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{{quote|"''We added a shitload of secrets into this thing. Seriously. You thought [[Dummied Out|Hidden Palace]] was bad? This thing is gonna be like [[Who Shot JFK?|goddamn JFK]].''"|'''Anonymous Sonic Team Member''', ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Special Edition]]''}}

 

 

A common source of these is [[April Fools' Day|April Fool's]] issues of popular gaming magazines. After all, if it's in print, it must be true! ...not quite. Other sources include mistranslated lines, aspects of the game being [[Dummied Out]], and [[Missing Secret|Missing Secrets]].

 

 

 

It's worth noting that the explosion of Internet access has allowed for both rapid debunking and rapid propagation of such digital legends, resulting in people being no better or worse informed about them than before.

 

== The Legend Of Zelda ([[Trope Namer]]) ==

** A (comparatively) convincing theory involved learning a song called the "Overture of Sages" that allowed you to catch a glimpse of, but not actually obtain, the Triforce prior to pulling out the Master Sword. This was accompanied by (again, comparatively) convincing screenshots. Naturally, the person who revealed this declined to give certain details of how to learn the song. Learn that story [http://www.platypuscomix.net/websurfin/ariana.html here].

** Also, the rumor that you can beat the Marathon Man. The fact of the matter is, you can't. The game's designers, apparently, had no clue what to do if you won (can't give you a bigger bomb bag because that's somewhere else, etc.), so he always beats you by exactly one second - even if you use a cheat to finish in zero seconds (giving him a time of "00:0/"). The real point of the race ended up just being to beat your best time.

** There was also the "El Puerco" rumor that circulated around [[Game FAQs]] for a while, involving a strange pig-like enemy that was said to have an ''extremely'' rare chance of appearing during the graveyard race against Dampe. General consensus now is that the initial "sighting", if not a complete fabrication, was the result of a player encountering a very rare, very odd glitch with the [[Re Dead]] enemy's model.

* What about the rumor of the ''Zelda'' movie? And that trailer was really realistic... {{spoiler|It was another famous April Fools prank.}}

* The fourth Triforce piece gets you [[Gannon Banned]].

* A few years ago there was a talk of a new, futuristic ''Zelda'' game where Epona was a motorcycle. It turned out to be an April Fools Joke.

** Then there's the hoax known as ''Valley of the Flood'', starring a [[Fake Ultimate Hero]] version of Link. An interview about it can be seen [http://www.zentendo.com/forums/index.php?topic=13375.0 here].

** Also in ''Twilight Princess'', there have been claims that you can find the hidden "Beta forest". These rumors have been fueled by what appears to be a wide open expanse of trees seen in the first two trailers for the game that is different from the usual cave-system-disguised-by-occasional-trees that passes as a forest in the ''Zelda'' games. The videos [[Blatant Lies|"proving"]] the existence of the Beta forest in the game or showing where the Beta forest was intended to be usually just consist of the player doing random stuff and exploiting random glitches in order to confuse the viewer.

* Back in 2005 there was a bid on eBay for a game called ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: The Triforce Saga'' for the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]]. It was supposedly a half-finished prototype for an unreleased Zelda game, but the bidder couldn't post much on it due to them "being very busy" and him not being a gamer. Someone brought the cartridge for $3000 but they didn't state anything on it. It was all quite obviously a hoax.

 

== Final Fantasy ==

** One of the rumors regarding the resurrection of {{spoiler|Aerith/Aeris}} focused on the relatively-useless "Underwater" materia, which had no point in the Japanese version and only removed a time limit during an optional boss fight in the other releases. It was said that if the materia AP was maxed (something in itself that would take months of level grinding), you could travel underwater in the Forbidden City where {{spoiler|Aerith/Aeris}} bit it and bring her back to life. It turns out that maxing the AP of the materia just set it back to 0.

** Another tantalizing bit is there's a materia that is reachable after {{spoiler|Aeris}} dies, and upon activating says something like "You hear voices" and made it seem like since Aeris did special things with the white materia.

** While not as popular, there were/are also theories about how to find or resurrect Zack. One of the most common was that the sick Sephiroth clone you find living in a sewer pipe in Midgar is Zack, and that Aerith's mention of "Sorry, I'm too weak to heal him" means that you have to buff her up to ungodly levels and talk to him again. Given that the area is only accessible (with Aerith, anyway) for a brief period in which there are only fairly weak enemies to level-build on, one can only imagine the wasted hours and snapped controllers sacrificed to ''this'' rumor.

*** Another rumour of how to find Zack was actually printed in an issue of the UK's Powerstation magazine. It involved the useless items that could be won from the Speed Square at the Gold Saucer -- the 1/35 SOLDIER, Super Sweeper and Masamune Blade -- and somehow using them on the ruined reactor in Gongaga.

** Another variation of the Aerith rumor was one that involved being very nice to Aerith in all of your [[Dialogue Tree|dialogue options]] while being downright [[Kick the Dog|cruel]] to Tifa; doing so would make [[Die for Our Ship|Tifa die during the infamous scene instead of Aerith]].

* Often in conjunction with the revival of Aeris, there was the rumor of a White Chocobo that could travel everywhere the Gold Chocobo could, as well as underwater, usually leading to the White Materia/Aerith's body/another WEAPON (usually Onyx).

** Speaking of ''FFVI'', a rumor went around a while back that if you got every single one of Shadow's dream sequences -- scenes that you get by sleeping in various inns around the world with Shadow in your party in the World of Ruin (including a nonexistent "secret" scene that you have to do something special for, like having another character in your party at the inn) -- you could get an alternate character ending.

** A somewhat low-key but persistent rumor is that there's some arcane trick to preventing Shadow from leaving after battles during those segments when he can (doing the "three scenarios" segment in a particular order, not making so much money from battles, changing your party order, etc.) There are tricks to stop him from running, actually, but they mostly rely on keeping Shadow from being alive and present at the end of battles (knock him out, make him run, etc.) Beyond that, it's 100% random.

