do to beat the boss.

[@mattb9664]

That goes for each of the wingman- they each contribute to your success in some way. Falcon actually provides some help, and Peppy coaches the moves you need to do on the level to maximize your score.

[@rootbeer_666]

Falco also opens up branching paths in levels with multiple exits

[@vix_in_japan]

You know this video really demonstrates why I love your channel, such broad depth and knowledge of the SNES it’s just a pleasure to watch and I for one really appreciate it all! Great stuff!

[@lhfirex]

This was a fantastic video, and it ended with the best kind of WTF secret in a SNES game.

[@doctorofsoundmd5908]

I've beaten Metal Warriors multiple times. It's one of my favorite SNES games, and I had zero idea that the Basketball mode existed. SNES Drunk, you've done it again.

[@akafacts]

1) didnt know that chicken fact for LOZ 2) I laughed so hard at the family feud ones, WELL DONE!

[@danborggren6608]

Fun Fact that I have never seen anyone else mention: In Judge Dredd you can break the ammunition boxes with kicks if you kick them and immediately push paus. You are supposed to use granades for them, but this is a neat trick in order to save ammo.

[@Nintendoofah64]

Wow I used to play the Metal Warriors multiplayer mode with my cousin a lot back then and I honestly had no idea about that hidden basketball mode.

[@grahamwalker2168]

I didn't know chuck norris was in the family feud game

[@ReaperspearX]

Always found it funny that ALTTP has a chicken lady lol

[@benito6036]

You need to post that Family Feud clip by itself as a KZbin Short, man. Too funny

[@JacktheRacoon]

Couple Mode is honestly such a cute and useful idea!! I hope more games implement something like that in the future, that would be great!! It’s like an easy mode but not even really an “easy mode”, it just allows both players to play at a rate that’s right for them! Also I like that Player 1 drawing the majority of the attention means an even harder game for them, meaning that they’d probably die around the same time as someone newer at the game in a slightly easier scenario! I just think that’s really smart design!

[@Tftapodcast]

Happy nearly 10 year anniversary SNES Drunk! This channel has been so consistently great and I have greatly enjoyed watching for all these years!

[@BabusGameRoom]

7:50 LMAO "Drunk Family"...love the content. Always happy to get a nice treat of a long video from you!

[@ZeroYame]

Rushing Beat Ran is not that easier, but it erases stuff that the american version did, like removing the useless need of finding the way out of the sewers or the elevator, I know because I played and recorded it... boy that was hard

[@Delekhan]

I played Metal Warriors for years with one of my best friends back in the 90's. Had no idea! Best factoid of this awesome video. Thank man!

[@mattb6522]

These are wild! Thank you, Drunk. I've played SNES for over 30 years and didn't know these interesting tidbits. I've played Link to the Past dozens of times, but never knew about the Chicken Lady. That is awesome! Couple Mode is a brilliant shmup idea. I honestly have never heard of it before. I hope we get a Part 2 of this segment. I'd love to learn more about hidden SNES game features/mechanics.

[@TerriblyAwesomeGames]

I own Run Saber and love it! Never knew you could change colors. Probably because it’s like an hour play through and I may have never even paused it. 😆

[@Shorty_Lickens]

I already knew about the controller flipping, and the Zelda Chicken-girl. Good lord I am not a cool man.

[@yourrudeyoutubewatcher]

I would love to see more of this format. I mean, all of your stuff's the good stuff. But this format is really nice.

[@woozie___]

I loved Brawl Brothers growing up. You could set your number of lives and continues and even maxing them out it was hard as heck to beat!

[@andrewsegers7942]

I had a real good rest of my middle of the night. Your videos are so useful in finding weird old stuff on the super nintendo and beyond. Thank you!

[@spacecastleshow]

I just love how the captions say "BEST DRUNK" at the intro. Another great video, as always!

[@darklordyianni4463]

This is one of your absolute BEST.

[@thecouncil719]

This is exactly what I want to see. Thanks for making this video it's always so interesting to learn secrets to games like this

[@gfmol845]

WHAAT?! I've never beaten Metal Warriors on account of spending pretty much all the time on vs mode with my best friend (also, it was really hard). I never even heard a whisper of that code. That would've been awesome. Also, on Final Fight, Cody had the ability to use knives as melee weapons instead of throwing them immediatly (as long as you had an enemy close by). Really cool idea. If you have more random trivia I hope to see a sequel. Cheers!

[@jeffersonjjohnson]

Here's something you may not have known. Five Greatest Soldiers of all Time? Dyluck, Dyluck, Dyluck, Dyluck, and Dyluck.

