I still have a few save state hacking guides floating there :)
To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub
Submitted 4 months ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to games@lemmy.world
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demonsword@lemmy.world 4 months ago
piranhaconda@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Fond memories of trying out every single glitch I could find for Pokemon Gens I and II. A lot were a load of crap, but there were a few good ones
My favorite was the Pokemon cloning glitch in Gen 2. If you did it right, you could get all 3 starters and force your rival to have the starter of your choosing. It took a couple hours to do though, because it requires not saving until you’re allowed to catch your first Pokemon. And then repeating the process.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 4 months ago
laughs in Nintendo Power magazine
Get off my lawn, kids! 🤣
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
When I was a kid, I played Black and White constantly and my dad printed off a complete guide from GameFAQs and put it in a binder with page protectors and everything. It was so awesome.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 months ago
yup i was using gamefaqs when playing the older generation pokemon games very useful. the subreddit was best for friendsafari.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I printed out a list of gaps in THPS2 from GameFAQs. I didn’t realize it was 80 pages. My mom was really upset. I think I got every single one though.
therealzordon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
lol I remember discovering this website as a kid, thinking I could stop buying strategy guides for like 10 to 20 bucks, then proceeding to print like 60 pages at a time. Bless my mom for not complaining about the paper and ink!
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 months ago
Printers worked better back then. Also the cartridges came with more ink lol
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Bring back gameFAQs!
redwattlebird@lemmings.world 4 months ago
Coincidentally, i was just thinking about this site the other day because i was so sick of video walkthroughs!
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The only time I like a video walkthrough is for some visual based puzzles because screenshots aren’t always precise enough.
The other 99 percent? Screw that, gone a step by step guide damn it!
Jinarched@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I feel like I could… like I could… like I could… TAKE ON THE WORLD!!
whelk@retrolemmy.com 4 months ago
I don’t think you should drink that…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 months ago
So I basically started using it the year it was made. Cool.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 months ago
RIP Kolanaki’s SNES
I loved Secret of Mana and on several playthroughs, the hardest boss, for me, has always been that damn tiger in the witch’s castle. When it zig-zagged like a spike ball, the chances of getting wiped were huge. One hit = unconscious.
rigatti@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Kind of similar story of ancient gaming tragedy, I was a young lad going for 100% in FFVII, and after spending however many hours getting everything ready, I saved right by Emerald Weapon, deciding to tackle him right after school the next day. Aaaaand then I came back to everything on the memory card being gone due to some dumb glitch. Still never beat Emerald Weapon.
odelik@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Escuse me, but I’m aging at just the right rate. Not rapidly, not slowly, but exactly as the universe planned it as we hurtle through time and space on our planet size space ship.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 months ago
I hope there’s a giant archive of these guides we can download, should anything happen to that site. Any older games you might be stuck on, this is about the only place to go for help.
And I’ll tell you now, old games can be obscure as shit. They didn’t care if you finished them or not.
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
There is and I will share it with any and everyone willing to seed it.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 4 months ago
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
kurushimi@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Got banned from LUE by posting this
heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk 4 months ago
It is funny how GameFAQs is so old I end up going to posts on there about the original releases of games when I’m looking for help with a remake. Props to the site admins for keeping it up this long, so many other resources have withered away over the years.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 4 months ago
- I need help with Final Fantasy 7.
Buddy recommends this site I’ve not heard about, Game Facks.
It did not contain game FAQ’s.
Also, whitehouse.com, as was the style of the time.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
When I was 14, I got in a flame war with another kid in the pokemon forum. I dropped a “What do you know? You’re probably 12!” He replied “Yeah, I’m 12. This is a pokemon forum. What are you doing here?”
I felt so thoroughly burned that I stayed out of internet arguments as much as possible from that point forward. A real valuable lesson early on. Thanks, GameFAQs!
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 months ago
Funny, dunking on some old dude back in the day got me hooked on internet arguments.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Honestly been one of the most useful websites for me over the years.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Use the staple remover on the gopher
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 months ago
close microwave door
taiyang@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Before the Internet got social media, we had the GameFAQs voting thing; you’d get head to head popularity contests of coolest characters. Cloud always won, but it was nice to check daily to see who was most popular.
I still use GameFAQs, though. Even after the buyout, the guides are important to those of us RetroAchevement-ing through some older titles.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I would take the txt guides for RPG games and print them on the laser printers at my high school.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 months ago
i’d strip out useful information into my own guides. never published any, but they are useful
northernlights@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Boy the KOTOR gamefaq guides I had bookmarked were something else. I would have missed so much of the games without them. Instead, I got to see every single possible dialogue line in the games.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I was around 8-9 when i was stuck in Sam & Max: Hit the Road for a long time. Restarted the game and got stuck on the same spot. Finally caved and asked my brother how proceed, at which point he showed me a walkthrough. It blew my mind that that was a thing!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Which spot were you stuck on?
nocturne@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
I was stuck on getting the light bulb from the fireplace in their office for far longer than I care to admit. Thanks for the help GaneFAQs.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I was never able to figure out that you had to put the “long” hand onto the magnet, and then put the magnet into the giant ball of yarn to grab something.
early_riser@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think wikis have taken over that niche, at least for more popular games.
goombakid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I remember being the first one to make a guide for the game “Bust A Move” (Rhythm dance game). I think it’s still there. My own little contribution to the gaming world.
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Waa there a Bust a Move rhythm game? Are you thinking of Bust a Groove?
goombakid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes and no. In the US, it was released as “Bust A Groove”. The original Japanese release (first release) was “Bust A Move”. That’s the game I first played and based the FAQ off of.
kurushimi@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I feel this; I did the same but for Summoner 2. Man I loved that game. Tried getting back into it once and it was tough :(
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Really sad to see your entire generation give in as it shrinks, and do nothing else with their lives. Next year, the youngest Millenial becomes 30.
Goodbye, friends.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Using that site always made me feel more deep shame than any porn site.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I got in trouble in Middle School for printing out an entire FF6 guide from GameFAQs. It had all of the items and their stats, all of the spells, espers, maps etc. It was absolutely massive and the administration was not happy about me using all of that paper and toner. Already printed it, sucks to be them. 3 hole punched it at home and put it in a binder. It was awesome.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I did the same! But never go caught.
Speculater@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That say you learned a very valuable lesson about permission and forgiveness.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Having hypothetically done similar things with work printers, there’s also a lesson to be learned about not using too much paper and ink in one go, space it out over a few restocks.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 months ago
It’s easier to ask for forgivness, than to ask for permission.
Got it!
meathappening@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Big shout-out to the absolute GOAT CyricZ, who has perfect guides for every single Yakuza game in existence.
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Good memories. I was a regular on the boards at one point in time, and regularly contributed to the secrets/cheats/bugs sections
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I remember printing out guides from there back in the dialup period of my life.