*** Slicing ''Final Fantasy VI'''s code actually reveals a powerful boss named Czar Dragon, who would have been a [[Bonus Boss|superboss]] merged from the spirits of the 8-dragons, and was built into the remake as Kaiser Dragon. Interestingly, in his home [[Bonus Dungeon]] the dragon's den, the 8-dragons and other monsters have been reincarnated into stronger forms, so it could have been used as a legitimate excuse to bring Leo back.

** That Gogo is actually General Leo/Emperor Gestahl/Adlai Stevenson the politician (though that last one can be convincing if you buy into the fake quotes from his works.) This one kind of died when we got [[Final Fantasy V]] in North America, since he's quite obviously just a simple cameo from that game.

*** 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.

*** 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).

** It's also based heavily in Rinoa's private talk with Squall aboard the Ragnarok on disc 3 where she [[Not So Different|announces Ultimecia's goals as her own]]. While it's intended to be romantic, the way she carries on about making one moment last forever makes it easy to see where the rumor came from;

{{quote| ''I don't want the future. I want the present to stand still. I just want to stay here with you.''}}

*** It's a reasonably interesting theory since it makes the story much more complex, and Ultimecia is given an actual backstory, and a very tragic one at that. Of course, concrete evidence in game doesn't really support that, though there are times it could be interpreted as this, it's basically just because Ultimecia was HORRIBLY built up so everyone was willing for any reason to make her an interesting villain.

* It was popular for a time to claim that Shiva from ''Final Fantasy'' was named for a Celtic ice goddess, rather than the better-known Hindu deity. While this was untrue, there are vague similarities to the Hindu deity Shiva. Hindu deities are both male and female, and both the deity and Final Fantasy's Shiva have blue skin. (Although the former comes from ingesting poison, and the latter from connection with ice.) And the name was pretty obviously supposed to be "Shiver" anyway.

 

 

== Pokémon ==

* There's generally one Pokémon in each set of games that can't be captured during regular gameplay (requiring a limited-edition promotional item or [[Game Shark]] to get). The rumors revolve around a hidden point and/or series of actions to take that allows you to get it.

** Even the Generation III (Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald) games are not exempt. There is a persistent rumor that when the shuttle launch count in the Mossdeep City reaches a certain number (50 and 99 were two of the fairly popular numbers), you will be able to hitch a ride on one of the rockets. This will take you into space, where you can catch Deoxys or Jirachi.

* Perhaps complicating the situation was the legitimate "Missingno" glitch which seemed [[Reality Is Unrealistic|just as insane and arbitrary as any of the rumors]]... at least to someone who isn't versed in programming. You had to talk to an irrelevant-seeming tutorial NPC in Viridian City, and then Surf along the beach of Cinnabar Island. This made weird Pokémon show up, like Golbat and Snorlax over the level cap of 100, and a pair of glitched "Pokémon" called Missingno. and 'M. They were actually placeholder values in the game, and so catching them made even weirder stuff happen - in-battle graphics would be screwy, the Hall of Fame would be permanently glitched, and if you put it in a PC box you might not be able to ever retrieve it (depending on your name). Missingno got so popular for another reason, however. The 6th item in your inventory would be cloned to 128 or 255 after encountering it. This means with a little planning, you can create infinite numbers of rare and powerful items like Master Balls and rare candies, which makes the game laughably easy.

** Note that there isn't actually so much a "pair" of glitched Pokémon as much there are (at least) twelve of them, plus a few only available through [[Game Shark]], as chronicled by [http://www.glitchcity.info/ Glitch City Laboratories]. The best is LM4, which is a blur of dots that will, at Lvl. 18, evolve into Clefairy, and then immediately into Nidoking.

** You can see some of these glitched Pokémon, as well as other glitches in [http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/BreakingBlue/ this Something Awful LP of Pokémon Blue].

** Speaking of the S.S. Anne, there were also quite a few rumours based around getting it to come back. These were supported by an NPC stating that the S.S. Anne would return in a year, but the original games had no way of telling the time beyond hours played.

* Back in the days, some people actually believed Shellder to lose its shell when evolved the first time, and then after that evolve into Gastly and follow Gastly's evolution path. This was supported by the Red and Blue instruction manual that showed both Shellder and Gastly in their slots in the Pokédex with only one slot between them. The slot between them later turned out just to be Cloyster.

** Similarly, there was an April Fool's joke that you could evolve a Lickitung into Luigi by feeding it a Rare Candy while holding your [[Game Boy]] UPSIDE-DOWN. This one actually came from the official Web site of [[Nintendo]] of America, which to be fair made the joke more ridiculous than the Yoshi one; in addition to the requirement of holding the system upside-down, it required the Lickitung to be captured in a specific type of Poké Ball (which the games didn't keep track of until ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'') in Blue specifically, with this only being possible in Yellow (which was out in English at the time), with Red and Blue having it obtained through a trade, and Luigi's "sprite" was clearly a grayscale version of his artwork for the original ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'' and much higher-quality than the games' actual sprites.

* Rumors for the games were practically '''defined''' by the supposed presence of hidden or new Pokémon. These new Pokémon were usually seen in the anime or online in very early Gold and Silver beta artwork and pre-release artwork, at such an early time no one expected sequels so assumed these "new" Pokémon were in the current games.

* http://www.blue-reflections.net/ragecandybar/projects/pokegods/ is a project working to archive and research all the old codes and rumors in the Pokémon games, particularly the PokeGods.

* Pokemon is also frequently subject to [[Creepypasta]], particularly original Red and Green versions. [http://www.rickey.org/?p=43703 Lavender Town] is frequently the subject of these stories.

* Speaking of ''Black and White'', the actual early stages of release had many people claiming there was a "swimming goggles" held item which increased accuracy and Special Attack and put non-Water Pokémon using it to sleep, [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|leading to lots of complaining that this would make Starmie overpowered.]] Said item did not exist, nor did anything even similar to it.