[@DarkAngelBluejay]

This was a really cool video. Lot of factoids I didn't know. Thanks man.

[@Kyo.11]

Little fact, in SF Alpha 2 you can get extra colors by selecting your character pressing 2 punches or 2 kicks. In Super Mario World, in the special world you can hear the music from SMB1 if you wait 2 minutes in the map.

[@ARCWuLF]

Also in F-Zero: If you push "up" on the D-pad while airborne, you will hit the ground harder and faster. It's not especially useful for speed (it will slow you down significantly), but it might save you from flying off the track in some stages.

[@Heike--]

Were these controls in the manual, and nobody ever bothered to look? That's usually the case with these "secret tricks" of SNES and NES games.

[@ARCWuLF]

@@Heike-- I have no idea, I just remember that I discovered that the game had yaw control to a degree.

[@P-_-S]

@@Heike-- I just skimmed a PDF of the manual, it's in there though you kind of have to read through the lines to understand the specific element of landing clean with down. Early in the manual where it shows the control mapping and then a few pages later explains the controls in more details, it mentions that up and down control your nose in flight to increase and decrease your distance. Much later when it is explaining the various track hazards, it mentions in the jump plate section that you need to "Be careful when flying above the source, as improper landings will cause a loss of speed". So, it never explicitly says push down before landing to not slowdown, but it can be inferred. I figured it out on my own as a kid, most likely from noticing how smoothly I landed after using down to hit a really long jump. Can't imagine how annoying that must have been to try and win at harder difficulty levels if you're losing speed every time you land on some of the more jump heavy courses later in the GPs.

[@Heike--]

@@P-_-S I was floored when I found out that when most people got a new game, they opened the box, extracted the cartridge, and discarded the contents. The manual shows you exactly how to play, right there.

[@artemi7]

I remember I knew about that as a kid! I'm pretty sure you can hit up to come down fast, which is useful on some tracks where you don't want to be airborne as long.

[@mirasbrush4607]

Love the video, I highly rely on your videos for SNES stuff, and arcade games now, but slight nitpick, a factoid is: "a statement based on an assumption-something that has never been confirmed" - these are rock-solid truth-bombs, but small ones, tiny blast-charges of raw, exploding truth.

[@thenostalgiafactor5023]

Total length of video: 685 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk" 2.5 secs. .36% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

[@RetroReef]

Love the format of this video!

[@artemi7]

It's wild that I only just found out about the Metal Warriors thing a couple weeks ago, but all a sudden, here it is on one of your vids!

[@SolidSnake684]

Love how after all these years, you still have interesting topics for videos like this. In case youre ever looking for new ideas, maybe you could do a video on the strangest 3rd party SNES controllers.

[@ticron]

Loved this, wouldn't mind seeing more!

[@WhispyWoods.]

Congratulations on (almost?) 🔟 years of your channel! This was a fun vid 👍

[@GrandTourHTX]

So glad you're still making videos. Never leave. SNES FOREVER! ❤

[@absuplendous]

Guy is one the few characters in Street Fighter that can wall jump. I just figured it fit his ninja-like fighting style... I didn't realize he could also do it in his home game!

[@Shinmsl]

You can also do it in Final Fight 3

[@Dark.Shingo]

Awesome video. Loved all the tidbits, very interesting!

[@wileyschmitt]

Cool video, not boring at all for anyone who grew up in the 90's and played their games and rentals to death.

[@lucascecil6287]

You upload right when my coffee finished brewing. It works out great!

[@tygrus3495]

In Tiny Toons Buster BL, when playing Juction with Hamton, turn the controller upside down to solve the puzzle easily. In Clock Tower, when ScissorMan is lying on the ground, run left and right on top of him several times, if done correctly he will stand up and grab the air as if he was grabbing Jennifer. In Contra 3, if you have a good timing and throw a bomb just in the right moment when you lose your last life but it happens that you recover one life with the bomb, then you skip the level (this works only on level 1, 3, and 4 if I recall correctly, and yes it works as a warp in case you are a speed runner). In Zelda A Link to the Past, there is a cabin in Kakariko Village with a cracked wall and cuccos inside: put a bomb on the crack already opened, and before the bomb explodes throw the cucco, if done correctly it will get stuck in the wall, use your sword to continue pushing it until it goes through the wall and lands on the hidden room. In Illusion of Gaia, when facing the boss Solid Arm, stand on the conveyor belt of the middle, alternate the defense-attack technique with the flute, and this way one of the hardest bosses of the game becomes the easiest one. In SFA2, you can pick additional colors for your fighters by pressing two punches or two kicks on the selection screen, and here comes the interesting thing: if you do the trick to pick shin Akuma, and the second player picks the same Akuma but presses 2 buttons to get an alternate color, the shin Akuma trick is cancelled, and the first player will play with regular Akuma, even after selected Shin Akuma. These are some of the many many discoveries, glitches and tricks I have made across the years on SNES games, and even if they have been published in MagazinNES, I don't think many people know about them. Regards.

