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** Finally, ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' had the twin characters Palom and Porom. {{spoiler|After their [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}, they were rumored to be retrievable through a special quest you can get ONLY if you go out of your way to get it right at the moment {{spoiler|that they are semi-permanently turned to stone.}} Urban Legends of Zelda aside, they eventually really do get better without your assistance anyway, but in most versions of the game, they don't rejoin you. It should be noted that the game programmers themselves did little to quell these rumors; in-game, you can attempt to use any item in your inventory on the now-frozen pair, implying that there was something you could find that would reverse the process.
*** It was made even worse that a particular walkthrough actually quotes this as fact (or lists FWAK entries among accurate entries). This rumor has also intertwined with the very real hidden room Easter Egg from the Japanese version, and thus it has been said that Palom and Porom can only be retrievable through the hardtype version of the game.
*** This one actually has some truth to it -- in the original version of ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' SFC, there was an item called a Golden Needle that would remove Stone (and only Stone). Using this on the twins would give you a message saying that [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|it wouldn't work for plot reasons]]. The original US version of ''[[
*** Another FFIV rumor related to Dark Matter, which could be stolen from the initial stage of the last boss Zeromus. At the point where the only US version was the edited [[FF 2]], which did not have the item, rumor had it that it was necessary to steal it to reduce the damage done by Zeromus's attack and that removing the need to do this was one of the changes made for the easier [[FF 2]] version. FFIV was later brought to the US unedited for newer systems and the Dark Matter has no effect (though in the [[Nintendo DS]] version it allows fighting a [[Bonus Boss]] later).
* A rumor about ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' that still hasn't died is the Rinoa=Ultimecia theory, stating that [[Future Me Scares Me|Ultimecia was Rinoa in the future]], and her Griever GF was somehow Squall. The whole theory was based on leaps of faith and small plot holes in the game. Square denied the theory in the [[Word of God|Ultimania Guides]]. For a [[Internet Backdraft|good laugh or two]], go on the [[Game FAQs]] boards and ask them about this "strange rumor my friend told me about Ultimecia and Rinoa being the same person."
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== Survival Horror ==
* In yet another case of ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'''s seemingly endless April Fools jokes, the April 1998 issue of EGM2 contained a method claiming to unlock ''[[Street Fighter]]'' boss Akuma in ''[[Resident Evil]] 2'' as a secret character by finishing the game 12 times with an A rank using only the knife and the pistol, and entering the username as "AKUMA" on the computer terminal in William Birkin's lab. Images depicted a full 3-D Akuma (probably ripped from the ''Street Fighter EX'' games) throwing Hadokens at Zombies.
** Around March or April 1999, ''Play'' magazine were very excited over the discovery of a hidden gate in [[Resident Evil 2
* Many have claimed that the first ''[[Silent Hill]]'' game has an "Ambulance Ending" in which Harry rampages through the town in an ambulance; a common piece of joke fanart is the so-called "lost" UFO ending for ''Silent Hill 4'' (which doesn't have one).
** They mean [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WivDg4oAXM8 this], a budget Japanese video game called ''Zombies vs. Ambulances''.
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