** Another Black and White Urban Legend that spread and was believed for a short amount of time was that {{spoiler|1=[[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Bianca was the Champion.]] Even after this turned out not to be the case, fans have still debated whether it was misinterpreting her post-League team data as a Champion team or if it truly was [[Dummied Out]]. [http://www.gamefreak.co.jp/blog/staff/?p=202 An interview on GameFreak's website] mentions that the ending was one of the first things written, leaning toward the former scenario. This hasn't stopped some fans from wanting Bianca to be the Champion in the inevitable third installment.}}

** Prevalent to the point where a journalist asked Takashi Iizuka about it. Myth was busted.

* There were a few rumors about some bizarre, secret levels in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'' and at the time what presumably was ''in'' these levels took on mythic proportions. Turns out the levels existed, kinda', but were basically left overs from the development phase. The levels existed at a certain point in development, hence the music from them and the screenshots (which spawned the urban legends) were real, but [[Dummied Out|they were later axed]]. This is similar to ''[[Mega Man X|Mega Man X1]]'''s fabled "White City" and "robot partners"--mentioned and shown in early previews and screenshots but removed during development.

*** Of course, there have been [[Game Mod|ROM hacks]] [[Hilarious in Hindsight|since then]], so you actually CAN play as them, if you know where to look.

** [[Olympus Mons|Chaos Chao]] were like this after the game was first released, but fortunately, they were 100% real, and you could easily get one without an Action Replay.

*** [[Olympus Mons|Energy Chao]].

== Super Mario ==

 

** ''Super Mario Bros.'' also had a supposed 'no death' trick by holding on the second controller's B button with your toe (or, presumably, with the help of someone else's toe. Or finger, for that matter), that one proved to be false also.

** Many people are convinced that something great will happen if you jump over a flagpole in ''Super Mario Bros.'' While this is possible to do in World 3-3 by using the scale lift at the end, there's nothing past the flagpole except featureless, infinitely repeating landscape. Then you just have to wait for the timer to kill Mario, because the [[Ratchet Scrolling]] won't let you go back.

** There was a rumor going around back in the late 1980s that if you beat the original ''Super Mario Bros.'' for NES twice in a row it would open up an option to play ''Super Mario Bros. 2''. Of the many rumors on this page, this one probably makes the least sense--if SMB2 had already been completed at that time, [[Revenue Enhancing Devices|why not just release it seperately]]?

*** What does happen when you beat it is that all 8 worlds repeat, with changes to the platforms and enemies to make everything harder. This fact probably led to the misunderstanding that rescuing the princess unlocks a whole new game.

** A SMW Game Hack/Patch DOES exists with graphic changes and ice-and-slippery snow everywhere where if you go through the Star Road it changes it back to normal game play, but sorry no spring-style dino islands.

** The rumor was perpetuated by none other than Dan Owsen. He didn't ever hint that it was real, mind you, he just refused to answer the question when someone wrote in asking about it (his/Evil Dan's initial response was "the truth is out there". He then repeatedly refused further requests to answer the question, using his "Evil Dan" e-persona to mock everyone the whole time, despite requests that he stop doing that. At the end, he put in answer into his FAQ confirming it wasn't anything, but by then, the rumor had spread far and wide. Had he done his job and simply answered the question (or ignored it and not put in his Q&A in the first place) the rumor would likely be long dead.

** Luigi was eventually made playable in the DS remake... which, in conjunction with Wario, then led to a rumor that you could unlock [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Waluigi]].

* In ''Super Mario Sunshine'', there's a rumor going around that if all the Shine Sprites are collected, Mario can fight Waluigi, who is holding Luigi captive in a cage. When the battle is won, Luigi becomes a playable character.

* One of the companions from ''[[Paper Mario]]'' can be interacted with in ''[[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door]]''. This, on its own, started rumours that the other companions were there as well. This was ''before'' hackers discovered [[Dummied Out|sprite sets]] for the lot of them.

** To elaborate slightly, it was said by some that you could reach World 9 by finding and using the "Golden Whistle". This probably wasn't the only method proposed...

** Fun fact: The game did, originally, contain a Purple Yoshi and a Brown Yoshi, during the beta phase. [[Dummied Out|They were switched out for some reason.]]

* Take any game where Luigi's not playable. There are rumors going around about how to unlock him in that game.

** Of course, it was only a matter of time before the PC [[Game Mod]] community [[Video Game Perversity Potential|made the dream]] [[Uncanny Valley|reality]].

** One of these (for ''[[Dead or Alive]]: Extreme Beach Volleyball'') was the subject of one of ''Electronic Gaming Monthly''s infamous April Fool's Day jokes.

** An ad in an American game magazine around the release of ''Tomb Raider 3'' for the game said something to the effect of "We've improved on everything you asked about... but sorry, still no nude code."

** In ''[[Mortal Kombat]] 2'', the female characters were rumored to have "nude-alities". Heck of it is, it actually sounded somewhat plausible at the time. Mortal Kombat had ''already'' pissed off plenty of parents, why not take it to the next level?

** Parodied by ''This Is Otakudom'', where they find a working nude code for ''[[Space Channel 5]]'', ("Dude, they have screen shots") but later realized that it's actually codes for Mario.

* Players initially believed that the dormant volcano in the first area of ''Uru: Ages Beyond Myst'' could be entered somehow, allowing access to the D'ni civilization. While this isn't true in the original game (the volcano isn't fully solid, and the attempting to climb it will dump you out of the level), a fan modification has not only made the volcano climbable, but ALSO allows the player to import data from ''Myst V: End of Ages'' into Uru - meaning that jumping into the volcano will actually allow access to the areas of the volcano seen in ''Myst V.'' Damned cool.

* One persistent rumor on a few gaming sites said that jumping off of the Statue of Liberty 30 times in the game of ''[[Spider Man 2]]'' would let you play as Kermit the Frog. Sadly, this does not happen.

 

 

== Beat 'Em Up/Fighting ==

** Then there was their infamous "Sheng Long" and "Sonic and Tails in Melee" tricks mentioned below.

** The magazine even shown a photoshopped image of Link fighting a bird enemy, both of them being in the style of ''Twilight Princess'', while the area the screenshot was in was from an area in ''Wind Waker''. EGM joked that you could get a "Twilight Princess" version of ''Wind Waker'' if you deposited some money to a pre order of ''Twilight Princess''. Sadly, some people fell for it and actually asked local retailers if the pre order offer was really happening.

