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Island of
Rejected Toys

Horribly Twisted Gifts... Like Baby's First
Table Saw

Grand Theft OTTO: Springfield

Snake... Wiggum... Homer... They're all here!

Episode 134

Lifeguard Opportunity at Bayview Beach

Rastafarian Homer

Pass the Dutchie on the left side, mon.

Episode 131

Dexter & Marley...
Forever borowing stuff that ain't theirs.

Star Whores

Looks like Han is sleeping solo tonight

Episode 128

Dexter takes a cheap shot at Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney

Episode 127

Mary & Dexter discuss the American flag

Episode 126

Dexter & Marley go shopping for female hygiene products

Episode 124

Marley goes Easter shopping

Bill Gates
Goes to Hell

Dexter's rant about
Windows Vista

Mailbag

Ah, the joys of answering e-mail. Actually, I wouldn't wish this task on my worst enemy. So many questions, so little time... I do answer as many e-mails as I have time for though, and I've posted a few of them below.

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September 27, 2005

Golden Moment...
Once again, another Mailbag dedicated to Goldeneye 007... The game has been around for eight years... But that doesn't stop hardcore fans from constantly lurking around the Goldeneye website...
If you have something to say about Goldeneye or any of the other games covered here, you can send mail to: DetErest@detstar.com

Dear Det,
The Goldeneye site is by far the best website on Detstar, but I noticed on a page for the beta Cradle I saw a screen shot with something floating in the air that looks like a huge metal hand with scolding hot fingers. What is that supposed to be?

This screenshot was sent in by SubDrag, and appears to have been scanned from a magazine, where another graphic is overlapping the shot. If I had to guess, I'd say that the hand was Joanna Dark in some promotional artwork on the same page.

While looking at some of the beta items on your Goldeneye site I noticed an item named "heroine". I wondered what could possibly possess the people at Rare to include heroine in a Bond game. Then I remembered that in the movie, "The Living Daylights" Bond busts a drug ring and if my memory serves me correctly the drug that was being smuggled in the movie was heroine.

I've seen many different websites question what the "heroine" item might have been used for, and most people assume that it's a drug... But the spelling of the word "heroine" is the female rendition of the word hero, and not the drug, which is spelled "heroin". There's no pickup text though, because the game simply tells you that you've picked up a "new weapon".

Some people have guessed that "heroine" refers to Natalya... It makes a bit of sense, but why Natalya would be listed as an item is another question - Although at the end of the game, Bond does manage to pick her up.

I have been coming to your freaking awesome site for about 5 years. No matter how many hours I stay on it, it still amazes me, especially the Goldeneye section, the greatest tribute to the greatest shooter ever.

Goldeneye is a game full of mysteries, and I was kinda surprised that no other site on the web had gone to any great length to really cover all of the strange and unusual things that can be found... So I started working away on various articles, until I had nearly 30 pages of content, which was about the size of the website when it first opened.

I ran into your website while doing a nostalgic search for Goldeneye websites. I was just kind of bored and not really searching for Goldeneye, but seeing your site as caused me to reminisce back to when I was 17 and used to hack Goldeneye with the Gameshark Pro (such a cool device that could have been so much more if it weren't developed and marketed as a mere "cheat
device")

Your website is pretty impressive. I enjoyed learning about the beta changes and hidden aspects of the game, such as the elevator in the beta version in the silo, different style rocket launcher, the secret area at the beginning of the silo in the vent, hidden
accessible objects and such. I was amazed of the discovery and codes to access the Citadel level (I didn't know there was a Citadel level).

Sadly, many people just want to cheat... But finding things in Goldeneye that we were only ever intended for the eyes of the developers was the reason why I bought a Gameshark... The first things that lured me in were the classic Bond photos, and the island on the Dam.

I'm sending you this e-mail because I was playing the DAM mission, and in the 2nd tower in the dam appeared this UNARMED guard that appears in the screenshot I'm sending to you. I want to know if this has ever happened to you or anyone you know.

There is a glitch in the game, where you can toss around an excessive amount of knives or mines... Sometimes, it will cause guards to show up without weapons. Check the Tricks page for more info.

Hello I am a big fan of your site. Keep up the great work. My question to you is do they have a soundtrack for Goldeneye 007 on n64? I love the music and would like to know if there is one available.

As far as I know, there is no soundtrack CD available for Goldeneye 007. The game was a bit of a surprise hit, so even the marketing experts would never have even considered a plan to sell music from the game... Perfect Dark was surrounded by an incredible amount of hype, after the success of Goldeneye... And as a result, a soundtrack disc for Perfect Dark was created.

I am a huge fan of your Goldeneye section and I was reading your tricks and glitches page and found two that you might want to know about(I don't have any screen shots).#1. In the Runway during the opening scene(one of them) it shows a view from the top side closest too the ignition key building and if you look at the square white box at the top right side of the screen, it's shaped like a heart.

This is kinda strange... Although I hadn't noticed it before, I decided to try and figure out which object in the Runway could possibly be responsible for this heart shape... It seems as if the object in question is this square cement block... It's just the inside shadowing that makes it look a bit like a heart when viewed from above.

Hey DetErest!,

I know someone who sent me this screenshot from Goldeneye 007.
He said that he was multiplayer, and that his game froze up and then came back on and when it came back on he said that he had a phantom, and a d5k silenced (obviously guns u cant get in multiplayer) . I asked him why there was no radar in the pic and he said that he likes the 'no radar' cheat...

this story sounds pretty fake.

Well anyways I don't think that he's telling the truth my guess is that he made the pic w/ a gamshark... what do u think?

When a story sounds pretty fake, it's usually for a good reason... I'd say that the screenshot was made using Gameshark codes... There are many different ways to customize your weapons when altering your game's state of mind with some Gamesharking action.