Secret Areas? (Also Quintet FTW) (Also Emus)

[stillalive93]

Do the secret areas serve any purpose, or are they just easter eggs? I know the entrances are references to the Stop & Swap eggs, many of which were originally collected by using cheats to jump out of bounds. I'm also aware that one is based on Terranigma's "Underworld" map. One is the intro cutscene's map. The other 2 I found are likely references/in-jokes I don't quite get.

[OmegaShow]

I guess they are just easter eggs to extend the game. They are pretty cool!

[stillalive93]

After thinking, I think one is based on Sonic Adventure. It shows Sonic-like characters in a city-themed map. Is the alleyway one the map used for Tubular City's end cutscene? The weird fixed camera-angle makes me think it's meant for a cutscene.

[Siactro]

The easter eggs are just for fun in there. :) They don't serve any other purpose than to be found. Most of them are tributes to my own games or other games I liked.

[stillalive93]

Terranigma is indeed fun. Shame that Americans can't play it legit.
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Ubjrire, V nyfb hfrq na rzh yngre.

[stillalive93]

The nonsense text was made by putting a message through a ROT13 encryptor. The actual message is something I feel unsafe discussing on this part of the online space.

[Siactro]

I know, right? It's a really good game and it should have been released in america as well. :) It's a bit of a shame that we probably won't see any other release of that game.

[stillalive93]

Yup. Quintet are dead and, outside of Dragon Quest and Star Ocean, Squeenix seem content to sit on Enix's vast back-catalogue and do F-all with it.
The only Enix-published games on the western VC are ActRaiser (also by Quintet) and Ogre Battle AFAIK. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaking of Quintet, my older sibling actually owned a copy of Illusion of Time. They got stuck on the final boss - and the superboss - and eventually gave up.

[Siactro]

Yea, it really is a shame. I would love to see something like "Seiken Densetsu Collection" but for Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia/Time and Terranigma (and maybe more?). That would be a dream, but will probably never happen. :/
You are right though, I even got ActRaiser on my Wii just to show some Quintet support! :)
Ohhh, really? D: What a shame, I absolutely love the ending in that game! It's awesome.

[stillalive93]

I,for one, want a copy of Granstream Saga, so I can play it legally. That coming to the download stores would also be a hopeless dream. The copyright is up likely in the air, due it being developed by a dead company. In America, it was also published a now-dead company - the original THQ. It was published by Sony everywhere else, but the PS One Classics part of PSN is basically defunct.

[stillalive93]

Thread renamed to denote deviation in topic.

[Siactro]

Haha, yea. :D Also, yes, Granstream Saga is another game I would very much appreciate a new release. It really is sad what happened to a lot of games from back then. :/

[HajimeTheFool]

I found 3 of the 4 eggs that were mentionned. I'm only missing the 'Sonic Adventure' one. In which level can you find the egg?

EDIT : Found the last one, didn't check enough around the map :)
Is there any other secrets that were not found beside the 4 Eggs?
And does the giant fish with open mouth does anything outside the map in the last level?

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Originally posted by stillalive93:

The nonsense text was made by putting a message through a ROT13 encryptor. The actual message is something I feel I unsafe discussing on this part of the online space.

Emulation of old consoles is relatively fair play

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On that same note a lot of emu players happen to be bi-lingual and there are a good number of translation patches out there for some of the old SNES roms.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Is there anything we're meant to collect to 'document' that we've found the easter eggs?

Like I found the warp that takes you outside the bar in the opening stage but didn't really find anything out there as if running outside WAS the easter egg itself...

[stillalive93]

Originally posted by An Electric Banana:

On that same note a lot of emu players happen to be bi-lingual and there are a good number of translation patches out there for some of the old SNES roms.

I'm well aware of that. I was an avid player of fan-translated RPGs until the laptop I was running the emus on broke. I've beaten Live-A-Live at-least twice.