** The EGM version of the rumor was that the player had to play as Ryu and win every fight without getting hit once UNTIL reaching M Bison, at which point you had to go 10 rounds not hitting M. Bison and not getting hit by him until finally Sheng Long was supposed to step in and fight you. If you won that fight, you unlocked Sheng Long. Talk about [[Nintendo Hard]] (EGM knew it too. The name of the fictional contributor to the trick was given as W.A. Stokens (Waste tokens)) of Fuldigan, HA (Fooled ya 'gain, HA!).

*** Taking the acknowledgement a step further, Gouken actually resembles the original "Sheng Long" graphic that EGM cooked up...and he has, in one way or another, ''every move EGM listed him as having.'' This may count as a [[Defictionalization]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

*** Prior to EGM's April Fools gag, "Sheng Long" was actually considered to be the name of Ryu and Ken's master by Capcom USA before the character was even given a name in Japan. In the manual for the SNES version of ''Street Fighter II'', Sheng Long is mentioned in Ryu's and Ken's profiles. However, the manuals for all subsequent ''Street Fighter II'' games removed all references to Sheng-Long and the name "Gouken" was used instead.

** Same with playing as Giant DK and Metal Mario in the original ''Super Smash Bros''., which were eventually acknowledged by the addition of Super Mushrooms and Metal Boxes in ''Melee''. If you use a Gameshark to play as either of them (or Master Hand, or any of the Fighting Polygon Team, for that matter), the game freezes at the end of the match, because none of those characters have an animation for the post-match "applause" screen. The same thing happens in ''Melee'' if you use the [[Debug Mode]] to play as any of its normally unplayable enemy characters (Giga Bowser, the Wire Frames and the Hands).

** IGN recently joked that an [[Expansion Pack]] for ''Brawl'' would be offered as part of a faux service called "Wii Expand". The supposed expansion in question is called ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl X: Extreme'', and it was said to be geared towards an adult audience, with gore and decapitations abound. [http://video.ign.com/dor/articles/969169/ign-april-fools-videos/videos/supersmashexx_bc_spc_jpn.html Here is the footage of the supposed expansion pack in action], as well as [http://wii.ign.com/dor/articles/968498/smash-bros-goes-hardcore-video/videos/supersmashexx_spc_jpn.html an offscreen version].

*** An interview with Keiji Inafune specifically asked if he was ever asked by Nintendo if they could put Mega Man in ''Brawl''. He wasn't, but notes that if he was, he'd have said yes in a heartbeat.

** There are also persistent rumours that the otherwise useless Goldeen will use [[One Hit KO|Horn Drill]] under certain conditions.

* One of the most well-travelled examples; there were many, many rumoured ways to play as Goro, Shang Tsung, or Reptile in the first ''[[Mortal Kombat]]''. None of them worked.

** Likewise, there were many, many rumors about Shang Tsung being able to transform into the character Kano, who was absent from ''MK2'' for plot reasons. The message "I HAVE NEVER SEEN A KANO TRANSFORMATION" briefly became a fan meme as a result. (This was all caused by a counter in the Arcade's test mode reporting the number of Kano morphs.)

** Similarly, in ''MK2'', it was heavily rumored that the trees in the Living Forest stage could eat the opponent as part of a secret stage fatality. Not only was this bogus, but it remained so for all subsequent remakes of the stage.

** ''Mortal Kombat 2'' had a very well known rumor that you could knock people onto the hooks in the Dead Pool stage.

*** The beauty of the above 4 entries is that when they made Shaolin Monks, they took pretty much every widespread rumor that could be even remotely possible and made them true, so yes, you can fight Kano, feed Mooks to the trees in the Living Forest, knock them into the hooks in Dead Pool and fight Ermac as well. Subverted slightly in that they inserted a lot of even more fake rumors into the random "hints" the game gives you whenever you die, although those are far less likely to end up on this page.

** One they didn't insert was the common, highly juvenile belief in a secret character named Go-Nad. Or the similar hoax ''Computer And Video Games'' magazine put in one April issue regarding the second game, where they claimed one version contained Pedro, a Mexican brawler with a flammable anus.

** There was a long rash of rumors revolving around the SNES port of ''Mortal Kombat'', mostly about how to enter a blood code. The SNES was the more popular console at that time and most gamers only had one console, so a method of unlocking blood for SNES was the holy grail. Most of the rumored codes were nearly impossible, like entering a long string of buttons in some tiny time frame such as when Goro appears on the opening screens.

*** On the SNES version of MK, it actually was possible to use a Game Genie code to [[Palette Swap]] the "sweat" back into blood. However, there never was any way of restoring the original fatalities, since the necessary animation frames simply didn't exist in the ROM.

* There is a cheat that was in some early FAQs of the first ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' for the [[Play Station]] that would unlock Justice, Testament and Baiken without having to beat the game all the way through. Turns out it really just increased the game's difficulty in Normal Mode.

* There was a rumor in Japan that if the player completes the Famicom version of ''[[Kung Fu Master|Kung-Fu]]'' 24 times (the number equivalent to the letter "X", a reference to the Japanese title ''Spartan X''), the player will forced to fight Sylvia (the hero's girlfriend) as a [[Bonus Boss]]. It turns out the rumor was a started by a gag in a video game manga titled ''Famicom Rocky'', where the protagonist uncovers this secret after completing the game too many times.

 

== Driving Game ==

** There were also unrelated rumours in nearly every other game in the series. Super Circuit had the rumour of Waluigi as playable, DS had the rumour of an unlockable Rainbow Cup (four retro Rainbow Roads in a row), Double Dash had the April Fools Day joke and rumour of Retro Cups, and Wii had a Maple Treeway glitch rumour which turned out to be a hoax.

** [[Mario Kart]] 7 ALSO has a Maple Treeway glitch rumour/hoax. Different supposed 'trick', but it too ended up getting disproved by a fan made video...

** There also have been rumors of a combined version of Special Stage Route 5 and 11 named Route 16. ''[[GT 5]]'' has track named SS Route 7 set in the same city, but it's a different beast.

