Messages

1

Nintendo Gaming / wierd glitch in Mario Sunshine

« on: August 25, 2003, 07:41:40 PM »

In Pianta Village (the level with the catwalks and mushrooms underneath the "main village")  select Episode 5 (secret of the Village Underside) get Yoshi and then head down towards the mushrooms as normal, now if you fall off of one of the mushrooms , with Yoshi's hovering skills you can "slide" down the root of the mushroom all the way down the root.  If done properly, you can now run around on tan invisible floor way way below the level.  The best part is (other than being somewhere the programmers didn't expect you to be able to go is that you can PAUSE and hit "EXIT AREA", which saves you a life you otherwise would have lost.  And it looks damn cool too.

2

Nintendo Gaming / RE:Zelda Series Time Line Explanation

« on: August 25, 2003, 06:39:18 PM »

The way I see things working is this: you have 2 timelines, the split occurring when Zelda sent Link back in time and the end of Ocarina of Time.  Wind Waker is the end of the timeline that follows from the end of the "Imprisoning War".  eventually Ganon reappeared, and Hyrule was flooded.  centuries passed, life went on on the islands that were created and tada WW.

Majora's Mask follows shortly after the end of Ocarina in the other Timeline, and ALTTP continues this thread. It can't have happened before WW because the Triforce is whole, and it can't have happened after because in the last moments of WW, Hyrule was destroyed and the King drowned with his wish on the entire Triforce.  "the world above" was clearly NOT Hyrule, and a "new Hyrule" that Link and Tetra set out to find would not have been as connected to the lore and history of the first Hyrule as was the Hyrule of ALTTP.  Which means ALTTP belongs in the MM timeline.  Also, WW states that the Hero of Time did not return, which would seem to indicate that none of the games occured in this time period.

Now, the other games would seem to fit on this timeline too, depending on what state the Triforce is in.  I could believe that Link's Awakening goes in the WW timeline, perhaps occurring after Link left to find the new Hyrule, but I have also heard a good case for EVERY SECOND of L'sA occuring in a dream during the seven years where Link was inprisoned in the Sacred Realm.  I'm sorry I can't give anything more than that, but I haven't played many of the early games, or the Oracle games.

this theory has AT LEAST 3 Links: OoT-MM, WW-LA and ALTTP. OR LA before end of OoT followed by MM, WW Link2, ALTTP Link3.  Depending where you place the other games, there are probably more.

So that's my 2 cents.

3

Nintendo Gaming / Mario Sunshine: Noki Bay - The Shell's Secret

« on: August 25, 2003, 05:49:41 PM »

let me preface this by saying I suck in general at all the "secret" levels, but this one's really making me wanna throw things.  very early in the level there is a series of 3 moving platforms with pink squares, which you have to get to using a spinning wall kick, but I die over and over again and can't seem to aim the jump so that I can kick the wall in the right spot.  confused yet??  and the second place in the same level is the area with brown woodlike walls that you have to do more wall kicks and side cartwheels to get up to the first of three spinning logs.

Can anyone help?? this is the last freaking level I have to do before I can unlock Corona Mountain, but man I must have died a couple hundred times this weekend.