Cameos on the Nintendo DS

[Da Robot]

Here's a TLoZ reference in Glory of Hercules Heracles.



Source.

[Fryguy64]

Damn you, NoA localisation team! Stop putting Engrish lines from NES games into your new games! There's too many of them!

[Volray]

More Glory of Heracles references. They both involve some story spoilers, so yeah.

So, at a certain point in the game you'll find that [the town of Heaven's Haven has been destroyed]. If you talk to the Item Shopkeeper after this part of the game, she'll say, "Buy something and support my rebuilding plans, will ya?"

Also, at a later point in the game your party will [ try and make their way onto the Trantian's giant wooden horse heading for Troy. In order to sneak on Princess Piazza makes up a lie to get them on]. She says, "I am Princess Piazza, representative of Trantia’s ally nation of, er, Archanea."
The Trantia soldier replies, "Archanea, huh? Never heard of it."

[Dasher Misire]

Two Kid Icarus references in one? Nice.

But is the former really a ref? Could have just been "Buy Something Will Ya?"

[Volray]

Eh, it's probably not. When I first saw that I was under the impression that this was one of Treehouse's "Let's try and fit in as many references as we can" game*. But playing through the game some more now, there really aren't as many references as Nintendo Power led me to belief. So, yeah.

...Wait, what's the second Kid Icarus reference?

*Edit: Yeah, so just a few hours after I say that I found out that Nintendo outsourced this game to another localization team. I'm going to stop assuming stuff now.

[wanderingshadow]

I'm surprised no one else has brought this one up. The hero of Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver has a Wii in his/her bedroom.

[TV Eye]

Heh, yeah but it was also in Diamond and Pearl. I'm assuming it's also in Platinum.

[Fryguy64]

OK, so we know that Beatnes in Electroplankton plays the Super Mario Bros. invincibility theme and has a load of sound effects from Super Mario Bros.

What I have only just found out is that you can press the SELECT Button to get a whole different colour of Beatnes that features music and sound effects from other NES games:

All
Starting noise: Disk load (FDS)

Blue/Red: Super Mario Bros.
Background music: Invincible
Top Row: Coin - Jump - 1UP - Grow - Shrink/Pipe
Middle Row: 8-bit beeps
Bottom Row: Shell Kick - Skid - Fireball - Swim - Die

Black/Red: Kid Icarus
(This uses Famicom Disk System SFX, which used the extra sound chip, so I'm not clear on all of these just yet)
Background music: I guess it's based a little on the Underworld theme... but it's more just a beat.
Top Row: Item - Hit Enemy - - - Death
Middle Row: 8-bit "whistle"
Bottom Row: Life - Shoot - - -

Red/Orange: Donkey Kong / Duck Hunt / Balloon Fight / Wrecking Crew /
Each of the 5 Beatnes seems to represent the SFX of a different 8-bit game.
Background music: Donkey Kong 25M
Top Row: Die - Dog Bark - Balloon - Break Wall -
Middle Row: Various 8-bit effects
Bottom Row: Barrel Smash - Dog Laugh - - -

Blue: DO THE R.O.B.!!
This is the most awesome discovery evars!
Background music: Gyromite Game A
Top Row: "Left" - Pause - "Up" - Door Open - "Right"
Middle Row: Various 8-bit sounds
Bottom Row: "Open" - Instruct - "Down" - Door Close - "Close"

[Johans Nidorino]

Oh, this is new to me, but I can help with the red/orange screen.

Well, Beatnes #1 doesn't sound like Donkey Kong, and not even like just 1 game. The "die" sound is clearly Donkey Kong Jr.'s And the one you call "Barrel Smash" is the Freezie smash sound in Mario Bros.

Beatnes #3 bottom sound is the "enemy landing" sound in Balloon Fight.

For Beatnes #4... Assuming it's themed after Wrecking Crew, I think the bottom sound is the "hard wall" sound (before being completely destroyed, an event that also uses the top sound).

Beatnes #5, I have no clue yet. It sounds like Metroid, which I guess is possible since Kid Icarus is in the game.

[Fryguy64]

It was a huge surprise! This is a well known cameo with a whole pile of hidden cameos just underneath it... I only found it by accident (I was using an emulator and hammering buttons to see if I'd mapped a microphone sound to any of them)...

I'm going to have to play through Kid Icarus FDS at some point anyway, so I'll try and get the sound effects down.

I definitely recognise the sounds for Beatnes #5, but I found this at 12.30 in the morning, and my bed beckoned

[Volray]

So apparently America's Test Kitchen also has Game & Watch titles.

[The Qu]

That's notable because Egg has A: Never been released outside of America, and B: Not in any Gallery games. So, kudos!

[Grandy02]

Apr 20, 2010 14:26:51 GMT -5 The Qu said:

That's notable because Egg has A: Never been released outside of America, and B: Not in any Gallery games. So, kudos!

Huh? I'm 100% sure that Egg is in G&W Gallery 3, along with a remake starring Yoshi. And Egg isn't the only G&W game originally not released in Japan that made it into the Galleries.

[Leon]

I don't remember posting this, but I might have.

In Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon, there is a hidden piece of music that plays in the arena. If you wait for ten seconds in the arena lobby, Follow Me! from The Sacred Stones plays.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtEFhh6Pc8s

[The Qu]

Apr 20, 2010 14:32:23 GMT -5 Grandy02 said:

Apr 20, 2010 14:26:51 GMT -5 The Qu said:

That's notable because Egg has A: Never been released outside of America, and B: Not in any Gallery games. So, kudos!

Huh? I'm 100% sure that Egg is in G&W Gallery 3, along with a remake starring Yoshi. And Egg isn't the only G&W game originally not released in Japan that made it into the Galleries.

Hm, you're right. And I remember it now that I think of it- it was the Yoshi's Cookie inspired game.

3 is a blind spot of mine...