** Also, there have been many rumors surrounding the [[Dummied Out]] courses in ''GT 2'' and why you can't get 100% completion in that game.

 

== First-Person/Third-Person Shooter ==

** This set of rumors was prevalent enough that arcade owners were complaining about people hogging the ''Battlezone'' machines without actually playing the game. As such, the developers ended up adding a small bit of code in later variants that would make a missile instantly home in and kill a player if they failed to kill anything within a reasonable amount of time.

** This set of rumors may also have made it into ''[[The Matrix]] Revolutions''. Where was the Machine City?

** Rare actually went so far as to lie about the above, and about another rumour that turned out to be true; a supposed secret level known as "Citadel." Via some serious hacking, Citadel turned out to exist; it's an engine test level.

** A large amount of speculation, including about the mythical All Bonds cheat, centered on the missing entry at the end of the cheat menu. It turns out this is actually for a cut cheat called "Line Mode" which can be accessed only through a button press code and has no normal unlock method.

** ''Halo 3: ODST'''s not-quiet-[[Metroidvania]] style gameplay is ripe for this kind of rumormongering. Stories of hidden energy swords are pretty popular. Rumors of living Elites hidding somewhere in the city crop up from time to time as well. Don't even get started on all those strange markings that pop up in VISR mode.

** A legend said that if you looked carefully through the Library level in ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' you would have found the mangled corpse of Marvin Mobuto, said in the game-inspired book to have made his way through a decent part of the Flood-infested library before getting overwhelmed by the monsters.

** Also, an inversion: ''Quake'' found itself announced for the first time in the April issues of many popular games magazines, who found themselves receiving numerous letters telling them how "obviously fake" the idea of a full-3D FPS was.

** As the Engineer Update was approaching, there were all sorts of rumors about what you had to do to get the Golden Wrench. ''[[Nerf Now]]'' [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/335 demonstrates.]

* The Passing in ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'' spawned this immediately on the day it was released. {{spoiler|It is said that you can use the defibrillator on Bill's body to bring him back to life but this rumor was extremely short lived as it was proven that the body is just a prop and not a dead bot since there is no red outline on the body when you hold out the defibrillator.}}

* Many previews for the dino-hunting game ''[[Carnivores]] 2'' said it would feature a secret, unlockable rocket launcher. Subsequent examination of the game's data files, and later its source code, have shown that there is no trace in the game of a rocket launcher, though one may have been planned early in development.

* One persistent rumor among the ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' community is a program, snfg.exe - nicknamed "Sniper Frog", supposedly running in the background and doling out "luck" like headshots and better kill streak crates. Of course, there has never been a source for this beyond unnamed "hackers" and worst of all, the people spreading the rumors can't even agree who the program is supposed to be benefiting. Some claim that it favors low-level players to encourage newbies and others claim it supports high-level players to keep them interested and buying map packs as opposed to moving on to new games.

** The game outright tells you there's no items rewarded for doing so, but bring the Goddess Palutena closer to the screen, but others believe this leads to a higher chance for weapon discounts in the shop.

*** There actually is a reward of sorts, however, it's just not items: donating enough hearts unlocks a few extra lines of dialog with Palutena or Viridi, depending on who you give them to. It's only one or two per chapter, and most players who even have given enough hearts might overlook it, especially if they do so for the first playthrough of a given chapter.

*** After initially being very hush-hush about it, [http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/faq/multiplayer.shtml#gem Blizzard eventually came clean]: [http://www.diablowiki.net/Chat_Gem all it does is turn off and on]. It's not connected to anything.

*** The official site for ''Diablo III'', specifically, the home page, has its own chat gem. After a massive thread on the Battle.net forums discussing whether clicking the gem a certain number of times would unlock the playable version of the gameplay demo seen when the game was released (started by a forum troll and helped by various random people confirming it), the matter was laid to rest when someone looked in the source code of the site, decompiled the flash that operated the chat gem, and determined that its only purpose was to change colors, changing the gem from "on" to "off".

 

 

* In early beta versions of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]] Online: Stormreach'', there was a bug where using your "diplomacy" skill on a treasure chest caused it to give better loot. Although this bug was fixed well before the game went live, the rumor that using diplomacy on a chest gives better loot still remains, despite repeated debunkings by the game's developers on the official forums.

* [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] tend to develop a ton of rumors due to their fluid and ever-changing nature.

** There's also the infamous Vulcan's and Jupiter's Ring, complete with "screenshots."

** Countless crafters believe - for no other reason than because they heard it from another crafter - that crafting success can be influenced by facing in a certain direction depending on what kind of crystal is being used. Crafters who have a background in statistics, who have logged hundreds of crafting attempts and performed the appropriate analysis, and who have mathematically determined that theory to be complete bullshit, generally go ignored.

 

