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From Side Arms Hyper Dyne, I need the Kanji translated for this image that appears on the title screen (Japanese version only):

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We just hit 2000 articles.
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These unused Kanji are found in a font used by the old men in Black Tiger. The old men give you items or provide hints when you rescue them.

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Thank you!
Found two more, smaller Kanji characters. These are the only 8x8 Kanji characters in this font. Might be a name?

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So I made a template for the standard wiki "Did You Know?" section on the front page. Feel free to suggest some more trivia / tidbits / whatever to add to the template here.
Some suggested guidelines:
-Try not to add facts for featured articles. We already have a template for that.
-Each fact should be about one or two sentences max.
-Make them interesting! If they're obscure or content exclusive to this wiki, that's even better.
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http://tcrf.net/File:EarthboundTrackB4.ogg
Does anyone know where this plays in Earthbound, if anywhere? I don't remember this at all. It's a short, non-looping version of Pokey/Porky's theme.
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Found this image in Hyper Sports. In that game, during the triple jump event, if the player does the three jumps at 35°, 41°, and 45°, a ship will fly across the screen with a 3000 point banner. This is the same ship with a different, unused message in katakana:

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Yeah, that's what I came up with too. There aren't any swamps or marshes in the game, so I have no clue what this is about. Maybe it's short for one of the staff members' names?
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Found what looks like a hidden message in the text graphics ROM of Red Clash, a typical space shooter:
The last character is cut off; That's just how it appears in the ROM.
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Hot damn! The unused Shang Tsung / Goro fatalities from MK1 were the main reasons why I wanted to crack open the game's graphics banks in the first place. Also, confirmation that most of the new stuff in MKT was just dummied out from the original games.
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Just checking this book title in the Japanese Shining Force II...in the April prototype draft it's "SEGA GUIDE", then it changed to "SCIENCE 101". I think that the Japanese book is something about mutating turtles, but I could be way off. I see the word mutation in there though.

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Thanks! Figured it was about TMNT. That's probably why they changed it, actually...unless there's some other mutating turtle in myth or something.
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Originally posted by Foxhack
Originally posted by GoldS Thanks! Figured it was about TMNT. That's probably why they changed it, actually...unless there's some other mutating turtle in myth or something.

Oh right, the really neat guy made of turtle meat. Still, copyright concerns.
Two other books that were changed. I think these are both smutty. Sir Astral is a bit of a lecher in the Japanese game and that's mostly gone in the English script, even in the early April draft.

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Would it be possible to change the Special:Random function so it won't select subpages or (optionally) pages less than 1000/2000 bytes? Might be good.
Also, Proto: still needs its own namespace.
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This string is found near the end of one of the graphics banks in Bio-Attack. Any idea what it means?
OWARI UGOKE
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