Message Madness...
More mail, and more of my responses. As new things are discovered by visitors, they often send them my way... So if you notice a particular piece of into that isn't posted on the gamesites, it could be worth sending in. Questions seem to be the most common thing to arrive in my mailbox, so feel free to send those too. Of course I can't offer a reply to everyone, but if you're curious, it's often worth asking...
Send mail to: DetErest@detstar.com

I was checking the "Interesting Stuff" page for Super Smash Bros Melee and I saw that you mentioned the picture in the "Mute city" level. You can see it with no problems in the "Trophy gallery"; in the "Mute city" Trophy. You don't have to play the level to watch it; and this is an easier way to check it. Hope you enjoy it.

Well I'll be damned... I never messed around with the camera angles on this trophy, and I never thought about "tricking" the angle to get closeups of the objects inside.
Using this method, it's possible to get a great view of everything inside the city.

This allowed me to get a great snapshot of the F-Zero GX poster, and at the perfect camera angle too. Thanks for sending this technique.

i don't know whether this has been posted or not but in Super Smash Bros Melee, when you start a match on kongo jungle or jungle japes stage at the start after the announcer says "go!" you can hear someone in the background say "Samus". i don't know whether this has been posted or not (or if it is something to do with the DK games) but i just wanted to post it.

That's completely new to me... I checked it out, and name "Samus" can just barely be heard as a whisper somewhere behind the background music. I personally found it clearer to in the Jungle Japes stage. Not sure what this means, or whether the random whispering coincidentally forms something that sounds like "Samus".

Something else about the music in the Kongo Jungle, is the DK Rap from Donkey Kong 64... The rap from DK64 mentioned Donkey Kong as "one hell of a guy", while the song in SSBM calls him "one heck of a guy"... The strange part is that DK64 was rated "E" for everyone... While SSBM is rated "Teen" (13+). Surely everyone has been exposed to a few naughty words by age 13... If not, they sure have been living one hell of a sheltered life.

why is the guard with the scar-face always featured in most of the beta shots of Goldeneye? was he the only face for guards in beta?

You guessed it. At one point during the game's development, all guards had the scar-face. Later on, it seemed that all of the guards had the face with curly blonde hair. Luckily before the game was finished, four random heads were loaded at the beginning of any given mission, and these four random heads would appear on various guards throughout the level.

in Super Smash Bros Melee while playing as peach, keep using her down + B attack, it is incredibly rare but every now and then she will pull out a Mr. Saturn instead of the usual vegetable. i have done it a few times and can safely say that it is totally random.

I have heard of Peach pulling Bob-ombs with this move, and one person has even mentioned the Beam Sword. But you're the first person who has mentioned that she can also pull a Mr. Saturn. As you mentioned, it seems as if there's no other explanation except that it's a completely random event. In many attempts, I haven't been able to do it. If I ever do manage to make it happen, I sure hope that I'm recording a video at the time...

Hurry, talk about the New Perfect Dark Game, It sounds really cool!

Perfect Dark Zero was a section on Detstar.com that existed a few years ago, when the game was going to be released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2002. But then Rareware kept their loyal fans in perfect darkness, offering no comments for about a year. Then out of nowhere, they made a shocking announcement about the sale of their shares to the Microsoft Corporation, and stated that the next Perfect Dark game would be exclusively for the Microsoft X-Box.

I do not own an X-Box, nor do I have any plans to buy one. Video game systems cost a lot of money, and I've got my own bills to worry about.

The release date for the next Perfect Dark game was also pushed from 2002 to 2004. If memory serves me correctly, it's the year 2005 now, and fans don't seem any closer to playing the game now than they were five years ago... I sure am glad that I bought a GameCube, and got to enjoy incredible first person shooters like Metroid Prime...

Most of the key members who were responsible for the success of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark have since left Rareware, and become part of Free Radical Design. In my opinion, Free Radical has created the best First Person Shooter of the millennium with TimeSplitters 2. And with the release of TimeSplitters 3 coming very soon to all of the Next Generation systems, the new Perfect Dark game is fading into a long-lost memory.

It is impossible for somebody to shoot all the credits in Super Smash Bros Melee to unlock Toad if he was a real character!

Even though it's could be possible to hit all the credits, it's definitely easier said than done. The rumor about unlocking Toad by using this method has proven to be false. When I first played the game, I believed that there might be something special to be unlocked by hitting all of the credits or earning a highscore. It seems as if that mini-game was included just for fun, but I don't know if anyone has actually has managed to hit every single credit that flies by on screen...

This daunting task seems damn-near impossible... But I'll bet some crackpot out there is willing to stay up all night and give it a try. Afterwards, he'll probably need to be committed to an institution or something...

Your site is the greatest site ever and I was wondering what are button cheats and what do they do?

this is changing the subject but Halo 2 is the greatest game for X-box even though it is evil i don't think of the fact that Bill Gates made it and that Goldeneye and Perfect Dark are the greatest games ever. If you ever get an Evil X-box would you make a webpage for Halo and PDZ?

There are numerous cheats to unlock, as well as countless different codes you can enter with a Gameshark... But the term " button cheats" refers to codes that can be entered simply by using your controller. Button codes were found for Goldeneye, but Rareware denies any existence of such codes in Perfect Dark.

Don't expect to see a Detstar website for Halo or Perfect Dark Zero... Halo (as well as Halo 2) are quite good apparently, but there are many great games out there that will never be featured here. In addition to the incredible amount of time and effort it takes to create and maintain a gamesite, I simply will never own any of those games.

can you try and update more often, i love the site and i constantly check back for updates

Updates on Detstar happen once a week, usually on Monday. Anywhere from 15-20 hours of my time goes into these updates. And with my busy schedule, it's virtually impossible to update more than once a week. I would like to update more often than that, but I still haven't won the lottery yet... So I still can't afford to sit back and devote my entire life to Detstar.

Seriously, how old are you? I speculate around 19... Older than me...

Speculations, assumptions, and accusations! Perhaps the fact that I choose not to reveal my age is what draws people's attention to it... And perhaps these kind of details are the types of things that will only be revealed in Detstar: The Book.
(Please note that "Detstar: The Book" does NOT exist, and it will NOT be available soon in a bookstore near you)

Regardless of my age, I've been able to connect and share my love of games with people from all ages, from all parts of the globe. I receive e-mails from people who are six, right up to grandparents who are sharing their gaming experience with their grandchildren. I'm not completely sure what age a "typical" Detstar visitor is, although I expect the most common visitors are in mid-to-late high school, where they still have the freedom to enjoy videogames on a daily basis... When the real world comes to snatch you up, my advice is to run... Run for you life!
(Please note that the advice to run will probably lead nowhere, so it's probably NOT a good idea)