== Platform Game ==

* ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'''s Stop 'n' Swop. Oh God, Stop 'n' Swop. To get specific: Throughout the game there were certain odd areas and things that seemed suspicious, but didn't actually do anything -- a sealed off door a small distance away from the sphinx in the desert level, a tiny spit of land nonetheless dubbed "Sharkfood Island" in the beachfront level, and, most suspiciously, a patently visible and patently unreachable Ice Key in one area of [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World|Freezeezy Peak]]. Mumbo Jumbo the shaman showed you pictures of these areas in the end cutscene, revealing that the desert door and Sharkfood Island held secret special eggs within them, and told you the eggs and key would be useful "in ''Banjo-Tooie''" (the sequel). Tons of rumors circulated about the items, and eventually, a fan site released codes that would allow you to get the ice key, visit Sharkfood Island, and break open the door. More special eggs were since discovered in the following areas: an unbreakable barrel in one area of [[Big Boo's Haunt|Mad Monster Mansion]], on top of Loggo the toilet in a separate area of the mansion, the bed in the captain's cabin in Rusty Bucket Bay, and the table in Nabnut the squirrel's house in the winter portion of Click Clock Wood. This opened up a feature called Stop 'n' Swop, which showed you your collection of special items, but didn't seem to allow you to do anything with them. When ''Banjo-Tooie'' came along, there was no more mention of Stop 'n' Swop, and nothing came of it. After years of pestering on the part of fans, Rareware finally admitted that it had once had plans, but they were [[Executive Meddling|killed by the higher-ups]] for being incompatible with the Nintendo 64 hardware: specifically, as the name suggests, the idea was to change the game cartridges while the game was running, but later versions of the N64 dropped the amount of time the data would remain in RAM after removing the cart from 30 seconds to 3 or so. To make up for it, there were three secret areas in ''Banjo-Tooie'' that contained ''Banjo-Kazooie'' cartridges that, when cracked open, gave you the items Mumbo showed you in the previous game's ending. Nabnut's special egg was also in the game, though it is not obtained through breaking a ''Banjo-Kazooie'' cartridge. None of these items, however, required any interaction with the first game to get. The two ports of the original ''B-K'' games for Xbox Live Arcade have integrated Stop 'n' Swop into the games after all these years. ''Banjo-Kazooie'' will unlock extra vehicle parts in ''Nuts & Bolts'', while ''Banjo-Tooie'' will unlock extra vehicles for ''Nuts & Bolts'' as well, provided that you've downloaded the ''L.O.G.'s Lost Challenges'' [[Expansion Pack]]. As for ''Banjo-Kazooie'' and ''Banjo-Tooie'' themselves, you will get the same bonuses as before, as well as a Gamer Pic of Banjo and Kazooie, and a Banjo-Kazooie Theme for your Xbox Dashboard, in addition to something else we'll bring up a couple of bullets in...

** There were dozens of impossible ways to "unlock" the ice key and so on, to the point that everybody swore up and down that no, there was absolutely no way at all to possibly even get close to the mysterious eggs...and then, ''years'' later, it was revealed you really ''could''. Bonus points for the fact that the legit unlock was almost as ridiculous as the rumors--you had to figure out, then noodle in phrases as long as "CHEAT AMIDST THE HAUNTED GLOOM A SECRET IN THE BATHROOM" one letter at a time on a gigantic alphabet grid.

*** For a double example, one rumor (apparently trying to salvage previous ones from the reveal of the actual codes) claimed that, no, there were real ways to get all those items without the passwords, and ''using the passwords meant you couldn't get the rewards for getting the items.'' Dastardly.

** Upon the release of ''Banjo-Tooie'' on XBLA, Rare manages to spring a new one on us: ''Stop 'n' Swop '''II'''''. This one is more of a list of seven objectives to complete. In order to get them all, you must hatch all of the original Stop 'n' Swop eggs, find the new Bronze, Silver, and Gold Eggs, defeat all the bosses under a total time of 15 minutes, become every possible transformation in the game, and kill yourself during boss battles a number of times. These are said to be useful in another game, but for now, they're just [[Bragging Rights Reward|Bragging Rights Rewards]].

** Also one of the bosses in ''Zero 2'' used Vile-shaped projectiles for one of his attacks, adding fuel to those boss ideas.

* In the original ''[[Metroid]]'', finishing the game in under an hour will let you see Samus in a bikini (also, you get to play as Samus wearing only a leotard if you beat it in under 3, and can play as her wearing a bikini by entering the code word JUSTIN BAILEY). Naturally, some claim that beating it in under half an hour or some other humanly impossible time will let you see and/or play as her naked. This is not the case.

 

== Puzzle Game ==

* ''[[Myst]]'' was once rumored to have a fifth age called the "Thelastic Age", as well as a red button in the Selenetic Age maze, etc.

** Of course the later ''realMyst'' remake (as well as the PSP release) did add a fifth age, Rime. Still no red button though.

 

== Racing Game ==

 

 

== Role-Playing Game ==

* There are many rumors about getting "secret" [[Mons]] not listed in the Digimon chart of ''[[Digimon World]]'', particularly ones that are known to exist in the game but aren't normally available. For example, Metal Etemon and Gigadramon function more or less properly, as do their digivolution items, but there is ''no way to obtain them'' without the help of a cheating device. [[Schmuck Bait|Although the "hints" you can find around the Internet tell a different story.]]

** There was a comic named that by [http://www.geocities.com/mushroomkingdomhearts/1-1.html Wil], but it only has Nintendo (with ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'') mingling.

* In a case of a rumor coming true in a later revision of a game, players were finally allowed to legitimately reverse {{spoiler|Nei's death}} in the [[Video Game Remake|remake]] of ''[[Phantasy Star II]]''. It's [[Guide Dang It|extremely hard and time-consuming]] to pull off, and it also requires [[Old Save Bonus|a save file from the remake of PS1]].

** And like many games, ''Chrono Trigger'' is filled with doors that don't go anywhere or blocked by the dreaded [[Insurmountable Waist High Fence]], but it's hard to tell a real explorable area from one that's just there for the heck of it. Spekkio's room in the End of Time in particular has a back gate that's purely decorative, but it hasn't stopped people from planting [[Epileptic Trees]].

** In the DS version, you could find Schala after completing a subquest, which was started after you began a [[New Game+]].

* In ''[[Seiken Densetsu|Secret of Mana]]'', there was a rumor that both the Girl and the Sprite can receive another elemental since they only have seven each, and [[Missing Secret|there are eight elemental slots]] (when you look at their magic descriptions). However this rumor can easily be dispelled by the fact that while each character only gets seven summons, there are eight ''total'' — only the Sprite gets dark magic, and only the girl gets Light. Naturally, the Girl has an empty space where dark magic would be; likewise the Sprite for light magic.

** Oh yeah, the Solar elemental. One rumored way to get it was to go around resealing all eight seeds.

*** Of course, the reality of the situation (and Odin's unique level-up buff) only encouraged the rumor that there was a way to get Raiden without losing Odin. A popular one was that you had to kill the dragon in the underground castle using ''[[Useless Useful Spell|Break]]''. Possessing all of the espers (both Odin and Raiden included) was in turn supposed to unlock the [[Bonus Boss|Czar Dragon]] battle.