[@xelthos2051]

I love Uniracers. Never had the instruction manual, had to learn all the track colors on my own, glad I got them most right.

[@acomingextinction]

This is a really great video idea. Would love a series.

[@HighFuel90]

Wow, a list like this where I didnt know a single factoid. Well done!

[@jpsncds]

I always enjoy watching your videos. Have a good day yourself!

[@64-Bit-Gamer]

Already looking forward to Super Nintendo Hidden Factoids 2

[@bertcastelain]

Great stuff! I hope you'll make this into a series as well!

[@frankbrodie5168]

Me and my mate spent WAAAYY too long playing Family Feud, Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune all those years ago. They were just those sort of half competitive without requiring any real thought sort of games, to while away hours with whilst sitting up all night drinkng cups of tea and eating chocolate bars. I'd say I miss those long gone days. But since divorcing and now living on my own, I'm back to doing the same thing. Just on my own now so I never lose. lol

[@motbus3]

Thank you for your time to snes drunk ❤

[@TheShoe1990]

That was great! Please do more like this at some point

[@jacobprice8048]

Being able to use L and R on Paper Boy 2 is what makes the game more fun for me than the original

[@snoozy04]

Thanks for the Run Saber tip!

[@Dezeberbro]

You talking about my childhood games for a long time now that even your channel itself is nostalgic now lol

[@merman1974]

Loved the Family Feud stuff, and the Uniracers/Unirally colours thing is something that I had spotted. Intrigued by the hidden basketball mode in Metal Warriors too.

[@mjdf122]

Thank You For All Your Work

[@SorcererLance]

Oh that F-Zero thing I knew about from its later sequel F-Zero Maximum Velocity on the GBA, I think the manual mentioned it and when I later tried it on the original game, I was pleasantly surprised that relatively unknown tactic worked on the SNES as well

[@LanEXHikari]

I whole-heartedly feel my mind blown, for as much as I love Metal Warriors I never knew about this basketball mode. Thanks SDrunk, what an excuse to revisit this gem

[@kuruptein]

Great video..i knew about thr L and R in paperboy2 atleast oh and the runsaber colorswap. Uniracers was one of my favorite games. Never knew about the color changes. Hell yeah thanks.

[@fedupN]

Thank you for opening with Secret of Mana. The music, the palaces, Gaia's Navel, instant nostalgic joy. Never knew about the F-Zero one, save maybe reminding me of a mention on some side box on a Nintendo Power or other guide? Or that is just garbled memory making things up! That Metal Warriors one...that game was sacrosanct to me back in the day. How DARE they ruin those gorgeous mecha sprites with that nightmare fuel mode?! XD

[@Murasadramon]

This is a great video.

[@Wolfburns]

This is top tier content. Nothing warms my SNES heart like small obscure factoids. I am so thankful for all your years of work. I will be here for the next 10!

[@chakrazoo]

Always a fun watch. :)

[@mlbmobilegamer]

good as always! love your channel!

[@jmac79ers]

Thanks man, some of these are pretty cool, not boring at all! As a lefty, I always found the weird controller options to be funny. I grew up using a controller just like everyone else. It would be so awkward to use a dpad with my right thumb

[@apoplexiamusic]

Ah Metal Warriors! Such a good game. It's sad that it's nowhere to be found on Switch

[@YesterdaysMoose]

7:41 This Family Feud thing reminds me of an old school Jeopardy game. Once you put in the correct response, the game ignored everything that came after. So "What are puppies?" could become "What are puppies made of?" and the CPU would consider it correct.

[@thenostalgiabusiness]

The Final Fight Guy wall jump tidbit is super interesting to me. I have the arcade machine and on the bezel, it says something about how Guy surprises his opponents with his off the wall kicks. I always thought it was just some 80s translation error, because what walls? But I'll be damned, you actually showed me a wall to jump off of!

[@Zahir658]

Thanks for sharing some great tips and secrets 👍

[@LucasKelleher]

Thumbs up for using the correct button layout for Street Fighter!

[@retrojoe85]

Uh, never heard nothing about the F-Zero speed trick! Thank you so much for everyhing!