Busting (or Confirming?) Super Nintendo Myths, Part 4 - SNESdrunk

[5:14] Ness on EarthBound cover is not piloting a Starman Super
[6:56] Super Tennis secret boss?

[khatharrmalkavian]

Houlihan is not triggered by a "debug mode". That room is the default destination for holes, but properly functioning holes override the default.

You get to the room by causing a misalignment between Link's onscreen position and the screen scrolling position, making it possible for the scrolling position to be misaligned with the hole and therefore missing the destination override when Link falls in.

The LttP code is seriously jank. It's actually pretty funny finding some of the bizarre shit they did in there.

[SlyFrye]

I actually didn't know that people thought cigarettes caused the SNES to turn yellow over time. I definitely was aware of a lot of SNES consoles turning yellow overtime. The one I had for more than 20 years was mostly gray but it still had some yellow in some parts. It never turned completely yellow like some examples on the web.

I was definitely aware of Chris houlihan's room in a Link to the past. These other things you mentioned I had no idea about though and it was very interesting to watch.

[Richitsu]

The real flub with the Earthbound cover is not whether it's his reflection or not, it's that this could never be his reflection at any time in the game. The only time you encounter the golden Final Starman is in the Cave of the Past, in which your party members consciousness are all transferred into robots, Ness is not human at this point. A more likely scenario would be Ness encountering the Silver variation, a boss called the Starman Deluxe, in Stone Henge. But I guess they decided on gold, because it's prettier?

[Morgil]

"If you zoom in on his visor, you can see..."
Me: Ness's reflection
"...Ness inside, piloting it"
Me: wait, wtf?!

[pipdjs]

i just gotta say your intro is my favorite on youtube. you never know what you're gonna get, its always exciting and fun to hear all the variations. love it. never change.

[PuddinTaim]

I heard that Nintendo had to give Chris Houlihan a monetary prize because - despite the fact the room exists in a Link to the Past - they couldn’t provide a consistent means of accessing it so it didn’t satisfy the conditions of their own contest.

[zachreddy]

My understanding is that the Sony/Nintendo deal wasn't just tanked due to greed or hubris on Nintendo's part. The deal Sony was pushing for specified *zero* royalties for Nintendo on the sale of Playstation CDs due to the use of Sony's proprietary "super CD" standard- in fact, Sony would have kept all royalties and retained publishing rights for the software produced on CD. If Nintendo had gone along with the deal, it probably would have put them out of business.

[desert_sky_guy]

I haven't popped in to comment enough over the years - but damn, man, you are really good at what you do. Sharp as a tack, super informative, never boring. Thanks, man, as a guy who owned every major Nintendo home console and a few of the handhelds from age 8 through right now at age 45 (including the Virtual Boy) - you really kick ass.

[fen]

6:35 Had a similar thing happen at my school in the 90's. People were convinced you could open a chamber under spore spawn's room if you did 100 wall jumps off of the defeated boss, knocking him off his stem. Inside you'd find the Spike Suit that unlocked new charge and melee attacks. There was that weird jiggle when you wall jumped off spore spawn so it seemed plausible. I got to about 60 before I gave up.

[Unquestionable]

Dogs, SimCity, and a Fargo reference; easily one of the best videos I'll see this year.

[scottg]

Pilotwings music always good for background sound.

[drukharimatter]

I remember finding the Chris houlihan room back in the 90’s. I found the room and then I never found it again, ever! I told friends and they never believed that I found it/it existed! Love the SNES generation of games.

[retroreviews]

LOVE LOVE LOVE the myths videos! I don't know if you've exhausted the SNES myths by now but I'd love to see

[thenostalgiafactor]

Total length of video: 510 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 7 secs.

1.37% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk."

[ShniitSchneyder]

yaaay new snesdrunk! love your content my good man :)

[jordanaguilar]

Just discovered your channel and i freaking love Been deep diving your channel the nostalgia is real

[gp]

I have a limited edition two tone model, grey on top and yellow on the bottom.

[ChronoSquare]

The Chris Houlihan room is really interesting because it's actually an error handler. If at any point the game gets confused on what the next room is, this room catches the exception and prevents the code from potentially crashing. Isn't programming neat?

[SianaGearz]

There are theories that bromine may not necessarily be complicit in ABS degradation browning, but it's an extremely complex subject. Because allegedly the BFR radicals are pretty much colourless and not brown, although bromine is brown! On the other hand, halogen radicals are highly reactive, so they will eat up plastic - which is how they prevent fire to begin with, by consuming all hydrogen that's about to get freed up before it has a chance to burn (grossly oversimplifying it here). Besides different amounts of BFR, there's also a different amount of butadiene monomer in the plastic by batch, and it tends to be a starting point of degradation just from light, heat and oxygen. It is definitely a composition based ageing behaviour for sure though, even though details are debated.

ABS without additives is always a horrible fire hazard regardless of whether it's degraded or not, so BFR additive is mandatory, but of course its amount varies.

It has also been confirmed that the brown can be bleached back not only by peroxide, but also by sun or intense UV radiation alone, just much more slowly. Which is SO funny for something that is allegedly caused by the same! I mean when you look at many classic computers, where the plastic has been covered by something from light or facing away from the window, you'll generally find less discolouration in those spots, and a lot less on the inside. It's absurd, but that's how it is!

[MaidenHell]

Awesome episode. I actually took my SNES apart and gave it a new paint job because I couldn't stand the yellowing. Had no idea it could be cleaned off but ah well, my two tone paint looks great.