**** And then ''[[Updated Rerelease|Final Fantasy VI Advance]]'' came out, which had ''four'' new Espers (Gilgamesh, Leviathan, Cactuar, and Diabolos) and the long-awaited Kaiser Dragon boss battle (at the end of a brand-new dungeon!).

* In ''[[Legend of Mana]]'' there were rumors that after {{spoiler|Sandra's death}}, if you gave [[Guide Dang It|specific answers]] to Inspector Boyd, took the right Jumi party member, made an item called "Sandra's Core" through a tedious tempering process of Emerald to produce Alexandrite, and fought to the inaccessible (it's only seen in cutscenes) deepest level of the underworld, Sandra would return and become a playable character (with incredible stats and Syncro effect, of course!).

** She comes onto you at one point, describing...er, in good detail the things she plans on doing to you. Any further dialogue choices will result in her backing off and claming she wasn't serious.

* ''[[Lufia]] 2'' for the SNES had a locked door in the final area rumored to be openable if all the Iris Treasures were obtained from the Ancient Cave. The woman who stores them for you hints that something may happen if they're all gathered, one of the Sinistrals is named Iris, and the Iris Treasures were ''extremely'' time-consuming to collect (one can only be obtained through a boss battle that's all but rigged, while the others are [[Randomly Drops|random drops]] in a 99-level dungeon). For years, gamers looked for an explanation beyond them just being [[Bragging Rights Reward|Bragging Rights Rewards]] until the rumor was finally killed by [[Word of God]]...which didn't help, as realizing that one spent fifty hours of their life collecting useless artifacts for shits and giggles makes one want to climb a bell tower with a rifle.

* Back in the days before GameFAQs, YouTube, and others, there were NUMEROUS examples of these. Some were true, others weren't. One good example is the ''Mother'' trilogy, with numerous rumors that were both true and false. Two of them in particular surrounded the final boss of ''Mother 2'' aka ''[[Earthbound]]'', Giygas; if you had looked into the background at just the right time, you would see the image of a fetus in the black.

** Part of why the story's survived for so long, other than the vagina/birth canal/whatever part of it corresponding with the biological background in the area where you fight Giygas, is that the final battle takes place in the past and Giygas's infancy and childhood are a big part of the first game's plot.

* The map for ''[[Might and Magic]] VII'' includes a frozen landmass to the northwest of the main continent named "Vori". Absolutely no mention of it is made in-game, and there is no way to travel there (which, of course, didn't stop some people from claiming that you could).

* ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'''s GameFAQs board have a started a minor rumor about getting into Estelle's room. You can't, except in [[No Export for You|the PS3 version]].

* ''[[Lunar]]: Eternal Blue'' for the Sega CD had a weapon in the game manual called The Dark Scimitar that was not included in the final release of the game. Many fan communities went wild trying to find out where The Dark Scimitar was located (believing that if it was in the manual, it ''had'' to be hidden in the game somewhere). With many people claiming to have found it and making up ridiculous ways to do so (none of which worked), communities exploded when a fan finally did find a way to not only get The Dark Scimitar but many other unusual items through a glitch that's created when characters, specifically Lemina (the glitch is called the Lemina Bug for that reason) leave your party.

* Much of ''[[The 7th Saga]]'''s popularity depended on one of these. [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|According to the storyline]], the other characters are actively searching for the Runes at the same time you are. It was commonly believed that, if you're too slow, it's possible for someone to beat you to one of the Runes...however this only happens twice, with the Star Rune and Sky Rune, and no matter how fast you are you can't stop a randomly-selected character from stealing the Rune. Nintendo Power even mentioned it was possible to get to the Sky Rune before it was stolen in their review.

* On a related note, ''[[Mystic Ark]]'' was long held up as an actual sequel to ''[[The 7th Saga]]'', rather than a mere [[Spiritual Successor]]... until someone finally started work on translating the game and discovered right off the bat that their stories are entirely unrelated.

* There were many theories back in the day that there was a way to shoot the dog in ''[[Duck Hunt]]'' for the NES. One was that you had to get to Stage 99 to do it. Easily the most straightforward example of wish-fulfilment on this page, and a good chunk of ''Duck Hunt'' hacks let you do just that.

** It's entirely possible in the arcade version, but only in the bonus round — if you accidentally shoot the dog, the bonus round immediately ends and the dog walks out in bandages and on crutches to admonish you to "SHOOT THE DUCKS, NOT ME!"

* There are many (joking) rumors on how to unlock secret characters for ''[[Touhou Project|Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'', the most prevalent ones allowing you to unlock [[Tyke Bomb|Flandre Scarlet]] and [[An Ice Person|Cirno]]. This was not helped by fans making their sprites for ''[[MUGEN]]'' based on the ''SWR'' spriting style; many of them emulated the look incredibly well, going so far as to modify SFX from the game to fit the fanmade sprites. (The Cirno rumors were officially killed with her inclusion in ''[[Expansion Pack|Hisoutensoku]]'', though Flandre fans are still left waiting.)

** A slight bone was tossed to Flandre's fans — one of Remilia's alternate color schemes is essentially Flandre.

 

== Simulation Games ==

** Amiga Power subverted this Trope by featuring a real crossover between ''[[Sensible Soccer]]'' and ''[[Cannon Fodder]]'' as a playable demo on its coverdisk. The match was England vs. Germany, and the football was a bomb which would explode every so often, killing any nearby players. It may be inferred that the games shared a similar engine, and they were in fact near-sequential releases from the same studio (Sensible Software).

* One of the all-time classics is the Mirage ship in ''Frontier: Elite II''. They wound up chucking it into a secrets guide (complete with made-up specifications) and added a Mirage II into ''Elite III: Frontier II: First Encounters''.

*** Oddly, despite the obvious nonexistence of Jelly World, there's a word filter on the chat boards [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|that turns "Jelly World" into the name of any one of the legitimate worlds]].

** In the original ''Neoquest'' game there exists a door that's locked and has no apparent means of opening it. For years people tried various means of unlocking the door or obtaining the key, to no avail. To make it worse, the staff hasn't revealed whether it's actually possible to open the door.

