Hello, I've been a fan of your fantastic work for some time now, but I'm only writing here for the first time. While you no doubt already have much to do and games on the horizon to look into, I leave some suggestions of things that have been hidden that I would love to see if they can result in anything if you dig them out.
Virtua Fighter 2: Using a hex editor, it is possible to find special messages wishing happy birthday to each specific fighter in the game; however, this is not visible in the game in any part.
Athlete Kings/Decathlete: There are various character names/flags from other countries present in the game files that are not available to play. These are most likely remnants from the arcade version, where the name and flag of the available characters would change based on the country of the arcade cabinet. It is possible to display some of those flags and names by editing some files, but others appear to be corrupt.
Nights into Dreams: This is the most known of them all and probably the one with nothing more to discover since it's been searched for many years by a lot of people. There is a cut special boss fight; all we know is that the boss's name is Selph, and there is a music track for the boss fight in the game. Nothing else is known. There is also an image in the game files of Selph's portrait that is not present in the game by normal means.
Thank you very much for your amazing work and for reading. Looking forward to all your future posts!
Hello, I've been a fan of your fantastic work for some time now, but I'm only writing here for the first time. While you no doubt already have much to do and games on the horizon to look into, I leave some suggestions of things that have been hidden that I would love to see if they can result in anything if you dig them out.
Virtua Fighter 2: Using a hex editor, it is possible to find special messages wishing happy birthday to each specific fighter in the game; however, this is not visible in the game in any part.
Athlete Kings/Decathlete: There are various character names/flags from other countries present in the game files that are not available to play. These are most likely remnants from the arcade version, where the name and flag of the available characters would change based on the country of the arcade cabinet. It is possible to display some of those flags and names by editing some files, but others appear to be corrupt.
Nights into Dreams: This is the most known of them all and probably the one with nothing more to discover since it's been searched for many years by a lot of people. There is a cut special boss fight; all we know is that the boss's name is Selph, and there is a music track for the boss fight in the game. Nothing else is known. There is also an image in the game files of Selph's portrait that is not present in the game by normal means.
Thank you very much for your amazing work and for reading. Looking forward to all your future posts!
Re: Virtua Fighter 2, I posted about this on X! Here is the explanation: https://x.com/memory_fallen/status/1795078993143562429
Re: NiGHTS, here is my contribution to the hunt for Self: https://x.com/memory_fallen/status/1698068113562939397
This confirms that the unused icon was meant for this unused boss.