** New players can get this from the veterans, as the Neopets world is rife with old, inactive features and locations left over from previous events.

** There was also the infamous Bonju avatar (avatars being essentially the Neopets equivalent of "achievements", rewarding you with little icons for your user lookup/forum posts for completing specific tasks around the site), which had players puzzling for ''three years'' over how to unlock it, and was the subject of countless wild rumors. TNT finally caved in and revealed the [[Guide Dang It|ridiculously obtuse]] solution in one of their editorials. {{spoiler|Mix a Blumaroo Steak, Gourmet Cooking for your Pet and Orange juice at the Mystery Island Cooking Pot - NOT Bonju's cooking pot. Also, this ''only'' works during the month of August. Whew!}}

== 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.

* 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''.

 

== Turn-Based Strategy ==

** Team17 had a bit of fun with this when they made an announcement regarding ''Worms 4: Mayhem'' on April 1, claiming that in this game you would be able to use the ninja rope to pull crate drops closer towards you. This turned out to be absolutely true.

* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics a 2]]'' has rumors from the GameFAQs board that there's a hidden job called the Barmaid. It says that if you dismiss all of your clan members and do the mission "Wanted: Barmaid", Luso will [[That Came Out Wrong|force himself into a Barmaid]].

** Also previously, there has been an Urban Legend that Banpresto was sued by Winkysoft which caused the Masou Kishin characters in [[Super Robot Wars Alpha]] only appearing up to Alpha Gaiden, and only Masaki Andoh, Lune Zoldark and Shu Shirakawa appears in the [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|OG series]] for the Masou Kishin representative, and that there will not be any other Masou Kishin coverage for that... the last part was debunked when the Masou Kishin saga was included in the SRW OG Saga mini-series, and Banpresto revealed that Winkysoft never sued them but they just want a break from Masou Kishin. As of the inclusion of the rest of the Masou Kishin that appeared in the Classic Timeline during [[Super Robot Wars EX]]... while they haven't appeared officially, Banpresto already said that they CAN appear if the timing is right.

* In ''[[Tactics Ogre]]'', you were apparently able to recruit Lans Tartare, Balzepho, and Volac. However, battle data for Volac does not exist in the game, and as it turns out you can't make the three join you unless you hack them in, or any of the Dark Knights for that matter. Not to mention, saying those three are recruitable carries an implication that Balzepho would actually join forces with Haborym - which, given their history together, would end in disaster.

** However, the remake actually ''does'' make one of the Dark Knights recruitable - Instead of one of those three, it's ''Ozma''.

 

 

 

== Wide-Open Sandbox ==

** ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' has Lola the prostitute, who was featured on the PS3 box and has a page on the police archives (accessible if you use the computer in the police vehicles), so there's rumors that she's in the game.

*** One piece of fan rumor turned out to be correct. In ''IV'', you receive an achievement called "Impossible Trinity" after completing a mission in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After it was revealed that Johnny (who appears in that mission) was the playable character for the first [[Expansion Pack]], players seized upon the achievement name and correctly predicted that Luis (who also appears) would star in his own DLC.

* ''[[Blockland]]'' has "The Golden Brick" which supposedly exists in the Slate map, and, upon clicking it, you apparently unlock ''Blockland Adventure Mode''. It's untrue, but it's still thought to be ''[[Rule of Cool|such a cool idea]]'' that many players pretend that it's real [[Rule of Fun|just for fun]].

** There's also the Renderman, an apparition not unlike Herobrine from ''Minecraft''. It's supposed to appear when you take a screenshot on a [[Dark Is Evil|dark map]], and in DOF screenshots(basically screenshots taken while your character shakes violently, to produce a very blurry image) he appears ''very close to the player''. Many pictures have been provided of him to 'prove' his existence. He was recently revived in the [[Holiday Mode|Halloween Update]], where a 'new form' of Renderman appeared: Preppers. Flashing red ASCII Terror Faces which randomly appeared on dark maps. Combined with the usual presence of [[Nothing Is Scarier]] in dark maps, many did not want to load these maps for fear of encountering [[He Who Must Not Be Named|HIM]].

 

 

== Non-Video Games ==

** The anime gave this a nod very early on, establishing that Pegasus' Toon monsters were one-of-a-kind cards that were never released to the public due to them being "too powerful". During the last parts of the KC Grand Prix arc, it's revealed that Pegasus' company routinely gives away copies of unsanctioned cards as prizes (a habit that the actual card game recently took up).

** This has been proven to be true, at least for [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/The_Seal_of_Orichalcos the Seal of Orichalcos]. As for the Egyptian God cards, alternate, tournament-legal "effect" versions have been released for [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Obelisk_the_Tormentor Obelisk the Tormentor] and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/The_Winged_Dragon_of_Ra the Winged Dragon of Ra].

*** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Slifer_The_Sky_Dragon Slifer the Sky Dragon] has now gained a tournament-legal release, which has prompted the creation of the long time anime-only [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/The_Creator_God_of_Light,_Horakhty The Creator God of Light, Horakhty] as an actual card. It even has its own type, "Creator God".

** Of course, spoofed in the parody set Unhinged, which actually has a secret card that ''only exists in foil'' and is not listed in most spoilers. Its collector number is 141 out of 140.

* [[Older Than the NES]]: Numerous rumours surrounded the works of Ultimate Play the Game, later known as Rare. Most famously, the cover of ''Lunar Jetman'' featured a moon buggy towing a trailer. [[Covers Always Lie|The game featured the buggy, but not the trailer.]] Or did it? Rumours abounded about what the player had to do to unlock access to the trailer. ''Crash'' magazine published a screenshot sent in by a reader showing that he had achieved this feat, but the screenshot was a fake — the trailer never existed.

* A popular rumor was started that the finale of ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'' ended with Tsubasa on the hospital waking up with no legs. As it turned out, he was run over by the truck seen in the first episode and the whole series was [[All Just a Dream]]. Many people have stated that they "saw" the episode, but no rips appear on the internet, other than a picture of Tsubasa in a hospital bed.

** ''[[Doraemon]]'' has a very similar rumor.

 

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